Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Because of their considerable strength and good reputation, the Ghost Organization has gradually gained favor with many small countries, and even some large countries like to hire them to do their jobs.

However, what truly made the Demon Organization famous was not their assistance in winning battles for many small countries, but an extermination operation organized by the Hidden Cloud Village.

The Hidden Cloud Village's operation to eliminate the Oni organization stemmed from the fact that the Oni organization had recruited a rogue ninja from their village and refused to hand him over.

Upon learning the news, the Fourth Raikage decisively dispatched more than ten Jonin and hundreds of Chunin to wipe out the Demon Organization. However, all of these ninjas were killed by a rogue ninja from the Demon Organization named Hiruko, who claimed to be the leader of the Demon Organization.

Later, when the Fourth Raikage learned that the extermination operation had failed, he personally led a team to eliminate the Demon Organization.

Although the Demon Organization suffered heavy losses in that battle, most of its core members still survived, and its leader, Hiruko, was even able to hold her own against the Fourth Raikage in a short period of time.

This battle directly revealed that Hiruko actually possessed two bloodline limits and even the Sharingan.

Without a doubt, Hiruko, who was able to hold her own against the Fourth Raikage in a short period of time, is definitely a Kage-level fighter.

After this battle, the Demon Organization made a name for itself in the ninja world, and the name of Hiruko, the Konoha rogue ninja, also came into the view of the high-ranking officials of the major forces in the ninja world.

At the same time, a large number of rogue ninjas from the ninja world joined the Demon Organization, causing the Demon Organization's strength to expand rapidly.

……

"The Demon Organization, wasn't that Uchiha Madara who created it?"

In the Land of Rain, in the rebuilt Amegakure, a White Zetsu clone frowned as he looked at a piece of intelligence that his subordinate had just handed him.

The intelligence indicates that a member of the Oni organization, who is bound by the precepts, has secretly infiltrated the Land of Rain, and his route is likely to pass through the town where the pharmaceutical factory of the Higanbana Pharmaceutical Company is located.

The members of the Order of the Demon are the core members of the Demon Organization. They are extremely powerful, and each of them possesses a bloodline limit. There are currently four known members of the Order of the Demon.

The member who secretly infiltrated the Land of Rain is a core member of the Jade Ring. The origin of his name is unknown, but he is confirmed to be a ninja with the bloodline limit of Ice Release.

"Ice Release, huh? That's a bit tricky. This kind of bloodline limit can be very powerful in the Land of Rain. I'm afraid an ordinary elite Jonin wouldn't be able to deal with him."

The White Zetsu clone glanced at the information on the members who held the rank of Commandment and thought to himself.

As the leader of Amegakure, he is extremely busy every day, not only working tirelessly to revive the village, but also studying the Slug Sage's magic in Shikkotsu Forest. He simply has no time to deal with such insignificant pawns.

After thinking for a moment, he decisively dispatched Amegakure's top enforcer and said to Konan, who was serving as his secretary in the room, "Konan, Nagato should be back by now."

"Please don't joke around, Lord Masashige. Nagato was just sent on an S-rank mission by you yesterday."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Nan immediately expressed her dissatisfaction.

Since the Land of Rain regained peace and Amegakure began reconstruction, Nagato has been used like a beast of burden by the leader in front of her. Every day, she is either carrying out difficult missions or on her way to carrying out difficult missions, which makes her very worried about Nagato's health.

Nagato is very powerful, already possessing Kage-level strength, but even at his best, he's still just a 13-year-old boy. The leader's exploitation of child labor is going too far.

"Well, the capable should do more, Konan. I know you're worried about Nagato, but I have no choice. Amegakure is in dire need of rebuilding and is short-handed. There are very few people who can take on the main responsibility, so I can only ask Nagato to do it for now."

Bai Jue's clone sensed Xiao Nan's dissatisfaction and said with a worried expression.

Now serving as the secretary to the White Zetsu clone, Xiao Nan helps him process a large amount of official documents every day. Of course, she knows that the White Zetsu clone is telling the truth, so she can only remain silent in frustration, using silence as a small form of protest.

"Sigh~, since Nagato isn't here, Yahiko, would you mind going there for me?"

Upon seeing this, the White Zetsu clone sighed and then said solemnly.

The next moment, a young ANBU ninja wearing a toad mask appeared in front of the White Zetsu clone, bowed and said, "Please rest assured and leave it to me, Lord Masashige. I will complete the mission as quickly as possible."

"Then please."

The white-haired clone smiled with satisfaction.

"Ha~"

Yahiko responded again, then used the Body Flicker Technique to disappear in front of the White Zetsu clone.

Xiao Nan looked out the window, her eyes filled with deep worry.

After the war, the three of them did not continue to work together. Instead, they were assigned different tasks: she became an administrative secretary, Nagato became a team leader, and Yahiko joined the Dark Division.

"Don't worry too much. Yahiko's strength is probably greater than you think. Even if he encounters a Kage-level powerhouse, he can escape if he can't win."

Seeing that Konan was worried about Yahiko, the White Zetsu clone comforted her.

At the same time, he looked at Xiao Nan with a meaningful gaze.

When Xiao Nan saw the look in the White Zetsu clone's eyes, her face flushed slightly. She quickly straightened her expression, placed a large stack of documents in front of the White Zetsu clone, and said, "Lord Masashige, these documents need your immediate attention. I have other matters to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

As soon as she finished speaking, she transformed into a large number of paper scraps and flew out of the window, not giving the White Zetsu clone a chance to shirk the work to him.

"Sigh, I'm finally starting to understand the hardships the Third Hokage endured."

The white-haired clone looked at the mountain of documents before him and sighed inwardly.

He has really sacrificed too much to control Amegakure, this goose that lays golden eggs, and he really wants to sleep in a little longer.

……

Meanwhile, in a forest in the northern part of the Land of Demons, a ninja wearing a Sharingan mask moved swiftly through the mountains. He was like a ghost, moving at high speed without making a sound, and appearing and disappearing in the forest.

Before long, he crossed the forest and came to the edge of a huge basin.

"Finally found it, it was really well hidden."

The Sharingan-masked ninja stood at the edge of the basin, looking at the steel building that stood out starkly against the surrounding primeval forest. His three-tomoe Sharingan eyes beneath the mask suddenly lit up with excitement.

He is Kirito's second soul clone, the Uchiha clone.

Unlike the White Zetsu clone who was in charge of controlling Amegakure and cultivating the Shikkotsu Forest Sage Art, his job was to cultivate and find the fortress of the Void Ninja.

After searching for more than two months, he finally learned from the black market the day before that someone had seen a huge black shadow appear in the Land of Demons at night. He realized that this was likely the fortress of the Sky Ninja, so he hurriedly rushed from the Land of Forests to the Land of Demons.

This time, he finally didn't make a wasted trip. He had sensed through his Sharingan that the steel city below the basin possessed a dark chakra that was very similar to that in his Rinnegan.

Zero tail is right there.

At the same time, through his soul perception, he discovered that there were many soul auras in the steel city in the basin.

"Beep beep~"

Suddenly, a rapid alarm sounded throughout the steel city in the basin.

"Hmm~, have I been found out?"

Upon hearing the alarm, the Uchiha clone exclaimed in surprise.

Then, he saw a group of Sky Ninjas wearing Sky Ninja headbands and flying ninja gear taking off quickly from the runway of the Steel City and heading straight for him.

"Looks like I've really been found out."

"The Uchiha clone sighed softly."

The next moment, he clapped his hands together and spat out fireballs.

These fireballs expanded rapidly as soon as they were exhaled from his mouth, turning into large fireballs nearly two meters in diameter, and then shot at high speed toward the air ninjas who were attacking in flying ninja tools.

In an instant, a large number of Sky Ninjas were hit and turned into ashes, falling from the sky.

Moreover, numerous large fireballs fell into the steel city below the basin, triggering a series of massive explosions that quickly engulfed the steel city in flames.

Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique!

As a clone of Madara Uchiha, the Uchiha clone naturally inherited Madara's talent for Fire Release. In particular, after the White Zetsu clone became the Five-Tails Jinchuriki and gained insight into Fire Release and Water Release by temporarily taking over the Five-Tails, he made rapid progress in his Fire Release training.

He felt that he was just one opportunity away from reaching level 5 Fire Release. Once that opportunity arrived, he would naturally be able to break through this barrier and step into the realm of level 5 Fire Release.

Even without reaching the level 5 Fire Release realm, the power of his Fire Release ninjutsu still increased significantly.

For example, a simple Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique can directly produce the effect of continuously using Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.

Meanwhile, deep within the Sky Ninja's fortress, the Sky Ninja leader Shennong stood before a black creature that resembled a snake but wore an ugly mask on its face.

This black creature is Zero-Tail, and inside it are many humans with expressions of despair on their faces.

Meanwhile, wisps of black chakra continuously emerged from these humans, eventually flowing into the Zero-Tails' body, causing its body to grow at a slow pace.

Zero-Tails is a tailless tailed beast that grows stronger by absorbing the dark emotions of various beings. Its favorite dark emotion is human despair.

However, this tailless tailed beast, which always liked to absorb the dark chakra born from despair, now looked terrified, as if it sensed that a great calamity was about to befall it.

Therefore, it kept ramming against the glass wall in front of it, trying to break through the glass wall and leave its comfortable home that it would never normally want to leave.

"What's wrong with you, Zero Tail? Calm down and stop hitting the glass wall."

Shennong, seeing Lingwei's abnormal behavior, kept loudly trying to calm him down.

Unfortunately, his attempts to appease her were completely ineffective.

The reason Zero-Tail usually talks to Shennong is because it knows that Shennong will continuously provide it with food for growth, which is profitable, so it is willing to act as the power source for the power engine required by the Sky Ninja.

But now its life is at stake, and it must leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

Under the constant impact of Zero Tail, the sturdy glass wall made of special materials finally couldn't withstand the pressure and developed numerous cracks.

"You damned beast, I told you to stop, but you didn't hear me."

Upon seeing this, Shennong finally couldn't contain his anger and began to curse loudly.

As he spoke, he took out a sealing talisman that he had bought at a high price from the black market and then stuck it on the glass wall that had developed many cracks.

As soon as the sealing talisman was affixed, a powerful surge of chakra burst forth from it, and a large number of black sealing techniques continuously spread out from the sealing talisman.

In the blink of an eye, the glass wall was covered with a dense array of sealing spells, and began to spread further into the Zero-Tail.

Upon seeing these sealing techniques, Zero-Tails' masked face immediately displayed a human-like expression of fear. It hurriedly spat out a stream of black, water-like chakra, attempting to prevent the sealing techniques from spreading to its body. However, it discovered that the dark chakra it spat out was completely unable to resist these sealing techniques. Instead, it was as if it had encountered a natural enemy and was instantly imprisoned.

Within seconds, Zero-Tails despairingly discovered that his powerful dark chakra was imprisoned.

Chapter 316: The End of the Sky Ninja

"As expected of a sealing talisman personally crafted by Kirito Tohsaka, the strongest shinobi in Konoha, the sealing effect is truly formidable."

Shennong watched as the sealing talisman easily subdued the unruly Zero-Tail, and immediately felt relieved, smiling as he spoke.

At the same time, he couldn't help but become more and more wary of Konoha.

Because this sealing technique is just an early work of Kirito Tohsaka, but even so, it can be easily regarded as the Zero-Tails' greatest trump card. So how terrifying is Kirito Tohsaka's sealing technique now?

Simply unimaginable.

"I thought that after Mito Uzumaki died, the revenge plan could start again, but I didn't expect that Kirito Tohsaka would appear. Damn Konoha."

Shennong cursed inwardly.

More than a decade ago, not long after the Second Shinobi World War began, the Sky Ninja had mastered the Zero-Tails and were already able to create sophisticated flying ninja tools. They had also built the huge flying fortress beneath him, hoping to use it to defeat Konoha, whose strength had been severely weakened in the First Shinobi World War. However, they did not expect to fail in the end.