Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 478 Evolution Again

Jiraiya accepted the mission.

Regarding Toshiro's proposal, the village's higher-ups discussed some of its terms again.

However, he himself set his sights on something else entirely.

In a valley nestled among mountains and surrounded by trees, Toshiro looked down at a simple thatched hut and then turned his gaze to the thin boy beside him.

"It's confirmed that Lao Zi is living in seclusion here!"

Holding a kunai with special symbols in his hand, Itachi looked at the Hokage beside him, his tone still calm.

"Very good!" Looking at the prodigy, Toshiro continued, "You don't need to do the rest!"

After saying this, Toshiro squinted his eyes and began to sense the situation within a radius of about ten kilometers.

"really!"

With a slight sense, he detected a familiar chakra not far from the thatched hut underground.

Without further ado, they leaped to the vicinity of the thatched hut, a flash of blue light appearing in their hands.

A straight, sharp blade extended from Toshiro's hand directly into the ground, about ten meters deep.

"You...you...how did you find me?"

As chakra surged beneath Toshiro's feet, a straight rock pillar rose from the ground.

In the middle of the rock pillar, a pale-skinned White Zetsu looked down at the wound on his chest, then looked up at the indifferent Toshiro.

With great difficulty, he asked the question that had been lingering in his heart, then convulsed twice and fell silent.

"Who is it?"

Toshiro's blatant actions naturally did not escape the notice of the owner of the thatched hut.

In fact, he had already noticed something when Toshiro first appeared.

They initially assumed it was an ANBU unit from Iwagakure and refrained from making any rash moves.

However, after seeing Toshiro's actions clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, but was also somewhat puzzled about the other party's identity.

Especially after seeing Toshiro's actions, he was filled with questions.

However, he was aware that he was being monitored.

"What is that white thing?"

Looking at the lifeless White Zetsu, Roshi concealed his surprise and focused his gaze on Toshiro. At the same time, his hand reached into the ninja tool pouch behind him.

"They're really being cautious!"

Upon hearing what Ryuushi said, Toshiro finally turned to look at his target.

"You are...?"

Old Zi felt a scarlet light flash before his eyes, and then his eyelids grew heavier and heavier.

However, before he lost consciousness, he recognized the person as a ninja from the Uchiha clan.

But it was all too late.

Glug glug!

As Rōshi fell, bursts of red chakra emanated from his body.

"Behave yourself!"

With a light gulp, Toshiro ignored the changes in Rōshi's body and quickly approached him.

As Toshiro approached, the chakra, which had been somewhat unstable and occasionally bubbled, quickly shrank back into Rōshi's abdomen, like the receding tide.

Time passed slowly, until the sun was about to set.

"What...what happened to me?"

Old Zi was completely bewildered when he opened his eyes.

After rolling over and getting up from the ground, Lao Zi immediately took out his kunai and began to look around at his surroundings.

"Who...did this happen?"

After scanning his surroundings, Lao Zi fixed his gaze on a spot not far from the thatched hut.

Looking at the traces left by earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique used in Chinese magic), he checked again to make sure there was no one else around and that he himself was not abnormal.

Old Zi started to become suspicious.

Could it be... that the Iwa ninja ANBU came looking for them? And then they tricked them without them even realizing it?

In the end, it was driven away by the four tails inside its own body?

Having no memory of the Four-Tails whatsoever, Old Purple took one last, wistful look at his surroundings after several unsuccessful attempts to communicate with it.

Helplessly, he walked away into the distance.

This place should be exposed; we can't stay here any longer.

As Old Purple's figure slowly disappeared, in the distance where he couldn't see, a small ninja put away his binoculars.

"Looks like... I was overthinking it!"

Itachi Uchiha was afraid that his Hokage might do something bad, so he kept a close watch on Rōshi from a distance.

Only after seeing that the other person was indeed alright did I relax.

Meanwhile, Toshiro, who had already returned to Konoha, ignored the Hokage Building, which was still brightly lit.

Arriving in his basement, looking at the scroll in his hand and the eight strange containers in front of him, his face was filled with a satisfied smile.

In this brightly lit underground space, the scattered experimental equipment had been completely cleared away by Toshiro.

In addition, the high dome makes the entire basement appear unusually spacious.

Apart from the nine altars arranged in a circle at the center, they were completely empty.

On each of these nine altars, there is a container covered with sealing runes.

Nine altars, nine containers, eight of which each contain eight chakra spheres.

These chakras were all different colors; some resembled a constantly flowing mass of sand, which, accompanied by the howling wind, transformed into small, swirling sandstorms.

Some resembled a deep blue flame, burning silently within these sealed containers, emitting a chilling glow.

Among them was a beam of light emitting a rainbow of phosphorescence, which, as the angle changed, emitted a mesmerizing glow like a rainbow, and so on.

He opened the sealing scroll in his hand and placed a ball of scorching, crimson chakra into the sealing container.

Looking at the Nine-Tails' chakra that he had finally collected, and at the chakra of varying sizes, Toshiro began to ponder.

Of these nine chakra clusters, the earliest one, the Nine-Tails chakra, has expanded to nearly three times its original size compared to when I first collected it.

Even the Three-Tails' chakra, which had only been collected recently, increased in size by nearly one-tenth after being placed in the sealing container.

"Could I perhaps research how the Tailed Beasts acquire physical bodies?"

Tailed beasts were originally a special kind of chakra that not only possessed consciousness but also a physical body.

How do their chakra transform into physical bodies?

The Yin Escape Technique that creates something from nothing?

And then combine it with Yang Escape?

From Orochimaru's Reanimation Jutsu, he had a general understanding of how to make chakra carry one's consciousness, or rather, one's soul.

If I were to obtain a method to transform chakra into a physical body, could I try to combine the two and then try to become an immortal?

Isn't this much better than world peace, heroes and beauties, and all that?

Another thing is that the tailed beast's chakra will start to expand and increase without you realizing it. Is it absorbing the natural energy that is free in the world around it?

"Hmm! Could this chakra be another manifestation of natural energy?"

The Ten-Tails can directly absorb natural energy, and in the original work, when Naruto entered the Sage Mode and began to sense the Ten-Tails, he also sensed nature itself.

Could this be interpreted as the chakra of the nine tailed beasts being derived from natural energy?

Is it itself a lower-level form of natural energy?

"No, it shouldn't be low-level natural energy; it should be described as a property of natural energy!"

The fact that one can separate these different attributes, such as wind, sand, water, fire, and lava, from the Ten-Tails' chakra indicates that this kind of energy is inherent in natural energy.

However, all these energies are mixed together.

So they just can't tell the difference themselves.

"Susanoo!"

Having figured this out, Toshiro didn't hesitate and immediately summoned Susanoo.

brush!

This red chakra giant conjured a chakra longsword in its hand and slashed down at the chakra on the altar.

Roar!

With a single sword strike, a cluster of chakra belonging to each of the nine tailed beasts was slashed out from among the chakra.

Susanoo roared and opened its huge mouth, swallowing the nine balls of chakra one by one.

First one tail, then two, three, four…

All of Nine-Tails' chakra was swallowed by Susanoo in turn.

Toshiro suddenly felt a tremor in his eyes, or rather, in the depths of his soul, which slowly spread from his eyes throughout his body.

"This feeling..."

Inside Susanoo, Toshiro's lips parted in a wide grin, a carefree smile slowly spreading across his entire face.

"Hahaha!"

"This...it really worked!"

He could feel this throbbing; it was a signal that his Sharingan was beginning to evolve again.

How could this not make him burst into laughter?

"So, synthesizing the Ten-Tails' chakra is this simple! All you need to do is fuse the chakra of the nine tailed beasts together!"

Before conducting this experiment, Toshiro was so afraid that something unexpected might happen that he deliberately used Izanagi on himself.

However, in retrospect, it was completely unnecessary.

"It's surprising that there aren't any issues with chakra ratios or anything like that!"

He originally thought that to synthesize the Ten-Tails' chakra, he would have to experiment with the chakra ratio.

This gave him a headache for quite some time.

From one to nine, there are simply too many different proportions that need to be experimented with. Even with the help of his shadow clones, he simply cannot handle them all by himself.

It was just a flash of inspiration, and it actually worked! That was quite unexpected.

"This is really... hahaha~"

Another burst of wild laughter followed.

"Uh~"

While laughing, Toshiro froze on the spot, as if someone had grabbed him by the neck.

Am I getting a little too excited?

That shouldn't be happening!

After retracting his Susanoo, Toshiro closed his eyes and sensed for a while.

Then his entire face turned pitch black.

"The mental fluctuations... are starting to become active again!"

Touching his forehead, Toshiro let out a weak groan.

He never expected that his mental energy, which had only been calmed down for a few years, would become unstable again.