Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

Because Yu Ming's current physical strength is equivalent to that of Guy when he has opened the seventh gate.

In terms of pure strength, Yu Ming has already surpassed Kai of the Eight Gates. However, his Yin-Yang Escape has not yet reached the Six Paths level, which falls under the category of magic and has nothing to do with physical techniques.

The reason why Yu Ming did not choose to learn the Eight Gates Formation was because his body had no limitations.

Learning the Eight Gates Formation is like being the emperor's only son, and the emperor only has a few days left before he dies, but you can't stand those one or two days and have to rebel. Although the result is similar, it will cause great losses.

If Yu Ming were to learn the Eight Gates Formation, given his physique, he wouldn't be able to achieve a state of injury-free mastery, because the Eight Gates Formation isn't a matter of physical constitution.

The Eight Gates Formation requires extremely brutal physical training. The training focuses on physical techniques, not on improving physical constitution, but on enhancing the ability to withstand the Eight Gates Formation.

Even though Yu Ming has a strong physique, opening the Eight Gates will still ruin his body.

Furthermore, if one's physical skills are not trained to a certain level, one cannot open many of the Eight Gates. It is impossible to learn the Eight Gates quickly just because one has a strong physique. Learning it is not difficult, but opening it is not a matter of physique.

Otherwise, even Madara Uchiha knew about the Eight Gates, and there are many people with a physique of 5.5, many of whom even have better physiques than Guy and Rock Lee. Why don't they learn it?

Because learning this skill has little to do with physical constitution, it requires extremely brutal physical training, developing physical skills to a demanding degree.

This means that you must spend all your time and energy on physical skills.

However, it is very difficult to become a pure taijutsu ninja in the ninja world.

Yu Ming doesn't need to learn the Eight Gates Formation at all, because his own body and strength can already grow to the level of the Eight Gates Formation. Why should he spend time on such a thing?

Studying more ninjutsu and genjutsu is better than learning taijutsu.

Moreover, if Yu Ming had learned the Eight Gates Formation back then, he would definitely have injured his body. No matter how strong his recovery ability was, he would still have been injured.

He might even break down his own physique before he even reaches the point of opening the Eight Gates.

Becoming stronger without limits is a gradual process, not a result; it's not about becoming infinitely strong directly.

Chapter 213 The Murderer Who Killed the Third Kazekage

Yu Ming smiled. "Sharkman? You mean Kisame Hoshigaki?"

Kai thought for a moment but still couldn't recall Kisame Hoshigaki's name. He looked at Yu Ming and asked, "Have you fought him before?"

Yu Ming nodded. "Yes, I fought him when I went to find Tsunade with Jiraiya. He's quite strong."

Hearing Yu Ming say this, Kai also said, "He is indeed very strong. If I hadn't opened the Eight Gates at the last moment, we might have been killed by him."

Neji then said, "But Kisame Hoshigaki's chakra is very strange. When he died, he appeared to be a different person."

Naruto stepped forward and said, "It seems to be a kind of clone technique. The clone ninja only has one-third of the original's chakra, but it is much stronger than the Shadow Clone Technique."

While the Shadow Clone Technique can indeed divide chakra evenly, it will disappear if the technique is disrupted.

However, even if Akatsuki's clone technique is damaged, as long as the clones are not killed, there will be no problem.

8. Moreover, as long as there is enough chakra, one can fully unleash the ninjutsu of their true form.

In terms of effect, it's more like a clone that Yu Ming created using immortal techniques.

However, the clones that Yu Ming creates using Sage Chakra can absorb natural energy from the outside world and synthesize Sage Chakra on their own. Unless the clones' chakra is completely consumed in one go, they cannot be killed at all.

Kai nodded. "Indeed, no wonder when he killed him, the body of another person appeared, who seemed to be from Sunagakure."

"But if 30% of the chakra is already so powerful, the main body must be even stronger. As expected, the Akatsuki organization does indeed possess terrifying power."

Both Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki are at the Kage level in terms of strength.

These are just two of the Akatsuki members; there are several other Kage-level shikigami like them within the Akatsuki organization.

This is the most terrible.

However, Yu Ming laughed and said, "But there's no need to worry. Their 30% chakra is actually enough to perform ninjutsu. Apart from ninjas like Itachi Uchiha who have little chakra, Kisame Hoshigaki is known as the tailless tailed beast, and his chakra is no less than that of a tailed beast."

"So even if his chakra level is only 30%, it is enough for him to use."

"And that 30% of his chakra is basically enough to show his true strength. In other words, even if he had all his chakra, his strength wouldn't be much greater than when you fought."

Yu Ming was quite certain of this.

It's possible that because Itachi Uchiha had very little chakra to begin with, he couldn't use the Mangekyou Sharingan with only 30% of his chakra. And since the Mangekyou Sharingan was his strongest ability, being unable to use it greatly reduced his power.

However, Kisame Hoshigaki would not reduce his strength much, since his battle with Guy hadn't lasted very long to begin with.

His chakra is more than enough.

Even if the original body were to come, its strength wouldn't increase much.

Hearing Yu Ming say this, Kai calmed down considerably.

"That guy's chakra reserves are indeed enormous; he can even create water-style ninjutsu that can cover hundreds of meters. During the battle, he even created a lake."

Although Guy didn't have a very deep impression of Kisame Hoshigaki, he absolutely had to admit that Kisame was incredibly strong.

It took even opening up all six gates before he could be defeated.

After the group finished catching up, Yu Ming looked at the cave blocked by a huge rock.

Yu Ming calmly said, "Those people are inside."

Chiyo is now looking forward to seeing her grandson.

Her purpose in researching the forbidden technique, Reincarnation of Self, was for Sasori's sake; she wanted to resurrect Sasori's parents and let Sasori see them again.

But before she could fully develop it, Scorpion defected.

She is now prepared to die to see Sasori one last time, and she even wants to kill Sasori along with her.

Over the years, she had discovered that Sasori might have killed the Third Kazekage.

Because his defection and the disappearance of the Third Kazekage overlapped too much, and given Sasori's talent and strength at the time, although he couldn't possibly be a match for the Third Kazekage in a direct confrontation, his puppeteers were the most skilled at using poison.

While the Third Kazekage possessed the powerful Magnet Release technique, he lacked a deep understanding of poisons.

So Sasori could have easily assassinated the Third Kazekage at that time, and after the Third Kazekage disappeared, Sasori also defected at this time. The timing of this is too coincidental.

The investigation into the Third Kazekage was halted simply because Sasori had already defected and Rasa had quickly succeeded him as the Fourth Hokage.

Although some people suspected Sasori, they did not speak out because Chiyo was the Kazekage's advisor at the time.

Because he needed Chiyo's support, Rasa didn't delve into the matter further.

However, the higher-ups in Sunagakure all felt that it was entirely possible that Sasori was behind this.

He was a genius puppeteer in Sunagakure at the time, and even someone like Chiyo believed that her puppetry talent could not compare to his.

At that time, his strength had actually reached that of an elite Jonin, and he might even have been at the level of a near-Kage.

With precise calculations, poisoning the Third Kazekage is not impossible.

Because in the ninja world, the ninjas of Sunagakure did not find the body of the Third Kazekage or any trace of him.

This already speaks volumes.

Chiyo wants to find out whether Sasori killed the Third Kazekage.

Chiyo was very optimistic about the Third Kazekage, believing that he could definitely make the Sand Village 067 even stronger.

His Magnet Release was indeed extremely powerful in the ninja world back then.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, although a huge rock blocked the way, it could not stop the few people inside.

Kakashi looked at Sakura and said, "Sakura, I'm leaving her to you."

Sakura nodded. "Okay."

He clenched his fist as he spoke, making a cracking sound.

After taking several steps back, Sakura charged towards the boulder, yelling, "Damn it, shatter!"

This is Sakura's catchphrase when she attacks.

Sakura quickly traversed the distance of several dozen meters, leaping into the air and slamming her fist into the boulder.

The immense force caused the boulder to make a tremendous sound.

Unfortunately, although the sound was very loud, it couldn't budge the boulder an inch.

Sakura frowned. "What is this stone made of? It doesn't move at all."

Yu Ming's gaze, however, fell upon a small talisman pasted on the stone.

"This is a barrier; it cannot be broken by brute force."

Of course, if it were Yu Ming, he could also use brute force, but he would never do that.

After Yu Ming explained the principle behind the barrier to the others.

Then he looked at Neji and said, "Neji, check within a 500-meter radius and see if there are any similar talismans."

"These talismans all have chakra flowing on them, so they're relatively easy to find."

Chapter 214 Naruto Unleashes the Nine-Tails' Chakra

Neji nodded. "Okay."

He then activated his Byakugan and searched a radius of 500 meters.

Soon, the locations of the four talismans around them were found.

"Found it~".

After Neji told him the locations of the four talismans, Yu Ming looked at Guy and said, "Guy-sensei, all four talismans need to be deciphered at the same time, so please go to the locations Neji mentioned and prepare. Kakashi-sensei and I will decipher this one here."

Kai nodded.

After discussing it for a while, the four of them went to their respective seats.

Yu Ming looked at Xiao Ying and said, "After the talisman is removed, you rush up and smash this stone."

Sakura nodded.

Naruto stood to the side, very anxious, wanting to know Gaara's current situation.

After a few minutes, Kai and his group arrived at their designated spot, and Kakashi appeared at the location of the talisman on the boulder.

After counting to three in unison, the five people together peeled off all the talismans.

After uncovering it, Kakashi immediately jumped off the rock.

Sakura, who was already prepared, charged towards the boulder, yelling, "Damn it!"

Hearing Sakura's catchphrase, Yu Ming's face showed several black lines.