Target Yang Release! Sage Body! Sage Mode!

Su Nuo was inside Ogawa Gō, researching the Scroll of Seals as always, and also absorbing various Earth Release ninjutsu from the souls of Iwagakure Ninja killed on the battlefield.

At this moment, Su Nuo already possessed Cloud Release, Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Lightning Release Armor, Liger Bomb, Kurama Clan genjutsu, Hiruzen's Great Fireball Technique, Sarutobi Sealing Technique, Shadow Clone Technique, Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, Eight Gates, Flying Thunder God Technique, and Iwagakure Earth Release.

In terms of curse power, Su Nuo had absorbed souls and resentment everywhere on the battlefield, and his curse power level had reached the level of five fingers.

"You're quite capable... Uchiha Miya."

After returning to the village, Su Nuo also heard about the close cooperation between the Uchiha Clan and the Hyuga Clan.

This made him find it interesting.

Hyuga Shin's death now seemed very meaningful and had pushed things in an interesting direction.

Well, the effect of stimulating Namikaze Minato had also been achieved.

As expected, for that love-struck fool... mentioning Kushina made him fly off the handle.

As for Ogawa Gō, Su Nuo discovered him while controlling Hyuga Shin and causing chaos in Root.

Although he was Ogawa Gō, he was actually "Senju Gō".

After he was injured and fell unconscious during a mission, he was invited for tea and then became a sacrificial experiment for Root, experiencing the darkness of the village up close.

Su Nuo plucked off one of Hyuga Shin's fingers and refined it into a "Cursed Object", forcing Ogawa Gō to eat it, thus choosing Ogawa Gō as his new Host.

During this time, Su Nuo had also been studying Ogawa Gō's body, which was the Senju Physique.

It could be seen that this guy's cell activity was stronger and his chakra reserves were greater, but there was no sign of Wood Release awakening.

Under Su Nuo's suggestion, Hyuga Shin successfully sought death.

Ogawa Gō was rescued by Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya and was eventually handed over to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi ultimately chose to let Ogawa Gō go and gave him a large sum of compensation, but Ogawa Gō still had the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal.

He couldn't reveal any secrets about Root.

It was as good as having none.

Su Nuo's current mastery of sealing techniques was already sufficient to break the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal.

Even if he couldn't, he could just let it activate.

Hyuga Shin was killed by the Caged Bird, but Su Nuo could still save him using Reverse Cursed Technique.

Isn't Reverse Cursed Technique quite insidious?

Afterwards.

As a teacher, Ogawa Gō of the Stone Armor Style took Uchiha Aoi and two other disciples.

However, as the war intensified, Ogawa Gō, an Elite Jonin, was also dispatched to the battlefield, even joining Namikaze Minato's rapid response unit.

In one month, he killed over seventy Iwagakure Ninja.

He earned the title "Ogawa Gō of the Stone Armor Style."

The so-called Stone Armor Style.

Was developed by Su Nuo, combining Earth Style and Water Style.

It involved a mass of water at the feet for rapid, ice-skating-like movement, while the body was covered in an Earth Style rock armor.

This overcame the ninja's disadvantage of low health and defense.

Su Nuo secretly opened the first few gates of the Eight Gates for Ogawa Gō and repaired his body, granting him the powerful physique needed to support the heavy stone armor.

His Chakra reserves were also sufficient to continuously stimulate the water flow for charging attacks.

Thus, the Iwagakure Ninja witnessed a powerfully built man clad in stone armor, charging forward on a water-like cloud, enduring all sorts of attacks and defeating a large number of Iwagakure Ninja.

Upon returning to the village.

Ogawa Gō was promoted to Elite Jonin.

Su Nuo had now lost the Byakugan, and his combat power was significantly reduced compared to when he was inside Hyuga Shin, but this situation was within Su Nuo's expectations and acceptable.

When switching bodies, he had two choices: the Uchiha Clan or the Senju Clan.

Uchiha Miya was a good target.

Even if it was more difficult to obtain—Uchiha Miya already possessed Elite Jonin strength and might not willingly offer his fingers to be consumed—he could seek out other, less prominent members of the Uchiha Clan.

Moreover, the Uchiha Clan's Kekkei Genkai was pure Yin Power. If Su Nuo were there, it would be a union of the strong, potentially allowing him to awaken the Mangekyo in one go, and even unlock a very high stage of Susanoo...

But Su Nuo still chose the Senju.

Although he was getting stronger step by step, he was not in a hurry to become immediately powerful.

What Su Nuo needed was to stay away from the vortex of conflict. His Host could neither be a nobody nor someone exceptionally strong.

This was the "Host Positioning" Su Nuo required.

With his stealth maximized, Su Nuo was very safe in this world.

An Invisible Slash with a zero-frame startup could kill most ninjas.

Hyuga Shin's account was now useless.

After consecutively killing Younger Raikage and Raikage A, and finally annihilating the Hyuga main family, he would inevitably attract a lot of attention, making it inconvenient for him to go around killing people. Moreover, the identity of a Hyuga ninja had its limitations.

Just the Byakugan alone, Su Nuo didn't take that power seriously.

He pursued greater strength, and before that, he needed to maintain stealth and an absolute intelligence advantage.

Yin Power, he wanted it.

Yang Release, he wanted that too.

By taking over the Uchiha Clan, Yin Power would be strengthened, and he might soon surpass "Original Sukuna," especially since Su Nuo had already learned a vast amount of ninjutsu, fuinjutsu, and taijutsu.

Such strength might be able to dominate the curse world, but in the world of Naruto, the upper limit of Yin Power was ultimately inferior to Yin Power + Yang Release.

So, speaking of Yang Release.

It required mentioning the ancient era.

The Sage of Six Paths gave Yin Power to Indra, and Yang Release to Asura.

Indra possessed the "Sage's Eye," while Asura possessed the "Sage Body."

Asura was the ancestor of the Senju Clan and the Uzumaki Clan.

Possessing a "body with a lot of chakra," however, the two clans developed in different directions: one developed Wood Release, and the other developed Fuinjutsu.

This was also why the Leaf Village's inaction when the Uzumaki Clan was annihilated seemed so absurd.

In recent times, it was the friendship forged by the First Hokage; the First Hokage's wife was a member of the Uzumaki Clan. In ancient times, they were truly one family eight hundred years ago, sharing similar bloodlines.

If Su Nuo wanted to obtain Yang Release, to obtain the Sage Body.

Then, the Senju were the best choice. After all, the Uzumaki Clan had too few members.

Among the Senju clan members in the Leaf Village, Su Nuo chose the best.

After the Senju Clan foolishly chose to abandon their surname and integrate into the Leaf Village... the Senju Clan was officially left with only Tsunade as the sole descendant.

Among the large number of Civilian Ninjas, there might be members of the Senju Clan.

But, those were not the best "hosts."

Yamato... was an experimental subject.

He mastered the Pirated Wood Release.

However, Yamato was currently in Orochimaru's Base, and interacting with Orochimaru was not a good thing.

Su Nuo relied on Shadow Kill to defeat stronger opponents, but chopping off Orochimaru's head might result in the guy growing it back.

For those with "strong defense" and "strong recovery," Su Nuo remained vigilant, as they might not be killable by Yin.

Moreover, if he were to possess Yamato, that guy was too young, which was not very advantageous for combat. At least a teenage age would be better, so he could go to the battlefield to harvest souls and absorb curse power... At the same time, as the only successful product, Yamato would receive more "attention," which did not align with Su Nuo's intentions.

It would be better to choose the secondary Wood Style experiment subjects on Danzo's side.

Ogawa Gō, starting as a Jonin and then a secondary product of the Wood Style experiment, had far greater cell activity than the rest of the Senju Clan, but had not awakened Wood Style.

This was already Su Nuo's best choice.

"Yang Release."

"Sage Body."

"Sage Arts."

"Natural Energy... Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest."

"Toads, Snakes, Slugs."

"The Great Toad Sage is an old immortal who can also predict the future, not a good choice; there is only one Slug Sage, and the Slug Sage is a small slug, also not a good choice."

"My only choice, it turns out, is the Sage Mode of Ryūchi Cave."

After thinking, Su Nuo stroked his chin and smiled.

"I have a good plan..."