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Chapter 115 Steel Release?! (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

Outside the ninja academy.

Xingxia Xiu crossed her arms and leaned against a tree, waiting quietly.

Today is the day that Rope Tree applied for early graduation.

With Tsunade absent, as Nawaki's brother-in-law, he naturally had to come.

After waiting for about half an hour, Rope Tree came out of the school with an arrogant look on his face.

Judging from that expression, it's definitely too much.

It's no surprise that the show was held under the stars.

Rope Tree's basic skills were perfectly fine, and he had trained her for a month.

Even disregarding mission experience, in terms of ninjutsu mastered, he is generally inferior to even a Chunin.

After all, there's an A-rank ninjutsu like the Rasengan.

"Brother Xiu!"

Nawaki approached Hoshino and excitedly pointed to his headband: "From now on, I'm a ninja too!"

Xingxia Xiu nodded: "He's a man now."

"Hey, this is my graduation gift to you."

Hoshino took the short sword hanging from his waist: "This is a chakra sword. It has excellent chakra flow and can be used to perform ninjutsu while carrying chakra."

Although he developed the dual-wielding style, he used it relatively infrequently, usually employing the Tree World Descent technique, using a hand seal and a sword in one hand.

Nawaki accepted the chakra blade with both hands without any hesitation: "Thank you, Brother Xiu."

"Let's go, let's train your swordsmanship."

Xingxia Xiudao.

Rope Tree's face immediately fell; he was already a little afraid of Hoshino Shu.

The training was truly insane, although he himself trained extremely hard.

But it was something I was particularly interested in.

But Rope Tree dared not resist and could only obediently follow along.

……

root base.

Inside the office, Hoshino Shizuka clasped his hands together, chakra surging in his palms.

This is a wood clone attempting to cultivate lightning nature transformation.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Xingxia Xiu opened his eyes, lowered his hand, and said, "Come in."

Shimura Daichi pushed open the door and entered: "A, intelligence from the front lines."

Xingxia Xiu reached out and took it, then read it carefully.

The chaotic war in the Land of Rain continues, with the Rain Village constantly drawing forces from the Land of River to fight against three opponents at once, and they are actually putting up a good fight.

The intelligence report mentioned that Hanzo's poison from the salamander was causing great headaches for the ninjas of the three major ninja villages.

The Iwa ninja, in particular, suffered heavy casualties as a result.

On the contrary, Konoha has Tsunade and Sunagakure has Chiyo.

In addition, there is information about Yakushi Nonou.

As a medical ninja, Yakushi Nonou also appeared in the Land of Rain.

Shimura Daichi asked, "Kagami, when do you think Sunagakure will send troops to the Land of Rivers?"

Without hesitation, Hoshino replied, "After the daimyo of the River Country died."

"He will probably die from the poison of the salamander."

Shimura Daichi thought for a moment and nodded, then asked doubtfully, "The village has been increasing its military strength to go to the Land of Rain. With your strength, if you went to the battlefield, you should be able to change the situation immediately, right?"

"But neither Lord Danzo nor the Third Hokage seem to have this intention."

Hoshino Hide glanced at Shimura Daichi and said calmly, "Because I have a more important mission."

After saying that, he put down the intelligence report and turned to inquire about the recent training of Root ninjas.

Shimura Daichi reported everything.

After understanding the situation, Hoshino Hide picked up some materials he had compiled and said, "These are some ninjutsu I selected from the database. Based on the training situation, please select a group of suitable people and give me the list."

Shimura Daichi took the documents and looked at them, but he was somewhat puzzled.

Spiritualization Technique!

Super Beast Fake Artwork!

Spiritual communication!

Earth Hearing Technique!

There are four techniques, the first two of which are secret techniques.

But there's also the so-called "earth-hearing" technique of spirit communication... Shimura Daichi said, "Spirit communication techniques should be basically mastered, right?"

"The key to this technique lies in summoning spirit beasts."

"Specializing in psychic arts..."

Shimura Daichi didn't know what to say for a moment.

Xingxia Xiu didn't explain, only saying, "Make the arrangements!"

Daichi Shimura nodded and left with the documents.

The summoning technique was naturally for the space-time ninjutsu he developed later.

The Earth Listening Technique is actually a sensory ninjutsu used by Tobirama Senju and the Fourth Hokage. It was just named by Hoshino Shu for the sake of sounding nice.

If the Root hadn't kept the Flying Thunder God Technique, he would have wanted to use it to select people to try it out.

As for the Spirit Transformation Technique, Super Beast Imitation Painting, and Earth Listening Technique, Xingxia Xiu has now also created a clone to research and cultivate these techniques, except for Super Beast Imitation Painting.

Xingxia Xiu has a foundation in the art of spiritual transformation.

That is the mind-turning technique of the mountain tribe.

Having mastered the Mind Transformation Technique, Xingxia Xiu progressed quite smoothly in cultivating the Spirit Transformation Technique.

The art of listening to the ground is quite remarkable.

The wood clone in the office continued its training in Lightning Release nature transformation.

……

Time flew by and it was December 17st.

At midnight on the 18th, the new status was updated on time.

Current status: Reinforced concrete

Note: The sinews are like steel, and the bones are like iron.

The latest novel is first published here!

Refresh countdown: 29 days 23:59:22

Xingxia Xiu raised an eyebrow, looking at him in yet another state resembling a body of steel.

After careful observation, I can confirm that my muscles and bones are indeed different.

Even without hardening oneself or using superhuman strength, explosive power is greatly increased.

But how do you permanently solidify it?

Or should I use the Steel Escape technique?

Xingxia Xiu frowned and pondered.

Simply hardening it won't work; the previous steel body failed to solidify.

And Steel Release...

"A month is also very unreliable."

Xingxia Xiu sighed inwardly, "Let's give it a try."

He had just mastered the nature transformation of Fire Release.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it was March of Konoha Year 37.

On this day, intelligence was relayed back to Konoha.

The daimyo of the River Country was assassinated and died from poisoning by salamander.

Two days later, more intelligence came back that Sunagakure had launched a major invasion of the Land of Rivers and had even gained the support of the new daimyo of the Land of Rivers.

The situation changed exactly as Xingxia Xiu had predicted.

Inside the Hokage's office.

After reviewing the intelligence, Hiruzen Sarutobi issued an order without hesitation: "Send the order to the front lines in the Land of Rain, instructing Danzo to retreat temporarily."

He wanted to give Hanzo and Sunagakure space to fight each other.

A little later, Onoki of Iwagakure made the same decision after receiving the information.

Let Hanzo fight Sunagakure to the death first.

Suddenly, the situation in the Land of Rain changed once again.

The battle between Sunagakure and Amegakure made the Land of Rain the main battlefield.

……

The land of rain.

Inside the cave, looking at the rain outside, Jiraiya couldn't help but say, "I really miss that guy Hide. If he were here, we could have lived in a much more comfortable cabin."

Although neither Tsunade nor Orochimaru spoke, they both agreed wholeheartedly.

"I don't know when this war will end."

Tsunade sighed.

Orochimaru said quietly, "I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

"Hanzo is currently waging war against Sunagakure with all his might. Once he defeats Sunagakure, he will definitely attack us and Iwagakure again."

Jiraiya asked, "Orochimaru, do you think Hanzo will definitely win?"

Orochimaru said, "Although Sunagakure can also cure the poison of the salamander, the power of Hanzo's own attack is different from that of Amegakure using the poison on various ninja tools."

Tsunade nodded in agreement. She had more authority to speak on the use of poison: "Hanzo released a deadly poison with the salamander. Even a specially made antidote pill couldn't completely remove the poison."

"The dosage was too high, and it's a highly toxic neurotoxin; the effects are very rapid."

"We don't know how strong Hanzo is individually, but when it comes to large-scale battles, probably only Hideaki can compare to him."

Orochimaru looked at the rain outside and said, "This kind of weather is perfect for Hanzo."

Jiraiya sighed, "It seems we still need to prepare for a fight with Hanzo."

"But for now, we can still take a rest."

"Tsunade, I heard Nawaki graduated early. Aren't you going back to see him?"

"And Orochimaru, you're going to take Nawaki as your disciple."

Tsunade was somewhat tempted, but remembering that Hoshino was in Konoha, she shook her head and said, "The situation on the battlefield can change in an instant, so I'd better not."

"Rope Tree just graduated, and the missions he does are mainly D-rank."

Orochimaru laughed and said, "Let's talk about it after this war is over."

Jiraiya winked and said, "That guy Shuu taught Nawaki the Rasengan, Orochimaru, so why does your disciple look like someone else's?"

Orochimaru didn't mind at all: "With Hideki here, I believe Nawaki can have a very good foundation."

Tsunade glared at Jiraiya with a hint of hostility: "You idiot, what nonsense are you spouting now?"

(End of this chapter)