Starting with Wood Release, he survives in Konoha Hospital and becomes a big shot.

Kushina Uzumaki remained silent. As the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, it was best not to act rashly.

Obito Uchiha opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but ultimately didn't.

He hasn't opened his eyes yet!

"There are too many people. You all stay at the base. I'm only taking Xingji!"

To everyone's surprise, Sakumo Hatake directly rejected everyone's suggestion.

"Time is running out, let's set off immediately!" As soon as Hatake Sakumo finished speaking, he picked up Yakusei and rushed out of the camp. Together with ten Anbu ninjas, they headed straight for the place where the Kirigakure ninjas had been discovered.

Seeing Hatake Sakumo and Yakusei Gyoku disappear, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

"This is the first time I've seen Captain Hatake in such a hurry," Kushina Uzumaki said.

"I feel like Yakushi Hoshiki is the real favorite son, and you were just a freebie from eating Ichiraku Ramen," Obito Uchiha teased, nudging Kakashi's shoulder.

Kakashi rolled his eyes and chose to ignore it.

On the road.

"Starry Sky, are you sure your Eye of Salvation can see through the Mist Concealment Technique even better?" Hatake Sakumo asked.

He was afraid that Yao Xingji would choose to lie in order to go to the battlefield with him, which would cause a lot of trouble.

"To be precise, I can see the location of creatures under the Hidden Mist Technique. Those ninjas can't escape my eyes, but I can't see plants or inanimate rocks," Yao Xingji explained.

The principle behind the Eye of Salvation's ability to see through the Fog Concealment Technique is similar to thermal imaging. As long as it is a living being, Yao Xingji can see it, but he is powerless against anything else. It is different in nature from the X-ray vision of the Byakugan.

“That’s enough!” Sakumo Hatake nodded.

He only needed to determine the ninja's location; changes in the environment were less important.

"Later, help me pinpoint a ninja. He looks to be only seven or eight years old, about 1.4 meters tall, with green hair and purple eyes. He has a scar under his left eye that looks like a stitch, and he wields a club-like weapon with a hook at the end decorated with green flowers." Hatake Sakumo immediately described the characteristics of the ninja he was interested in.

"Um... Captain Hatake, my Savior's Eye can only see light and shadow, not these details, so I can probably only help you find ninjas who are about 1.4 meters tall. I can't judge anything else," Yao Xingji said somewhat awkwardly.

"Okay!" Sakumo Hatake nodded and said nothing more.

Yao Xingji lay quietly on Hatake Sakumo's back, with only the sound of the wind blowing rapidly around them.

"The person that Hatake Sakumo just mentioned seems somewhat familiar." After regaining his senses, Yao Xingji carefully recalled Hatake Sakumo's description and realized that it resembled someone from Naruto.

"It's him!" It was as if a bolt of lightning struck Yao Xingji's mind.

"The Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi!"

That's right, the person Sakumo Hatake described is none other than the Fourth Mizukage, who appears very rarely in Naruto. However, this guy is not young at all; he just has a baby face. In reality, he already has grandchildren.

However, at this moment, Yagura Karatachi should not be the Fourth Hokage yet, otherwise he would not be on the battlefield.

"The person Sakumo Hatake is looking for is Yagura Karatachi. Is there any connection between them?" Yakusei Kiku pondered to himself.

In the original work, Yagura Karatachi appears very rarely, and in addition, Sakumo Hatake has been dead for many years at this time, so there is no interaction between them. Therefore, Yagura Karatachi does not know why Sakumo Hatake care so much about Yagura Karatachi's appearance.

"Perhaps I'll make a discovery later," Yao Xingji thought to himself.

About half an hour later, Sakumo Hatake and his group finally arrived at a lake.

Looking out, all that could be seen was a thick fog, making it impossible to discern what was happening within it.

"Hoshiki, I'm counting on you!" Hatake Sakumo said.

"Eye of Salvation!" Yao Xingji activated his eye technique immediately.

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Chapter 156 Illegitimate Child

Under the Eyes of Salvation, the dense, impenetrable fog disappeared from Yao Xingji's vision, and dozens of beams of light appeared on the lakeside a kilometer away.

"There are about twenty people, but they are too far away to see the details clearly, but their location is roughly in that direction," Yao Xingji pointed to a spot by the lake.

"Walk."

Without saying a word, Hatake Sakumo led his men into the thick, milky-white fog.

Lakeside.

"Lord Yagura, that monster should be beneath this lake. Someone once saw it here," a Kirigakure ANBU ninja said, pointing to the lake surface.

“This place isn’t far from Konoha’s camp. If we make too much noise, we’ll probably be discovered,” said a ninja who looked like a child, with green hair, purple eyes, and a scar resembling a stitch under his left eye.

He crossed his arms over his chest, holding a club-shaped weapon with a hook at the front and decorated with green flowers.

Purple pupils scanned the lake surface, assessing the situation.

"If we finish this quickly, we shouldn't be discovered," one of them said. "Besides, this lake is already shrouded in thick fog. We have the Hidden Mist Technique to cover ourselves. Even if the Konoha ninjas notice something amiss, they won't dare to come in and investigate rashly."

Yagura remained silent for a moment before asking, "Do you know who's in charge of the Konoha camp here?"

"It seems to be Sakumo Hatake, the captain of Konoha's ANBU," said a ninja in charge of intelligence gathering.

“Sakumo Hatake, how could it be him?” Yagura Karatachi’s expression shifted, and he frowned.

"If he knew I was here, he would definitely come."

The members of the Hidden Mist Dark Division looked at each other in bewilderment. Why did Hatake Sakumo know that Yagura Karatachi would definitely come here just because he knew Yagura Karatachi was here?

Is there something going on between them?

"Damn it, someone has entered the fog." The sensory ninjas spotted the Konoha members rushing into the fog almost instantly.

"They came so fast!"

The expressions of the members of the Hidden Mist Division changed.

They hadn't been at the lakeside for long when Konoha not only discovered them but also sent people over much faster than they had expected.

"They really are here, they just won't leave!"

An angry look appeared on Yagura's doll-like face as she looked in the direction of the swirling mist.

At the same time, Yao Xingji had already guided Hatake Sakumo and the others to a location more than 200 meters from the lake.

"Captain Hatake, I've found the ninja you mentioned. He's among this group." In Yao Xingji's vision of salvation, a short figure caught his attention. As Hatake Sakumo said, he was about 1.4 meters tall, much shorter than the others around him, making him quite noticeable.

“Very good.” A hint of excitement appeared on Sakumo Hatake’s face.

"Hatake seems to care a lot about Yagura." Yakusei confirmed his guess.

As they rapidly approached, Yao Xingji suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, sensing a great danger. He instinctively looked towards the lake not far away.

"This is……"

Yao Xingji's expression froze; he finally realized why the ninjas from the Land of Water were in this place.

In Yao Xingji's vision, beneath the lake, a colossal turtle-shaped luminous figure was coiled, its three enormous tails swaying slowly as it quietly watched everything on the shore.

It concealed all its presence, emitting no fluctuation, as if it were dead.

However, the enormous and terrifying chakra within its body, forming a special life form, could not escape Yao Xingji's savior's eye.

"What's wrong? Is there danger?" Hatake Sakumo noticed that Yakusei Kiku seemed to have discovered something.

"No...it's nothing, it's just that we're about to fight, and I'm a little nervous!" Yao Xingji explained.

"Don't worry, I'll protect your safety first. Just guide me from my back," Sakumo Hatake comforted him.

“Okay,” Yao Xingji replied.

Immediately, Yao Xingji glanced at the lake again.

If he's not mistaken, the turtle beneath the lake is Isobu, one of the nine tailed beasts in Naruto.

The ninjas from the Land of Water are most likely here because of this tailed beast.

Yao Xingji recalled the original work.

The Three-Tails, Isobu, first appeared when Madara Uchiha controlled the Hidden Mist ninja and sealed it inside Rin Nohara's body, which led to Rin's suicide and Obito Uchiha's downfall. Rin Nohara is the known first Jinchuriki of the Three-Tails.

After Rin Nohara died, Isobu, the Three-Tails, also died. However, as a tailed beast, it would be resurrected after a period of time. This time, it was captured by Yagura Karatachi and sealed into his body, becoming the second-generation Jinchuriki of the Three-Tails.

Yagura Karatachi's strength stems from both his own power and his ability to perfectly control the Three-Tails, achieving complete tailed beast transformation.

However, later, Yagura Karatachi was controlled by Obito's Sharingan and implemented the Blood Mist policy in Kirigakure, resulting in the deaths of many ninjas. He was eventually overthrown by the people of Kirigakure.

The Naruto series doesn't specify how Yagura Karatachi died, but when the Three-Tails Isobu reappeared at the bottom of a lake, he was already in a wild state, which suggests that Yagura Karatachi had already died by then.

This time, the Three-Tails appeared when Deidara and Tobi of the Akatsuki organization came to capture it. In the end, the Three-Tails was no match for them, was captured, and sealed inside the Gedo Mazo.

Of course, there is also an original storyline about the Three-Tailed Isobu in the anime, but it has nothing to do with the main plot, so Yao Xingji didn't think much about it.

"It seems that Yagura Kujira must have been interested in the Three-Tailed Beast Isobu for a long time, and he probably also knows how to control the tailed beasts, otherwise he wouldn't have come specifically to find them," Yao Xingji guessed.

"Sakumo Hatake, you really are a persistent ghost. You've been chasing me for so long, aren't you going to let me go?"

A voice came from all directions, echoing in everyone's ears, and even the milky white mist rippled slightly.

The Konoha members immediately stopped and cautiously guarded their surroundings.

Yao Xingji's lips twitched, wondering what the hell this was.

What do you mean by chasing me for so long and still not letting me go? If I didn't know that these two are straight, Yao Xingji would have thought that they were having an affair.

“You know what I want. If you insist on not telling me, then I’ll just have to keep pursuing you,” Sakumo Hatake said coldly.

"Sakumo Hatake, are you planning to chase me to the ends of the earth for a bastard child?" Yagura Karatachi roared, unable to contain his anger any longer. "Why don't you just have another one?"

Nani?

illegitimate child?

What the hell is this?

Yao Xingji instantly froze on Hatake Sakumo's back!

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Chapter 157 Soap Opera

"I've already said, that's not my illegitimate son!" Sakumo Hatake roared through gritted teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.

"If he's not your illegitimate child, why are you chasing after me?" Yagura Karatachi was also furious.