Reinforcements

A complete Tailed Beast has very distinct Chakra characteristics. For example, the Nine-Tails' violent Chakra gives people the first impression of evil.

However, the Chakra of the Tailed Beast within the Jinchuriki is noticeably different. Even if the Jinchuriki is not strong, the Tailed Beast Chakra that erupts still bears many of the ninja's attribute imprints.

In this state, the Tailed Beast might have already assimilated somewhat with the Jinchuriki. Yichen wondered if, after the Jinchuriki had reached the pinnacle of using the Tailed Beast, it was possible to completely assimilate the Tailed Beast Chakra, digest the Tailed Beast, and make it a part of themselves.

The Tailed Beast Chakra floating in the air is quite different from the previous two. This Chakra feels more like a high-level energy, and Yichen, who has mastered Senjutsu, is very qualified to say about this.

This Chakra is different from the Chakra of ninjas. A ninja's Chakra dissipates quickly after leaving the body, but the Chakra of Tailed Beast can be maintained for a considerable period of time.

This is somewhat similar to the dense Natural Energy within Natural Energy Seal Barrier. However, the energy that Yichen is currently collecting in the gourd is different from the previous three forms.

Yichen sensed that this Chakra was somewhere between the Chakra of a fully-formed Tailed Beast and the Tailed Beast Chakra.

Unlike fully-formed Tailed Beast, it has neither an independent life nor unique attributes. Nor is it like Tailed Beast Chakra, which floats in the air and is simply a form of energy.

The Chakra within the gourd seemed to possess some life, but this life force was very weak, as if it might dissipate at any moment.

Thinking of this, Yichen turned his gaze to Utakata again.

At this moment, Utakata was in very poor condition. Yichen could tell with a slight sense that Utakata was ruined. He had consumed too much of his life force, and it was impossible for him to fully recover. After all, he didn't have the monstrous Sage Body of the Uzumaki Clan.

It should be that the portion of Six-Tails Chakra that Yichen directly peeled off contained some of Utakata's life force.

At this moment, Yichen thought of one person: Kazuma, one of the Guardian Ninja of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire in the original work. He collected the Tailed Beast Chakra from the night of the Nine-Tails' Rampage and sealed it into the body of his son, Ku.

He miraculously preserved the dissipated Chakra.

Now that he could sense the Six-Tails Chakra within the gourd, Yichen began to understand.

Tailed Beast are very mysterious beings; their life state is completely different from that of humans.

No human can survive being split in two and remain in a state of yin and yang. But Tailed Beast can.

Furthermore, Tailed Beast do not have physical bodies; they only Chakra. Logically, Tailed Beast should consume life force when they use Chakra, but this is not the case.

When a fully-formed Tailed Beast attacks an enemy, the Chakra it releases does not contain life force. This is the Tailed Beast's Hon; they cannot strip away their life force through repeated attacks.

However, when Tailed Beast becomes Jinchuriki and its life force merges with that of the Jinchuriki to a certain extent, its control over its own life force becomes less effective than before. At least, it is not as easy to control the portion of life force that has merged with the Jinchuriki.

Yichen had just successfully extracted a portion of the Six-Tails' life force from its body, thanks to the fact that the Tailed Beast's life force had already fused with Utakata's.

Yichen extracted the Tailed Beast Chakra, he was leveraging the life Jinchuriki, and the Tailed Beast's life force came out along with the Jinchuriki's life force.

The plan to split Tailed Beasts in Iwagakure was proposed by Yichen. However, dividing the Tailed Beast is very difficult, and Yichen felt that his Yin-Yang Release, with almost no foundation in it, was simply impossible to achieve.

However, while holding the gourd, Yichen suddenly thought of another method: perhaps by extracting the life Jinchuriki and giving it to the scattered Tailed Beast, he could preserve that Chakra.

However, it's too little. This amount of life force is insufficient to sustain the Tailed Beast Chakra within the gourd for an extended period.

Seeing that Utakata's life force was greatly depleted, Yichen once again extended his demonic claws.

"Anyway, you can't reach your peak now, so you're no longer worth brainwashing or guiding," Yichen said softly to Utakata.

Five days later, Yichen looked at the gourd in his hand and smiled with satisfaction.

For the past five days, Yichen had been extracting Six-Tails Chakra twice a day. Just now, with Utakata's fragile life force completely exhausted, Yichen had extracted Six-Tails Chakra ten times in total.

The Six-Tails Chakra within the gourd now feels somewhat close to that of a fully-formed Tailed Beast to Yichen, though only in terms of the Chakra essence; the quantity of Chakra is still far from comparable.

However, its vitality is not enough; it can probably only barely keep the Chakra from dissipating, and cannot allow the Chakra to slowly grow like it did in the original story.

Yichen guessed that the Chakra was special because it contained the life force of Kushina Uzumaki.

The Six-Tails' true form completely dissipated after Utakata's death. Under normal circumstances, it would take about three years for the Six-Tails to revive.

After all this trouble, Yichen's biggest gain was not that he obtained a gourd of Six-Tails Chakra from sealing it. If Yichen coveted the Six-Tails, he could have obtained the complete Six-Tails by changing its Jinchuriki.

Yichen's biggest gain was that he gained some understanding of the special characteristics of Tailed Beast. This was very important for Yichen, who aspired to be on the same level as the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Otsutsuki.

However, these are all things for the future; Yichen hasn't reached that level yet.

Yichen disposed of Utakata's body and then returned to Kirigakure.

Upon returning to Kirigakure, Yichen didn't rush to the camp, but instead went to Wu's place first.

The base was full of Mist ninja, so even if all of them died, Yichen would only regret the failure of his plan; he wouldn't feel sad or too heartbroken.

However, U's side consists of his own people, members of the Iwagakure with whom he has already established a bond.

When Yichen arrived near Wu's residence, he sensed that there were twelve other ninjas in Wu's house besides himself.

"It seems reinforcements have arrived," Yichen thought to himself.

"Lord Qing." The twelve Iwagakure Anbu, now all dressed in the Mist Ninja Anbu uniforms that Yichen had prepared for them, bowed to Yichen as he entered, clearly indicating that Wu had already explained Yichen's affairs to them.

These people were not surprised that Yichen suddenly had a gourd hanging from his waist; their Tsuchikage had done many strange things.

As the frequency of the Iwa Village Bi-Monthly Report increased, the Iwagakure's appetites began to become more discerning.

The original reporting style of Iwagakure) began to be criticized, and then some irregular tabloids appeared in the village.

The villagers became increasingly interested in the strange and interesting stories about the upper class recorded in the tabloids. In particular, they Tsuchikage interested in their Lord Tsuchikage, a commoner who had a series of amazing experiences and an unusual way of thinking.

His thoughts always seemed to be different from everyone else's; he had all sorts of strange ideas. And in most cases, these ideas were able to significantly boost the strength of Iwagakure.

Yichen nodded to everyone and said, "It's good that you're here. Find a place to settle down on the outskirts of my camp first. You and Wu De are separated, so to outsiders you're considered two separate groups."

"Uru is in charge of intelligence within the Third Mizukage's direct Anbu, while your three squads are responsible for combat. You need to give the impression that you are not under each other's command."

"Yes, Lord Qing." The thirteen men responded in unison.

Yichen then asked Wu, "Has anything happened at the base while I was away?"

Wu said, "Lord Qing, there are no problems at the garrison, but rumors have started circulating in the village that you are a member of the Hozuki Clan."

"That doesn't matter. How's your family? Has anything happened?" Yichen then asked the twelve people who had just arrived about the situation in Iwagakure.

"Lord Qing, everything is normal at home. This is a letter from home that I asked you to pass on to you," one of the Anbu replied, handing over a letter.

Yichen took the letter, opened it, and read it.

The letter was written to him by a senior advisor from Ikura. The gist of it was that the village was developing steadily and everything was normal. Kitsuchi and Han's strength was steadily increasing.

The letter also mentioned some good news: Katsuya had finally become Quasi-Jonin. He had learned a lot from the Spirit Transformation Jutsu and Sharingan Genjutsu given to him by Yichen.

Ikura said that Katsuya had really gone all out for this promotion, Chunin the Chakra reserves and strength of Chunin to transplant a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

After receiving the Sharingan, Katsuya actually managed to cast a Sharingan Genjutsu. The result was that he nearly killed himself and is currently in the hospital.

However, it was precisely because of this adventure that Katsuya finally succeeded in advancing. Thus, all twelve disciples from Yichen's first three generations had advanced to the Quasi-Jonin.

After Yichen finished reading the letter, another Anbu said, "In addition, our family also told us to keep in touch and visit them more often, and to write home frequently."

Yichen understood that this must be an intelligence ninja specially assigned by the village to handle communications.

Yichen nodded, then inquired about Wu's progress in screening intelligence and gave him a different information about the Sealing Scroll. He then left with three squads of Anbu.

After quietly settling the three squads near the base, Yichen entered the base. Upon returning to his room, Feng and several Special Jonin immediately came to report the changes at the base to Yichen.

"Lord Qing, a dozen or so Civilian Ninja have joined us these past few days. As per your instructions before you left, we have resumed our missions outside the village and are doing our best to maintain order in the area," Feng said.

Yichen nodded and said, "You've done a good job. Now that we've started the mission outside the village, let's use the mission as a pretext to investigate the whereabouts of the Suikazan Fuguki."

"Yes, Lord Qing." The others responded.

"The rest of you should keep an eye on whether there's a possibility of a major battle breaking out between the Bloodline Ninja Clan and the Mizukage recently." Yichen was somewhat worried that his meddling might cause Yuki Koru to decide to launch the decisive battle ahead of schedule.

"Yes." Seeing that Yichen had no further instructions, Feng and the others left.