Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

Danzo was really worried about handing over a scary monster like the Nine-Tailed Fox to a little girl. Wasn't that equivalent to handing his own safety over to that girl? He felt uneasy.

"How about we restart the plan to recreate Wood Release?" Danzo's eyes suddenly flashed and he suggested.

The ability of Wood Release to restrain the tailed beasts is obvious to all. As long as Konoha has a Wood Release ninja again, not only can the Nine-Tails be properly dealt with, but the tailed beast jinchūriki of other ninja villages will not be worth mentioning.

And...it can also solve the problem of his Sharingan and body rejection.

Danzo had already researched this aspect of Wood Release.

But he didn't dare to transplant the first generation of cells because he was afraid of death.

He would only dare to transplant after the Wood Release Reappearance Plan was successful and the first generation cells could be safely transplanted.

That way, he could have the Mangekyō Sharingan forever.

Hey!

Danzo was calculating in his mind, but the Sandai didn't buy it and said, "Don't worry, I've asked Mito-sama, and if nothing is done, she can at least hold on for another ten years."

"Ten years is enough time for Xin Jiunai to grow."

Compared to the plan to revive the Wood Release technique, the Third Generation believed more in the physical condition of the Uzumaki clan.

He had seen the girl named Shin Kuna, and it was true that she had the same Vajra Sealing Technique chakra hidden in her body as Mito-sama.

This kind of Vajra Sealing Chakra, which has been condensed and passed down from generation to generation by the Uzumaki clan and is almost considered a special bloodline limit, can not only be awakened through bloodline inheritance, but also has stronger sealing ability than that of ordinary people when using the sealing technique.

Only this enhanced sealing chakra combined with the corresponding sealing technique can exert a terrifying sealing effect and firmly suppress and seal a huge chakra creature like the Nine-Tailed Fox.

"Ten years!"

For some reason, Danzo was inexplicably disappointed when he heard that Mito-sama could live for another ten years. Fortunately, he realized immediately that this was not the emotion he should have. He immediately asked the Sandaime: "So how should we deal with it now?"

The Sandaime glanced at Danzo, picked up the pipe in his hand and tapped it on the table, lit up the cigarette and took a puff, then said, "Two Root teams will also join in the intelligence gathering at the border, and the assignment will be decided by the Anbu chief."

"what about me?"

After the Sanda finished speaking, Danzo immediately frowned and stared at the Sanda with an unfriendly look.

This old guy wouldn't be planning to burn his bridges and immediately take back his rights in the Root after failing to deal with the Uchiha clan, right?

"Don't worry, I won't undo the roots."

The Third Hokage gave Danzo a reassuring look, and Danzo breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the Root was not abolished, he was still the most suitable man to lead the Root, no doubt about it.

"What results have you achieved with the little boy I gave you?" The third generation suddenly became concerned about Li Yao's question.

"What kid?" Danzo looked a little confused.

He really didn't think about Li Yao. In the past few years, his mind was focused on the Sharingan and he had no time to care about a child.

"..." The third generation's mouth twitched when he heard this. After taking a deep puff of cigarette, he said angrily, "Don't you care about what I told you to do?"

"Ahem..." The Third Hokage suddenly revealed a resentful tone and expression, and Danzo said that he could not bear it anymore.

Now Sandai's expression is like when they were little and they were tired from playing by the river, so Sandai played the guitar while he was taking a nap. The expression Sandai showed him after he woke up was so unbearable.

For a moment, Danzo's face turned red, and he felt as if he had done something wrong to the Third Generation and felt a little guilty.

"Well... I will go back and study it right away."

Danzo said this quickly and turned around to leave, rushing back to the headquarters base to see if there was any special need for research on the little boy mentioned by the Third Hokage.

"and many more."

The third generation stopped Danzo and warned him solemnly: "That little boy is very dangerous. I will give you a year at most. If you still can't find anything useful after a year, then kill that little boy immediately."

Deep down, the three generations had always been wary of Li Yao.

After all, he knew nothing about Li Yao's past, and this unknown made him very uneasy.

A year later, regardless of whether Danzo had studied Li Yao or not, the Third Generation was ready to kill Li Yao directly to eliminate the trouble forever.

Danzo didn't pay attention to the Third Hokage's solemn words. He just said he knew and went back.

Chapter 40: Shun Learns the Art of Walking in Darkness

Roots underground base.

Danzo's office.

Danzo took out the information that the Third Hokage had given him in advance when he sent the child over from the drawer next to the table.

He didn't see it then, but now he wants to take a good look at how amazing that kid is, and why Hiruzen still remembers him so much.

At first, I couldn’t remember who the child that Sandai was talking about was, but later, Danzang remembered it, and his curiosity was aroused.

If he remembered correctly, it was because of that kid that Hiruzen was humiliated by the two brats of the Uchiha family. This made Hiruzen begin to lean towards his suggestion of establishing the Root.

"Huruzen studied it secretly for more than half a year before handing it over to the Root."

Thinking of this information, Danzo's expression gradually became solemn. It was obvious that this child held a big secret and a big threat, and he could not be allowed to get out alive.

"Hmm... The Yamanaka Clan's Shinranshin Jutsu didn't work, or with the chakra sealed?"

"The Second-generation Master's illusion technique - Darkness Walking Technique didn't work either. Was it because the chakra was sealed?"

"This is impossible!!!"

Danzo, who had been somewhat indifferent to Li Yao, now looked completely serious.

If what the information says is true, the secret of that child cannot be explained away by just saying he is immune to illusion.

Before this, Danzo only thought that the immunity to illusions mentioned by the Third Hokage was based on the child having some special bloodline limit.

As a result, even if the chakra is sealed, he can be immune to the Mind-Ran Shen Jutsu and the Dark Movement Jutsu, which is very scary.

This is simply not something that an ordinary bloodline limit can achieve.

Danzo continued reading. The material detailed the process of Li Yao being tortured, as well as the record of how the Third Generation persisted in using illusions on Li Yao during this process, but all without success.

The last three generations left a message for Danzo.

If we cannot figure out the secret of Li Yao's chakra, then we must kill him quickly and never let him walk out of the laboratory alive.

Although the third generation did not say how dangerous Li Yao was.

But Danzo could sense the fear of Li Yao between the lines of the Third Generation's words.

Because he could also imagine that Li Yao had such a special physique, and his talent in illusion must be terrifying.

Just like the Uchiha clan who have a strong resistance to illusions, they also have a unique talent in illusions.

Therefore, once Li Yao possesses illusion techniques, his illusion techniques will definitely be much stronger than those of others, and the danger to Konoha will increase dramatically.

It is obviously not allowed to let such a person who poses a great threat to Konoha walk out of the laboratory alive.

This threat also indirectly shows how strong Li Yao is in resisting illusions.

"No wonder Hiruzen takes it so seriously. If everything written above is true, the importance of that child is indeed on a higher level."

After reading the information, Danzo began to pay more attention to Li Yao's ability to be immune to illusions.

After putting away the information, he walked towards Laboratory No. 2.

"Well, someone is here."

When Danzo walked to the door of Laboratory No. 2 and stopped, Li Yao, who was concentrating on refining the chakra properties of the Darkness Technique, sensed it through his chakra perception ability.

He immediately stopped the action of condensing chakra, and also stopped the action of controlling the physical energy and mental energy to merge into chakra.

Ever since he determined that acupuncture points could hide and store chakra, Li Yao has never stopped controlling the naturally overflowing body energy and mental energy to merge and condense into chakra.

Because this kind of control has become like an instinct for him and does not require too much effort.

This time he took the initiative to stop gathering chakra.

Now Li Yao didn’t know who the person coming in was, or whether he had the ability to sense chakra.

For him, this was a severe test to see whether the chakra stored in the acupoints could be hidden from the perception of powerful ninjas.

At this moment, the chakra in all his acupoints combined is hundreds of times the chakra in his dantian.

This amount of chakra is no less than that of the four Anbu who had been guarding him.

Now it depends on whether people can notice it.

When Danzo pushed the door open, he saw Li Yao floating in the transparent glass cabin wrapped in nutrient solution.

Li Yao now has a body that is nine years old, but his face looks older, with obvious wrinkles. He has only a few black hairs, and the rest are all white. He looks like a hunchbacked old man in his fifties.

"I didn't expect Hiruzen to have such a cruel side!"

Danzo sighed, then thought of something and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Even if I don't do anything to this kid, given his current physical condition, he will age at least ten years more than others in a year. At most, in four or five years, this poor kid will collapse and die."

"If there is no nutrient solution to maintain it, the body may collapse and die in one or two years."

Danzo shook his head. In his opinion, the Third Generation's worry was completely unnecessary. This kid named Li Yao was no longer any danger to Konoha.

I can only say that the torture that three generations endured in those six months was too severe.

Li Yao's body seemed to be just aging, and there was nothing else wrong with him. However, it was this rapid aging that left him with little time left.

Li Yao actually had some understanding of his current physical condition, but he had no time to think about it.

The only thing he wanted was to get out first.

Everything else will be possible only after he escapes from Konoha.

Otherwise everything will be in vain.

Li Yao sensed Danzo's shaking head through his chakra perception ability, but he couldn't hear any sound, so he didn't know what Danzo meant at the moment.

But he understood Danzo's subsequent actions.

"Illusion-Darkness Walking Technique!"

Danzo, the sixth brother, is worthy of being a friend who grew up with the third generation. They behave in exactly the same way. As soon as he arrived, he used the illusion of darkness on Li Yao.

Li Yao smiled happily in his heart.

The illusion technique of dark movement, which originally required one or two months to learn, does not take that long this time.

As Danzo released the illusory chakra of the Dark Art, it passed through the glass and entered Li Yao's body, trying to penetrate into Li Yao's chakra.

At this moment, Li Yao sensed the changes in the nature and form of the chakra attributes of the Darkness Technique.

Then Li Yao's mind moved, and a wisp of illusory chakra appeared in the Shengmen acupoint, which was the chakra of the Darkness Technique.

Compared with the chakra of the Eight Diagrams Sealing Technique, it is obviously much easier for Li Yao to condense the chakra of the Darkness Technique.

In other words, as the amount of his chakra increased, his chakra perception ability also increased a lot, especially in the case of contact, he could sense the changes in the nature and properties of the chakra of the Dark Movement Technique almost instantly.

With the information of the changes in nature and attributes, and with Li Yao's absolute control over his own chakra, it would only take a moment to copy the Dark Technique chakra with the same changes in nature and form.

Danzo didn't know that Li Yao had already learned this A+ or even S-level illusion through the Darkness Walk Technique he released once.

Danzo frowned, then relaxed.

Hiruzen was right, this kid's chakra was indeed special, and his illusion dark chakra couldn't penetrate it either.

"What's the reason?"

While Danzo was curious about the reason why Li Yao was immune to illusions, he walked to the operating table, extracted the nutrient solution in the glass cabin where Li Yao was, then laid the glass cabin flat, opened the cabin door, took Li Yao out, and placed him on the operating table.

"What does this guy want to do?"

"You want to torture me again?"

With only the chakra perception ability, Li Yao could only judge what the visitor wanted to do by the movement of his own body and the actions of the visitor.

He was obviously lying in bed now.

The man was about to do something to him.

Li Yao was secretly preparing himself, ready to strike in advance if he found that the other party's actions were wrong.

Even if you die, you have to make some noise.

He didn't want to die so peacefully.

Danzo took out a glass test tube filled with a dark green liquid, and then took out a scalpel and tweezers.

hiss!