After Black Zetsu left the Hidden Mist Village, he used White Zetsu to perform the Mayfly Technique and headed underground towards the Rain Country.

When he entered the sea area of ​​​​Yukō no Kuni and was about to land, he was suddenly thrown from underground into the sea. He then discovered that the body of the White Zetsu he was inhabiting was slowly turning into a tree and was about to die.

Black Zetsu said with disdain: "What bad luck! I really don't want to work with that chatterbox who wants to shit all the time, so I picked someone who can't talk, but he's gone so soon."

After checking, Black Zetsu discovered that White Zetsu's chakra was about to be exhausted and it needed to rest.

Black Zetsu was even more depressed and complained: "Sure enough, the time to awaken the outer shell of the sacred tree is too short. These inferior White Zetsu without intelligence will need at least 15 years to recover before they can regain the characteristics of immortality."

“We must find the roots of the sacred tree as soon as possible and hang it there to replenish its energy.”

Black Zetsu remembered that there was a White Zetsu warehouse not far away. It was a huge cave formed by the shrinkage of the roots of the sacred tree after it broke apart a thousand years ago. The key was that there was still a small section of active roots left.

The reason why White Zetsu has been able to remain intact for thousands of years is because of the continuous maintenance of active tree roots remaining in various parts of the ninja world.

Black Zetsu decided to go there to replace White Zetsu and check the precious White Zetsu stock.

He turned into a layer of black shadow, covering the surface of White Zetsu, which was looking more and more like a sapling. He wrapped White Zetsu and merged into the shadow, gliding continuously in the shadow, moving towards the warehouse in his memory.

There are densely packed hot spring veins there. The 180-degree hot spring is the best nutrient for the broken roots of the sacred tree. It is very suitable for the revival of the sacred tree and also for White Zetsu to speed up the awakening process.

…

Under the questioning of the master, Goji Yagura's breathing became heavy, his face was flushed, and bloodshot gradually appeared in his eyes.

How could he give up hatred, especially the hatred for his parents' murder?

As a son, Karuta Yagura could never choose to forgive.

After a long time, he finally regained his composure and stared at Master Yuan with red eyes.

Karajima Yagura said word by word: "I will kill every ninja who competes with me for the position of Mizukage today, and kill their families."

"But I promise that I will not expand the scope of killing indefinitely. I will leave enough bloodline limit seeds."

"I promise!"

"I guarantee it with my son and my soon-to-be-born grandson!"

After hearing the assurance from Goji Yagura, Master Yuan relaxed greatly.

He sat down slowly, smiled and said, "Revenge is human nature. I am satisfied that you can honestly tell me how many people you want to kill. This shows that you have no intention of lying to me."

"Karoju Yagura, I believe in you."

"I leave the children and the future of the Hidden Mist Village in your hands."

The redness in Goji Yagura's eyes slowly faded away. He lowered his head gratefully and said sincerely, "Thank you for your trust."

The Master shook his head and said, "No need to thank me. The old man has a request: the fifth generation cannot be your son or your grandson."

Karuju Yagura raised his hands, smiled bitterly and said, "Haha, Master Yuanshi, please rest assured. It's really impossible."

"Since I want revenge, I don't know how many people I have to kill, and they are all important figures of the ninja clan. With so much hatred accumulated on them, if my descendants still dare to aspire to the position of Mizukage, they will be courting death."

"It's not that extreme. As long as you do a good job and help the fifth generation to succeed smoothly, I think the seventh generation is not out of the question."

"I hope there will be such a day." Karuji Yagura murmured with emotion.

Then he looked at the Master and put forward his new request, "Master, although my current strength is stronger than Kaguya and Kizuna, it is not strong enough to crush them."

"Without absolutely powerful strength, it will take a long time to defeat the three major families, and the price we have to pay will be very high..."

"So, I want more power."

He looked at the Master and asked sincerely, "Master, can the research on the Tailed Beast Seal be put to practical use?"

The Master shook his head.

Karuju Yagura sighed with regret, it really wasn't possible.

In fact, this is normal. The three major ninja clans occupy too many resources, which have now reached 90% of the income of the Hidden Mist Village. After deducting the part for basic operations and supporting ninjas, how much can be used for research?

Without the investment of money, materials and personnel, the research on sealing the tailed beasts made no progress. When the Whirlpool Country was destroyed, all the sealing techniques information that was looted was wasted.

Karatachi Yagura was indeed a suitable leader. He quickly abandoned this extravagant hope and said with a smile: "Forget it, if there is no tailed beast, then there is no need. Victory still belongs to us."

"When I become the Fourth Mizukage, let me increase the research investment and create the Tailed Beast Jinchuriki as soon as possible."

"Konoha is first, Sunagakure is second, Iwagakure is third, and now Kumogakure has come from behind and succeeded in creating a stronger perfect Jinchūriki. We, Kirigakure, cannot fall behind anymore."

Don't be proud when you win, and don't be discouraged when you lose.

Even in adversity, still imagine the future.

The performance of Goju Yagura made the master extremely satisfied. Except for not getting discouraged after defeat, he failed in everything else. What was even worse was that he lacked the courage to make decisions on the spot. He was not born to be a leader.

Otherwise, after the death of the Second Mizukage, Hozuki Gengetsu, how could the Snow Clan take the position of the Third Mizukage? He, the Yuanshi, would be the rightful successor.

It looks good now. The Third Mizukage is the same as the Second Mizukage. Although he was born into a great ninja clan, as a Mizukage he was impartial and made his own contribution to the development of the Hidden Mist Village.

Now it seems that the greatest contribution of the Third Mizukage should be the disciples he trained.

There is hope for the future of the Hidden Mist Village.

The defeat of the Hidden Mist Village on the battlefield finally triggered the final chaos within the ninja village. From the bloody battles and deaths every night, it quickly turned into fierce battles day and night.

The Hidden Mist Village temporarily withdrew from the Ninja World War.

…

Black Zetsu carried White Zetsu with him, gliding through the shadows and approaching White Zetsu's warehouse step by step.

When he quickly reached the warehouse along the cracks in the rocks, he fell into the water again. The splashing water and violent impact made Black Zetsu a little dazed.

He couldn't help but doubt himself, wondering if he had taken the wrong path and dived into the hot spring water vein nearby?

Black Zetsu saw a White Zetsu floating in the water, proving that he was not in the wrong place. This was indeed his White Zetsu warehouse, it was just flooded.

This shouldn't be the case. Every passage here was drilled out by the roots of the sacred tree. The cave walls that look like rocks are all secretions of the sacred tree. They are absolutely tight and guarantee 100% sealing.

The remaining roots of the sacred tree need hot springs, and they absorb the heat of the hot springs through this layer of protection, rather than absorbing any water and minerals.

The sacred tree is a true miracle. It is a pure energy life form cultivated by the Otsutsuki clan. It does not need any external substances to replenish itself. It only needs energy.

Even Black Zetsu had to go in and out of the warehouse through the gaps that were deliberately left there. How did the water get in?

Don’t we know when an earthquake occurs and new cracks appear?

The puzzled Black Zetsu looked everywhere for the White Zetsu he had left behind, and quickly patrolled the entire underground space at an unimaginable speed, checking each root along the caves at the roots of the sacred tree.

The more he examined, the more frightened Black Zetsu became.

This water is not natural water. Although the chakras and chakra-transformed water contained in it have dissipated a lot, its concentration is still hundreds of times that of natural water.

This proves that this water was driven by ninjutsu and used as material for ninjutsu.

Black Zetsu even imagined a terrible situation. Could it be that someone attacked this secret warehouse using water jutsu?

Not long after, he found the real reason.

That standard cylindrical vertical cave that Uchiha You dug using the natural energy of earth spirits.

Black Zetsu stood at the bottom of the cave, looked up, and actually saw a round sky. He knew that this was also man-made.

Black Zetsu clenched his teeth, and his two rows of snow-white teeth made a creaking sound. He growled in a half-fearful and half-angry voice: "Who is it? Who flooded my warehouse?"

No one answered his question.

"Is that you? Yuyi..."

Black Zetsu even thought that maybe the Six Paths Sage Otsutsuki Hagoromo had found this place, but he immediately denied this idea.

Whether it is the huge round hole in front of him or the huge amount of water that fills the bottom layer of the warehouse, although they are far beyond the limits of what humans can achieve, the gap between them and the power of Otsutsuki Hagoromo is still huge.

These two miraculous results can be achieved as long as one can reach Uchiha Madara's level in fire escape technique, or Senju Hashirama's level in wood escape technique, that is, one person can crush five thousand ninjas.

Thinking of this, Black Zetsu couldn't help but feel nervous. He said to himself in disbelief, "Could it be that two more super-standard ninjas have appeared in the ninja world?"

"This shouldn't be the case. Why didn't I know this?"

With this question in mind, Black Zetsu began to clean up the mess.

He first blocked the large vertical hole, then activated the White Zetsu on the bottom floor, letting them walk to the upper floor and hang themselves up again, and finally sealed the warehouse on the bottom floor that was filled with water.

After doing all this, Black Zetsu returned to the border between the Rain Country and the Fire Country, with a head full of doubts and guesses that became more and more frightening the more he thought about them, and returned to Uchiha Madara who was unable to move freely.

After finishing describing the journey, Black Zetsu couldn't help but ask Uchiha Madara his own questions.

"Who on earth made such a big move to flood the White Zetsu warehouse? How come the ninja world suddenly has two more powerful ninjas?"

Although Uchiha Madara was described as "naive" by Black Zetsu, that only meant that he was slow in politics, but in combat, ninjutsu and military affairs, Madara was a true expert.

He didn't even need to see it with his own eyes, just by listening to Black Zetsu's description, he could combine the local terrain and the recent intelligence sent by White Zetsu to infer the true facts.

Uchiha Madara looked at Black Zetsu with an idiotic eye, and said angrily: "Black Zetsu, are you really a product of my will? How can you be so stupid?"

"I'm not familiar with earth escape, so I don't know how to dig a circular hole, but the reason for water escape is too simple."

"Black Zetsu, have you ever thought that the water is the result of 5,000 or more ninjas using ninjutsu together?"

"ah?"

"You idiot, the one above that warehouse is Kubota Village! It was you who reported to me that Konoha and Kirigakure had a big battle there!"

"Of course, that water is the effect of the ninjutsu used by Kirigakure to attack the Konoha ninjas. That hole must have been dug by the Konoha ninjas to drain the floodwaters."

Uchiha Madara looked at the dumbfounded Black Zetsu. He became even angrier and pointed at Black Zetsu's head with his finger, complaining, "How can you be so stupid?"

"How can this reassure me? If I die, can you really carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan on my behalf?"

Black Zetsu suddenly came to his senses. As a thousand-year-old monster, he had naturally become thick-skinned and had no sense of shame at all.

He licked his face and laughed naturally, and said, "I am just a part of your will. How can I have the wisdom of Master Madara? You expect too much of me."

"The only thing I can do is to work diligently and faithfully to carry out the plan you set!"

After hearing what Black Zetsu said, Uchiha Madara's anger miraculously disappeared, and he even felt relieved and happy.

Black Zetsu is just a stand that I have to use out of necessity. Being a little stupid cannot be considered a disadvantage, but rather an advantage. As long as he can faithfully carry out my plan and help me resurrect in the best condition, everything will be enough.

If you are too smart, the risk of rebellion will be too great.

After all, he, Uchiha Madara, was going to die again.

…

The fighting in the southern battlefield of the western River Kingdom was neither fast nor slow, while the fighting in the northwestern Rain Kingdom was in full swing. Only the eastern Wave Kingdom and the Tang Kingdom were completely uneventful.

As the civil war in the Hidden Mist Village began, even the infiltration of single teams or even single ninjas stopped, but both sides of the civil war simultaneously strengthened patrols on the sea, desperately trying to strangle the ninjas from Konoha and Kumogakure.

None of them wanted the weakness of the civil war to be exposed.

But in the eyes of Orochimaru and the Third Raikage, their behavior sent a very dangerous signal. The feeling of "I am holding back a big move" was too strong.

In the Land of Hot Springs, as the mission progressed, the mountain bandits have been wiped out, and the wandering ninjas and the evil church have also disappeared.

In view of the dangerous situation of the Hidden Mist Village, Orochimaru adjusted the focus of the mission to the sea, using garrison and patrol missions to squeeze the Hidden Mist Village's sphere of influence, and using infiltration and stealing missions to strengthen the intelligence acquisition of the Hidden Mist Village.

Uchiha You resolutely refused the infiltration and stealth missions. It was too dangerous to sneak into the Hidden Mist Village alone, as he would die if he was discovered.

He also very much disliked patrol missions, as they were tiring and conspicuous, and it was easy for people to predict his movements and set traps in advance, so the danger level was still very high.

Uchiha You’s favorite task is to garrison on the island, which allows him to familiarize himself with the terrain in advance and offset the disadvantages of passive defense by setting traps and building fortifications.

The most important things are freedom and security.

As long as there is no large-scale enemy activity, Uchiha Yu and the Tiger Force can arrange their own time and will not be driven by fixed mission objectives.

If they were attacked on a small scale by the enemy, the Tiger Unit would naturally accept it as a gift. If it was a large-scale attack by the Kirigakure ninja, Uchiha Yu would lead the Tiger Unit to retreat.

He doesn't care about any mission punishment. Konoha Village will never execute a Konoha ninja just because of a failed mission.

The assassination by the Anbu ninja is no longer a threat to Uchiha You. All Shimura Danzo can do is spread rumors and discredit Uchiha You's reputation.

He is even less afraid of rumors because he was a local police officer in his previous life, and 90% of his working time was spent comforting the retired old ladies in the community.

As for the level of rumors in Konoha Village, it is not even a little bit worse than the level of rumors believed and spread by the old ladies in the community.

To be honest, spreading and processing rumors are also mental activities that require time and energy. The villagers of Konoha Village are so busy that they can only make ends meet. How can they have the leisure time like the retired old ladies?

Those old ladies have higher monthly pensions than him, they are in good health, enjoy eating, have received education above junior high school, and are very smart.

They gather together all day long and concentrate on three things: creating rumors, spreading rumors, and processing rumors, constantly creating a lot of work for community workers and district police.

In the last ten years before Uchiha You traveled through time, he was basically tormented by retired old ladies, which trained him to have a super big heart and he could ignore any scary words.

The rumors that had forced Hatake Sakumo to death were nothing to Uchiha Yuu:

"White Fang abandoned the mission to save his teammates, causing great losses to Konoha Village."

Is this a rumor?

Doesn’t it count?

This sentence is simple and straightforward. It is neither sensational nor fascinating, nor close to life. It doesn't even qualify as a headline in the UC Shock Department.

According to Uchiha You's common sense of rumors, more rumors will be spread next, such as:

"White Fang's mistake caused 90% of the ninja to suffer!"

"The Third Hokage said: I have never seen such a heavy loss in my life!!"

"Authoritative ninja revealed: Because of White Fang's mistake, the price of salt is about to skyrocket!!"

"White Fang's mistakes continue to ferment, and food prices are expected to increase once in a century!"

But... nothing.

Just when Uchiha You was wondering why the rumor took so long to brew, Hatake Sakumo committed suicide.

Uchiha You only then realized that it was not that the rumors were still brewing, but that the highest level of rumors in Konoha Village was just like this, plain and without any waves.

If Danzo used such rumors to deal with Uchiha Yu, he would definitely be able to remain calm, without even a breeze on his face.

It's easy and risk-free, Uchiha You likes this kind of mission the most.

He happily took on a large-scale garrison mission, and led the Tiger Troops to the sea, where they settled down with peace of mind.

The sea weather is cool in early spring, and the sunrise can be seen every day. Uchiha You absorbs the purple air on time, absorbs natural energy, sharpens his mental strength, calms his mind, and immerses himself in practice.