Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 244 The Perfect Transformation Finally Complete

"The Third Kazekage is dead. If I, as his bodyguard, go back alive, I might not be able to explain myself."

As the bodyguard of the Third Kazekage, if Sasori were to return alive after the Third Kazekage's death, his memories would certainly be probed.

At that time, their presence here will be exposed.

Li Yao's Wind Release clone laughed, "Don't worry, I have my own way of making the Wind Shadow die a reasonable death, without implicating you. I will soon take the position of Wind Shadow, and then you can come back without any problems."

Having said that, Sasori couldn't refuse. He nodded and said, "Alright, if you really become the Fourth Kazekage, then I'll go back to the village."

If possible, Scorpion would not want to leave the village, since the various facilities and resources in the village would allow him to better study the Eternal Puppet Technique.

Of course, the main reason he dared not refuse Li Yaofeng's clone was that he didn't dare to use it.

However… he looked at Li Yao's wind-escape clone and reminded him, “With the Third Kazekage dead, those old guys won’t let you become Kazekage so easily.”

Those within the family know their own affairs. Scorpion doesn't believe that the old guys in the family would be willing to let Li Yaofeng, who comes from a commoner background, take over through his clone.

"Don't worry about that, I have my own methods." Li Yaofeng's clone smiled slightly and said confidently.

If all else fails, he can use illusion magic to pave the way and secure the position of Wind Shadow with a unanimous vote.

Li Yao did not intend to use genjutsu frequently, unless it was for revenge against the Third Hokage. Otherwise, he would use it sparingly.

Throughout the entire ninja world, Li Yao only showed favoritism towards the Third Hokage.

"Then I have nothing more to say. I'll wait for your good news," Scorpion said with a slight smile.

"Then it's settled." Li Yao walked over and patted Sasori's bare shoulder, leaving the Flying Thunder God mark on it, or rather, forcing Sasori to sign a Flying Thunder God contract.

The so-called Flying Thunder God Mark is actually a kind of forced contract.

Just like making a contract with a summoned beast requires leaving your blood mark on the Book of Contracts.

Once a bloodstain is left and a contract is signed, the name will appear in the Book of Contracts.

In this way, unless you die, the summoning spell between you and the summoned beast will be bound together.

The same applies to the Flying Thunder God Mark. Once the body is marked with the Flying Thunder God Mark, it means that a contract has been signed with the Flying Thunder God Technique. Unless one dies, the contract with the Flying Thunder God cannot be broken.

So now, even if Sasori removes the arm with the Flying Thunder God mark, it's useless. Li Yao can still use the Flying Thunder God technique to teleport to his side.

Even if Sasori, like in the original story, turned himself into a human puppet, keeping only his heart, Li Yao's Flying Thunder God mark would still be with him, and he could still use the Flying Thunder God to teleport to his side.

Of course, Li Yaofeng left the Flying Thunder God mark on Sasori with his clone just in case he couldn't find Sasori.

Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't use Flying Thunder God.

"Alright, wait for my good news."

Li Yaofeng smiled as he used his clone to create an illusion, then turned and quickly left.

As soon as Li Yaofeng's clone left and went far away, Scorpion quickly took off his clothes and carefully checked his body.

He just felt that Li Yaofeng's clone had left some kind of mark on his shoulder.

After a thorough examination, he couldn't sense anything.

Helpless, Scorpion could only leave with a gloomy face, feeling very unhappy, after all, no one wants to have someone else's things inside their body forever.

Li Yao, who had walked away, sensed Scorpion's actions and smiled slightly.

The Flying Thunder God Mark is just a contract mark. It disappears after the contract is signed and does not last forever. Therefore, even if someone is forced to sign a contract by the Flying Thunder God Mark, it is difficult for others to discover it.

This is also why, in the later stages of the Chunin World in the original work, Obito, despite possessing Truth-Seeking Balls capable of annihilating all chakra ninjutsu, was unable to remove the Flying Thunder God mark left on him by Minato.

Because the mark disappears on its own after the Flying Thunder God Contract is forcibly signed, there is naturally no way to remove the already disappeared Flying Thunder God mark.

Let alone Obito, even if Li Yao himself were to be bound by Minato's Flying Thunder God seal, he wouldn't be able to break the contract with Minato's Flying Thunder God.

Therefore, when dealing with Minato in the future, never give him the opportunity to mark him.

Li Yao split his mind and body.

……

On the sea.

Bang!

A corpse fell from the sky, creating a splash of blood.

Five thousand meters above the ground, on the back of the clay bird, a seagull tilted its head, baring its teeth at Li Yao, its bright eyes filled with endless hatred that wished it could kill him.

Little Leaf watched this scene with curiosity.

After leaving the Land of Waves, Li Yao captured many ninjas along the way. Through ninjutsu manipulation that Xiao Yezi couldn't understand, their souls entered the bodies of birds, resulting in their current forms.

"How did that guy do it?"

"What kind of ninjutsu is this?"

Xiao Yezi was very curious, but since Li Yao didn't say anything, she wouldn't ask. She just observed carefully.

Li Yao reached out and touched the seagull's head, instantly imprinting a sealing spell into the seagull's skull. The seagull, which had been baring its teeth, immediately became docile.

"Go, find a man named Shennong."

Li Yao's voice reached the seagulls' ears, and they immediately nodded in a human-like manner before flapping their wings and flying away.

Interestingly, the spirit assimilation technique developed by Li Yao bears some resemblance to the puppet seal.

Those ninjas whose souls and wills were forcibly stuffed into the seagulls' bodies by him using the Spirit Assimilation Technique were treated the same way as those whose chakra was transferred by the Puppet Seal.

However, Li Yao's spirit assimilation technique was even more domineering, transferring even the soul and will, making it even more torturous.

The ninjas who were stuffed into the seagulls harbored an extraordinary hatred for Li Yao; each of them wished they could kill him outright.

Fortunately, Li Yao used an illusion-type sealing technique, which allowed him to control the seagull.

Otherwise, we wouldn't know how to find Shennong.

"Let's go to Sunagakure."

Li Yao controlled the clay bird to change direction and head towards the direction of his wind-style clone.

Through chakra perception, Li Yao was able to sense the location and direction of his five clones, and even after the clones condensed the Flying Thunder God seal, he could directly use the Flying Thunder God to fly there.

However, there's no need for that. The purpose of going to Sunagakure is to cooperate with the Wind Release clone in a performance, so as to help the Wind Release clone take the position of Kazekage.

There's still plenty of time, no rush.

On the way, Li Yao could take the opportunity to study the puppet seal and perfect the Perfect Transformation Technique as soon as possible.

Along the way, Li Yao and Xiao Yezi rode on the back of the clay bird.

"So this is the puppet's seal!"

A day later, a puppet seal condensed on Li Yaoying's clone.

With Li Yao's familiarity with sealing techniques and the puppet memories of the Third Kazekage, it wouldn't take him long to inscribe the puppet seal on himself.

With the puppet seal engraved on his body, he can decompose chakra into spiritual energy and physical energy.

"Perfect transformation!"

With a thought, Li Yaoying transformed into a seagull.

At this moment, the puppet seal on the shadow clone's body did not disappear.

The puppet seal developed by the Third Kazekage already had some of the effects of the Flying Thunder God seal, and the seal did not disappear after transforming into a seagull.

Li Yaoying's clone immediately activated the magic seal to decompose all the chakra in the seagull's body into spiritual energy and physical energy, and then he actively dispersed the puppet magic seal.

"Huh...?"

Suddenly, Xiao Yezi stared in astonishment at the seagull that Li Yaoying's clone had transformed into. She couldn't sense any chakra fluctuations from it at all; it was just like a real seagull.

Not right either.

Xiao Yezi instantly noticed that the seagull transformed from Li Yaoying's shadow clone was different from the other seagulls. It did indeed have no chakra, but this seagull transformed from a shadow clone... how to describe it?

Very healthy!

Correct.

It's like suddenly becoming very healthy, excessively healthy.

Although it was a seagull, she felt as if she were facing an elephant, with an overwhelming sense of vitality emanating from it.

Li Yao frowned slightly, not entirely satisfied with the perfect transformation technique that could now conceal chakra.

Putting aside the fact that chakra is too vast after being broken down into spiritual and physical energy, it still has undeniable drawbacks.

Once he transforms into a seagull, his chakra is broken down into spiritual and physical energy. If he encounters sudden danger, even if he reacts quickly, he will need to reassemble such a massive amount of spiritual and physical energy back into chakra before using various ninjutsu to deal with the danger.

Even with the fastest reaction time, this process still takes time.

In the eyes of top experts, that amount of time would be enough to kill Li Yao.

"Ugh!"

Li Yao sighed. The perfect transformation technique was perfect, but its effects were somewhat useless to him now.

Forget it.

So be it.

In the future, when we have time, we can research new ways to hide chakra. There's no need to be fixated on breaking down chakra into spiritual energy and physical energy to hide it.

The puppet seal incident taught Li Yao that sometimes, changing your approach can easily solve problems that have been difficult to resolve.

Previously, he had only thought about how to break down chakra into spiritual energy and physical energy through his absolute control over chakra, never considering that it could actually be solved through sealing incantations.

Therefore, hiding chakra does not necessarily mean breaking it down.

As long as the enemy can't sense the chakra, the method doesn't matter; what matters is the result.

In any case, the perfect transformation has come to an end.

Next, we need to properly develop our basic chakra attribute and take down the other three Kage one by one.

Of the five Kage who surrounded and killed Li Yao back then, the Mizukage and Kazekage were killed by him personally, and the Third Hokage, that monkey, will definitely be left until the end.

Now all that's missing are the Tsuchikage and the Raikage.

(End of this chapter)