The Master of Konoha's Legacy

The gramophone was playing eerie music...

Time ticked away.

After a long while, Uchiha Tonan withdrew his hand, looking excited:

"So that's how it is. No wonder people are most likely to go crazy when they are frightened or in great grief."

This kind of stimulation triggers the soul's instinct to escape.

The soul, constantly depleting its essence, yearns to break free from the constraints of the body.

Did this cause a surge in mental energy that overwhelmed one's mind?

No wonder ninjas skilled in Yin Release techniques are mostly quite calm.

It turns out it's because they're good at controlling mental energy.

After saying that, Uchiha Tonan frowned again, deep in thought.

We still haven't found a way to combine Yin and Yang escape techniques.

Is it necessary to rely on the power of the Six Paths to achieve this?

What's the principle behind it? Everything in the world must have a principle behind it.

The only instrument is broken; how can we continue our research?

After thinking it over, Uchiha Tonan glanced at the female ninja who was frozen in place.

The experimental material has been discarded.

Immediately, a thought flashed through her mind, and a dark shadow spread to the female ninja's neck, transforming into a pair of black hands that gently twisted.

As the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground rang out, Uchiha Tonan approached the burnt-out instrument and glanced at the nameplate on the back of it.

The label reads: Made in the Land of Wind.

Uchiha Tonan then stroked his chin and murmured:

"Yeah, those guys who play with puppets should know how to fix this thing."

Looks like I need to go out and stretch my muscles.

In the past two weeks, ninjas from the three major villages have been continuously entering the Land of Rain to assassinate each other.

Uchiha Tonan also obtained the abilities of the Ino-Shika-Cho, Kurama, and Aburame clans as he wished.

In particular, the Nara clan's Shadow Imitation Technique is a pure Yin Release ninjutsu.

Uchiha Tonan is now able to control the power of Yang Release and Yin Release at will.

However, they have never been able to merge Yang Escape and Yin Escape to form Yin-Yang Escape.

[Chapter 241. Plagued by Illness, Misfortune Approaching]

The Land of Rain is located in a basin, with the plateau of the Land of Earth to the northwest and the mountain range that runs through the Land of Wind to the southwest.

The warm, humid air currents blowing from the northern and southern oceans of the Ninja World continent were trapped in this area after reaching the Land of Rain.

The cold wind from the northwest meets the warm and humid air currents in the land of rain through the gaps between the plateau and the mountains.

This is also why the Land of Rain experiences heavy rain all year round.

Rumble~

As evening approached, the sky was covered with thick clouds, and lightning flashed like the tongues of venomous snakes, constantly tearing through the gloomy sky.

A small village located on the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Wind.

Due to the war, the villagers here have temporarily moved elsewhere.

Under the dim yellow sky, only one house still had its lights on.

The warm yellow bedside lamp illuminated the small bedroom.

Outside the window, the rain was quietly weaving a thin veil of mist and smoke, enveloping the world within it.

A pale-faced little boy with silver-gray hair nestled in the woman's arms, his eyes fixed on the comic book in her hands.

He didn't recognize most of the words in the comic book; he could only look at the illustrations and imagine the scenes in the book from the woman's words.

"The little duck swam and swam until it finally reached the shore and found its mother."

As soon as the woman finished telling the story of how the ducklings found their mother, the little boy visibly tightened his grip on her.

"Cough cough~" The little boy looked pained and coughed heavily.

The woman immediately put down the comic book with a flustered expression, gently patted his back with her palm, and said with a look of heartache:

"Is it starting to hurt again? Dad should be back soon, and the medicine will be ready soon."

The little boy nodded, his face pale, and looked up at the woman, saying, "Mom, am I going to die?"

The woman shook her head, a forced smile appearing on her lips, and gently patted his back, saying:

"No, you'll get better soon if you just rest well."

The little boy's eyes welled up with tears, and he stared intently into the woman's eyes, his voice trembling with emotion as he said:

"When I die, you must have a child as well-behaved as me, to keep you company in my place."

The woman felt as if something was stuck in her throat, and she quickly hugged the little boy.

Tears streamed down her face as she forced a smile and said:

"Don't think too much, you'll get better soon..."

"Cough cough~"

Hearing the weak cough of the little boy in her arms, the woman felt a heart-wrenching pain.

The little boy contracted a rare disease that the village's old doctor was completely helpless about, and couldn't even find the cause.

At the beginning, our family wasn't well-off, and we thought that if we just let him recover slowly, the illness would eventually heal on its own.

But when the little boy turned three, his condition deteriorated rapidly.

Unable to walk normally, cannot be exposed to wind, and cannot be exposed to the sun.

Just then, the Third Shinobi World War began, and the villagers all left.

But the parents chose to stay so they could be with their child during his final moments.

A moment later, heavy footsteps could be heard outside.

"Squeak~"

"Dad is back with the medicine. You'll get better soon."

Upon hearing the door open, the woman's eyes lit up with hope, and she quickly got up to greet the person.

However, when the woman entered the living room, she saw that her husband was soaked to the bone by the rain.

He stood at the door with his hands empty, his eyes bloodshot and his face haggard.

The man kept his head down, seemingly afraid to look at his wife.

The hope in the woman's eyes faded, and she said softly:

"Have people from other villages moved away too?"

The man didn't reply. He slowly squatted down, placed one hand on his knee, and the other on his forehead, and silently nodded.

The woman pursed her lips, took a deep breath, and choked out:

"It's okay if you can't buy it, go see the children instead."

The man sighed silently, leaned on the shoe cabinet to stand up, and dragged his tired body to the bedroom door.

She tilted her head back, took a deep breath, gently patted her cheeks, smoothed her messy hair, and walked in with a smile, trying to cheer herself up.

The little boy had been staring intently at the bedroom door. Seeing his father walk in with a relaxed expression, he immediately opened his arms and shouted:

"dad."

The man came to the bedside, wiped his right hand discreetly on his pants, and then reached out to gently rub the little boy's silver-gray hair.

The little boy squinted, a bright smile spreading across his face.

The woman leaned against the bedroom door, watching this scene unfold, feeling a slight pang of sadness in her heart.

She gently wiped away the tears that were about to overflow and whispered:

"I'm tired after a long day, I'll go cook."

Upon hearing this, the man withdrew his right hand, turned around, walked to his wife, took her hand, looked at her belly, and said:

"I'll go, but you need to take care of yourself."

The woman glanced down slightly, then nodded.

The man turned back and gave the little boy a deep look, then silently went into the kitchen to start preparing dinner.

"Da da da..."

The heavy sound of chopping vegetables echoed from the kitchen.

"Waaah~"

The wind picked up, and it sounded like someone was pushing the window hard, making a rattling sound.

The rain curtain trembled in the wind, growing denser and stronger until it became a torrential downpour.

The misty vapor seemed to have been blown away by the wind, and the world outside the window became both dark and clear.

The man put down the cleaver, went to the kitchen window, and reached out to close it.

Suddenly, the man's eyes narrowed as he saw an unusual flame igniting in the distant forest.

"Oh no, this is a ninja's ninjutsu."

The man quickly closed the windows and then turned off all the lights in the room.

The woman came out of the little boy's bedroom, looking puzzled, and asked, "What's wrong?"

The man said with a serious expression, "Hide. I saw ninjas fighting in the distance."

The two quickly got to work together. The man was responsible for closing the doors and windows and drawing the curtains, while the woman was responsible for wrapping the little boy in a blanket and putting him into the small wardrobe.