Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swords Begins in Kumogakure

Chapter 70 The Great Ru's Eight Thousand Spears (Sixth Update)

After cleaning up the scene, Tamura Hao took a long detour to the river, dived into the water and swam back. This way, he could erase as many traces as possible, making it difficult for Inuzuka clan ninjas to track him by smell even if they appeared again.

"It's good that you're back safe and sound."

Seeing that Tamura Hiroshi had returned safely, Fukai and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've killed all four of them, but it won't take long. Once Konoha's forces here discover that small team is missing, they'll definitely come looking for them, and then a Jonin might appear."

Tamura Hao said solemnly that his theoretical grades at the Ninja Academy were quite high, and he had learned a lot, including the mechanism of this patrol mission.

Although he had killed that small team, he couldn't delay for too long; they would eventually come looking for him.

"This place is far from the front line, so the patrol efforts won't be very strong. We should be able to buy them a day."

Despite his headache, Fauci analyzed that a day would be enough for them to recover some of their strength.

Such psychological trauma is too difficult to heal, and it greatly affects one's ability to perform, even making it difficult to travel.

"Then let's rest here for a day."

Tamura Hiroshi also thought he could have a day, and then looked at Uchiha Hikaru and Uzumaki Tamayori, who were both asleep.

"How are they?"

"The girl's surgery was successful. There was no rejection reaction, and her heartbeat and breathing were stable. Uzumaki Tamaye fainted due to the memory shock when the shadow clone was dispelled."

Fukai explained that while the Shadow Clone Technique is very powerful, it also has a flaw: the shadow clone will return to the original body with its memories after it is dispelled.

Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't be difficult for Uzumaki Tamayo to withstand the memory impact of a shadow clone with her strength, but now she has been severely injured by that girl's eye technique, which is now adding insult to injury.

Uzumaki Tamamo was their eyes and ears on this journey. It was with Uzumaki Tamamo's help that they were able to penetrate deep into the Land of Fire. Now that Uzumaki Tamamo is unconscious and it seems unlikely that she will wake up anytime soon, their return journey will be dangerous.

"You all get some rest, I'll keep watch over things."

Tamura Hao gestured for Fukai and the three ANBU Jonin to rest, and then took over the task of guarding them.

Although he didn't possess the Kagura Mind's Eye of the Uzumaki Jade Leaf, the Little Ten-Tails and the Kaguya phantom had already acquired the Kagura Mind's Eye by absorbing the bloodlines of many Uzumaki ninjas.

After fusing his own chakra with both of theirs, he can indirectly obtain it, but the current range is limited, only able to sense a range of one kilometer, which is far inferior to that of Uzumaki Tamayo.

Fukai nodded without saying much, and leaned against the tree trunk to rest while holding his long sword. The three ANBU ninjas also found places to rest to alleviate their mental and physical injuries.

Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done to treat the psychological damage; we can only try to heal and recover slowly.

Tamura Hao then came to Uchiha Hikaru's side, raised his hand and placed it on his eyes, using the power of Kaguya's phantom and the Ten-Tails' little form to extract the Mangekyou Sharingan's eye technique and some of its power, and handed it over to the two to refine.

This is the reason he ventured here; with the power and techniques of the Kaleidoscope, he can definitely advance both of them to the next level.

Sure enough, both of their three-tomoe Sharingan had changed. There was an extra ring on the outside. The outer ring of the Ten-Tails had three more tomoe, which were offset from the three tomoe on the inner ring, making it look like a six-tomoe Rinnegan, but it was not a Rinnegan.

The Sharingan's circles are not the closed coils of the Rinnegan, but rather individual dots. The current Kaguya phantom and the Ten-Tails' forehead still have the Sharingan form, not the Rinnegan, let alone the Rinne Sharingan.

The Rinnegan is at a very high level; it is a true bloodline limit, something that the current Kaguya phantom and the Ten-Tails could not evolve into.

However, this Sharingan form is also quite good, with each tomoe corresponding to a specific eye technique.

The three tomoe in the inner circle represent the three most basic characteristics of the Sharingan: enhanced dynamic vision, copying, and genjutsu amplification.

Moreover, because it absorbed a large amount of Sharingan power, the effects of these three elements far surpass those of a normal three-tomoe Sharingan.

However, Tamura Hao's current chakra has too low a compatibility with the chakra of the Ten-Tails and Kaguya's phantom, resulting in very limited abilities. He needs to continuously work on improving the compatibility.

The Ten-Tails now has three more tomoe, each representing a different eye technique, while Kaguya's phantom seems to be picky, having only one more tomoe.

"Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, eight thousand spears, O Great God!"

Having sensed the four extra tomoe eye techniques on both of them, Tamura Hao understood that it was similar to the setting in Naruto, except for the addition of a Great God.

The Great God Eye Technique is the reason why Uchiha Hikaru survived the Inner Four Symbols Seal. It can lock his own state and make him immune to external damage, which is somewhat similar to Izanagi, but it doesn't require as much eye strain.

"Did you only take the Tsukuyomi eye technique because it's compatible with Infinite Tsukuyomi?"

Tamura Hao's consciousness looked at the Sharingan between Kaguya's phantom brows. The extra tomoe dojutsu was Tsukuyomi, and Kaguya Otsutsuki herself possessed the infinite Tsukuyomi dojutsu, which was the highest-level bloodline limit.

"Kaguya Otsutsuki's core abilities of the Rinne Sharingan are Infinite Tsukuyomi and Amenominaka. Infinite Tsukuyomi is compatible with simple Tsukuyomi. Amenominaka is said to be able to freely weave space and has created the Origin Sphere Space and five other spaces. If we're talking about a dojutsu that is compatible with Amenominaka, it would definitely be Obito's Kamui."

Tamura Hao thought of Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan in the future, which is most similar to Amano Minaka. Not only can it travel through space, but it can also create a space, which is a low-end version of Amano Minaka.

The power of Kaguya's phantom originates from the imprint of Kaguya Otsutsuki in her chakra. Its enhancement is not about strengthening, but about restoration, so it can only absorb power similar to that of Kaguya Otsutsuki.

That is why Kaguya's phantom so desperately craved the Otsutsuki bloodline.

The restoration of eye techniques would inevitably require finding those Mangekyou eye techniques that could resonate with Kaguya Otsutsuki.

The Mangekyou Sharingan that resonates with Amanomichi is naturally Obito's Kamui.

"Another trump card for survival!"

Tamura Hao was very satisfied with his gains, which even exceeded his expectations. He had thought that he could only absorb and refine the power of Kaguya's phantom and the little ten-tailed fox, but he didn't expect that he could even obtain the eye technique.

"Eight thousand spears!"

Looking at the girl in front of him, Tamura Hao decisively used the Ten-Tails' Eight Thousand Spears Eye Technique to leave a mark on her heart.

Then, by using the seal to extract the girl's chakra essence, and after being refined by the little Ten-Tails and Kaguya's phantom, it devoured the imprints belonging to the Sage of Six Paths, Isshiki Otsutsuki, and the Otsutsuki progenitor in the chakra, and transferred the chakra with only Kaguya's imprint back into the girl's body, and cleansed and purified her chakra.

In addition to the power of the Eight Thousand Spears, the chakra used by Uchiha Hikaru when performing ninjutsu will be transmitted to the Ten-Tails and devoured by it.

In fact, Tamura had long suspected that there was a problem with chakra. Just as he had said in his previous life, energy does not appear out of thin air, nor does it disappear out of thin air. It only changes from one form to another and moves from one place to another. This conservation of energy also applies to chakra.

However, after a ninja releases ninjutsu using chakra, it disappears into thin air, neither returning to the ninja's body nor merging with the natural world, just like how chakra returns to the original body when a shadow clone makes contact.

At that time, he thought of the Sage of Six Paths, the source of chakra in the ninja world, and even the bug of infinite chakra in the Impure World Reincarnation.

The waters of the ninja world are incredibly deep!

He had always wanted to break free from the Sage of Six Paths' chakra restrictions, at least by helping the higher-ups of Kumogakure break free first, so that he could plan things with peace of mind. Otherwise, they would have no secrets from the Sage of Six Paths.

This is also the main reason why he attaches so much importance to Uchiha Hikaru; the Eight Thousand Spears eye technique can help him solve this problem to some extent.

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(Both Yachimokujin and Ooyujin are alternative names for Ōkuninushi in Japanese mythology. Ōkuninushi was originally only known as Ooyujin. He was killed twice by his brother while trying to marry Yagami, but was resurrected by his mother each time. Combining this with the background of Uchiha Hikaru, I created the Ooyujin eye technique to explain why Uchiha Hikaru could survive the seal. It should be reasonable, right?)

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