Between Wood and Leaf, a Branch Sprouted; the Winds of Freedom Stirred on Tianyun Mountain (Two-in-One)

Neji thought for a moment, then asked, "How do we make contact?"

Dodai sighed and gave a wry smile. "That's what makes this mission so difficult: there's no way to contact him. The mole has always been the one to get in touch with us, but ever since Toroi died, he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. Our spies in Konoha have sent out coded signals several times to try to reach him, but they've all failed."

Yugito spoke up. "Could the mole's identity have been exposed because of the envoy incident, and Konoha secretly executed him?"

Dodai shook his head. "That mole was very well hidden. He wouldn't be discovered so easily."

"Neji, take a look at this first."

Just then, the Fourth Raikage emerged from the secret room with an old, yellowed book and handed it to Neji.

The book was the Yozuki clan's history. It recorded an event from the Warring States Period, more than three hundred years ago.

At the time, the Yozuki clan was led by Yozuki Yunjian, a remarkable man who developed the Lightning Release Chakra Mode and laid the foundation for the Yozuki clan's dominance over the Land of Lightning.

Neji read through it carefully.

At last, his gaze settled on two lines of blurred text, and his pupils contracted.

"Hyuga Tenin held a gigantic 'eye' in his hands and entered a mysterious space-time passage, disappearing from the Shinobi World. Several days later, a meteorite fell from the sky. The Hyuga clan announced that Hyuga Tenin had fallen gravely ill and died despite treatment."

Neji drew a deep breath and fell into thought.

He had never imagined that the Yozuki clan and the Hyuga clan had crossed paths as far back as the Warring States Period.

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