Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 37 The New Nine-Tails Jinchuriki

In the Eight Gates Formation, opening the Death Gate can lead to death.

Moreover... if the acupoints are similar to the Eight Gates, then the chakra within them cannot be used.

Li Yao quickly manipulated the chakra within the acupoints to fly out of the acupoint area.

As expected, it failed.

No matter how Li Yao manipulated it, the chakra points were like a sealed chamber, with no gaps allowing chakra to escape.

The acupoints were firmly bound by a powerful, invisible force, preventing the chakra from flowing out.

Only physical energy and mental energy can freely enter and exit.

Next, Li Yao tried to manipulate the chakra in other acupoints, but found that they were all the same, firmly bound inside the acupoints and unable to come out.

"This is really troublesome!"

The acupoint at the Death Gate is fine; Li Yao can just switch to another acupoint to accumulate chakra.

But if the chakra inside all the acupoints can't come out, then no matter how much chakra he accumulates, it's useless!

This is practically the same as being sealed by the Bagua sealing technique.

Perhaps it is precisely because acupoints possess the inherent characteristic of sealing chakra that those who developed sealing techniques such as the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique did not take acupoints into account.

Li Yao thought about it and wasn't in a hurry.

After a while, Li Yaochen calmed down.

The chakra within the acupoints is not always locked and unusable.

The existence of the Eight Gates demonstrates that chakra points can be opened.

Li Yao simply didn't know how to open his chakra points since he didn't know the Eight Gates Formation.

But once he's sure it can be opened, he can just figure it out slowly.

After all, the Eight Gates Formation was also developed by humans.

With his absolute control over chakra and unique chakra perception, as long as he works hard, he will definitely be able to find a way to open the pressure points.

In the following time, Li Yao gathered chakra in the other seven acupoints outside the Death Gate, controlled the chakra to flow within the acupoints, and focused his perception on the acupoints to conduct a comprehensive study of the invisible force that bound the chakra within them.

Time passed day by day.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye, and it was spring of Konoha year 34.

At this point, a year and a half had passed since Li Yao came into this world.

He remained quietly and alone in Laboratory No. 2, untouched by anyone, as if forgotten.

Indeed, apart from his "friend" Minato Namikaze, everyone else at the Ninja Academy had completely forgotten about Li Yao.

this day.

At the Konoha Ninja Academy, a girl with long, blood-red chili pepper-like hair enters Minato's class.

From that moment on, the gears of fate began to turn.

Whether it was fate or Minato's powerful chakra perception, he would always silently appear by the side when the red-haired girl was being bullied, without helping her, just watching.

Gradually, the red-haired girl became clearer and clearer in his mind.

Kimura Yo, a former friend, was gradually replaced.

Also on this day.

The other side of the ninja world.

The Land of Earth.

Hidden Rock Village.

The Tsuchikage office building.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, a short figure standing at 1.3 meters tall, sat on a specially made high chair, listening with a frown to the intelligence report from the Anbu ninja.

"So, Konoha now has a new Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."

"Yes, Lord Tsuchikage."

The ANBU member, Tsuchimaki, spoke with shame, his head slightly lowered, blaming himself, "It's all because I didn't do a good job of intelligence gathering. Please punish me, sir."

He has always been in charge of monitoring and observing whether the Uzumaki clan will produce a member who can inherit the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

As a result, he not only failed to collect information on the Uzumaki clan members who were born and could inherit the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but also killed them.

Only after they were delivered to Konoha did he realize that the girl named Uzumaki Kushina possessed exceptionally powerful sealing chakra, capable of suppressing and sealing the Nine-Tails.

His mission can be described as a complete failure.

"Tumu, don't blame yourself. The Uzumaki clan is inherently difficult to monitor."

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, waved his hand, comforting the ANBU ninja who was actually his nephew but was named Tsuchikki.

What he said wasn't wrong. The Uzumaki clan is born with a huge amount of chakra and is proficient in sealing techniques and medical ninjutsu, and has an exceptionally strong ability to control chakra.

Generally speaking, if one possesses a large amount of chakra and also has strong control over the subtle aspects of chakra, then it is easy to master chakra perception.

Therefore, the Uzumaki clan has the most ninjas with chakra sensing abilities among all ninja clans in the ninja world.

Even if all the ninjas with chakra sensing abilities in all the hidden villages of a country were combined, there wouldn't be as many people with chakra sensing abilities as the Uzumaki clan.

It's naturally difficult to monitor a clan of ninjas with so many chakra-sensing abilities in such depth and accuracy.

Tsuchiki was kept in the dark, and Onoki fully understood.

As long as Tsuchiki knows that the Uzumaki clan has produced a new Jinchūriki capable of sealing the Nine-Tails, his surveillance mission will not have been in vain.

The most pressing issue now is that Konoha has a new Jinchūriki to inherit the Nine-Tails.

Onoki was well aware of the Nine-Tails' power.

That was a terrifying power that completely surpassed the other eight tailed beasts.

That kind of powerful force, let me put it this way.

In the entire ninja world, only the Uzumaki clan geniuses, whose innate chakra reserves are even greater than those of other Uzumaki clan members, are able to firmly seal the Nine-Tails within their bodies.

Other ninjas simply cannot seal the Nine-Tails into their bodies. If they try to seal it by force, they will be instantly corrupted by the Nine-Tails' enormous and evil chakra and become its food.

This demonstrates the power of the Nine-Tails.

The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, who can firmly seal the Nine-Tails into their body without being corrupted by the Nine-Tails' chakra, must be even more terrifying in strength.

During the last Shinobi World War, it was thought that with the First Hokage and the Second Hokage both dead, the various Shinobi nations could carve out a fertile piece of land from the Land of Fire.

As a result, the current Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, wife of the God of Shinobi, and former princess of the Uzumaki clan, Mito Uzumaki, only had to make one move to show the shinobi world what the number one fighting force in the shinobi world was after the God of Shinobi and the Shura of Shinobi World.

Even Onoki, who possessed the Dust Release, a bloodline limit ninjutsu, believed that he had no chance of defeating Mito Uzumaki.

After all, he was a member of the Uzumaki clan with a massive amount of chakra, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki with the most terrifying amount of chakra.

Mito Uzumaki's chakra reserves were so vast that even Onoki couldn't describe how immense they were.

In addition, Mito Uzumaki was proficient in sealing techniques, medical ninjutsu, and barrier techniques, among others.

He is also a powerful figure from the Warring States period, with equally rich combat experience.

Onoki envisioned several scenarios for fighting Mito Uzumaki, but he had no chance of winning against any of them; at best, he could only manage a draw for a short period of time.

But if time drags on, he will surely fail.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, it was thanks to Mito Uzumaki's presence in the rear that the tide of battle on the front lines was stabilized. This allowed the Third Hokage and others to gradually shift the balance of power back to Konoha, completely extinguishing the ambitions of other ninja villages to carve up the Land of Fire's territory and thus establishing Konoha's current status as the strongest ninja country.

It can be said that as long as Mito Uzumaki is alive, no other ninja village will have the idea of ​​sending troops to declare war on the Land of Fire.

Fortunately, Mito Uzumaki is getting old, and her chakra reserves will decrease, making it increasingly difficult to seal the Nine-Tails.

According to Ohnoki's estimate, it will take at most ten years.

Mito Uzumaki could only hold on for a maximum of ten years before dying because she could no longer suppress the Nine-Tails within her.

When Mito Uzumaki dies and no one can seal the Nine-Tails, Konoha will inevitably descend into chaos.

Even without major chaos, Konoha without the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki would no longer pose a threat to him or Iwagakure.

Onoki believed that after so many years of his management, Iwagakure's strength had long surpassed that of Konoha.

Once Mito Uzumaki dies, he will surely be able to lead Iwagakure to defeat the Land of Fire and wrest a tempting piece of land from its mouth.

But now... with the appearance of the new Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Onoki's plan has taken an unexpected turn.

Once Konoha regains its Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, especially a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from the Uzumaki clan, who can say that little girl won't become the next Mito Uzumaki?

Even if she's not as powerful as Mito Uzumaki, she certainly won't be much weaker.

Moreover... if there's a second Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, there will be a third and a fourth.

Ultimately, it's because the existence of the Uzumaki clan is simply too extraordinary.

If only... um!

Onoki suddenly had some ideas.

For example... how about wiping out the Uzumaki clan?

Without the Uzumaki clan and their powerful sealing chakra, the Nine-Tails will never have a Jinchūriki.

The more Onoki thought about it, the better he felt the idea was.

However, Iwagakure alone cannot wipe out the Uzumaki clan in a short time, catching Konoha off guard; it requires the combined efforts of other ninja villages.

"I imagine that Kumogakure and Kirigakure would be quite happy to eliminate the Uzumaki clan."

Onoki smiled inwardly. The Uzumaki clan, which had been allied with Konoha for generations, was a thorn in the side of all the major ninja villages. At the same time, they possessed the strongest sealing techniques in the ninja world, making the major ninja villages both wary and envious.

It's best to eliminate this destined enemy, as we can also obtain powerful sealing techniques from it.

Perhaps after obtaining a more powerful sealing technique, the Jinchuriki of their ninja village could become a perfect Jinchuriki like Mito Uzumaki, capable of controlling the power of the Tailed Beast's chakra.

During this period, apart from Konoha's Uzumaki Water Gate, the Jinchuriki of other ninja villages were incomplete and unable to utilize the power of the Tailed Beasts.

On the contrary, because he had to use chakra to suppress the tailed beast sealed in his body at all times, his strength did not increase, and he also had to worry about the tailed beast going berserk and harming the people of his village.

It can be said that at this time, the Jinchūriki of each village are all super time bombs, and the strength they can exert is not as good as when they are not Jinchūriki.

Only Mito Uzumaki, with her powerful sealing techniques and vast chakra reserves, could forcibly extract the Nine-Tails' chakra for her own use without fear of the Nine-Tails going berserk.

This is something that no Jinchuriki from other ninja villages can do.

If they possessed the sealing techniques of the Uzumaki clan, they might be able to achieve something similar to Mito Uzumaki.

The more Onoki considered these possibilities, the more determined he became to destroy the Uzumaki clan.

Soon, Onoki secretly sent people to contact Kumogakure and Kirigakure to discuss the possibility of joining forces to destroy the Uzumaki clan.

Unexpectedly, the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Mist Village also had this idea.

They also learned that Konoha had a new successor to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and they also saw the potential danger posed by the Uzumaki clan and the huge benefits that would be gained from destroying the Uzumaki clan.

With Iwagakure taking the lead, Kumogakure and Kirigakure immediately responded.

Thus, a plan to exterminate the Uzumaki clan slowly unfolded.

What does all of this have to do with Li Yao?

(End of this chapter)