Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 49 Escaping Konoha Village

soon.

November 30th has arrived.

night.

Staring at the clock on the wall, waiting for 11 p.m., when most of the villagers were asleep, I looked out from the third-floor window of an izakaya two hundred meters away from the inn where the Cloud Hidden Alliance delegation was staying.

Three Cloud Village ninjas, who had "deliberately" evaded the Uchiha clan's surveillance during the day, quietly slipped out and headed towards Kushina's residence.

at the same time.

Root base, Laboratory Zero.

Li Yao, who had been floating in the nutrient solution with his eyes closed inside the glass chamber, opened his eyes and stretched out his curled-up body.

Crash... Clang!

Eight black chakra chains suddenly shot out from Li Yao's back, shattering the transparent glass capsule. At the same time, four of the chains landed on the ground, supporting Li Yao's body in mid-air.

At the very instant the glass capsule shattered, the sealing technique connecting the underground portion of the capsule broke, sending out a certain signal.

The sealing technique left by Danzo in Li Yao's heart heated up briefly before being instantly erased by Li Yao.

The sealing technique was erased in an instant.

In the Land of Rain, thousands of miles away, Danzo, who was traveling in the rain, suddenly changed his expression and quickly stopped.

He stretched out his burning hot right hand, and a black pattern of reversed five elements sealing technique appeared in his palm before quickly dissipating.

"The Reverse Five Elements Sealing Technique has been lifted!"

"Who did it?"

"Could it be Hiruzen?"

Danzo's face was gloomy; he did not believe that Li Yao had lifted the seal himself.

Even if Li Yaozhen acquires the Wood Release physique and awakens Wood Release, it is impossible to remove his Reverse Five Elements Seal.

Then there is only one possibility.

The reversed Five Elements seal he left in Li Yao's heart was broken by an outsider.

This person, whether it's Hiruzen or someone else.

Danzo knew that if the Root organization had problems, then his Wood Release experimental subjects would also have problems.

"No, we absolutely cannot let Li Yao fall into the hands of others. At the very least, that brat cannot die now."

Before Danzo obtains Wood Release, he will not allow anyone to kill Li Yao, not even Hiruzen. He must go back and find out what went wrong.

Then... Danzo simply abandoned the ninja army of the Land of Rain and ran away.

All that was left was the ambiguous phrase "retreat" and a group of dumbfounded frontline command personnel.

No?

Even if Danzo has something urgent to do and needs to return to Konoha, he should at least arrange for someone to temporarily command the frontline army.

Even though you've run away, you still have command.

Then they just left them with the words "retreat and defend," but how were they supposed to retreat? How were they supposed to defend?

If nothing goes wrong, that's fine. But if something does go wrong, whose responsibility is it?

Everyone was stunned by Danzo's sudden and bizarre move.

However, while they were shocked, a sense of unease also settled in their hearts.

It's unclear what happened in Konoha that made Danzo so desperate to return there immediately.

For a time, the high-ranking officials in the Land of Rain, who could not get news from Konoha in a short period of time, were filled with anxiety, and the number of battles with the other three ninja villages decreased.

Sensing the unusual behavior of the Konoha ninja, the other three ninja villages, unaware of the reason, secretly withdrew their forces to prepare for a possible surprise attack from Konoha.

Li Yao, who caused all of this, felt the sealing technique on his heart dissipate, smiled slightly, and floated out of the glass chamber.

Eight black chakra chains, four of which resembled spider legs, supported Li Yao's body as he stood in the air.

Li Yao now resembles Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man; his eight black chakra chains are like eight mechanical tentacles that he can control at will.

Li Yao looked up, and four black chakra chains twisted behind him like octopus tentacles.

He stared at the ceiling, but couldn't actually see anything.

The laboratory was only illuminated by the faint fluorescent light from inside the glass chamber; the rest of the room was pitch black.

But Li Yao seemed to see through the ceiling, through this secret base, and into Konoha and the vast world outside.

"start?"

"Or should it end?"

"hehe!"

Li Yao opened his arms wide, as if welcoming a new life or death. There was no tension or excitement, only a sense of detachment and relief.

He chuckled softly. Whether his journey through Naruto was the beginning or the end depended on today.

Time is of the essence; Danzo must have already discovered his situation, so we must act quickly.

With a thought, countless thin black lines of chakra rapidly condensed on Li Yao's naked body, intertwining with each other.

Soon, Li Yao's body, starting from his neck and except for his head, was wrapped tightly in a cloth woven from black chakra lines.

If he puts on the Spider-Man mask, he becomes the black-clad superhero Spider-Man.

However, Li Yao is not a superhero, and he doesn't like Spider-Man, but rather Homelander, who knows the Crescent Moon Arrow technique.

Soon, black shoes appeared, followed by black pants and a t-shirt, and finally a black short-sleeved trench coat.

"Hmm... what's this?"

Seeing his reflection in the transparent glass cabin, Li Yao's lips curled into a slight smile.

"He truly is my best buddy!"

"Watergate!"

"I really can't forget you. Even the clothes I unconsciously put together are imitating the Hokage robes you wear when you become the Fourth Hokage."

"What else could this be but true love!"

Li Yao's lips curled up wildly, revealing a distorted and insane expression on his face, but he quickly returned to normal.

Not urgent!

Once we're out there, we'll have plenty of time to enjoy ourselves.

Li Yao retracted the black chakra chains from his body, landed steadily on the ground, and walked towards the chakra metal bed.

Now that he's here, all that's left is the Devouring Seal Array connected to the Chakra Metal Bed, which hasn't been fully analyzed yet.

Li Yao really wanted this sealing array that emitted a similar wave of energy to the wave emitted when Wood Release chakra absorbed chakra.

If the Black Iron Chains were to be combined with the Devouring Sealing Array, their power would be further enhanced.

Previously, when Li Yao was lying on the chakra metal bed, he was only focused on analyzing the nature change of Wood Release chakra and did not analyze the nature change of the Devouring Sealing Array chakra.

Li Yao wouldn't miss this opportunity to go out.

Arriving at the chakra metal bed, Li Yao stretched out his hand and placed it on the bed, emitting chakra that was absorbed by the chakra metal bed.

Li Yao took the opportunity to sense the changes in the nature and form of the chakra within the sealing array.

At the same time, Li Yao controlled the chakra within his body's acupoints to mimic nature and form changes.

At this moment, apart from the normal chakra that was undergoing nature and form changes, all the acupoints in Li Yao's body had condensed into the form of black chakra chains.

In fact, Li Yao's Vajra Blockade had already been completed a year ago.

However, since his Vajra Lock was black and it was entirely developed and researched by himself, he changed its name to Black Iron Chains.

The black iron chains have a sealing effect that is far more powerful than releasing chakra from a single acupoint or the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique.

The strength of its chakra confinement and binding is more than twice that of the chakra of acupoints and the chakra of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique.

Li Yao lived up to his persistence and achieved a result where one plus one is greater than two.

Li Yao did not believe that the sealing strength of the black iron chains was inferior to that of the Vortex Clan's Vajra Lock.

Li Yao was unsure about the physical toughness of the black iron chains, as they hadn't been compared to the Vajra Lock.

Originally, Li Yao wanted to use Wood Release chakra to replace the normal chakra lines in the Black Iron Chains in order to increase the strength of the Black Iron Chains.

But two years have passed, and Danzo has not come to see him even once.

Li Yao knew Danzo's desire for Wood Release.

He realized that something must have happened in Konoha that kept Danzo busy, preventing him from having time to study him.

What could have kept Danzo away for two years to research the Wood Release technique he so desperately wanted?

Considering Li Yao's current physical age.

He quickly came to a conclusion.

It is very likely that we are currently in the midst of the Second Shinobi World War.

Only the Fourth Shinobi World War would have prevented Danzo from having time to research Wood Release.

Upon considering this possibility, Li Yao knew he had to go out.

(End of this chapter)