It seemed like I was having a nightmare, with the image of my companion's gruesome death replaying before my eyes, stimulating my nerves and driving me mad. I don't know how much time had passed, but then an even more maddening pain spread throughout my body, and I woke up from the dream.

What came into view was a delicate little face with no particular expression. Under the quiet gaze of those scarlet eyes, Shinsuke couldn't help but gasp. Pain spread throughout his body, and cold sweat soaked his entire body. But what was even more terrifying was the person in front of him.

is her!

It was a nightmare in its entirety!

"You're awake." Jieluo said with a gentle smile, "To prevent you from escaping, I removed all four of your limbs. You don't mind, do you?"

It was a smile that was like that of a demon, tinged with indifference and madness, cold and cruel.

Upon hearing this, Shen Fu lowered his head, looking at his severed limbs that were bleeding profusely, and his face showed immense bitterness and despair.

"Don't worry, you won't die for now," Jieluo continued. "I tested the suturing technique on you, and the wound should be stitched up. Is there anywhere else that hurts? Let me stitch it up for you."

Shinsuke turned his head away, avoiding the demonic face, and said with difficulty, "Kill me!"

"That won't do," Jieluo said. "I have something to ask you."

"You won't get any information from me. Konoha won't let you get away with this!" Shinsuke said hatefully.

"Hmm." Jie Luo asked with a slight smile, "Do you know my name?"

do not know!

Shinsuke looked at Jieluo and slowly shook his head.

"Do you in Konoha know my name?" Jieluo continued to ask.

This is indeed a problem.

Shinsuke's expression gradually hardened and turned to despair; he had begun to understand.

"So, why won't Konoha let me go?" Yura spread her hands, saying helplessly, "You agree, right?"

Shen Fu remained silent, choosing to remain silent as the only response.

"There's no need for such ridiculous threats. If I were afraid of Konoha, I wouldn't have come after you." With that, Jieluo took out a small box and waved it in front of him.

He recognized it at a glance: the Akimichi family's secret medicine, the three-colored pill.

Green spinach balls, yellow curry balls, and red chili balls.

"I won't say anything more," Jieluo said. "Could you give me the formula for the secret medicine?"

"Don't even think about it!"

"That's true." Jieluo smiled faintly, then suddenly reached out and clawed at Shinsuke's face. Shinsuke was startled. The next moment, countless invisible strands of hair burst forth from Jieluo's hand, surging and drilling into Shinsuke's eye sockets, ear canals, nostrils, and mouth. Instantly, Shinsuke trembled and screamed in agony, his face contorted with bulging veins, as if countless worms were writhing beneath his skin, constantly drilling into his flesh and brain, like thousands of tiny needles piercing his brain and stirring his brain matter.

Under the inhuman torment of pain, it only took a moment for Shinsuke to lose control of his body, and his body became incontinent and trembled.

Dark Secret Technique: Bone-Eating and Brain-Deepening

If they could barely keep their lives, they would be subjected to brutal torture, and that would be the end of it.

While tormenting Shinsuke, Jieluo looked down at the black silk surging in her hands.

In fact, humans and monkeys are the same; they are covered in hair.

However, human hair comes in different types, including lanugo, vellus hair, and permanent hair.

Soft hair is body hair, while permanent hair includes scalp hair, beard hair, armpit hair, nose hair, and eyebrows. They are essentially the same, all having hair follicles.

Strictly speaking, Jieluo can manipulate not only hair, but also body hair.

After a short while, Jie Luo withdrew her hand, and blood dripped down her fine hairs.

Shin-soo, who had survived the ordeal, was breathing heavily.

"Is it still not going to happen now?" The girl squatted on the ground with her legs together, her hands supporting her chin. Jie Luo looked down at her with a slight smile and asked softly.

Even though she was acting like a cute young girl, Shinsuke felt a chill run down his spine. The girl in front of him was undoubtedly a demon in human skin. Even though he had seen many perverts in the cruel Warring States period, the perversion of the girl in front of him was second to none.

It's common to see people who can remain calm even when they see blood. Even if they can laugh, they can only be described as having strong mental fortitude. Those who can get so excited that they burst into laughter are just considered crazy.

For example, the Uchiha clan.

But how can this guy smile so gently like the girl in front of him and do such cruel things without any psychological pressure? What does he think of people and life?

It truly makes one feel a chill from the bottom of one's heart.

"I refuse!!!" Shinsuke roared, using all his strength.

"That's really courageous." After praising him, Jieluo reached out and covered Shinsuke's face again.

Heart-wrenching screams echoed through the woods as the sun gradually sank below the horizon.

Without wasting any more words with him, after a round of interrogation, he was given a short rest before the torture continued. After repeating this process three times, Shen Fu was on the verge of death from the torture.

As soon as Jielu fed him a curry pill, the other person seemed to regain his energy as if in a final burst of life.

Jie Luo still remembers this pill; it's for nourishing qi and blood, warming the life gate, and can be used in critical moments to keep someone alive.

Jieluo tossed the small wooden box up and down, looking at the remaining two grains.

The red chili pepper pills can double one's strength, chakra, and unleash one's potential, but their drawback of causing death from overexertion is negligible to Yura's immortality.

In some ways, it is a simplified version of the Eight Gates Formation. Its advantage is that, compared to the uncontrollable and violent chakra of the Eight Gates Formation, the chakra it releases is quite easy to control.

For systems requiring precise control, this is more suitable for their specific needs.

The same principle applies to Hero's Water.

"Have you thought it through?" Jieluo asked.

Shen Fu closed his eyes and remained silent.

That's a tough nut to crack.

Jie Luo gazed at the other's face intently, remained silent for a moment, and then said, "If you're too reluctant, let's change the terms. We can exchange your life for some secret technique, like a shadow clone or something."

If we had the Yamanaka family's secret technique for reading memories, we wouldn't need to go through all this trouble. Even a corpse could be used to extract useful information from its brain.

Shen Fu remained silent, like a dead corpse.

Jieluo sighed. He had done everything he could, and there was nothing he could do if he didn't succeed.

Generally speaking, clan ninjas do not carry secret scrolls with them; only wandering ninjas would treasure and carry ninjutsu scrolls.

The main purpose is to test whether sensory ninjas can detect their own presence, and incidentally, to determine their strength through combat.

This would make it much easier to return to the village and seize the secret technique.

In the shadowless village of Takigakure, no one can stop Yura.

but...

"If you don't speak, I will treat your Akimichi family as prey. From now on, whenever you leave the village, I will kill every single one of you Ino-Shika-Cho." Yura said with a light smile, "How about it?"

"Are you a devil!?" Shinsuke's eyes widened suddenly, and he glared at Yura, panting.

Jie Luo spread his hands and said, "Please cooperate, so that we can all be happy and this matter can be considered over."

Shinsuke closed his eyes in pain and said calmly, "Don't say such ridiculous things as 'spare my life.' I don't know the recipe for the secret medicine; only the head of the family knows it. I can't give you the Akimichi family's secret techniques, and you can't learn them either. I don't know Shadow Clone Technique either; it's a forbidden technique of Lord Tobirama, and very few people know it. Whether it's Water Release or Fire Release, you've come to the wrong person. I've never learned them. Even the Ino-Shika-Cho trio don't know those ninjutsu."

"Tsk..." It was the truth, which made Jie Luo laugh out loud. She said, "No wonder you could be so stubborn for so long. It turns out you don't know anything at all."

It was a miscalculation; all that effort was for nothing.

"Kill me!" Shinsuke said.

Yura sized up Akimichi. If that's the case, then they have to find a way to infiltrate Konoha. At this time, with the First and Second Hokage brothers still around, entering Konoha would be suicide. Therefore, developing spies as informants to gather intelligence is a very necessary thing.

Jieluo nodded, then held up his hand in a pistol shape and aimed it at Shenfu.

Knowing his life was coming to an end, Shinsuke gave a bitter smile and said, "I thought that by ending the Warring States period and ushering in an era of peace, I could finally end the endless wars and killings. In the end, is fate something I cannot defy...?"

At Jieluo's fingertips, a tiny, eerie blue flame flickered.

"Farewell, ninja..."

Shinsuke stared intently at Jieluo.

"I'll be waiting for you in hell, ninja!"

"This is hell, the Akimichi family's."

Black Secret Technique. External Style. Finger Pistol Fireball

The will-o'-the-wisp shot out and pierced the forehead. As the hair-like projectile pierced the skull, the will-o'-the-wisp burned flesh and blood, and a raging fire rose up.

As the sun set, Jieluo turned and left, disappearing into the forest in a few blinks.

Leaping through the forest on the treetops, Jieluo quite enjoyed the feeling of running freely. At a speed of seventy miles per hour, it was an easy pace for this yokai body that knew no fatigue. After a while, Jieluo stopped outside a valley, standing in the treetops above the valley. Behind him was a shimmering lake, and in front of him was a huge waterfall. Below the huge cliff drop, there was a small lake in the valley.

This terrain is so similar, so very similar, to the Valley of the End?

Today, two statues are missing from the front of the waterfall.

perhaps...

Standing among the treetops, overlooking the valley, Jieluo pondered.

Madara Uchiha left Konoha shortly after Hashirama Senju attended the Five Kage Summit, about half a month ago, which should be recent. The battle at the Valley of the End, however, occurred several years later...

This period of several years is somewhat subtle.

Compared to the immense power that can alter the terrain, its own strength is far too weak. The small pool beneath the waterfall will, years later, transform into a giant lake due to the clash between Wood Release and Susanoo.

Right now, Madara Uchiha is probably searching the whole world for the Nine-Tails.

The Five Kage Summit mainly focused on the distribution of the Tailed Beasts. After forming an alliance, Hashirama Senju would launch an operation to capture the Tailed Beasts and exchange them for funds, which would become the first pot of gold to lay the foundation for Konoha's development.

It is worth mentioning that the Seven-Tails had already been captured by Takigakure before the Five Kage Summit. The village suffered a huge loss as a result. Yura also participated in the operation, which greatly reduced the village's strength and led to unrealistic arrogance and ambition. They planned to use the power of the tailed beast to become the sixth great ninja village, which is why they had the idea of ​​assassinating the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju.

Capturing a Tailed Beast is extremely difficult. Apart from Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, who found it relatively easy, even the First Hokage, Raiga, and Ginkaku of Kumogakure couldn't subdue a single wild Tailed Beast.

It's normal for Takigakure to be arrogant, as their strength is second only to the Five Great Villages and even surpasses that of Amegakure. However, they paid a heavy price for this, which led to Kakuzu easily slaughtering the village's high-ranking officials when he defected. Without a Jinchuriki, no one could do anything to Kakuzu. At this time, Kakuzu had just acquired the Earth Grudge Fear technique and hadn't had time to train it yet. He was just an elite Jonin in the village, not an immortal ninja, and still some distance from Kage-level combat power.

In this way, the village will have three treasures worth seizing: the secret technique Earth Grudge Fear, Hero's Water, and the Seven-Tailed Fox.

Despite Takigakure's current decline, there's a saying that Takigakure and Sunagakure are roughly equal in strength and are extremely adept at producing Jonin. It's just that Takigakure has very few Jonin left, otherwise they could have produced enough to give Yura a headache.

But we still need to be wary of Hero's Water, this temporary Jonin wholesaler.

After pausing briefly at the Valley of the End to scout out the location, hoping to come back and watch the game from the VIP seats another time, Jie Luo left.

That night...

The town remained as peaceful as ever, but in the castle tower's top-floor watchtower, a grand banquet of singing and dancing was in full swing. Dancers twirled and danced, and amidst the decadent revelry, the mayor embraced his concubine, smiling and tapping his feet to the rhythm of the sultry music.

Just then, silently, invisible black hairs began to spread and wander across the ceiling, densely packed and quietly surging.

Under the moonlight outside the watchtower, a figure stood silently in the void, stepping on silk threads, his scarlet eyes staring coldly at the watchtower.

As I traced the hair, the structure and people of the entire castle tower came into clear form in my mind.

Yura lightly hooked her finger...

Fine strands of hair cascaded down from the ceiling, gently encircling the necks of the guards, unnoticed by the crowd.

The next second, Jieluo gently pulled with her fingers, and her hair instantly tightened.

At the same moment, as the hair was twisted and slicing smoothly through the bone, a line of blood was cut across the necks of the warriors and guards. Before they could feel the pain, they were immediately overcome by dizziness and weightlessness. Their heads rolled off their necks and tumbled to the ground.

One headless corpse after another gushed blood a foot high from their necks, transforming into eerie human fountains scattered throughout the city, before collapsing helplessly to the ground.

In an instant, the maids' terrified screams pierced the night sky.

Inside the watchtower at the top, the town mayor sat slumped on the ground, utterly distraught. The warriors on either side of him had already fallen, their blood splattering all over his head and face. His magnificent robes were soaked with the filthy blood, and a hot, pungent smell spread between his legs.

The dancers screamed in panic and scattered, while the charming concubines trembled and chattered.

The mayor was terrified. The scene before him was beyond his comprehension. He tried to shout, but his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't make a sound.

No, it's not blocked, it's like something is choking it.

A strand of hair, bound into a rope, was looped around the mayor's neck. With a tightening force, it dragged the mayor off the ground and hoisted him up. Under the suffocating feeling of not being able to breathe, his legs struggled and kicked in the air. Hot, wet liquid dripped down his trouser legs, and his entire face quickly turned purplish-red due to lack of oxygen. His eyeballs bulged out ferociously, and the blood vessels inside were horribly bulging.

The scene before them was incredibly bizarre to others: the town mayor, under the influence of a strange power, was being eerily hoisted up in mid-air, screaming and struggling in fear.

Witnessing this bizarre scene, some of the dancers and maids could not bear it and fainted, while others cried and screamed as they scrambled away from the place.

"A ghost! There's a ghost!!!"

In their eyes, the scene before them, though bizarre, was indeed in line with the common sense of encountering ghosts and monsters, and only ghosts and monsters could do such an astonishing thing.

In no time, the room fell silent.

After clearing the area, step by step, she walked along the silk threads, under the cold moonlight, and went out to the window to enter the house.

They arrived in front of the town mayor, who was hanging by his head.

The mayor, clinging to life, bulged his eyes wide. Only in his dying moments did he finally see and recognize Jieluo. Before he could even curse those three useless Konoha ninjas in his mind, his eyes revealed utter terror and desperate pleading. Tears streamed down his face as he pleaded with his gaze...

"Spare...spare me..."

Jie Luo smiled faintly, her entire body floating up in the mayor's eyes, standing in mid-air looking down at the mayor who was hanging in mid-air, and reaching out to pat the top of his head.

"In your next life, be sure to open your eyes wider."

After saying that, he turned and left.

The mayor struggled helplessly in mid-air until his face turned purple with despair. He hung in mid-air like a teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll), his tongue lolling out and swaying gently.

Blue flames then slowly rose and burned.

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