Warlock Invasion of Naruto.

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At this moment, in the center of the vortex, in the underground laboratory.

Bai Yu was conducting the experiment in a calm and methodical manner.

He didn't care whether Black Zetsu and Obito were getting impatient; the initiative was entirely in his hands.

Obito and Black Zetsu's trump cards have been basically figured out by Bai Yu, but they know nothing about Bai Yu's trump cards.

Bai Yu transferred his soul into the body of "Kodama" and also transplanted a Rinnegan. The impact and pressure on his soul in "Kodama" was much less than in "Uchiha Issei".

"As expected, the 'Kodama,' which incorporates a large number of First Hokage cells, has a higher compatibility with the Rinnegan."

With his soul returning to his body, Bai Yu had a basic understanding of the situation.

"It seems that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha were able to be different from ordinary people because their bloodline reverted to its ancestral form, inheriting part of the power of their ancestor, the Sage of Six Paths... through the transfer of power via chakra?"

Bai Yu thought of the mysterious chakra that wanted to enter Kushina's body when she was giving birth, and suddenly he understood many things.

"It seems I can indirectly absorb the power within the Rinnegan, but I cannot transplant the Rinnegan into my body and perfectly fuse it with my own..."

Because advanced sorcerers can seize the bodies of their offspring through a part of their body—either their soul or the power of their bloodline—and use those bodies to resurrect themselves.

The bloodline limit in this world is very similar to the bloodline inheritance of bloodline sorcerers. At the same time, chakra can also hold the soul for a long time. If the Sage of Six Paths is not completely dead, then he may indeed be able to be resurrected through chakra.

A lifespan of a thousand years is not an insurmountable barrier for a level four life form.

Although the theoretical lifespan of a Level 4 "Star Wizard" is 1000 years, through dimensional exploration and various modifications and soul spells, their actual lifespan can exceed 1000 years.

For a level four "Star Wars Master," living for thousands of years is not difficult at all.

Because level four bloodline sorcerers all use level four mythical creatures as their bloodline source, and some of these creatures can even live for more than ten thousand years.

"Currently, through the monitoring of the defensive magic array and soul detection spell, the pupil power is indirectly absorbed and then impurities are removed, so it will not affect my soul. It seems that this is a long process."

[Bloodline: World Tree Companion Python, Level 4 (White Phosphorus Serpent, Half Level 4 + Divine Tree, Half Level 4); Bloodline Purity 80%, Quality "Excellent"]

Lifespan: 800-1000 years

Both the body of "Muling" and Bai Yu's soul absorbed the power of the Rinnegan, further enhancing the purity and quality of Bai Yu's bloodline. As for the reduced lifespan, it was negligible for Bai Yu.

"My soul feels bloated, like I've eaten too much. It seems this is my current limit."

Looking at "Kodama" lying in the petri dish, with one eye already having awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan, Bai Yu took out the slug cells he had prepared. If he were to directly transplant the slug cells into "Kodama" and then transplant the Ice Release bloodline limit, the success rate should be greatly increased, since he could even adapt to the Rinnegan.

Unfortunately, transplanting cells from hematogenous boundary organisms and slugs, which are tertiary organisms, takes a considerable amount of time and cannot be done immediately.

"Unfortunately, they can't adapt to both eyes at the same time." Bai Yu looked at "Kodama" and "Uchiha Issei" with their single Rinnegan eyes, removed the Rinnegan from Kodama's eye socket, replaced it with his original eye, and then let Kodama leave the underground laboratory to inform Black Zetsu and Obito of the results.

"The power of the eye has weakened considerably, but it is still extremely strong." Bai Yu held the Rinnegan in his hand, sensing the weakened energy particles within it, as well as the still surging energy field.

After "Kodama" got up and left, Bai Yu looked at "Uchiha Issei" on the other side. His right eye's three-tomoe Sharingan had reached the final moment of evolution, and its powerful eye power was about to undergo a qualitative change. He wondered just how strong his Mangekyou Sharingan would be.

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Outside the territory of the Vortex Clan.

Obito and Black Zetsu waited from day to night, and finally saw "Kodama" emerge from the gates of the Uzumaki clan's territory.

"What was the result?"

Compared to the seemingly composed Black Zetsu and Obito, the real White Zetsu appeared extremely eager to know the outcome of the negotiations.

"Mr. Kodama, what conditions does the Uzumaki clan want to release Nagato?" Yahiko, who arrived a step later, could not remain calm and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"Yagami Shiraha demanded 10 billion ryo as compensation, as well as Nagato's pair of Rinnegan. Once these conditions were agreed upon, he was willing to release Nagato."

"Wood Spirit" responded in a deep voice.

"That's absolutely impossible!" Black Zetsu refused outright.

What use is Nagato if he doesn't have the Rinnegan?

Black Zetsu was willing to let Yagami Hakuha take Nagato's life in exchange for a pair of Rinnegan.

In his mind, Nagato was an important vessel for the Rinnegan, but not irreplaceable; there would always be someone who could adapt to the Rinnegan.

When Yahiko saw that Black Zetsu resolutely refused, his face darkened, and he retorted, "It's not your place to speak here!"

Although he found Bai Yu's demands unacceptable, he believed they were still negotiable. After all, Bai Yu was just a member of the Akatsuki and had no right to decide Nagato's fate.

"With our current strength, do we have a chance to break through the Uzumaki clan's defenses by force and rescue Nagato?"

Xiao Nan, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but ask.

"It's highly unlikely. After Nagato adapted to the power of the Rinnegan, his strength has far surpassed mine. Even if all of us were combined, we probably wouldn't be much stronger than Nagato."

As far as I know, Kushina Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, was not injured at all when she defeated Nagato, which shows just how terrifying her true strength was.

Moreover, with Yagami Shiroha present, we have even less chance to resort to force.

As for these White Zetsu, they can only serve to seal off the Vortex clan's territory; a direct assault is unrealistic.

"Wood Spirit" analyzed.

"Even if Madara joins the fight, it won't work?" Konan asked, still somewhat unwilling to give up. In the past, she had been very hostile towards Obito, but now, in order to save Nagato, she unconsciously began to use a respectful title for him.

"My current power is less than one-tenth of what it was at its peak. I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to defeat the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki even if he were to fight me alone," Obito said calmly, though his words still held back.

"So what do we do now? Without the Rinnegan, even if we rescue Nagato, what will we use to save the ninja world?" White Zetsu's true form said excitedly. Of course, he didn't care about saving the ninja world; he just used a different approach.

Black Zetsu said in a deep voice, "I don't believe that Yagami Shiroha really wants to fight us to the death. Although these White Zetsu can't do anything to them, they can't do anything to the White Zetsu either."

Yahiko, uninterested in Black Zetsu's nonsense, looked earnestly at the silent "Kodama" beside him and said, "Mr. Kodama, do you have a solution? Isn't the Infinite Rings organization very powerful? And they seem to have a good relationship with Yagami Shiroha. If we ask your organization's leader to put pressure on him, is there any chance that Yagami Shiroha might make a concession?"

Compared to Black Zetsu and Madara, Yahiko actually trusted Kodama, who had saved his life, more.

After all, although "Kodama" is backed by the mysterious Infinite Ring organization, it has never done anything harmful to Akatsuki so far, unlike Black Zetsu and Madara, who always seem to have ulterior motives. Nagato's capture this time was also the result of Madara's instigation.

“That’s probably difficult, but we can give it a try. Yagami Shiroha should give ‘Dragon King’ face. However, ‘Dragon King’ isn’t on the Ninja Continent right now; he’s deep in the outer sea. Even if he gets here at top speed, it’ll probably take him ten to fifteen days. Until then, we’d better keep Yagami Shiroha calm.” “Kodama” said, “How about this, we take a compromise as the bottom line for negotiations? What do you think?”

'Not in the Ninja Continent?'

Black Zetsu was startled. For hundreds of years, he had been lying low in the ninja world, waiting for the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura to become geniuses, and then guiding their chakra to merge into one, giving birth to the Rinnegan. So he had basically been waiting on the ninja continent.

Black Zetsu only knew that there were other lands besides the Ninja Continent; these other lands were barren and showed no signs of human habitation.

However, this planet is very large, and after being separated from the land, Black Zetsu doesn't have many means of crossing the sea, so Black Zetsu doesn't know exactly how many landmasses this planet has.

Anyway, it's enough that the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura are always born on the Ninja Continent.

Even though he heard that there was a powerful being called "Dragon King" in the Infinite Ring, and not just a fabrication by "Wood Spirit," Black Zetsu was still instinctively wary.

He didn't know who "Wood Spirit" was in reality, and now that there was another "Dragon King," Black Zetsu felt he needed to spend more time investigating.

"What compromise?" Yahiko asked hastily, his greatest concern being Nagato's safety.

“We cannot lose Nagato, nor can we lose the Rinnegan. In that case, let’s take back one Rinnegan and Nagato as the bottom line, and negotiate the other Rinnegan as the condition.” “Kodama” explained. Just now, while he was silent, Bai Yu’s soul directly controlled “Kodama” through the connection of his innate magic. The condition he was now proposing was the condition he had anticipated.

One Rinnegan is enough for Bai Yu at the moment.

Most importantly, Bai Yu discovered a problem: a large amount of the Rinnegan's power is consumed at once and needs to be replenished to restore the Rinnegan's power, which requires absorbing the host's chakra and life force.

This is why Nagato almost got drained when he summoned the Gedo Mazo and used the Human Path ability.

Bai Yu had actually planned to cooperate with Nagato, but who knew he would be so arrogant, a hopeless case of chuunibyou, and really think of himself as a god.

Since that's the case, Bai Yu also decided to change his approach and treat Nagato as a tool to support the Rinnegan.

He planned to take advantage of the negotiation time to absorb as much of the power of one of the Rinnegan's eyes as possible, then keep the Rinnegan with less power consumption, and transplant the Rinnegan with a large amount of power consumption back into Nagato's eye socket.

Anyway, Nagato is only in his twenties and has a long time to reach his peak, so it's only a matter of time before he can nurture the Rinnegan back to its strongest state.

Bai Yu has gained a breakthrough opportunity by absorbing the power of the Samsara Eye. After his soul is strengthened, the crystallization of his spiritual power, which originally would have taken three or four years of painstaking work, now feels like he only needs a few months of preparation time before he can begin to advance to the second level of "Summoning Sorcerer".

With his strength further enhanced, he would be able to easily manipulate Nagato, who only possessed one Rinnegan.

To be honest, if Black Zetsu really controlled tens of thousands of White Zetsu to surround the vicinity of the Uzumaki clan's territory, he would really have a headache.

Because he and Kushina weren't afraid, the other clansmen also had to eat the food.

Bai Yu can't carry a bunch of storage scrolls every time he goes out for basic necessities, and he or Kushina can't personally escort him every time they buy food and vegetables, it's too much of a hassle.

If Akatsuki agrees to his conditions, Bai Yu will have ample time to study the Rinnegan and find a way to deal with the massive number of White Zetsu.

"Speaking of which, this whole mess was brought on by Nagato himself. The Akatsuki originally had a chance to cooperate with the Uzumaki clan, but who knew that Nagato would use force to injure the Uzumaki clan members as soon as he arrived."

Mu Ling (Bai Yu)'s words plunged everyone in the room into silence.

Black Zetsu and Obito naturally didn't want to lose a Rinnegan, but if they used force, they were definitely no match for it.

Now they have to reason with the Vortex Clan.

'It seems it's done.' Mu Ling (Bai Yu) thought with certainty.

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[Chapter 201 Early Promotion (Part 205)]

"It seems that we have no other choice but to do this now."

After a long silence, Yahiko spoke.

If Nagato can return safely and only lose one Rinnegan, it would be a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune. Who told Nagato to be so arrogant and directly provoke them? As a result, he not only suffered a crushing defeat but was also captured alive by the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Before this battle, Yahiko thought Nagato was almost invincible. They were preparing to take revenge on Hanzo, the leader of Amegakure, in the near future. With the Rinnegan power that Nagato had shown, defeating Hanzo, who was known as a demigod, was basically a sure thing.

Even if the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and Yagami Shiroba are strong, they probably won't be much stronger than Hanzo, especially since Hanzo also possesses the terrifying toxins of the Salamander. In actual combat, Hanzo is actually more difficult to deal with.

But things didn't go as planned.

This can only be considered another lesson, to teach them a lesson they'll remember.

"I'm entrusting everything to Mr. Kodama!" Konan quickly replied, her expression exceptionally respectful. Compared to Black Zetsu and Madara, Kodama had made many contributions to the Akatsuki, especially since he had once saved Yahiko, and now Nagato also needed him to rescue him.

"All I can say is that I'll do my best, and hopefully the 'Dragon King's' influence will work."

"Wood Spirit" said in a deep voice, without showing any confidence that he could definitely do it.

“In that case, let’s negotiate with Yagami Shiroha again as soon as possible,” said Black Zetsu from the side.

The Rinnegan cannot be lost. Even if only one Rinnegan can be retrieved, we must avoid any unforeseen complications or accidents.

If Nagato could regain the Rinnegan, it wouldn't be entirely a bad thing.

Black Zetsu knows best how to truly use the Rinnegan.