Chapter 419: Ban Daye's Wariness

"Lord Ban, how would you like to arrange it?"

Lian Ye is contemplating whether to tell Ban Daye the truth directly.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he's riddled with oxygen tubes; they're not the cumbersome kind that makes walking hard in the original work.

Facing a Ban Daye like this, Lian Ye has enough spunk to beat him.

He can only hold steady for a few years for now, and reveal the truth later.

"First capture the Tailed Beasts," Madara Uchiha said, "I'll give you a year to gather all the Tailed Beasts."

Using Lian Ye's Kaleidoscope ability to capture Tailed Beasts is no difficulty.

A year is more than enough.

"Lord Ban, the Three-Tail doesn't seem to have revived yet," Lian Ye reminded.

At that time, the Three-Tail was sliced into Blood Mist by Ban Daye with a single slash; such damage cannot be healed without ten or eight years.

Madara Uchiha fell silent upon hearing that.

After a long while, he slowly said, "Then first capture the other eight Tailed Beasts."

"Bring the captured Tailed Beasts to me; the Outsider Demon Statue behind me can absorb them,"

"Lord Ban, it's not that I don't want to capture them, it's just that a war is ongoing now,"

Lian Ye used a pre‑planned excuse to stall for time.

Madara Uchiha stared expressionlessly at him for a long time, then said in a deep voice,

"Both Iwagakure Village and Cloud Hidden Village have dispatched jinchuriki; when the time comes, you only need to take them down on the Battlefield and bring them to me."

The Bai Jue Intelligence Network had long uncovered the movements of the villages' jinchuriki.

The Cloud Hidden Village's Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Bu Lubi and the Four-tail jinchuriki Han both slipped secretly to the Battlefield.

This is an excellent opportunity for Lian Ye.

"Understood, Lord Ban."

Lian Ye felt a bit helpless; he hadn't expected Ban Daye to have investigated even this.

Now there's simply no reason to refuse.

"Go, don't disappoint me," Madara Uchiha said.

A vague feeling told him that this kid isn't as honest as he appears.

He seems to be scheming something secretly.

But he felt nothing; everything was under control.

Madara Uchiha cannot place all hope on others; only he himself can achieve true peace.

Lian Ye is merely a partner helping him realize his ideal.

Without him, he can still achieve Ninja World Peace!

When he senses his body's condition declining, he immediately employs the Outsider Demon Statue to sustain bodily functions and slow aging.

If Lian Ye ever betrays him, he can still rely on himself to carry out the "Moon's Eye" plan.

Although he is no longer at his peak, the Rinnegan's blessing means he hasn't fallen far behind his prime.

It is more than sufficient to realize the Ninja World Peace plan.

"Kid, I hope you won't betray me."

Madara Uchiha waited until Lian Ye left before muttering to himself.

He has tasted betrayal in his life and does not wish his only valued junior to betray him.

"Lord Ban, should we continue to shadow him?" a Bai Jue asked respectfully.

It is the Bai Jue that has always been responsible for monitoring Lian Ye.

"A Fei, keep following him."

"Understood, Lord Ban."

The Bai Jue named A Fei slipped silently into the ground.

Lian Ye left the underground base, sighing helplessly.

Ban Daye pre‑installed the oxygen tube, definitely to guard against us!

He didn't expect that after diligently serving as a cook for ten years, he still doesn't trust himself.

Heart‑chilling, truly heart‑chilling.

Could he be the type who betrays trust?

Now it's settled; later he'll have to kill two jinchuriki.

If the matter is inadvertently exposed, he'll truly become a public enemy of the Ninja World.

Lian Ye wore a worried expression, not knowing what to do.

Ban Daye might still send Bai Jue to monitor him, making it hard to hold back in battles with the jinchuriki.

Otherwise, the Bai Jue monitoring him would surely go back to file a minor report.

Thinking that, he subconsciously looked around, finding nothing unusual.

The floating technique is downright hellish!

As long as the Bai Jue doesn't appear before him, he can't detect it at all.

Among the troops heading to the Battlefield.

"Lian Ye, you returned so early," Yuanfei Rizhan said cheerfully.

He had thought Lian Ye was angry and would take several days to return.

He didn't expect him to leave for just an afternoon.

It seems he wasn't angry about the morning incident.

Lian Ye did not pay attention to Yuanfei Rizhan, his mind occupied with how to silently capture the jinchuriki.

The key jinchuriki possessed near Shadow-level power, making a silent capture impossible.

He felt Ban Daye was forcing him to choose.

Either betray Ban Daye and abandon the "Moon's Eye" plan, or break with Konoha and directly join his camp to realize the "Moon's Eye" plan together.

It seemed Ban Daye was truly watching him.

At first Lian Ye thought it was an illusion, but later realized it was not an illusion at all.

Ban Daye really was watching him!

Can people not be full of trust?

Now he can only take one step at a time.

Thinking of this, he sighed helplessly.

"Lian Yejun, don't be sad, you needn't mind the rumors of the outside world."

Zhuan Qin Xiaochun saw Lian Ye's worried face and thought he was grieving over past events.

"Yes, Lian Ye, we won't speak recklessly," Yuanfei Rizhan said solemnly.

"It's fine, Lian Yejun, this isn't a big deal," Uchiha Jing comforted.

Lian Ye: "???"

What were these guys muttering about?

Why didn't he understand?

But now he had no mind to discuss with them, his thoughts on how to seize the jinchuriki without being discovered.

If it truly failed, he could reveal the truth to Ban Daye.

As expected, things could not develop as he had anticipated.

How twisty!

Two days later, Konoha's ninja forces arrived at the Battlefield.

Chief Commander Nairan Benhe gave no order to attack.

The four warring nations, learning that Konoha's troops had arrived at the Battlefield,

felt as if the sky itself had collapsed.

Iwagakure Village, Earth Shadow Office.

"What's wrong with Konoha?" Da Ye Mu stared at the frontline reports, his face ashen.

Their war had deliberately avoided Konoha, yet the opponent actively joined in.

The Hokage seemed to pay them no heed!

Aren't they afraid that the three nations might unite against Konoha?

"Looks like I need to go to the front myself."

Da Ye Mu's eyes flickered with angry flames.

Though Iwagakure Village is not Konoha's opponent, that doesn't mean the ThreeKingdoms alliance will lose!

Kirigakure Village and Cloud Hidden Village's offices staged the same scene.

The moment Konoha intervened, they simultaneously sought a win‑win cooperation.

Rain Hidden Village.

Shanjiaoyu Banzang, who had just repelled the ThreeKingdoms coalition and was wounded, returned to the village.

Upon hearing that Konoha had joined the battlefield, he fell silent at once.

The four great powers entered Rain Hidden Village simultaneously.

Relying only on Rain Hidden Village, they were far from a match.

"Heh, is this the sorrow of a small nation?"

Shanjiaoyu Banzang looked up at the sky, letting the cold rain strike his face.

One could not tell whether it was rain or tears.

Perhaps he could no longer change the state of Rain Country.