Chapter 58 Retiring in Peacetime (7) Challenging the Tailed Beasts in One Day...
Having convinced himself, Tobirama Senju directly told Orochimaru the reason for Orochimaru's visit: "If we want to continue to delve deeper into chakra energy technology, we need higher quality and more chakra."
"What does that mean?" Uchiha Senji already had a guess in his mind.
"Tailed Beasts." Tobirama Senju's eyes flickered slightly. He had always resented his elder brother's decision to distribute the Tailed Beasts, and now it was time to correct the mistake.
Uchiha Osaka heard a satisfactory answer, "That's right, it's time to take back the weapons that Konoha lent out. After all, the world is at peace now, it's not appropriate to still have such dangerous weapons. Takeya and I will go and take them back together."
With a few words, Uchiha Tobirama managed to claim that the tailed beasts given away by the First Hokage were actually lent out. Although Tobirama disliked the Uchiha clan, he had to admit that he appreciated their cunning and ruthless approach to enemies, unlike his older brother, who could easily infuriate him.
Uchiha Osaka acted immediately, dividing the tailed beasts among himself and Senju Takeru before setting off for their respective countries.
On this day, the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts from various countries faced off against the strongest ninja in the world.
Aside from Iwagakure and Kirigakure, the other Kage and Jinchūriki who refused to believe in the evil spirits rebelled. The Tailed Beasts were their ultimate weapon. What did they mean by returning the Tailed Beasts that the First Hokage had lent them to Konoha?!
Then Uchiha Ichima grinned maliciously and said, "It seems you haven't given up your evil intentions. You've been embezzling and seizing Konoha's property, plotting to sabotage peace, and launching a large-scale war centered on the Tailed Beasts as strategic weapons. You're trying to plunder and persecute the people of the ninja world to make a fortune from the war. Your intentions are truly despicable and intolerable to Heaven."
Then the rebels experienced what it felt like to be pinned to the ground and slapped in public.
Uchiha Osaka is truly unreasonable. He will beat you to death. Being a Kage is one thing, but his stated reason for coming here was to retrieve the Tailed Beasts. However, in his actions, he didn't care at all that the Tailed Beasts would die along with the Jinchuriki and would need a long period of recovery to revive. It seems that all he cared about was that his will was disobeyed.
Those who disobey will die—Uchiha Osaka demonstrated this to the world through his actions.
He was a complete tyrant, an inviolable and tyrannical dictator.
He would be even happier if the tailed beast helped the jinchūriki fight against him. With a wild smile, he activated the sealing domain and Susanoo. The huge rainbow-white war god held a proportionally enlarged white rainbow and pressed the tailed beast to the ground, cutting off its tails one by one as if chopping vegetables.
"If I tear off all four of your limbs, you'll become obedient, right?" the young tyrant said. The tall martial god picked up the tailed beast-transformed Jinchuriki with one hand as if he were picking up an insect, and with the other hand he pinched the arm of the trembling tailed beast-transformed Jinchuriki. He rarely showed the innocence that a child should have, but it was a cruel innocence.
Uchiha Senma's brutality far surpassed that of Uchiha Madara in his prime.
Compared to Uchiha Osaka, Senju Takeya was obviously much more amiable. He stated his purpose as soon as he came up, but even though the answers he received were either silence or opposition, Senju Takeya did not say another word.
The response to those who remained silent or opposed was a forest that sprang up from the ground in an instant.
The wildly growing forest tore through the soil and blew houses away. The green, with its terrifying vitality, swallowed people's vision in the blink of an eye. Everyone within the forest who refused to cooperate was encircled and hung by branches, becoming a cocoon that looked like fruit but was actually nourishment.
Faced with this raging forest, even the fastest ninjas have nowhere to escape, because it doesn't start from the Thousand Hand Bamboo, but grows instantly on the basis of an entire village or city.
Chakra is the energy produced by the combination of spiritual and physical energy of ninjas. Extracting chakra is equivalent to extracting a person's life force. Ninjas have strong regenerative abilities and can recover as long as they have a trace of chakra. However, if that last trace of chakra is extracted, it means complete death.
Compared to the Third Shinobi World War, Senju Takeya is now clearly more skilled and ruthless. Almost the instant his Wood Release plants touch a person, their chakra is almost completely drained, leaving only a trace to sustain their last bit of life.
“By extracting all the chakra from the tailed beasts using wood-style plants, I can also achieve my goal.” Once the forest quieted down, Senju Takeya stood calmly in front of his target and said, “I don’t want to hurt you.”
So if they insist on continuing to resist, Senjutake will give them the gentlest and painless euthanasia.
Wood Release user... This is the Senju Wood Release user, the undisputed god of the ninja world!
From that moment on, the fear and shadow of Senju Takeya were deeply ingrained in the bones of the prisoners who faced the majesty of the forest, and could never be erased.
At the same time, they couldn't understand why Hashirama Senju didn't just rule the ninja world back then; otherwise, how could they be in this situation today?
What exactly was Hashirama Senju up to back then?!
"If I cooperate with you to extract the Tailed Beast, will I still be alive?" the Tailed Beast Jinchuriki couldn't help but ask.
“Yes,” Senju Take said. “I did not come here to kill the Jinchuriki.”
Tailed Beast Jinchuriki: ...
What were they pretending for just now?! They actually refused such a polite request from the current God of Shinobi! Aren't the Tailed Beasts just things that were separated from Konoha? Why are they being so pretentious?!
And to be honest, becoming a Jinchuriki of a Tailed Beast brings them more exclusion, fear, and disgust than power. No matter how many friends they had or how good their relationships with their family were, the moment they became Jinchuriki, they were destined to be rejected.
The Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beast were being hung from a tree with tears streaming down his face as he had his Tailed Beast chakra extracted. Meanwhile, on a nearby tree, the person who had resisted the most fiercely and shouted the loudest earlier was being whipped on the buttocks, and the vines were making a loud cracking sound as they swung!
Wood Release: Plant Formation: Who do you think you're refusing to?! It's the Mountain God! Not only do you refuse to surrender immediately! You even dare to challenge the Mountain God! Take this five-hit lightning whip!
On this day, the Land of Iron and other small countries without tailed beasts watched the spectacle to their hearts' content.
—The process of recovering the tailed beasts went smoothly.
Uchiha Osaka and Senju Takeya both came to this conclusion after they returned.
Uchiha Osaka felt he was too kind; he actually ensured the Jinchuriki's survival during the retrieval process. As expected of someone with impeccable lineage, the uses of sealing the Mangekyou Sharingan were truly beyond imagination.
"Oh my, how gentle I am~" Uchiha Senji said smugly.
No one dared to contradict Uchiha Osaka; those who hadn't been beaten up didn't dare, and those who had were even less likely to.
Seeing the tailed beasts being retrieved in a single day, Tobirama Senju hadn't expected such efficiency.
As for the Nine-Tails, after being questioned, Kushina Uzumaki agreed to separate it without any hesitation. To be honest, the Nine-Tails did not want to face the current top-tier configuration of Konoha.
A legendary mountain god of Mount Kirin, Indra resurrected as the Sage of the Otsutsuki, and Uchiha Ogima, who was even more ruthless than Madara Uchiha—this era was simply hell!
The tailed beasts had seen Indra before. Seeing Indra, who had once fought Ashura to the death, now in such a petite state, they wanted to laugh. But before they could laugh, they quickly realized the leap in the other's life level and instantly stopped laughing.
It should be noted that the Sage of Six Paths was born after Kaguya Otsutsuki consumed a chakra fruit containing human genes from the ninja world. Strictly speaking, he was a hybrid Otsutsuki. However, the little Indra before them was a truly complete pure-blooded Otsutsuki. The aura he deliberately revealed to intimidate them was enough to prove this.
This led them to an unbelievable yet undeniable conclusion—that Indra most likely ate the Chakra Fruit like Kaguya Otsutsuki.
The thing that Hagoromo Otsutsuki feared still happened, but Indra's development and state after obtaining powerful strength were completely different from what Hagoromo Otsutsuki had imagined.
The one who brought all of this to fruition was the one who resurrected Indra and made him the Otsutsuki Sage, the legendary mountain god of Mount Kirin, now a descendant of the Senju clan, Senju Takeya.
The Tailed Beasts could not ignore the presence of the tree ring on Senju Takeya's wrist. They felt a sense of oppression and fear from that quiet and docile bracelet, as if they were some kind of sweet treat. And the branches that had been precisely separated from the Jinchuriki and extracted belonged to it. What else could it be but the Divine Tree?!
"Hahahaha, now you understand how I've felt in Konoha for the past year!" Kurama, who had been forced to behave himself, finally couldn't help but burst into unrestrained laughter. The other tailed beasts could finally experience firsthand his hellish environment! He was clearly the strongest tailed beast, so why was it the only one who was mistreated like a little karami!
Enraged, the other tailed beasts ganged up on Kurama, who then fought off the eight heroes single-handedly.
The tailed beasts are currently sealed, each in the form of a round, chubby little animal. Their chakra output is severely restricted, and they dare not use their chakra to fight recklessly under the noses of Senju Takeya and Uchiha Sen. Therefore, they have completely lost their original destructive power and instead have a chaotic and noisy feel to them.
Indra had no intention of showing off in front of others. The Uchiha were already annoyed enough after they learned of his existence. He didn't want to teach anyone anymore. More people would only disturb his time with his older brother. Therefore, his main purpose this time was to accompany his older brother and, incidentally, see what the tailed beasts that were ultimately cared for by the Sage of Six Paths were like.
The Tailed Beasts had met Indra unilaterally, and Indra only cared about Senju Takeya and Kirinjo, and other than fighting with the annoying Ashura. He knew of the Tailed Beasts' existence, but he didn't care at all as long as they didn't bother him.
After reading the memories of the tailed beasts, Indra had to admit that even with these chakra tailed beasts formed from the Ten-Tails of the Divine Tree, Hagoromo Otsutsuki trusted and loved them more than he did.
If it weren't for his elder brother, Indra would have truly lived a life that was a joke.
Watching the farcical battle between the tailed beasts, Indra, without a second thought, hid back inside his brother's collar and continued to work on developing and building his new abilities. He was determined to complete his plan before Kaguya Kirito finished his training and left.
With a sufficient and stable source of chakra, Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru plunged into a new round of research on chakra energy technology. With the addition and cooperation of Tobirama Senju, a powerful teammate, Orochimaru's research progressed by leaps and bounds. Orochimaru was completely immersed in it, after all, he had no time or conditions to think about anything else.
It wasn't until Jiraiya came to find him that Orochimaru was able to free his mind and had to spend time dealing with his old friend from the same period. Anyway, the time Jiraiya came to find him was around mealtime, so he could have a meal while he was there.
"You signed that contract?" Orochimaru laughed upon hearing Jiraiya's words.
"I got my submission accepted, and then I received a contract from Xinyi Publishing House. I was so excited by the great benefits and the higher royalties that I signed it immediately. Then I looked closer and discovered all the things I have to do as a contracted author..." Jiraiya said, a pained expression on his face. "Strictly prohibiting gambling and drugs, and the minimum word count requirement each year are one thing, but they also include one of my few hobbies! Isn't cutting off everything below my neck a bit too much?! And they forbid me from writing erotica privately! Do you have any ideas—"
"No," Orochimaru said quietly. "If I had a way to break the contract, I wouldn't be here working like a slave."
"Huh?!" Jiraiya exclaimed in disbelief.
"I was just kidding, there is actually a way." Orochimaru's lips curled into an even wider grin.
"What? What?" Jiraiya was overjoyed.
"As long as you are stronger than Uchiha Senma, and your chakra quality and strength far surpass Uchiha Senma's, you can escape death after breaking the contract." Orochimaru uttered these rather cruel and cold words.
Orochimaru continued, "Based on my research and calculations, as well as data from real cases, after Uchiha Osaka and Senju Take also signed a contract, Senju Take's strength was such that violating the contract would not affect him at all. Therefore, it was equivalent to him not being bound by the contract's effect. Uchiha Osaka, on the other hand, was still bound by the effect of his own contract—meaning he had to be stronger, not equal to. As for how much stronger to be safe, or whether being slightly weaker would be enough to escape death... there are too few cases. I hope you'll do something stupid to help me collect some data."
Incidentally, Orochimaru has also deduced that the power of Uchiha Senma's Contract Sealing Array far exceeds that of his own Forbidden Ninjutsu. It should be a higher-level application of sealing the Mangekyou Sharingan, and it has even begun to involve causal power. It's just a pity that this causal power cannot restrain anyone stronger than him. However, Uchiha Senma's growth rate is terrifyingly fast. In the end, apart from Senju Takeya, probably no one in this world will be stronger than Uchiha Senma.
Perhaps Uchiha Osaka will be able to control that causal power in the future and achieve a true absolute contract.
Uchiha Ogima was truly a monstrous talent in ninjutsu. Orochimaru genuinely envied and longed for the Uchiha's bloodline limit. Those special eyes destined the Uchiha to possess a more powerful and flexible mechanism than other ninjas from the very beginning, giving them more possibilities.
Jiraiya was silent for a moment, then stood up, supporting himself on the table: "I'm going to continue writing."
"The food at my company cafeteria is pretty good, why don't you stay for a meal?" Orochimaru felt much better after seeing Jiraiya's unfortunate look, so he generously said, "It's on me."
Jiraiya then sat down again. "Do you have any recommendations?"
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Author's Note: I'm out of drafts. Drafts, we'll definitely meet again next time. I hope you can stay with me longer next time. Drafts, it's okay that you're gone, I can manage on my own. You must be happy, you must be joyful—no, it still won't work! Drafts, what will I do without you! Drafts, don't go! Drafts, I think we can still fight for a while longer! Drafts—!
[Regarding the relationship between Kaguya Kirito and the Saniwa]
Kaguya Kirito's spirit branch will join the Saniwa's Honmaru as a government-sponsored support sword. He chooses the Saniwa based on his own judgment (Kaguya Kirito and Isshiki Maru are obtained through special missions). He is clear that he is there to help the Saniwa better fight against the Time Retrograde Army and will fully assist the Saniwa in his work, positioning himself as the Saniwa's assistant. If the Saniwa is recognized by him, he will regard the Saniwa as an excellent comrade-in-arms. When he is willing to train to better assist the Saniwa, it means that this comrade-in-arms has begun to deepen, and he is willing to change himself (he can also see his master, which is like killing two birds with one stone).
Although the master couldn't help but waver when he saw his master, and even wanted to stay (the master's affairs are often mentioned in the citadel, and the Saniwa must have realized the master's nature), the biggest reason for him to complete his training and return was definitely his friendship with the Saniwa.
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