Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 107 Sunagakure, the Torment of Genjutsu

The Land of Winds, the Devil's Desert.

Amidst the swirling yellow sand, a figure dressed in a white robe slowly emerged.

The endless gale and yellow sand subsided as soon as they reached the figure, turning into a gentle breeze. Even though he seemed to have traveled a great distance, not a single grain of sand fell on him.

The traveler in the desert was none other than Uchiha Touyu. Before arriving in the Land of Wind, he had already drained all the thousands of souls under his control.

The possession training in the genjutsu space for nearly decades allowed Uchiha Hiu to make unimaginable progress in the form and nature transformation of chakra, and as a result, the power of all the ninjutsu he mastered increased greatly.

His ability to remain unaffected by sandstorms in the desert is a result of the Sand Ninja's sand control technique.

He can influence the wind and sand by simply controlling the circulation of chakra within his body, without even consuming much energy. This ability comes from his extremely high level of mastery over the transformation of chakra's form and nature.

"We've finally arrived! The Land of Wind is truly vast!"

Looking at the faintly visible canyon and oasis in the distance, as well as the village that looked like a patch of yellowish-brown earth, Uchiha Tobi sighed deeply.

Although he was spared the hardship of sandstorms, trekking through the desert was not a comfortable experience. Fortunately, for a ninja of his caliber, the desert environment was only a bit harsh, not dangerous.

The distant village that Uchiha Touyu saw was naturally the Sand Village, one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, and the place that Uchiha Touyu had chosen to seize.

Upon arriving at the entrance of Sunagakure, Uchiha Touya didn't say a word, ignoring the ninjas guarding the gate, and walked straight in.

Now, after his bloodline has evolved again and broken through a certain limit, Uchiha Tou's genjutsu ability has increased dramatically. After all, both of his awakened eyes are genjutsu eyes, so the enhancement to his genjutsu ability is self-evident.

Moreover, the souls in the illusion space can also enhance his illusion abilities. The so-called souls are pure Yin Release chakra. The souls of thousands of ninjas are enough to double Uchiha Tou's illusion abilities.

Even now, Uchiha Tou doesn't know the exact limit of his five senses control over how many people he can control, but he estimates it's already close to three digits.

As for the limits of its control, unless it is at the level of Mangekyou Sharingan Yin Release, it is basically impossible to break through the manipulation of the five senses. Even if it is Mangekyou Sharingan, it will be greatly affected if the user does not have the Genjutsu Eye.

In the case of Sunagakure, even at its peak, no one in the entire village could break through Uchiha Tou's control over the five senses. Not to mention that now the entire Sunagakure ninja is scattered and the strongest, Pakura, has only barely reached the Kage level, and absolutely cannot withstand Uchiha Tou's genjutsu.

After entering Sunagakure, Uchiha Touyu did not go directly to the Kazekage's office, but instead wandered around Sunagakure twice.

He possesses the soul of the previous Kazekage, Rasa, and has a thorough understanding of the barriers and seals of the entire Sunagakure village. Even some secret locations cannot stop him.

As for the ninjas guarding him, under the control of their five senses, they couldn't see this invisible man at all, allowing him to roam freely throughout the entire Sand Village.

Unfortunately, Sunagakure was already the poorest of the five great ninja villages, and this time it suffered another crushing defeat. The entire village was filled with a desolate atmosphere, and even the ninjas were all listless and dejected.

"Tsk... The Fourth Kazekage died a bit too young, and even Gaara is gone!"

After making his way around, Uchiha Touyu even took a special look at Rasa's house, where he only saw a short-haired woman with a melancholy expression, holding a baby girl who looked about one year old in her arms.

Subsequently, through Rasa's memories, Uchiha Tou recognized the gentle woman with sandy brown hair as Rasa's wife, Karura. The key point is that his wife only gave birth to one daughter, Temari, and Gaara was not even born yet!

Now it seems that because of Rasa's death, Gaara is completely gone, and it's hard to know who the Sand Village will find to be a Jinchuriki in the future.

"Besides Gaara, I remember Rasa had a puppeteer son named Kankuro or something, but he's gone too... Tsk, thinking about it that way is kind of sad."

"Although I captured Rasa's soul, it was Orochimaru who severely injured him in the first place, and it seems that Chiyo's poisonous self-destruction was what ultimately killed him, so you can't blame me!"

While muttering to himself, Uchiha Touyu turned and walked towards the Kazekage Building in the center of Sunagakure.

Inside the Kazekage Building, the current Fifth Kazekage, Yekura, is reviewing the intelligence that has just arrived from Konoha:

"Haha, I never thought Konoha would be in this state! Orochimaru and that Uchiha brat actually defected from Konoha!"

To be honest, although Yekura became the Kazekage, she was not actually very happy. On the contrary, she felt a bit overwhelmed.

Sunagakure was inherently weak and had the lowest fiscal revenue among the five great ninja villages, so poor that the Kazekage had to dig for gold.

In the current ninja war, not only did they not gain any advantage, but they also suffered heavy casualties, and only Pakura remained as a ninja capable of leading the charge.

Furthermore, the fact that two consecutive Kazekage disappeared mysteriously in a very short period of time, and the other was killed by the enemy (actually Chiyo), dealt a huge blow to the cohesion of the entire ninja village.

The village's Kage was the strongest ninja in the entire village, but two of these strongest ninjas died in less than a year, directly transitioning from the Third to the Fifth Hokage. The Sand Village ninjas naturally saw very clearly the gap between themselves and Konoha.

Most importantly, the original Fourth Hokage, Rasa, was the gold miner of the entire ninja village. The gold dust he extracted accounted for about three-tenths of the village's budget. Now that Rasa is gone, the entire ninja village has a huge budget shortfall.

The defeat in the war, the weakness of the forces, the low morale, the lack of cohesion, the shortage of funds... one problem after another weighed heavily on Yecang, who already had little experience, making this female ninja feel like she was about to collapse.

Fortunately, today she finally saw some good news: the Leaf Village Ghost and Orochimaru, who once terrified the entire Sand Village, have completely defected from Konoha. Before their defection, they caused a huge disturbance, resulting in heavy losses for the entire village. Even the Third Hokage is currently lying in a hospital bed!

"Konoha will always be like this. Although it produces many geniuses, it can never retain them. This was true of the White Fang of Konoha back then, and it is also true of Orochimaru, the Ghost of Konoha today..."

Ye Cang was smiling, muttering excitedly to himself, when suddenly a cold laugh rang in his ears:

"Why are you so happy? It's true that Konoha has weakened, but you Sand Village ninjas haven't gotten stronger either!"

"The eldest brother's decline in strength should be a cause for celebration for the second brother, not for you, the bottom-ranked guy!"

The echoes in the Kazekage's office weren't loud, but to Ye Cang, they were deafening. In an instant, Ye Cang's expression changed drastically, and he turned his head to see Uchiha Hiu pushing the door open and entering.

"The Leaf Village Ghost?! What are you doing here?! Where are the other Sand Village ninja?!"

Although she asked, Yekura clearly didn't expect Uchiha Hiu to answer, and instead directly raised her hand and threw out a huge Scorching Release fireball.

With a deafening roar, the entire Kazekage's office exploded into flames. However, amidst the fire, Uchiha Touyu walked over unhurriedly, seemingly oblivious to the raging inferno.

"How could this be...? This is an illusion?! Release!!"

The chakra within her body became chaotic, and the scene before her eyes shattered instantly. When Yecang regained her senses, she found herself sitting in the Kazekage's office. There was no sign of Uchiha Touyu, nor were there any signs of an explosion in the office.

"How could this be... Where are the enemies?!"

Ye Cang was slightly dumbfounded. She looked around and suddenly felt a jolt of surprise. She made a hand gesture, but saw no response.

"The Shadow Guards have disappeared... Were they under an illusion and eliminated silently?"

"Heh, how can you be sure it's the Shadow Guard who's been affected by the illusion, and not you?"

The faint voice rang in his ears again, causing Ye Cang's face to turn ugly.

With a slight grit of her teeth, Yekura once again disrupted the chakra within her body, disregarding the damage to her internal organs. A trace of blood spilled from her mouth, and the scene before her eyes swayed, instantly turning the entire Kazekage's office into chaos.

The gate was blasted open by her scorching fireball, leaving a gaping hole and a stench of blood everywhere. Several ANBU ninjas lay on the ground covered in blood, while thick black smoke and the sounds of clashing weapons and screams of ninjas drifted from the village outside.

"What's going on...?"

"Kazekage-sama...run away!"

A ninja burst through the broken door, blood streaming from his mouth, a blade tip protruding from his chest. He had barely finished speaking when he collapsed to his knees, lifeless.

"The Sand Village has been invaded!!!"

Ye Cang's face was filled with surprise and anger. Without saying a word, she rushed out the door. Then, the scene in front of her made her eyes widen in horror.

The Sand Village was in complete chaos. Large numbers of Sand Ninja were shouting and killing each other, using kunai, shuriken, wind-style ninjutsu, and puppet techniques to attack their former comrades.

"Damn Konoha ninja, die!"

"You bastards from Iwagakure, let's die together!!"

"Hahaha, you think you can wipe out our Sand Village? You'll have to knock out a few of your teeth first!"

Hearing the shouts of the Sand Ninja, Yecang knew perfectly well that they were all under a genjutsu. However, such a wide-ranging and powerful genjutsu was simply astonishing, making Yecang wonder if he himself was also under a genjutsu.

"Wait... have I really broken free from the illusion?"

As doubt arose, Yecang risked aggravating his internal injuries by disrupting his chakra again, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood and become completely weak.

At that moment, the scene before her suddenly trembled and vanished without a trace. Ye Cang was surprised to find herself back in the Kazekage's office, and in front of her, Uchiha Hiu was looking at her with a smile.

"What...what exactly...what do you want to do?!"

Yecang clenched his fists in anger, intending to use ninjutsu directly, but for some reason, looking at the smile on Uchiha Tou's face, he felt a chill in his heart and dared not make a move.

"Tsk... You've become obedient so quickly? I still quite like your unruly look."

Uchiha Touyu chuckled and snapped his fingers. Ye Cang was slightly startled, but he felt that his original injuries had vanished without a trace, as if they had never happened.

Uchiha Touya vanished completely in a wisp of green smoke, but a burst of laughter echoed behind her.

"Now that you're being honest, it seems we can finally have a real talk!"

Illusion!! I was just under an illusion!! Even when I disrupted my chakra, it was merely a reaction from the illusion! I didn't actually do anything!

Realizing this, Yecang felt her heart sink deeply. She slowly turned her head and saw Uchiha Touya flipping through their Sand Village secret scroll.

The secret scrolls of Sunagakure naturally have their own seals and codes, but unfortunately, Uchiha Touya had already obtained the soul of the Fourth Kazekage, so these seals and such things could not be hidden from him.

However, there wasn't much good stuff in the Sand Village's secret scrolls. The kind of life-for-life ninjutsu that Uchiha Touyu wanted most hadn't been developed yet.

Considering that Chiyo is already dead and her soul is in her own hands, it's likely that this ninjutsu will never be developed.

As for other puppet techniques, they are completely useless against Uchiha Touyu. He had already mastered the Sand Control Technique long ago. Although there are many Wind Release ninjutsu, even those that Uchiha Touyu hadn't practiced would have the same effect as the Wind Release ninjutsu he had mastered.

After looking around, the only thing that caught Uchiha Touyu's eye was actually Pakura's method of synthesizing the Scorching Release bloodline limit.

In theory, the Bloodline Limit of Escape Technique can also be obtained through training. Of course, this requires a certain level of training in the nature and form of chakra transformation, knowledge of the ratio of the two types of chakra synthesis, and a bit of luck to succeed in training.

Therefore, a ninja who cultivates their bloodline limit without relying on bloodline inheritance must be at least a Jonin level in strength. This is not because the bloodline limit is powerful, but simply because being able to synthesize a bloodline limit requires at least a Jonin foundation.

With Uchiha Tou's foundation, synthesizing a bloodline limit wouldn't be difficult at all. The real challenge was not knowing the chakra ratio required for synthesizing a bloodline limit. Now that he had seen the synthesis method for the Scorching Release bloodline limit, he was quite interested.

"You bastard! Put down our Sand Village's secret manual!"

Seeing that Uchiha Touyu was watching with great interest, Yecang finally couldn't resist and was about to make a move. However, before she could even stand up, she felt everything go black and all her senses disappeared.

(End of this chapter)