Chapter 297 Danzo’s Doubts (Ch 729053612)

After the meeting, Yi Chen went to the barrier class and brought Atsumi Akino with him.

Yi Chen gave a lesson to all the sealing masters above level B in the barrier class, introducing them to the new runes and new rune connection methods they learned in Wochao Village this time.

He also listed speculations on the effects of runes related to space-time ninjutsu.

After finishing the work, Yi Chen also gave a task to the barrier team, asking them to cooperate with Atsumi Akino to add the functions of sensing and limiting time and space ninjutsu to the village’s defense and perception barrier.

This is not only a task for the Barrier Squad, but also a task for Atsumi Akino. By cooperating with the Barrier Squad, Atsumi Akino’s understanding of space-time ninjutsu will definitely improve.

Moreover, in the barrier class, if Atsumi Akino has any questions about sealing techniques, there will be someone who can answer them in time.

Yichen’s plan for Atsumi Akino was to carry out a mission with the other two members of the fifth class every day, and then complete the daily basic training. The rest of the time she would stay in the barrier class.

The three disciples gained a lot from this trip to the Land of Whirlpools. In addition to finding a way to get started with Atsumi Akino’s space-time ninjutsu, Ishizuru Jyousei has been practicing summoning techniques these days.

Following Yi Chen’s suggestion, Shi Ze Jingqing did not choose those adult sharks with good strength as the main spiritual beast, but chose a small shark that was just born and had a good physique.

During this period, Shi Zejingqing would summon the little shark whenever he had time. Anyway, Shi Zejingqing knew how to use water escape, so he could just use it to create a small pool nearby and let the little shark swim in it.

Uzumaki Riori’s progress was the most obvious. After learning the Shadow Clone technique, the little girl who could fight two against one felt that her strength had doubled. Now, without Yi Chen’s urging, she was practicing the Shadow Clone technique.

Yi Chen was not in a hurry to teach her the technique of multiple shadow clones, but planned to teach her after the little girl completed the treading water practice.

On this day, Yi Chen received a report from the Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han that the Five-Tails King Mu was finally willing to take the initiative to cooperate with Han in practicing his Kekkei Genkai.

Moreover, King Mu not only agreed to teach Han to practice Boiling Dun, but also planned to teach Han’s disciple Toda Yui as well.

As one of the best friends of Tsuchikage and Han, the Human Chūriki, Yichen also participated in the entire process of Han learning bloodline.

Yi Chen wanted to see how well Han and King Mu got along, and he also wanted to know how King Mu taught others to practice.

Yi Chen discovered that the way the tailed beasts guided the ninjas to practice their bloodline limits was completely different from the way normal ninjas developed their bloodline.

Han and Toda Yui do not need to improve their proficiency in both attributes to a very high level like Yichen did.

The tailed beasts naturally have the ability to transfer chakra to other ninjas. Learners only need to absorb the chakra of the tailed beasts and then experience and comprehend it.

This is like skipping the qualitative change process from 0 to 1 and directly completing the quantitative change process from 1 to 100. The difficulty is reduced significantly.

This made Yi Chen very envious. So far, Yi Chen’s proficiency in wind attribute was still far from being able to develop blood inheritance.

It would be great if I had a tailed beast with wind and fire attributes to help me practice. It would be best if it had a tailed beast with flame escape. But this was obviously Yi Chen’s overthinking. Flame escape was just developed by Ogura Saki, so there was no tailed beast that could master this bloodline.

Yi Chen couldn’t remember whether the specific attributes of the nine tailed beasts were all mentioned in the original work, but at least Yi Chen had never heard of any tailed beast that could perform ninjutsu similar to Scorch Release and Flame Release.

However, tailed beasts with wind and fire bloodline are hard to find, but there are still tailed beasts with wind attributes in the ninja world.

Apart from anything else, Nanao, who had had a pleasant chat with Yichen for a few days, has the wind attribute.

However, the Seven-Tails is still in Konoha, so we cannot do anything about it for the time being. Everything has to wait until the Seven-Tails returns to Takigakure.

As for the story of Han and Toda Yui learning the Boiling Escape, Yi Chen only read the beginning and stopped paying attention to it. He had a lot of things to do.

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“Baigan?” In the dark underground Root base of Konoha Village, after hearing Bing’s reply, Danzo muttered to himself in some confusion.

Just now, the Root elite Jonin Bing who was sent by Danzo to contact Orochimaru returned to Konoha.

Bing brought back Orochimaru’s request: the Byakugan.

Danzo originally thought that Orochimaru would ask for intelligence or funds for research, as this was how the two had worked together before. But from what Bing said, Orochimaru’s request this time was very clear: he just wanted the Byakugan.

This made Danzo very confused.

Although the ninja world calls the Rinnegan, Sharingan, and Byakugan the three great eye techniques, the Rinnegan is the eye of the legendary Six Paths Sage and its status far exceeds the other two.

The Sharingan is considered stronger than the Byakugan by all ninjas because of the appearance of Uchiha Madara. It is estimated that only the Hyuga clan regards the Byakugan as a bloodline on par with the Sharingan and the Samsara Eye.

Danzo is no exception. In Danzo’s eyes, the Byakugan is a very good reconnaissance bloodline, but when it is said that the Byakugan is a combat-type bloodline, Danzo reacts with a haha.

Danzo would not be surprised if other large ninja villages valued the Byakugan. The Byakugan has strategic value, and the larger the ninja village, the greater its role.

But for a traitor like Orochimaru, the Byakugan is really useless. Even if Orochimaru wants to build a ninja village, he doesn’t need a strategic weapon of the Byakugan level.

Danzo couldn’t figure it out.

However, Danzo has a high IQ and has shouldered the darkness of Konoha for many years, so he vaguely sensed that there was something wrong.

Danzo looked down on Orochimaru in many aspects. In Danzo’s eyes, Orochimaru was the kind of person who had a good hand but played himself into trouble.

He was clearly the most likely contender for the position of Hokage, but he ended up turning himself into a traitor.

But there is one thing that Danzo has to admit that Orochimaru is great at, and that is scientific research.

From Orochimaru’s research on Wood Release, it can be seen that Orochimaru’s scientific research ability alone exceeds that of the entire Konoha Village.

Since Orochimaru is interested in the Byakugan, does that mean that the Byakugan has some secret that even Danzo doesn’t know?

When Orochimaru was in the village, he did not have much contact with the Hyuga clan, but he is only now becoming interested in the Byakugan. Does that mean that Orochimaru has only recently learned about some of the special effects of the Byakugan?

After thinking about it, Danzo did not make up his mind whether to trade with Orochimaru. Of course, even if he wanted to trade, Danzo did not have a white eye in his hand.

What Danzo wants to do most now is to figure out why Orochimaru is interested in the Byakugan.

Danzo first came to the data room of the Hokage Building. The data room of the Hokage Building has existed since the first generation of Hokage established Konoha Village. The various outdated intelligence and secrets recorded in it are the richest in the entire ninja world.

Danzo spent a whole day carefully reading through various records of the Hyuga clan, but unfortunately, he found nothing.

From the known history, the Hyuga clan has never had any strong people who surpass the level of Kage. Moreover, the Hyuga clan has never used any ability other than the Byakugan skills known to Danzo, not even suspected of it.

Most of the Hyuga clan’s information is backed up in this data room in the Hokage Building, but Danzo believes that the Hyuga clan should have kept some confidential information.

But how to get these files?

First of all, sneaking around definitely won’t work. Stealing things from the Hyuga clan is just too much to think about. Even ninjas like Uchiha Obito and Namikaze Minato who can use time-space ninjutsu can’t do it.

Even though Yi Chen now possesses a sealing technique that can block the Byakugan to a certain extent, Yi Chen does not think he has any hope of stealing anything from the Hyuga clan.

The Hyuga clan was not strong, there were many ninjas who were strong enough to force their way into the ninja world, but there were almost no ninjas who could sneak around without being discovered.

Danzo thought that his Root didn’t have that strength either.

But Danzo is Danzo, and his character of not giving up until he achieves his goal will not change.

Since the secret approach doesn’t work, Danzo decides to do it openly. He decides to ask the Hyuga clan directly in his capacity as a senior consultant.

The next day, Danzo came to the Hyuga clan accompanied by two Root elites, A and B.

In fact, Hyuga Hiashi wanted to drive Danzo away. Danzo’s own style of doing things did not please these great ninjas, and now the conflict between Danzo and the Fifth Hokage Tsunade was semi-public among the upper echelons of Konoha.

Even if Hyuga Hiashi votes with his feet, he will choose Tsunade. Tsunade, who is from the Senju clan, is more satisfactory to Hyuga Hiashi than Danzo anyway.

It was just that Danzo was visiting as a senior consultant, so he couldn’t just refuse.

In the living room of the Hyuga clan, Danzo, who had half of his face covered and had an expressionless face, did not even take a sip of tea. He spoke directly, “Chief Hiashi, the situation in the ninja world is very unfavorable to the village. The Iwagakure ninja is rising strongly. The Root has been commissioned by the high-level meeting to deal with the Iwagakure ninja.”

“I need the reconnaissance capabilities of the Hyuga clan.”

Hinata Hiashi frowned, and he almost couldn’t hold back his anger. Are the village leaders going to take action against my Hyuga clan?

Was this Danzo’s own decision, or did the higher-ups deliberately send Danzo to test him?

If the Third Hokage was still in power, then given the tacit understanding between the Third Hokage and Danzo, this matter was most likely a decision made by the top leaders, but the current Hokage is the Fifth Hokage, and the Fifth Hokage is unlikely to reuse Danzo.

So, this should be Danzo’s personal behavior.

Thinking of this, Hyuga Hiashi felt more confident. He said calmly, “Don’t worry, Advisor Danzo. If the higher-ups have any requests, you can invite my Hyuga clan in the form of a mission. I will consider it.”

Just kidding, even though my subordinates are all caged birds, they will not betray their families, they will not betray me, we are all a loving family. But if they join the Root, with the restrictions of being caged birds and the control of the tongue eradication technique, will they still listen to my orders like they do now?

And when Danzo heard Hyuga Hiashi’s ungrateful answer, he became even more furious. I’m a former Hokage who has silently contributed decades to Konoha… his assistant, current advisor, and future Hokage personally visited you, a junior, and you are so shameless that you put on airs in front of me. What do you mean by “you’ll consider it”?

Thinking of this, Danzo directly made a bombshell: “Haha, I’m afraid that Chief Hiashi doesn’t know that someone is planning to take advantage of the bird in the cage.”

When Hinata Hiashi heard this, he was surprised at first that someone was thinking of unlocking the caged bird. Then he was furious. Which idiot from the branch family was so bold as to dare to take the caged bird?

But in the end, Hyuga Hiashi regained his composure. Let him try to catch the bird in the cage. Over the years, there have been more than one or two geniuses from the branch family who have thought and done this. Has anyone made any progress?

This is an internal matter and can be investigated slowly later, but now in front of Danzo, I cannot lose my composure as the head of the most powerful clan in the ninja world.

Hyuga Hiashi smiled at Danzo with aristocratic grace, at least to give Danzo a sense of strength that I am not panicking, I have the confidence. My Hyuga clan is the strongest clan in the ninja world, and you, a past-time Hokage assistant, cannot control it.

Danzo was not in a hurry. He reached out and took a sip of the teacup, then said calmly: “The one who led this matter is Orochimaru.”

Then Hyuga Hiashi lost his composure. He couldn’t remain calm. Even though Hyuga Hiashi had confidence in his own caged bird, he was still unsure when facing Orochimaru.

Because, as the patriarch of the Hyuga clan, Hyuga Hiashi knew that the greatest power of the caged bird lies in the soul. The caged bird is different from ordinary sealing techniques. It is a curse that combines both the soul and the body.

Even the Uzumaki clan’s ninjas who are skilled in sealing techniques cannot break the bird in the cage.

But Orochimaru is different. Intelligence shows that Orochimaru once studied soul-related ninjutsu. If Orochimaru is really in charge, then it is not impossible for the bird in the cage to be freed.