In Amegakure, Jing Xiu sensed Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze's thoughts through his Yin Release incantations.
He was more than happy to watch the drama of the Fourth Hokage and his wife returning to Konoha.
Especially now, with the Uchiha Clan having just been wiped out.
But at the moment, Jing Xiu had more important things to do.
So he merely lifted certain restrictions he had previously placed on Minato Namikaze and his wife, then left them free to act.
As for Kakashi's Team 7, Guren would naturally handle them.
At that moment, Jing Xiu had merged with heaven and earth, as though he were part of nature.
Even the most skilled sensory ninja could not distinguish him from his surroundings.
Combined with the Water Release: Water Illusory Body Technique, which had long since undergone countless revisions.
Even if Jing Xiu stood right before an Elite Jōnin like Konan, she would not be able to detect him.
Hanzo of the Salamander, known as the demigod, was already an old man past sixty.
The increasingly rotten Amegakure could no longer stop Daybreak from breaking through the darkness.
At that moment, Hanzō held a sickle against Konan's neck.
Though both Konan and Yahiko were naive, Jing Xiu had influenced them for years.
They no longer believed Hanzō's words without question as they had in the original story.
Jing Xiu had also employed a few tricks to get Konan caught in the ambush, making her leverage for Hanzō to threaten Yahiko and Nagato.
Danzo stood behind Hanzō with dozens of Root ninja.
While backing Hanzō and putting pressure on the Akatsuki, he was also secretly monitoring Hanzō's every move.
Konoha needed a good neighbor, one who could understand what Konoha told him.
It had begun when Hanzō, despite being able to kill the