Uchiha's personal opinion

But Orochimaru felt reassured after Uchiha Tokumitsu said that.

At this moment, Orochimaru thought that Uchiha Tokumitsu was actually quite good, as he hadn't added anything to the "Sage Seed"!

Since it's just an auxiliary tool, he can use it with peace of mind from now on and try to crack the principle of the "Immortal Seed"!

Chapter 360 The Great Revival of Natural Energy

The natural energy of Mount Myoboku is becoming increasingly abundant.

Although the Greninja frogs were overjoyed, believing it to be a sign of even greater prosperity for the sacred Mount Myōboku, the Great Toad Master couldn't be happy at all.

Through his repeated observations and communication with the White Snake Immortal of Ryuchi Cave, he was able to confirm that the increase in natural energy is universal.

This is especially true in the Ninja World.

Although this would be beneficial for the Three Sacred Lands, which rely on natural energy to expand their population, the Toad Immortal's observations caused a rare sense of unease within him.

The affinity between natural energy and ninjas also began to increase...

Although this slight change was almost imperceptible to ordinary people or even ninjas, it was as shocking as a bolt from the blue for the long-lived Toad Sage!

According to the information sent back to Ryuchi Cave by Princess Ichikishima before her death, her White Strike Technique, which she intended to use with all her might in her dying struggle, was interrupted by a Fire Release technique cast with Sage Chakra by Uchiha Tokumitsu. Therefore, it can be inferred that Uchiha Tokumitsu had at least some research on natural energy and was able to apply it in actual combat.

This is not a good thing...

While the increase in natural energy is indeed a boon for the three holy lands at present, it is actually more beneficial to the ninja world in the long run!

Because the number of ninjas is far greater than the number of living beings in the Holy Land!

The Toad Sage naturally had ideas of forming alliances, but whether it sent a message or sent a clone to the Wet Bone Forest, it could not enter. Therefore, it is quite clear that the Slug Sage intentionally "read but did not reply".

But whether relying on the power of the two sacred sites, Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave, could defeat the shogunate or even exterminate the Uchiha clan... to be honest, even the Great Toad Sage wasn't sure.

Furthermore, since the destruction of the Akatsuki organization, Jiraiya, who has been depressed and has been lying in bed on Mount Myōboku, has not yet regained his fighting spirit. Although he has clearly joined forces with Ryūchi Cave, even the Great Toad Sage has no idea how to carry out the attack or how to plan the offensive.

As for the delicate tasks of contacting Iwagakure and Kumogakure to jointly attack the shogunate, Jiraiya had to personally take charge.

……

Since receiving the "Sage Technique Seed" from Uchiha Tokumitsu, Orochimaru has stayed indoors, focusing on research in his rebuilt home.

To avoid being disturbed by outsiders, he even specially requested a team of police ninjas from the police station to guard the area around him—since he was now determined to surrender, he didn't care about other people's opinions or his personal privacy.

And so, Orochimaru stayed at home for a whole month.

During this month, Uchiha Tokumitsu was not idle either.

After completely fusing the Sage Art essence he had absorbed with his own chakra, he began to further refine his Sage Art training.

He had copied the Sage Technique scroll that Ryuchi Cave had once sent as bait countless times. Almost every Jonin of the Uchiha clan had a copy, and naturally, he knew the contents by heart. However, when Uchiha Tokumitsu tried to develop a new Sage Technique based on the structure of Ryuchi Cave's Sage Technique, he found that his Sage Technique Chakra was completely incompatible with Ryuchi Cave's Sage Technique.

Although she was able to simulate the prototype of the Inorganic Reincarnation Technique with her extraordinary chakra control, she was never able to manipulate inorganic matter into various attack methods as flexibly and freely as Princess Ichikishima.

Although it can simulate stone dragons and water dragons through sage techniques, its attack power is not much stronger than conventional five-element ninjutsu such as earth dragon bullets and water dragon bullets.

As for Sage Mode, its energy consumption is several times that of the Five Elements Ninjutsu.

After repeated verification, Uchiha Tokumitsu came to a conclusion: without the unique Sage Chakra of Ryuchi Cave, it is impossible to learn the essence of Ryuchi Cave Sage Techniques.

But on second thought, this is normal.

If the magic of Ryuchi Cave were so easy to learn, the White Snake Immortal wouldn't have been so generous in giving away the magic scroll as bait.

To put it bluntly, it targeted ninjas who hadn't been injected with the White Snake's venom. Even if they could acquire Sage Chakra through training, they wouldn't be able to use Ryuchi Cave Sage Techniques.

Uchiha Tokumitsu then abandoned his research into Ryuchi Cave Sage Techniques and began to ponder the coordination between Sage Techniques and his own power system.

Although Uchiha Tokumitsu achieved mastery of all five elemental attributes through training, his primary method of combat has always been Fire Release.

But if we want to improve, we can no longer stick to Fire Release or Flame Release.

Therefore, the Five Elements Great Combo Technique left behind by Hiruzen Sarutobi became a good reference book, and Uchiha Tokumitsu began to try to develop his own Five Elements combination ninjutsu based on it.

After countless ninjutsu bombardments and repeated rebuilding of the training grounds, Uchiha Tokumitsu, combining the "Five Elements Sealing Technique" with an incomplete version of the "Yin Sealing Technique" from the Book of Sealing, developed a secret technique that could store and circulate the five elemental chakras—

"Five Elements Seal!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu, who was terrible at naming things, was very satisfied with this technique.

Although it doesn't sound particularly cool, the "Five Elements Seal" is nearly half the effectiveness of the Yin Seal.

While it doesn't have the ability to beautify the skin or enlarge any unspeakable parts, the "Five Elements Sealing Technique" can gather the spiritual and physical energy that is constantly dissipated from the body and convert it into an equal amount of the five elemental chakras for circulation within the body.

Especially when it is necessary to perform multi-attribute combination ninjutsu, Uchiha Tokumitsu no longer needs shadow clones as an aid, and can achieve an extremely simplified hand seal process similar to Fire Release, achieving an effect close to instantaneous ninjutsu.

"Five Elements - Five Dragons Barrage!"

Based on the principle of the Five Elements Great Combo, Uchiha Tokumitsu casually formed the Tiger Seal and unleashed a five-dragon entanglement ninjutsu in front of him, blasting a huge crater into the recently repaired training ground.

The attendant ninja, skilled in Earth Release, immediately ran over from a distance, skillfully extinguishing the remaining effects of the ninjutsu and leveling the ground.

Uchiha Tokumitsu was quite satisfied with the effect of this technique.

In terms of chakra consumption, it is similar to the Uchiha clan's Dragon Flame Song Technique, but its power is nearly five times greater, making it a very powerful ninjutsu.

What's more, he hasn't even incorporated Sage Chakra into the technique as "amplification fuel" yet!

Although storing chakra doesn't seem to have much of an effect on enhancing Sage Techniques, Sage Techniques require a massive amount of chakra to support them. So Uchiha Tokumitsu's idea was very simple—since he couldn't figure out the techniques and methods in a short time, he would win by sheer quantity!

Anyway, the truth of "great strength can make bricks fly" applies to the ninja world as well!

"Step back a little!"

After the training ground was leveled again, Uchiha Tokumitsu spoke to his attendant ninjas.

Without saying a word, the attendant ninjas immediately ran away.

Having witnessed Uchiha Tokumitsu practicing ninjutsu many times, they naturally understood the purpose behind their lord's special instruction.

"Immortal Technique: Five Dragons Barrage!"

Based on 50% Sage Chakra, and adding 10% of each of the five elemental chakra types, Uchiha Tokumitsu once again unremarkable chakra ball shot forward.

This time, he even deliberately sprayed it into the distance.

However, there were still some miscalculations—

"boom!"

Catalyzed by the Sage Chakra, the Sage Chakra sphere that struck the ground exploded like a Tailed Beast Ball, creating a massive mushroom cloud.

Then came a tremendous shockwave and a deafening explosion.

—At this moment, Uchiha Tokumitsu was like a traitor controlling a nuclear cannonball with a range of five kilometers and a kill radius of ten kilometers, drawing himself into the bombardment range of the Sage Art.

"Lord!"

The attendant ninjas, who had just been swept away by the shockwave and were covered in dust, got up and saw that the mushroom cloud had already engulfed Uchiha Tokumitsu.

Terrified, the attendant ninjas ignored the damage from the sage techniques that were splashing everywhere and hurriedly ran towards the direction of the "nuclear explosion".

"No need to come over!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu's deep, muffled voice came from within the mushroom cloud.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"

As highly compressed chakra fragments exploded, the mushroom cloud was gradually dispersed by the hurricane.

And then it first reveals the true form of Susanoo.

"call……"

The attendant ninjas immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Uchiha Tokumitsu activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and used Susanoo the moment the Sage Art hit the target. Otherwise, even if the Sage Art didn't do much damage to him, he would still have been covered in bruises from the shockwave.

Teams of Konoha ninja rushed from the village and the new district toward the location where the mushroom cloud had risen.

"It's nothing, it's nothing~ My lord is just testing his ninjutsu!"

The attendant ninjas quickly began to disperse the gathered ninjas.

Sakumo Hatake landed next to Tokumitsu Uchiha without any hindrance, gazing at the deep pit not far away with a complicated expression.

The pit's perimeter and walls had turned into a glassy substance, and water columns emitting heat and a sulfurous odor were beginning to bubble up from the bottom.

—A magical spell was used, and by sheer accident, a hot spring was created!

Uchiha Tokumitsu was also somewhat surprised.

"...Is this still ninjutsu?"

"I asked Hatake Sakumo."

"It could be considered a magical technique..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu answered somewhat uncertainly.

Although it is not as exquisite as the so-called sacred land immortal techniques, at least judging from this test, its power is still no less than that.

"Celestial arts..."

Sakumo Hatake couldn't help but sigh.

Then I felt somewhat frustrated.

Under such a massive and widespread bombardment, even the most agile movements and the sharpest swordsmanship would only result in being reduced to ashes.

"Don't you feel anything?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu suddenly said something completely out of the blue.

"What do you feel?"

Sakumo Hatake was puzzled.

"The natural energy in the ninja world is becoming increasingly concentrated..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu stretched out his palm, condensing a fluorescent light in his palm, which drew Hatake Sakumo's gaze.

This is a pure manifestation of the aggregation of natural energy!

"Furthermore, the affinity between natural energy and ninjas is increasing~"

"Is it!"