This Is My Own Brother!

"Yulong, teach me the Pure Land Garden Technique. I feel like I can do it again."

"No! You still need to keep tempering yourself. Besides, the Esteemed Clan Head instructed me not to teach you any more techniques for now. You've already learned too many."

Tch!

That was a conversation that had happened several times recently.

But Retsuo wasn't worried. He had already memorized the cultivation method and hand seals for the Pure Land Garden Technique. All he lacked was a flash of inspiration. As the technique's creator, Yulong could accelerate the arrival of that inspiration, but it didn't matter if she wasn't there.

The Pure Land Garden Technique created a Pure Land space that ensnared the opponent. Anyone unable to escape the Pure Land through their own abilities would be lost within it forever.

Simple and brutal, but not as brutal and unavoidable as Tsukuyomi's Life. Its activation conditions were also more demanding than Tsukuyomi's Life.

Essentially, it was still a contest of Dōjutsu Power and Yin Release.

Yulong's Genjutsu generally followed this violent path. Retsuo suspected that if she awakened the Mangekyo, Tsukuyomi's Life would definitely be among her ocular techniques.

Now that Retsuo had enough Chakra—and could obtain more whenever he needed it—he had fallen into a new dilemma: the dilemma of choosing what to practice first.

Kekkei Genkai had a high ceiling and enormous potential. Once successfully developed, it would not be just one technique, but an entire system. However, it still required several months.

A single high-powered technique had therefore become his current first choice.

Compared to Fire Release or Earth Release, Retsuo had no reason not to capitalize on his advantage in Genjutsu. The Pure Land Garden Technique was the strongest Genjutsu he could access at this stage.

This technique was comparable to Lightning Cutter! What did it mean when Sasuke learned Lightning Cutter in the Original Timeline? His combat power became comparable to that of a Special Jonin.

Once he mastered the Pure Land Garden Technique, even someone with Maruboshi Kosuke's strength would be doomed after getting caught by it.

Its drawback was also obvious: the opponent had to be caught by it.

A mature ninja definitely couldn't have any obvious weaknesses in attack, defense, movement, or reconnaissance. At the very least, each aspect had to be adequate, and ideally, they also needed ample Chakra. Both Lightning Cutter and the Pure Land Garden Technique merely turned attack into a strength.

That was why they were called Special Jonin: they had only reached the Jonin level in one particular area. Such ninjas possessed only single-target breakthrough power. Once their information was leaked and others took precautions against them, they would inevitably accomplish nothing.

In reality, Might Duy was the pinnacle of this type.

Once others obtained accurate intelligence, they would look at it and say—

Oh, the Eight Gates can attack four times, the Seventh Gate can fight Elite Jonin but can't be maintained for long, and the Six Gates can unleash Morning Peacock to clear out the minions, right?

Then the problem became a mathematical question: Given thirty Chūnin who know the Shadow Clone Jutsu as the enemy, calculate the area of Might Duy's psychological shadow.

Back then, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen had been arrogant and committed a grave taboo. If each of them had sent out three Shadow Clones, Might Duy wouldn't have dared open the Eighth Gate. He could only grit his teeth, open the Seventh Gate, and hold out to the bitter end.

After opening the Gate of Death, who was he supposed to fight?

A transmigrator had a clearer understanding than the ninjas of the Shinobi World. It had been formed through watching battle after battle—and watching anime counted as watching battles too.

Finally, one day, Yulong could no longer bear it and asked Retsuo, "Why do you think I'm teaching you the Pure Land Garden Technique?"

"Because... I'm a Genjutsu genius?"

"No. Because you give me a very strange feeling. It's as if you possess a... a very solid Yin Release barrier? In any case, it's something you didn't have at all before I went to the Eastern Front. Given your current state, I originally thought that mastering the step of cultivating a Genjutsu space would be very easy."

Retsuo was startled. Yulong's perception was actually this sharp? There was no way to keep talking about this...

Yulong shook her head. "But you're precisely stuck at this step. I don't know why, either."

Retsuo fell into thought.

The Yin Release Barrier itself was a space. Minato Namikaze had even pulled his consciousness into it before. Should he start from there?

But there wasn't enough time tonight. Tonight, he had to sneak into Root Anbu.

Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Kunai had to be recovered. Who knew whether Danzo had taken those kunai for research or to destroy them?

What? He's keeping them? Why would he keep those things? Flying Thunder God was created by his teacher, Tobirama Senju. It wasn't as if he needed to keep them as mementos.

Whenever he thought of Minato, Retsuo's heart still warmed. If he delayed retrieving them and a great mistake was made in the future, it would be too late for regret.

More importantly, he had discovered that once he possessed Chakra-tonnage rather than mere Chakra, Moonlight in the Water was practically an unreasonable PvP divine weapon.

It was a straightforward contest of strength, without any flashy tricks, directly comparing Yin Release.

Perhaps against opponents in a higher tier, such as in Kage-level battles, this technique would not be very effective. But in one-on-one fights below the Jonin level, it was practically invincible!

Danzo, just wait for me!

However, just as Retsuo confidently walked out of the Uchiha Clan compound, he suddenly thought of a problem: Root had so many bases!

Which one should he go to? The Uchiha Clan didn't even dare claim to know exactly how many bases there were.

The Uchiha and Root had been at odds for so many years that the Uchiha had surely gathered some information. The problem was that the Uchiha couldn't openly target Root, while Root openly targeted the Uchiha.

As a result, nearly every genius among the Uchiha Clan who had fallen in recent years was basically blamed on Root.

That was also why Fugaku had acted decisively and arranged bodyguards for Retsuo. He had been so swift and forceful that it barely seemed like Fugaku.

At present, he couldn't count on the clan. Retsuo felt that investigating the bases one by one would be far too difficult.

Retsuo directly eliminated "trade" as an option, and he had no intention of looking for Kakashi, either. If the Uchiha were all lunatics, at least they were lunatics with feelings. They were still far better than the brainwashed freaks in ANBU.

But what should he do now? Emm... There was someone capable of checking the bases one by one. For example, Obito... This is my own brother!

Thinking of his biological older brother, Retsuo secretly exclaimed, Nice! With Obito's abilities, what did Root amount to? The entire Konoha Village was Obito's backyard. He could walk wherever he wanted.

He immediately ran to a small grove, sat down cross-legged, and muttered, "Without the Flying Thunder God Kunai, how am I supposed to cultivate these eyes? My eyes are so special. Teacher Minato sealed them, and without his Flying Thunder God Kunai, they can't evolve at all. Damn Root, what use do you have for the Flying Thunder God Kunai?"

As far as cultivation went, any location was more or less the same. There was nothing improper about Retsuo assuming a training posture. In reality, he was carefully sensing the feedback of malice from the Yin Release Barrier.

Thanks to him harvesting negative emotions these past few days, the needles of malice in the Yin Release Barrier had never stopped. Their sources were extremely widespread, covering nearly every area of Konoha Village.

The alarm function had consequently become almost useless. This was the side effect of crazily harvesting Chakra.

After carefully savoring the sensations now, he found that everyone's mood was indeed calmer at night, and the malice was sparser. In that case, causing trouble at night in the future should allow him to obtain more Dark Chakra.