The Devil of Konoha: Starting as a Medical Ninja

"You don't need to know about this."

Kisame Hoshigaki didn't answer the question, not for any other reason than that the question was simply impossible to explain. Since the Akatsuki organization didn't intend to do anything to him, he still wanted to coast along.

He was tired of the life of fighting and killing, but what was the point of living for a bloodthirsty shark if he lost all of that?

"I will investigate this matter. As for you, keep a low profile for now!"

Konan slowly left. Before the intelligence system was repaired, the Akatsuki organization would not carry out any missions, not because it was unnecessary, but because there was no other way.

White Zetsu's abilities are still very strong; at the very least, they are much more efficient at transmitting information. After losing White Zetsu, the Akatsuki will need to find another way.

It's definitely impossible to assign tasks in a short period of time.

Chapter 229 might be the only one qualified.

Inside the Divine Might Space, Hongzhi sighed helplessly. It had been two and a half months, and the Black Spotted Lightning's curse seal was almost completely absorbed, but the progress on the Soul Secret Technique side was truly touching.

Even with the Spirit Transformation Technique and Orochimaru's method of eroding the soul in the Reanimation Jutsu, Hongzhi still couldn't come up with a way to directly obliterate the soul.

Perhaps at most it would shatter the soul completely, but this secret technique has no effect on tailed beasts. Hiroji had tested this on the other half of Shukaku.

This left Hongzhi speechless. To understand the mysteries of the soul, perhaps a more extreme method was needed: directly seeking out the Grim Reaper who could seize souls.

If it could be bound, perhaps the mysteries of the soul could be unlocked, but the Grim Reaper is really unreliable, and Hiroji still hopes that he can solve this problem himself.

After Orochimaru possesses someone else's body, that person's soul hangs on his soul like a burden, accompanying him through each reincarnation.

There seems to be no special way to completely annihilate a soul, especially when it is necessary to preserve chakra.

Not to mention more precise division and fusion, Itachi Uchiha's divine weapon cannot be retrieved for the time being.

However, in just two and a half months, Hongzhi did not come away empty-handed; he managed to develop a secret technique that could damage the soul.

This is neither completely destroying the soul nor erasing it, but rather using special methods to disrupt the original soul.

The final result was a being who was completely unharmed, but acted erratically, and might even be in a coma.

For this, Hongzhi wasted a lot of Edo Tensei ninjas, but what he got was of no help to him, which made him feel quite depressed.

Aside from the Spirit Transformation Technique and Orochimaru's Reanimation Jutsu, the only other things in the entire ninja world are probably the abilities associated with the Rinnegan and the Death God Mask.

As for the former, Hiroji did not want to take action against Nagato at this stage. As for the latter, Hiroji did not want to get involved with the Shinigami unless absolutely necessary.

The Reaper Death Seal technique is just too outrageous; who knows what kind of monster that Grim Reaper is?

After excluding these two aspects, if there is any existence that can still be related to the soul and is very likely to have conducted in-depth research on the soul, it is only the Otsutsuki descendants on the moon who have been preserved in the most complete form.

That guy, Toneri, probably has no way to deal with it, but as someone with the Tenseigan at the same level as the Rinnegan, he might have the ability in this area.

Furthermore, the development of the Tenseigan takes time, and Hiroji felt that going to the moon during this time might yield other gains.

There is a pair of Byakugan from the Konoha main family in the collection room. Although the purity may not be high, Hongzhi can directly extract Otsutsuki Toneri's blood and inject it into the Byakugan to see if there will be any special changes.

If the Tenseigan can be born, that would be best. If not, then just tie up Hinata Hyuga or Hanabi Hyuga. Anyway, Toneri will do it in the end. Hiroji just made him do it a little earlier.

After having a general idea, Hongzhi immediately dispatched a large number of shadow clones to secretly depart from the Land of Waves in search of a passage to the moon.

If we can find a way to fuse the Byakugan with the giant Tenseigan, even the worst method, we can try to fuse all these collectibles together.

Konoha Hospital's archives room.

Karin and Sakura Haruno silently watched Tsunade ahead. Everything in Konoha had stabilized, and Tsunade's time had been extended.

However, she couldn't relax because Hiroji was in seclusion, and Kudo Yuuya continued to be in charge of the Konoha Hospital. She also needed to take care of the training center there.

Being busy every day, it was natural not to notice Karin and Sakura Haruno, who were simply thrown into the archives by Hiroji.

Tsunade didn't want these two promising talents to go to waste, so she had no choice but to come and teach them herself.

"I'm very dissatisfied with your test. That guy was really something; not everyone can fully understand the meaning of a book after reading it!"

Tsunade looked at the two test papers in her hands with a sense of frustration. They were tests she had prepared for the two of them to find out how much they had actually learned.

She had expected to receive two similar answer sheets, but the contents were truly indescribable, with even the explanations of some basic concepts being a mess.

The two's performance made Tsunade realize that this was the normal way for a person to learn medical ninjutsu. The kind of abnormal person who could learn most of the content just by reading a book was already a blessing in Konoha.

"That guy is probably too busy to care about the two of you. I'll be personally teaching you from now on. Don't make him your role model. Even I don't understand the things he's researched. Maybe you'll be qualified to become his apprentices when you surpass me someday..."

Tsunade spoke calmly, trying to understand the contents of the Yin Healing and Destruction Scroll, but all she got in the end was a head full of question marks.

She could understand most of the conclusions, but it would take a long time to fully comprehend them from beginning to end, and time was precisely what Tsunade lacked most.

Tsunade had no choice but to give up on this. Mastering the Yin Seal and the Hundred Healings Technique would be enough to fundamentally change her combat abilities.

"Yes!"

Karin and Sakura Haruno nodded. They couldn't understand the content of the books they read on their own, and they would forget what they read very quickly, which was a waste of time.

As for the apprentice Tsunade mentioned, they did have some ideas. If they could become Hiroji's apprentices, their future achievements in medical ninjutsu would be limitless.

But all of that is based on making the foundation more solid; only in this way can one be accepted as an apprentice.

Tsunade's lesson has officially begun. If Hiroji were here, he would probably burst out laughing.

What use are disciples? They are completely useless. Even if you surpass Tsunade, you are just more tenacious ants.

……

"Is it finally going to end?"

As Hongzhi watched the black curse mark on his arm gradually disappear, a slight smile appeared on his lips. The process of becoming stronger always brought a sense of pleasure.

As the black-spotted lightning was completely absorbed by his body, Hongzhi felt a stinging sensation spread throughout his entire body. Using the cursed seal to obtain the bloodline limit was rather crude.

This is because it doesn't involve fusing lightning-style chakra with other chakra to achieve a transformation; rather, it directly changes the lightning-style chakra at its root.

Once this transformation is complete, Hongzhi will become a ninja without lightning-style chakra transformations.

Because his most basic lightning chakra has mutated into a bloodline limit—Black Spotted Lightning.

Chapter 230 The Invitation from the Akatsuki Organization

After the birth of the bloodline limit Black Spotted Lightning, it took Hongzhi half a day to adapt. Perhaps because the way he obtained it was somewhat special, its aftereffects were still quite strong.

However, it wasn't a big problem; the body stabilized itself in just a few breaths, and no damage was caused.

After the birth of Black Spotted Lightning, Hiroji possessed four different bloodline limits related to the lightning attribute.

Black Spotted Lightning, Yang Lightning, Yin Lightning, and Storm Release—if these four bloodline limits could be fused together, it would mean the birth of an ability that surpasses Bloodline Elimination.

The seven attributes are Bloodline Limits, so what are the four attributes? One of them is a mutated version of the Lightning attribute.

There is no way to solve this problem for the time being. Even the bloodline limit Hongzhi, which is based on the lightning attribute, has not been able to create it. The difficulty of fusing these bloodline limits together is probably no less than that of the so-called soul secret technique.

However, there is now a clever way to use the Lightning Release Bloodline Elimination technique: by fusing Black Spot Lightning with Water Release chakra, the original Storm Release can be transformed into Black Spot Storm Release.

Hmm... this name is really hard to describe.

Although the name was unpleasant, Hongzhi still wanted to give it a try. As for whether he could succeed, that would depend on whether the rules of the ninja world allowed for backdoors.

If possible, the birth of bloodline elimination might become easier, such as the fusion of Yang Rai with Black Spotted Rai, or the fusion of Yin Rai with Black Spotted Rai.

Of course, this will only increase strength, but will not reduce Hongzhi's urgency to integrate Yin and Yang attributes.

Hongzhi even suspected that the fusion of Yin and Yang attributes was the true way to begin the Rinnegan, referring, of course, to the Yang attribute derived from Ashura and the Yin attribute derived from Indra.

Although Hongzhi possessed the Rinnegan, awakening it was still extremely difficult; in the ninja world, sheer strength was sometimes meaningless.

For example, Might Guy can open the Eight Gates and kick Madara Uchiha in six directions, but when faced with Infinite Tsukuyomi, he can only be hung up.

It seems that the only way to break the Infinite Tsukuyomi is through the Rinnegan.

This is also why Hongzhi was so obsessed with the Rinnegan.

Having just completed his transformation, Hongzhi did not continue his research. Instead, he took the lightning sword that he had always had his shadow clone carry and leisurely appeared in the ninja world under a different identity.

Perhaps to clear his mind, or perhaps simply to get out and about, Hongzhi wandered aimlessly.

This atmosphere should have continued indefinitely, at least that's what Hongzhi thought; it was one of the few opportunities he'd had to appreciate the scenery since coming into this world.

However, just as Hongzhi was about to continue forward, two waves of chakra suddenly appeared in his perception.

To be precise, it was a chakra fluctuation, and an intermittent chakra fluctuation.

It felt as if someone was sending a signal from afar. Such a bizarre thing could probably only be done by Nagato, who controlled the Six Paths of Pain.

Hongzhi waited patiently, and soon Pain and Konan appeared in his field of vision. Pain stood there quietly, his Rinnegan giving off an invisible sense of intimidation.

But it was only a deterrent. Hongzhi could easily smash Pain in front of him, and as for Konan, it would only take one move.

"What's wrong, Xiao?"

Hongzhi looked at the two people in front of him. They probably wanted to recruit him, but if Hongzhi agreed directly, it would be too strange.

"Do you want to know the truth about the world?!"

Pain's words drifted over slowly, causing Hongzhi's lips to twitch. Then, a bolt of black lightning struck down from the sky, hitting Pain squarely on the forehead.

"There's no need for a dead guy to put on a show here."

Seeing Pain fall to the ground, Hongzhi continued walking forward. His Black Spot Lightning had also reached +10, and as a bloodline limit, it still had considerable power.

Moreover, the speed of the lightning was so fast that Pain couldn't react at all.

"We're here to discuss cooperation..."

Seeing that Pain had completely lost control, Konan had no choice but to speak up. While the Rinnegan could intimidate most people, when faced with a true madman, they would usually think about how to seize the Rinnegan.

For example, Orochimaru, although he was defeated, it is undeniable that he was a madman.

However, the person in front of him now is even more formidable. His use of lightning chakra has surpassed the limits. It's no wonder that the Fourth Raikage suffered such a terrible fate back then.

"Just say what's on your mind, because your presence has ruined my good mood."

Hongzhi slowly drew his lightning blade. Perhaps because Pain was out of control, the other five people were also rushing towards them at top speed.

From this, Hiroji could even deduce the approximate location of Nagato.

"I sincerely invite you to join the Akatsuki organization..."

Konan didn't continue speaking, but Pain, who had fallen from behind her, spoke up. Hiroji wasn't sure which Pain this guy was, but since they were all controlled by Nagato, there was no need to distinguish between them.

"Not interested."