Chapter 118: Finding the Target

The Grass Ninja Village seemed to be nothing more than a second-rate, small ninja village, but after Uchiha Feiyu finished listening to the accounts of the two ninjas, he only had one feeling: chaos!

Originally, Uchiha Feiyu thought the Land of Grass had at most three or four thousand ninjas. Now he knew he was wrong; the number of Grass Ninja was double what he had estimated, totaling around six or seven thousand.

This number was not much different from the original Sunagakure. Logically, the Land of Grass was only a small country; under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to have so many ninjas.

However, there is a difference between the Land of Grass and the Five Great Nations. This country has no so-called Daimyo; the ninja village replaced the functions of the Daimyo, directly controlling the entire country's economy and tax revenue.

Under these circumstances, most of the country's money was naturally invested in the development of the ninja village, so having an overstaffed number of ninjas was a perfectly normal thing.

Of course, while the quantity went up, the quality, well...

Uchiha Feiyu looked at the two ninjas he had just controlled. If this level of strength were placed in a Great Ninja Village, they would probably only count as graduates of the Ninja Academy. Yet in this country, they were already veteran Genin.

Moreover, among those six or seven thousand ninjas, at least five thousand had strength similar to these two. It was no wonder the Great Ninja Villages didn't care at all about the Land of Grass.

Furthermore, these ninjas were divided into many factions—the Flower Faction, the Grass Faction, the Leaf Faction, and the 12 Zodiac Leaders—which left Uchiha Feiyu completely confused.

With such a small territory, to have so many ninjas and divide them into so many factions—it was truly a small temple with wild winds, a shallow pond with too many turtles.

Even until the end, Uchiha Feiyu did not hear any intelligence about the Uzumaki Clan. Clearly, either the captured Uzumaki was still in the hands of the higher-ups, or these two ninjas were of too low a status.

In Uchiha Feiyu's eyes, it certainly belonged to the latter.

Without saying more to these two ninjas, Uchiha Feiyu stretched out his hands and formed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal. The chakra emerging from his body condensed into an illusory, rough bottle shape, suddenly erupting with a powerful suction force.

The two Land of Grass ninjas screamed, and under that powerful suction, they turned into a mass of blood mist and were sucked directly into it. A moment later, the bottle condensed from chakra vanished, and some ash-like residue fell from the void.

An invisible blood energy from the void merged into Uchiha Feiyu's body, causing his body's Origin to increase slightly.

"The effect is getting worse and worse... The Origin of ordinary people is not only small in quantity and low in quality, but also contains many impurities that must be slowly refined before they can merge into my own Origin."

"No wonder practitioners of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art always target those geniuses with special constitutions. The Origin of ordinary practitioners is only useful at the beginning. In the later stages, rather than devouring ordinary people there, it is better to cultivate Secret Techniques to evolve one's constitution."

Furthermore, there is a limit to the increase of Origin. After reaching the limit, if one wants to break through, one must have new constitutional Origin to merge and stimulate it. At that point, the constitution of ordinary people is truly completely useless.

"It's a pity that almost all the constitutions in the Ninja World come from the Otsutsuki. In the end, even if I really fuse all the constitutions of the Ninja World, at most, a strengthened version of an Otsutsuki will appear."

This is only because the effect of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art's Secret Technique is astonishing; otherwise, such Secret Techniques that devour constitutions could never exceed their source of power.

Having casually devoured the two ninjas, Uchiha Feiyu was not prepared to waste time and left the town directly, heading for the Grass Ninja Village.

Even the Five Great Ninja Villages had no ability to resist Uchiha Feiyu's Genjutsu that manipulated the five senses, unable to detect his coming or going, let alone the Grass Ninja.

Even when Uchiha Feiyu walked swaggeringly through the gate of the ninja village, not a single ninja discovered anything.

After taking a look around the ninja village, Uchiha Feiyu soon saw a ninja who seemed to have a fairly high status. Without a word, he walked up to this ninja and threw a Mangekyo Illusion at him.

The ninja controlled by the Mangekyo Illusion was a Special Jonin of the Grass Ninja. Of course, in Uchiha Feiyu's view, this guy's strength was probably only a bit stronger than a Chunin. Facing the Mangekyo, he naturally spilled all the intelligence like beans from a bamboo tube.

The Grass Ninja had indeed captured a woman from the Uzumaki Clan and discovered her special Physical Healing Bloodline Limit, but the Grass Ninja were currently divided on how to utilize this gift from heaven.

Some people naturally hoped to turn this Uzumaki woman into a blood bag, while others had more ideas, wanting to sacrifice this Uzumaki to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, relying on the Uzumaki Clan's vast chakra to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss and make a wish to conquer the Ninja World.

"What kind of nonsense is this? Even the Box of Ultimate Bliss has appeared... I forgot to ask about it back then; I didn't expect this thing from the theatrical version to actually exist."

It's a pity that the so-called Box of Ultimate Bliss doesn't seem to be of much use; it can only produce a monster named Satori. Because there were no benefits, Uchiha Feiyu naturally hadn't paid attention to it.

However, since Uchiha Feiyu had arrived, that Uzumaki woman naturally didn't need to be a blood bag or a sacrifice. On the contrary, these people from the Land of Grass were more likely to become sacrifices for the Book of Demonic Path.

A moment later, led by that Special Jonin of the Land of Grass, Uchiha Feiyu soon arrived at the Grass Ninja prison.

"That captured Uzumaki woman is locked in the prison, waiting for the higher-ups to finish discussing whether to send her to the Medical Department or Blood Lamp City."

"Tsk... grabbing someone directly into prison, the way they eat is truly ugly. But the Grass Ninja indeed lack the ability to cultivate the Uzumaki Clan, not to mention the possibility of being backlashed by an Uzumaki ninja."

"So from the very beginning, they decided to use her until she dies!"

Just like the Uchiha Clan, once they awaken the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, they are destined to become Jonin, and they are also formidable powerhouses among Jonin.

Among the Uzumaki Clan, those who can awaken a Bloodline Limit can at least reach the level of a Jonin, and might even be stronger compared to the Uchiha.

After all, the volume of chakra is right there; even as a mindless ninjutsu turret, they could blast an ordinary Jonin into a sorry state.

Does the Grass Ninja Village not know what kind of genius an Uzumaki who has awakened a Bloodline Limit is? Of course they know, but these Grass Ninja feel they cannot control such a genius, so they simply don't bother and treat her as an object to be used until death.

The Grass Ninja's calculations were very good, but unfortunately, Uchiha Feiyu had arrived, so the calculations of this group of people were naturally meaningless.

Since the target's location had been found, Uchiha Feiyu no longer used Genjutsu to cover himself. With a casual Kunai, he first killed the Grass Ninja who was leading the way, then walked toward the prison step by step.

As soon as the Genjutsu that manipulated the five senses to conceal Uchiha Feiyu disappeared, the ninjas of the Grass Ninja Village suddenly discovered an unfamiliar figure in their village.

And Uchiha Feiyu killing the guide ninja with a single Kunai was like poking a hornet's nest, making these Grass Ninja nervous.

"Who is it? Someone has invaded the ninja village!!"

"Be careful!! The opponent's target is the prison! Don't let him release the high-security prisoners in the prison!"

Facing these agitated ninjas, Uchiha Feiyu picked his ear with some helplessness and said indifferently:

"How noisy!"

As his voice fell, an unimaginably vast chakra erupted from his body. The mere eruption of chakra shook the ground, causing fine cracks to appear on the earth.

The Grass Ninja, who were originally full of vigilance, trembled one by one under the pressure of this vast chakra, as if facing a natural disaster. Some Grass Ninja were even so scared that they dropped their weapons and turned to flee directly.

"This kind of fighting spirit... they are truly worthy of being ninjas known for being fence-sitters!"

This was the first time Uchiha Feiyu had seen ninjas scared away directly by chakra and aura.

You must know that the ninjas of the Ninja World have various shortcomings in their personalities—cruel, cold, crazy, mindless—but among them, those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, lacking the courage to fight the enemy, are definitely the fewest.

Uchiha Feiyu had stayed in Konoha for such a long time and had never seen ninjas who were afraid before fighting and fled at the first sign of trouble. He had always thought that he was the only one who could do this.

Other ninjas, even if their legs were shaking with fear on the battlefield, at least wouldn't turn around and flee at the very beginning.

However...

"It's a bit too late to want to escape now..."

As Uchiha Feiyu's hands formed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal, the vast chakra formed a huge illusory treasure bottle above his head, erupting with a terrifying suction force.

Under the attraction of the treasure bottle in the sky, all the Grass Ninja found it difficult to move and gradually withered.

The suction force did not absorb matter, but the chakra existing in every ninja's body, and even their pure physical Origin.

Only a moment later, those withered ninjas could not even stabilize their bodies and were directly sucked into the treasure bottle, turning into a pile of ashes.

"The stronger the ninja, the more vast and pure their Origin. It seems that in the future, this Great Dao Treasure Bottle can only be used on experts."

After draining the Origin of these Grass Ninja before him, Uchiha Feiyu sensed slightly, then let out a sigh.

In Uchiha Feiyu's perception, if he were to extract the Origin within Genin and Chunin now, it would provide almost no benefit to himself; on the contrary, clearing and resolving those impurities would waste a significant amount of time.

Only at the level of a Jonin could it truly be of use to Uchiha Feiyu, allowing his physique to develop in a stronger direction.

"However... very soon, even Jonin will likely be useless to me... The stronger the physique, and the closer the bloodline is to the Otsutsuki, the more powerful the Origin required for me to progress."

Lowering his hands, Uchiha Feiyu continued walking toward the prison; the two ninja stationed at the prison entrance had long since been finished off by him, and as for the seal on the prison gate, Uchiha Feiyu gently waved his hand, and it vanished into nothingness.

The Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art can turn the miraculous into the mundane; through research, Uchiha Feiyu ultimately transformed it into a skill for absorbing chakra.

Aside from the simplest absorption of chakra, Barriers and seals can also be directly dissolved through the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art; any skill belonging to the category of chakra is restrained by it.

Unlike abilities such as the Rinnegan's Preta Path, what the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art can dissolve is not merely chakra; accurately speaking, all energy falls within the scope of what it can dissolve, so theoretically, the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art can restrain even Sage Art or the Bloodline Net.

Furthermore, if one cultivates the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art to a certain level, even natural weather phenomena or physical forces fall within the scope of what it can dissolve.

However, Uchiha Feiyu certainly does not have that level of skill, and while these Secret Techniques have a high upper limit, they do not possess the absolute restraint over ordinary chakra that the Six Paths or Otsutsuki do.

If the quantity of ordinary chakra is large enough, the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Art likewise has no way to turn the miraculous into the mundane, though clearly, this quantity is at least measured in terms of Tailed Beasts.

After the seal of the Grass Ninja Village prison was turned into dust, Uchiha Feiyu simply gave it a push, and the gate opened directly; a foul odor wafted from within the prison.

Frowning as he walked inside, Uchiha Feiyu looked left and right; the prisoners in the prison saw that the person who entered was not a Grass Ninja, and immediately, they all began to clamor.

"Let me out, hurry and let me out!!"

"What kind of ninja are you? If you want to kill your way out of the Grass Ninja Village, you should need our strength too!"

Quite lively, aren't they? Uchiha Feiyu glanced at the people around him, but ultimately said nothing; those who could be captured and brought in by the Grass Ninja were basically all Chunin and Genin, which held no great significance for him.

In his perception, there indeed existed an aura full of vitality in the deepest part of the prison; that should be that lady of the Uzumaki Clan.

Seeing that Uchiha Feiyu ignored them and walked toward the interior, the group of ninja shouted even louder, even resorting to foul language.

Seeing that this bunch of ninja did not know what was good for them, Uchiha Feiyu gave a light, cold sneer and lightly stomped his foot on the ground.

Crack! Crack! Earth spikes grew within every cell in an instant, directly skewering these clamoring people into meat skewers.

Being able to perform ninjutsu without the need for Seals is also one of the gains Uchiha Feiyu made after comprehending the Secret Technique of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art; he does not even need the action of putting his hands together, as any ninjutsu below A-rank can be cast the moment he thinks of it.

The clamoring turned into screams, and a thick, bloody stench wafted out from every cell; Uchiha Feiyu's expression did not change, and he continued to break through another layer of the seal, seeing the red-haired woman in the deepest part of the cell.

"You... who are you?"

The red-haired woman looked at Uchiha Feiyu as he walked over, her voice trembling as she asked; she could not help but be afraid, after all, behind him, there were those groaning, blood-flowing, skewered prisoners serving as a backdrop!

(End of this chapter)