Hyuga Shin's Seclusion, Orochimaru's Slacking

After parting ways with Kakuzu and the others, Hyuga Shin found a town with relatively beautiful scenery within the Land of Wind and checked into a spacious inn.

Hyuga Shin went into seclusion again.

He wouldn't come out until he achieved results!

What Orochimaru had said reminded him that although the Sage of Six Paths might be temporarily trapped in the Pure Land, the Three Great Insect Sages could still appear in the Ninja World!

If the Sage of Six Paths could truly persuade them, it would be a huge disadvantage for Hyuga Shin.

Fortunately, the Insect Sages didn't seem to intend to act for now. Otherwise, they wouldn't have just issued a warning to Orochimaru and the others.

Things were getting more and more interesting. What secrets did the Ninja World hide that allowed the Insect Sages of the Three Great Sage Regions to be so tolerant and supportive of that old schemer, the Sage of Six Paths?

Hyuga Shin believed that it wouldn't be long before they also revealed their true colors.

Tidying up his scattered thoughts, Hyuga Shin officially began his secluded research.

The first thing was how to enable ordinary ninjas to detect the Will of the Six Paths hidden within their bodies.

Hyuga Shin already had an idea about this.

Combining his insights from cultivation and his understanding of the Chakra system, he had initially established a feasible hypothesis.

That is, to use the cultivation formations he created, combined with the spatial rules of this world, to create an auxiliary small spatial barrier to help ninjas detect the hidden Will of the Six Paths.

The main method was to use the formations set up within the small spatial barrier to channel a portion of the power of heaven and earth.

This would empower the souls of the ninjas within the barrier, allowing them to see the subtle and discover the hidden Will of the Six Paths within themselves.

This would allow ninjas inside to observe their own bodies with perfect clarity.

This way, they could discover the Will of the Six Paths embedded within their bodies.

If it could be perfected, it might even be possible to use the power of heaven and earth to completely remove the Will of the Six Paths.

This power of heaven and earth actually referred to a higher level of utilization of Natural Energy.

And to mobilize the power of heaven and earth for one's own use, one must be a cultivator who has entered the Dao through Natural Energy.

Furthermore, one must possess extremely high talent.

As a practitioner of the great Dao of cultivation, Hyuga Shin naturally met the conditions.

However, it was still not easy!

When it came to the application of the power of heaven and earth, Hyuga Shin was naturally second to none. At the half-step Nascent Soul Realm, he was incredibly powerful!

He had also delved into spatial rules, which were not too difficult.

Another aspect was how to use the power of heaven and earth to empower the soul's will; the conversion involved was much more complex.

The last point was how to ensure that this spatial barrier could operate for a long time.

This was very important, as it could continuously provide fresh blood to the Spark Organization, supporting the organization's grand undertaking in the future.

Each item was not too difficult on its own, but when combined, it became somewhat troublesome.

However, Hyuga Shin had made a major breakthrough regarding how to install a firewall for the soul's will of the Spark Organization members.

The method was to use Natural Energy or pure Chakra to cast a sealing technique on the entire soul space, thus protecting the entire soul.

This could prevent anyone other than oneself from penetrating one's soul's will.

This sealing technique was much more powerful than ordinary powerful sealing techniques and could be closely connected to the soul space.

Even the Sage of Six Paths would not be able to break through it easily without paying a huge price.

This was a sealing method that Hyuga Shin had created by studying countless sealing technique knowledge and soul research materials, combined with his own experience.

The derivation and preliminary verification of the technique were now basically complete, and only human experimentation was needed.

However, this sealing technique was currently relatively complex, and it was basically hopeless for ordinary ninjas to learn it.

Only geniuses like Orochimaru had a high probability of learning it.

It still needed further optimization.

To make it more universally applicable.

For the next half a month, Hyuga Shin was completely immersed in research.

He pondered how to utilize the power of heaven and earth more perfectly, how to preserve the small spatial barrier for a long time, and how to improve the sealing firewall.

During the half a month Hyuga Shin was in seclusion, the wars in the Ninja World continued.

The Sage of Six Paths seemed to have forgotten Hyuga Shin's existence and continued to watch his "nursery" grow in the direction he desired.

Orochimaru, after contacting Hyuga Shin, slowly returned to the Iwagakure battlefield.

The outcome was the same anyway; there was no difference whether he returned one day earlier or later.

Could the Sage of Six Paths and the Sages of the Three Great Sage Regions allow the Konoha ninjas on the Iwagakure battlefield to be completely annihilated just because he was a few days late?

If that were the case, Orochimaru would be more at ease, as he could at least sacrifice himself to change the entire situation.

He had that courage after learning the dark truth of the Ninja World.

On the other hand, Tsunade, who had gone to the Slippery Ancient Forest, returned early.

She was more worried about Nawaki's safety, so she rushed back to the Iwagakure battlefield as soon as she returned from the Slippery Ancient Forest.

Fortunately, Nawaki was more obedient this time, remembering his sister's and his teacher Orochimaru's words. He stayed put in the main camp and didn't go anywhere.

And it wasn't for a long time, so there was no trouble.

As soon as Orochimaru returned to the main camp and heard that Tsunade was back, he immediately went to find her.

He wanted to ask Tsunade if the Slippery Ancient Forest had made the same request to her.

As expected, Tsunade had also been warned by the Great Slug Sage to stay away from Hyuga Shin.

Moreover, the Great Slug Sage said her body had undergone changes and cautioned her not to easily interfere with and alter others' destinies!

She also advised her to follow her own mission and not go astray.

She told Tsunade to remember its words, or she would regret it too late!

Tsunade was a bit dazed by what she heard.

Upon hearing Tsunade's words, Orochimaru knew his guess was correct. The Three Great Sage Regions must have received a warning from the Sage of Six Paths.

This was a warning to the three of them, the Sannin, for deviating from their paths!

It's a shame Jiraiya, that foolish egg, was too naive.

He was probably tricked by the Great Toad Head Sage.

After confirming his suspicions through Tsunade, Orochimaru didn't ask any more questions. It was already obvious.

Ever since Orochimaru returned, the entire Iwagakure battlefield had slowed down.

It wasn't due to any plan, but rather Orochimaru had no real interest in this war.

However, he was currently involved and couldn't extricate himself, so the clever Orochimaru...

He decided to slack off...

Let the sky rain, let the mother marry, let it be.

Whatever, I'm not serving anymore!

Therefore, he dragged out the war with Iwagakure as much as possible and avoided fighting whenever he could.

He had no demands on his subordinates, only that they stay alive, and issued no combat missions.

The entire Konoha main camp was in a state of lethargy.

This left the strategist Shikaku Nara quite helpless.

Iwagakure was also a bit puzzled, but they couldn't just attack the Konoha main camp; this wasn't the decisive battle.

So, when the commander on the Iwagakure side saw that Orochimaru was slacking off, he followed suit.

After all, the village had no mandatory orders at the moment. Who would want to risk their lives if they could have peace?

Thus, the Iwagakure battlefield's atmosphere changed drastically, from a state of conflict to a state of confrontation.

This situation only changed when mandatory combat orders were issued by both villages, but that's a story for another time.

Another ten-plus days passed, and Hyuga Shin's research was nearing success!

This period of seclusion was almost as long as the time he spent with Orochimaru!

"It's been a month, and there's finally been some progress."

Hyuga Shin's research had finally yielded results. Even with his extremely strong self-control, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

"It seems Orochimaru and Kakuzu are probably still safe. I wonder what that old bastard, the Sage of Six Paths, is plotting!"

Hyuga Shin's divine sense swept over the messages left by the four that day, and his fear of the Sage of Six Paths grew even stronger!

A barking dog doesn't bite; it's often the silent ones who kill!

Hyuga Shin knew how angry the Sage of Six Paths had been back then, but now there was no movement at all!

Before he went into seclusion, he had been worried that the Sage of Six Paths would forcibly intervene, as he had miscalculated last time.

He didn't expect to be wrong this time either.

"Sage of Six Paths, you old bastard! Don't you dare be brewing up something big behind my back!" Hyuga Shin felt uneasy.