Go to Naruto World as a Earth Shadow

Chapter 596 Changes in Ziyuan

Time passed, and two years passed in a blink of an eye. In the past two years, the overall situation in the ninja world was relatively peaceful, and no war broke out.

But there is no peace in some areas, and the conflict at the squad level has never stopped.

Under the cloak of peace, the battle of ninjas has been going on.

At first, Iwashinobu and Konoha continued to have small-scale conflicts on the border.

Iwanin usually has two or three teams, shuttling back and forth across the long border of the Land of Fire, constantly looking for the single Konoha team to attack.

There are many rock ninjas, and many ninja squads can be dispatched to infiltrate the land of fire from different directions.

Facing the superior force of Iwanin, the understaffed Konoha could barely defend a few important positions, but was unable to defend the long border.

So in the first half a year, Konoha was constantly being beaten by Iwanin, and news of the team's territory being attacked by Iwanin would be sent back to Konoha every few days.

And as time went by, Konoha's situation didn't get better, on the contrary, it got worse.

In half a year, Iwanin finally digested the entire Kingdom of Thunder, and basically completed the cleanup of all remaining cloud ninjas in the Kingdom of Thunder.

After the war in the Kingdom of Thunder was completely over, a large number of rock ninjas were finally able to free up their hands to intensify the blow to Konoha.

At this moment, the situation in Konoha almost collapsed, the border line was completely lost, and many Iwanin squads began to blatantly go deep into the territory of Fire Nation.

It can be described as such, for Konoha Ninja, the half of Fire Country to the north of Konoha Village is no longer safe.

The number of tasks in this area has been greatly reduced, and most of the remaining task entrustments are in the hands of Yan Ninja.

Konoha's control over the area is dead in name only.Even the managers of some towns on the border have been replaced by the daimyo of the earth country.

This is not the most important thing. The most serious problem for Konoha is that the ninja has lost too much.

Based on the time after the end of the Konoha Joint Chunin Exam last time, the number of combat-capable ninjas that Konoha can send out at that time is only 6000.

If more ninjas are sent, the normal operation of Konoha Village will not be maintained.

In the past two years, more than half of Konoha's six thousand ninjas have died or lost their combat effectiveness.On average, a team of Konoha ninjas died in battle every day.

In order to make up for the shortage of manpower, the students of Konoha Shinobi School graduated early twice.

Originally, Konoha was the same as Ninja Rock, and the age of graduates of the Ninja School was about ten years old, but now Konoha's eight-year-old students have to embark on the road to perform tasks.

Fortunately, Kakashi is still sensible. Most of these newcomers are performing tasks in the southern half of the Fire Nation, and less involved in the conflicts between the northern half and Iwanin.

So among the ninjas that Konoha went out to perform missions, the number of ninjas who have graduated for more than two years is less than [-].

Under the age of 12, ninjas who graduated less than two years ago accounted for the vast majority.

Similarly, in order to maintain the normal operation of Konoha, a military organization, many ninjas who are not up to the standard have also won titles such as Chunin and Jounin.

In a word, Konoha Ninja's average combat power has dropped a lot.

But Konoha also has an advantage, that is, after Kakashi completely opened up the secrets that originally belonged to those ninjas, Konoha ninjas have more methods.

Although the hard power is not enough, the weird means have somewhat increased the hole cards for those newcomers.

In the confrontation between a few or more than a dozen people on both sides, many well-known ninjas emerged in both Konoha and Iwanin.

Iwanin is a younger generation of elite ninjas represented by Neiji, Shiro, and Shion, and Xianglin, Sakura, and Kuroto as the backbone.

In order not to force Konoha directly to the point of launching a war, which would eventually attract the intervention of the Sages of the Six Paths, Yichen did not send too many famous ninjas.

Yichen, represented by Ning Ci and others, is cultivating young people.

Yichen's strategy is to boil frogs in warm water, and only kill a few or a dozen Konoha ninjas every day. Occasionally, when a large-scale conflict breaks out between the two sides, only a hundred people will die.

Konoha's daily loss will not cause the anger of the Sage of the Six Paths.

But over the years, Konoha's background is being emptied little by little!

Ning Ci and the others on Iwanin's side are basically fighting on their own, and they don't really divide their priorities.

He, Shiro, and Shion were dubbed the "Three Whites of Rock Ninja" because of their outstanding performances.

Neji is because of the white eyes of the Hyuga clan, Minazukishiro is because of the word "white" in his name, and Shion is because of his good looks and fair skin.

Although the three of them are the strongest on Iwanin's side, in terms of personnel arrangement and battle command, everyone listens to Aono Shinichi, Minamoto Shizuka and Liyin.

On Konoha's side, there are also heroes temporarily supporting the backbone: Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto are the leaders, Nara Shikamaru, Yume Shino, Xiao Li and others are the assistants.

Among Konoha's small powerhouses, Sasuke and Naruto only know how to rush and fight on their own, and the real leader is Hinata.

Hinata has become the actual boss of these Xiaoqiangs.

Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto were also given titles by the outside world, known as Konoha Sanhei.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame burns everything, Naruto's black-red state when he turned into a half-tailed beast, and Hinata's blackening!
As Hinata's reputation grew, her previous personality was also used as a talking point.

The simple, kind, and shy princess, after experiencing upheaval in her family, quickly turned into a cold-blooded, strong, and uncompromising queen.

In particular, Naruto never kills actively and consciously, and Sasuke rarely kills. Among the three blacks of Konoha, only Hinata never leaves anyone alive.

No matter the people in the Fire Nation, the opponents of the Earth Nation, or other spectators, they all talk about it.

In the country of fire, in the melee area north of Konoha Village, in Konoha's temporary headquarters, many elites such as Konoha Sanguro and Nara Shikamaru are gathering.

At this time, Naruto was arguing fiercely with Inuzuka Ya.

"Naruto, you idiot, the west side must be a false target made by Iwanin, and Hinata Ningji and others must be on the east side." Inuzuka Ya shouted.

Naruto did not back down at all, he said: "How could it be in the east, there is obviously no movement in the east."

Inuzuka Ya said in a tone of talking to a fool: "It's not normal because there is no movement in the east. When did Iwanin stop in the past two years?"

Naruto's IQ obviously couldn't accept this explanation, and he quickly found a reason for himself: "Because I, Naruto Naruto, is here!"

"Yan Ren is obviously afraid of me, they dare not appear in the east."

Inuzuka tooth immediately said: "Then why do they still appear in the west?"

Naruto glanced at the map, then his eyes lit up, and said, "Because the west is far away from here!"

This is true, Konoha's temporary headquarters is indeed relatively east.

But it's not that far off.

The two had a heated argument, but the others paid little attention to them.

Only Akimichi Choji and Xiao Li looked at the two of them while eating, and they didn't know if their minds had changed.

And Yume Shino, Sai, Yamanaka Ino, and Tian Tian all set their sights on Nara Shikamaru.

Nara Shikamaru looked at Hinata, just as Hinata was also looking at him, his heartbeat paused for a moment, and then he said quickly: "I don't think we need to get entangled in the specific marching route of Neji and others."

"This time the information shows that Ning Ci and others have left the Iwanin Temporary Headquarters together, so their target will only be our place."

"The three whites of Yannin gathered together, and Black Earth and others all came. This kind of situation rarely happens."

"They don't need to dispatch all of them to deal with scattered teams, and they won't take the risk of crossing us and entering the southern part of the Land of Fire in this battle situation."

"So I judge that the target of Ning Ci and others is us, we just need to guard this place."

Hinata, who was sitting at the head of the crowd, thought for a while, then nodded her head firmly, and said in a tone without any emotion: "In this case, we can't go anywhere."

"We'll just stay here, waiting for the attack of Iwanin. But don't be careless, send more scouting ninjas out, and keep abreast of the intelligence everywhere."

Seeing Hinata speak, Nara Shikamaru and the others agreed quickly without hesitation.

Nara Shikamaru got up directly to arrange for scouting ninjas.

And Inuzuka Ya didn't dare to disobey Hinata's order, bowed his head and chose to acquiesce.

Only Naruto muttered a few words, expressing his dissatisfaction that his opinions were not taken seriously.

As for Sasuke, he closed his eyes from beginning to end, sat in a corner, and said nothing.

Sasuke is the most thoughtful. During the process of getting along with Naruto, although he gradually dispelled the idea of ​​leaving Konoha and going to Iwanin Village.

But the idea of ​​revitalizing the Uchiha clan has not changed.

Sasuke doesn't care about other rock ninjas of the same age, he only cares about Neji, the man who brought him shame in the joint Chunin exam!
So Sasuke doesn't care about Nara Shikamaru's analysis, nor Hinata's decision, as long as he can match up with Neji.

Moreover, with Sasuke's arrogance, he was willing to sit here and listen to this group of rubbish discussing, already giving them a lot of face.

After defeating Neji and washing away the shame, he will fly solo.

Konoha has nothing worthy of his nostalgia!
Just thinking of this, Sasuke couldn't help but open his eyes and look at that idiot Naruto.

Naruto noticed it, and he immediately said loudly to Sasuke: "Sasuke, you bastard, are you laughing at me again?"

"Idiot!" Sasuke just replied two words coldly, then closed his eyes.

After that, Naruto was allowed to roar, but Sasuke ignored him.

But, what tactics should be used to deal with Neji?Sasuke began to recall the several fights he had with Neji in the past two years.

Sasuke has been defeated by Neji many times, and with the continuous use of the kaleidoscope Sharingan, Sasuke also found that his vision has seriously declined.

Of course, Sasuke didn't tell anyone about this, and he didn't know that Kaleidoscope Sharingan could be upgraded to Eternal Kaleidoscope Sharingan.

He didn't even know that Kakashi had another pair of Kaleidoscope Sharingans in his hands to upgrade his eyes.

On the other side, as Nara Shikamaru guessed, Neji, Shiro, Shion, Kuroto, Sakura, Kamizuru Tsuruhime, Fujii Kusakaur and others are slowly approaching Konoha's temporary camp.

In the accompanying team, besides these young people, there was also Qian He.

Kaoru and Sakura take turns to sit in Iwanin Village as usual, while Kurama Yakumo is unwilling to confront Konoha head-on and has been staying in the Thunder Country branch.

Ning Ci walked at the front of the line.He has carried out several fetal movements in the past two years, and he just completed one not long ago, and his strength has been improved again.

According to his and Yichen's estimates, it should only be the last time away from fully awakening Tenseiken.

Ningci's evolution was slower than Yichen imagined, and it didn't take too long for Otsutsuki Tonero to awaken Tenseiken in the original book.

Yichen thinks it might be because Neji's white eyes are not as pure as Hinata Hanabi.

Perhaps Neji was no worse than Hinata Hanabi, but his white eyes have always been restricted by the bird in the cage, so his promotion was relatively slow.

It is also possible that Neji's fit with the giant Tenseigan is not as close as that of Otsutsuki Toreto, and he does not receive the baptism of Tenseigan Chakra from an early age like Otsutsuki Toreto.

Apart from these two possibilities, Yichen believes that the biggest possibility is that the Sage of the Six Paths is causing trouble, and the Sage of the Six Paths may be buying time for Sasuke and Naruto.

This operation was also initiated by Neji. His purpose was to destroy Konoha's temporary camp and deal a blow to Konoha's morale.

What's more important is to test the power of Tenseikan at this stage.

After reaching Neci's level, it is difficult for him to have any effect in normal sparring. After his strength has improved rapidly, he can only adapt to the new power through fighting.

Ning Ci looked at Qian He, who was on the side, and asked, "Senior Sister Qian He, is there any movement from Konoha?"

Qian He said: "Naruto Naruto has been in Konoha Camp and never left!"

I don't know what Yichen was thinking about, but Qianhe would swallow the blood of some members of the Uzumaki clan every few days in order to locate Naruto's whereabouts at any time.

In the past two years, Naruto has been to Mt. Miaomu, and Qianhe helped Yichen determine the exact location of Mt. Miaomu in time.

But Yichen didn't let Qianhe stop, but asked her to pay more close attention to Naruto's movements.

This time Neji brought Qianhe with him to judge Konoha's reaction from Naruto's position.

Hearing that Naruto was in the direction of Konoha's temporary headquarters, Neji nodded.

It just so happens that Konoha Ninja is dealt with at once, and Konoha's temporary headquarters is destroyed casually.

Ning Ci is still young, although he has become a movie class, but he has not entered the advisory group of Yannin Village.

So he didn't know that the Sage of the Six Paths stood behind Konoha, so he said this.

But it was precisely because Neji didn't know the existence of the Sage of the Six Paths that Yichen gave him the main task of dealing with Konoha's ordinary ninjas.

If Zaojie and Uchiha Izumi were allowed to do it, they would definitely do their best.

At the end of the line were Shiro and Shion.

Bai's expression is relatively flat, he is a normal ninja, all the way from the lower ninja to the middle ninja to the upper ninja, the elite jnin, and finally to the shadow class.

Bai's growth is very steady, one step at a time, so although his strength has steadily reached the movie level, his mentality is very stable.

But Ziyuan next to him is completely different, she is eager for the upcoming war.

Ziyuan's promotion was half a year ago.

That night Yichen was diligently studying his fusion of five attributes.

Because the progress of the little white ball research team was not enough, Yichen himself joined it in the past two years.

This can not only speed up the progress of research, after all, Yichen's strength and knowledge are there, and the work efficiency of others is far less than his.

This can exercise Yichen's soaring soul power in the past two years.

As usual, Yichen, who worked late at the laboratory outside the village, suddenly noticed violent fluctuations in the village.

Yichen was taken aback, and immediately put down his work and rushed to the source of the fluctuation.

There are quite a few shadow-level people in Yannin Village, but these people's accomplishments in Yin escape are far inferior to Yichen's, and they don't have Yichen's perception.

So these people just felt that there was a change in the village, but they couldn't tell what happened, and they couldn't locate the source of the fluctuation for a while.

They only locked in the source when they saw Yichen flying towards Ziyuan's residence.

So Yichen was the first to see Ziyuan who was in a wrong state.

Zi Yuan was wearing fluffy pajamas, lying on the bed with a painful expression.

After a little inspection, Yichen figured out the reason, it should be the sprites in Ziyuan's body counterattacked.

As Ziyuan became stronger and stronger, her ability to suppress and digest monsters became stronger and stronger.

However, it is reasonable to say that the sprites should have no chance to fight back, and the sprites' consciousness was knocked out by Yichen early on.

Yichen observed for a while, and when Han arrived first, he confessed to him and entered Ziyuan's body with the spirit transformation technique.

After entering Ziyuan's body, Yichen quickly found her soul.

Seeing Yichen's arrival, Ziyuan's soul was obviously a little excited.

Although Ziyuan in the soul state was unable to speak, she still expressed her uneasiness to Yichen with her movements and asked for help.

And around Ziyuan's soul body, there are a lot of tentacles wrapped around it.

The other end of the tentacles leads to a place that resembles the seal of a tailed beast.

There are continuous runes there, and it exudes a special purple-red light, which looks beautiful and illusory, like a fairyland.

It's just that Yichen knows that on the other side of the seal is an extremely ugly and ferocious sprite.

Yichen turned his gaze back to Ziyuan, and found that rather than being wrapped around her by the tentacles, it might be better to say that these tentacles have already integrated with her.

Ziyuan and sprites are fighting for control of these tentacles, and Ziyuan is clearly at a disadvantage.

Seeing this scene, Yichen understood what was going on.

Ziyuan should have absorbed enough soul power and is about to advance to the third stage.

This can be seen from the performance of Shion's ability to control her soul body.

Because the soul is strong enough, Ziyuan can see Yichen and send a distress signal.

But it was precisely because of this that Ziyuan saw the ugly true face of sprites.

Although Shion always knew that there was a monster in her body, thanks to the promotion of Jinzhuriki by Iwanin Village, she didn't find it so awkward.

But when she really saw the sprites in the soul state, and the soul and the sprites were deeply entangled, the disgusting feeling was too unbearable.

So Ziyuan's heart was disturbed, at this moment she only had instinct left, she was instinctively resisting those disgusting tentacles.

She completely forgot how to use the power of the witch.

Fortunately, sprites lost consciousness after being severely injured by Yichen.Its counterattack is unconscious and instinctive.

That's why Ziyuan can hold on until Yichen's arrival, otherwise, by this time, the sprites have merged Ziyuan in reverse.

Yichen stepped forward quickly, and cut off all the tentacles with a few swipes.

Yichen's current level is the same as that of the monsters in the heyday, but the quantity is smaller.

So dealing with these tentacles can be said to be easy to catch.

After cutting off these tentacles, Yichen applied a soul seal around Ziyuan's body to block the tentacles extending from the witch's seal again.

Then Yichen said to Ziyuan: "Ziyuan, calm down, close your eyes, take a deep breath first, and adjust your mentality."

"Don't worry, with me here, nothing will happen."

Yichen's current soul level is able to convey information to Ziyuan, who is also a soul body, but Ziyuan can only listen, not speak.

Ziyuan trusted Yichen's words, and she quickly closed her eyes and took a deep breath as Yichen said.

Although she was not breathing in her soul state, doing this action made Zi Yuan calm down slowly.

Then Yichen said: "Very well, let's continue, you try to mobilize the power of the witch to suppress these tentacles on your body."

Shion, who calmed down, quickly demonstrated the witch's ability to restrain sprites. After she broke out the power of the witch, the broken tentacles on her body were absorbed by her at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while, these tentacles were completely absorbed, and then Yichen said: "Okay, open your eyes and look at the sprites."

Hearing this, Ziyuan opened her eyes and looked in the direction of the witch's seal.

Yichen said: "This should be the first time you have seen sprites since you grew up. In fact, you don't have to be afraid at all."

"For you, sprites are just a special kind of chakra, which you have been absorbing since childhood."

Ziyuan was still a little scared and disgusted when he saw the sprite again, but he was mostly fine.

After Ziyuan got used to it for a while, Yichen said, "Okay, get ready, I'm going to break the seal and let these tentacles in. You use your witch power to absorb the power in these tentacles."

Zi Yuan nodded, her hands in a special gesture.Then the witch's power on her body reached its peak in an instant, and the purple-red light lingered around her.

Yichen smiled, making such a big fight showed that Ziyuan was still a little scared, but it didn't matter.

Yichen untied the soul seal, and the next moment those spooky tentacles instinctively entangled Ziyuan again.

But these tentacles were immediately digested and absorbed by Shion's priestess power before they got close.

This time, these tentacles continuously transmitted the sprite's power, which was quickly digested and absorbed by Ziyuan.

As time goes by, Shion's witch power becomes stronger and stronger.

The power transmitted by the sprites instinctively could no longer satisfy Shion, and she began to actively draw the sprites' power through the tentacles.

And with Ziyuan's active absorption, the seal of the witch who sealed the sprites trembled slightly.

Just when Yichen was worried about whether there would be a problem with the priestess seal, the priestess seal actually resonated with the priestess power in Ziyuan.

The next moment, the Meilun Meiyun's miraculous seal shone brightly, and then a large amount of monster power began to be directly transformed into the power of the miko.

This time the transformation took place inside the seal, which is the location of the sprite body.

Yichen was taken aback for a moment, so the witch seal still has this ability?

If the monster had subjective consciousness, it should be very painful at this time, but the monster in the seal was very calm, allowing it to be transformed by the power of the witch.

After a while, Zi Yuan opened his eyes.

Yichen sensed it, and immediately determined that Ziyuan had reached the third stage of Yin Dun.

　I was too tired from work the day before yesterday, my body couldn't take it anymore, and I had insomnia at night, so I didn't update it all day yesterday.Sorry!

　　
　
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