Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 496 Cloud Hidden Technology

By researching and developing more space-time ninjutsu, Li Yao's space-time chakra will become more complete, giving him a greater chance of defeating the Otsutsuki clan in the future.

the next day.

morning.

The sun had just risen, and in the Cloud Thunder Canyon, the shadows of the mountain peaks fell like giant swords upon Cloud Hidden Village.

Li Yao and the three women strolled through Yunyin Village, which resembled a mountain town.

Standing on a mountain bridge, Li Yao looked down at the street. Although it was still early, the villagers of Yunyin Village had already gotten up and started their businesses. Some children had also brought their lunchboxes to say goodbye to their elders and head to the Ninja Academy.

"The Five Hidden Villages truly live up to their name!"

Li Yao couldn't help but sigh.

Like Konoha, even during the most brutal Third Shinobi World War, life in Kumogakure was still peaceful. Although the overall atmosphere was not good, at least the war did not affect the village.

The Hidden Cloud Village felt no threat of war.

Only their deceased relatives and friends told them that the fighting outside had reached a fever pitch.

"Is this the Hidden Cloud Village? This is my first time here. It's completely different from Konoha."

Tsunade looked around with curiosity. It was the first time she had ever seen a village built in the mountains of a canyon, and it was the famous Hidden Cloud Village.

The four of them traveled around, and although they were in a mezzanine space, they had a unique experience.

Instead of rushing to find the Fourth Raikage, Li Yao took the time to explore Kumogakure.

It's clear that the Hidden Cloud Village has learned from the lessons of his last attack.

Ninjas were stationed at various mountain peaks and high points, using binoculars to keep watch over the sky day and night.

At the same time, each family dug underground tunnels and secret chambers, and the major ninja clans also used sealing techniques to fix them in place.

These measures are to prevent Li Yao from launching another indiscriminate explosive attack as a blasting ninja.

"What a pity, they couldn't stop me in the end!"

In the evening, Li Yao smiled and told the three women to do as they pleased before he went alone to the bottom of a large mountain.

What appears to be a natural brownish-red rock wall at the foot of the mountain is actually the entrance to the research base inside the mountain.

It has a special chakra sensing device; without special chakra manipulation, it's impossible to make the gate appear.

The ability of this chakra lock, designed using sealing techniques, is ingenious. Combined with mechanics, it gives Li Yao the feeling of having traveled to a high-tech world.

In the ninja world, when it comes to technology, Kumogakure is definitely at the forefront.

Kumogakure is the first... no, it should be the only ninja village that Li Yao has ever seen that uses radio communication for ninja combat.

Even though this kind of radio communication cannot be used over long distances due to reasons such as antennas, it is already very common in the Hidden Cloud Village.

This brings to mind the chakra cannons that the Hidden Cloud Village will develop in the future, which could directly strike meteorites falling from the moon outside the atmosphere.

This shows that in terms of technological ninjutsu, Kumogakure is ahead of the Five Great Nations.

"good!"

Li Yao passed through the gate. The interlayered space was an unsolvable ability that allowed silent intrusion; basically, all sealing techniques and barriers were useless against it.

The mountain is very large, and the interior space is also very large.

The corridor walls were made of steel, not the stone walls found in Orochimaru's underground base, and the lights were electric, not oil lamps.

Honestly, if Li Yao didn't know this was Naruto, he would have thought he had come to some secret research institute in modern times.

Along the way, Li Yao saw many researchers wearing white lab coats. He wondered if white lab coats were standard attire for researchers from all over the world, as the researchers from Hidden Cloud Village also wore the same outfit.

Still nothing?

As Li Yao passed by the door of a research lab, he overheard the conversation inside, stopped, and turned to go inside.

A busty female researcher, who looked like a supervisor, with a white lab coat that always seemed about to explode, was questioning a male researcher who was operating a microscope to examine a purplish-black powder.

Li Yao's gaze lingered on the two exploding, snow-white containers for a few seconds, and he sighed inwardly.

It seems there's more than one "Tsunade" in Kumogakure!

Then, Li Yao looked at the microscope, his lips twitching slightly.

The tech tree in Naruto is so skewed it's hard to describe.

We have advanced technology like microscopes, and even computers, yet the outside world is still stuck in the era of sword fights.

All I can say is that chakra is a perfect power.

Not to mention moving mountains and filling seas, explosive tags, water escape techniques, fire escape techniques, etc., are far more powerful and bizarre than anything that has been developed through technological advancements.

This might be what makes Naruto's technology feel so out of place in reality.

However, the Hidden Cloud Village has already developed its own methods for applying technology to the research and development of ninjutsu.

"No!"

The male researcher looked up at his supervisor and shook his head.

"How did that Fourth Tsuchikage do it? He didn't leave a single trace of chakra."

The head of the research institute, with her large breasts bulging, frowned, her face full of resentment.

That's it!

Li Yao leaned closer and saw the black powder in the trash can next to him, then smiled knowingly.

This is a sealing chain, a chain incorporating sealing techniques.

Two days ago, when his Earth Release clone, Shi Yan, was fighting the Hidden Cloud Village, they tried to seal him with sealing chains, but he casually crushed them.

However, the sealing chains not only have the ability to suppress and seal chakra, but also the ability to gather chakra.

In terms of researching ninjutsu chakra, Kumogakure truly stood at the forefront of the ninja world.

Their sealing chains have the characteristic of collecting chakra for sealing.

Although the sealing chains had no effect on the Earth Release clone - Ishii, the people of Kumogakure believed that the sealing chains had made contact with the Earth Release clone - Ishii's body and collected its chakra.

They were very interested in, even eager for, the Earth Release Clone - Rock Rock's defensive ninjutsu that allowed it to emerge unscathed from the Tailed Beast Ball explosion.

The hope is to deduce the physical defense ninjutsu of the Earth Release clone - Stone Rock - from the collected chakra.

What they didn't know was that even the clones were made of Li Yao's chakra and incorporated his consciousness, giving them absolute control.

The sealing chains could not collect the chakra of the Earth Release clone, Ishii.

So, after a day and a night, the manager, whose breasts were about to explode, crushed all the sealing chains she had brought from the battle the day before into powder and examined them with a chakra microscope, but still couldn't find a trace of the Earth Release clone - Ishii's chakra.

"This person is truly talented!"

After glancing once more at the exploding, snow-white container, Li Yao walked out of the research lab, already thinking that once he had created a clone of the Fourth Raikage, he would have to strongly support the Hidden Cloud Village in developing technological ninjutsu.

Perhaps, technological ninjutsu can pave a way for him to escape the gaze of the ancestor of the Otsutsuki clan.

With that in mind, Li Yao arrived at the research lab where the Fourth Raikage was located.

The silver metal door really took Li Yao out of his reverie.

Li Yao walked straight in, and immediately the brightly lit research room came into view.

It's more accurate to call it the Fourth Raikage's training room than a research lab.

(End of this chapter)