Chapter 240: Luode's Rinnegan, Life and Fel Energy

"No! The enemy was just here; they must have left via some special ninjutsu, possibly a reverse summoning technique, or maybe a space-time ninjutsu." A Konoha ninja frowned and said.

"It's impossible to evade the Byakugan's inspection, so if the enemy wants to leave, they must either have used the legendary space-time ninjutsu or employed a reverse summoning technique."

"That makes sense; among the enemies who attacked this time, there is one who is a master of summoning techniques."

"This time the enemy's attack dealt a huge blow to their Konoha village; many jonin died in battle, and that final move even flattened the entire Konoha village, causing many civilian deaths."

"What is that?" Naruto Uzumaki suddenly frowned and looked at some green things.

"Under a tree, there was a puddle of green substance emitting a strange aura."

"This is the effect caused by Luode and Kaido using fel energy; even a few minor warlock spells would contaminate the surroundings with fel energy."

"Luode's warlock spells tainted the surrounding terrain with fel energy, and several nearby trees and water patches were stained with an eerie green hue."

"It doesn't look like anything good! Could it be something the enemy left behind?"

"Anyway, let's collect some and take a look." A ninja immediately moved forward to gather the green substances.

"Watch out!" Naruto Uzumaki widened his eyes and directly reached out to stop the ninja trying to collect the fel energy.

"What's wrong, Naruto?" Sakura Haruno asked.

"That's extremely dangerous! My sage sense tells me! This thing is very, very dangerous; sealing team, come out and seal it right away!" Naruto Uzumaki said.

"The moment that green substance came into view, Naruto Uzumaki's sage energy began to frantically warn; that thing is extremely, extremely evil."

"Several ninjas holding scrolls rushed forward, collected all of Luode's residual fel-energy contaminants, and performed a sealing."

"Luode, they seem to have discovered some residual fel energy left from the recent battle!" Kaido said.

"Don't worry about them; if he can't find anything, he'll just leave." Luode said.

"In the Konoha ninja village's sealing scroll, there should also be detailed training methods for the Impure World Reincarnation technique, but Luode still took a liking to Kabuto Yakushi's improved version."

"According to the timeline, the Five Kage Summit should be convened soon! Sasuke Uchiha's attack on the summit would then trigger the official start of the Fourth Shinobi World War."

"During this period, Kabuto Yakushi will appear to search for Obito Uchiha; this is Luode's opportunity. This guy, like Orochimaru, is a rare talent, even more valuable than Konan and Nagato."

"So Luode intends to recruit him—you admire Orochimaru, don't you? Crave immortality? Then I'll fulfill that wish for you! If Obito Uchiha gets in the way, we'll just take him out together."

"As for the plot, hah! I damn well won't follow your plot!"

"I took care of Nagato here in advance, which deprived Naruto Uzumaki of his most important fateful battle, and even a certain Kakashi just kicked the bucket."

"As for the subsequent Shinobi World War, even if I take out the mastermind, Obito Uchiha's Double Kamui Sharingan is still quite impressive."

"Hold on! If Kakashi really kicks the bucket, his Kamui Sharingan will surely be eyed by Danzo's men; better to have it benefit me than him! Also, the Sharingan on Danzo's person is still quite powerful, especially the Izanagi technique—taking it back for research would also be useful."

"Or wait for Danzo, recover Kakashi's Sharingan, then block him."

"However, at this moment I can't act myself, but if Kaido makes a move, Luode would still be uneasy—his father-in-law Kaido's strength is formidable."

"But facing such concealment methods and life-saving measures, the strange ninja Luode still has reservations; Danzo does have a sealing technique."

"Although the final result was sealing a bridge, Kaido, lacking any spatial ability, would indeed struggle to resist this technique."

"Sylvanas is the same; the queen's combat power is indeed decent, but she's still at mortal level, and fighting the ninjas here gives her no significant advantage."

"What are you thinking about, Luode?" Sylvanas asked.

"I'm thinking there are still a few good things I could bring back, but my eyes are currently in a weakened state, and over ninety percent of my power must be maintained to sustain their evolution." Luode said.

"Forget it; let's wait a bit longer. These eyes still need a few days to develop, and the Five Kage Summit should also take a few days, so by then we should have time."

"Over the next few days, everyone stayed honestly in the mirror space created by Luode, while Konoha ninja village began some reconstruction work, burying the dead civilians and ninjas."

"Because of Luode's appearance, Konoha village's combat power was greatly affected; even Konoha's copy ninja Kakashi died in battle."

"Although Naruto Uzumaki returned in time, he also did not become the village's hero as in the original story."

"However, other things still proceeded as usual; a few days later, an envoy from Kumogakure arrived in Konoha."

"They informed everyone that Sasuke Uchiha had infiltrated Kumogakure and then captured their teacher, Killer B."

"Thus, the Fourth Raikage decided to convene the Five Kage Summit to discuss how to deal with the Akatsuki."

"Danzo also naturally became the Sixth Hokage, outwardly claiming to be the Acting Hokage."

"Naruto! It's terrible—Kakashi, Kakashi-sensei's eye has been dug out!" Sakura Haruno came running, anxious.

"What? Kakashi-sensei! How could this happen? He's clearly the village's hero!" Naruto Uzumaki's face instantly changed color.

"This is an order from the new Hokage; I advise you not to interfere, and since the person is already dead, the Sharingan holds too many secrets, so it must be reclaimed." A member of the Root organization blocked everyone.

"This little side story didn't change anything because of Team 7 members; Kakashi's Sharingan ultimately ended up in Danzo's pocket."

"And Danzo, also bringing his two bodyguards, intended to go attend the Five Kage Summit."

"In a dark cave."

"Just like that! So I also don't know where that brat Nagato ran off to, and Konan has gone missing too." Black Zetsu said helplessly.

"I just wanted to watch the brothers' fight, but after seeing their battle, the Konoha village side instead experienced a strange incident."

"The Six Paths of Pain that had been attacking Konoha ninja village for some unknown reason collectively lost their combat power, turned back into corpses, while Nagato and Konan simply disappeared. 'You mean they betrayed me and fled with the Rinnegan?'" Obito Uchiha frowned and asked.

"What the heck! Although everything was under my control, the most important tool, the Rinnegan, went missing at this moment."

"He had anticipated Nagato might fail, but he didn't expect him to simply vanish; this was somewhat beyond his expectations."

"As of now, that's indeed the case—do you still want to launch the Fourth Shinobi World War?" Black Zetsu said.

"The importance of the Rinnegan goes without saying; it's the key tool for resurrecting one's mother, yet it was lost at this very moment."

"I've already sent White Zetsu clones to search there, but they found not a trace."

"Those two seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving not a trace or clue."

"Also, Kakashi Hatake died in this Six Paths of Pain attack, and now Danzo Shimura has reclaimed his Sharingan. That Mangekyo Sharingan is yours—do you want to take it back?" Black Zetsu asked.

"Two Mangekyo Sharingan together can unleash the greatest power; although Obito claims he doesn't care, he has never reclaimed his own Mangekyo Sharingan."

"If the two Mangekyo Sharingan were combined, Obito's strength would jump significantly, but Black Zetsu has a bad feeling that the Rinnegan might unfortunately be snatched by some hidden lurkers."

"So at this point we must definitely boost our own combat power."

Is that so? That idiot actually got killed, how foolish, I see, then let's recover his blood dragon fluid! Just in time to let Sasuke take action.

"Tuanzang still has a Zhishui's Copy Wheel Eye on his body; this time we also need to take it back." said Uchiha Obito.

Originally, the other missing eye, Obito planned to transplant a Reincarnation Eye, but now it seems that taking back his own eyes is the best choice.

"I understand, I'll go inform Sasuke now." said Heijue, then sank into the ground and left.

Meanwhile, the Five Kage Summit was also held as scheduled; after several days of travel, the leaders of the five great ninja villages gathered together in the Land of Iron.

Nine days have passed since Luode installed the Reincarnation Eye and began evolving; during this period, every three days, Luode's Reincarnation Eye would swell and ache once, and some kind of fetal movement would occur.

And today is the ninth day; the final fetal movement is about to come; after this, these eyes will be fully nurtured.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Luode's eyes transmitted a sound again; the two eyes perfectly fused into his eye sockets, connecting to the optic nerves and to his internal energy.

"Has Luode succeeded?" Xierwanasi walked over and asked.

"Hmm! Finally completed, I originally thought maybe three or four days would be enough, but I didn't expect it to take me a full nine days." Luode reached out and pulled off the white cloth over his eyes.

A pair of green Reincarnation Eyes, each bearing three hook-shaped jade, appeared in the eye sockets; however, the colors of the two eyes seemed somewhat different.

One eye showed a dark green of fel energy, the other a vibrant green of life; the power of life and fel energy circulated within Luode's eyes.

Luode's Reincarnation Eye: one eye controls fel energy, the other controls life; it can also use five chakra nature transformations, as well as yin-yang power; all the various ninjutsu of the original Reincarnation Eye can be used, and they have been strengthened.

"The green Reincarnation Eye is completely different from Changmen's Reincarnation Eye." said Xiaonan.

"Because of my energy, these two Reincarnation Eyes have undergone different changes; one represents life, the other represents destruction." said Luode.

The power of the Reincarnation Eye is inherently to control the force of life and death; life represents birth, while death, my Soul Fruit and fel energy happen to be the best representatives.

Originally, Luode was still worrying about how to increase his soul energy and then eliminate the influence of the Soul Fruit, so that it would completely become his own ability.

I never expected that this time the accidental fusion of this pair of Reincarnation Eyes would actually achieve that goal. Now all the abilities of the Soul Fruit reside in my right eye.

Now, Luode can eat the third Devil Fruit.

Although these days he had been nurturing his eyes, Luode hasn't been idle; he has constantly had Changmen teach him how to refine chakra, and learn several signature ninjutsu of the Reincarnation Eye.

All the various ninjutsu and abilities of the Reincarnation Eye are fully mastered by Luode.

During the process of nurturing the Reincarnation Eye, Luode likewise obtained this world's most crucial power—chakra, the combination of cellular and spiritual energy; and Luode, who possesses a demigod's body, has refined the chakra.

It had grown to an astonishing extent; even Changmen felt somewhat amazed—Luode's chakra, both in quantity and quality, surpasses that of any tailed beast he has seen.

"How about it! What changes do you have in your strength now? Although I taught you some abilities of the Reincarnation Eye, that's only the basic abilities inherent to the Reincarnation Eye; you have nurtured a new Reincarnation Eye, so there should be other powers as well." said Changmen.

"Indeed it's amazing; I can now manipulate gravity and repulsion, and I can use all of your Reincarnation Eye ninjutsu, even including a few that you cannot use." said Luode.

Indeed, special powers have awakened within my eyes; however, it's not just one power per eye, but several powers, within the eye that controls fel energy.

Besides fel energy, I can also use any ability of the Soul Fruit, and can even fire fel energy beams like a demon hunter; this move possesses extremely terrifying destructive power.

The intensity depends on Luode's strength; the stronger Luode is, the greater the power of this fel energy beam.

Moreover, this eye can also manipulate fel energy, rather than merely using it as before.

Now Luode can even absorb any fel energy technique, or interfere with the opponent.

In the other eye that controls life, the enhanced ability is the Reincarnation Innate Technique.

Luode's vast vitality can resurrect mortal-level life forms at will, as long as he consumes some of his own life energy.

But if the life form rises to the same level as Luode, then if Luode wishes to resurrect them, he must also pay the price of his life, and the opponent's soul must still exist.

And within the two eyes, there are also some powers that have not yet awakened.

(End of chapter)