Grass Village's Fire Style Secret Technique

Inside Madara's Underground Base.

Liao Wu was currently fighting White Zetsu Clones.

A dozen or so White Zetsu Clones, their skin gleaming with a Pale Blue White sheen, surrounded Liao Wu.

These White Zetsu Clones only Stared At Liao Wu with those Hollow Eyes, the corners of their mouths curling into hair-raising smiles.

Their Chakra was chaotic, yet carried an Eerie Synchronicity.

One White Zetsu Clone's arm turned into a sharp Wooden Thorn as it charged forward.

Liao Wu kicked it flying with one foot, and then all the White Zetsu Clones rushed him at once.

Liao Wu's hands rapidly formed Hand Seals.

"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"

Snake—Ram—Monkey—Boar...

Things were different now. Liao Wu was no longer the Ninja who had used Fake Hand Seals that day to fool the Anbu.

In nearly a month, Liao Wu had finished studying the Uchiha Clan's Fire Style Scroll and had almost mastered all of the Uchiha Clan's Fire Style techniques.

Surging flames burst from Liao Wu's throat, sweeping toward the numerous White Zetsu Clones like a Lava Torrent breaking through a dam.

Obito and Ryūsetsu hung off to the side like zongzi, staring blankly at the battle between Liao Wu and the White Zetsu Clones.

Stormy waves rose in Obito's eyes, and they widened hugely in an instant.

He had also read Madara's Uchiha Fire Style Scroll with Liao Wu, but he did not have Liao Wu's talent. He could not learn a single Fire Style Ninjutsu on it.

Yet Liao Wu had managed to learn every Fire Style technique in one month.

It seemed Teacher Minato had been right. From beginning to end, what had limited Liao Wu had always been that Fragile Body.

As long as the limits of his body were resolved, Liao Wu had the potential of the Sannin.

"Ahhh—!"

Several White Zetsu Clones were burned, and they immediately let out deafening wails. Their Azure Green bodies quickly carbonized and fell apart.

But some White Zetsu Clones used the Root Concealment Technique to burrow underground, using the earth to evade Liao Wu's Fire Style.

The Root Concealment Technique and the Mayfly Technique looked like they had the same function, but in truth, they were very different.

The Root Concealment Technique merged one's body with the land of nature, allowing free movement through the soil.

The Mayfly Technique, however, used Chakra to guide the body and the earth into Cellular Fusion with the Organic Network.

It used Underground Water Veins and Plant Roots to construct a "Moving Channel," thereby enabling movement.

The Mayfly Technique was more comprehensive, allowing passage through all terrain: the earth, Plants, and Underground Water Veins.

Suddenly, there was a major disturbance among the White Zetsu underground.

Wood Style: Pitcher Plant Technique!

All of a sudden, every White Zetsu Clone underground merged together, turning into a Giant Wooden Pitcher Plant that drilled out from the spot where Liao Wu stood.

Liao Wu sprang up and leaped away. The pitcher plant stretched out nimble Vines to grab him, while a huge calyx bloomed at its center, giving off a rotten, foul stench.

"Ah~ That little smell~"

Tobi smelled it, which was quite irritating.

Liao Wu could hardly stand it. He dodged the pitcher plant's Vines and used Body Flicker to appear in front of it.

"Fire Style, Great Fire Heavenly Prison!"

Blood Red Chakra light radiated from Liao Wu's hand as he struck the pitcher plant out of thin air.

Immediately, Chains condensed from the Fire Element appeared on the pitcher plant's body. Those Curse Mark Chains bound the pitcher plant tightly together.

Great Fire Heavenly Prison was not a Uchiha Clan Fire Style Ninjutsu. It was something Liao Wu had asked White Zetsu to steal from Kusagakure.

Fire Style: Heavenly Prison was a kind of Fire Style Sealing Technique that could prevent the target from condensing Chakra. If they moved too far away from the Caster, they would be burned to death.

In the Original Work, even Naruto would be sealed by Heavenly Prison, while Great Fire Heavenly Prison was the advanced version of Heavenly Prison. In the Blood Prison movie, it even imprisoned the Ancient Monster—"Satoru."

Great Fire Heavenly Prison could even imprison a monster like "Satoru," whom even Sage Naruto found difficult to deal with, let alone a pitcher plant formed from the fusion of several White Zetsu Clones.

"Damn it, that's our Grass Village's secret technique!"

Ryūsetsu hated it so much her teeth itched. This was the Grass Village's Fire Style Secret Technique.

Because she could not endure Liao Wu's tickle torture, she had told him, and Liao Wu had then sent White Zetsu to Kusagakure to steal it.

The three Fire Style secret techniques of "Grass Fruit"—Heavenly Prison, Great Fire Heavenly Prison, and Heavenly Prison Fire Sword—as well as "Kusano Hana's" Ghost Lantern technique, had all been stolen and learned by Liao Wu.

The pitcher plant could not break free. Liao Wu immediately condensed an Azure Blue spiraling Light Sphere in his palm.

"Rasengan!"

The Chakra around the edge of the Light Sphere churned like a boiling vortex, continuously pulling in the surrounding airflow and releasing a sharp buzzing sound, as though it could grind everything around it to pieces.

Obito Shouted somewhat excitedly, "It's here! It's Teacher's Rasengan!"

Liao Wu turned his head and cursed, "It's my Rasengan! I developed it first. The patent for Rasengan is mine, and everyone who uses Rasengan has to pay me royalties."

The downside of not being famous was exactly this: the Rasengan had been developed by Liao Wu and taught to Minato, but Liao Wu himself had pitifully little combat experience.

The Rasengan had truly flourished in Minato's hands, to the point that some ninja believed Minato had developed it.

With a thought, the Rasengan in Liao Wu's hand grew larger.

Big Ball Rasengan!

There was nothing technically profound about this move. It was just making the ball bigger, but in exchange, it required far more chakra, and the difficulty of controlling it rose severalfold.

That was not hard for Liao Wu.

Liao Wu was a Medical Ninja, and the entry requirement for Medical Ninja was high-level chakra control.

Liao Wu slammed the Big Ball Rasengan into the Pitcher Plant. In an instant, the Pitcher Plant was as if it had been struck by a small typhoon. The high-speed rotating chakra tore through its wooden layer at once, the impact driving into its body.

In a blink of an eye, the Pitcher Plant was Dealt With by Liao Wu.

Liao Wu patted the dust off the hem of his clothes and revealed Uchiha Sasuke's Cold Laugh. "My hem is slightly dirty!"

The White Zetsu Clone was not weak.

The essence of a White Zetsu Clone was a Plant-based Biological Weapon, with individual strength roughly between Genin and Chunin level.

They mainly relied on numerical superiority and Special Ability to fight, so their individual high-end Combat Power was not strong.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, they served as Cannon Fodder troops, wearing down the number of ninja in the Ninja Alliance.

Their individual Combat Power was not high, but they were extremely troublesome. White Zetsu Clones needed no sleep, no food, and no breathing, and could adapt to any extreme environment.

They could also move through the ground and walls. If one was not careful, they were Potato Mines.

Beyond that, what made White Zetsu troublesome lay in their transformations, chakra absorption, Wood Style, and other aspects.

If one encountered a single White Zetsu, an experienced Chunin could deal with it easily, but if one encountered a group of White Zetsu, even a Jonin would have to run.

On the other side.

Black and White Zetsu emerged from the wall.

White Zetsu evaluated Liao Wu and said, "He's already stronger than the average Jonin. What a Born Ninja. It wasn't a waste for me to go to Grass Village and steal the secret technique for him."

Liao Wu learned ninjutsu very quickly, not only because of his powerful Ninja Talent, but also because of Madara's guidance.

At one point, Madara had awakened once. Seeing Liao Wu learning ninjutsu, and with that face so similar to Izuna's, he had felt the urge to teach him.

Of course, the most important point was the powerful replicating nature of White Zetsu Cells.

White Zetsu Cells could absorb a Ninja's Chakra and perfectly mimic it. Not only could they mimic chakra, they could also mimic ninjutsu.

Based on this, Liao Wu absorbed Madara's Fire Style chakra and quickly mastered all of the Uchiha Clan's Fire Style.

Of course, it was also because Fire Style ninjutsu rarely had A-rank difficulty. The Uchiha Clan's Fire Style Scroll was basically all B-rank difficulty.

If it had been A-rank, or a Forbidden Technique, White Zetsu Cells would not have been able to copy it.

After Madara fell asleep, Liao Wu still wanted to learn ninjutsu, so he set his sights on Grass Village's Fire Style Secret Technique and had White Zetsu go steal it.

White Zetsu refused, so Liao Wu cried, made a scene, and threatened to hang himself. In the end, White Zetsu was so annoyed that it had No choice but to visit Grass Village again.

A Small Ninja Village like Grass Village had no real way to deal with White Zetsu's superb infiltration ability. To it, the place was a Backyard.

After hearing White Zetsu's words, Black Zetsu gave a disdainful sound. "He's just a Regular Ninja! If he doesn't awaken the Sharingan, he'll be trash for the rest of his life."

Black Zetsu had skulked around for over a thousand years. What Genius had he not seen?

B-rank difficulty ninjutsu—was there even a need to learn something like that? One look with the Three Tomoe Sharingan and it could be learned. Indra's Reincarnator could even create techniques out of thin air.

In Black Zetsu's Eyes, Liao Wu was still confined to the realm of an Ordinary Ninja, only fit to sit at the same table as those mediocre people.

If he wanted to sit at the same table as Madara, he would need at least a pair of Mangekyo.

His inability to awaken the Sharingan was currently Liao Wu's biggest problem.