Chapter 117: Suikazan Fuguki's Dream

Suikazan Fuguki is dreaming.

"Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!"

The calm water surface surges into giant waves, instantly transforming into a towering, turbulent torrent.

Like a long whale drawing in water, it whips up a water column that surges upward; the waves churn into a raging tide dozens of meters high, the roar of the tide echoing across the battlefield, and after grandly baptizing everything, the battlefield finally returns to silence.

Suikazan Fuguki's expression is grim as he looks down at the battlefield from above, suddenly bursting into triumphant laughter.

He sees the corpse of Orochimaru, the corpse of Yamanaka Chujiu, and the corpse of that terrifying green-clad Konoha Genin.

As for those three ordinary Konoha Genin, they had long since been torn apart by the great waves, disappearing without a trace.

"Hahaha, I am the strongest!"

"I killed Orochimaru, I killed that green monster, I am a true Shadow-level ninja!"

"Karatachi Yagura!"

"Fourth Mizukage, you just wait for me, I'm coming back right now to take your life!"

"I will be the hero who saves Kirigakure, the hero who ends the Blood Mist Village policy, the greatest Fifth Mizukage of Kirigakure!"

Suikazan Fuguki flies off, returns to the Land of Waves, meets the Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura whom he had always feared, and bravely challenges him.

Karatachi Yagura is truly strong; his various Water Style Ninjutsu are ridiculously powerful.

The Water Mirror Secret Technique is even beyond Fuguki's imagination, actually capable of creating a mirror image identical to him, fighting him until the sky grows dark.

But Suikazan Fuguki is even stronger; as if aided by a god, he shatters his own mirror image, defeats the Tailed Beast-transformed Karatachi Yagura, and even relies on Water Style to withstand a Tailed Beast Bomb head-on.

That was a Tailed Beast Bomb!

He actually resisted it with Ninjutsu!

Suikazan Fuguki had never realized he was this powerful.

He doesn't want to be the Fifth Mizukage anymore; he wants to conquer the entire Ninja World, he wants to be the only Kage of the Ninja World!

【Tsk, your desires are erupting too strongly; I can barely hold on.】

"Who?" Fuguki asks in surprise: "Who is speaking?"

【Forget it, this is your final independent will; as the last consciousness before death, I allow you to know how you died.】

【Thank me.】

The next second, Suikazan Fuguki understands: his soul has been artificially severed, turned into shattered soul fragments, attached to thoughts of different desires.

A single thought will only wantonly erupt with desire, quickly exhausting the soul's original power, eventually leading that sliver of soul and thought to perish together in silence.

One sliver of soul perishing is no great injury, but thousands of slivers of soul perishing—that is a major problem.

The pain that truly originates from the soul, no matter what methods Yamanaka Chujiu employs, will always startle the victim awake with excruciating agony.

At this time, a normal person still has many thoughts; it takes at least several minutes to extinguish the remaining soul, which is the greatest difficulty in turning a ninja into a Living Puppet.

Because it is a human's biological instinct to struggle, the difficulty is only related to the strength of the will, not the ninja's actual power.

Once they break free prematurely, the ninja's thoughts will rapidly recover, and the soul damage will also slowly heal.

That is why Yamanaka Chujiu likes Root ninja so much.

The souls of mature Root ninja are already riddled with holes, and there are few thoughts left, with their defenses basically non-existent.

Facing a Root ninja, Yamanaka Chujiu only needs to forcefully insert himself, disrupt, divide, and extinguish; the entire process takes no more than three seconds.

A Root ninja won't even have their body instinctively resist after feeling the pain in their soul.

They are like puppets trained by Shimura Danzo, waiting at any time for the favor of Lord Yamanaka Chujiu.

Aside from Root ninja, Yamanaka Chujiu's success rate against other enemies is frighteningly low, and he has never attempted to turn an enemy into a Living Puppet in actual combat.

But today, upon seeing an opportunity to change his fate, he had a flash of inspiration and struck at Suikazan Fuguki.

And he succeeded!

Yamanaka Chujiu realized tangibly that he had become stronger.

Two wars, four campaigns, and hundreds of subdivided battles—what he left among the Konoha Ninja was not just an impression, but an indelible miracle.

Miracles are always the breeding ground for the birth of faith.

The four thousand North Front ninja, after repeatedly experiencing the miracles of great victories, total victories, and zero casualties in battle, compared them to the casualties under Orochimaru's excellent command.

They then followed Yamanaka Chujiu to gallop six thousand miles, rampaging through four countries, breaking the Cloud Village, annihilating the Allied Forces, forcing the Fourth Raikage to bow his head and admit defeat, signing a surrender treaty, and completely ending the war with the Cloud Village.

When they returned to Konohagakure, they were welcomed by the entire village as heroes; although they shouted "Long live Lord Orochimaru" with their mouths, in their hearts, they felt worship and faith toward Yamanaka Chujiu.

Faith needs no words.

So when Yamanaka Chujiu wanted to pick eight hundred ninja, the response he received was all four thousand North Front ninja signing up; not a single Konoha Ninja was willing to give up the chance to follow him.

In the face of faith, what is exhaustion? Even beloved family members have to be pushed to the back.

Yamanaka Chujiu himself was startled and could only propose holding a competition to select the most elite eight hundred ninja.

In reality, he secretly manipulated the battles, letting those ninja who met the criteria win as much as possible.

That is, those without ties were prioritized, those with families but no elderly parents or children were next, those with parents were next, those with children could not go, and those with burdens on both ends had to stay behind.

His intentions were still noticed by the Konoha Ninja, and moved by this, their faith became even firmer.

Yamanaka Chujiu's faith was not just on the North Front; the Konoha Ninja on the East Front battlefield also believed in him.

Their faith was even more intense!

Compared to the North Front battlefield, the East Front battlefield had lost more frustratingly, more miserably, and it was a continuous string of defeats.

In a desperate situation where everyone was about to die in battle, Orochimaru and Yamanaka Chujiu descended like divine soldiers with reinforcements, saving their lives.

Afterward, under Yamanaka Chujiu's command, they completely washed away the shadow of defeat in an ambush.

This strong contrast further highlighted Yamanaka Chujiu's art of command, immediately conquering the surviving Konoha Ninja on the East Front.

Among the more than seventeen hundred survivors, at least five hundred became his believers.

Supported by such massive Faith Power, Yamanaka Chujiu's ninja strength was carried along, leaping up by a large margin, truly standing in the ranks of Jonin.

And his soul combat power, which relied on the Mind Severing Realm, soared to new heights.

He could control the thoughts of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen the moment they met, manipulate their emotions as soon as he started, and once the battle began, he instantly suppressed Suikazan Fuguki's perception to within three feet, nearly decapitating him with the simplest Wind Style: Wind Blade.

Seeing the victory that was almost within his grasp, Yamanaka Chujiu realized that he had become stronger, and much, much stronger at that.

Thus, a flash of inspiration struck Yamanaka Chujiu, and he launched an all-out attack on Suikazan Fuguki, intending to turn him into his first true Living Puppet.

And then, he succeeded.