On the night of the Nine-Tails, I shattered the Tailed Beast Ball with a single punch.

Soon, Kakashi showed Nagasawa his scores; everyone passed, and no one was below the passing mark.

Yongze nodded in satisfaction. Although he had set the standard based on the training progress of the team members, as long as they didn't slack off, passing was expected.

But regular training is one thing, and performance in assessments is another.

During training, it's okay to make mistakes; this will help you maintain a good mindset.

The assessment, however, is watched by both the captain and the Hokage, and there are penalties for failing, so the pressure is significantly greater than usual.

"You did a good job today. Also, your current performance evaluations will be factored into your promotions within the Dark Division. Keep up the good work."

Nagasawa said something that made the excellent ANBU ninja ecstatic.

The ninja who only passed was also taken aback, realizing it was time to work harder so he could improve his strength and get promoted.

Finally, Minato said some encouraging words to conclude the training, and that was the end of the first assessment for the Dark Side training team.

Chapter Ninety-Two Challenge

“Interesting. He graduated from the Ninja Academy in six years, took six years to become a Chunin, and was promoted to Jonin three months ago…” Orochimaru put down Nagasawa’s file and a smile appeared on his lips.

In his view, Nagasawa's information was rather strange.

With Minato Namikaze's appointment as the dividing line, before the Fourth Hokage took office, Nagasawa was particularly mediocre, just an ordinary Chunin, and had never even done any decent high-level missions.

However, after Minato Namikaze took office, it was as if he were a completely different person.

He joined the Fourth Anbu and completed three S-rank missions at an extremely fast pace, earning the title of Jonin...

The joint report said that Nagasawa and Minato had a good relationship, and Orochimaru quickly figured out the reason.

Although Yongze is a genius with great strength, he is a person who does not like to show off and is not interested in fame and fortune.

Therefore, despite his great strength, Nagasawa was still willing to remain an ordinary Chunin.

However, when his good friend Minato became Hokage, Nagasawa joined the Anbu to help him and stopped hiding.

This is the most reasonable guess that Orochimaru could come up with based on the information.

At this moment, he was certain that Yongze's strength was definitely not simple. The person who could bring him that sense of crisis was probably a Kage-level powerhouse.

Orochimaru felt it was necessary to inform Danzo of this news, since Danzo was currently at odds with the Fourth Hokage, and the existence of such a hidden powerhouse within the Fourth Hokage's camp was an important piece of information.

Although he and Danzo had some minor conflicts, their major interests aligned, and they were now on the same side with common interests.

However, he remembered that Nagasawa had said he was interested in experiments, and a different idea came to his mind.

Is there any possibility that Nagasawa is actually a master of research?

If that's the case, even if Yongze can't solve the problem he's currently facing, he might be able to bring him some different ideas.

However, his experiments were clandestine, and Nagasawa was the fourth generation's person, so the possibility of cooperation between the two was extremely low.

However, Orochimaru is not the type of person who would give up because of difficulties; he would use any means at his disposal to achieve his goal.

"First, test his research level, then test his attitude towards experiments."

Orochimaru quickly devised a specific plan. To achieve the two objectives mentioned above, he first needed to get close to Nagasawa.

He was originally a member of the Root organization, and could barely be connected to the Dark Organization in some way.

However, now that Root has been forcibly disbanded by Minato's order, he has become an ordinary Jonin with no official rank.

However, for Orochimaru, becoming an ANBU member was an extremely simple matter.

There are still people who don't welcome Orochimaru joining the Anbu?

However, it's highly unlikely that he would join Minato Namikaze's secret service.

Although Orochimaru wasn't particularly eager for the Hokage position, the Third Hokage surprisingly passed him over and chose Minato Namikaze instead.

This bothered Orochimaru, making him somewhat unhappy, and he also became unhappy with Minato.

Minato was Jiraiya's apprentice, and the Third Hokage chose Jiraiya's apprentices but not him.

What do you mean? Is Orochimaru, a great man, not even as good as Jiraiya's apprentice?

There are some things he may not need, but you can't refuse to give them.

However, if he doesn't join the fourth generation's Anbu, he can join the third generation's Anbu. Anyway, the two Anbu now share an Anbu base, so they have more opportunities to come into contact.

……

……

One day, early morning.

Yongze counted the days and realized it was time to collect his points again. He skillfully opened the template and collected his points.

The reforms in the underworld are just beginning, and the level of prosperity has not changed significantly yet, only growing slowly.

After spending 7,500 points to raise Yoriichi's fusion level to 90%, Nagasawa discovered that the plus sign next to the fusion progress bar had turned gray.

Immediately afterwards, a system notification sounded.

[The integration level has reached 90%, and the template challenge needs to be completed.]

[Yoriichi's Challenge: Slay Muzan. Completion Reward: 10% Fusion Rate]

Nagasawa carefully read through all the rules of the challenge.

It turns out that the maximum points that can be added is 90%, and then you have to complete challenge tasks; you can no longer use points to improve.

However, as long as the challenge is completed, the template's fusion level will be directly increased to 100%. If it is a template like Whitebeard that costs a lot of points, it can save a lot of points.

Moreover, killing Muzan doesn't mean sending him to the real world of Demon Slayer to kill Muzan or anything like that.

Instead, Yongze will enter a fantasy world constructed by the system, and even if he fails, he will only have to spend points to try again.

You can use all of his abilities as usual, including the abilities of each template.

Nagasawa guessed that if it were the Whitebeard template, the challenge would be to save Ace.

That would be much more difficult. There were so many powerful figures at Marineford, and even with 90% fusion at that time, he couldn't withstand it.

Whitebeard himself was in such a terrible state, let alone him.

Yongze thought for a moment and did not immediately enter the challenge.

This challenge can start at any time, so there's no need to rush. Let's finish today's tasks first.

The training team's first assessment was a great success, and many members of the first squad had the idea of ​​joining the training team to learn the Six Styles.

Yongze decided to expand the training team ahead of schedule and recruit some members of the First Division's Dark Guard to join the training team.

The reason we didn't just incorporate the entire first squad into the training team is because the Dark Division also has its own missions.

Even the ANBU training team in Yongze has to do ANBU missions in addition to their training.

Absorbing all the fourth-generation ANBU into the training team at once would leave them with no one to do missions.

Even in peacetime, the Dark Guard is not having an easy time.

Because the third generation of the Dark Guard had a large number of members, most of the tasks and work were undertaken by the third generation of the Dark Guard, making the fourth generation of the Dark Guard relatively relaxed.

Otherwise, Yongze wouldn't have been able to start with just one team joining the training program.

At noon, as Nagasawa was preparing to leave the Anbu, an Anbu ninja knocked on Nagasawa's office door with a document in his hand.

Yongze finished preparing and said calmly, "Go in."

An ANBU ninja entered the office and respectfully said, "Lord Nagasawa, this is from the Third Hokage's ANBU."

"The third generation of the Anbu... let me see." Nagasawa took the document and curiously opened it to take a look.

Is the third generation planning to send him another talented person?

Chapter Ninety-Three: The Legendary Big Fat Sheep

Nagasawa opened the file folder and began to look through the documents inside.

This is yet another project involving collaboration between the third and fourth generation Anbu.

However, unlike before, this time it wasn't the Third Generation sending people to his Dark Guard training team to learn, but rather the Third Generation Dark Guard conducting a secret experiment and inviting the Fourth Generation Dark Guard to assist in completing the experiment.

At first, Nagasawa was a little confused. Did the Fourth Generation Anbu have any research talents? How come he didn't know?

But after meeting the person in charge of that project, Nagasawa understood.

The project leader wrote Orochimaru.

Clearly, Orochimaru, who had failed to invite him into the lab last time, was still not giving up.

For some reason, Orochimaru seemed very interested in him, and even went to the trouble of setting up an experimental project for him.

"Could it be because of that sentence, 'I'm also very interested in experiments'?" Nagasawa guessed.

Nagasawa immediately shook his head. How could Orochimaru go to such lengths just because of one sentence from him?

Most likely, they discovered his strength by chance and wanted to test him.

That's normal; he wasn't deliberately hiding anything.

"Should we go..." Nagasawa tapped the table, pondering how to deal with Orochimaru's probing.

To be honest, Nagasawa actually thinks highly of Orochimaru.

Orochimaru is an ordinary person without any special abilities, but his research skills are extraordinary.

Originally, the Impure World Reincarnation technique was only meant to serve as a human bomb, but under his modifications, it became a terrifying ninjutsu capable of igniting a ninja world war.

They also developed the Reanimation Jutsu, a ninjutsu that theoretically allows for immortality.

Although this ninjutsu has certain flaws, such as weakening the soul, it is theoretically a ninjutsu that can achieve immortality.

In addition to this, there is a lot of research. In short, Orochimaru is indeed a rare research talent.

However, Orochimaru is a very stubborn, cruel, and self-centered person, making him difficult to control.

When Orochimaru encountered Yahiko and his two companions in the Land of Rain, he said he wanted to end their suffering and killed them.

This demonstrates Orochimaru's benevolence, revealing that his values ​​differ from those of ordinary people.

After thinking about it for a long time, Nagasawa finally decided to go and meet Orochimaru to see what he was really up to.