After dawn the next day, Uchiha Feng checked out of the inn and went to an uninhabited forest outside the town.
"Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, Summoning."
This time, Feng summoned the Impure World Reincarnation of Uchiha Mikio without hesitation and woke him up.
"Where is this? How did I come back to life?" The newly awakened Uchiha Mikio looked bewildered, muttering in disbelief.
His appearance and clothing were the same as before he died, but the whites of his eyes had turned black, and his skin and clothes were covered with messy, irregular cracks.
"Senior Mikio, you haven't been resurrected. You were just summoned from the Pure Land by me using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu created by Second Hokage Tobirama Senju.
And this is outside a town in the Tea Country. I am Feng, son of Tetsutaro—Uchiha Feng."
Feng stepped forward to explain.
"Feng? Tetsutaro's son? Oh, I know you. They say you're a good-for-nothing who could never become a ninja.
But now? The Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu? That's a forbidden jutsu, yet you actually managed to learn it. It seems everyone underestimated you after all.
However, is there something wrong with this jutsu, or is your ability just lacking? Why is my strength only at the Chunin level right now?"
After listening to the explanation, Uchiha Mikio pondered for a moment, understood his current situation, and then couldn't help complaining.
"Uh, Senior Mikio, it's a problem with the jutsu. The strength of an Impure World Reincarnation subject is determined by the sacrifice used at the time of the casting.
Your sacrifice, Senior, was just an ordinary person, so you only have Chunin-level strength after being reincarnated.
But actually, you should be able to unleash Jonin-level combat power, because Chunin is just the physical constitution and chakra volume of this body you currently occupy.
Still, it doesn't affect your Sharingan. Furthermore, although the body only has Chunin-level strength, under the Impure World Reincarnation state, your chakra recovery speed is extremely fast, almost equivalent to infinite chakra.
On top of that, the body produced by Impure World Reincarnation is practically immortal. Unless sealed or actively released by the caster, you can recover quickly even if your body is blasted into dust."
Feng continued to explain.
"In that case, I suppose that makes sense.
So, Uchiha Feng, descendant of the clan, for what reason did you summon me from the Pure Land?"
Having understood the condition of this body, Uchiha Mikio looked at Feng and cut straight to the point to ask.
He didn't ask why Feng was in the Tea Country instead of Konoha, nor did he ask about the village or any circumstances regarding the clan.
For a dead man, those things no longer mattered.
He only knew that Feng, a descendant of his clan, must have summoned him because he needed help with something, and he just wanted to help Feng finish his business as soon as possible so that Feng would release the Impure World Reincarnation and let him return to the Pure Land sooner.
After all, while the Impure World Reincarnation state preserved the memories and emotions from before death, it was heavily weakened in other aspects—such as pain and tactile sensations, with some things completely gone, like eating, drinking, excreting, the sense of smell, and the sense of taste.
Being brought back via Impure World Reincarnation was a state where one was neither human nor ghost, so people brought back this way rarely wanted to stay in the world of the living for long, basically all wishing to lift the Impure World Reincarnation and return to the Pure Land as soon as possible.
"Since Senior Mikio asked directly, I will get straight to the point.
I hope Senior can help me with two things. First, to instruct me for a period of time.
For some reasons, I don't know much about ninja basics or common sense, and my strength is very weak.
The second thing is that I hope Senior can use genjutsu to control a certain person for a while.
It was precisely because I heard that Senior was exceptionally skilled at genjutsu during life that I summoned you through Impure World Reincarnation.
Both tasks can be carried out simultaneously."
"Fine. How long? Who am I controlling? But you must know, the stronger a person is, the less effective genjutsu becomes. Although I am skilled at genjutsu, there are some people I cannot control."
"About half a year. The person to be controlled should just be an ordinary person with no resistance to genjutsu whatsoever."
"Then that won't be a problem. When do we start? Right now?"
"Yes. Please, Senior Mikio, use this cloak to cover your body first to hide your identity, and then we'll get moving."
Uchiha Feng said as he produced a hooded cloak similar to his own, capable of covering the entire body, and handed it to Uchiha Mikio.
The Tea Country was not large, and it took only an hour or so to travel from the town near the capital to the capital itself.
Along the way, Feng also told Uchiha Mikio about his goal: to control the daimyo of the Tea Country, then have himself appointed as a noble in the daimyo's name and drafted into the daimyo's guard unit.
This idea wasn't something Feng had decided on on a whim; it was something he had thought of in his past life while watching the original anime and various Naruto fanfiction novels.
As a ninja, wielding extraordinary power yet being ruled by ordinary people with no power at all was entirely unreasonable.
Just think, Obito Uchiha was able to use genjutsu to control the Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure, Karatachi Yagura, for a long time, manipulating Kirigakure from behind the scenes.
Then why couldn't other Uchiha use genjutsu to long-term control the daimyo of a nation, manipulating that nation from behind the scenes?
As for saying that Obito controlled Karatachi Yagura because he had the Mangekyō, why not mention that the one he controlled was a genuine Kage-level powerhouse, the Fourth Mizukage and Perfect Jinchuriki of the Three-Tails?
As for other Uchiha using the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, the target they needed to control was merely a daimyo whose strength was that of an ordinary person.
He believed that as long as one understood just how powerful the Three-Tomoe Sharingan genjutsu ability of the Uchiha was, they would know this was definitely a most effortless and simple task.
Therefore, Uchiha Feng, having now transmigrated into the Naruto world, was going to put this idea into action.
He would not be bound by ideology like the natives of the Naruto world, who knelt submissively before people who only had status and no strength despite being powerful extraordinary beings.
Along the way, Uchiha Mikio would periodically offer guidance to Feng: how to use chakra to run fast, and how to control chakra on the soles of one's feet to enable high-speed jumping and movement among trees.
As for why Uchiha Mikio took this so seriously, first, he wanted to finish the task quickly so Feng would release the Impure World Reincarnation sooner.
Second, as an Impure World Reincarnation subject, he could sense that Feng, as the caster, actually had the ability to control him directly, yet Feng hadn't done so.
Perhaps it was out of respect from a junior of the clan to a senior, or perhaps simply out of a reluctance to exert control, believing that he, the Uchiha senior, would help his junior.
Regardless of the reason, in the spirit of giving as good as one gets, Uchiha Mikio felt he should do his best to help Feng accomplish what he needed to do.
Therefore, whenever he noticed things along the way that Feng did not know or understand, he would speak up to guide him.
The Tea Country was a weak nation, and right next door to the Land of Fire, the strongest of the Five Great Nations. Domestically, let alone a ninja village, there were hardly even any ninjas.
In terms of military force, there were only a few samurai acting as guards to barely protect the extravagant lifestyle of the domestic nobility.
As for bandits, foreign invasions, and other actions requiring military force, the Tea Country handled almost all of them in the form of missions entrusted to Konoha Ninja.
Therefore, when Uchiha Feng brought Uchiha Mikio to the capital of the Tea Country and sneaked into the Daimyo Palace within the capital, the two met with virtually no obstruction.
However, since the two sneaked into the Daimyo Palace in broad daylight with people coming and going, they chose not to make a big commotion or draw unnecessary attention.
Instead, they did nothing and went into hiding, planning to wait until nightfall when things quieted down before making their move.
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