Chapter 585

Rain Village, in the hospital.

"This is the map of Konoha."

Konan spread a map on the table, and Su Xiao and Nagato looked at the map.

Attacking Konoha was not a simple matter; it required full preparation. Even if Nagato's strength was very strong, a reckless attack on Konoha had the possibility of failure.

"There are three main attack locations: Konoha Hospital, the logistics material storage area, and the gathering point for patrol ninja near Konoha. Destroying these three places can smoothly crush Konoha..."

Konan began to recount her plan.

"This plan..."

Although Nagato was looking at the map, he didn't know what he was considering.

"What's wrong, Nagato?"

Konan felt her plan was still quite perfect.

"It's fine, just follow your plan. If there are accidents, adapt accordingly."

Actually, Nagato already had a plan in his heart. Simply crushing Konoha was not his goal; he wanted to completely erase Konoha.

"Our goal this time is not just to attack Konoha, but also a more important mission."

"Nine-Tails, right?"

Su Xiao guessed what Nagato was going to say.

"Yes, Nine-Tails. Someone has already gone to capture the Eight-Tails, so the Nine-Tails mission must be captured in this operation. Bai Ye, be restrained when capturing the Nine-Tails."

Nagato meant that Su Xiao shouldn't swallow the Tailed Beast half to death.

"We'll see when the time comes. Capturing a Jinchuriki alive is not a simple matter, especially the Nine-Tails."

The three continued to discuss, and the plan for the operation gradually became perfect.

However, before executing the plan, many preparations needed to be made, such as entrusting some high-difficulty missions to Konoha.

The expenses of a large ninja village were not small; relying solely on the support of the Daimyo was clearly not enough. The lifeline couldn't be completely controlled by others. All major ninja villages would accept commissions from other forces. The larger the ninja village, the higher the cost. Although the cost was high, the credit of these ninja villages was good, with Konoha and the Rock Village at the forefront.

After receiving a commission, the ninja village would send ninja to execute it. Konan submitted the commission to Konoha through special channels, and the difficulty of the commission was not low, with a generous offer.

These channels had been cultivated for a long time and had cooperated with Konoha several times, so there was no worry about Konoha being suspicious.

Weakening the enemy was equivalent to strengthening oneself. Su Xiao and others were going to go to war with Konoha, and any method that could increase the winning rate would be used.

Even so, neither Nagato nor Konan mobilized the ninja of the Rain Village.

Not only that, Konan would try her best to avoid appearing in Konoha during the war, and even if she did appear, all witnesses would have to be silenced.

The affairs of the Rain Village were all handled by Konan. Although the Rain Village was isolated from the world, its information would inevitably leak some.

If Konan were exposed, the remnants of Konoha after the war would follow the clues and definitely come knocking.

After preparing everything, on the day before the war, Su Xiao, Konan, and Nagato left the Land of Rain under the cover of night. The Land of Rain rarely stopped raining.

The Land of Rain was located in the crack between the Land of Fire and the Land of Sand, not too far from Konoha. Running at full speed, they could arrive in a dozen hours.

Su Xiao rode on Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's back, while Nagato and Konan ran on foot. Nagato's body had recovered, so this level of travel was nothing.

Su Xiao lowered his head, light flickering in his hands, seemingly kneading something. Seeing this scene, Konan, who was running, subconsciously moved away from Su Xiao, seemingly because Su Xiao was holding something dangerous.

"So that's how it is."

Su Xiao seemed to be studying something, not nodding or shaking his head.

He was holding a piece of blue clay in his hand. This was the explosive clay technology he had exchanged with Deidara. He had paid the formula for a special-grade alchemy bomb to get this thing from Deidara.

Of course, obtaining this technology didn't mean he had the same ability as Deidara. The explosive clay was only a prototype, and the power was not too great. Post-processing was the key, which was also the strength of Deidara, the art in Deidara's mouth.

Initially, explosive clay was not used for combat, but as a raw material for fireworks. It was only after Deidara's modification that it had its current power.

Su Xiao observed the blue clay in his hand. This thing was similar in nature to explosive clay; explosive clay was infused with chakra, while this blue clay was infused with Blade of the Demon energy.

Although the special-grade alchemy bomb had good power and was convenient to carry, it could only be manufactured in the Reincarnation Paradise in the absence of materials, and the cost was not low.

Su Xiao had been wanting to improve the alchemy bomb, at least so that the alchemy bomb could be manufactured at any time, not stored in the form of inventory.

He had been studying the explosive clay technology for more than half a month and finally produced a finished product today, but the result was unsatisfactory.

Facts proved that special-grade alchemy bombs and explosive clay could not be borrowed from each other. Although the two were similar in appearance and effect, the materials and manufacturing technology were very different.

And the blue clay Su Xiao manufactured couldn't even change shape, let alone explode.

Sometimes persistence was necessary, but persisting in the absence of hope was foolish.

"Sure enough, explosive clay and alchemy bombs are completely different. This can be considered expected."

Su Xiao threw away the blue clay. As Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran, the blue clay disappeared.

The experiment failed, and his mood was inevitably a bit low. Chakra and Blade of the Demon were different, regardless of nature or function. Failure could be considered expected.

"If I could master chakra, there would still be hope. Chakra..."

Su Xiao suddenly thought of a possibility, a possibility that might improve the special-grade alchemy bomb.

Alchemy bombs were manufactured from several materials + mana. What would happen if mana were replaced with Blade of the Demon energy?

This hypothesis appeared and wouldn't go away. He was eager to experiment.

Unfortunately, this hypothesis couldn't be tested before returning to the Reincarnation Paradise. Although it couldn't be tested, he could speculate in his mind whether this method was feasible.

Thinking made the journey no longer boring. Before they knew it, the three arrived within Konoha.

After arriving at the forest near Konoha, the three didn't attack Konoha immediately. First, they had to choose a hiding place for Nagato and build a control console for Nagato to manipulate the six Pains.

This was done by Konan. With a wave of her hand, a large number of papers flew out. These papers gathered together, finally forming the shape of a tree.

After shaping, the tree made of paper appeared with branches and green leaves. As long as one didn't observe it at close range, one wouldn't discover that this was a fake tree.

There were large forests around Konoha, with countless types of trees, so this fake tree, which was nearly ten meters in diameter and slightly shorter than other trees, was not conspicuous.

Konan walked into the fake tree and began to arrange the control console for Nagato to manipulate the six Pains. The main body of this thing was a wooden structure, and the base was a black metal, the same material as the metal nails on Nagato's body.

Three hours later, the control console was successfully built. With this thing, Nagato could remotely manipulate the six Pains.

Although the six Pains were strong, manipulating the six Pains had many prerequisites; this was a ninjutsu developed by Nagato based on the Rinnegan.