After taking over the snake uncle's foundation, Sasuke came to surrender on his own initiative.

After Jūgo and his men cleaned up their lunch, Neji also completed his reconnaissance mission.

Kimimaro and his companions sat in a circle with an extinguished fire in the middle.

Neji jumped down from the tree and landed beside Karin. After hesitating for a moment, he took out a scroll from his arms and handed it to her. "If I remember correctly, your team was assigned the Book of Heaven, right?"

Karin took the scroll and looked at the word "地" printed on it. Her eyes lit up slightly. "Yes, it can be put together as a set."

As she spoke, Karin formed seals with her hands, "Ninja technique - summoning technique!"

There was a "bang" sound.

Then, a black storage scroll fell from the exploding smoke. Karin grabbed it, and with a blue light flashing between her palms, she easily sealed a set of two scrolls, "Book of Heaven" and "Book of Earth", inside it.

Seeing this scene, Suigetsu opposite her became interested. "By the way, Karin, you are a ninja from the Uzumaki clan, so you should know how to use sealing techniques, right? I have never seen you perform it before?"

Under the transparent glasses, Karin turned her red eyes to Suigetsu and rolled her eyes. She raised her chin and said disdainfully, "Does my ability to seal have anything to do with you, a rebel ninja from the Mist?"

"Okay! Let's change someone else and Karin will start again..."

A speechless look flashed across Neji's face, and he silently distanced himself from Karin, who was sitting on his right.

Karin made no secret of her dislike for Suigetsu.

This may be related to the fact that Kirigakure is the culprit behind the destruction of the Whirlpool Country, or perhaps it is because both of them are outspoken ninjas, Karin has an even more explosive temper.

This also causes the two of them to become emotional whenever they disagree. Ever since Suigetsu joined the Sound Village, quarrels between the two have become a common occurrence.

At this time, Karin only said one sentence and Mizuki was so upset that he couldn't sit still.

He stood up suddenly and glared at Karin, "I warn you again! I have not betrayed Kirigakure. I am loyal to Lord Ototake only, not Otogakure!"

Karin didn't tolerate him and immediately showed a sneer on her face. "So, the ninjas of you Kirigakure are really free. You are a registered ninja, but you can join other villages without any scruples?"

Suigetsu's face froze, and he tried to explain, "It has nothing to do with this. I was captured by Orochimaru!"

Karin immediately mocked, "Now that Orochimaru is dead, why are you still clinging to the Sound Village? Don't you want your own home anymore?"

"you......"

Suigetsu's face suddenly turned red, but she forced herself to suppress the urge to beat Karin up.

A child prodigy naturally has the pride of a child prodigy.

Shuiyue would not bother to do such a tasteless thing as fighting when she couldn't win the argument, especially when the other party was a woman.

"Inhale..." He took a deep breath and looked at Karin with a cold face, "Only by following Lord Ototake can I have the opportunity to collect all seven ninja swords of my Kizuna clan again. I must fulfill my brother's unfulfilled wish for him!"

When she heard Suigetsu mention his brother who passed away young, Karin snorted coldly and stopped making sarcastic remarks.

No matter how much he disliked Shuiyue, at least she deeply recognized her persistence and perseverance.

Karin lowered her head slightly, a glimmer flickering in her red eyes, "Just like Brother Yinzhu saved me, my mother, and more than 30 tribesmen, Karin can only repay his kindness by devoting herself to the utmost in her life..."

the other side.

Quarrels between the two have become the norm, and as long as they don't fight, the other partners generally won't care.

Especially Chougo and Sakura, they love to watch this kind of excitement.

The forest is dark.

As Karin and Mizuki stopped fighting, the field suddenly became quiet.

At this moment, seeing Kimimaro walking towards him, Bai raised his head and looked at him, a look of inquiry first appeared on his face, and then a hint of realization flashed across his face.

Then he stood up quietly and gave up his seat.

"Yeah." When they passed each other, Kimimaro nodded faintly at Bai, and then sat down next to Neji.

"that......"

"Why, I see you seem to have been hesitating for a long time about some of the things you want to say?" Neji asked tentatively, with a faint smile on his handsome face. He thought that Kimimaro really wouldn't be interested in his eyes.

"Ahem..." Kimimaro coughed lightly, a hint of unnaturalness flashed across his face, and he hesitated, "Your eyes... should have been opened for you by Lord Yinzhu, right?"

"Yeah." Neji nodded slightly.

"So... is it still a white eye?"

"Yes, according to what Master Yinzhu said, it is still in the category of white eyes."

"Then... do you also need to constantly train your mental strength like us in order to increase your pupil power?" Kimimaro asked tentatively.

"My eyes are different." Neji shook his head slightly and explained. "My Byakugan is different from the Sharingan. There is no such thing as eye power, only a difference in purity. Therefore, your training to improve eye power and evolve magatama through training mental strength is not suitable for inclusion in the daily training course of the Byakugan."

"I see..." Kimimaro nodded, not quite understanding.

He and Chougo all had the Sharingan Kekkei Genkai created by Yinzhu, and they were Uchiha who were artificially created. Yinzhu didn't tell them anything else except how to cultivate the Sharingan.

Kimimaro only knew that the strength of the Sharingan's pupil power was directly linked to mental strength.

What Yinzhu didn't say was that the Sharingan, a representative of the rare Yin-style Kekkei Genkai in the ninja world, is actually a blood-based eye technique that evolved from the fusion of spiritual energy and "yang" attribute chakra, and possesses special properties.

But this was too complicated to explain, and it was difficult for people in the ninja world to understand the truth of "Yin alone cannot produce, Yang alone cannot grow; Yin and Yang are interdependent, hardness and softness coexist" like a time traveler like him, so he did not explain it to Kimimaro and the others.

"So your eyes now... are equivalent to what level of the Sharingan?" Kimimaro looked at Neji and finally asked the question that he had kept in his heart for a long time.

Neji also looked at him, his eyes soft. "If I must say, it should be the equivalent of the Mangekyō Sharingan. This is what Lord Ototake said himself."

Then, he shook his head again, "But I feel that I haven't even developed one-third of the power contained in these eyes. Maybe someone in the Hyuga clan has opened these eyes before, otherwise this clan would not be able to be called the second of the three major eye techniques in the ninja world along with the Sharingan.

However, due to my lack of experience, I am still slowly exploring the capabilities of these eyes.”

Kimimaro nodded thoughtfully, but he wasn't terribly surprised.

Neji and Ototake have been dependent on each other since childhood, so...it makes sense that Ototake, the leader, takes care of Neji the most.

Kimimaro's eyes lit up slightly, and some of his previous doubts gradually became clear.

Something seemed to be connecting in his mind, and he muttered absentmindedly, "No wonder Master Yinzhu said that the ninja world is actually just a huge makeshift team... The talents that ninjas are proud of are actually nothing in front of the descendants of the ancestor of chakra..."

Ningji also nodded slightly. He also heard this from Yinzhu.

"Hyuga, Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Uzumaki, these powerful ninja clans that have been passed down in the ninja world for thousands of years, although some have weakened or been wiped out, they are actually the direct descendants of the chakra ancestor."

"Even Lord Yinzhu once speculated that even the now-vanished Yugoromo clan is likely to be the descendants of the Otsutsuki clan. It is said that this is because the emblem of their clan is very similar to some of the symbols of the Six Paths Sage..."

Neji sat cross-legged under a tree, his voice cold and clear.

"Each of these families has inherited some of the characteristics and abilities of the original Chakra ancestor. The most famous ones are the two strongest overlords of the ninja world during the Warring States Period! The Uchiha clan has the Sage Eyes, and the Senju clan has the Sage Body. As for the Byakugan of my Hyuga clan, in fact, as the bloodline has been continuously declining, since the Warring States Period, we have lost the qualifications to compete with these two clans..."

Neji's voice gradually faded away.

He turned his head slightly, looking at Kimimaro's eyes that suddenly became full of fighting intent, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "You guy..."

The tone is doting and helpless.

But with some intention.