Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

After making his decision, Kirito quickly found a good pair of Byakugan among more than two hundred pairs and tried them out. These were the Byakugan left behind by Hyuga Tennin.

The Byakugan left behind by this powerful Hyuga clan patriarch is extremely powerful and clearly shows signs of evolution, with a pale purple halo appearing in the center of his eye.

Kirito took out one of the Byakugan from the Hyuga Tennin, held it in his hand, and then slowly poured Sage Art Wood Release chakra into it.

Nourished by the Wood Release chakra of the Sage Art, Kirito's Byakugan on his palm quickly came back to life. His eyes were no longer dull and lifeless, but regained their brightness and became bright and piercing.

Then, Kirito took out another Byakugan and placed it in front of Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan.

A miraculous scene suddenly unfolded.

After the two Byakugan touched each other, the ordinary Byakugan merged into Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan without any hindrance.

At this moment, Kirito clearly noticed that Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan power had been slightly enhanced.

"As expected, they devour their own kind."

Upon seeing this, Kirito sighed and then began to repeat his previous actions.

Next, one by one, the Byakugan began to be devoured by Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan. During the process, Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan power continued to increase, and he himself was also changing. Some purple light spots began to appear in his eyes.

Unlike the blue light spots that appear in Kirito's White Zetsu clone's Byakugan, the light spots that appear in Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan are purple.

Kirito wasn't surprised by this, because he knew that the Tenseigan, like the Rinnegan, had different colors.

After all, the Hyuga clan is not a pure Otsutsuki clan, but merely their descendants. Even if they revert to their ancestral form, they will definitely be different.

Soon, all the Byakugan in the laboratory were cleared away, leaving only the Byakugan in Kirito's hand, whose pupils emitted a large number of charming purple light spots.

At this moment, this Byakugan contained powerful pupil energy and seemed to have developed its own consciousness. It automatically attached itself to the air and stared at the two Byakugan of the White Zetsu clone, its eyes revealing undisguised greed.

"It ate over four hundred Byakugan in one go, but still failed to complete its evolution. The process of the Byakugan evolving into the Tenseigan is truly arduous."

Kirito looked at the Byakugan that belonged to the Hyuga Tennin in front of him and shook his head.

Relying on the Byakugan on his body, he could sense that the Byakugan power of this Hyuga Tennin had surpassed that of his own. However, this power was mottled and, like the Rinnegan, a twisted dark emotion had been born within it.

Clearly, as a large number of white eyes devour and merge with each other, they inevitably merge with the hidden dark emotions within them, giving birth to a new dark emotion called greed.

If he were to rashly use his Byakugan to perform this fusion, his Byakugan would certainly be contaminated.

The fate of those who possessed the Mangekyou Sharingan was still fresh in Kirito's mind, and he didn't want to become a madman, so he subconsciously resisted this toxic power.

"Is there any way to drive this dark spiritual force away from Bai's eyes?"

Kirito closed his eyes and began to let his mind wander, searching for a way to purify himself.

A moment later, he opened his eyes again, and a new eye appeared in his hand.

Chapter 280: Nagato's Rebirth

Rinnegan!

This is exactly what Kirito is taking out now.

As soon as Kirito took out the Rinnegan, Hyuga Tenjin's Byakugan, which was floating in mid-air, immediately retreated as if it had encountered its natural enemy. Meanwhile, the Rinnegan vibrated repeatedly in his hand, unleashing an astonishing amount of chakra.

Kirito immediately used the Adamantine Sealing Technique, creating a large number of fine blue chakra chains that tightly bound the Rinnegan.

Bound by the Vajra Seal, the Rinnegan continued to struggle, trying to break free and rush towards the Byakugan in the distance, which it instinctively wanted to devour completely.

"The ability to devour one's own kind—it seems that all things born from the bloodline of the Otsutsuki clan have this characteristic. I wonder if the Rinnegan will give birth to an even more advanced bloodline limit after it devours the Tenseigan."

Seeing the commotion caused by the Rinnegan's instincts, Kirito suddenly had the idea of ​​fusing the Tenseigan and the Rinnegan.

Once this thought appeared, it quickly took root and grew in Tongren's heart, and was difficult to get rid of.

Are the Tenseigan and Rinnegan vastly different in strength?

If the two are combined, will we become invincible?

"That's quite a temptation."

Kirito said with interest, then continued to focus on suppressing the Rinnegan.

He took out the Rinnegan to see if he could use its power to purify the dark emotions in the Byakugan, but judging from the Rinnegan's current behavior, it seems that the Rinnegan intends to devour the entire Byakugan.

It would be quite difficult to expect the Rinnegan to purify the dark emotions in the Byakugan unless he could control the Rinnegan.

"Since Madara Uchiha isn't in a hurry to let me exchange my Rinnegan, I'll just create a container that can use the Rinnegan. It'll just mean that I'll have to make do with Hatake-sensei for now."

Kirito thought to himself.

Controlling the Rinnegan with Uzumaki clones has been proven feasible, but to truly put the Rinnegan to use, the clones must grow to the level of a Kage and possess the chakra of a Tailed Beast.

Just look at Nagato. Even as an adult, Nagato struggled to use the Rinnegan, let alone the Uzumaki clones who were just starting out.

Therefore, he needed to find another way to use the Rinnegan.

Since a normal body cannot withstand the backlash from the Rinnegan, he will use puppetry to create an abnormal body.

Kirito started implementing this plan a long time ago, but at the time he didn't intend to create a puppet that could accommodate the Rinnegan; he only wanted to create a powerful Kage-level puppet.

Having excellent puppetry skills is useless if you don't have good puppets.

After Kirito's Thunder God Puppet was destroyed, he had been thinking about creating a stronger puppet, but he was hampered by the lack of good puppet materials at the time.

But he has it now.

That's right, those black rods were created by the Uzumaki clone using the Rinnegan.

These black rods, created by the Yin-Yang Release of the Rinnegan, are all top-quality puppet materials. Not only are they as hard as metal, but their chakra conductivity is even better than that of chakra metal.

Most importantly, these black rods can be used as wireless chakra receivers, allowing him to control and transmit chakra over extremely long distances.

Another point is that these black rods were created by the Rinnegan, and they have a high compatibility with the Rinnegan, making them less likely to be rejected or damaged.

Kirito has already handed over a batch of black rods to the high-level craftsmen in Takumi Village for processing, spending a lot of money to have them work overtime to complete the processing. Once the processing there is finished, he can start making the newly designed Thunder God puppet.

Soon after, Kirito suppressed the Rinnegan again with the Adamantine Lock, but his eyes remained fixed on Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan.

As expected, once Kirito releases his suppression of the Rinnegan, it will immediately try to devour Hyuga Tennin's Byakugan again.

"The Rinnegan isn't working for now, so what method should we use to absorb the dark emotions in the Byakugan?"

Kirito resealed the Rinnegan back into the storage scroll, then looked at the Byakugan floating in the distance and started to get a headache again.

But soon, he came up with another highly feasible solution.

That is to leverage the power of Zero Tail.

The so-called Zero-Tails is actually a ball of dark chakra that developed consciousness and formed a chakra creature similar to a tailed beast.

This naturally born tailed beast also possesses the ability to absorb the dark emotions of living beings, and can convert these dark emotions into dark chakra to continuously strengthen its own power.

"If it is the Zero-Tails, then it should be being nurtured by the Sky Ninja right now. In the original story, those arrogant guys should have launched an attack on Konoha during World War II and were then repelled."

Kirito thought of Zero-Tails, and then of the Sky Ninja, a group of ninjas who lived a nomadic life.

The lair of the Sky Ninja is a flying fortress called Angkor Fortress, and the power source of this flying fortress is Zero Tail.

It can be said that the Sky Ninja is currently the only ninja village in the ninja world that controls the air force.

Unfortunately, although the Sky Ninja possessed the technology of flying ninja tools and controlled what could be considered a revolutionary air force in the ninja world, their strength was extremely weak. In the original story, Konoha easily defeated these arrogant fools.

If it weren't for the flying fortress that allowed them to escape in the air, they would probably have been wiped out.

Finding a group of guys who roam the ninja world relying on their flying fortresses is undoubtedly very difficult.

"It seems that, like the passage to the moon, it will take some time to find."

Kirito sighed.

Although time is tight, there's no use being anxious. If things aren't going well, the only thing to do is to calm down and get on with it.

Fortunately, the Night Organization under his command has been developing very well. Although it has not yet cultivated any high-end combat power and he is still the only Kage-level expert, it has the advantage of being a tight organization and its intelligence network has reached all parts of the ninja world.

Even in the remote Land of Snow and the Land of the Sea, there are intelligence outposts secretly established by the Night Organization.

This is all thanks to the very successful business expansion of Higanbana Pharmaceutical Company throughout the ninja world.

With the Night Organization's intelligence network, plus the underground intelligence market's network, he should be able to find the whereabouts of this group of Sky Ninjas soon.

Even a soaring ninja is human; eventually, he will have to come down from the sky and interact with the outside world.

"Next, let's retrieve all the remaining Byakugan. Oh, and I can also put some Byakugan into the underground black market and then buy and recycle them under my original identity to gain the ability to use Byakugan. My original Blood Dragon Eye is good, but it's still much inferior to the Byakugan and Sharingan."

Kirito looked at the Byakugan in his hand and suddenly thought of a legitimate way for his true self to use the Byakugan.

The reason he didn't have the Byakugan transplanted into his original body was because his strength wasn't enough to intimidate the Hyuga clan at the time. In addition, the origin of his Byakugan was unknown, and if the Hyuga clan found out that he had transplanted the Byakugan, it would likely provoke a protest from the Hyuga clan.

To avoid further trouble, the third generation will most likely make him hand over the white eye.

But things are different now. He is now the strongest in Konoha. The Hyuga clan has no ability to take back the Byakugan from him, nor do they dare to offend him easily.

With Madara Uchiha as a formidable enemy, obtaining the Byakugan would undoubtedly enhance his strength, which would be very beneficial to Konoha at present. Even if the Third Hokage and others knew this, they would only be happy for him.

Furthermore, since the Hyuga clan has lost a number of Byakugan users, it's quite normal for Byakugan to reappear in the black market.

Even if the Hyuga clan suspects that he stole the Byakugan, they have no direct evidence.

"The Hyuga clan, hmm, it's time for this ninja clan to change. I hope they haven't lost their ability to be opportunistic."

Kirito's expression darkened slightly when he thought of the caged bird on Karen's forehead.

The caged bird may have had good intentions at first, but now it has almost become a means for the main family to enslave the branch families.

The branch families shed blood and sacrificed for the main family and Konoha, yet they received no respect. The main family reaped the benefits and became increasingly corrupt, while the Konoha leadership turned a blind eye to this.

Obviously, this is wrong.

Moreover, the current era is no longer the Warring States period. The outdated and backward family system of the Hyuga clan should have been abolished long ago. In Konoha, the ninjas of the Hyuga branch family are all Konoha ninjas, not slaves of the Hyuga main family.

"Hmm~, the battle has already begun? How fast."

Kirito's expression suddenly changed, and he frowned as he spoke.

Through the synchronization of soul memories, he had already learned from his original body that the Hidden Cloud Village had launched an attack on the Leaf Village.

He had to go back; what he left behind at Konoha's headquarters was merely a shadow clone of Hattori Masanari.

The next moment, the White Zetsu clone quickly transformed back into Hattori Masashige's appearance, then merged into the ground and disappeared.

The art of disguise!

The art of mayfly flight!