Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

The conflict between Konoha and Kumogakure ultimately failed to develop.

Qingye didn't know how it all ended in the original history. But this time, he cut off one of the Raikage's fingers, which was definitely an important reason.

The Raikage needs time to adapt to the three-finger fighting style. Although Konoha is weak, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and it is not something that Kumogakure can easily control.

A month later, the Kumogakure troops on the border officially withdrew, and Konoha also welcomed the "peace" it wanted.

Of course, the most relaxed country is the Kingdom of Soup. They are sandwiched between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Lightning. The Cloud Hidden Village stationing troops on the border is actually stationing troops on their territory. Not only that, the Kingdom of Soup also needs to supply military rations. It is really overwhelmed, even worse than South Korea now.

However, that conflict still caused a huge controversy. The most representative of which was the name of the Qingye Wind Chaser Sword, which finally spread throughout Konoha.

In a head-on fight, the Raikage was not at a disadvantage, and even cut off the Raikage's finger, gaining the upper hand. For a time, Aoba had become the pillar of the new generation of ninjas in Konoha.

The one who is known as the second White Fang of Konoha.

In fact, Aoba's limelight was originally overshadowed by Jiraiya and Danzo. But Jiraiya's final act of letting the Raikage go allowed Aoba to come to the fore again and forcibly increase his presence.

In this way, his reputation inevitably spread.

The main reason is that Aoba's approach this time is completely different from White Fang's controversial approach. He went head-on to fight the Raikage. Whether from the perspective of human nature or political correctness, it is impeccable.

Even Danzo couldn't find fault with it.

The most important thing is that after that battle, Danzo began to love talents. He tried to recruit Aoba to join the Root several times, but Aoba refused.

Perhaps it was because Qingye showed a high fighting ability at that time. Or perhaps it was because Qingye was obviously not as stupid as Baiya.

Danzo was very careful this time and did not immediately target Aoba.

During this period, the one who felt the most uncomfortable was the Third Hokage, even though he had already explained why he let the Raikage go.

It's simply that the village is going through a difficult time, and they love peace and don't want the ninjas of the village to sacrifice.

But how can I put it? This kind of explanation after the fact is far less shocking than what I saw with my own eyes on the day.

If he had not been in office for so many years and still had a high reputation, the incident would have been criticized to bits.

Fortunately, after a period of cooling off, the people of Konoha have begun to slowly forget about the incident.

After all, people are forgetful.

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Konoha, the underground laboratory of the Aoba family.

A ball of fire spurted out of Qingye's mouth, burning the half-flesh, half-plant thing in front of him that was constantly twisting and multiplying into ashes.

"The seventy-ninth Hashirama cell fusion experiment has failed."

Yumi on the side took notes.

"Do you really want to transplant something like that into yourself? It looks so dangerous."

Aoba's previous project was to use his own cells to fuse with Hashirama's cells. But there was no doubt that his cells would be devoured instantly. Then gradually the cells began to multiply crazily.

He tried various methods to assist this fusion, but the final results were all similar.

"It now seems that it is basically impossible to achieve this fusion through biological means alone."

"But you also used chakra as an aid. It didn't work either."

In fact, Qingye not only used chakra as an aid, but also used Yang escape chakra as a harmonizer.

His original thought was that, as a natural immortal, Hashirama should be compatible with Yang-attribute chakra. Using Yang-attribute chakra might have an effect. But the result was that after injecting Yang-attribute chakra, Hashirama's cells became more active. He turned directly into a half-flesh, half-plant monster.

Aoba does not possess chakra of all attributes.

However, in this world, just because you don't have a certain attribute does not mean you cannot use ninjutsu of that attribute.

As long as you practice, you can actually transform chakra of a certain attribute independently, and thus perform ninjutsu.

It's just that ninja is a profession with high agility. First transform, then cast the spell, which is basically not practical.

Therefore, not having a certain attribute does not mean that you cannot use this type of chakra. It just means that you cannot use this type of ninjutsu in actual combat.

Qingye does not have Yang-attribute chakra, but in the laboratory, he can still conduct similar experiments.

So far, he has tried stimulating chakras of all attributes, but none of them achieved the desired effect.

Aoba was somewhat helpless, Hashirama's cells were a cheat in this world. But who could use this cheat still depended on luck and the arrangements of some guys.

Just as Qingye was about to end today's experiment, he suddenly thought of a new direction.

In addition to chakra, there is another kind of energy that I have not tried, natural energy.

"Prepare for the eightieth experiment."

Yumi never refuted her decision. She immediately started to prepare. Although she was not a ninja, she had learned a lot of professional knowledge from Aoba. She did all the preparations and auxiliary work very smoothly.

Aoba drew a little of his own blood and then added Hashirama's cells again.

This time, Qingye gave up all the biological neutralizers because Hashirama's cells were too strong. Most of the biological neutralizers would become its nutrients.

So, this time, Qingye directly injected natural energy and then observed the results.

At the first moment, Hashirama's cells quickly became active and began to devour Aoba's cells. But this time, Aoba's cells contained natural energy, so its devouring was not so smooth.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary cells would turn directly into rocks when exposed to natural energy. However, Hashirama himself was a sage. His cells were naturally able to adapt to natural energy. Therefore, the whole process was much smoother than the previous experimental process.

Unfortunately, this state did not last long. As the natural energy was exhausted, the previous crazy proliferation appeared again.

After burning the experimental body to ashes again, Qingye was not depressed, but excited, because this experiment finally produced something different.

Although the natural energy did not help him complete the experiment, it was obviously effective. Given that White Zetsu had not yet been acquired, this was already the best experimental result.

After the experiment was finished, Karin's voice was heard from above.

"Mom, mom, where are you? I'm so hungry!"