Chapter 453: Who else could it be but me?

In the following months, jinchuriki from various villages disappeared one after another.

First, Fen Fu, the One-Tails Jinchuriki of Sunagakure, inexplicably vanished from his prison.

Initially, the Second Kazekage, Sha Men, believed Fen Fu had been controlled by Shou He and had left the prison on his own.

He then sent people to search, but they found nothing at all.

However, a month later, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki of Cloud Hidden Village also went missing.

The higher-ups of Cloud Hidden Village instantly flew into a rage.

Cloud Hidden Village had already lost the Second Generation Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, which was tragic enough, and now they had lost their last Tailed Beast...

The higher-ups felt that someone had set up their village.

Countless Cloud Hidden Ninja swarmed out, searching the Ninja World for the whereabouts of the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.

Unfortunately, they found nothing.

A few more months passed, and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki of Iwagakure Village also vanished under mysterious circumstances.

The higher-ups of Iwagakure Village, like those of Cloud Hidden Village, felt as if the sky had fallen.

Tailed Beasts are powerful deterrent weapons for a village.

Without a Tailed Beast, a village loses its strong deterrent power.

The newly appointed Fourth Tsuchikage immediately gathered people to search for traces of the jinchuriki.

See them alive, or see their corpse.

The few villages that possessed Tailed Beasts belatedly realized that someone was deliberately capturing Tailed Beasts!

In just half a year, the One-Tails Jinchuriki, Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and Seven-Tails Jinchuriki had all disappeared.

As for the Four-tailed and Eight-tailed Jinchuriki who died on the battlefield, they were not considered.

According to the description of the informed leader of Longyin Village Village, a mysterious person wearing a white mask had captured the elderly Seven-Tails Jinchuriki of Longyin Village Village.

It is worth mentioning that that mysterious person possessed a pair of Sharingan!

The disappearance of jinchuriki from other Ninja Villages was likely inseparable from that mysterious person!

Upon learning the news, the higher-ups of various villages all pointed their fingers at Konoha Village.

Perhaps this was the Hokage's conspiracy!

Secretly sending people to capture all Tailed Beasts, causing them to lose their powerful deterrent power.

Other villages had no Tailed Beasts, only Konoha Village had them.

If that isn't dominating alone, what is?!

It seems the Third Hokage of Konoha is not just ambitious in the ordinary sense!

Now, in the Ninja World, only the Three-Tails and Six-Tails had not been captured.

Well, that was how other villages saw it.

But the newly appointed Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure Village knew perfectly well that their village only had the Six-Tails left.

The Three-Tails had disappeared several years ago.

Back then, the Third Mizukage had said he was about to seal the Three-Tails into a jinchuriki, when it vanished without a trace in an instant.

That kind of situation should have been someone summoning it away.

Up until now, Kirigakure Village still had not found the whereabouts of the Three-Tails.

The reason they didn't tell others was merely fear of ridicule from other villages.

Being one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, yet unable to even guard their own Tailed Beast.

If others found out, they simply wouldn't be able to hold their heads up.

Therefore, aside from the higher-ups of Kirigakure Village, no other Ninja Village knew about the disappearance of the Three-Tails.

In the last war, the Kage of the Three Villages were all killed by Lian Ye.

Now, Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Cloud Hidden rather had the air of fellow sufferers.

Iwagakure Village and Cloud Hidden Village prepared to send people to Kirigakure Village to provide round-the-clock protection for the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and Six-Tails Jinchuriki.

Additionally, they dispatched envoys to Konoha to demand an explanation.

On what grounds did they secretly capture their villages' Tailed Beasts?!

What difference is there between this practice and robbery?

You know, these were bought at a high price back in the day...

If they wouldn't return the Tailed Beasts, then Konoha should refund the money!

Although Konoha was now the most powerful village in the Ninja World, they still had to act reasonably, didn't they?

Konoha Village, Hokage Office.

"Lord Hokage, envoys from the five nations of Wind, Earth, Lightning, Water, and Taki request an audience..."

An ANBU member responsible for liaising with the envoys came to report.

Zhi Cun Tuan Zang's face darkened, and he did not respond immediately.

He had naturally already learned of such a major incident as the successive disappearances of jinchuriki from various villages.

Moreover, he had already identified the culprit secretly capturing the Tailed Beasts.

Judging by the timing of the jinchuriki's disappearances, wasn't it exactly when Lian Ye left the village on missions?

Every time Lian Ye left, one jinchuriki would go missing.

Tuan Cang found it hard not to suspect him.

If it were only that, there might be no substantial evidence to prove it.

But the leader of Longyin Village Village stated that the culprit who captured the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was a member of the Uchiha Clan.

With those words, it was undoubtedly Lian Ye.

This guy only knows how to stir up trouble all day; who the hell knows what he's doing with Capture and Seize Tail Beast?

The key is that we never saw him bring the jinchuriki back to the Village!

"Tuan Cang, do you think it could be Lian Ye?" Yuanfei Rizhan said tentatively.

In fact, apart from Lian Ye, there is probably no one else.

He doesn't understand why Lian Ye would do this?

"Ri Zhan, go inform Lian Ye and have him think about how to explain to me…"

Zhi Cun Tuan Zang said coldly, then had the ANBU call in the envoys from each nation.

Yuanfei Rizhan, hearing this, left the Hokage Office straight away.

Qianshou Feijian Residence.

"After Capture Tail Beast and returning to bask in the sun, how pleasant!"

Lian Ye, as usual, lay in the courtyard sunbathing.

Only the last three Tail Beasts remain; he doesn't intend to catch them.

During this period he collected six Tail Beasts in total, which can already be called benevolent to the utmost.

Even if he were to catch them, he would still delay for several months.

Anyway, he won't capture the Nine-Tails inside Shuihu Ayi, and the Three-Tails hasn't revived yet, so he can continue to delay for a while.

Then he could simply capture the Six-Tails to deal with it.

After that, he can tell Ban Daye the truth.

For this day, he endured for over ten years; it really wasn't easy!

At this moment, he still doesn't know about the envoys from each nation arriving…

"Lian Ye, did you secretly Capture Tail Beast!"

Soon, Yuanfei Rizhan stormed in to question him.

Lian Ye was not too surprised by this and said calmly.

"Tuan Cang sent you, right?"

Others may be unsure who the culprit is in the jinchuriki's disappearance, but Tuan Cang definitely discovered it.

After all, whenever he leaves, Tuan Cang is always the first to know.

Just think about it carefully and you can guess.

At this point, there is no need to hide anything any longer.

Anyway, in a few months he'll have to tell Ban Daye the truth.

Too lazy to act.

Later he'll also have to bring him back for retirement; letting a close friend know in advance won't hurt much…

"The envoys from each nation are coming; Tuan Cang asked you to be ready to explain to them," Yuanfei Rizhan concisely recounted what happened in the office.

"Got it," Lian Ye said boredly, yawning.

Now the nations are on guard and will definitely strengthen protection of the Six-Tails, increasing Capture difficulty.

That's a good thing for him!

He can again legitimately delay for several months.

The longer the time spent, the higher the probability of defeating Ban Daye.

"Lian Ye, is it really you who did this?"

Although he had already suspected in his heart, he still asked subconsciously.

"Who else could it be besides me?"

Lian Ye gave no cover and chose to admit it directly.

Yuanfei Rizhan: "!!!"