Rebellion

Upon hearing Yichen's request, Ikura grabbed his hand and asked, "Yichen, tell me in detail, what exactly happened?"

Yichen chuckled and pushed Ikura aside, saying, "Through the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran and the Uchiha Gunbai, I've finally figured out the decomposition and recombination of the Five-Attribute Ninjutsu."

"I have been able to analyze and apply those subtle details that you cannot understand or handle."

"You're right, I've found the path from the Kekkei Tōta of three attributes to the Bloodline Perfection of five attributes."

At the same time, Yichen added in his mind, "Thank you, Sage of Six Paths."

After listening to Yichen's words, Ikura forced himself to calm down and then said, "You want to imitate that Little White Ball?"

Yichen nodded without saying a word.

After thinking for a moment, Ikura added, "But the structure of that Little White Ball is just too complicated. Just looking at those densely packed structures makes my scalp tingle."

"If that thing didn't actually exist and was right here in my hands, I couldn't imagine that a ninja could actually do this."

Yichen was silent for a moment, then glanced at the room in the distance where the data in the Little White Ball was being recorded, and said, "Perhaps once a ninja reaches that level, they can no longer be called a ninja."

"Calling them Sage might be more appropriate!"

Ikura thought for a moment and said, "This research is just beginning, and I don't know what the future investment will be."

"Yichen, tell me honestly, how confident are you in achieving Bloodline Perfection? And how much risk is involved?"

Yichen sighed and said, "I didn't tell you before because I was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept the truth."

"I'm only 10% sure this path will work. As for whether I can successfully complete it, I have absolutely no confidence."

"As for the risks of this path, I'm sorry, I know nothing about them."

In fact, Yichen originally had no confidence at all, not even one percent. That so-called one percent confidence was only because the Little White Ball was a gift from the Sage of Six Paths.

The Sage of Six Paths wouldn't joke with me.

Before this, Yichen was completely clueless about how to fuse the five attributes.

After hearing Yichen's words, Ikura was somewhat disappointed. He sighed and said, "Yichen, although you are good at raising money for the village, the expenses of this project are simply too great."

"Perceiving the internal structure of the Little White Ball is not something that ordinary people can do, and even fewer people can understand the structure and record it."

"Moreover, the mental energy of Chunin the research process; a ninja simply cannot sustain it for long."

"To ensure the efficiency of the research, I had to draw on a large number of the village's elite personnel to do this."

"The initial processing of the data is even more difficult, and those who undertake this task are all Elite Jonin or the strongest among Jonin."

"Confining so many ninjas here will incur enormous expenses for the village, which I dare not even calculate in detail."

"If even you yourself aren't confident of success, is it really necessary to continue down this path?"

Yichen did not answer Ikura's question.

If Yichen hadn't known that a battle of titans was inevitable in the future, the Ninja World would have been far more complex than it appeared.

Yichen didn't want to take that risk either.

Practicing immortal Senjutsu steadily and gradually improving Life level using Sage Mode is also a good option.

But that won't work; Yichen doesn't have the time. If he doesn't strive to reach the Sage level now, when the great war breaks out in the future, Yichen and the entire Iwagakure will become nothing more than background figures.

Life and death are entirely in the hands of others.

Even setting aside the Sage War, the two main characters in the original story, who lost their Yin Power and Yang Power after the war, were not someone the Iwagakure could be confident of defeating.

Could Yichen really defeat those two, given the Kage-level Combatant he had accumulated for Iwagakure?

Once Konoha's two main characters, with their incredibly powerful backers, have fully matured, will Iwagakure still have any hope of rising again?

Unfortunately, Yichen couldn't eliminate these two formidable enemies beforehand, nor could he even brainwash them.

Yichen had no choice; if he didn't take the risk, Iwagakure would have no way out.

Seeing this, Ikura knew he couldn't persuade Yichen, so he said, "I don't object to your Five Elements Fusion, but all experiments that need to be conducted on your body can only begin after you have fully fused with the Light Release."

Ikura knew that Yichen's Light Release was in its final stage. This was a slow and gradual process, and as time went on, the fusion between Yichen and Light Release became increasingly stronger.

Once Yichen has fully integrated the Light Release, his Life level will be able to evolve once again.

At that time, whether it's combining four or five attributes, it will play a significant role.

Yichen thought for a moment, estimated the progress of the Light Release fusion in his mind, and nodded.

The fusion of Light Release will take time, but Yichen's Five Elements Fusion is still in the initial theoretical preparation stage.

Real-world application is still a long way off.

With Ikura's support, it became much easier for Yichen to persuade the other senior executives.

The decision by Yichen was quickly approved at the High-Level Meeting of Iwagakure.

Except for Ming, who objected to Yichen's insistence on fusing the five attributes, everyone else agreed.

However, because Yichen had recently acquired a huge fortune from Danzo, Mei's opposition was not very strong.

Yichen plans to suspend accepting disciples and devote himself entirely to the preparations for the fusion of the five attributes.

Yichen plans to go into seclusion.

Yichen wasn't sure how long this seclusion would last, but it certainly wouldn't be over in just one or two months.

During this period, aside from the very important tasks that could not be delegated to others, Yichen had to handle personally.

All other matters were discussed and decided by the High-Level Meeting. Originally, Yichen also planned to appoint a temporary acting Tsuchikage, but this was unanimously opposed by everyone.

The concern wasn't that the acting Tsuchikage headman wouldn't manage the village well, but rather that this situation would create a bad habit, causing Yichen to constantly want to go out every few days.

In short, the higher-ups in Iwa ninja will try their best to provide Yichen with a relatively quiet environment for seclusion.

The second day began, Yichen resumed his simple and monotonous daily routine of studying the data on the Little White Ball.

Yichen estimated that when Madara Uchiha sat alone underground, researching various elemental Ninjutsu, bloodline limits, Wood Release, and Yin-Yang Fusion, he was just as single-minded.

Yichen spent a whole year in the Little White Ball Laboratory.

That year, Yichen only occasionally reviewed a few documents that High-Level Meeting were undecided on. During this period, Yichen left the laboratory only twice.

Both times, extraordinary events occurred in the Ninja World.

The first incident occurred in the Land of Wind, or more precisely, in Rōran.

About five months after Yichen went into seclusion, the Sunagakure Puppet Master finally made a leap forward in their utilization of the Dragon Vein.

They successfully developed an immortal puppet, a research achievement that is undoubtedly exciting.

Although these puppets only possess immortality when they are near Dragon Vein, this result still greatly excited Rasa.

Rasa seemed to see a renewed hope for the rise of Sunagakure. Rasa was even discussing with other high-ranking Sunagakure whether to relocate the Sunagakure to Rōran.

At least in Rōran, with the Dragon Vein present, it will be impossible for the Iwa ninja to break through the Sunagakure's defenses as easily as before.

However, before Rasa's plan could even begin, an unexpected incident occurred.

Suddenly, on a very ordinary night, Rasa, who had been mining all day and was finally able to sit in his office and process documents, received a hurried report from the Anbu: his son Kankuro had been found outside the village.

When Kankuro was discovered, he had already been poisoned. Fortunately, he took the antidote prepared by Yura, which temporarily saved his life.

While worried about Kankuro's condition, Rasa was also anxious about what had happened to Rōran.

Why did Kankuro was in Rōran, suddenly return to the village, and why was he also Deadly Poison?

Kankuro escaped and returned, but what about the others in Rōran?

What happened to the immortal puppet technology that the Sunagakure ninja had painstakingly researched?

With the situation unclear, Rasa dared not go to Rōran himself, but instead sent his Anbu to investigate.

However, Kankuro's poison was not simple. Although it was temporarily suppressed by the antidote prepared by Ryosuke, it could not be cured by the medical methods of the Sunagakure.

He couldn't even get Kankuro to wake up and say a word.

Rasa's first thought was of Tsunade, the former Hokage.

Rasa and Tsunade were also friends, so if Tsunade were still Hokage, she would naturally be the best doctor candidate.

However, the current Hokage is Danzo, and Rasa himself has fought against the old forces, so he can guess the undercurrents within Konoha.

Therefore, Rasa dared not send his son to Konoha.

Besides, what if our son comes back with a Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal?

In the end Rasa chose to send someone to take Kankuro to Iwagakure for treatment.

For this purpose, Rasa also specially paid a large amount of gold dust.

The Iwa ninja leadership was struggling with the exorbitant costs of the Little White Ball research experiments, but upon seeing the pile of gold dust, they immediately agreed.

Furthermore, he arranged for the Medical Department Nakata Hajime to personally administer the antidote to Kankuro.

We must thank Danzo for providing the advanced Medical Ninjutsu; otherwise, Nakata Hajime wouldn't have been able to take on this task.

It's worth mentioning that Sakura also participated in this medical treatment; she was one of the many Medical Ninja who assisted.

Although she didn't have a standout performance this time, she didn't make any mistakes either. Considering her age, her performance was excellent.

Nakata Hajime and the other top Medical Ninja of Iwagakure were very satisfied with the Medical Ninjutsu genius that Yichen had chosen.

Meanwhile, none of the ninjas that Rasa sent to Rōran returned. He finally learned about the strange events that had occurred in Rōran from Kankuro, who had just woken up.

The one eyeing Rōran this time is none other Sasori of the Red Sands, the S-rank Rogue Ninja of the Sunagakure!

For a ninja village, being S-rank Rogue Ninja is a disgraceful thing.

The term "S-rank Rogue Ninja" can basically be understood as a missing-nin that the ninja village cannot deal with.

Sasori of the Red Sands was missing-nin whom the Sunagakure was unable to cleanse its own ranks.

When Sasori of the Red Sands Betrayal of the Village, Rasa had not yet taken over, so although Rasa knew of Sasori of the Red Sands's existence, he never thought of capturing Sasori of the Red Sands.

After Sasori of the Red Sands Betrayal of the Village, he never took the initiative to make any contact with the Sunagakure.

This has led Rasa to completely forget that Sasori of the Red Sands even exists.

It turns out that Sasori of the Red Sands learned of the new discovery of the Rōran Dragon Vein through an intelligence ninja hidden in Sunagakure.

As the Ninja World's top Puppet Master, Sasori of the Red Sands understood better than anyone what this discovery meant.

So Sasori of the Red Sands left the Land of Rain immediately without even saying goodbye to Nagato.

Sasori of the Red Sands single-handedly slaughtered all the Sunagakure and Rōran in Rōran, and then occupied Rōran.

The Queen of Roran also died at the hands of the Sasori of the Red Sands, though Queen of Roran received better treatment than others.

She was turned into Human Puppet.

Sasori of the Red Sands already knew from his subordinates that the Queen of Roran was the key to the entire Dragon Vein research process.

Sasori of the Red Sands also needs her to communicate with the Dragon Vein.

After understanding the cause and effect, Rasa mobilized a large number of elites and headed straight for Rōran.

Not long after Rasa set off, Yichen was summoned from his seclusion to the conference room of the Tsuchikage's Office Building Ikura.

"The Fourth Kazekage Rasa, is dead." These were the first words Yichen heard after temporarily leaving seclusion.

Yichen was stunned for several seconds before he realized what he had heard.

In peacetime, how could the Kage of a village just die like that? Surely someone hasn't started another war.

"How long have I been in seclusion?" This was the first question Yichen asked, feeling that everything had changed.

Everyone:...

Afterwards, Tomoko explained the recent situation in the Land of Wind to Yichen.

Because Kankuro was still in Iwagakure, after Rasa's incident, Iwagakure no longer had any scruples about Kankuro and obtained information almost through interrogation and interrogation.

Therefore, the Iwa ninja had a comprehensive understanding of the incident.

"Teacher Yichen, not only did the Fourth Kazekage die, but the Sunagakure also lost a large number of elites."

"Rasa took more than half of the Sunagakure's elite forces, and very few of them escaped back."

Saka interjected, "The Sunagakure is finished. Even right after the devastating Second Shinobi War, none of the villages were as weak as the Sunagakure."

"Moreover, the Sunagakure can't even elect a decent Kazekage right now."

Mei nodded and said, "Not only that, the Sunagakure is currently powerless to resolve the Sasori of the Red Sands incident."

"As a Great Ninja Village, if it can't even handle its own internal rebellion, Sunagakure has essentially withdrawn from the ranks of the Six Great Ninja Villages."

Yichen nodded, gathered his thoughts, and then asked, "I have a few questions."

"First, was the Fourth Kazekage turned into Human Puppet? Does Sasori of the Red Sands possess any other Kage Level Human Puppet?"

Ikura replied, "It's confirmed that Sasori of the Red Sands possesses the Pakura Scorching Release Puppet. This information was provided by Kankuro."

"As for the Fourth Kazekage, he will probably not escape the same fate."

"However, according to the information provided by Kankuro, the puppet made from Pakura seems to be far less powerful than Pakura was in life."

"While that Scorching Release Puppet is stronger than an average Elite Jonin, it's still not at the Kage Level."

Yichen thought for a moment and said, "I guess the Sasori of the Red Sands Human Puppet should need a living person."

"The Third Kazekage Puppet in our collection was probably made into a puppet by Sasori of the Red Sands while he was still alive."

"Pakura was given to Sasori of the Red Sands after we killed her, so it's understandable that the effect was less than ideal."

After a pause, Yichen asked, "Second question, didn't Sasori of the Red Sands attack Sunagakure? What were his demands?"

Tomoko analyzed, "Sasori of the Red Sands never left Rōran from beginning to end. We speculate that Sasori of the Red Sands may not care about the Sunagakure at all."

"At least he indicated that he didn't want to get involved in any of Sunagakure's affairs."

Yichen nodded and said, "One last question, were other ninja villages involved?"

Saka said, "No one except Konoha participated, including us and the Akatsuki Organization."

"Yichen, could you contact the Akatsuki Organization and find out what they're thinking?"

Yichen nodded and asked, "Konoha got involved? And what did Danzo do?"

Saka said, "Danzo hasn't made any major moves. He's just sent a lot of Root ninjas into the Land of Wind. He's probably still observing the situation. There haven't been any unusual actions yet."

Yichen thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll contact the Akatsuki Organization first, and we'll discuss our response plan tomorrow."

After the meeting, Yichen contacted Nagato two using the Phantasm Body Technique.

Nagato told Yichen that Sasori of the Red Sands had left the Akatsuki Organization and that the Akatsuki Organization would not participate in anything he did afterward.

It turns out that Sasori of the Red Sands left a letter for Nagato, stating that he had not betrayed the organization, but simply wanted to disband.

In this life, Nagato did not turn to the dark side. Since Sasori of the Red Sands has found a good home, he will not interfere too much.

Not only did he not pursue them, he also sent a sum of money to Sasori of the Red Sands, instructing Sasori of the Red Sands to manage Rōran properly.

Nagato simply didn't expect that Sasori of the Red Sands would slaughter the entire Rōran, rendering money completely unnecessary.

After learning of Akatsuki Organization's stance, Yichen convened another High-Level Meeting the following day.

This time, Yichen directly set the tone for Iwagakure.

"The Sunagakure, which is a good thing for us. We've been annoyed with Rasa for a long time. That guy is incredibly patient; even with Sunagakure in such dire straits, he's still putting up a strong resistance."

"It's better that he's dead, otherwise I'd always feel a chill down my spine."

"Tell Danzo we, the Iwa ninja, are willing to share the Land of Wind with him."

"The Akatsuki Organization has made its stance clear this time: no interference."

"I plan to divide the southern half of the Land of Wind into four parts."

"Since Sasori of the Red Sands does not want to get involved in the internal affairs of Sunagakure, then we will hand over Rōran and a small area around it to him."

"Tell Sasori of the Red Sands that we will not pursue his past actions, but if he continues to attack Sunagakure, we will not stand idly by."

"However, we can't just clean up Sasori of the Red Sands's mess for nothing and make him hand over the half of the gold sand that Rasa used as a weapon."

"Tell him that our payment is for accepting his commission and helping him create a quiet environment for researching puppets."

Seeing the strange looks from everyone, Yichen said, "Sasori of the Red Sands is a scientist, he should agree to this. Talk to him nicely, don't be too forceful."

"We're not as easy to deal with as the Sunagakure. Sasori of the Red Sands has no reason to completely turn against us."

"The second and largest part will still be reserved for Sunagakure. The title of Great Ninja Village Sunagakure will be revoked, and the leader of Sunagakure will no longer be referred to as Kage."

"However, we will preserve the Tailed Beast of the Sunagakure secretly tell them that once their strength increases, we, the Sunagakure Iwa ninja, will once again support them in becoming Great Ninja Village."

Yichen left the largest portion of the territory to the Sunagakure Village, mainly because he couldn't take over such a large area all at once.

Yichen continued, "In the third part, the westernmost part of the Land of Wind will be left to Konoha, but tell Danzo that the sovereignty of the Land of Wind cannot be changed."

"This place can become an enclave of Konoha, but it cannot become an enclave of the Land of Fire."

"The Daimyo of the Land of Wind has always had a good relationship with us, and at this time we need to maintain his position."

"After this is over, let the Daimyo of the Land of Wind know and try to squeeze some military funds out of that stingy guy."

"Finally, we'll take the Central Land of Wind, the part that borders our current territory."

"Hasn't the new graduating class already graduated? We now have some extra manpower, so let's build another branch here."

"We could consider the original site of Sunagakure. If the Sunagakure site is too large, we can abandon that idea and choose another location."

Saka nodded and said, "No problem, I'll arrange for someone to negotiate with all parties."

"But is it appropriate to divide the Land of Land of Wind with Konoha?"

Yichen laughed and said, "It doesn't matter. Konoha is the head of Danzo now. I believe in Danzo. With Konoha in his hands, he will give us a surprise sooner or later."

"This place is just an enclave for Konoha. Once internal turmoil breaks out, it will eventually become ours."

"It's a bit much for us to take over such a large territory all at once right now. Let Danzo help us manage it for a while."

Everyone was speechless.

So the envoys of the Iwa ninja began to travel around, coordinating with all parties to sign a peace treaty.

Sasori of the Red Sands had no objection to Yichen's proposal, or rather, he didn't care at all. He simply glanced at the treaty sent by the Iwa ninja and signed it.

Sasori of the Red Sands needed a quiet environment to study the puppets; he didn't care about anything else.

He was the only person in the entire Rōran, and he had turned himself into a puppet. With the Dragon Vein providing energy, he didn't need to replenish himself from the outside world.

Danzo was somewhat surprised by Yichen, but after thinking it over, he didn't find any traps and signed the treaty as well.

Then Danzo took the treaty and promoted it throughout the village, claiming that he had once again expanded Konoha.

Danzo's status in the villagers' hearts was elevated once again.

Only the Sunagakure was very dissatisfied with Yichen's proposal, but in a ninja village that couldn't even handle its own internal affairs, no one cared about their voices.

Moreover, Yichen had at least given the Sunagakure a glimmer of hope to return to Great Ninja Village, so they ultimately agreed.

Finally, Baki, Rasa's assistant, signed the peace treaty on behalf of the Sunagakure.

Baki also became the first leader without the title of Kage after Sunagakure was downgraded to a minor ninja village.

Shortly after Baki took over, he sent someone to take Kankuro away, who was still recuperating in Iwagakure.

After dealing with the matter of Sunagakure, Yichen once again entered seclusion.

I thought that with the matters concerning the Sunagakure settled, there would be no more turmoil in the Ninja World.

There won't be any major moves until all parties have digested their gains and licked their wounds.

For example, the focus of the Iwa ninja is on building new branches and taking over new territories, and they are unlikely to initiate conflict in the short term.

Who would have thought that just two months after Yichen went into seclusion again, trouble struck the Ninja World once more.