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

Chapter 76 Obtaining Materials

"I'm back. This is Hattori Ichiro's head."

In the shadowy Root base, Shimura Danzo still wore that same cold and ruthless expression. After seeing the head that Uchiha Tou handed him, he simply nodded slightly.

Behind the Root leader, a ninja from the Yamanaka clan quickly approached, respectfully picked up the severed head, and began to use ninjutsu to extract information from Hattori Ichiro's brain.

Fortunately, ninjas possess chakra, so even corpses decompose very slowly. Uchiha Hiyu also treated the head, so Hattori Ichiro's brain tissue hasn't completely rotted away and many secrets can still be extracted from it.

A moment later, the ninja from the Yamanaka clan looked up and nodded to Danzo.

Danzo's expression relaxed a little, and he said:

"Good job. I still have a lot of backlogged tasks at Root. As long as you're willing to do them, you'll be rewarded with both ninjutsu and money."

As he spoke, Shimura Danzo took out a scroll and handed it to Uchiha Tou. When Uchiha Tou opened it, his lips twitched slightly.

At the very top of the scroll were the missions to assassinate the Third Raikage, the Third Tsuchikage, the Fourth Mizukage, and other village leaders, as well as the missions to assassinate the Jinchuriki of the ninja villages who were fighting against Konoha.

In addition, there are tasks involving plundering Dust Release, Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Magnet Release, and Ice Release training methods—these are no easier than assassinating a village's Kage.

Skipping over those missions that were simply impossible for him, what remained were bounties from renowned ninjas of various ninja villages, basically encompassing all the Jonin.

In addition, there are missions to hunt down traitors, plunder intelligence, and even assassinate leaders of small ninja villages and plunder secret techniques of certain ninja clans. Among the targets of these missions are some Konoha ninjas.

However, Uchiha Tou wasn't surprised. It would be strange if Danzo didn't take action against the Konoha ninjas. Although the Root members weren't exactly amateurs in external battles, they were definitely top-notch experts in internal battles.

However, Danzo's arrogance surprised Uchiha Touyu. He actually wrote the names of Konoha ninjas directly on the mission list, showing no fear of being reported by Uchiha Touyu.

"Hey, Elder Danzo, are you kidding me? These mission details are not for me to see!"

"It's just some hidden dangers in the woods. Clearing away these dead branches and leaves will be more beneficial to the development of the village."

Danzo's words were so casual that Uchiha Touya secretly rolled his eyes. "Uprooting this rotten root is probably the best thing for the village's development!"

Of course, even if Konoha exploded on the spot, as long as the blood didn't splatter on Uchiha Touyu, Uchiha Touyu wouldn't care. So he just made a comment about Danzo's mission objective.

"Alright, as long as you provide enough ninjutsu and such, I can handle any ordinary missions, not to mention the overly difficult ones."

Uchiha Hiyu put away the scroll and said something. In reality, he wasn't very interested in Root's ninjutsu. After acquiring Magnet Release ninjutsu, he no longer cared about those meager sums of money.

However, Uchiha Touyu was still very interested in the corpses and souls of the ninjas who were the targets of those missions. Anyway, Danzo was already known as the "Kage of Blades," so he probably wouldn't care if Danzo was burdened with a few more blames.

After reporting the mission to Danzo, Uchiha Touyu immediately went to find his cheap teacher Orochimaru. A month had passed, and the human materials should have been collected by now. Uchiha Touyu couldn't wait to experience the effects of the blood pool.

In the Root laboratory, Uchiha Touyu found Orochimaru conducting human experiments. After hearing his request, Orochimaru summoned a huge scroll without saying a word and handed it to Uchiha Touyu.

"I won't ask you what you want to do with so many low-grade human materials, but whatever you do, it's best not to do it here in Konoha. The Third Hokage is still a bit wary of human experimentation."

"Teacher, could you please stop conducting your human experiments while you're speaking?"

"And you're telling me, from this godforsaken place like Root, that Konoha is wary of human experimentation? Are you trying to make me laugh to death?"

"Heh, even if I conducted the largest-scale human experiments, I wouldn't have as many as one percent of the number of scrolls you have. The corpses of 2000 ninjas can't be hidden at all in Konoha."

"That's true..."

Uchiha Touyu muttered something to himself, frowning as he began to worry about where to build the blood pool.

If he were the only contractor in Ryuchi Cave, he could build the Blood Pool there. However, since Ryuchi Cave has Orochimaru, a mad scientist, if he dared to build the Blood Pool there, Orochimaru would probably go and study it the next day.

This old viper is no good person. Despite the master-disciple relationship between the two, neither of them cares about that. As long as there is profit to be made, backstabbing is the most normal thing for them.

If all else fails, we'll have to dig deeper. As long as we dig deep enough, the earth will block our senses, and no sensory ninjutsu will be able to detect it.

Fortunately, the Magnet Release technique that Uchiha Tomoyu learned is even more effective than Earth Release in digging holes, allowing him to dig even deeper underground. Once he finds a secluded place and digs deeper, he can create a Blood Pool.

"Alright, I've given you what you asked for. Now, what about the remaining ninjutsu?"

Orochimaru watched as Uchiha Touyu pondered for a moment, then seemed to have found an answer. He then smiled and stretched out his hand, asking for his reward.

"It's already prepared for Orochimaru-sensei. This is the remaining half of the secret technique. Master, please take a look."

Without hesitation, Uchiha Touya took out the remaining scrolls of the Lich Transformation Ritual from his person and handed them to Orochimaru.

He really wanted to see what Orochimaru could create by combining the Lich Transformation and the Reanimation Jutsu. Who knows, Orochimaru might even transform into the Lich King in the future and give the ninja world a shocking catastrophe of the undead!

After Orochimaru obtained the scroll, he ignored Uchiha Tou and immediately began to read it with great eagerness, his expression constantly changing, revealing a hint of ecstasy.

Seeing that Orochimaru was engrossed in watching, Uchiha Touyu waited a moment, and when he saw that Orochimaru didn't give any answer, he shrugged and left the laboratory.

(End of this chapter)