Escape From Konoha

Inside the dank cave, surrounded by huge entangled trees, a figure sat motionless on a chair made of trees.

His eyes were open in the darkness, revealing a scarlet light.

Not long after, a pale humanoid creature with a swirling face appeared in front of him.

It was Bai Jue named Ah Fei.

"How's it going?"

Madara stared at Fei with his scarlet Sharingan and asked how the situation was over there.

Ah Fei scratched his head, originally wanting Madara to praise him for repelling the enemy, but seeing Madara's stern expression, Ah Fei did not dare to act weird at this time, so he replied seriously: "Although he is not a powerful guy, But his ability to be difficult to deal with was top-notch, so they accidentally ran away.”

"Have you found out the other party's details?"

Madara calmed down and wanted to know which village's ninja the person who attacked him was.

He had to figure out who had discovered his existence.

"According to the existing intelligence, the other party does not seem to be within the system of the five major countries, and it is not human. One is a huge rock monster, and the other is a huge water snake, which is more like a psychic beast than a human being."

"In other words, does it mean that there is still a master messenger behind it?"

After Madara said this, he fell into deep thought.

Ah Fei nodded silently. Although he didn't notice the existence of the mastermind behind the scenes, this possibility is very high.

"Bai Jue, you told me before that some ninjas from the Uchiha clan defected to Konoha, so there must be such a thing."

"Yes, Madara-sama."

Bai Jue came here and said.

"Before this, all the White Zetsu sent to Konoha were wiped out. After that, you entered Konoha to investigate safely. Isn't this true?"

Bai Jue nodded, it was indeed as Madara said.

All the Baijue who were sent to infiltrate the Uchiha Clan before mysteriously disappeared.

It wasn't until Uchiha defected that things turned around.

The corners of Madara's mouth raised slightly, showing a hint of a smile, and murmured in a low voice: "It's really interesting, if it's a coincidence, even I don't believe it."

There are too many elements of coincidence, which can no longer be explained clearly by coincidence.

The other party must have discovered his existence.

It's just that he probably hasn't determined his identity yet.

"Madara-sama, what do you mean?"

Bai Zetsu seemed to understand Madara's intention.

"Although we can't be sure, the part of the ninja who defected to Konoha is the most suspect."

"Want to go explore Konoha again?"

"No, there is such a big incident, but there is no news in Konoha. It is obvious that Konoha wants to minimize the impact of this defection. The information of those people must be top secret, and only high-level officials can intervene. Then This kind of place is not something you can sneak in at will."

Madara shook his head and rejected Bai Zetsu's proposal.

He knew Konoha's defense system very well.

The external perception barrier is only to prevent foreign enemies from invading, and to formulate corresponding tactics in time to eliminate the enemy.

However, the information room and defense system of the intelligence department and the Hokage's senior management only existed independently, which was very different from his past days in Konoha.

It's not a big problem to sneak in with the abilities of Bai Jue and others, but how to get out is a problem.

Konoha Anbe was still fatal to Bai Zee.

If Konoha is caught, he will study Baijue's structure and reveal his secrets.

At this critical moment, Madara didn't want to cause any complications.

"Then how do we do it? Create more Baijue and protect the surroundings?"

Bai Jue became distressed.

"Of course, I still have a lot of Hashirama's power left here. I plan to use the sacred tree and Hashirama's flesh to create a few more special individuals. In the previous battle, the opponent may have come here to find out. Once we figure out our strength, next time it will not be so easy to dismiss, but give our side a fatal blow."

Madara had this strong premonition.

"No wonder they retreated after fighting." Ah Fei was a little disappointed.

"That's just one aspect, Fei, your information has been leaked. Now both of us have exposed part of our trump cards, but neither of us knows what other killer cards the other has."

"So that means, we also have an advantage here?"

Bai Juezhen really thought so.

"No, we are at a huge disadvantage."

"Eh?"

"Idiot, being able to find this place proves that your past whereabouts have been mastered by the enemy. That child named Uchiha Obito must also know your purpose. To make matters worse, Nagato might also be exposed What. I remember that Bai Ze, who was sent to monitor Nagato before, disappeared suddenly once."

Madara gave Bai Zetsu a cold look.

Hearing Madara say this, cold sweat broke out on Bai Zetsu's back.

It is completely unimaginable that so many important things have been exposed on my side.

Obito is okay to say, because it is not a necessity, but Nagato is Madara's most important chess piece, and there must be no accidents there.

"Then... Madara-sama, what shall we do next?"

Bai Jue was completely flustered now. The reason why they were so calm before was because they were completely in the dark and it was not easy for others to notice.

Once it is noticed, and part of the purpose is figured out, this is undoubtedly the worst.

If the other party plans to do something to those two sides, with the strength of Bai Jue and A Fei, it is difficult to take care of it at all.

Besides, we have to pay attention to Madara's safety.

Although the other party has not figured out their situation yet, as long as they continue to test like this, sooner or later, they will be found out.

Then... it will be really dangerous.

"Original plan."

"ah?"

"But put out a few more smoke bombs."

"How many more?"

"Send Bai Jue to the rest of Ninja Village, pretending to search for information, conspiring or something. Confused their sight and attention."

"is this okay?"

"You have to do it even if you don't. It will take me some time to train a new White Zetsu. In addition, unless something big goes wrong, don't hang around here. Your actions will expose my whereabouts. You go to other places and fake Make a stronghold, bury a large number of detonating symbols there, and if the enemy passes by, it will be detonated directly."

Madara gave the order coldly.

As for whether the exploded stronghold will endanger the lives of Bai Jue, Madara doesn't care at all.

These guys are consumables like tools.

Naturally, Bai Jue has no objection. For them, if one Bai Jue falls, there will be thousands of Bai Jue. Life and death are not a problem at all.

"What about your safety, Madara-sama?"

"Then I will enter the inside of the sacred tree and hide. When necessary, I will use the power of the sacred tree to fight."

Although he was feeling aggrieved, Madara could only think of this solution at the moment.

"But in that case, your vitality..."

"Hashirama's piece of flesh contains powerful vitality, and it can still be used."

This is also impossible.

Even if it was just in case, he didn't want to sit here and wait for death.

Although the situation was not favorable for him, it was not at the end of his rope.

As long as there were no problems on Nagato's side, he had nothing to worry about.

Next, it depends on the other party's reaction.

In this way, he can think of corresponding ways to deal with these people based on their reactions.

Seeing that Madara had made up his mind, Bai Jue knew that no matter what he said next, he would not be able to dissuade Madara from changing his will.

"A Fei, you are also acting together. I don't need your protection here. Your protection is just exposure to me."

A Fei nodded.

With the help of Hashirama's cells and the power of the sacred tree, although Madara's power will not be restored to its prime and his vitality will decline, fighting in a short period of time is still not a problem.

Even if Madara is weak, not just anyone can tease the tiger's beard.

And what Madara said was right. The White Zetsus were operating around Madara here, but they were only exposing Madara's position. Other than that, they couldn't do anything else.

The other party's stealth and hiding abilities are obviously much higher than Bai Jue's.

"What are you going to do next, this guy with unknown origins..."

Madara's Sharingan looked deep into the darkness, sitting on a wooden chair and muttering.

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Returning to the Ghost Country will be a week later.

It took Shiraishi a lot of time to master the arcane medical ninjutsu of Senjutsu and Life Regeneration.

Time and time again, he used Shadow Dancer's Shadow Blade to seriously injure himself, and then continued to experiment with the healing power of this medical ninjutsu.

Although it is impossible to achieve Muji, Shiraishi believes that if he continues to become proficient, it will only be a matter of time before Muji can perform this medical ninjutsu.

The only problem is that performing this jutsu requires a lot of senjutsu chakra.

After these years of growth, there is no need to worry about natural energy. You only need to absorb it casually, and you can absorb the inexhaustible natural energy from nature.

The amount of chakra has always been Shiraishi's shortcoming.

It just happened to reach the average level of jounin chakra, maybe slightly lower.

His ninjutsu is basically used at critical moments. The ninjutsu he uses are basically auxiliary ninjutsu with low consumption and high practicality.

In addition, as you continue to create clones, you don't need to improve your own strength. You just need to improve the clone's ability and then feed it back to yourself.

Even if he fuses with Shadow Dancer and can borrow chakra from Shadow Dancer, he cannot perform multiple senjutsu and life regeneration medical ninjutsu.

Taking the injured person who is in a dying state as an example, three to four times is the limit.

Therefore, how to improve chakra and integrate it with natural energy to produce more magical chakra is the next problem Shiraishi has to solve.

"Zibo, do you know how to greatly increase the amount of chakra of a ninja?"

As a living creature who has witnessed the existence of history, he must know many secrets in the ninja world that Shiraishi does not know.

For example, treasures and methods to enhance chakra.

Following Shiraishi to the Kingdom of Ghosts was a small clone of the living dragon, about the size of an ordinary house cat, lying softly on Shiraishi's shoulders.

Hearing Shiraishi's question, the living beetle replied: "The refining of chakra is related to one's physical fitness and natural aptitudes. Because of their excellent bloodlines, blood successor ninjas have excellent chakra." Ninjas are generally much higher than ordinary ninjas. Master Shiraishi is not a ninja with the blood inheritance limit, so he can only start with foreign objects."

"Foreign object?"

"For example, existences such as tailed beasts become jinchuriki. As far as I know, if a tailed beast can be honest with the humans who host it, then it will become a perfect jinchuriki, and humans can control the chakra of the tailed beast level at will. .”

"Tailed beasts are an important force held by the five major countries to deter other countries. It would be very troublesome to disturb those beings."

It’s not that it’s impossible, but the follow-up processing is troublesome.

The power of the ninja villages of the five major countries is too strong. No matter how they fight each other, it is their internal matter, and they will never allow outsiders to intervene in their division of interests.

With the technological level of the current era, there are only so many resources available. The five major countries naturally need the best, followed by neutral countries, and those who get the worst are the small countries.

Especially for small countries like the Country of Grass and the Country of Rain, which are sandwiched between big countries, their situation is even more worrying.

"Tailed beasts are not exclusive to the five major nations. During the first Five Kage Conference, Senju Hashirama gave a tailed beast to the village of Takigakure in the country of Taki, which does not belong to the ranks of the five major nations."

"Is that the village hidden by the waterfall? I have indeed heard about it. Because of the remote geographical environment, it has rarely been affected by the ninja wars of the five major countries, and the domestic situation is relatively stable."

It is also one of the best ninja villages among the five major countries, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

"Yes. In addition to the tailed beasts, this ninja village also has something called hero water. After a ninja takes it, it can greatly increase chakra."

"There is also this magical prop."

Shiraishi pondered.

He knew that there were tailed beasts in Takigakure Village, but this was the first time he heard about the Heroic Water.

"I don't recommend Mr. Shiraishi to use this. The amplification ability of Hero Water is indeed very strong, but it will swallow up the user's vitality. Although the amplification ability is strong, the side effects are also extremely obvious."

Shiraishi's enthusiasm for the Hero's Water gradually diminished due to the words of the living beetle.

But the interest is still there. It is completely feasible to find an opportunity to contact the ninjas of Takigakure Village and exchange some valuable water for some hero water to come back and study it.

"Besides, is there any way to increase chakra?"

"The power of Loulan's dragon vein."

"Loulan? I remember that place is within the Kingdom of Wind, a place known as a country within a country, but I heard it seems to have declined."

Shiraishi fell into thought.

"Yes. The power of Loulan's dragon veins is actually the veins of the earth. It is a special chakra formed by the gathering of natural energy of the earth. Based on Mr. Baishi's understanding of natural energy, the special chakra that tames the dragon veins should also be It’s not difficult.”

The living beetle said so.

"What's the total amount of energy?"

"Although the power of dragon veins has dried up a lot compared to ancient times, it should be easy to reach the tailed beast level."

The living creature continues to provide information to Shiraishi.

Shiraishi nodded. The tailed beast's chakra was enough for him to use all kinds of magical techniques. In many cases, the lack of chakra would not lead to disadvantages in battle.

And the most important thing is that Sunagakure Village in the Kingdom of Wind is now fighting Konoha. The domestic defense level will increase, but the overall strength left in the Kingdom of Wind will decrease.

At this time, it is indeed a good time to sneak into the Kingdom of Wind to take away the power of dragon veins.

After all, Shiraishi still attaches great importance to tailed beast level chakra.

With chakra of this magnitude, the clone's combat effectiveness will also rise to a higher level.

Therefore, Baishi immediately made the decision to go to the Kingdom of Loulan to find the power of the dragon vein mentioned in the mouth of the living creature and use it.

Baishi walked to the window and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw the scene outside the window and was stunned for a moment.

"What's the matter, Master Shiraishi?"

Seeing Bai Shi frozen in place, the living beetle asked doubtfully.

It looked in the direction Shiraishi was looking at and found nothing strange.

At this moment, an intelligence worker wearing a black windbreaker with an aster symbol embroidered on the back knocked on the door and came in.

"Sir Shiraishi, this is the latest information compiled by the intelligence department. Please take a look."

When he put down the materials and was about to leave, Shiraishi immediately asked the staff member: "What happened in the past few days since I left? I remember that there was a mountain in that direction. Why is the mountain suddenly gone now?"

Shiraishi pointed to a mountain range that could be seen outside the window. The top of one of the mountains disappeared as if someone had cut out a piece of it.

Shiraishi remembered clearly that before he left, the top of this mountain was still alive. Why did it suddenly disappear after he went out?

He probably didn't ask the construction team to start work there.

The staff member stiffened for a moment and said hesitantly: "Well... Mr. Shiraishi would be better off asking those two adults."

I'm just a messenger, I don't want to get involved in such a dangerous incident. The staff was very nervous.

It is too dangerous to intervene in the family affairs of these adults at will.

After saying that, the staff quickly fled the office, not daring to stay here for another second.

"..."

Are you so terrible? Bai Shi was puzzled.

But what does this have to do with Liuli and Ayane?

Shiraishi walked to the desk, picked up the various information handed over by the staff, and began to read it.

One of the pieces of information caught Shiraishi's attention.

"A white guy who knows wood escape?"

Shiraishi murmured.

The source of this information was identified by General Tu and his water clone, Water Dragon God.

Looking for the lair of those white creatures, I encountered a white creature with a swirling face that could use powerful wood escape.

It introduces the battle in detail, as well as the power and abilities displayed by the enemy.

It was eventually concluded that the swirl-faced creatures were very dangerous enemies.

In regular team encounters, the main focus is to escape, not to fight.

Finally, pictures of Uzumaki Face and the rest of the white creatures are attached.

"Lord Shiraishi, these guys are..."

The live snake clung to Shiraishi's shoulder and naturally saw this information. After seeing the picture of the swirling face and the white creature, its tone was full of surprise.

"They are members of a mysterious force that I care about. This force is very concerned about Konoha and Uchiha. I want to find out what their purpose is. What, live snake, do you know these strange creatures?"

Shiraishi asked.

"It's not a question of whether we know each other, Mr. Shiraishi, is this information really true?"

asked the living beetle.

The caution in his tone made Shiraishi slightly startled.

After knowing her for so many days, it was the first time that he felt the seriousness of Huobi.

"It's true. I still have several corpse samples in my laboratory."

Shiraishi told the living snake the answer accurately.

“I didn’t expect that there are still remnants of this era.”

"this era?"

Judging from the meaning of the live snake, it seems that this kind of creature is not a product of this era.

"Lord Shiraishi, I have told you about the sacred tree before."

"Ah, tell me the secret that the sacred tree used to absorb the natural energy of nature and convert it into chakra."

Shiraishi nodded.

"These white creatures are humans from ancient times."

"Humanity?"

Shiraishi looked surprised.

He has dissected this white creature many times, and he has mastered its internal physiological system. Not to mention humans, there is no match for it among the known species in the ninja world today.

"This kind of white creature is collectively called Bai Jue. It is a living soldier created by the sacred tree using ancient humans. After a series of twists and turns, these guys gradually disappeared. I thought they had all been wiped out, but I didn't expect that they would be here." Emerge in this era.”

Living soldiers forged from the sacred tree? Shiraishi was surprised.

I always feel that the secrets of ancient times are more exciting than I imagined.

"The white creatures I captured before were all very weak. This time, this guy with the whirlpool face can easily suppress the senjutsu forms of my two clones with one person. It seems that there are also powerful individuals here. .”

"The power of the Ten-Tails of the Divine Tree is unpredictable. It is the origin of chakra in the ninja world."

The living creature said solemnly.

"So, living beetle, why do you think these living soldiers called Bai Jue awakened in this era?"

Shiraishi wants to know the connection.

"I don't know much about it. It was the Sage of Six Paths who suppressed the sacred tree. I was not involved in that battle. The one at Mount Miaomu may know a little bit about it. It has a life-and-death relationship with the Sage of Six Paths. But I don't recommend that Mr. Shiraishi go there now. Mt. Myoki looks for answers.”

Shiraishi nodded slightly.

Judging from the series of behaviors supported by Konoha by Miaomu Mountain, as well as the warnings from Maitreya, it seems that he and this place are naturally at odds.

The reason why I can get the support of the living dragon is because the living dragon sees everything in this world indifferently.

Earthly power, wealth, and strength have no attraction for it.

On the contrary, Miaomu Mountain, which is also a holy land, has been interfering excessively in the human world and has unfathomable prophetic abilities.

Being on top determines the fate of mankind.

This kind of detached attitude of interfering with the development laws of all things with a predetermined destiny made Shiraishi feel extremely unhappy, and he had an inexplicable urge to crush it.

"Now that the matter has surfaced, we just need to follow the clues."

"Lord Shiraishi, it's better to be careful. Shiro can never run out on his own. There must be a magician behind the scenes. Once the sacred tree awakens again, the world is likely to perish. Before that, the people behind the scenes will definitely collect the tail... …”

It's not that the living dragon doesn't believe in Baishi's ability, but the existence of the sacred tree is too dangerous, so it is necessary to remind him to avoid being careless and underestimating the enemy.

Just when the living beetle reminded Shiraishi, the office door suddenly opened.

There was no knock on the door.

The two people opened the door directly and entered.

"Master Shiraishi, I am reminding you very seriously, please don't act like it doesn't matter. Maybe the world will be in chaos."

Seeing that Shiraishi didn't listen to what it said, the living beetle sounded helpless.

"..."

It's not that Shiraishi didn't realize the seriousness of what the living snake said.

But when he saw Ruri with a cold face and Ayane with a fake smile, when they both came in, Shiraishi realized the tension and depression in the atmosphere.

The temperature of the air dropped instantly.

It's like the dead of winter at the end of January, bitingly cold.

Baishi didn't know if the world would be in chaos. If he hadn't handled family affairs well before this, he might have been crushed by these two people today.

What happened to these two people during the days he left?

Thinking that he had just seen the top of a mountain disappear strangely, and the staff's hesitant gesture without daring to explain, Shiraishi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

That mountain top disappeared, couldn't it be caused by the two of them?