Chapter 301: One Man Suppresses a Village, The Unyielding Akiyama Makoto
In fact, Akiyama Makoto could kill White Zetsu instantly right now.
However, the problem was that Obito could sense the death of a White Zetsu.
If the White Zetsu staring at Makoto died, Obito would realize that Makoto killed it.
Then what awaited Makoto would be another escalation of the conflict.
So the most important thing wasn't to kill White Zetsu, but to cut off the connection between White Zetsu, the Divine Tree, and Obito.
It seems the key is still Wood Style—
Because White Zetsu was essentially a plant person, Makoto estimated that improving his Wood Style ability was an indispensable part if he wanted to influence these guys.
Or he could improve his genjutsu ability and then choose to control White Zetsu—Eh?
Thinking of this, Makoto's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately chose the guidance.
Makoto still had a big killer weapon he got from Danzō.
However, Makoto hadn't planned to use this thing, wanting to keep it for later research.
After all, for Makoto, relying on controlling others to gain power wasn't worth the loss. He could totally gain strong enough power in the simulation.
Now that he was simulating, it was time to use this thing.
[You entered a secret room in the Land of Waves and put on Shisui's eyes. Although this was your first time using the Sharingan, because you already had strong enough spiritual power, you soon figured out all the usage and abilities of the Sharingan.]
[From the most basic dynamic observation ability, to the copying and imitation of ninjutsu, and the amplification and interference of genjutsu, all gave you a novel experience.]
[However, most of these abilities were useless to you, but some abilities still inspired you.]
[For example, although you have mastered a powerful foundational ninjutsu like the Formless Wave, your genjutsu level is still limited. But with the Sharingan, you found that you could totally simulate the chakra operation logic of the Sharingan to use genjutsu.]
[Although you will consume more chakra and spiritual power, for you who have incredibly powerful chakra and spiritual power, these are mostly not problems at all.]
Makoto looked at this scene in surprise. Was there such a gain?
But soon he reacted. Achieving this level wasn't strange for the current Makoto.
Because there was an ability in the Sharingan called Transcription Seal.
Simply put, it was a special sealing ninjutsu of the Uchiha clan.
This technique allowed the caster to seal a dōjutsu or ninjutsu in their own or someone else's Sharingan in advance. When the preset conditions were met, the sealed technique would be automatically triggered.
For example, Madara Uchiha sealed Izanagi in his right eye during the Battle of the Valley of the End, using this technique to resurrect and fake his death.
Itachi Uchiha implanted Amaterasu in Sasuke's eye, setting it to trigger combustion when contacting Obito's Sharingan.
This meant that the ninjutsu mastered by the Uchiha family could actually be activated in someone else's body.
Although this required some Uchiha pupil power as a catalyst, the chakra to activate this ninjutsu still needed to be provided by the original ninja.
In other words, as long as Makoto had Uchiha pupil power as a catalyst, he could almost activate all the non-Mangekyō abilities of the Uchiha family.
As for where these pupil power catalysts came from—the answer was also very simple. Makoto already had successful experience in cloning the Hyūga family's Byakugan.
Although Makoto couldn't clone high-level Byakugan like Hinata and Hanabi's, cloning low-level Byakugan was enough to generate pupil power for Makoto's use.
That is to say, Makoto could totally rely solely on Uchiha pupil power to turn himself into a genjutsu ninja with abilities similar to the Uchiha family.
As for those Mangekyō abilities, Makoto naturally couldn't copy them, because that was related to each ninja's spirit, a unique spiritual imprint ninjutsu.
Makoto quickly understood everything and continued to watch the simulation. Then the development in the simulation gave him a surprise.
[Not only that, after some research, you successfully unleashed Susanoo. Susanoo, as a ninjutsu that can be released once possessing the Mangekyō Sharingan, has high requirements for the ninja's pupil power and chakra.]
[You fully meet these conditions, and even tried to use Byakugan pupil power and your own chakra to drive Susanoo.]
[You failed because Susanoo collapsed. You also succeeded because, using the experience of the Lightning Release Armor, you also vaguely created your own Gundam.]
Seeing this scene, Makoto was completely shocked.
Analyzing the basic abilities of the Mangekyō was one thing, but how did he even analyze Susanoo?
Of course, using the word "analyze" to describe might be a bit exaggerated. Makoto was doing more of imitating Susanoo.
However, because Makoto already had a very high starting point, had the Kekkei Genkai of Byakugan, and had mastered chakra shape transformation and nature transformation to an extremely high degree.
Simulating Susanoo under such conditions became a possible thing.
It was just the same problem again; the efficiency might not compare to the traditional Sharingan.
Even this problem was only a current problem, because he seemed likely to rely on Byakugan pupil power and his own extremely high attributes to create another kind of Gundam belonging to himself!
Thinking of this, Makoto got excited.
Then he suppressed his excitement and didn't choose to continue guiding. Instead, he chose to leave this difficult problem for subsequent simulation research, because the main purpose of this simulation was to obtain panel bonuses and Sage Mode.
Trying to control White Zetsu with Shisui's Sharingan was enough to trigger a series of events. Makoto, having enough simulation attempts, didn't need to bite off more than he could chew.
[You didn't continue to waste the pupil power in Shisui's eyes, but left the secret room. While White Zetsu wasn't paying attention, you teleported it directly out of the ground.]
[Leaving the ground, White Zetsu became very fragile and couldn't contact the Divine Tree and Obito through plant roots, but this didn't mean you were safe, because Obito would notice White Zetsu's disappearance.]
[You immediately cast Shisui's Kotoamatsukami to try and control White Zetsu. Unexpectedly, White Zetsu was controlled by you almost instantly, becoming your loyal puppet.]
[You realized you found a shortcut to deceive Obito. You quickly brought White Zetsu back to the ground and let this White Zetsu restore contact with Obito, telling him everything was normal.]
[White Zetsu obediently did so, telling Obito it accidentally entered your barrier but had escaped successfully. Obito didn't have any suspicion. From then on, you temporarily got rid of Obito's surveillance.]
Seeing this, Makoto breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, Shisui's Sharingan was strong enough, at least controlling White Zetsu was no problem.
Now with White Zetsu, Makoto didn't need to worry about everything around him being reported to Obito.
But to ensure the safety of this White Zetsu, it would still report Makoto's recent situation to Obito, but it would pretend not to see Makoto's secrets.
Not only that, Makoto was thinking, maybe the research on White Zetsu could start from this guy.
This matter probably had to trouble Orochimaru.
The simulation continued. The Makoto in the simulation had similar considerations to the Makoto in reality, but more radical.
[You decided to name White Zetsu 'Old Eight', making Old Eight your servant to pass fake news to Obito. Not only that, you also tried to experiment on White Zetsu, attempting to cut off the connection between White Zetsu and Obito and pass fake news.]
[Soon you regrettably found that with your current level of Wood Style and Yin-Yang Release, you couldn't do these things yet. Controlling this White Zetsu with Shisui's Kotoamatsukami was already your limit.]
[And this White Zetsu wasn't the powerful kind around Obito that could turn into a White Zetsu coat to wrap Obito and greatly enhance his combat capability, but only had the most basic White Zetsu abilities.]
[However, you could order it to gather some intelligence for you instead, but you couldn't do this for long, because if it was absent from the correct position for a long time, it would arouse Obito's suspicion.]
Seeing this scene, Makoto's expression was fairly calm.
He knew very well how troublesome White Zetsu was. Being able to solve the immediate trouble was satisfying enough.
Even because he used Shisui's Sharingan, his genjutsu ability had improved greatly, and he might even develop a Byakugan version of Susanoo because of this. How could Makoto not be happy?
[After solving the White Zetsu trouble, you took Haku and Zabuza to the Hidden Mist Village and began to intervene in the chaos there.]
[This time Old Eight played a huge role, not only successfully helping you gather more detailed intelligence, but even telling you Obito's intelligence in return.]
[This meant that you and Obito began an era of two-way intelligence transparency. And because of your performance in the Chūnin Exams, Obito increased his attention on you, wary of your actions in the Hidden Mist Village.]
[You adjusted your actions appropriately, showing an intention to obtain the support of the Hidden Mist Village and then conduct trade with the Land of Water, making yourself appear more mercenary.]
[And your choice made Obito choose to believe temporarily, because until now you were a Konoha civilian. Although you intervened in the Konoha Crush plan, you never served Konoha.]
[Finally, against the backdrop of Obito having finished his revenge and planning to leave the Hidden Mist Village, you successfully solved the Hidden Mist Village's problems and began to publicly intervene in Hidden Mist Village affairs.]
Makoto nodded secretly. Fortunately, with this White Zetsu—now called Old Eight—Makoto didn't have to simply experience the pressure of being spied on by Obito.
He wondered how far his research on White Zetsu would go in the future, and if he could reverse control White Zetsu to spy on Obito's intelligence.
If Obito knew about this one day in the future, would he be angry enough to collapse?
[Ao was extremely dissatisfied with your intervention in the Hidden Mist Village, uniting with Mei Terumī and the Hidden Mist Village ninja to expel you.]
[And you forcefully supported Zabuza's rise. Zabuza returned as a hero, his momentum no less than Mei Terumī's.]
[After all, Mei Terumī's greatest achievement should have been exposing the fact that Yagura Karatachi was controlled in this crisis, but now this achievement went to Zabuza.]
[Ao wanted to trouble you again, but you forcefully found Ao and attacked him in front of everyone, taking away Ao's Byakugan.]
[Facing the shocked and angry Hidden Mist Village people, you said straightforwardly: It's time for this Byakugan to return to its original owner. Those dissatisfied with you can attack you.]
[Mei Terumī led a team with the heavily injured Ao, Chōjūrō, and others to launch an attack on you. You unceremoniously counterattacked everyone.]
[After an earth-shattering battle, you defeated this group of people, suppressing the elites of a small half of the Hidden Mist Village by yourself.]
[After witnessing your strength, all the people of the Hidden Mist Village fell silent. Because until now, you hadn't used any killing moves. Otherwise, once you started killing, the achievements of Mei Terumī and others would collapse even faster.]
Seeing this scene, Makoto couldn't help giving a thumbs up to himself in the simulation.
What he did was just bully the former enemy, but the Makoto in the simulation almost challenged the entire Hidden Mist Village.
Of course, Makoto was very clear about his strength.
Head-on, even Makoto at full power couldn't withstand the siege of a large group of Jōnin.
But once Makoto used the Flying Thunder God, it was different, especially when Makoto struck to kill.
As long as the enemy couldn't crack the Flying Thunder God Technique, Makoto was invincible.
Mei Terumī and Ao without the Byakugan naturally couldn't take down Makoto. Only by calling the Six-Tails Jinchūriki could they put slight pressure on Makoto, but the conflict between the two sides obviously hadn't reached that level.
Now Makoto not only got Ao's Byakugan but also established prestige in the Hidden Mist Village.
Next—would he support Zabuza?
Subsequent simulation proved Makoto guessed right.
[You forcefully ended this dispute with force. Although you only hurt Ao, your relationship with Mei Terumī also hit rock bottom.]
[You realized you had almost no way to pursue Mei Terumī anymore, so you simply gave up approaching her and chose to fully support Zabuza.]
[Half a year later, with your support, Zabuza became the new Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village, and Mei Terumī became the Mizukage advisor.]
[Ao, having lost the Byakugan and been deliberately heavily injured by you, became a cripple and retreated to the second line of the Hidden Mist Village. Although he was secretly planning a counterattack against you, even unable to beat Haku, he had obviously lost the value of attention.]
Makoto breathed a sigh of relief. The trouble in the Hidden Mist Village was considered resolved.
But the Hidden Mist Village was really miserable. Having just sent away Obito, they welcomed Makoto, this killing star.
Of course, Makoto didn't have Obito's malice to completely destroy everything towards the Hidden Mist Village.
He would definitely make the Hidden Mist Village prosperous and strong, but this prosperity and strength had to be under his command and orders.
[New Year of Konoha 65, at the feast of the Hyūga family, you returned Ao's Byakugan to the Hyūga family. Hiashi Hyūga bowed to you regardless of identity and status, and the entire Hyūga family became your firmest ally from then on.]
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