Magic Lantern Body Technique

The days that followed truly ushered in a long period of peace.

During this time, the Ninja Academy continued its normal curriculum, while Uchiha Yu spent his days sleeping alongside them just as before; as for the nights, he dedicated them to training Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, and Deidara.

In the first year, Deidara was still able to maintain a steady upper hand, but toward the latter stages, he found it increasingly strenuous to deal with Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.

There were even many instances where he found himself on the defensive.

The advantage his age had provided was gradually being erased by the formidable talents of Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.

This could not be blamed on a lack of intelligence on Deidara's part; in reality, he was already a genius-level ninja in the Hidden Stone Village, but compared to the reincarnations of Indra and Asura...

He was still a step behind.

Furthermore, this was not unrelated to the guidance Uchiha Yu provided them.

In the later stages, Uchiha Yu simply had Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, and Deidara attend their classes using shadow clones, while their true bodies continued to train at the Old Uchiha Training Ground.

The speed of their progress over these few years was truly terrifying!

As for Uchiha Yu himself, relying on the hundreds of thousands in his pocket and the system, he had also significantly improved his strength.

He had even secretly accepted a few missions and obtained quite a few rewards.

Five years later.

Uchiha Training Ground.

Everyone was now twelve years old, while Deidara had already reached fifteen.

Deidara looked at Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto before him, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

They had been fighting for two full hours, yet he had somehow remained on the defensive the entire time.

Could it be that he was going to lose again tonight?

Uzumaki Naruto clenched his hands, and a dozen clones beside him were already prepared.

As for Sasuke not far away, he glared with his three-tomoe Sharingan, intensely analyzing every move Deidara made, and as he formed hand seals, a layer of electric arcs instantly danced across his hands.

"Chidori!" Sasuke grunted.

"Rasengan!"

Uzumaki Naruto was not to be outdone, charging toward Deidara simultaneously with Sasuke.

Seeing there was nowhere left to hide, Deidara sat atop his clay bird and flew toward the sky.

However, Sasuke and Naruto simply leaped into the air, the Chidori and Rasengan thrusting toward the clay bird at the same time.

"Damn it!" Deidara formed a seal with one hand, his face filled with helplessness.

Sasuke had become clever; he knew that Lightning Release could render his Explosive Clay useless.

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and detonate the clay bird prematurely.

A massive explosion erupted in the air!

The shockwave swept across a wide area, uprooting a whole row of large trees!

The violent shockwave surged fiercely toward Uchiha Yu, who was watching from the sidelines!

Just a moment ago, Uchiha Yu had been eating Three-Color Dango, watching the trio fight with great interest.

Yet, he suddenly saw a massive blast of shockwave barreling toward him!

"What a nuisance!" Uchiha Yu's expression remained unchanged as he directly channeled his ocular power, Great Luo Heaven, erecting an invisible wall of repulsive force in front of him!

The powerful shockwave could do nothing against the ocular power and simply dissipated in all directions, while Uchiha Yu was not affected in the slightest.

After the explosion.

Three figures lay on the ground, each looking utterly exhausted.

Helplessly, their excessive chakra consumption and numerous injuries left them with almost no strength to continue fighting.

Uchiha Yu swallowed the last dango, tossed the bamboo skewer aside, and formed hand seals.

A steady stream of Wood Release energy transformed into astonishing life force, seeping into the three of them to restore their chakra and heal their wounds.

"Not bad. At only twelve years old, you already possess the strength of a peak Chunin, or perhaps even approaching Jonin level." Uchiha Yu smiled faintly.

Although they had not yet reached Jonin, they had already surpassed many Konoha ninja.

There were not even many ninja of their own age who possessed the strength of a Chunin.

This progress was already heaven-defying!

"Damn it! If I had tried just a little harder, I would have taken that guy down!" Uchiha Sasuke snorted coldly, sitting up and glaring at Deidara.

Deidara watched his own wounds heal and gave a disdainful laugh, saying, "You? If it weren't for your Lightning Release, I would have killed you eight hundred times over! Don't underestimate my art!"

Uchiha Yu looked at the bickering trio and smiled faintly.

He was already used to it.

Over these past few years, his own strength had improved even more significantly.

He roughly estimated that he possessed at least the strength of an early Kage-level ninja.

Although he was still at a very elementary level among Kage-level ninja, it was already quite remarkable for a twelve-year-old to possess such strength.

At the same time, thanks to the system, he had learned quite a few special ninjutsu.

This included the Rasengan, which he had taught to Uzumaki Naruto himself.

As for Uchiha Sasuke's Chidori, it was Uchiha Yu who had asked Kakashi to teach it to him.

Although, he had long since mastered both Chidori and Lightning Blade.

Let's see... the only Kekkei Genkai I haven't learned yet are Magnet Release and Crystal Release. I've also learned quite a few forbidden techniques, including the Eight Inner Gates, Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation, and the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, but... I have no desire to use any of these.

Furthermore, Uchiha Yu had drawn a set of Senju Hashirama-style Red Armor from the system.

After being reinforced several times along with his Kusanagi Sword, the power of the armor was truly astonishing.

The Red Armor was not only incredibly sturdy, capable of blocking most of an opponent's attacks, but it also possessed the inherent ability to absorb chakra.

As for the Kusanagi Sword, it could be controlled to fly at will, and when chakra nature transformation was applied to it, its power could be doubled—a force that was not to be underestimated!

It could be said that these two items were simply the most formidable ninja tools in the current ninja world.

Uchiha Yu occasionally used the Kusanagi Sword.

However, the Red Armor was far too conspicuous, easily raising suspicions that he was cosplaying as Senju Hashirama, so Uchiha Yu had kept it stored in his system space.

Moreover, there were truly very few people worthy of forcing Uchiha Yu to use the Red Armor.

"In three more years, I suppose the Fourth Ninja World War will be upon us." Uchiha Yu looked up at the sky, squinting slightly.

At this rate of progress, they should be able to gain an advantage in the Ninja World War.

Surviving the Fourth Ninja World War safely was Uchiha Yu's current goal.

Therefore, he had been constantly training Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, and Deidara.

He did this precisely to build a powerful team of his own.

However, he didn't know if things would go as smoothly as he hoped.

Outside Amegakure, inside a certain cave.

Nine figures could be seen flickering within.

Magic Lantern Body Technique!

"I hear Konoha is quite formidable these days."

Pain smiled faintly.

Kakuzu spoke slowly, "Konoha only has one Tailed Beast; we should set our sights on the other ninja villages first!"

Pain shook his head slowly.

"Although Konoha only has one Tailed Beast, it is the Nine-Tails! Before we officially begin the work of capturing Tailed Beasts, we should try our best to weaken the strength of the major ninja villages." Pain added, "After all, the ones currently in power in Konoha are the Uchiha Clan! Their Sharingan possesses the power to control Tailed Beasts!"

"In other words, we should weaken the Uchiha's power first?" Sasori asked.

Pain nodded.

Then, he continued, "Do you remember what our Akatsuki organization excels at?"

Kakuzu nodded and said, "Understood! Inciting war! Weakening Konoha!"