Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 41 Split Consciousness

"Huh...?"

Li Yao's current state is quite peculiar.

The newcomer seemed to cut a piece of flesh from his thigh. That piece of flesh contained his chakra, and his consciousness, which was fused with the chakra, separated from it along with the chakra on that piece of flesh.

A small part of his consciousness separated out!

This was something Li Yao had never expected.

Fortunately, only a small part of his consciousness separated, rather than his soul. Otherwise, Li Yao probably would have died from a split soul.

Now, a small portion of his consciousness separated from that mass of chakra, giving Li Yao a very strange sensation.

The separated consciousness remained connected to his soul and will, and was still under his control.

He could vaguely perceive the surrounding chakra through that separated part of his consciousness and his chakra perception ability.

"It should be Danzo!"

After a moment's thought, Li Yao deduced that the person from earlier was Danzo.

There aren't many people in Konoha who possess chakra of a quality close to that of the Third Hokage, and to have someone staying in this underground base, besides Danzo, who had a close personal relationship with the Third Hokage, Li Yao couldn't think of anyone else.

Moreover, just now, Li Yao sensed a chakra of even higher quality than the Third Hokage's from Danzo's right eye.

The quality of the chakra in the eyes of the ninja world is even higher than that of the Third Hokage; there is no other possibility but the eyes of the three great dojutsu.

Danzo's right eye is undoubtedly a Sharingan, and moreover, a Mangekyou Sharingan.

If Li Yao remembers correctly, the Mangekyou Sharingan in Danzo's right eye during this period should belong to Uchiha Kagami.

"I wonder if genjutsu at the Mangekyou Sharingan level would work on me?"

Li Yao suddenly realized something and felt a sense of urgency. He was unwilling to use his Mangekyou Sharingan to test whether he could withstand that level of genjutsu.

The best course of action now is to improve our strength and escape first.

Laboratory One.

Danzo arrived at a piece of experimental equipment, which was a hedgehog-shaped device with many long sockets and a long wire connected to the bottom.

Danzo inserted the test tube containing Li Yao's flesh and blood into one of the ports, then pressed the switch, and the hedgehog-shaped device slowly began to rotate, faster and faster.

After three minutes, the equipment stopped.

During the test, Li Yao's flesh and blood had completely decomposed into individual cells, which mixed completely with the dark green liquid to form a light green liquid with a hint of blood.

The dark substance seemed to have undergone some kind of reaction during the process of being energized and rotated, and disappeared or transformed into other substances.

Danzo took the test tube and went to another device, this time a special transparent and smooth glass panel, with a light panel emitting a dim white light underneath.

Danzo poured three drops of liquid from the test tube onto the glass panel, then turned on the light panel under the device, which emitted a dazzling white light that shone onto the transparent glass panel.

Danzo carefully observed the changes in the three drops of liquid on the glass panel under the white light.

Soon, under the dazzling white light, the light green liquid with a hint of blood gradually faded in color and eventually became completely colorless.

Upon seeing this, Danzo frowned slightly.

"It's not a special bloodline limit cell!"

Ninjas with bloodline limits have cells that are different from those of ordinary ninjas. When illuminated by dazzling white light on special transparent glass, they will display a different color.

Only ninjas who do not possess a bloodline limit will exhibit this colorless state.

This shows that Li Yao is not a bloodline limit ninja.

Why is his chakra able to resist the invasion of genjutsu chakra at the level of Dark Walk Technique?

There is only one possibility.

Li Yao's body or his chakra was always under some kind of special forbidden state, which is why he was still able to resist the illusion invasion of the Dark Walk Technique even when his mind and body were collapsing.

"No wonder Hiruzen asked me to study this; it seems he also saw this point."

Danzo smiled inwardly. If everything was due to special ninjutsu effects, then the value of this ninjutsu would be greatly enhanced.

After all, bloodline limits are difficult to replicate.

Just like with Wood Release, so many powerful members of the Senju clan died, yet they still gained nothing.

However, if it is ninjutsu, even forbidden ninjutsu, it has the effect of popularization.

He, Hiruzen, and their Root and Anbu squads can all learn it.

Once you learn this unique ninjutsu that grants immunity to levels below the Mangekyou Sharingan, you'll not only have an advantage against the Uchiha clan, but also against other ninjas in the ninja world who excel at genjutsu.

This is tantamount to indirectly increasing Konoha's strength.

This can be considered a strategic-level ninjutsu.

It's understandable that Hiruzen values ​​this so much.

It's understandable that they're so wary of this little guy named Li Yao escaping.

However, Hiruzen doesn't realize that he's tormented people to the point where they only have a few years left to live, and he's just worrying unnecessarily.

Thinking of this, Danzo frowned again.

That little guy clearly doesn't have many years left to live.

He needs to obtain this ninjutsu that grants immunity to illusions while he is still alive.

Danzo continued his research, using Li Yao's cell solution to test and experiment on various devices, attempting to break the special ninjutsu that Li Yao maintained his chakra at all times, or to find out the special effects of this ninjutsu.

Unfortunately, Danzo did not obtain any useful results even after using up all the cell solution in one test tube.

Danzo immediately went out, intending to retrieve some of Li Yao's flesh and blood cells from Laboratory No. 2.

However, Danzo stopped halfway there.

"Hiruzen hasn't gotten the result he wanted in half a year, which means things aren't that simple."

"And that little guy can't take too much torture now."

In order to ensure that he could study Li Yao's body for a longer period of time, Danzo chose to put it aside for today and go back to continue studying the Sharingan. He would study Li Yao's cells in a few days.

Time just passed by day by day.

In the following days, after confirming that the chakra in his acupoints had not attracted Danzo's attention, Li Yao continued to find ways to improve his strength while continuing to condense chakra.

Soon, six months had passed.

Konoha 35, winter.

As the Land of Fire responds, the conflict between the five great nations escalates further outside the border.

In fact, the territories of the five major countries do not directly border each other; they are separated by several smaller countries.

The conflicts between the hidden villages of the five great nations are all happening within these small countries, while the domestic population remains unaffected. Ordinary people are completely unaware that the conflicts between the hidden villages of the five great nations are escalating.

The destruction and damage caused by the conflict between the five hidden villages are all borne by the people of the small country caught between the five major powers.

Among them, the Rain Country, which borders the three major countries, suffered the most.

Therefore, the Land of Rain, which borders the Land of Earth, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Fire, naturally became the region where the conflicts between the three hidden villages were most intense.

(End of this chapter)