Naruto: Help Madara rejuvenate and launch a counterattack on Konoha

Kakuzu's previous sea of ​​fire had evaporated the lake water around the Takigakure Ancient Tree, and this time, releasing a large-scale fire jutsu directly covered the trunk of the Takigakure Ancient Tree.

The ninjas of Takigakure unleashed their Water Release techniques to put out the fire, but the fire was too intense and had already reached the tree trunks.

Shibuki pleaded with Kakuzu, "Lord Kakuzu, please save the ancient tree!"

Kakuzu glanced at the giant tree in the middle of the lake. It was a giant tree that was over several hundred years old and was almost a miniature of Takigakure Village.

Because the Hero's Water it produces can grant ninjas extraordinary power, the villagers of Takigakure have always regarded it as a sacred tree.

When Kakuzu was young, he, like Shibuki, admired the ancient tree that guarded the village.

But he's no longer naive.

This tree can't protect anything, otherwise they wouldn't have broken in and started fighting here.

Kakuzu ignored Shibuki's pleas.

Jiraiya, being kind-hearted, allowed Gamaken to use his Water Release technique to put out the fire.

Gamaken's Water Release technique quickly extinguished the flames that had stained the Takigakure Ancient Tree.

Shibuki knelt before Jiraiya and Gamaken, repeatedly kowtowing to them: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

Jiraiya patted Shibuki's head: "Kid, run for your life! This is not a place for you."

Shibuki looked at the ancient tree of Takigakure and the seven tails on Shisui's head.

These are the most precious treasures of Takigakure, but right now not a single Takigakure ninja is willing to step forward to protect them.

Jiraiya said to Shibuki, "Don't worry, kid, I am Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha. I will definitely help you protect the Ancient Tree and the Seven-Tails."

"The Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya!"

Shibuki stared in shock at the kind-looking middle-aged man with white hair before him. He had heard of this name before; he was a top-tier legendary ninja in the ninja world.

Jiraiya summoned a ninja from Takigakure and instructed him to take Shibuki out of the battlefield.

Liao Wu, looking at the ancient tree of Takigakure from within Susanoo, used his limited vocabulary to describe its magnificence.

"Wow, those are huge!"

Xiao Nan blushed and tapped Liao Wu on the head: "Don't swear!"

The ancient tree of Takigakure is rooted in the middle of the water, with thousands of deep green branches and leaves trembling in the wind, and its roots exposed in an open space like a coiled dragon.

The tree trunk is unimaginably thick, stretching infinitely upwards to form a giant umbrella of dense shade that blocks out the sun.

At first glance, it does look a bit like the origin of chakra—the Divine Tree, but the Takigakure Ancient Tree is only a hundred meters tall.

The Chakra Divine Tree is the divine tree form of the Ten-Tails, the origin of chakra, with its trunk reaching straight into the clouds, much like the World Tree.

The Takigakure Ancient Tree is far inferior to the Ten-Tailed Divine Tree, but it is no ordinary tree either.

It can produce a special tree sap called Hero's Water, which can instantly increase chakra tenfold after drinking it.

However, it has powerful side effects; drinking it even once could shorten one's lifespan by several to several decades.

Moreover, the amount of Hero's Water is not large; it takes 100 years for an ancient tree to extract Hero's Water.

Takigakure strictly controlled the misuse of Hero's Water, only allowing the leader to decide its use when the village faced imminent destruction.

Liao Wu speculated that the Ancient Tree of Takigakure was producing Hero's Water by absorbing natural energy, and only the natural energy between heaven and earth could give Hero's Water such great power.

Liao Wu touched his chin, trying to connect the ancient tree of Takigakure with the Chakra God Tree.

Could the Takigakure Ancient Tree have been formed from a branch of the Chakra God Tree?

But it doesn't make sense.

Because the Chakra God Tree has the property of absorbing chakra, if the Takigakure Ancient Tree had this property, there would be no life in the area around it.

Because the divine tree's devouring properties will drain all the life in the surrounding area.

Looking at the environment around the Takigakure Ancient Tree and the village, there is no evidence of the Chakra God Tree's devouring properties.

Actually, there are tree-like ninja in the world of chakra trees.

Chakra test strips are thin paper made from a special type of tree. What makes this special tree so special?

It can grow by absorbing chakra.

Liao Wu felt that the source tree of the chakra test strips was more like the chakra god tree.

However, the Takigakure Ancient Tree is not without the characteristics of the Chakra God Tree. Its ability to produce Hero Water is precisely the same as the Chakra God Tree producing Chakra Fruit.

Perhaps the Takigakure Ancient Tree was formed from a section of the Chakra Tree. Growing in the territory of Takigakure Village, it has long been integrated with the land of Takigakure, and the energy it absorbs is a higher level of natural energy from the cycle of heaven and earth.

However, the efficiency is too low, and it takes a hundred years to convert the Hero's Water.

A life spore appeared discreetly in Liao Wu's hand.

He cast his life spores into the earth, moving towards the direction of the Takigakure Ancient Tree.

Soon, Liao Wu's spores merged with the ancient tree of Longyin, and his will took control of the great tree.

The massive size of the Takigakure Ancient Tree, combined with the ability of the Ryūbu spores to devour chakra, makes it essentially a mini Ten-Tails, doesn't it?

Liao Wu let the spores continue to integrate with the ancient tree of Takigakure, then looked at Konan and Nagato.

"Konan, Nagato, you two take the people from Kusagakure and Amegakure and evacuate!"

"I will capture the Seven-Tails and bring it back."

Nagato shook his head: "No, Konan and I have become strong enough, and we need to prove ourselves too."

Nagato has the Vajra Lock as his trump card, and Konan also has the Shikigami Technique, which is immune to physical attacks.

They were originally going to capture the Seven-Tails, but unexpectedly Jiraiya and Kakuzu broke into Takigakure.

Konan and Nagato were somewhat unwilling to give up and insisted on capturing the Seven-Tails.

Liao Wu glanced at Xiao Nan.

Konan nodded: "With your spores, our chakra has been restored. Let's fight together!"

Konan and Nagato no longer wanted to continue in this powerless state.

The last time Yahiko died, it was because of their incompetence that Yahiko was captured by Hanzo.

It was because he lacked power that Yahiko committed suicide in front of the two of them.

There was also the incident of the giant Tenseigan unleashing a golden wheel-like rebirth explosion that destroyed Yahiko's corpse.

This is the third betrayal.

This was the lesson their comrade's death taught them: in this world, those who fall behind will be bullied.

We must become strong so that we won't be bullied.

"Okay, but don't stray too far from me, and don't look directly into that Uchiha boy's eyes."

Liao Wu nodded, and then sent Tang Guo to convey the order for Bai Chuan and Wu Wei to evacuate.

He wasn't particularly wary of Jiraiya and Kakuzu.

Jiraiya was defeated by Ryougo once, and Ryougo was well aware of Kakuzu's grudge.

What he feared most was Shisui's Kotoamatsukami.

Shisui's Kotoamatsukami is the strongest illusion technique, capable of absolutely altering a person's will, and this change is permanent.

For example, if someone likes to play cards and constantly calls for their mother, that person is basically beyond saving.

But once he was brainwashed by Kotoamatsukami, he returned to normal.

Kotoamatsukami's control has a higher priority than many forbidden techniques. It is the officially recognized strongest illusion technique, capable of modifying the target's will without being detected.

In the original work, Itachi was controlled by Kabuto's Impure World Seal and Sage Chakra, but after Kotoamatsukami's modification, Itachi's command to "be under Kabuto's orders" was forcibly changed to "protect Konoha".

This is probably the strongest illusion technique; even Infinite Tsukuyomi cannot permanently change a person's will.

Infinite Tsukuyomi excels in its range, while Kotoamatsukami excels in its single target.

Furthermore, Kotoamatsukami does not need to make eye contact; he can control people silently simply by looking at them, and the controlled person will not realize that they are being controlled.

During the Five Kage Summit, Danzo hid Shisui's eyes inside bandages and silently took control of Mifune.

To counter the strongest sound-based illusion spell, Toad's Song, you can destroy your own ears; use "Don't Listen" to counter Toad's Song.

But there is no solution for the other gods!

It invades the brain directly in the form of illusionary energy, acting ruthlessly and unreasonably.

On the other hand, Kotoamatsukami is a genjutsu of the Mangekyou Sharingan, so can a ninja with the Mangekyou Sharingan counter it?