Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

half a month later.

The capital of the Kingdom of Sichuan.

The famous mansion.

"Boom!"

"Bump...boom!"

With loud bangs, Daming Mansion, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres, was reduced to ruins.

The cause of all this is a fat black civet cat monster, fifty meters tall, with a tail and hands and feet as huge as a high-speed train carriage. Every time it swings, it will leave a mark on the ground that will shatter everything.

Except for the different color, this is the Ichibi Shukaku.

"Quick, stop this monster!"

"Don't let him get near here!"

At a street intersection in the capital, the general of the Daming Prefecture of the Kingdom of Kawa watched the terrifying monster raging in front of him, and quickly gave orders to the surrounding soldiers and hired ninjas to stop the monster.

He and the Daimyo of Kawanoguni ran out with their families.

But where can they run to!

After destroying the Daming Mansion, the black Shukaku continued to walk towards the Daiming and his party. Despite its size, the black Shukaku was not slow either.

Whoosh... The hired ninja responsible for blocking threw the kunai and shuriken in his hand.

Ding ding... The kunai and shuriken shot at the black Shukaku were like they were shot at hard steel. They had no effect except for the crisp sound of metal collision.

Black Shukaku moved on.

"Fire Escape..."

"Water escape……"

Several hired ninjas used ninjutsu attacks, but none of them could stop Black Shukaku from moving forward.

Seeing that the black monster is about to catch up.

The daimyo of the Kawa Country is in a hurry!

"Damn it, why haven't Konoha's ninjas arrived yet?"

Suna Ninja took action against Kawa no Kuni, and Kawa no Kuni sent a letter of request for help to Konoha.

It's just that compared to the Suna Ninja's preparedness, it takes time for Konoha to mobilize troops from all sides. It can only send some small teams to harass the Suna Ninja first and delay the Suna Ninja's advance against the Fire Country.

Originally, according to the memories of World War I and World War II, the Suna Ninja would only fight against Konoha within Kawakawa and would not take action against the Daming Prefecture.

Who would have known that someone from the Sand Ninjas would take action against the Daming Mansion this time.

As a result, no one in Daming Mansion can stop Black Shukaku's attack.

"A distress signal has been sent, and Konoha's ninjas should arrive soon."

The general said calmly while protecting the daimyo, and at the same time, he kept asking the protective guards around him to stop the black Shukaku.

Outside the capital.

The two Sand Ninja teams stood on the big branches, looking at the black Shukaku raging in the distance, their faces full of reverence.

"Is that the Sand Iron Control of the Third Kazekage?"

"I didn't expect to see him again in my lifetime. Lord Scorpion is so powerful that he even learned the adult ninjutsu of the Third Kazekage without even realizing it."

In order to cover up the fact that the Third Kazekage was a puppet, Scorpion made the Third Kazekage directly into a ball that wrapped the heart of the puppet, and then used the ball to control the iron sand to condense into Shukaku's appearance and perform various sand and iron manipulation ninjutsu. .

At this time, the black Shukaku in the capital was formed by the condensation of sand and iron controlled by Scorpion.

His body is also inside Sunate Shukaku, and he controls Sunate Shukaku's actions through a pair of eyes formed by Sunite's control.

"After all, Scorpion was once the guard of the Third Kazekage. It's not surprising that he has learned the control of sand iron, but I didn't expect that he has such a huge amount of chakra."

"I heard that Scorpion developed an energy device called the Heart of the Puppet, which can restore chakra by absorbing natural energy from nature. This allows him to have a terrifying amount of chakra that is even greater than a shadow-level powerhouse. "

"It's a pity that I don't have the talent of a puppet master. Otherwise, with the help of the puppet heart, I might be able to join the ranks of shadow-level experts."

"It is said that using the Puppet Heart requires the perception of natural energy. What is natural energy? Do you know?"

"Uh... don't look at me, I don't know either."

The six people watching the battle looked at each other in confusion, none of them knew what natural energy was, let alone perceived it.

There are actually very few people in the ninja world who know about the knowledge of natural energy.

After all, there are too few people who can sense natural energy without the help of the three holy places. There may only be one or two in the entire ninja world.

Therefore, there are basically no records of knowledge about natural energy in the ninja world.

Among the five great ninja villages, only the major families in Konoha may have some understanding of natural energy, followed by the top leaders of the Uzumaki clan.

The higher-ups of Sunagakure Village may know a little bit, but they are very few. The ninjas below basically don't know what natural energy is.

After Xie came to the Kingdom of Sichuan, he did not have the ability to hide the puppet heart, and had interactions with many Sand Ninjas. Of course, he would not tell everything.

Anyone who wants the manufacturing technology of the Puppet Heart must follow the regulations. Raising enough money to purchase it is just the basics. They must also have enough talent as a puppet master.

Scorpion will not easily teach others the puppet heart that he has worked so hard to study.

Chapter 279 Battle with Orochimaru

Boom boom!

In the distance, low roars continued to be heard.

Among the branches of the lush forest, a group of nine ninjas wearing green vests were heading in the direction of the roar. They were the ninjas who came to rescue Konoha.

The leader was Orochimaru, who was known as the Sannin of Konoha.

"You can hear it from such a distance..."

"Did the sand ninja send out the tailed beast?"

A Konoha ninja behind Orochimaru said with a solemn expression.

Such a distant roar and the shock coming from the ground were very similar to the sound of some kind of giant creature wreaking havoc on the ground.

This kind of movement is very familiar to them.

When the Sannin summoned the huge psychic beast to fight, they also felt this earthquake-like movement in the distance.

The sand ninja didn't have huge psychic beasts, so the only ones that could cause such a movement were the tailed beasts.

"Sage mode? Or what?"

As the branches moved forward, Orochimaru kept slightly raising his head and looking into the sky. He felt that the natural energy was flowing forward like flowing streams.

In this case, either someone in front is condensing the immortal mode, or there is something absorbing natural energy.

And the amount of absorption is still very large, otherwise the phenomenon of natural energy flow would not occur.

"interesting!"

Orochimaru stuck out his long tongue. As one of the rare geniuses in the ninja world who can sense natural energy, and as a psychic contractor of the three major psychic beast holy places - Ryūchi Cave, he is very aware of the power of natural energy.

It's just that being able to perceive natural energy is one thing, and absorbing natural energy is another.

Natural energy has an extremely terrifying natural assimilation ability. Once it is absorbed rashly, it will be assimilated into a part of nature and die.

Even if there was a way to activate Sage Mode in Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru never dared to try it, which shows how terrifying it is to absorb natural energy.

Now a thing that can absorb natural energy for fighting suddenly appears, whether it is a human or other instrument, Orochimaru is very interested.

Immortal magic is also a power he has always longed to control.

Soon.

The roar disappeared.

Orochimaru and his party also came out of the forest and saw the black Shukaku standing in the ruins at the bottom of the cliff.

"Shukaku?"

"No, Shukaku is not like that."

At first glance, Orochimaru thought it was Shukaku, but not only was the color wrong, but the feeling it gave him was also wrong, not the way he felt when facing a tailed beast.

But none of this matters anymore.

Because he had already sensed that the end point of the natural energy flow around him was the black Shukaku monster.

Apparently, the Shukaku-like black monster is the guy who absorbs natural energy.

This was the first time Orochimaru saw something that could absorb natural energy and fight at the same time.

Is it a psychic beast?

Orochimaru guessed in his mind.

Natural energy is too corrosive to the human body and cannot be controlled, so we can only absorb the required amount and then stop, and then use natural energy.

Even the first Hokage, Senju Hashirama, could only absorb a large amount of natural energy in an instant and condense it into senjutsu chakra, and then immediately stop absorbing natural energy. He could not turn on sage mode and absorb natural energy at the same time.

That monster can actually do things that the original version couldn't.

Whatever that black monster is.

If he can capture it and study it carefully, maybe he can master the immortal mode.

Orochimaru stretched out his tongue and licked it, staring at the black Shukaku in the distance with burning eyes, leaping forward, biting his thumb at the same time, pressing it down, and black magic lines condensed out.

"Psychicism!"

Bang!

In mid-air, a large cloud of white smoke suddenly exploded, and a huge, winding figure sprang out of it. It was Orochimaru's psychic beast, the Ten Thousand Snakes.

"Orochimaru...um...what the hell is that?"

As soon as Wan She came out, he wanted to reprimand Orochimaru, but when he saw the black monster that looked like Shukaku not far away, he was constantly absorbing natural energy, and he was instantly shocked.

Natural energy is not energy that everyone can absorb.

Even the psychic beasts born in the three psychic beast holy places need special methods to absorb natural energy, and they cannot absorb it all the time, otherwise they will be assimilated by the natural energy.

As a result, now, the black guy opposite is constantly absorbing the surrounding natural energy, and he is still fighting.

"How did you do it?"

A thought flashed through Wan She's mind, and then she twisted her body to avoid a wind bomb containing huge chakra.

"Such a big snake...is Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas."

Sunatetsu Shukaku's big eyes reveal a human look.

The scorpion hidden in Sunate Shukaku's belly moved. Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, should be able to test the power of the puppet's heart.

Bang Bang... Scorpion controlled the Sand Iron Shukaku to rush over. At the same time, he opened his big mouth and spit out condensed air-refining bombs.

Wan Snake looked at the incoming Sandetshukaku without fear. He twisted his body in a snake-like position to avoid the air-refining bombs, and rushed towards the Sandetshukaku.

"It's not magic, nor is it natural energy."

"Strange... Orochimaru, what happened to that guy?"

The ninjutsu released by the guy who absorbed natural energy was neither Senju Chakra nor natural energy. This made Wan She a little confused and asked Orochimaru who was standing above it.

"I also want to know."

Orochimaru subconsciously stuck out his long tongue again, his fiery eyes fixed on Sunatetsu Shukaku who was approaching quickly, and he quickly formed seals with his hands.

"Earth Escape-Swampland!"

The ground under Sunata Shukaku's feet instantly turned into a swamp, and his huge body suddenly fell into it due to the heavy weight.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wan She quickly twisted his body and swam over, tied up the sand iron Shukaku like a giant python, and strangled him hard.

"It hurts...so hard!!!"

After Wan She exerted her strength, she realized that the iron knot was too hard, and instead of strangling the opponent's body, her body was in pain.

"This is...not good!"

On the head of the snake, after close observation, Orochimaru finally realized what the black Shukaku was. It was clearly Shukaku made of sand iron. His expression immediately changed and he thought of the Sand Iron Control Ninjutsu of the Third Kazekage.