Chapter 121: Visiting Orochimaru

The Box of Ultimate Bliss was eventually refined by Uchiha Feiyu into four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes.

After refining the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes, Uchiha Feiyu left a shadow clone to control them and stayed in the Grass Ninja Village, specifically to refine pills for those ninjas.

The reason for being so considerate is that only those killed by one's own hands can manifest within Uchiha Feiyu's mental space to become sacrifices for the Book of Demonic Inheritance.

On the other hand, the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes themselves can only be used by Uchiha Feiyu; if ordinary Grass Ninja dared to take a Hunyuan Treasure Box, they would only end up being sucked dry into mummies.

Moreover, by doing it himself, Uchiha Feiyu can also withhold some "kickbacks." Nowadays, Blood Qi Pills refined from the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes are of little use to Uchiha Feiyu unless there are thousands of them, but he can still absorb Chakra Pills and Soul Pills.

By then, the ninjas captured with such hard work by the Grass Ninja would only be worth one Blood Qi Pill, while the chakra and soul energy would naturally be pocketed by Uchiha Feiyu himself.

The battle between the Rock Ninja and Konoha has become increasingly intense. After Konoha had successively defeated the Sand Ninja and Cloud Ninja, the Rock Ninja had almost considered retreating, but the defection of Uchiha Feiyu and Orochimaru suddenly made the Rock Ninja see an opportunity, and they bit back hard.

However, during a later physical examination, the Sand Ninja discovered that Uzumaki Kana was already nearly two months pregnant, so they had to temporarily halt the jinchuriki project.

"Yes, Lord Feiyu... It is also thanks to you and Lord Orochimaru scaring the wits out of Konoha. Although we have all been declared rogue ninjas, there has never been any bounty on us, so even if we established a Ninja Village here, no other ninjas would disturb us."

"You don't want it anymore?! Then what about our agreed-upon payment..."

After establishing the Ninja Village, Orochimaru did not think about how to develop it, but instead relied on the village to carry out missions to accumulate wealth and began to continue his own research.

At this moment, Orochimaru's complexion was ruddy and he was in high spirits, looking like someone who was completely satisfied with his success.

Unfortunately, the Sunagakure did not have any genius ninjas. According to calculations, only Karura and Pakura could become jinchuriki; as for the other ninjas, basically whoever became one would die.

Just like that, Uchiha Feiyu left the Land of Grass with a soul twice as strong, three Hunyuan Treasure Boxes, and an extra addition from the Uzumaki Clan, returning once again to Sunagakure.

"Uh... the Root's experimental base, besides the Root ninjas, only the Hokage knew about it. When you and Lord Uchiha Feiyu left Konoha, the Root had already been wiped out, and Lord Hokage... Sarutobi Hiruzen was also seriously injured."

"Later, Lord Orochimaru thought of this point and, taking advantage of Konoha's lack of reaction, snuck into the Root base and moved all the equipment over."

Now that there are Grass Ninja to act as the scapegoats, there is no need to develop the Sunagakure further—mainly because the number of ninjas in the Ninja World is not large. If the Sunagakure were also developed, it is estimated that with so many ninjas relying on constantly popping pills to become stronger, the entire Ninja World would be killed off, which would not align with Uchiha Feiyu's idea of sustainable development.

In three years, Uchiha Feiyu occupied the magpie's nest, not only controlling Sunagakure but also allowing it to greatly recover its vitality, vaguely emerging from its low point.

The Method of Consuming Spirits also exists within the Spirit-Binding and Command technique, but that method is closer to raw consumption; when devouring a soul, one can even see the soul's painful struggle, so Uchiha Feiyu has never consumed a human soul.

Nowadays, the Sunagakure mining team has expanded to eight people, and with the environment modified by Wood Release and the Wind Daimyo being controlled to send money daily, the Sunagakure's budget is almost inexhaustible. A portion of the surplus funds was invested by Uchiha Feiyu into Orochimaru.

"Otherwise, even if Lord Orochimaru is famous, there wouldn't be so many wandering ninjas coming to defect openly."

Now that there is a member of the Uzumaki Clan, and one who has awakened a Bloodline Limit, it is natural to create a jinchuriki as soon as possible.

Uchiha Feiyu nodded with a strange expression; this so-called defection is just defecting directly to the experimental table... If successful, one's strength greatly increases and they join the Sound Ninja Village to welcome a bright future; if they fail, they are just a number in Orochimaru's experimental diary.

So it really was stuff from the Root! Regarding this approach of Orochimaru, Uchiha Feiyu wanted to shout "666" directly; this is truly the Sand Ninja robbing wealth again. Danzō probably couldn't rest in peace even if he died.

Finally, under the threat of the Yellow Flash, Onoki even issued an order that one could abandon the mission upon seeing the Yellow Flash, which shows the threat posed by Minato.

Land of Fields, Sound Ninja Village.

Although Orochimaru's human experiments are a matter of life and death, once successful, a ninja will also break through their own ceiling, and their strength will greatly increase; it can be called high risk, high reward.

It has been nearly three years since Orochimaru defected from Konoha.

If it weren't for the fact that Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique cleared out the small fry faster than Uchiha Feiyu, killing the Rock Ninja until they couldn't hold on, the Konoha front line might have been broken through by now.

Following the research base all the way to the deepest laboratory, the door opened, and Orochimaru walked out with a smile on his face.

And with the Third Hokage of Konoha seriously injured, Danzō dead, and Tsunade unable to overcome her psychological trauma, the only ones left who could really fight were Jiraiya and his disciples.

However, although Sunagakure has shown some improvement over these years, it has been closed off in the Land of Wind focusing on construction. Regarding the Ninja World War, they have only collected general intelligence, and Uchiha Feiyu does not know if the original Battle of Kannabi Bridge will continue to happen.

And... he has something else to discuss with his cheap teacher, Orochimaru.

Because of this, after Onoki issued his order, the Rock Ninja also preserved a lot of their vital strength—if it were Uchiha Feiyu, I wouldn't care if you abandoned the mission or not, I'd kill you first to farm the gold coins.

But whether it is Karura or Pakura, they are already Shadow-level ninjas themselves. After becoming jinchuriki, not only would it not improve their strength much, but it might even become a burden to them, failing to increase the combat power of Sunagakure at all.

Uchiha Feiyu's trip to the Rock Ninja battlefield this time is, of course, not to help Konoha or the Rock Ninja end the battle, but to see the biggest mastermind group in the Ninja World today, which is that Madara Uchiha.

"As for the modified Spirit Transformation Technique you wanted, I haven't had any leads, and I'm afraid it will take some time before it can be successfully modified."

Although Orochimaru is a generation of heroes and a mad scientist, when it comes to the issue of funding, he cannot help but lose his composure and has no way to stand tall and speak to his disciple.

Anyway, in these times of war, materials for human experiments are everywhere; Orochimaru doesn't even need to send people to catch them. By just hanging a sign on the black market, those wandering ninjas and samurai will send themselves over one after another.

In addition, Uchiha Feiyu is also quite interested in the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. I wonder if the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art can also swallow this thing up?

The Naruto World has never lacked ninjas who like to gamble with their lives, especially those at the bottom like these rogue ninjas. Orochimaru's modification technology is famous, and ninjas who want to find him for human experiments have to line up every day!

Therefore, when Uchiha Feiyu arrived at the Sound Ninja Village, he saw an extremely strange scene.

Hearing this, Orochimaru was slightly stunned, his expression a little nervous:

The current One-Tail Shukaku jinchuriki of Sunagakure, that old monk Fenfu, had already passed away years ago. Before that, the Sand Ninja had forcibly sealed Shukaku into a teapot-shaped ninja tool, wanting to truly create a jinchuriki who could go to the battlefield.

Under these circumstances, Konoha does not have much of an advantage against the Rock Ninja. In terms of the number of ordinary ninjas, they are even at an absolute disadvantage—this time there is no such thing as ten thousand Rock Ninja surrounding and killing the Third Raikage; the number of Rock Ninja is almost more than double that of Konoha's ordinary ninjas!

……

The Grass Ninja are very good; two or three thousand ninjas can provide a lot of pills and sacrifices, and at the same time, there is no possibility of harming the "ecological balance." If the harm is really great, or if they go too far and are about to be besieged, Uchiha Feiyu can also represent Sunagakure and harvest them directly.

It just so happens that one is willing to hit and the other is willing to be hit, and others can't say anything... Uchiha Feiyu can only say that the people in this world are too extreme, not taking their own lives as lives at all!

When Uchiha Feiyu arrived at Orochimaru's underground laboratory, he saw a large number of quite familiar instruments. He touched his chin and suddenly remembered something:

"Huh!? These instruments were left behind by the Root, right? Could it be that Teacher Orochimaru went to the Root later?"

"It's fine once the Vampire Technique is modified; there's no need for the rest. I have already given up on using the Spirit Transformation Technique by utilizing the souls of others."

This time Konoha is busy with the war, and even his good friend Jiraiya has no time to look for Orochimaru. The external pressure is even smaller, and with his own subordinates, the Sound Ninja Village was established in just two years.

Although Orochimaru does not have a cheat like Uchiha Feiyu, he is not a simple character either. Coupled with the fact that this defection was long-planned and he even brought dozens of subordinates, he naturally developed much faster than in the original work.

In the original work, Orochimaru established a Ninja Village and was able to participate in the Chunin exams, having developed for at least five to six years. In other words, Orochimaru established the Sound Ninja Village within ten years after his defection.

And the ninjutsu he mentioned were all taught to him by Uchiha Feiyu over the past few years, hoping he would modify them.

Oh, I forgot, Danzō seems to have been killed by me, so that's fine.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Sunagakure, as one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, is too conspicuous, Uchiha Feiyu would definitely have introduced these good things to the ninjas of Sunagakure immediately.

This subordinate of Orochimaru followed Orochimaru when he defected from Konoha, so he naturally recognizes Uchiha Feiyu, this proud disciple of Orochimaru. In fact, over the past three years, the connection between Uchiha Feiyu and Orochimaru has never been broken.

The lair where Orochimaru is located.

Fortunately, Uchiha Feiyu is not without any leads. Things in Konoha might be difficult for Sunagakure to understand, but his cheap teacher must know all about it.

"These people... are they queuing up to see Orochimaru?"

Fortunately, while Namikaze Minato was also a decisive killer on the battlefield, he was still a notch below Uchiha Feiyu; if the enemy surrendered or fled, he would not pursue them.

"Long time no see, Feiyu. Is there something you need today by coming to find me?"

But the Soul Refining Method is different; although the Soul Refining Method drains soul energy dry, it still preserves a sliver of the true Soul, and only pure soul energy is absorbed, nor does the soul energy wail or scream, which would make one feel uncomfortable.

If he really swallowed Madara Uchiha, plus the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Uchiha Feiyu could consider collecting the nine great tailed beasts, directly transforming into Otsutsuki Feiyu, and then going to the moon to swallow Otsutsuki Kaguya to completely rule this world.

The reason Orochimaru was able to establish the Sound Ninja Village within three years, besides Konoha being too busy to attend to other matters and him already having a group of subordinates, was another important factor: Uchiha Feiyu had provided him with a large amount of funding.

In any case, Pakura did not believe at all that Uzumaki Kana could escape from Uchiha Feiyu's palm, so naturally, there was no need to worry about any loyalty issues.

"Rest assured, the funding will still be provided to you, Teacher, but Orochimaru, you must provide me with the data on the Cursed Seal."

Uchiha Feiyu did not care about matters like jinchuriki; he stayed in Sunagakure for a few days, enjoyed a group of Cauldrons, and then continued on to Kannabi Bridge.

Having just returned to Sunagakure, Pakura, upon learning of the existence of Uzumaki Kana, prepared to have her become a jinchuriki directly.

Looking at the group of rogue ninja chatting and idling in the area at the entrance of the Sound Ninja Village, Uchiha Feiyu had a strange expression on his face and asked one of Orochimaru's subordinates.

Uchiha Feiyu waved his hand; now that he possessed the Soul Refining Great Law and the technique to drain souls dry, he could directly refine souls into soul energy for absorption, so naturally, he would no longer leave any souls behind.

"The Vampire Technique you gave me back then has been modified; the Scroll is on my desk, you can go take it directly."

The Vampire Technique was modified from the Western fantasy magic Vampire Touch, while the Soul Ninja Technique was something Uchiha Feiyu had hoped to modify from the Spirit Transformation Technique back then, allowing the souls captured by the Spirit-Binding and General-Ordering to also directly use the Spirit Transformation Technique to pull off a Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.

If he could use the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art to swallow Madara Uchiha, Uchiha Feiyu believed his constitution would certainly improve further, and perhaps he could even directly trigger an Awakening of the Rinnegan.

Orochimaru's Cursed Seal can be called a degraded version of Sage Mode, and it can also be considered a technique that can break the limits of a ninja.

Although the mortality rate of the Cursed Seal remains high, it is still much better than Sage Mode; Sage Mode not only has an extremely high mortality rate, but the conditions required just to learn it are enough to make ordinary ninja shrink back.

(End of this chapter)