Konoha's Hextech Ninja

Whether we do it or not is another matter; there's no punishment for not finishing it anyway.

However, at least in the short term, it is almost impossible to summon a servant with 'super-shadow level' strength.

Chapter 224 The First Contract Servant, and Another World-Destroying Weapon?

"Awooo~!"

A childlike roar echoed through the Senju clan's territory.

Seeing the cute little beast in Yagami Yoruichi's arms, Kurenai Yuhi's eyes lit up with a heart. She moved closer to Yagami Yoruichi, reaching out her hand, wanting to pick up the little creature in his arms, but afraid of scaring it.

"Its name is Smolder, and it's my summoning beast." Yoruichi Yagami handed the little Charmander to Kurenai Yuhi and said with a smile, "You can hold it too; it's very well-behaved."

"What an adorable little guy!" Kurenai picked up Charmander and sat down next to Yoruichi Yagami, her attention completely focused on the little creature in her arms.

"Awoo~!" The little dragon swung its long tail, looking quite lazy.

"Don't let its small size fool you, it's stronger than you." Yagami Yoruichi said with a chuckle.

After several days of experimentation, Yoruichi Yagami finally completed a hero quest called "Servant Summoning," summoning Charmander Smolder as her contracted creature.

Unlike the summoning contracts in the ninja world, the two people's consciousness and souls are connected to each other to a certain extent.

However, after imprinting the chakra mark, Yoruichi Yagami can also summon Charmander to her side using the Summoning Jutsu.

In terms of strength, Charmander's strength is not considered too strong by Yagami Yoru.

Even though it is still a child, its strength is equivalent to that of a Kage in the ninja world, and it is in a relatively low position in the Kage level.

But even by today's standards, this level of strength is not considered weak.

It's just that it's not much compared to a monster like Yoruichi Yagami.

But if they grow up, they might be able to reach the level of a super-kage, or even higher.

However, given the long lifespan of dragons, if they were to grow naturally, it would take hundreds or even thousands of years for a baby dragon to mature.

To speed up this process, you must feed it food that contains a lot of energy.

Fire-type foods are best.

Alternatively, the fire-style chakra transformed by Yoruichi Yagami would also be an excellent tonic for Charmander.

“Red, you should also sign a psychic contract with Smolder.” Yagami Yoruichi took out a contract scroll.

This is a contract scroll made by Yoruichi Yagami herself. The target of the contract is not a race, but only the little dragon Smolder.

The only name written on it is Yagami Yoruichi's.

Charmander's strength is still a bit weak compared to Yoruichi Yagami's, and under normal circumstances, Yoruichi Yagami doesn't need Charmander's help.

When a summoning beast is truly needed, the slug is actually more helpful to Yoruichi Yagami.

Although slugs are not good at fighting, they are the best summoning beasts in the ninja world when it comes to support.

However, for Kurenai Yuhi, being able to summon Charmander would be an extremely powerful trump card.

A summoning beast with Kage-level strength is enough for Kurenai Yuhi to deal with most of the dangers in the ninja world.

“Okay.” Kurenai smiled and did not refuse. She took out a kunai, cut her finger, wrote her name on the contract scroll, and pressed her fingerprint on it.

"Little guy, I'm your partner from now on, got it?!" Kurenai Yuhi reached out and poked Charmander's head.

"Awooo~!" Charmander shook its head, and a wisp of flame emerged from the top of its head, startling Kurenai Yuhi.

"Is it skilled in Fire Release?" Kurenai asked in surprise.

"Fire Release..." Yagami Yoruichi nodded without explaining, saying, "I guess so. Its specialty is fire."

"Fire attribute, huh? The Fire Release techniques you taught me, I'm still progressing very slowly," Kurenai Yuhi said somewhat sullenly.

"No rush, take your time. New elemental transformations aren't easy to learn. I've only barely scratched the surface of Lightning Release; I haven't mastered all its elements yet," Yagami Yoruichi said with a chuckle.

Kurenai glared at Yoruichi Yagami and retorted, "You're just showing off! I haven't even mastered one attribute yet, and you're almost proficient in all of them!"

As her [Spirit] attribute increased, Yagami Yoruichi's Yin Release talent rapidly soared, allowing her to improve quickly even without spending too much time cultivating.

The only thing that's lacking is the lightning style, which I only recently started researching.

But I've already gotten the hang of it.

With the support of numerous clones, reaching the mastery level won't take too long.

Moreover, Yagami Yoruichi even changed her template to Kenan to enhance her lightning attribute talent.

Before long, Yagami Yoruichi will become one of the few ninjas in the ninja world who is proficient in all seven elements.

While chatting with Kurenai Yuhi, a thought also flashed through Yoruichi Yagami's mind.

By training step by step, changing to a new hero template, and becoming familiar with new abilities, Yagami Yoruichi's strength has improved.

Developing new ninjutsu and other techniques can also expand the boundaries of Yoruichi Yagami's abilities.

However, this improvement seems too slow compared to the rapid progress he made during his previous period of unparalleled power.

Mastering another attribute and learning dozens or even hundreds of ninjutsu techniques simply makes Yagami Yoruichi's abilities more comprehensive.

However, it is difficult to raise the ceiling of Yoruichi Yagami's performance.

Even if the two attributes are fused into a bloodline limit, although Yoruichi Yagami has not tried it yet, she can roughly judge that a normal bloodline limit is not very helpful to her.

Even the Sharingan, a bloodline limit originating from the Otsutsuki clan, offered very little help to Yoruichi Yagami.

Even the Mangekyou Sharingan is at most considered a low-level eye technique, unless one possesses a heaven-defying eye technique like Kamui.

At the very least, she needs to be able to activate the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan of the Complete Susanoo to raise the upper limit of Yagami Yoruichi's combat power.

Other physiques, such as the Thousand Hands and the Uzumaki, are similar; they only work if one possesses special abilities like a Sage's Body of the same level.

However, these bloodline limits cannot be obtained through attribute synthesis alone.

Without the bloodline of the Otsutsuki clan, it would be impossible to obtain.

At this level, Yoruichi Yagami is getting closer and closer to the 'ceiling of super kage level'.

Aside from breaking through the threshold of the Six Paths level, the only things that could significantly boost Yagami Yoru's strength seem to be forbidden techniques like the Eight Gates.

or……

Sage Mode.

"How about we go to the Damp Bone Forest sometime and learn Sage Mode?"

A thought flashed through Yagami Yoruichi's mind.

In terms of combat prowess, Yagami Yoruichi was confident that even if Uchiha Madara came out, he would not be a match for her.

In this era, apart from a few extremely powerful and mysterious old immortals, Yagami Yoruichi could be considered invincible in the ninja world.

But you can never have too much strength.

If one cannot break through to the next level in a short period of time, cultivating the Immortal Mode seems to be a good path.

However, Yagami Yoruichi asked the slug, and the threshold for Sage Mode in Shikkotsu Forest is the highest among the three holy lands.

For over a thousand years, only Hashirama Senju has successfully mastered it.

Even if Yoruichi Yagami could learn it, it would take her a very long time.

At least in the initial stages of learning, this skill cannot be accelerated by using a clone; it can only be done by the main body itself.

Once you get the hang of it and learn how to control natural energy to synthesize Sage Chakra, you can use clones to quickly improve your proficiency.

But if the beginner stage requires a lot of time...

Yagami Yoichi glanced at Kurenai Yuhi and said, "Kurenai, I'm going to Shikkotsu Forest to learn Sage Mode. I might stay there for quite a while."

"Sage Mode?" Kurenai Yuhi stared blankly at Yoruichi Yagami.

"You can think of it as a forbidden technique." Yagami Yoruichi briefly explained the effects of Sage Mode, saying, "My current strength improvement has reached a bottleneck. If I want to continue to improve, Sage Mode is the only option."

In fact, even forbidden techniques at the level of the Eight Gates Formation can achieve this.

But Yoruichi Yagami had no interest in learning a forbidden technique that could result in an extreme one-for-one exchange.

The Eighth Gate, the Gate of Death, is indeed very powerful. Might Guy, an elite Jonin, almost killed Madara Uchiha with a single kick.

If Yagami Yoruichi were to use it, he could probably kick Kaguya Otsutsuki to death.

But no matter how powerful such a life-swapping method is, Yagami Yoruichi would not consider it.

My own life is precious; no matter how powerful the enemy, it's not worth risking my life for.

In comparison, Sage Mode is much better.

Not only can it greatly enhance strength, but if one can achieve the Sage Body that allows one to instantly enter Sage Mode like Hashirama Senju, it might also be able to leverage the improvement of Yang Release and break through the bottleneck of Six Paths level.

"Forbidden techniques...aren't they very dangerous?" Kurenai Yuhi asked with a worried expression.

"It's not dangerous, as the senior slug is protecting us. It's just that this technique is very difficult, and it will probably take quite a while."

Yagami Yoruichi explained, and then said, "Don't worry, I'll come back to see you often when I'm resting."

“Then it’s settled, you have to come back often!” Kurenai Yuhi stretched out her hand and made a hooking motion.

Seeing her childlike appearance, Yagami Yoruichi couldn't help but smile, extending his little finger and hooking it with Yuhi Kurenai's little finger: "I promise, I'll come back as soon as I have time."

As the two were talking, suddenly, an ANBU member appeared in a flash and said urgently, "Lord Yoruichi, we have discovered important information. Please go to the Hokage Building immediately!"

"Important information?" Yagami Yoruichi was taken aback, and immediately created a clone to head to the Hokage Building.

……

Inside the Hokage's office.

"This information was obtained from the Fourth Raikage's brain."

Sakumo Hatake handed the data deciphered by the intelligence team to Yoruichi Yagami, saying, "The Third Raikage originally planned to attack the Land of Wind in order to seize a super weapon that was said to have been sealed for hundreds of years and was said to have the power to destroy the world. However, our plans were disrupted, so they started fighting us to the death."

"A super weapon from the Land of Winds? Capable of destroying the world?"

Yoruichi Yagami was a little puzzled, as she had never heard of this in the original work.

Upon opening the information, Yagami Yoruichi suddenly felt that this place looked familiar: "Isn't this the Dragon Vein? Could it be that Kumogakure wants to use the power of the Dragon Vein?"

“It doesn’t seem to be like that.” Hatake Sakumo shook his head and said, “It seems there’s another seal below the dragon vein. It was left hundreds of years ago and is said to be related to the Senju clan. But even the Raikage doesn’t know anything more about it.”

Based on the memories extracted from the Fourth Raikage's brain, Kumogakure (Hidden Cloud Village) used ancient texts to find information about the 'super weapon' sealed beneath the dragon vein.

They want to invade the Land of Wind and seize this super weapon to strengthen the power of the Hidden Cloud Village.

It was only because Yagami Yoruichi disrupted their plans that they began to fight Konoha to the death, until their demise.

The orphans brought back from Kumogakure are still living in Konoha and occasionally cause some minor trouble.

This kind of hatred is indeed not so easy to eliminate.

However, these minor matters never reach Yoruichi Yagami; they are handled by her subordinates.

However, it was the so-called 'super weapon' that Kumogakure wanted to seize that really piqued Yoruichi Yagami's interest.

It was sealed beneath the dragon vein hundreds of years ago during the Warring States period, and it is also related to the Thousand Hands clan.

Yagami Yoruichi racked his brains for a long time, but couldn't recall that there was such a passage in the original work.

Did the Hidden Cloud Village fail to obtain it, or are the rumors false?

Or perhaps, it's part of the story of the non-flammable legend?

After thinking for a long time without getting an answer, Yagami Yoruichi asked, "Are you interested in this so-called super weapon?"

"According to the information in the Fourth Raikage's brain, this super weapon may have the power to destroy a major ninja village, and it cannot be left unattended."

Sakumo Hatake said, "If Minato Namikaze were still alive, he would be the best candidate. However, after the sacrifice of Jonin Minato Namikaze, there are not many ninjas in the village who are skilled in sealing techniques."

The dragon veins themselves were sealed.

This thing is still below the dragon vein, which is considered a seal within a seal.

To break this seal, one must be a master of sealing techniques.

Kushina Uzumaki, the village's most skilled sealer, is the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki and certainly cannot be so far away.

Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi also sacrificed themselves.

There aren't many other powerful individuals skilled in sealing techniques.