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

The powerful fire slash instantly burned away all the spider silk.

"Blood Demon Art: Circular Line Revolving!"

At this moment, a short boy with white hair emerged expressionlessly from behind a hidden tree.

The white-haired boy raised his hands, and instantly a dense net made of eerie red threads formed, like a vortex, and rushed towards Yongze.

Nagasawa gripped the sword tightly, his chakra erupting from his feet, and he shot towards the white-haired boy like an arrow released from a bow.

"Sun Breathing - Third Form: Blazing Red Mirror!"

While unleashing an incredible burst of speed, Nagasawa used the Breath of the Sun once again.

A deep red, arc-shaped horizontal slash was suddenly unleashed.

Boom boom boom!!!

The powerful fiery slash, along with the threads, completely engulfed the white-haired youth, turning him into ashes.

"The Twelve Demon Months... I don't think I'll have to fight them one by one, do I?" Nagasawa scratched his head, feeling a bit troublesome.

After thinking for a moment, Yongze used Moonwalk to step into the air and arrived in mid-air, looking at the pitch-black and eerie mountain in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, Nagasawa activated the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power, a white halo appeared around his hand, and he blasted it towards the mountain.

"Airquake!"

A powerful shockwave rippled through the air and then traveled into the mountains.

Rumble!!!

The massive, gloomy mountain collapsed instantly, like building blocks.

The collapsed mountain stirred up huge clouds of dust, and countless boulders rolled down, crushing the trees in the mountain.

With this powerful punch, many of the strange auras that Yongze had sensed vanished instantly, leaving only the most powerful one, which was still moving rapidly at a frantic pace.

But while he was fast, Nagasawa was even faster. In an instant, Nagasawa moved in front of Muzan and punched him, sending him flying into a huge pile of rubble.

puff!

Muzan coughed up a mouthful of blood, and his pupils contracted violently after he saw Nagasawa's face clearly.

"Yoichi Tsugikuni! How could you still be alive?!"

Nagasawa raised his sword and said calmly, "Muzan, your power is too dangerous; you cannot exist in this world."

Muzan: ?

Whose power is more dangerous?

Chapter Ninety-Five: Completing the Challenge

Puff puff!

Muzan instantly split into 1,800 pieces, which flew in all directions.

Although he didn't understand why Yoriichi Tsugikuni had suddenly appeared, Muzan had no other thoughts in his mind at this moment but to escape.

The shadow cast by Yoriichi Tsugikuni was simply too great for him.

At the height of his confidence, he thought he was invincible.

Then he encountered Yoriichi Tsugikuni, and faced with Yoriichi's immense strength and talent, Muzan's pride in his own strength became a joke.

The moment Yoriichi saw Muzan, he completed the Thirteenth Form of the Deep Breathing Technique, severely injuring Muzan in one fell swoop.

'I left last time, and I'm sure I can leave again this time. I don't believe you'll still be alive five hundred years from now!' Muzan thought to himself, uttering the most cowardly yet ruthless words.

However, he was unaware that this Yoriichi Tsugikuni was far more powerful than any he had encountered before.

Even as Muzan split into 1,800 pieces, Nagasawa remained calm.

“This time, you won’t have a chance,” Nagasawa said calmly, then raised his crimson sword.

Now, he wants to make up for Yoriichi Tsugikuni's past mistakes and completely kill Muzan.

"Breath of the Sun, Form Fourteen: Pilgrimage to the Blazing Sun!"

Yongze activated his breathing technique with all his might, unleashing chakra in his hands and channeling all his power into the Crimson Blade before slashing out fiercely.

Whoohoo! !

Hiss!

One after another, massive slashes, like blazing suns, appeared.

The slash, as fierce as the sun, emitted a dazzling light that illuminated the darkness of the night.

The forest was no longer dark; it was now shimmering with fiery red light, as if it had transformed into a world of flames.

This is a new technique that Nagasawa has just mastered. It incorporates the power of Sun Breathing and uses chakra bursts to enhance its power. Finally, it also incorporates the flying slash from the One Piece world.

This move combines the power of three worlds! He just wants to ask Muzan if he can withstand it.

Boom boom boom!!!

The massive, sun-like fiery slash engulfed all the fragments of Muzan, turning them into ashes and dissipating into the air.

There was no struggle whatsoever, no ability to resist whatsoever.

[Muzan is dead. Challenge complete. Yoriichi Tsugikuni's fusion rate +10%]

The scene quickly shifts again, and Nagasawa finds himself back in his familiar bedroom, his body now his own.

[The integration of the template with Guoyuan has reached 100%, and it is now merging into the body, 1%, 2%... 100%]

Once the template was fully integrated into the body, the Yoriichi Tsugikuni template on the panel disappeared, leaving only the Whitebeard template.

After the template was completely inserted into his body, Nagasawa instantly felt different.

His transparent world has become stronger and more natural, as if it has undergone a qualitative change compared to before.

At the same time, various ideas for new moves and breathing techniques were constantly emerging in his mind.

He even instantly realized that there were still many areas for improvement in the fourteenth form of Sun Breathing that he had just created.

Whitebeard's taijutsu knowledge and combat experience, Nagasawa's own ninja knowledge, and Yoriichi's breathing techniques and swordsmanship talent all converged at this moment and then exploded instantly.

At this moment, although Yongze's chakra had not increased and his physical body had not become stronger, his strength had indeed improved.

Nagasawa finally understood why the fusion level became increasingly expensive after 50%.

The boost from integrating this template directly into the body is simply too powerful.

The strongest thing about Yoriichi Tsugikuni is not his breathing technique or swordsmanship, but his talent.

……

……

The following day, Nagasawa was invited to Orochimaru's experimental base.

This experimental base, where Orochimaru openly conducts his research, is located in a remote corner of the village.

Orochimaru led Nagasawa into the base.

The decorations inside the site were very ordinary; the walls were just ordinary cement walls, and they weren't even painted.

The laboratory layout is also very simple, with a long corridor connecting all the rooms.

Orochimaru led Nagasawa to the place where he usually conducted experiments and said, "This is where we will be doing research from now on. You can familiarize yourself with this place first."

Yongze nodded, looked at some of the instruments in the room, and fiddled with them for a while.

Although he wasn't as unorthodox as Orochimaru, he had studied high school and junior high school biology, so he wasn't completely clueless.

Seeing Nagasawa's performance, Orochimaru knew that Nagasawa was at least not a complete novice.

"Why isn't there even a microscope here?" Nagasawa asked Orochimaru.

He discovered that there was no microscope here, so how could he observe the cells?

"There's only one microscope in the village, and you need to report it before using it," Orochimaru explained.

In fact, he built a rather rudimentary one himself, but placed it in his hidden experimental base.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while about the specifics of the experiment.

Orochimaru was surprised to find that Nagasawa seemed to be more knowledgeable about cell research than he was, and he raised some points of knowledge that Orochimaru was unaware of.

At this moment, Orochimaru was also slightly excited.

He guessed right; Yongze was indeed a hidden master, both in terms of skill and research.

His next task was to pique Nagasawa's interest in the Hashirama cells and then test his attitude.

After the tour, Orochimaru handed a file bag to Nagasawa and said, "This contains information about this research. You can take a look when you get back."

He incorporated early village research records on interstitial cells into it.

In fact, Hashirama's cells were originally a research project of Konoha, with the aim of recreating the First Hokage's Wood Release.

The test subjects were adult males from the village who volunteered.

However, because the research had not yielded any results and was considered somewhat inhumane, the project was cancelled.

Therefore, this information on Hashirama cells is publicly available. Even if Nagasawa is not interested in Hashirama cells and suspects him of having something, it would be useless to report him with this information.

However, if Nagasawa is interested in Hashirama's cells, then Nagasawa will definitely show some interest, and that will be the time for the two of them to cooperate.

Nagasawa nodded, accepted the documents, and then left Orochimaru's research base.

Upon returning to the Anbu, Anbu members soon found Nagasawa in his office, saying that the Fourth Boss wanted to see him.

Nagasawa put the documents away and then rushed to the Hokage Building.

Minato's search for him at this juncture most likely indicates that he has received news of Tsunade.

Upon opening the door and entering the Hokage's office, Nagasawa asked directly, "Is there any news about Lady Tsunade?"

Minato nodded and said, "The Anbu found Lady Tsunade in Tanabata Town."

"I asked the Anbu to try to persuade Lady Tsunade to return to the village, but the Anbu said that Tsunade firmly refused. It seems that I will have to trouble you again."

“Tamagata Street, I understand. Leave it to me,” Nagasawa said firmly.