Konoha: I, Uchiha, am brimming with positive energy

Chapter 221 Skin and Bones Nine-Tailed Fox (Please Subscribe)

"A crystal of natural energy? I don't know, but I'll ask the slug for you."

Tsunade was also seeing something like this for the first time, but she still used the summoning jutsu to ask Uchiha Yoichi.

Bang!

A puff of smoke appeared, followed by a half-meter-long slug that appeared in front of Uchiha Yoichi.

After the slug appeared, it said to Tsunade, "Lady Tsunade, is there something you need?"

"Slug, do you recognize this? Or are there any similar ones in Shikkotsu Forest?"

Upon hearing Tsunade's words, the slug brought its tentacle eyes closer, observed and sensed them for a moment, and said, "Stones containing natural energy? There used to be many in Shikkotsu Forest, but I threw them all into the pool."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade asked, "In the pool? That acidic pool where Sage Mode practitioners train?"

"How rude of you, Lady Tsunade! That's for contractors to train in Sage Mode; it's a Sage Pool that merges with the slime on my body."

The slug immediately retorted, but then shook its tentacles and said, "Although we throw a batch of these stones into the pool every now and then, we should have accumulated another batch recently. Does Lady Tsunade need them?"

"It's easy to preserve when it's still a rock, but once it's made into a fairy pool, it can't be taken out of Shikkotsu Forest."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade looked at Uchiha Yoichi, but she herself remained silent.

Uchiha Yang said, "I need it. I want to use this to refine pills."

"Pills? I didn't expect that the pills refined by the Uchiha clan were made by you. Let me go and see them sometime."

Tsunade spoke up, saying that she was also very skilled in medicine preparation and had seen the Uchiha clan's secret medicines after returning. She never expected that it was actually made by Uchiha Yoichi.

Previously, those three simple medicines required the help of other medical ninjas to prepare, but now they can actually prepare such a powerful secret medicine.

"Thank you, slug. If it's not important to you, please give us some."

"Understood. Lady Tsunade can summon me tomorrow. This is mainly for contractors, but right now, Lady Tsunade is the only contractor in Shikkotsu Forest, so the Sage Pool is not needed."

"It's a sweet voice," the slug said, but Uchiha Yoichi looked around and couldn't figure out how it was speaking.

Fortunately, they obtained a batch of natural stones. After the slug left, Uchiha Yoichi massaged Tsunade for a while to express his gratitude.

However, Tsunade didn't appreciate her kindness. After massaging him for a while, she started moaning "You little rascal, you little rascal~" over and over again. Moreover, disregarding Uchiha Yoichi's hard work in massaging her, she kicked him out after getting dressed.

"You damn brat"

Tsunade lay on the sofa for a while before slowly recovering. She looked at her watch and saw that more than two hours had passed. So she secretly decided that she would never let him indulge her like that when she was busy next time.

Ugh~

Tsunade suddenly felt a little nauseous, but quickly recovered; she didn't think much of it, but cursed the brat in her heart again for stuffing that thing into her mouth again.

If you dare to do that again, I'll take a big bite out of you!

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After leaving the hospital, Uchiha Yang returned to the clan's alchemy room with a satisfied heart.

This place basically has all the medicinal herbs that the Uchiha clan can collect, and the preservation equipment is very complete; since there is nothing else to do recently, Uchiha Yangyi plans to try to improve some fourth-grade pills and see how much difference there is between these natural energy crystals and magic cores.

"Let's start by refining healing and support pills. Pills that increase power and chakra seem to be ineffective for ninjas; they're all temporary."

Uchiha Yoichi pondered to himself that the Ninja World was different from the Dou Qi Continent. The fighters there all possessed Dou Qi Xuan, which allowed them to refine the medicinal power in pills into their own power and preserve it.

While ninjas might not have the ability to make chakra, he could perhaps refine some and give them to Tsunade, whose Yin Seal would retain all the excess chakra. As for the other ninjas, they could only consume the chakra-boosting pills as provisions.

Auxiliary pills are simpler to make than pills for healing injuries, and pills for healing injuries are simpler to make than pills for increasing cultivation. Therefore, Uchiha Yoichi chose two pills that were relatively easy to refine.

The Beast Power Pill and the Minor Recovery Pill are excellent for healing injuries. The former can greatly increase the strength of the user, and in the ninja world, it can almost give the user strength second only to monstrous strength.

It's roughly equivalent to a continuous Healing Palm Technique, and its effect on healing internal and external injuries is even better than the Healing Palm Technique. It's almost like carrying two medical Jonin on your back while fighting the enemy.

With his expertise in alchemy, Uchiha Yoichi quickly identified the medicinal ingredients needed for the two pills. Their properties were similar, and they were easy to blend after extraction, giving him a chance to successfully improve them.

After selecting the medicinal herbs, Uchiha Yoichi quickly got to work.

While he was refining medicine, the development of Konoha Village did not stop.

Compared to other ninja villages, Konoha Village has probably developed the fastest. Even the Land of Lightning and the Hidden Cloud Village, which are relatively well-off, are just relying on the Daimyo's government for funding and continuing to develop their military and train ninjas, following the same old routine.

Anti-war sentiment has also emerged in Iwagakure. Ōnoki knew that while Kumogakure was preparing for war, he wanted to do the same in Iwagakure. However, other high-ranking Iwagakure members were quite opposed, and the lower-ranking members were also on edge for a long time.

Therefore, Onoki had no choice but to give up and instead hire wandering ninjas to help them complete some high-risk missions, while Iwagakure could simply train ninjas normally.

Neither Kirigakure nor Sunagakure can develop properly. They have the title of one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, but if we're really serious, we could completely exclude them.

As for Konoha, it was completely different from Iwagakure and Kumogakure; while training ninjas, it also developed military technology, economy, and the cohesion of the people.

As long as he is there, Konoha Village will not fear war, so there is no need to focus solely on the development of ninja strength.

Moreover, the fact that they can casually reveal their bodies now makes the village's ninjas extremely powerful; with Windwalking Pill + Beast Power Pill + Pulse Protection Pill + Minor Recovery Pill, a Chunin who takes these four pills could probably kill a Jonin by trading his life for theirs.

Not to mention ninja battle suits, which are so powerful that even a shuriken or kunai can't penetrate vital defenses.

Moreover, Konoha's true strength lies in human research. Once Orochimaru and Tsunade's research results become widespread, Konoha's elite ninjas will increase three to four times.

Neither the Iwa ninja nor the Kumo ninja knew about these things. They thought Konoha was focused on developing its economy and were secretly relieved that Konoha had made a foolish mistake.

While Konoha and Sunagakure were preparing for the Chunin Exams, Iwagakure was organizing manpower and hiring people to explore the unknown areas north of the Land of Earth.

They need to find the place where the Four-Tails and Five-Tails were reborn in advance. Although they know from information from decades ago that Hashirama Senju had been here, they still need to confirm the exact location.

In particular, since Iwagakure had never sent anyone here before, the initial scouting teams suffered heavy casualties.

In some sparsely populated areas, there are extremely terrifying wild beasts. Some of these beasts are even enormous in size and have thick hides, so much so that even Chunin cannot defeat them.

So the Iwa ninja hired some wandering ninjas, including members of the Akatsuki.

"Universal Guidance!"

"Shinra Tensei!"

Pain raised his hand towards the enormous beast, and then a powerful suction and repulsion force erupted, directly knocking the saber-toothed tiger, which was over twenty meters long, unconscious.

Then, the Animal Path leaped onto the saber-toothed tiger's body, and several black rods appeared in its hands, which it then inserted directly into the tiger's body.

The next second, the Animal Path formed hand seals, and the eyes of the enormous saber-toothed tiger also transformed into Rinnegan.

Konan stepped forward and asked, "Did you succeed, Nagato?"

"Hmm, the environment here is quite nice. If we can capture a few more spirit beasts like this, then our strength in the Animal Path will be among the top."

Pain, the Deva Path, said that summoning summoning beasts controlled by the Rinnegan in the Animal Path doesn't consume much chakra. As long as they are prepared in advance, they will act like puppets.

That saber-toothed tiger was almost at the level of a special jonin, and after being turned into a puppet-like summoning beast, it was no longer afraid of pain. Charging into the ninjas, it would definitely be a big problem for chunin and genin.

Xiao Nan said, "In that case, let's go back."

"Alright, let's go ask the Iwa ninja for our reward."

After the Deva Path clone finished speaking, it turned and left. The main body of Nagato, who was in the distance, was also protected by the other four Pains, following behind the Deva Path clone and Konan.

The closer Pain's clones are to his main body, the stronger they become; otherwise, transmitting chakra would be difficult if they were too far away.

Back at the temporary base in Iwagakure, some Iwagakure ninjas couldn't resist taking out kunai when they saw Pain, but stopped after realizing what was happening.

"The mission is complete. Let's settle the payment."

"No problem, but Lord Huangtu is looking for you, so go over there in a bit."

After giving them their reward, the Iwa ninja spoke to the two. Nagato and Konan, thinking it was a new mission, headed straight for the camp where Huang Tu was located.

After announcing their arrival outside the tent, the two went inside.

"Every time I see your puppet clone, I get an irresistible urge to attack. But never mind, let's get down to business."

Upon seeing the face of the golden flash, Huang Tu's memories of hatred for Konoha resurfaced, but remembering the information his father had sent, he still asked with a serious expression.

"You must be from the Akatsuki organization, right? As for you, you must be Nagato, the one with the Rinnegan from Akatsuki. Is this ability to control corpse clones a power of the Rinnegan?"

After hearing that their secrets had been exposed, Konan became nervous and immediately began to refine her chakra, preparing to use the Shikigami Technique.

"Don't be nervous. We check the background of every ninja we hire. And you guys are too bold, not even changing your decorations or appearance."

Huang Tu glanced at Xiao Nan, then slowly said, "These two are quite strong, but they definitely don't have much experience in the ninja world, and they should be the same age, both under twenty."

"The Hidden Rain Village is massacring members of the Akatsuki, including almost all of your former core members. This has naturally exposed the information. Although Hanzo is a demigod, he doesn't dare to start a war recklessly after we stole his information."

The Iwa ninja obtained all their intelligence from Amegakure, which led to the exposure of spies and the killing of several Amegakure ninja.

But it doesn't matter. Now that we've obtained such important intelligence, let the hidden spies be exposed.

The Heavenly Dao clone spoke up, "What do you want to say?"

"Join Iwagakure, they will provide you with protection; Amegakure is currently hunting you, and Konoha must also have a deep-seated grudge against you."

Huang Tu pointed to the Heavenly Path clone. This was also Onoki's decision. Their Iwagakure had tried everything but failed to kill the Yellow Flash, and now he was dying at the hands of an Akatsuki organization.

I don't know if the Golden Flash was careless or if the Rinnegan was too powerful.

"The Akatsuki organization has its own goals."

"No matter how good your goal is, it won't change the fact that you're wanted by Amegakure and Konoha. If you join Iwagakure, at least we won't take your Rinnegan. If you join Kumogakure, you'll know the benefits of Iwagakure. Where else can you go besides Iwagakure?"

Huang Tu paused for a moment, then continued, "Even if you want to return to Amegakure to deal with Hanzo, Iwagakure will support you; the condition is that you help Iwagakure and form an alliance with them after you take over Amegakure."

The combination of threats and inducements silenced Nagato, who finally spoke after a while: "I need to think about it."

"Alright, this mission is still a long way off, so think it over carefully. The Iwa ninja are the most sincere towards you."

After saying that, Huang Tu let the two leave.

The Hidden Stone Village will spend another month exploring the area, clearing away the wild beasts around the suspected Four-Tails and Five-Tails territory. After that, they only need to leave some ninjas behind before returning.

Moreover, the Iwa ninja camp does not allow outsiders. Although some wandering ninjas who came with them as employees can only enter when they receive their wages and supplies, they sleep outdoors on their own the rest of the time.

After returning, Konan couldn't help but ask, "Nagato, should we grant the Iwa ninja's request?"

"I need to think about it, Konan. There are benefits to agreeing; at least we'll get support, we'll be closer to the two tailed beasts, and we can also get revenge on Hanzo!"

Nagato did not remain unmoved upon hearing the news that almost all Akatsuki members had been captured, as some of the older members were people he had known for a long time.

"Should we ask Fugaku Uchiha and Madara Uchiha for their opinions?"

"No need. Fugaku Uchiha just needs to complete the mission. As for Madara Uchiha and Konan, don't trust them."

Nagato always remembered Yahiko's words, and he also suspected Obito Uchiha's motives. If it was really for his own good, why didn't he leave the monster that could possess him to him?

"Let me think about this."

Although that's what they say, Nagato is already leaning towards Huangtu's words. Joining or cooperating with Iwagakure would have no downsides other than temporarily delaying Akatsuki's objectives. And since they are currently short-handed, they couldn't carry out their plans anyway.

"Konan, after this is over, you and Fugaku Uchiha should go and recruit members for the Akatsuki, starting with the person White Zetsu mentioned."

"I understand, Nagato."

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"Kushina's here? Welcome, Mina. Today seems to be the Chunin Exams. Aren't you going to watch?"

When Uchiha Yoichi returned home, he found Mina and Kushina eating snacks and chatting on the sofa, with three children sleeping next to them.

"Yang Yi, you're back."

Mina Uzumaki approached Yoichi Uchiha with a smile and said to him, "The second exam wasn't very interesting. Let's wait for the third exam. But Itachi and the others have already gone to the plaza to watch."

"By the way, Yoichi, Kushina needs to talk to you."

"What is it?"

While asking the questions, Uchiha Yoichi came to the sofa, but after looking at the three children lying in the stroller, he picked up Uzumaki Naruto first.

The technique of creating clones.

Even after his soul clone entered deep within Naruto's body, he could still sense that extreme Yang energy; at the same time, he cultivated the basic techniques of a mental master, making Uchiha Yangichi's senses increasingly acute.

Therefore, he can now clearly sense that the Yang Release chakra within Naruto Uzumaki is growing stronger day by day.

"Yoichi-kun, is there a problem with Naruto?"

"Nothing, what do you need me for?"

Uchiha Yoichi shook his head and asked, "There's no need to talk about Ashura."

Seeing that Uchiha Yoichi didn't want to talk about it, Kushina became a little more serious and made her request: "Naruto is so grown up now, I would like to ask Yoichi to help me control the Nine-Tails' chakra."

"This matter is no problem. If I hadn't neglected it recently, I should have been able to help you much earlier. However, the key to temporarily unlocking the seal on you should be with you."

Uchiha Yoichi pointed to Kushina's stomach and said that the chakra extracted after the seal was broken would be faster, and he planned to ask for more chakra this time.

"I have the key."

Seeing Kushina's hesitation, Uchiha Yoichi said, "Don't worry, the Nine-Tails won't be able to move after the seal is broken. Besides, Mina is right there; she can add another layer of the Four Symbols Seal to you at any time!"

"That's right, Kushina, as soon as you show any signs of Nine-Tails transformation, I will seal you away."

Mina Uzumaki said with a smile, while raising her arm to indicate that she was very strong, "And I believe in Lord Yoichi, he can definitely control the Nine-Tails."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Yang Yi-kun."

Kushina thought that Uchiha Yoichi could control the Nine-Tails before, so he should be even stronger now, so she readily agreed.

"Mina, send a clone to take care of the child, then come with me to the basement; but Kushina, let me make this clear first, you have to share half of the Nine-Tails' chakra with me this time."

"Only half? No problem, I agree."

Kushina readily agreed. Compared to before when she could only get one-fifth, this time she could get one-half, which was more than double the amount.

The three then went to the basement, which was spacious enough for them to work together.

After preparing, Uchiha Yoichi placed his hand on Kushina's body, and then used his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan to enter the sealed space inside Kushina's body. After he arrived, Kushina followed him in.

"It's you two bastards again!"

When Kurama saw Uchiha Yoichi and Kushina, it immediately recalled its previous humiliating experience and roared angrily; the furious struggle of the strongest tailed beast caused the sealed space to tremble slightly.

"No need to rush, Nine-Tails, today is the day to release you."

After Kushina finished speaking, she glanced shyly at Uchiha Yoichi. Seeing that he wasn't looking in her direction, she revealed her stomach and then turned the Four Symbols Seal key on the seal.

Click click click!

The seal on the Nine-Tails instantly fell off, and once the seal was completely broken, the enormous tailed beast landed directly on the ground.

"Die, humans!"

With a furious roar, the Nine-Tails unleashed a torrent of chakra that seemed poised to shatter the entire sealed space. Under the impact of this violent chakra, Kushina even found it difficult to stand still.

"Go to hell, man!"

Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

Just as the Nine-Tails raised its massive claws to attack, it saw a strange kaleidoscope pattern. Then, its immense ocular power directly controlled the Nine-Tails, causing its beast eyes to transform into Sharingan patterns.

"You, you."

Soon, the Nine-Tails quieted down.

Uchiha Yoichi sensed it for a moment and found that controlling the Nine-Tails was quite easy. He then turned to Kushina and said, "Go and pull out the Nine-Tails' chakra. It can't resist now, so pull out as much as you want!"

Don't worry!

Kushina licked her lips, rolled up her sleeves, and then formed hand seals, using the Vajra Chain to wrap around Kurama's body and forcibly extract Kurama's chakra.

Soon, the massive tailed beast chakra flowed through the Kongo Chains to Kushina, but it also brought with it the negative emotions within the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Hatred, curses, resentment, jealousy, and so on, suddenly caused the negative thoughts hidden in Kushina's heart to erupt.

"Yang Yi-kun, please help me."

Just before Kushina was about to lose control, she spoke up. However, Uchiha Yang had already prepared for this. He came to Kushina's side and used his chakra to help her filter out the negative emotions in the Nine-Tails' chakra, which was also a special kind of chakra.

Kushina has never been to the real waterfall in Kumogakure, so she cannot see the darkness in her heart. In addition, she recently lost her husband. No matter how much Mina and Mikoto try to comfort her, she must still have a lot of negative emotions hidden in her heart.

However, with the help of Uchiha Yoichi, Kushina's tailed beast transformation characteristics gradually diminished.

Finally, the two of them worked together and reduced a powerful nine-tailed fox to skin and bones. Kushina felt a little guilty after seeing this and said, "Yoichi-kun, isn't that enough?"

"Alright, this should be enough."

Uchiha Yoichi felt it and realized that it was indeed the strongest tailed beast. He and Kushina each received half, which was four times the amount extracted from the Two-Tails.

This way, it can be used for a long time.

After Kushina used the key to close the seal again, Uchiha Yoichi released his control over the Nine-Tails.

"Damn you, you damned humans, I'll kill you all one day! Kill you all!"

Upon waking up, Kurama discovered that so much of its power had been drained, and it roared like a madman, trying to kill Kushina and Uchiha Yoichi. However, it no longer had the power to break free from its seal.

"Then good luck. I'm almost at the Rinnegan level. I hope you'll still be this tough when you see the Gedo Mazo."

Uchiha Yoichi chuckled and then left the sealed space inside Kushina's body.

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