Chapter 5: Thanks to Danzo Shimura for the reward!

The Mind Severing Realm originates from the Yamanaka Clan's secret technique, Xinzhuanshinzhishu.

Back in the day, Yamanaka Chujiu was practicing the secret technique when it inexplicably mutated, granting him this additional ability.

The Mind Severing Realm cannot sense chakra fluctuations, nor can it sense natural energy; what it senses are emotional fluctuations.

As everyone knows, any sentient creature will have emotional fluctuations as long as they are alive.

Moreover, ninjas know nothing about emotional perception, so no one deliberately guards against this, which just happens to benefit Yamanaka Chujiu.

However, even if the Mind Severing Realm senses emotions, Yamanaka Chujiu may not necessarily understand them; if he cannot understand them, he cannot distinguish them from the massive sea of emotional fluctuations.

The better he can understand a target's inner heart, the further away he can distinguish the target's emotions, and the higher the precision of his locked-on position.

This is where the disadvantage of being a transmigrator becomes apparent; Yamanaka Chujiu is not a native of the Ninja World and cannot identify with ninja culture—he can't understand a damn thing about ninjas.

Being unable to understand a ninja's emotions means he cannot distinguish them from a safe distance, which is equivalent to the Mind Severing Realm being useless.

Fortunately, the mutation of the secret technique did not occupy a secret technique skill slot, and Yamanaka Chujiu remains a qualified Yamanaka ninja.

It wasn't until the outbreak of the Third Shinobi World War, when Yamanaka Chujiu was drafted to the front lines and experienced his Ino-Shika-Cho Team dying until only he remained, that he thoroughly understood a part of the ninja mindset.

Among the thoughts of a ninja, there is one that is highly consistent: that is to survive!

From then on, Yamanaka Chujiu could not only distinguish between enemy and ally ninjas and precisely lock onto their positions, but his sensing range also reached an astonishing two thousand meters.

It even exceeded the limit of the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan.

Even more terrifying is that after becoming proficient in using the Mind Severing Realm, Yamanaka Chujiu can condense his thoughts into threads to entangle enemies; even if only one Thought Thread is wrapped around them, by delving slightly deeper into their mind, he can hypnotize the enemy into ignoring his existence.

If he can wrap more Thought Threads onto an enemy, Yamanaka Chujiu can temporarily turn the enemy into a puppet, controlling them just like the Xinzhuanshinzhishu secret technique, and use their body to fight.

Theoretically, by deeply controlling a target's mind, he can permanently alter their self-perception, including gender, values, memories, and so on.

If the cognitive change is sufficient, it is no longer a temporary puppet-like state, but a complete transformation into a Living Puppet.

A Living Puppet that can think for itself, live independently, train, fight, and continue to grow stronger, yet absolutely obeys Yamanaka Chujiu's will and can sacrifice itself at any time—perhaps it could be called an external incarnation.

By comparison, the Hitokugutsu of Sunagakure are simply pathetic.

Unfortunately, the above is theory; living ninjas have self-instincts and will resist fiercely.

Let alone transforming them into Living Puppets, even temporary control is very difficult to achieve.

That is why Yamanaka Chujiu was so surprised that the Thought Threads automatically wrapped around Shisui Uchiha.

Moreover, there was more than one type of Thought Thread that automatically wrapped around him, and the speed of the intrusion into his mind was incredibly fast.

In just a few short minutes, Yamanaka Chujiu discovered that Shisui's cognitive preferences could be changed, and even his gender perception seemed to be something he could tinker with...

To be honest, it felt quite wonderful!

An impulse churned in Yamanaka Chujiu's heart; reversing Shisui's gender perception and making him feel that he is a "she" would absolutely be a lot of fun!

Yamanaka Chujiu ultimately restrained his impulse.

Changing gender perception is too superficial; it is purely harming others without benefiting oneself—only a fool would do that.

The Uchiha ninjas of the Military Police Force quickly figured out the situation; they knocked on the doors of every courtyard on this street with cold faces, demanding that the homeowners come out to provide an explanation.

Just as Chujiu had anticipated, the homeowners all produced land deeds and housing deeds, while the villagers were unable to produce any proof.

The villagers were stunned; they didn't know what to do and could only cry loudly and repeatedly state the facts.

The Uchiha ninjas of the Military Police Force were not idiots; they looked at the brand-new deeds with ashen faces, knowing there was a problem with these things without even needing to verify them.

How could deeds issued several years, or even over a decade ago, be brand new?

The seals on them hadn't even dried yet!

But the Uchiha were also helpless; this was not the first similar incident today.

The first time they saw such obviously fake deeds, the Uchiha took the homeowners into custody without a word and brought them to the Hokage Building for verification.

But the absolutely problematic deeds matched the archived deeds perfectly, complete with not only seals but also the Third Hokage's personal signature.

The Uchiha could only follow the homeowners' demands and drive the poor villagers to the northeast corner of the village to temporarily stay in the Shanty Town there.

Yamanaka Chujiu, who was watching all of this, felt heavy-hearted, and the children with him associated it with many things.

For example: why would the surviving families of ninjas disappear?

Kazamatsuri Harume asked with chattering teeth: "Big Brother Chujiu, is this what you meant by being 'executed' after falling below the Execution Line?"

Yamanaka Chujiu nodded: "Yes, and it's not the helpless execution of having no money, but the most shameless, most violent, and most cold-blooded execution."

Yano Shoichi's face turned pale: "Big Brother Chujiu, let's go. Let's go reclaim wasteland; I don't want to fall below the Execution Line, and I don't want to be driven away by Uchiha ninjas."

Yamanaka Chujiu cast a glance toward the shadows by the street, then withdrew his gaze and said: "Let's go."

Passing through the noisy street district, they arrived at the commercial street of Konohagakure and purchased farming tools and seeds according to their plan.

Yamanaka Chujiu also bought many snacks to share with the children.

The children ate carefully, but not a single one smiled, and he failed to harvest any happy emotions.

The group left the street district in silence, crossed the Konoha River that runs through Konohagakure, and arrived at the barren slopes of the Yamanaka Clan.

Just at this moment, two Root ninjas wearing complex patterns on their faces, who had been following them the whole way, appeared and blocked the path in front of everyone.

At the same time, two more Root ninjas appeared behind Yamanaka Chujiu.

They restrained their killing intent, moving forward in stealth, their weapons pointed directly at Chujiu's heart and kidneys.

Meanwhile, the two Anbu ninjas in front drew their weapons and slashed toward the dumbfounded children.

No warning, no control, they were going straight for the kill.

This was very much in line with the style of Root.

Yamanaka Chujiu did not answer, nor did he defend or dodge, but instead sneered as he scanned the four Root ninjas.

When the Root ninjas who initiated the attack rushed in front of the children, they suddenly put away the weapons in their hands, bent their knees, and knelt on the ground.

Yamanaka Chujiu lifted his chin and let out a cold snort of dissatisfaction.

These Root ninjas within the village are not thoroughly brainwashed enough.

After the Thought Threads wrap around them, it still takes an extra second to delve deeper before shallow mental control can be completed.

It is still better to use those Root ninja who have been sent out of the village to execute missions independently.

They have been subjected to repeated destructive brainwashing, are all simple-minded idiots with singular thoughts, have long since lost their self-awareness, and are very close to the state of a puppet.

When normal ninja are controlled by Yamanaka Chujiu using Thought Threads, they will instinctively struggle wildly, allowing only for shallow hypnosis or short-term control.

But mature Root ninja have no self; as long as they are entangled by Thought Threads, deep mental control can be completed in an instant.

Without the resistance of a self, the mental control will continue to deepen, and they will soon become Yamanaka Chujiu's Living Puppet.

Regarding this, Yamanaka Chujiu can only say:

Thanks for the reward, Shimura Danzo!