November.
When the international situation is stable, Yayoi can devote more energy to developing national strength with peace of mind. At the same time, he also pays more attention to the growth of his own strength.
In the world of ninjas, power is just a by-product of force.
Yayoi will naturally not do this kind of thing that only focuses on power but not on force.
You can understand political tactics, but you cannot indulge in political manipulation. Regarding this, Yayoi has always been very clear-headed.
At least he had never heard that a truly first-class monarch would maintain his prestige by playing tricks.
Only those monarchs who lack their own abilities will rely on power and tactics to maintain control of the country.
"Even if my opponent is my husband, I, Gentle Fist, will not show mercy."
Inner Court of the General's Residence, on a large training ground of nearly 20,000 square meters, Yayoi and Kicho stood face to face, and assumed a fighting posture.
Kicho wears lavender Ninja Outfit, light blue high-heeled ninja shoes on his feet, and wears armor on key parts that matches Ninja Outfit, which is both a decoration and a defensive prop.
Wearing Spirit Blade: Kumokiri around the waist, there are ninja tool bags hanging on the thighs and back, filled with various ninja tools.
Her Ninja Forehead Protector hangs casually around her neck. It can be placed in this place and may also protect her neck.
She did not assume Gentle Fist's attack posture, and stood casually ten meters away from Yayoi, but the Chakra quietly flowing in her body proved that she was secretly ready for battle.
"That would be perfect."
After Yayoi said this, the shapeless Chakra Cloak, like blue flames, Setsuna instantly enveloped his body.
There is no more pain and pressure in the past.
After nearly a year of hard training, he has been able to do it and entered Chakra Armament Mode perfectly.
The heavily compressed entity Chakra no longer burdens his body.
I have tested Yayoi before. If you use this mode to fight, as long as you have enough Chakra, you can fight all day and night without any problems.
"Do you use all your strength when you come up?"
Kicho was surprised.
"If you want to deal with Gentle Fist, it's better to be in this state."
Yayoi took a breath and stared at Kicho seriously.
During these days, it was not the first time that he had sparred with Kicho.
Kicho's growth rate is astonishing. Now she has not only mastered the Chakra Refinement Technique he taught her, but at the same time, she can also perfectly integrate this refining technique and the special Chakra into her own Byakugan and Gentle Fist.
In addition, she is in the golden stage of rapid growth, and her strength has improved significantly every other month.
Without using Chakra Armament Mode and covering the body surface with a protective layer, he would have no way to deal with Byakugan and Gentle Fist.
"Then I'm about to fall asleep."
Kicho As soon as he finished speaking, he launched a surprise attack.
Bang!
The fists and palms collided, and the air immediately vibrated with an astonishing impact force, making the sound of heavy objects hitting.
Even though Chakra's physical armor was between them, Yayoi still felt the tingling sensation, transmitted through Kicho's Gentle Fist.
What's more, this acupuncture sensation is accompanied by a surging force hidden in the palm strike, which can be used to preemptively launch a second palm impact.
If his body wasn't strong enough, plus the Chakra Cloak on his body, he would most likely be slapped away by Kicho.
The seemingly soft Gentle Fist, while extremely penetrating, also has the same surging power as Strong Fist.
Rather than saying it is Gentle Fist, it is better to say it is the fusion of Gentle Fist and Strong Fist.
Although the fusion is still relatively immature, for example, the fierce power hidden in the power of Gentle Fist seems to be very weak, but Kicho has indeed embarked on a completely different path from the traditional Gentle Fist.
'Have you developed Gentle Fist to this point?'
Seeing that his wife had such outstanding talents, Yayoi felt happy, but at the same time, he gave up the worries in his heart.
Boom!
The air exploded with a loud bang, and cracks spread from the ground beneath Yayoi's feet.
Entering Chakra Armament Mode, every attack from Yayoi can cause the destructive power of the offensive Ninjutsu.
Kicho cannot be hard-connected. The moment Yayoi Chakra flows at high speed and explodes, her figure is spinning and retreating, taking away most of Yayoi's strength.
Yayoi also expected this. In front of Byakugan, it was difficult to hide the type of move.
Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu all require Chakra to complete. Kicho can observe the flow of Chakra through Byakugan and determine which technique the target will use in the next second. And through its excellent reaction power, it can prepare for defense in advance and even counterattack.
Therefore, after repelling Kicho, Yayoi's feet suddenly exerted force, leaving a blurry afterimage on the spot. The whole person was like a discharged cannonball, friction with the air causing a sharp whistling, and rushed to Kicho.
"Huh?"
Yayoi was about to launch an offensive when he saw Kicho in front of him curling up into a smile.
Immediately afterwards, her body shimmered, and her graceful figure turned into colorful butterflies flying, and finally melted in the air like bubbles.
"Genjutsu ah..."
Obviously, Kicho used the fusion technique of Genjutsu and Body Flicker Technique to cause Yayoi to misjudge the spatial distance.
"Here it is, my lord~~"
Kicho flashed behind Yayoi like a ghost, with the five fingers of his right hand curled up like a tiger's palm.
A voice as sweet as singing sounded from behind Yayoi. Along with this beautiful voice, there was an extremely strong sound of air vibration.
"Divine Rend!"
The frequency and fluctuation of the air vibration are very similar to the Hyuga Clan's Bagua·Vacuum Palm, but the impact force erupted is not comparable to moves like Vacuum Palm.
That's not exactly the impact caused by the vibration of the air. Its essence is more like violently detonating the space in front of it.
The intense and dazzling white light blocked all vision.
The surging air hardened to the point where it was harder than steel, and let out a deafening roar.
Unable to resist, unavoidable.
Amid the dust and smoke, the ground ahead had been completely destroyed, and a shocking huge pothole was directly exposed on the torn ground.
Yayoi, wrapped in damaged Chakra Cloak, fell into a pothole and easily pushed away the hundreds of kilograms of boulders pressing on it, causing it to roll aside.
Yayoi dusted himself off and stood up calmly. Looking at the completely destroyed land around him, he felt quite shocked.
Although he knew that Kicho was developing a new Gentle Fist, he did not expect that it would be so powerful and be released so quickly that there would be no reaction time at all.
Generally speaking, Taijutsu with this kind of power should have a charging stage, but Kicho swiped out with one palm without any warning, and could also block the target's vision...
What Yayoi is most concerned about is that this move also incorporates the strong characteristics of Strong Fist. It is a move that combines strength and softness.
It can directly hit the meridian system inside the human body like the traditional Gentle Fist, and it also comes with extremely terrifying physical blows.
Gentle Fist and Strong Fist can blend so perfectly. The upper limit of this move will be very scary.
"As the saying goes, the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. This sentence makes sense. If you can break my Chakra Cloak, you have grown a lot, Kicho."
Yayoi breathed a sigh of relief, and the entity Chakra was released again, repairing the damaged Chakra Cloak, and he sincerely admired it.
If it were not for this layer of Chakra Armor protection, with that move just now, he would not only be in a miserable shape, but would be slightly injured.
"My husband, are you praising me? If my husband can catch me..."
Kicho put his fingers gently in front of his lips, with a mysterious smile on his lips.
Yayoi feels that we need to educate our wives properly.
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The next day, Yayoi walked out of Inner Court feeling refreshed.
In yesterday's competition, he was the winner in the end. After a protracted battle, Kicho was exhausted and won.
Although Kicho's strength has indeed improved a lot, the move called 'Divine Rend' still has many shortcomings.
For example, the attack range is sufficient, but to concentrate the destructive power, you still need to continue to hone and upgrade the moves.
Moreover, in this competition, Yayoi only used the move Chakra Armament Mode. The rest of Release Technique, including puppets and the like, were not used, otherwise the battle would end faster.
But this does not prove that Kicho is weak. On the contrary, Chakra Armament Mode is the most powerful move among the techniques he has mastered. Even so, he still fought very hard.
If he continues to grow at this rate, within three years, Kicho will be able to reach his current physical level and be able to suppress Jonin with murderous intent.
When we came to Tenshu Tower, Aburame Yuroketsu, the patriarch of the Aburame Clan and also the minister of Intelligence Division, appeared here very rarely.
It has been two years since Aburame Clan moved to Land of Night, and they have integrated well into the military system of Land of Night.
Thanks to the vast forest resources of Black Steel Forest, Aburame Clan has cultivated a large number of high-quality bugs, and it is said that there are also some strange new varieties.
Although he manages Intelligence Division and is generally not responsible for fighting, Yuroketsu's strength ranks among the top of the entire Land of Night.
Coupled with the Aburame Clan's extremely balanced and versatile fighting power, Land of Night is now the strongest ninja clan.
Hoshigaki Clan and other ninjas who joined later were completely incomparable to the Aburame Clan.
"It's really rare to come here so early in the morning, Yuroketsu."
Yayoi was surprised by the arrival of Yuroketsu. Under normal circumstances, this minister Intelligence Division would not go out easily.
The only way to see him is at important meetings.
"General, this is the latest information from Land of Bears. The intelligence team over there has found the whereabouts of the 'meteorite'."
Yuroketsu handed over the information. He was still the same as before, wearing a black high-collared ninja coat and sunglasses, with half of his face covered by the collar of the coat.
Ninja Forehead Protector is worn normally on the forehead, and the whole person reveals a mysterious and gloomy atmosphere.
But anyone who is familiar with him actually knows that he is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside. He just talks less and sometimes his presence is inexplicably low.
No, the problem of low presence may be another characteristic outside the Aburame Clan Secret Technique system.
"Have you found it yet?"
"Yes, but besides us, there seems to be someone else eyeing this meteorite."
Although Yuroketsu is curious as to why Yayoi is looking for such an extraterrestrial meteorite, since it can be targeted by Yayoi, the 'meteorite' mentioned in the intelligence is probably not just a broken stone from the extraterrestrial world.
Yayoi was not surprised.
Land of Bears is a small country sandwiched between the two big countries Land of Earth and Land of Wind.
In this small country in the near future, there will be a ninja village called Hoshigakure Ninja Village.
The core of this ninja village is an extraterrestrial 'meteorite' that suddenly landed in Land of Bears more than a hundred years ago.
This meteorite was named 'Star', which is also the origin of the name Hoshigakure.
The meteorite 'star' contains a special radioactive substance that, after being combined with the ninja's Chakra, can have a wonderful reaction with Chakra.
The ninjas of Hoshigakure, around the meteorite 'star', developed a Secret Technique named 'Mysterious Peacock Method'.
This kind of Secret Technique can project its Chakra entity outward to form a physical attack, and can also form Chakra wings behind its back to achieve the effect of flying.
Secret Technique that can fly can be said to be very rare in Ninja World. This means that this meteorite named 'Star' has extremely high strategic value.
Therefore, after learning about the meteorite 'star', Yayoi took immediate action.
"Irori, the guests I invited should have arrived, right?"
"Yes, Master Yayoi, those guests have arrived."
"Bring them here. By the way, let Kurobei and Hoshigaki Kairyu come over too."
Upon hearing Yayoi's command, Irori bowed slightly and exited the room.
Within a few minutes, Kurobei, the Samurai leader, and Hoshigaki Clan patriarch Hoshigaki Kairyu appeared at Tenshu Tower.
After they saw Aburame Yuroketsu, Minister Intelligence Division, they were a little surprised. Both parties nodded to each other and came to stand in front of Yayoi's office desk.
Yayoi handed the information about the meteorite 'star' to the later Kurobei and Hoshigaki Kairyu.
The two of them took one copy each and quickly scanned the contents of the intelligence document.
"This is the mission this time, to bring back the meteorite Land of Bears safely. But please note that the meteorite contains very special radioactive materials. Once you get it, remember to seal it in a scroll."
"Is it just the two of us?"
Kurobei did not refuse this mission, but glanced at Hoshigaki Kairyu next to him, and then looked at the general Yayoi.
"Yuroketsu will also act with you. In addition, I have also invited some foreign aid to help you act together."
As soon as Yayoi finished speaking, Yuroketsu pushed up the black sunglasses on the bridge of his nose to show his presence.
"Foreign aid?"
Hoshigaki Kairyu grinned with sharp teeth and became interested in so-called 'foreign aid'.
"Well, some mission 'experts' who are active in the underground world."
Yayoi took a sip of tea and smiled slightly.
Hoshigaki Kairyu was a little confused, but Kurobei seemed to understand something.
After a while, Irori walked in with a calm face, followed by three other people.
Two adult black-haired men and one black-haired girl.
The three of them were wearing almost the same style of senior Ninja Outfit, with the very conspicuous Gunbai logo embroidered on the shoulders and back of the clothes.
It proves that these three people are ninjas from the Uchiha Clan.
"Long time no see, Miss Izayoi."
Yayoi first looked at the straight black girl with fair skin and cool temperament.
Although he was short in stature, his expression was full of coldness, and his whole body exuded an aura that kept strangers away from him, as well as traces of the smell of blood.
It was the Uchiha girl whom we met while capturing Seven-Tails more than two years ago - Uchiha Izayoi.
The black-haired girl just crossed her arms, hummed slightly, and nodded towards Yayoi, which was considered a greeting.
Her eyes glanced at Yayoi's side and back from time to time. Irori was as respectful as a servant, with a strange look in her eyes.
She still remembered that she was instantly killed by this woman with one move.
But isn't this woman a puppet?
Although she was confused, Izayoi also knew that it was not the right time to speak, and it was someone else's secret that she had no interest in exploring.
Uchiha Meirou, who was standing next to Izayoi, was also surprised. He had no idea that Izayoi actually knew this General of the Land of Night.
As for the leading man, Uchiha, he is about the same age as Meirou, in his forties, with a black hedgehog hair style.
Although he is older, it can be seen that when he was young, he was a handsome and outstanding young man.
Yayoi glanced at the leading Uchiha man. The other party was Black Market's most popular figure in the underground today - Uchiha Hokuto.
Although his debut was very short, his 100% mission completion rate quickly made him famous in the mixed underground Black Market.
"Let me ask you a question, how did you know about our existence?"
Before Yayoi could continue to speak, the leading Uchiha man - Uchiha Hokuto was the first to ask, with a direct tone without any verbosity.
Although these runaway Uchiha clan members are now making money using the underground Black Market platform, their whereabouts are not so easily locked.
But this general found their contact information accurately, which really made him care.
"Although your whereabouts are difficult to find, don't forget that I used to hang out underground Black Market."
Yayoi mentioned that he had worked underground Black Market in the past.
His veteran team started from underground Black Market.
"... That's it."
Uchiha Hokuto nodded in understanding.
Even if a country was later established and separated from the underground Black Market, this General of the Land of Night probably did not completely separate from the underground Black Market and must have his own special intelligence channels.
Compared to Yayoi, these runaway Uchiha ninjas can only be said to be the 'descendants' of the underground Black Market.
"Then let's get straight to the point. We won't accept jobs worth less than 10 million taels."
Hokuto made his request.
"Don't worry, you will be satisfied with the reward. As long as you can help my people and bring back what I need, your reward will be thirty million taels."
Yayoi has a generous opening.
And his generosity made the invited Uchiha trio relax their brows.
They are not afraid of difficult tasks, but they are afraid of insufficient pay.
As Hokuto said, they don't even bother to do jobs with little money.
What else did Hokuto want to ask? Yuroketsu stood up and said to Hokuto, "Three of you, if nothing happens, let's set off now. Regarding the intelligence, I will explain it on the way."
Hearing Yuroketsu speak, Hokuto did not refute. Obviously, what he wanted to ask just now was related to the content of the mission.
Under the leadership of Yuroketsu, the other five people involved in the mission also walked out and set off for Land of Bears.
"Sir Yayoi, you are doing a test."
After the six people left, Irori said with doubts in his tone, but with great certainty.
"I can't hide anything from you, Irori. When I learned that a group of Uchiha people left Konoha, I was very surprised. So, I took some time to pay special attention to this group of Uchiha people who left Konoha."
Yayoi didn't hide anything, he told the truth frankly.
Irori had obtained relevant information and had a thorough understanding of Yayoi from the inside out. He immediately realized what the purpose of Yayoi was.
"In short, use this employment mission to understand their specific strengths and habits. No matter what you do, establishing contact is definitely the first step."
Yayoi took out a stack of top-secret intelligence documents about the Uchiha Clan from the drawer.
Although the psychological shadow in his heart was not as severe as Wu's when he faced Madara's blow before, it is undeniable that the power of Sharingan did give him a huge mental impact.
From that moment on, he secretly made up his mind that Land of Night must have his own Sharingan.
(The TV animation said that Hoshigakure was a ninja village built around the outer space meteorite "star" two hundred years ago. It is a bit outrageous. When the plot begins, the One Country, One Village era has only passed for more than sixty years. Let's reset it here.)