After a while of questioning, Minami learned about the backgrounds of Shiro and Kimimaro from them. Their almost identical experiences quickly evoked feelings of pity and empathy in Minami.
"Lord Yoichi, I want to take Shiro and Kimimaro to buy some clothes and daily necessities."
"Alright, I originally wanted Mikota to bring them back..."
"No need, I can handle these small matters myself!"
Uzumaki Minami flexed her muscles as a sign that she was perfectly fine, and after tidying up a bit, she prepared to take Shiro and Kimimaro to the supermarket.
Uchiha Yoichi calculated the date; Minami was now about eight months along, but ninja bodies were different from ordinary people. Moreover, Minami had also fused Hashirama Cells, greatly enhancing her physique.
Madam Mikota had also fused Hashirama Cells, which greatly restored her strength. Despite not having fought for nearly ten years, she still possessed Jonin-level strength.
Moreover, she regularly accompanied Itachi during his training, as someone with Jonin-level strength and the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, training with a child who wasn't even a Ninja Academy student was more than adequate.
"For the last two or three months, we won't leave the village, but the village should have a base. Let's just make one in the underground space near home..."
Uchiha Yoichi thought to himself, having acquired Yakujin's alchemy ability, he was now eager to try it out.
He remembered that Uzumaki Minami had left a compendium of ninja world herbs at home after studying pharmacy; Uchiha Yoichi quickly found it—a meter long, half a meter thick herbal book.
Upon opening it in the living room, Uchiha Yoichi discovered that although it contained many herbs, a lot of their effects were not fully documented.
"The Nara Race seems to have even more comprehensive herb books, but they likely wouldn't lend them out. I recall they only lent them out because Akimichi Chouji was in a life-threatening situation..."
However, Uchiha Yoichi didn't care. With his alchemy ability now, recognizing herb properties and effects wasn't very difficult. Yakujin had encountered over ten thousand types of herbs, even using poisonous ones to concoct elixirs.
Crack.
The door suddenly opened, and Yugito walked in, briefly stunned to see Uchiha Yoichi in the living room, thinking she had mistaken him. She then stood still, rubbed her eyes, and took a careful look.
"It's only been a month since you left, why so surprised? We'll continue training tomorrow. You won't have any rest for a long time, I'll be staying in Konoha."
Uchiha Yoichi said, despite having numerous tasks, most could be resolved using Wood Clones. The Hokage Assistant's duties could also be handled by Wood Clones.
His real body began researching elixirs!
"I haven't rested at all recently, I've been training every day!"
Yugito scoffed, and when Uchiha Yoichi turned away, her face showed a trace of a smile. However, just as she intended to return to her room to change clothes, she spotted Uchiha Yoichi stretching and saying.
"Completing a month of missions is exhausting; I need a massage, Yugito!"
The girl, upon hearing this, although accustomed to Uchiha Yoichi's unreasonable requests, still couldn't help but blush.
"H! Pervert, freak! You should really stay outside on missions, hmph~!"
After expressing her distaste, the girl raised her swan-like neck as if to leave for her room, but soon, Uchiha Yoichi heard water sounds.
Shortly after, a girl wearing white knee-high socks emerged, full of disdain on her face, sitting on the sofa backrest, suppressing her inner embarrassment and said, "Lie down properly!"
"Thanks for the treat..."
"Id... idiot~! If you say such silly things again, I won't agree next time!"
Upon hearing this, the girl's face instantly turned red. Her words made her seem like a divine attendant girl; this contemptible, perverted wolf. Yugito felt furious, then stretched her smooth and delicate white silken feet, and stomped hard.
'I refuse to believe you won't feel pain!'
Yugito thought to herself, deeply increasing the strength, even rotating half a circle after stomping on the bones. However, the result was that her own delicate foot quickly began to feel numb.
Moreover, her strength drained rapidly. Even sitting on the sofa backrest, exerting force was quite difficult, especially since the girl had just trained that morning.
Experienced runners all know, charging with full force from the start quickly leads to exhaustion and slow walking.
Yugito was now like this; after fiercely stomping for a while, her slender, smooth calf lost strength, now not really stomping, but dragging her silky white foot up and down Uchiha Yoichi's back.
Feeling this motion, Uchiha Yoichi suddenly had a thought; could he accept a massage while shirtless? But with Yugito's personality, she'd likely call him a pervert and flatly refuse.
However, from a massage perspective, clothing is indeed the greatest hindrance to maximizing the effects.
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"Pill Furnace, this should barely qualify as a Pill Furnace..."
Uchiha Yoichi looked at the furnace before him; it was far from the pill furnaces in his memory, but he couldn't replicate the pill furnaces from Yakujin's memories entirely.
After all, he wasn't an alchemist, even in using flames; he mastered it with skilled Chakra control along with Godzilla's heat release ability, spewing flames from his mouth to concoct elixirs.
As for creating flames with just his hands... can't do it!
With Chakra's properties, before Six Paths, executing such feats would be incredibly difficult.
Chakra, once detached from the body, is challenging to control and alter, but if not detached, it would burn even oneself.
Spending a hand to concoct every elixir, Uchiha Yoichi wasn't that lavish.
"I'll try first. Enhancing Soldier Pills should be quite easy."
Deciding this, Uchiha Yoichi began trying to enhance the simplest Soldier Pills using a tailored pill furnace.
The regular method of compacting herb powder into pill form, Uchiha Yoichi altered the formula slightly, adding another process, doubling the Chakra recovery effect and greatly reducing side effects.
This alchemy site was newly constructed by Uchiha Yoichi using Earth Release in the past few days, situated in a five to six-meter deep underground space, supported by Wood Release; security is absolutely reliable.
Moreover, it has good ventilation, essential for constant alchemy.
The first batch of elixirs failed unexpectedly; perhaps it was his first time using mouth-control flames, temperature control wasn't precise yet.
After thoroughly cleaning the pill furnace, Uchiha Yoichi began the second attempt.
The third attempt...
The fourth attempt succeeded directly, leveraging the failures from earlier; Uchiha Yoichi's concoction was now perfectly robust, and the freshly enhanced Soldier Pills were rounded and full with a glazed appearance.
"Seems like a success..."
Uchiha Yoichi took one and tasted it, and within a minute, he felt the Soldier Pill's effects.
However, with his own rapid recovery power, not mentioning Hashirama Cells, he also had Chakra from the Two-tailed and Seven-tailed beasts; the Soldier Pill's effects weren't clearly evident.
Subsequently, Uchiha Yoichi took the Soldier Pills to the forest outside. Today, his Wood Clone was guiding Yugito's training, and his alchemy site wasn't far from Yugito's training forest.
......
"Fire Release shouldn't be used this way; the heat and flame burst speed both are indispensable. This Fire Release can't hit anyone....."
Uchiha Yoichi's Wood Clone was instructing, but paused midway, and subsequently Uchiha Yoichi suddenly appeared corporeally in front of Yugito.
"What happened?"
Yugito wiped her sweat, realizing another Uchiha Yoichi had arrived, she knew it was the real profane wolf's corporeal form.
"Coincidentally, your Chakra consumption is significant. Try my newly researched Soldier Pills; their effects are much better than before."
After speaking, Uchiha Yoichi handed two Soldier Pills to Yugito.
"Why are they so dark? Like glass beads, you researched them..... Are they poisoned?"
Despite her disdainful tone, Yugito still took one and chewed it down.
Soon, Yugito felt her lower abdomen's Chakra quickly recovering, her stamina regained, recovering almost totally.
This recovery effect was akin to receiving Medical Ninjutsu treatment, causing her eyes to widen in surprise.