"Here we are, stop shouting!" Eight White Zetsu suddenly appeared from the ground.
Huh? Where did these white people come from? How come we didn't notice them before? This is really strange. Uchiha Mikoto looked at the eight White Zetsu who suddenly appeared with a look of surprise.
"Hurry up and act! My true power has been activated. Quickly lock this faint energy with me and don't let it disappear!" After saying that, Tianqi formed a hand seal, and instantly his hands emitted green light as he slapped them onto the stomach of the body lying on the stone platform.
The eight White Zetsu also emitted green light and continuously transmitted energy. The group worked together to stabilize the weak energy reaction and prevent it from disappearing.
After ten minutes of sustained effort, the faint energy finally stabilized, and the Ten-Tailed Fox, which had been dormant within Tianqi's body, slowly opened its eyes, unleashing a terrifying burst of energy.
An unparalleled aura emanated from the body lying on the stone platform, causing all the White Zetsu and Qian Yu to be blown back five steps by this aura. The Ten-Tails began to greedily absorb the natural energy.
What terrifying power! This is Father's true strength, it's truly frightening! Qianyu's forehead was covered in sweat, and she was also shocked by this power.
Tianqi watched as his true form slowly floated up, with a continuous stream of natural energy flowing into it. A long-lost smile finally appeared on his lips. With the Ten-Tails' powerful regenerative ability, he could recover his full strength in just two years. All his efforts over the years had finally paid off. That was wonderful.
"Mikoto, help Chiyu down to rest. I'll watch over things here!" Seeing Chiyu's trembling legs and sweat pouring down his forehead, Tianqi knew he was exhausted and immediately said to Mikoto.
"Okay, Uncle Tianqi!" Uchiha Mikoto helped Chiyu out of the basement.
"That's great, Tianqi! With so much natural energy, he'll definitely wake up in the next couple of days. All these years of hard work are finally paying off!" Bai Jue said excitedly.
Upon hearing this, Tian Qi glanced at his main body floating in the air. He no longer had that smile on his face. To be honest, he was happy that his main body could recover. Just as Bai Jue said, although he couldn't recover his strength in a short time, waking up wouldn't be a problem. However, he didn't want his main body to wake up now, because the awakening of his main body would mean that he would disappear.
After so many years living in Konoha, he had developed a bit of his own consciousness. To be honest, he had gotten used to living with Chiyu. His main body needed him to awaken, but now he didn't want to return to his main body. However, he also knew that without a body, his strength was limited and he couldn't protect Chiyu at all. Only his main body, with its unparalleled power, could protect what he cherished. Tianqi still hoped to spend more time with Chiyu as a pseudo-father.
"Tianqi, Tianqi, what's wrong?" Bai Jue asked, looking at the silent Tianqi.
"Oh, it's alright. I don't plan to wake up the main body immediately. Let's wait until it has recovered its full strength before waking it up!" Tian Qi said calmly as he came back to his senses.
Bai Jue and the others didn't notice that Tian Qi had changed his way of referring to his body from "self" to "he," and that Tian Qi's state of mind was slowly changing.
"Oh, is that so? Well, it's good that he's recovered all his strength and woke up!" Bai Jue didn't notice that Tian Qi seemed to have changed; he didn't care about that.
Three days later, Tianqi left two White Zetsu to watch over his main body and went out on a mission with his son Qianyu. He planned to spend the last two years with Qianyu until the end of his life.
As the major ninja villages in the ninja world began to stir, the ninjas of Konoha Village also started to get busy, gathering intelligence, preparing combat supplies, and rushing to the border to reinforce the defenses. They were extremely busy.
"Father, do you really need to come along? The village didn't send you. This kind of unpaid work doesn't seem like you." Qianyu felt that her father was acting strangely. Ever since he came out of the basement a few days ago, he seemed like a different person. She didn't know what had gotten into him.
"Stop trying to be sarcastic. I got the Third Hokage's permission to deliver strategic supplies to the border this time. The Hokage agreed, so what are you complaining about? Why are you so unhappy that I'm going with you?" Tianqi looked at Qianyu speechlessly.
"No, no, no, Father, don't be angry. I'm just not used to your sudden diligence. It's great to have a super strong person like you by my side. As long as you're here, who dares to block our way?" Qianyu flattered like a sycophant.
"Hehe, you're smart enough to know what's good for you. You should be secretly happy to have me around!" Tianqi thoroughly enjoyed Qianyu's flattery. It wasn't easy to get praise from Qianyu, his adopted son. Although it was flattery, Tianqi was still very happy to hear it.
"Yes, yes, I'm secretly delighted, I can even laugh myself awake!" Qianyu nodded with a wry smile. Her father's personality was really strange. He used to scold people harshly for flattering him, but now he looked like he was enjoying it. What a strange old man.
The other genin driving the carriage were stunned by Chiyu's sycophantic behavior. Chiyu was usually a very serious ninja, but this time she was acting like a bootlicker in front of a ninja who looked only twenty-four or twenty-five years old. It was quite a rare sight.
Yes, because he used a White Zetsu's body and his appearance was also altered, Tianqi's appearance was frozen at the time when he returned to Konoha in his twenties. From the outside, Tianqi was only a few years older than Qianyu. The two looked very similar and were about the same age, so many people thought they were brothers. Apart from a group of old ninjas, no one knew that Tianqi was Qianyu's father.
Tianqi, riding on the carriage, glanced at Qianyu and looked around at the surroundings. He felt incredibly relaxed. With his main body's problem resolved, there was nothing left for him to do. Being able to stay by Qianyu's side, grow alongside him, and complete missions together was truly a joyful experience.
The caravan of carriages slowly made its way towards the border of the Land of Lightning. Indeed, the strategic supplies were being delivered to the Konoha ninja who were defending the Cloud Ninja, and the captain of the defense team was none other than Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin.
As the second strongest nation after the Land of Fire, the Land of Lightning is not easily suppressed by ordinary people. Therefore, Hiruzen Sarutobi dispatched Orochimaru, one of his most outstanding disciples and one of the Legendary Sannin, as the main commander for defense. Orochimaru has already begun to conduct some inhumane secret experiments, but fortunately, Danzo covered for him and he was not discovered by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
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