I am Jinshan Youxia

It's a big fox!

Naruto Uzumaki recognized the sound outside, turned his head and looked out, and saw a tall raccoon covered in cursed marks flash by in the swirling gray mist.

Ah, it's Shukaku.

He immediately recognized the short guy opposite him: "You're Gaara!"

The little dwarf in the gray mist nodded, "Naruto."

"Ahem~" The mysterious man coughed, trying to cover his embarrassment, and then said, "Reporter, in the Zodiac Association, our identities are kept secret from each other, everyone..."

“But we already know each other.” Naruto Uzumaki chose to undermine him.

The mysterious man simply flicked his finger from afar, and he immediately felt a sharp pain in his forehead.

"Kids are the most annoying."

The mysterious man muttered something to himself, then said, "Alright, the first Zodiac Gathering has come to a successful conclusion. You can call me Divine Dragon—"

"Didn't that old man just say you were 'Sora'?" Naruto Uzumaki said something inappropriate again.

The mysterious man pointed at him and said, "You're a stupid pig."

"He's a yellow dog, and those two who just walked by were a monkey and a white rabbit."

Naruto Uzumaki wanted to speak again, but his vision blurred for a moment, and he was back in the ward.

Is it an illusion?

He thought to himself, but he felt that the mysterious person who called him a stupid pig didn't mean any harm, and after this commotion, he did feel much better.

"Empty?" Naruto Uzumaki muttered a strange name or code.

"Click!" He heard a footstep coming from the window and looked over.

Kakashi Hatake squatted on the windowsill, looking at Naruto Uzumaki's forehead with a smile in his eyes.

The student has two red characters spelling "Stupid Pig" on his forehead.

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Within the Land of Wind, in the vast desert where yellow sand stretches as far as the eye can see.

"Oh dear, Nagato is such a sore loser."

Zhang Chengyi sighed. He had put in a lot of effort to bring the tower together—I mean, the zodiac animals.

The technical aspects alone are at least two or three levels high; he has mastered the combination of Illusionary Body Technique, Illusion, and Chakra application to an incredible degree.

First, he uses chakra to reside in a specific person, then uses the Illusionary Body Technique to steal the target's chakra and forcibly convert it into thought waves. By spreading out a large amount of chakra residing in different people as relay stations, he ensures that the person he wants can come to attend the meeting.

This whole process consumes at least several thousand Kakashi's chakra. During the meeting, his amplification of the thought wave will continue to consume a large amount of chakra. Even Naruto can't withstand this kind of consumption, only he can.

He originally wanted to bring Sasuke and Itachi Uchiha in as well, but the problem was that Sasuke was nowhere to be found, and Itachi Uchiha had been harassed so much that he had sealed his ring away, so his location was uncertain and he couldn't find him.

The only reason Nagato was able to be brought in was because Nagato's physical body was too weak and he wasted too much energy controlling Pain, which allowed Pain to exploit the loophole and forcibly invade and absorb some of his chakra, converting it into a thought wave.

Absorbing chakra isn't difficult; the challenge lies in remotely controlling the condensed chakra to infiltrate a body possessing the Rinnegan. Zhang Chengyi genuinely wasted a day or two trying to exploit this loophole, but his attempt to invade was wiped out by the Rinnegan.

He shook his head, it seemed he could only find another opportunity to play next time. "Should I go find Chiyo-no-Tsutomu and get the reincarnation of the living first, or should I snatch Gaara away first?"

Chapter 449 One-Tailed Beast and Chiyo Acquired

In the living room of a secluded building in Sunagakure Village.

"elder sister?"

Ebizo, a retired ninja from Sunagakure, lowered his eyes, held a cup of hot tea in his hands, looked at the old woman slumped by the window not far away, and raised his voice slightly: "Hey, are you dead?"

"Just kidding, I was just pretending to be dead." Old lady Chiyo laughed, her eyes crinkling. "Hehehehe~"

"Whoosh! Snap!" Outside the window, a signal shot into the sky, and then the barrier of Sunagakure was raised. The Anbu members of Sunagakure jumped onto the buildings and began a frantic search.

"It seems something has happened," Ebizo said, gazing out the window.

Chiyo said, her face expressionless, "Yes."

After retiring, ninjas shouldn't meddle in other people's business, otherwise they might get killed one day.

To be more precise, once a ninja passes their prime, their physical condition and chakra reserves will decline rapidly due to the hidden injuries left by years of battle. Unless they have special secret techniques, it is better to retire early.

No matter how much experience one has, they will still be defeated when facing a young and strong person.

Just like the Third Hokage, who was a terrifyingly strong guy at his peak, he had to step up again after the death of a Hokage, only to be killed by his own disciple in his own village.

It's so sad.

The two remained silent and said nothing more.

"Whoosh!" x2

Chiyo glanced to the side and saw two unfamiliar men in the room. Her expression changed slightly when she saw Gaara being carried on the shoulder of one of the men.

Ebizo slowly stood up, looked at them, and delivered the intelligence: "The Azure Beast of Konoha and the rogue ninja Rokkaku."

He was once the ninja with the most intelligence in Sunagakure. Even Sasori, whose informants were all over the ninja world, learned from him. Even after retiring, he still kept an eye on the major events happening in the ninja world.

The inexplicably controlled azure beast and the most arrogant ninja who defected in the past year are both people whose names I have long admired.

"I don't know how many times I have to tell you before you understand that I am not some kind of hexagon." Zhang Chengyi looked at the old lady Chiyo and grinned, "Hand over the Reincarnation Technique. You should have already developed that technique by now."

"Reincarnation?" Ebizo turned his head to look at her. "Sister, you're still researching that ninjutsu?"

How could he not know that his sister had once considered sacrificing herself to save her grandson, and had even secretly developed a forbidden technique called "Self-Reincarnation"? But after retiring, he believed that his sister had given up those ideas and had not perfected "Self-Reincarnation".

I never expected to learn this information from an outsider.

"Sorry, kid." Chiyo stood up, a slight smile on her face. "I haven't finished that technique yet."

"This is troublesome." Zhang Chengyi scratched his head. His plan to capture the tailed beast was entirely based on the Reincarnation of the Living Dead.

Without the Reincarnation of the Living Dead, he would have no way to revive the Jinchuriki from whom the Tailed Beasts were extracted, so wouldn't he be killing people for no reason?

As for the cost of Reincarnation, it was completely irrelevant to him. It was a medical ninjutsu exclusive to the Golden Mountain Ranger, even more effective than Reincarnation.

It can save lives and bring people back to life; it's practically omnipotent.

"Then come with me."

Zhang Chengyi didn't want to give up on his reincarnation, so he could only take the person away and develop him slowly. "I have news about your grandson, Scorpion."

"If you leave with me, you will see him."

A cold glint appeared in Ebizo's eyes, and his voice deepened: "Sister." Now that he knows the reincarnation is still under development, he needs to be careful that his sister might leave the village for Sasori.

"I see." Chiyo's eyes widened slightly. "Are you also a member of 'Akatsuki'?"

"Of course," Zhang Chengyi laughed. "You can tell just by looking at the clothes I'm wearing."

He patted the long robe on his body, a cool uniform that he had obtained after bothering Obito several times.

“I have a pretty good relationship with your grandson; I see him almost every day.”

“It doesn’t sound like a lie.” Chiyo sighed deeply. “I’ll go with you.”

Ebizo called out, "Sister!"

Chiyo didn't look at her younger brother, but walked to Zhang Chengyi's side and said, "I've lived for far too long..."

Ebizo never made a move in the end.

Faced with the Azure Beast that had mastered the Eight Gates and the Mangekyou Sharingan user who had captured and controlled the Azure Beast, he had absolutely no confidence in stopping his sister from leaving, let alone reclaiming the Jinchuriki.

Watching the four jump out of the building, Ebizo came to the outside of the building. The Anbu of Sunagakure were lying on the ground, and the Jonin who were staying in the village were all unconscious at the door.

Unsurprisingly.

Because this group of ninjas had followed those two arrogant guys, but none of them could last even a second before being knocked down.

"The younger generation now..."

"This is really getting more and more troublesome," Ebizo sighed deeply.

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A few minutes later, outside Sunagakure Village.

"Kai, take Granny Chiyo with you, we need to move on quickly."

Zhang Chengyi said, "Now that we've forcibly stormed into Sunagakure and captured the Jinchuriki of the Beast, the journey ahead probably won't be so smooth."

The other ninja villages aren't stupid. There are spies infiltrating each other's villages. With ninjutsu, intelligence transmission is easy. I'm afraid the news of him capturing the Jinchuriki will spread throughout the ninja world this afternoon. So we need to capture the more troublesome ones as soon as possible.

We can catch Naruto Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, last. Anyway, Naruto is a weakling now, and he's been implanted with chakra, so there's no need to worry about not finding him.

Most of the other Jinchūriki are wandering around the ninja world. The two from Kumogakure are obviously targets that need to be captured as soon as possible. Otherwise, as anyone who has read the manga knows, it is really difficult to find Jinchūriki when Kumogakure hides them.

There's also the more troublesome Three-Tails, because it died along with its Jinchūriki and no one knows when it will be revived—

Wait a minute, it seems I'm not trying to create a Ten-Tails. Catching eight won't hurt.

Thoughts flashed through Zhang Chengyi's mind, and then he stopped thinking about such trivial matters.

We'll capture as many as we can, and use them to blackmail Nagato and Obito later.

whee.

Might Guy reached out and hoisted Chiyo onto his shoulder, then started running after Zhang Chengyi.

Chiyo calmly settled herself, releasing her chakra to shield herself from the gust of wind rushing towards her face, and asked with narrowed eyes, "Mr. Rokkaku, when will I be able to see my beloved grandson?"

Zhang Chengyi casually said, "Don't worry, I can arrange for you and your grandson to meet tomorrow at the latest."

"However, you must remember to help me perfect my reincarnation."

Of all the Akatsuki members, only Sasori hasn't sealed the ring yet. Even Black Zetsu hid it somewhere because he had talked about Kaguya.

Chapter 450 On the Way to the Meeting (Contains a lot of Naruto geography knowledge, can be skipped)

Four hours later, in the Land of Earth.

"Splash!"

The rocky mountains along the border of the Land of Earth not only blocked the warm air currents from the outside world, but also hindered transportation to the outside world. After the fierce winds from the north swept through, countless gravel-like rocks were sent into the sky, and then gradually turned into 'rock rain' that spread across most of the Land of Earth over the next few days.