Chapter 268: Land of Lightning Merchants Flee South
After the trio of Shiranui Genma delivered Uchiha Douhuan to the border station, Uchiha Douhuan had the three of them return to the village first, while he himself headed alone towards the location Jiraiya had transmitted.
When Uchiha Douhuan arrived, this area had already been sealed off by the Land of Rain's Barrier Team. The Hidden Rain Village ninja guarding the perimeter, upon seeing Uchiha Douhuan arrive, went in to report. Not long after, Konan personally came to the entrance of the barrier to welcome Uchiha Douhuan inside.
"Lord Hokage, if you please."
As Uchiha Douhuan followed Konan into the barrier, he asked, "How is the situation? Any new discoveries?"
"Nagato is over there maintaining the black receivers that can seal that special energy, and Jiraiya-sensei is currently studying those things. For now, we can basically conclude that the squad that attacked us is not human," Konan said.
"Let me go have a look first," Uchiha Douhuan nodded and followed Konan to the side of Jiraiya and Nagato, who were currently studying the dozen or so artificial human corpses.
"Douhuan, you're here," Jiraiya stood up and made way upon seeing Uchiha Douhuan. "Come and take a look. There is no blood in these people's bodies, and their internal organs are all mechanical devices. However, their bodies look very much like real flesh and blood, and inside their bodies, there are various different kinds of chakra."
"There is chakra present?" Uchiha Douhuan reached out and turned over the corpse of an attacker. Looking at the shell-like pattern on the armor, his expression sharpened. It really was the Kara organization. Then, these guys should be artificial humans.
"In a moment, I will take these corpses back to Konoha and hand them over to professionals for research," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Lord Hokage, if I'm not around, these black receivers that counter that special energy in their armor won't last long. Once these black receivers disappear, that energy will instantly run rampant and explode," Nagato pointed at a deep crater not far away, caused by the explosion of the attacker squad leader's armor.
"Explosion? What explosion?" at this time, a yellow-haired person came over.
"There's nothing for you here. Go and entertain the other guests," seeing this, Konan directly grabbed Deidara's ear and walked him out.
"Jiraiya, can Sage Art chakra also suppress this kind of energy?" Uchiha Douhuan turned his head to look at Jiraiya and asked.
"Sage Art chakra is useless. Only pure natural energy has a suppressive effect on this thing. When Sage Art chakra encounters this energy, the chakra part of it will be quickly decomposed. The remaining pure natural energy, if it can't be controlled, is even more dangerous," Jiraiya said.
"Only natural energy can be used? Then I understand," Uchiha Douhuan nodded. He closed and opened his eyes, and silver eyeshadow appeared at the corners of his eyes.
Subsequently, Uchiha Douhuan took a deep breath and began to use his sage chakra to guide the natural energy in the air. Then, under Jiraiya's incredulous gaze, Uchiha Douhuan constructed a sealing jutsu formula with pure natural energy, enveloping the corpse of an attacker within it.
"Try removing the black receiver," Uchiha Douhuan said to Nagato after finishing all this.
Nagato nodded. His Rinnegan flashed, and the black receiver inserted into this corpse slowly dissipated. At this time, the Six Paths of Pain puppet on the side stood ready. As soon as it discovered something was wrong, it was prepared to take the few of them and quickly retreat.
However, after the black receiver disappeared, the sealing jutsu formula set up by Uchiha Douhuan firmly locked the remaining energy inside the armor, not letting a single bit leak out.
"Sealing jutsu can be used like this?" Jiraiya couldn't help but exclaim upon seeing this.
"Why not?" Uchiha Douhuan chuckled lightly. "Unlike ninjutsu, which can only be released with chakra, as long as you master the principle of sealing jutsu, you can use any energy to activate it."
Although Jiraiya's proficiency in sealing jutsu was also ranked among the top in the current ninja world, having received a ninja education from a young age and lacking mathematical thinking, his sealing jutsu was more about rote memorization of formulas.
"Your sealing jutsu is already stronger than Minato's and Kushina's back then. If only Naruto could learn this skill from you," Jiraiya sighed upon seeing this.
"Can't be helped. If you can't learn it, you just can't," Uchiha Douhuan shrugged. The two exchanged a look, then simultaneously looked at Naruto, who was fooling around with Deidara not far away, and shook their heads helplessly.
Both Uchiha Douhuan's mathematical teaching method and Jiraiya's rote memorization teaching method had been tried on Naruto. But Naruto had still only learned the most basic Two Symbols Seal, and it only worked intermittently when he used it.
"Teacher? Grandpa Jiraiya? What are you talking about?" Ever since the Nine-Tails' seal was completely undone, Naruto's perception had become extremely sharp. The gaze of the two had only been on him for a moment before it attracted Naruto's attention. Naruto came over and asked.
"We're talking about your sealing jutsu!" Jiraiya said with annoyance.
"What's there to talk about with my sealing jutsu? I just can't learn it, right? What's the big deal? It's not like Teacher can learn..." Naruto's voice gradually faded as he spoke, because he suddenly sensed malice coming from Uchiha Douhuan.
Naruto slowly turned his head and found that Uchiha Douhuan was already undoing his belt. He hurriedly said, "Teacher, that's not what I meant..."
"I think you've been out for too long, and your skin is starting to itch," Uchiha Douhuan said with a cold laugh.
In the next moment, Naruto began to spin like a top, screaming miserably as he spun.
"Big Brother Kurama! Don't just watch!" After screaming for a while, Naruto intended to enter Kurama Mode to escape. But this time, his request to transform, which had always been successful, was directly rejected by the Nine-Tails.
"If you're looking for a beating, don't drag me into it," inside the seal space, the sleeping Nine-Tails said without lifting its head as it changed its position.
"Yo, stinking fox, you're also afraid of someone?" At this time, Shukaku's sarcastic voice sounded in the Nine-Tails' ear.
"If you're so tough, go fight him. If you can beat him, I'll admit you're tough," the Nine-Tails said without lifting its head.
It could be said that among the nine Tailed Beasts, only Shukaku, who had already been sealed by the old monk Bunpuku when Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara were capturing Tailed Beasts all over the ninja world, had not been beaten. And now that there was this opportunity, the Nine-Tails really wanted to see this stinking tanuki get this beating.
As everyone knows, the four words "I'll admit you're tough" often have a huge killing power on male creatures. Upon hearing the Nine-Tails' words, Shukaku immediately said to Gaara, "Brat, give me control of your body!"
"No, that's Naruto's teacher," Gaara refused without even thinking. Hokage or not didn't matter. The main thing was that Uchiha Douhuan was the elder of his only friend in the ninja world.
"That's not up to you!" Under the temptation of those four words, Shukaku directly began to fight for control of Gaara's body.
Uchiha Douhuan, who had sensed the abnormal chakra fluctuation, looked back and immediately frowned.
The Mangekyo Sharingan instantly opened. After coming to Gaara's side, his spiritual power directly entered his seal space.
Above Shukaku's head, who was fighting for control of the body, a giant black hand pressed down, directly smashing a huge crater in Shukaku's seal space.
"Who?" inside the seal space, Shukaku roared and turned its head. Then, with just one glance, Shukaku's eyes became clear.
For no other reason than that the scale of Uchiha Douhuan's Susanoo that had appeared in the seal space was even larger than the Nine-Tails at its full strength.
"You... you... you... what do you want?" Shukaku said, shrinking back. He finally understood why that fellow Kurama was unwilling to help even when watching its own Jinchuriki get beaten.
Uchiha Douhuan said nothing. After just giving Shukaku a good thrashing, he then came to Gaara's side within the seal space, then sized up Shukaku's seal and said with a frown, "The seal of your Sand Village is too crude. The Tailed Beasts of other villages can at most erode the Jinchuriki's sanity through the seal's gaps. You can directly fight with him for control of the body?"
"It's been fine for a while," Gaara said after scratching his head. "He seems to be very afraid of the big fox in Naruto's body, so he hasn't been causing trouble for me during this time."
"From now on, he won't have the chance to cause you trouble again," Uchiha Douhuan said, directly undoing Gaara's seal from the outside. Then, before Shukaku could react, he used two Four Symbols Seals to form an Eight Trigrams Seal, completing the reorganization of the seal space.
Subsequently, Uchiha Douhuan handed a section of the seal's key formula to Gaara and said at the same time, "This seal will allow you to unilaterally extract his chakra for your own use. When he is willing to get along with you properly, you can then use this to open the seal."
"Thank you," Gaara said after taking the key to the seal, only speaking after a moment's daze.
"Your sister is already handling your problem over there. It won't be long before you can go back," Uchiha Douhuan said.
After Uchiha Douhuan finished speaking, he took Gaara and left the seal space, leaving only the stunned Shukaku alone in a mess.
This little interlude didn't take up much time. After returning to the side of those few corpses, Uchiha Douhuan once again followed the same method, using a sealing jutsu constructed of natural energy to seal them all up.
"Do you want me to leave a copy for you to study?" After packing up all the corpses and armor, Uchiha Douhuan looked at Nagato and asked. After all, this was on their territory, and it was also thanks to them that they had obtained these spoils of war. If he took them all away, Uchiha Douhuan felt it would be a bit impolite.
"No need. The Hidden Rain Village doesn't have anyone who specializes in this area. If it's left with us, I'll have to worry about this thing exploding all the time," Nagato refused with a shake of his head.
"Then I'll take them all," Uchiha Douhuan nodded, then turned his head to look at Naruto, who had quickly recovered after being thrashed. "What about you? Do you want to go back to the village with me?"
"Teacher, Big Brother Kurama wants me to go to Sister Fū's place and meet the other Tailed Beasts," Naruto said.
"Oh? Is that so?" Uchiha Douhuan nodded, then his spiritual power entered the Nine-Tails' seal space.
The moment it saw Uchiha Douhuan, the Nine-Tails immediately became guarded, "What are you doing here?"
"Why do you want Naruto to meet the other Tailed Beasts?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.
"Didn't your eyes see the scene of me fighting side by side with this kid? Then you should know who our enemy is," the Nine-Tails said.
"Is it the Ten-Tails? This kind of energy that can decompose chakra, does it come from the Ten-Tails?" Uchiha Douhuan said.
"You really know about these things," the Nine-Tails also sat up at this time, looking at Uchiha Douhuan seriously. "Since you understand what that thing is, then you should also be clear about what that thing means to us Tailed Beasts. It can be said that in this world, the ones who least want that thing to return to the world are us Tailed Beasts."
Uchiha Douhuan nodded. The Nine-Tails' words also verified his guess. The armor of these artificial humans contained the power extracted from the other Ten-Tails in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's hands. That was why this power had such a great counter-effect on chakra. After all, the Ten-Tails could be said to be the source of all chakra in the entire ninja world.
"And after seeing the other Tailed Beasts?" Uchiha Douhuan at this time turned his head to look at Naruto.
"After meeting the other Tailed Beasts, I plan to continue traveling in the ninja world," Naruto said. "My plan is already a little more than half complete. I can't just give up halfway."
"You've also seen the enemy's strength. With that kind of energy, you might not be able to deal with them with just the Nine-Tails' power," Uchiha Douhuan reminded. "How is your Sage Mode from Mount Myoboku coming along?"
"Almost there, I guess. But it seems Big Brother Kurama is not too happy about me learning that," Naruto said, scratching his head.
"What's so good about those stinky toads' jutsu?" the Nine-Tails sneered.
"Kurama, you saw it just now. Natural energy is currently the only channel Naruto has to acquire the power to deal with the Ten-Tails," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Yes, yes, I know. I won't disturb this kid from learning those toads' jutsu in the future," the Nine-Tails said with some impatience.
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After Uchiha Douhuan returned to Konoha with the dozen or so artificial human corpses and armor, he sent 3 to Konoha's current Scientific Ninja Tool Research Institute, then sent 5 to Orochimaru's side, who was currently lying low in Ryuchi Cave. Of course, Uchiha Douhuan also didn't forget to leave two research materials for the older generation's old scientist, Senju Tobirama. With these three working on it, something should be researched out soon.
A month or so passed. There was no major progress in the research on the artificial human corpses for the time being. However, during this period, many big merchants from the Land of Lightning, carrying large sums of cash, fled to the territory of their Land of Fire.
(End of chapter)
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