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Chapter 596 Changes in Ziyuan

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Chapter 596 Changes in Ziyuan

Time passed, and two years passed in the 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 local areas, and conflicts at the squad level have never stopped.

Under the cloak of peace, the battle of ninjas continues.

At first, the Iwa Ninja and Konoha continued small-scale conflicts at the border.

The Iwa ninja often travel in teams of two or three, traveling back and forth across the long border of the Land of Fire, constantly looking for lone Konoha teams to attack.

There are many Iwa ninjas, so they can dispatch many ninja teams to infiltrate the Fire Country from different directions.

Facing the superior strength of the Iwa Ninja, Konoha, which was short of manpower, could barely defend a few important positions, but was unable to defend the long border.

Therefore, in the first half year, Konoha was constantly suppressed by the Iwa Ninja, and every few days, news that the team was attacked by the Iwa Ninja would come back to Konoha.

And as time went by, the situation in Konoha did not get better, but became even worse.

In half a year, the Iwa Ninja 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 Iwa ninjas were finally free to increase their attack on Konoha.

At this time, the situation in Konoha almost collapsed, the border was completely lost, and many Iwa Ninja teams began to brazenly penetrate into the Land of Fire.

It can be said that for Konoha ninjas, the half of the 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 commissions are in the hands of the Iwa Ninja.

Konoha's control over this area has ceased to exist in name only. Even the managers of some border towns have been replaced by subordinates of the Daimyo of Earth Country.

This is not the most important thing. The most serious problem for Konoha is that too many ninjas have been lost.

Based on the time since the last joint chuunin exams in Konoha, the total number of combat-effective ninjas that Konoha could send out at that time was only 6,000.

If we send more ninjas, the normal operation of Konoha Village will no longer be maintained.

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

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

Originally, like Ninja Rock, the age of ninja school graduates in Konoha was around ten years old, but now Konoha's eight-year-old students have to embark on the road to perform missions.

Fortunately, Kakashi is still sensible. Most of these newcomers perform tasks in the southern half of the Fire Country and are less involved in the conflicts between the northern half and the Iwa Ninja.

Therefore, among the ninjas currently out on missions in Konoha, the number of ninjas who have graduated for more than two years is less than 3,000.

The majority of ninjas are under the age of twelve and have graduated less than two years ago.

Similarly, in order to maintain the normal operation of Konoha's military organization, many ninjas who did not meet the standard of strength also obtained titles such as chuunin and jounin.

In short, the average combat effectiveness of Konoha ninjas has dropped a lot.

However, Konoha also has an advantage, that is, after Kakashi completely opened up the secret skills that originally belonged only to those ninjas, Konoha ninjas have more methods.

Although the hard power is not enough, the strange methods give the newcomers some trump cards.

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

The Iwa Ninjas are represented by Neji, Haku, and Shion, and are the backbone of the younger generation of elite ninjas such as Karin, Sakura, and Kurotsuchi.

In order not to directly push Konoha to the point of launching a war, which would eventually lead to the intervention of the Six Paths Sage, Yi Chen did not send too many already famous ninjas.

Yichen, represented by Ningci and others, is cultivating young people.

Yichen's strategy was to boil the frog in warm water and kill only a few or a dozen Konoha ninjas every day. Occasionally, a large-scale conflict broke out between the two sides, and only a hundred or so people died.

Konoha's daily losses would not arouse the anger of the Sage of Six Paths.

But over the years, Konoha's heritage is being drained away bit by bit!

On the Iwa Ninja side, Ningji and the others basically fought on their own, and there was little distinction between priorities.

He, Haku, and Shion were nicknamed the Iwa Ninja Three Hakus by the good guys because of their outstanding achievements.

Neji is because the Hyuga clan has Byakugan, Minazuki Haku is because there is a white character in his name, and Shion is because she is good-looking and has fair skin.

Although the three of them are the strongest on the Iwa Ninja side, in terms of personnel arrangements and battle command, everyone listens to Aono Shinichi, Minamoto Shizuka and Lion.

There are also heroes on Konoha's side who temporarily support the backbone: Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto are the leaders, and Nara Shikamaru, Aburame Shino, and Xiao Li are the assistants.

Among the little heroes in Konoha, Sasuke and Naruto only knew how to charge and fight on their own, but Hinata was the real leader.

Hinata has become the actual person giving orders to these little strong men.

Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto were also given titles by the outside world and were called the Three Blacks of Konoha.

Sasuke's Amaterasu black flames burn everything, Naruto's black-red state when he transforms into a half-tailed beast, and Hinata's black transformation!

As Hinata's reputation grew, her previous personality was brought up as a source of discussion.

The simple, kind, and shy princess quickly transformed into a cold-blooded, strong, and truthful queen after experiencing a drastic change in her family.

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

Everyone in the Fire Country, opponents from the Earth Country, and other spectators are all talking about it.

In the country of fire, in the melee zone north of Konoha Village, Konoha's temporary headquarters is currently gathering many elites such as Konoha Sankoku and Nara Shikamaru.

At this time, Naruto and Inuzuka Kiba were arguing fiercely about something.

"Naruto, you idiot, the west side must be a false target created by Iwa Ninja, and Hinata Neji and others must be in the east side." Inuzuka Kiba shouted loudly.

Naruto did not give in at all, he said: "How can it be in the east? There is obviously no movement in the east."

Inuzuka Kiba said in a tone that sounded like he was talking to a fool: "It is precisely because there is no movement in the east that it is abnormal. When did the Iwa ninja stop calming down 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 Namikaze, am here!"

"The Iwa ninja are obviously afraid of me. They don't dare to appear in the east."

Inuzuka Kiba immediately retorted: "Then why do they still appear in the west?"

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

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

But the distance is not much different.

The two had a lively quarrel, but others almost ignored them.

Only Choji Akimichi and Xiao Li were eating and looking at the two of them, and they didn't know if their minds were spinning.

Aburame Shino, Saai, Yamanaka Ino, and Tenten all set their sights on Nara Shikamaru.

Nara Shikamaru looked at Hinata, and Hinata was also looking at him. His heartbeat paused for a moment, and then he said quickly: "I think there is no need for us to worry about the specific march route of Neji and others."

"This time the intelligence shows that Ningji and others have all left the Iwa Ninja Temporary Command, so their target will only be us."

"The three Iwa ninjas are gathered together, and Kurotsuchi and others are here. This situation rarely happens."

"They don't need to dispatch all the scattered teams to deal with them, and they won't risk crossing us into the south of the Fire Country in this battle situation."

"So I judge that the target of Ningci and others is us. We just need to guard this place."

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

"We'll stay here and wait for the Iwa Ninja's attack. But we can't be careless. Send more reconnaissance ninjas out to grasp the intelligence everywhere in time."

Seeing Hinata speak, Nara Shikamaru and others did not hesitate and quickly agreed.

Nara Shikamaru even got up directly to arrange for reconnaissance ninjas.

And Inuzuka Kiba didn't dare to disobey Hinata's order, so he lowered 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 the corner, and said nothing.

Sasuke was the one with the most serious thoughts. In the process of getting along with Naruto, he gradually gave up the idea of ​​leaving Konoha and going to the Iwa Ninja 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 chuunin exam!

So Sasuke doesn't care about Nara Shikamaru's analysis, nor does he care about Hinata's decision, as long as he can go against Neji.

Moreover, with Sasuke's arrogance, being willing to sit here and listen to these rubbish discussions has already given them a lot of face.

After he defeats Neji and completely washes away his shame, he will fly solo.

There is nothing worth missing in Konoha!

Just when he thought 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 responded with two words coldly and closed his eyes.

Afterwards, no matter how much Naruto roared, Sasuke ignored him.

But, what tactics should be used to deal with Neji? Sasuke began to recall the several battles between himself and Neji in the past two years.

Sasuke has been defeated by Neji many times, and with the continuous use of the Mangekyou Sharingan, Sasuke also found that his eyesight was seriously declining.

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

What he didn't even know was that Kakashi had another pair of Mangekyō Sharingan needed to upgrade his eyes.

On the other side, just as Nara Shikamaru guessed, Neji, Haku, Shion, Kurotsuchi, Sakura, Kamisui Tsuruhime, Fujii Kusanagi and others were slowly approaching Konoha's temporary camp.

In the accompanying team, besides young people like them, there was also Qianhe.

Kaoru and Sakura took turns to guard the Iwa Ninja Village as usual, while Kurama Yakumo did not want to conflict with Konoha head-on and stayed at the Thunder Country branch.

Neji walked at the front of the team. He had performed 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 estimation, it should be only the last time before the reincarnation eye is fully awakened.

Neji's evolution speed is slower than Yichen imagined. In the original work, it didn't take long for Otsutsuki Toneri to awaken the reincarnated eye.

Yichen thinks it may be because Neji's Byakugan is not as pure as Hinata Hanabi.

Perhaps Neji was originally no worse than Hinata Hanabi, but his Byakugan has always been restricted by the caged bird, so his promotion was slower.

It is also possible that Neji's compatibility with the giant reincarnated eye is not as close as that of Otsutsuki Toneri. He did not receive the baptism of the reincarnated eye chakra from a young age like Otsutsuki Toneri.

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

This operation was also initiated by Neji. His purpose was not only to destroy Konoha's temporary camp and deal a blow to Konoha's morale.

What's more important is to test the power of his current reincarnated eye.

After reaching Ningji's level, normal sparring was of little use. After his strength rapidly improved, he could only adapt to the new power through fighting.

Neji looked at Qianhe aside and asked: "Senior Sister Qianhe, is there anything going on in Konoha?"

Chiga said: "Naruto Namikaze has been at Konoha Camp and has never left!"

I don't know what Yichen's considerations were, but Qianhe would swallow some blood 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 also helped Yichen determine the exact location of Mt. Miaomu in time.

But Masuzu did not let Chiga stop, but asked her to pay closer attention to Naruto's movements.

This time Neji brought Chiga with him because he wanted to judge Konoha's reaction through Naruto's position.

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

Just in time, the Konoha ninjas were eliminated at once, and Konoha's temporary headquarters was casually destroyed.

Neji is still young, and although he has become a Kage level, he has not joined the Iwa Ninja Village advisory group.

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

But precisely because Neji didn't know the existence of the Six Paths Sage, Yi Chen gave him the main task of dealing with ordinary ninjas in Konoha.

If Zaiji and Uchiha Izuru were left to do it, they would definitely do it with their hands tied.

At the end of the team were Shiro and Shion.

Shiro's expression is relatively plain. He is a normal ninja, who has gone from genin to chunin to jounin, elite jounin, and finally to the shadow level.

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

But Ziyuan next to him was completely different. She was eager to fight the upcoming war.

Ziyuan was promoted half a year ago.

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

Because the people in Xiaobaiqiu's research team were not making enough progress, Yichen himself joined it in the past two years.

This can speed up the research progress. After all, Yichen's strength and knowledge are there, and the work efficiency of others is far less than his.

This can also train Yichen's soul power, which has skyrocketed in the past two years.

Yichen, who was working late at night in the laboratory outside the village as usual, suddenly noticed a violent Yin Escape fluctuation in the village.

Yichen was startled and immediately put down his work and rushed to the source of the fluctuation.

There are many Kage-level people in Iwa Ninja Village, but these people's attainments 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 something strange 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 found the source when they saw Yichen flying quickly towards Ziyuan's residence.

So Yichen was the first to see Shion who was in a bad state.

Ziyuan was wearing fluffy pajamas and lying on the bed with a painful expression.

After a little inspection, Yichen figured out the reason. It should be that the demons in Ziyuan's body fought back.

As Ziyon becomes more and more powerful, her ability to suppress and digest monsters becomes stronger and stronger.

However, it stands to reason that the sprite should have no chance to fight back, as the sprite's consciousness was knocked out by Yichen long ago.

Yichen observed for a while, and when Han arrived first, he told him a few words and then used the spiritual transformation technique to enter Ziyuan's body.

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

Ziyuan's soul was obviously a little excited when she saw Yichen arriving.

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

And around Ziyuan's soul body, there were a large number of demon tentacles wrapped around it.

The other end of the tentacle leads to a place similar to the tailed beast's seal.

There are continuous runes there, and they emit a special purple-red light, which looks beautiful and magical, like a fairyland.

But Yichen knew that on the other side of the seal was an extremely ugly and ferocious monster.

Yichen turned his gaze back to Ziyuan and found that instead of the tentacles wrapping around her, it was better to say that these tentacles had become one with her.

Aster and Demon are fighting for control of these tentacles, with Aster 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 Shion's ability to control her soul body.

Precisely because the soul strength is strong enough, Shion can see Yichen and can also send a distress signal.

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

Although Shion had always known that there was a monster inside her, she didn't feel that it was so awkward thanks to the promotion of Jinchuuriki in the Iwa Ninja Village.

But when she actually saw the demon in her soul state, and her soul was deeply entangled with the demon, the nauseating feeling was too unbearable.

As a result, Ziyuan's heart was in confusion. At this time, she was left with only instinct, and she was instinctively resisting those disgusting tentacles.

She completely forgot how to use the power of a miko.

Fortunately, the monster was knocked unconscious after being severely injured by Yichen. Its counterattack was unconscious and an instinctive behavior.

That's why Ziyuan can persist until Yichen's arrival, otherwise the demon would have reversely fused Ziyuan by this time.

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

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

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

After cutting off these tentacles, Yichen placed a soul seal around Shion's body to block the tentacles that re-extended from the miko's seal.

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

"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, nothing will happen."

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

Ziyuan still trusted Yichen's words. She quickly closed her eyes and started taking deep breaths as Yichen said.

Although the soul state was not breathing, doing this action still made Ziyuan slowly calm down.

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

After calming down, Shion quickly demonstrated the miko's ability to restrain the monsters. After she unleashed her miko power, 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 monsters."

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

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

"To you, demons are just a special kind of chakra, and you have been absorbing this chakra since you were a child."

Ziyuan was still a little scared and nauseous when she saw the demon again, but she was generally fine.

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

Ziyon nodded and made a special posture with her hands. Then the power of the miko in her body reached its peak in an instant, and purple-red light lingered around her.

Yichen smiled, creating such a big battle meant that Ziyuan was still a little scared, but it didn't matter.

Yichen unlocked the soul seal, and the next moment those demon tentacles instinctively wrapped around Ziyuan again.

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

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

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

The power transmitted by the sprite's instinct could no longer satisfy Ziyuan, and she began to actively draw the sprite's power through her tentacles.

And as Ziyuan actively absorbed it, the miko seal that sealed the demon trembled slightly.

Just when Yichen was worried about whether something would go wrong with the miko's seal, the miko's seal actually resonated with the power of the miko in Shion's body.

The next moment, the beautiful and magical witch seal glowed brightly, and then a large amount of the power of the monsters began to be directly transformed into the power of the witch.

This transformation occurs inside the seal, which is where the monster's body is.

Yichen was stunned. It turns out that the witch seal still has this ability?

If the sprite had subjective consciousness, it would be very painful at this time, but the sprite in the seal was very calm, allowing the power of the witch to transform it.

After a while, Ziyuan opened her eyes.

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

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

(End of chapter)