Chapter 490 The Nine-Tailed Plan is launched!
Thanks for the reward from the Spear of Deathly Thorns!
After sorting out the general idea, Shiro sent a message to Orochimaru, asking him to help pay attention when studying the Impure World Reincarnation to see if he could find one or two sword masters. If he couldn't find one this way, he would have to think of a new way.
Thinking of this, Shiro stood up and devoted himself to the experiment again.
As for Souji's matter, there is no need to rush. Anyway, his current swordsmanship level is not higher than Shiro's, so he can still be guided.
Besides, it is not an easy task for Souji to complete his current training.
Two days ago, an identical field was opened up again next to Kakashi's training ground. Of course, only the appearance was the same, and this one did not have any clones or other techniques.
It was just a normal venue, and it didn't look like a mysterious place that could rapidly improve one's strength. Seeing this, Souji couldn't help but look at Shiro in confusion.
He touched Souji's puzzled head, and when Souji frowned, he said, "Don't be confused, this is the field where you will train next. Just as you can see, this field is very ordinary, there is nothing special or mysterious about it.
But isn't it the same for you? Souji, you've already chosen the path ahead. Now you just need to keep walking on it, striving to constantly expand it as you keep moving forward, so that you can go further! This is your path to becoming stronger, there are no shortcuts."
Listening to Shiro's words, Souji's frown, which was caused by Shiro's actions, gradually relaxed. He lowered his head to look at the sword in his hand, and tightened his grip involuntarily.
Then, he looked up at Shiro, his eyes full of determination: "Teacher, what should I do? Please teach me!"
"It's simple. See that stone?" Shiro raised his right hand, which was touching Souji's head, and pointed at the stone in the middle of the field. "Split it! That's your next task!"
"This..." Zongsi hesitated for a moment, not because it was too difficult, but because it was too simple. He could have done this kind of thing three years ago.
Seeing the confusion on Souji's face, Shiro couldn't help but smile, "Why? You think it's easy, huh?"
Souji was silent for a moment, thinking about how to respond appropriately. After all, he wanted his teacher to train him, and he couldn't let him lose face.
Without thinking for long, Souji spoke hesitantly, "Teacher, I have practiced the wind chakra transformations you taught me. Now, cutting through rocks is no longer a difficult task for me."
"Is that so? But what I want is to cut this stone without using chakra! It doesn't matter if you use technique or brute force, as long as you don't use chakra in the process, you will have completed this stage of training!"
"How is this possible?!"
To break rocks, if chakra can be used, then even without the change of wind style, Souji can easily cut rocks by simply relying on chakra to enhance the body. Even steel only needs a little wind style chakra.
However, these are all based on chakras. If you don’t use chakras, it will be difficult!
Just look at the Iron Kingdom and you'll see that the reason the new-style samurai were able to quickly surpass the traditional samurai was because they had a more profound use of chakra, and now Shiro actually asked him to give up.
"What? You don't believe it?" Looking at Souji's shocked face, Shiro smiled and shook his head, "Just watch."
After saying that, Shiro projected a katana Noble Phantasm, put it aside with his backhand, then drew the sword from Taiyi's waist, stepped forward, bent into a bow stance, and then swung it quickly!
Then, under Souji's astonished gaze, a thin line quickly "floated" out from the path where Shiro had just swung his sword, then passed over the boulder and cut through trees dozens of meters away! It chopped down two trees in total, and although the third one didn't fall, the cut was already halfway through!
This was the first time that Souji had seen such a thing. Without using any chakra, relying on pure swordsmanship, he could do such an incredible thing.
Souji was certain that what had just happened was definitely not done by brute force. If it were done by brute force, there would have been a lot of noise when the sword was swung, and the slash would have given people the feeling of "rushing" out rather than "floating" out.
In other words, this is a technology
Souji frowned tightly. The scene he just saw was absolutely subversive to him!
All along, the education he received emphasized the importance of chakra. Even in physical skills, chakra training was required. The only difference was that physical skills did not rely much on or consume much chakra.
But it still cannot get rid of chakra. It can even be said that physical skills without chakra are rubbish!
Countless ninjas had proven this before, but now, he saw this extremely destructive scene.
After a brief shock, Souji came back to his senses, and blankly pulled out the sword that Shiro had inserted in front of him, walked silently to the boulder, and imitated Shiro's previous action to cut it out.
Then retract, strike out again, retract again, and repeat this process.
As the movements became more and more proficient, the doubts in my heart increased, and my brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Shiro watched for a while, and when he saw that Souji was on the right track, he turned and left. This was not a solution. He could give Souji guidance on the general direction with the help of his Noble Phantasm, but he couldn't help him much with the basics. He still had to think of a specific way out.
On the other side, while Shiro and Orochimaru were actively studying the Sharingan, Minato also launched the first phase of the "New Nine-Tails Plan", which was to hunt down some members of the Akatsuki organization!
This stage is newly added. Although they were not arrogant before, they still had the necessary confidence. With the strength of Konoha in a few years, unless Akatsuki and the four major countries go all out, they will not be at all inferior!
But now it’s different. It’s not just because Shiro is missing, but there is also a powerful opponent. Although they don’t know how strong that opponent is, since Shiro is so cautious, it means that he is definitely not an easy opponent.
Moreover, this also involves the people they value most, so they cannot ignore it. Therefore, they will plan for the worst case scenario. Therefore, they must first weaken the Akatsuki organization. They are a little stronger now.
The first ones listed as targets were Akatsuki Yu-nv and Akatsuki Nan-dou, because these two were a new partnership and did not cooperate very well, so they were relatively easy to deal with.
The most hostile undead duo is ranked farther back because they have a very good understanding of each other, making it more difficult to launch a hunting operation.
Moreover, these two people have many ways to save their lives, and there is no guarantee that the hunt will be successful. In the end, it may be time-consuming and laborious. Instead of doing this, it is better to focus on Yu Nan and the other two who also often carry out tasks outside.
At the same time, one of the reasons for choosing them as targets was that they had already collected almost all the information about these two people.
The Jade Maiden of Akatsuki, Scorpion, the rebel ninja of Sand Village, took advantage of the Third Kazekage's trust in her by chance and attacked and killed the Third Kazekage. The reason is unknown. She is good at puppetry, especially human puppets!
Nanto of Akatsuki, Han Yumingshan, the rebel ninja of Kirigakure, is a ninja who has mastered the Crystal Style Bloodline Limit. He was originally a Chunin of Kirigakure, but in his early years suffered from battlefield syndrome, killed his teammates and defected. His actual strength is roughly at the level of an elite Jonin!
This is the goal of this operation. Judging from these two people, the strength of Akatsuki should not be underestimated, because according to intelligence, these two people have just joined.
The new member who just joined has such strength, which shows how ambitious the Akatsuki organization is!
Of course, with such a powerful opponent, Konoha will naturally not be too bad either.
First of all, the team was led by Hyuga Hizashi, the head of the Hyuga clan's branch family, who represented the Hyuga family to assist the village in completing this task!
The Hyuga clan, which has always been extremely indifferent, intervened in this matter not because they were ready to completely integrate into the village like the Uchiha clan, and they didn't need to.
The Hyuga clan's involvement this time was related to Scorpion. That guy is now extremely obsessed with human puppets and has achieved a high level of accomplishment! Some time ago, he captured a member of the Hyuga branch alive.
I don’t know what means he used, but he almost succeeded in deceiving the bird in the cage and taking away the white eyes!
Although it failed in the end, it also served as a wake-up call to the elders of the clan. Times are changing and the bird in the cage is not as unbreakable as before.
Finally, after a heated debate, Hiashi persuaded the elders of the main family and decided that as in the past, Hiashi, who belonged to the branch family, would apply to carry out this mission. The first element of the mission was to seize the technology of the Jade Girl of Akatsuki that could deceive the bird in the cage.
But who can guarantee that they can definitely get this thing?
Therefore, it is understandable that if the technology fails or is damaged due to "unexpected circumstances" during the mission,
Minato knew exactly what Hinata was thinking, but he didn't intend to interfere. Since Hinata wanted to go, let them go. This would be safer.
The team members are composed of elite jonin Nakamura, elite jonin Uchiha Taichi, special jonin Might Dai, chuunin Hatake Kakashi and low-level ninja Maru Hoshikosuke.
At the same time, a team of Anbu accompanied them.
This configuration is enough to show how much Minato and his men value Akatsuki!
You have to know that for an ordinary small country, this kind of team is completely useless. Although Yu Nan and the other two are stronger than the small country, that's all. The more difficult ones are nothing more than an unknown number of human puppets.
But against this kind of lineup, unless all the bloodline ninjas in Kirigakure are turned into human puppets, we can only pray for God's help.
(End of this chapter)
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