Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

The earth is like a fragile biscuit that will break into pieces with just a kick.

"I didn't expect that uncle's physical skills are so terrifying!" Xiao Ye looked at Li Yao with admiration in his eyes.

In mid-air, a large clay bird condensed and stood under Li Yao.

Below, the dust dispersed, and in the big pit, Jiaodu leaned against the rocks and soil piled up by the collision, blood still gushing out of his mouth desperately.

Three black monsters formed by attribute chakra masks have landed next to Kakuzu. Two of them are staring at Li Yao in mid-air with full readiness, and one of them quickly drills into Kakuzu's body to replace the heart that was directly blown up by Li Yao's kick.

"The power is not bad!"

Li Yao was quite satisfied with the attack just now. Although it was not as good as Might Guy's kick using all eight gates, it was still pretty good to be able to blow Kakuzu's heart apart with one kick.

Feeling the violent power contained in his body at this moment, Li Yao suddenly shook his head and sighed.

"Sure enough, this is a world that values ​​bloodline!"

After fusing with the White Zetsu Wood Release cells, the restrictions on Li Yao's physical growth were gone. Although the acupuncture space in his body was destroyed, his body had naturally grown to its current level over the past three years.

There is no need to use Tsunade's supernatural power of chakra explosion. Just relying on the strength of one's own body, one kick can easily smash a hill and crush the earth.

At this moment, Li Yaocai can be regarded as an almighty ninja who has no weaknesses even in illusion techniques.

"Little devil, tell me your name."

Kakuzu stood up again and activated his strongest mode - Earth Grudge. Two masks with fire and thunder attributes fell on both sides of his shoulders, connected to his body with dense black lines. His joints cracked, revealing the dense black lines inside.

He had realized that after the first Hokage, he had once again encountered a strong enemy.

"I'm just a nobody, don't worry about me."

Li Yao smiled casually, shook his hands, twisted his neck, and said: "To be honest, I have never had a good fight with a shadow-level strongman. I hope you can make me feel the passion of battle."

All along, the enemies Li Yao encountered were either killed instantly by him, or he was unable to deal with them and was afraid of death, so he could only use his shadow clones to fight. He had never fought with real weapons himself.

Although the battle between Xiao Ye and Jiao Du was short, it also aroused Li Yao's interest.

With his current physical condition, he doesn’t need to show off his normal injuries, so he can have some fun with Kakuzu.

"Damn you, you're going to regret this!"

Li Yao's nonchalant attitude of playing with him at will completely angered Kakuzu. He said, "Even the first Hokage who once fought with me didn't dare to be so arrogant in front of me, brat!!!"

"Water Release-Water Dragon Bullet!"

"Thunder Release-Pseudo Darkness!"

Without further ado, the enraged Kakuzu instantly opened his mouth and released a combination of ninjutsu from the chakra-attribute mask on his shoulder.

"Water Thunder Dragon Technique."

The water thunder dragon flashing with lightning was as big as a train and flew towards Li Yao in the air with violent power.

Facing this attack, Li Yao responded by clasping his hands together for eleven times.

"Water Thunder Dragon Technique."

The water currents converged, lightning flashed, and in an instant, a water thunder dragon larger than the one released by Kakuzu opened its mouth and bit downwards.

Boom!

Bucket-sized splashes of water were everywhere, violent blue and white lightning flashed in the sky, and two water thunder dragons, one large and one small, collided. Naturally, the smaller one was defeated.

bump!

Kakuzu's eyes widened and he jumped back, dodging the attack from the Thunder Dragon that dropped from the sky.

"how is this possible?"

Kakuzu found it a little bit unbelievable that while possessing such powerful physical skills, he also possessed such a terrifying talent for ninjutsu, and the combination of ninjutsu he performed was even more powerful than his own.

"Who...is he?"

Kakuzu had subconsciously stopped calling Li Yao "brat". Li Yao's strength made him feel the same powerlessness for the first time as when he faced the first Hokage.

"No, there is only one First Hokage!"

Kakuzu quickly shook his head and regrouped his will to fight; now was not the time to be weak.

"Water Release - Kirigakure's Jutsu!"

Kakuzu clasped his hands together eleven times, and a large amount of fog rose instantly, covering an area of ​​five kilometers in radius.

I have to say that Kakuzu's chakra amount is also terrifying. The chakra amount of his three hearts is not much worse than that of Xiao Ye.

Chapter 176 Kakuzu is a real man

"Kirigakure?"

"hehe!"

Looking at the thick fog with visibility less than one meter around, Li Yao shook his head with a hint of sneer on his face.

This mist-hiding technique that blocks visual perception is completely useless in the face of his chakra perception ability.

With the help of the thick fog, Kakuzu performed the silent killing technique and attacked Li Yao silently from below, trying to attack Li Yao through the black lines of the Earth's Resentment and seize Li Yao's heart.

All of this was exposed to Li Yao's chakra perception ability.

Li Yao suddenly felt a little bored.

The fighting desire that had just been aroused disappeared without a trace in an instant.

In terms of ninjutsu, chakra, perception, and physical reaction, he is ahead of Kakuzu in all aspects.

In the face of absolute strength, combat experience, combat skills, and tactical coordination are all nothing but clouds, and Li Yao sees them all.

This is not a fight at all.

It was just a one-sided beating.

"It's boring."

"Let's study how the secret technique of Di Yuan Yu can steal someone's heart."

Li Yao's mind moved, and he performed the perception deprivation technique.

In the thick fog, Kakuzu came under Li Yao and was about to release his tentacles to attack, but found that he had lost control of his body, including the black lines in his body, and only five hearts were still beating.

"Wind Style - Squirt Blowing Technique!"

A strong wind gathered around Li Yao and then spread out in all directions, like ripples on the water, instantly blowing away the thick fog within a five-kilometer radius.

Below, Jiaodu had already fallen to the ground, his eyes fixed on Li Yao falling from the air above him, but in fact, he could not see anything as his consciousness was bound in the conscious space.

On both sides of his body, two hearts wrapped with black lines were beating loudly.

Without control of the black lines, the heart outside the body could no longer maintain the shape of a black monster and turned back into a heart entangled with black lines.

"Illusion?"

"No, it's not an illusion!"

With his consciousness trapped and losing the perception of his body, Kakuzu was shocked, but he quickly realized that he was not hit by an illusion, but a ninjutsu similar to the immobilization jutsu, except that this ninjutsu deprived him of control over his body and the black lines.

Kakuzu could still sense the existence of his heart, but no matter how he controlled his heart to attack his body, his body remained motionless, and the black tentacles wrapped around his heart would only wriggle instinctively, without being controlled by the heart.

Li Yao landed next to Kakuzu and squatted down, picking up a beating heart wrapped with a black string on the ground.

As soon as the bodies touched, Li Yao could sense the unique changes in the nature and shape of the chakra in the black lines.

Li Yao tried to condense the same chakra, but no black lines appeared in his hand.

"Flesh and blood...just like I thought!"

Li Yao smiled slightly, the black lines were not condensed from chakra, but were formed from special Earth Resentment Chakra fused with flesh and blood, so they still had some characteristics of flesh and blood, such as nerve conduction.

Because of this, Li Yao was able to use the Perception Deprivation Technique to deprive Kakuzu's heart of control over the black lines, turning him into a vegetable.

In a sense, the horns are no longer human.

Instead, it became some kind of alternative chakra creature.

After the flesh and blood all over the body turns into black lines, fatal parts such as the brain will no longer be fatal parts, and the heart becomes the only lifeline.

Li Yao perceived that Kakuzu's heart was very special, just like a brain, with dense nerves all over it, and a large amount of chakra was also mainly stored here.

His soul also mainly resides here.

If Li Yao wants to obtain the complete Earth Grudge Secret Technique, he has to lean over to Jiaodu with his spirit body and read his memories through his soul to obtain the Earth Grudge Secret Technique.

"Oh!"

To be on the safe side, Li Yao created a shadow clone before performing the spirit transformation technique, transforming into a spirit body to possess Kakuzu.

"This is...the art of spiritual transformation!"

The moment Li Yao's spirit possessed him, the knowledgeable Jiao Du noticed it in his consciousness space, but he only noticed it. He was powerless and could not stop the invasion of Li Yao's spirit.

After the spirit of the spirit transformation technique possesses the enemy, in addition to being able to directly attack the opponent's soul or seize control of the enemy's body, it can also use soul infiltration to explore the enemy's memory.

At this moment, the memory spirit became virtual and penetrated into Kakuzu's soul, and began to explore Kakuzu's memory.

Soon, Kakuzu's memory came to the beginning of everything.

In the third year of Konoha, three years after the first Hokage pacified the troubled times and established Konoha, the name of the God of Ninja was known throughout the ninja world.

In Takigakure Village, Kakuzu, who is twice as young, the strongest, and has the highest prestige and the greatest chance of becoming the second-generation Takikage candidate, suddenly receives a secret mission from the village's top brass.

"Go and kill the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama!"

"Ah I?"

The moment Kakuzu received the task, his brain froze for a moment. He was the strongest of the younger generation of Takigakure, but his strength was only that of a Jonin. He was asked to kill the first Hokage who could treat the tailed beasts as pets. This... Kakuzu was speechless.

Later, the village leaders said that this was a test for the second generation Takigakure. If he didn't even have the courage to take action against the God of Ninja, how could he lead Takigakure to become a great power?

At that time, the corner that regarded Takie as his dream and the village as his home could not withstand this kind of provocation.

So he resolutely embarked on the path of assassinating the God of Ninja.

In fact, it is called an assassination, but facing a guy like Hashirama, there is no difference between the so-called assassination and open killing.

Maybe he saw the passion that Kakuzu had for the village, maybe Kakuzu was just attacking him, or maybe Hashirama longed for peace.

In short, he did not kill Kakuzu who came to kill him. Instead, he did not use Wood Release, but only used Taijutsu to play with Kakuzu, making Kakuzu try his best for the mission and then realize that the mission had failed and automatically retreat.

Kakuzu, who returned to Takigakure Village, thought that he had fought with all his might and came back alive from the hands of the God of Ninja, which not only proved his courage, but also proved that he was capable of leading Takigakure Village to greatness.

As a result...the so-called mission was just an excuse.

The reason why the village's top leaders gave Kakuzu such an impossible task of killing the First Hokage was naturally to make Kakuzu fail in the task so that they would have an excuse to suppress Kakuzu and support their own people to take the position.

No matter which village, those who enjoy power and become politicians have dirty hearts.

The establishment of the ninja village gave birth to the first batch of politicians with dirty hearts. In their minds, personal rights are above the interests of the village.

Kakuzu's reputation has become an obstacle in their path to power and must be eliminated.

Of course, they didn't intend to kill Kakuzu, they just wanted to damage Kakuzu's reputation.

As a result, Kakuzu was like a young boy with a sunny heart who was suddenly invaded by darkness. Facing the accusations and abuses from the village's top leaders, as well as the villagers who showed their ugly faces under the guidance of high-level public opinion, Kakuzu completely lost his sense of identity with the village.

So, taking advantage of the darkness one night, he sneaked into the secret room in the village where forbidden techniques were stored and seized the scroll of the Earth Grievance Secret Technique.

Kakuzu's talent is really high. No one in the village who is qualified to learn the secret art of Earth Grievance has learned it.

However, it only took him a few minutes to learn the Earth Grievance Technique and transform all his flesh and blood into the black lines of the Earth Grievance Technique.

Afterwards, Kakuzu assassinated all the village leaders, seized their hearts, and defected from Takigakure Village.

When Li Yao saw this in his memory, he withdrew.

"Kakuzu is a real man. At least he's not the kind of man who throws a kunai and runs away from 800 meters away."

Li Yao can prove that Kakuzu really fought with the First Hokage. Although the First Hokage did not take it seriously and was just joking, it was definitely not a fight as said on the Internet where the guy just threw a kunai and ran away.

Chapter 177 The Secret of the Earthly Resentment Technique

"Assimilation!"

After reading Kakuzu's memories about the secret technique of the Earth's Grudge, Li Yao understood the key to why Kakuzu could steal other people's hearts and achieve eternal life without any rejection reaction.

That's assimilation!