Half a Year

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Uchiha Chen finally emerged from seclusion!

Over those six months, Uchiha Chen felt as though an entire lifetime had passed.

Not only had he developed various senjutsu and their accompanying combat techniques, but he had also integrated the vast majority of his own abilities!

Aside from the Rinnegan, which was still developing and had not been touched much, his combat power had improved by far more than just a little compared to before his seclusion.

Moreover, quite a bit of news had trickled in during his seclusion.

The most anticipated development was that, three months into his seclusion, Orochimaru had successfully created the improved version of the Cursed Seal he had envisioned!

After testing, it was fully capable of reaching the level of strength he had previously envisioned.

It had already begun to be implanted in Konoha's ninjas in rotation.

As for the perfect versions of the Cursed Seal, they were first implanted in Konoha's top combatants.

Tsunade was his wife, after all, so she naturally implanted the Cursed Seal in her own sisters first.

Orochimaru, meanwhile, implanted Cursed Seals in Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Mokume Kotō, Shikaku Nara, Hatake Kakashi, and other Jonin at Kage level.

As for Shimura Danzō, that man had committed far too many crimes and was directly excluded.

Once everything had settled down in the future, he would be used as a target dummy.

As for Jiraiya, he had traveled all the way back just to deliver himself to their doorstep.

Konoha had been making rather frequent moves during this period.

Although the other ninja villages could not see through the mystery behind it, Jiraiya was, after all, a ninja born and raised in Konoha.

Naturally, he could sense the undercurrents beneath the