Chapter 248: Squeeze The Uchiha A Bit More
Root’s training continued day by day, and Yoru went to Root every day impassively as the guiding jonin, collecting information.
Root selected another 4-year-old child from the orphanage to fill the gap left by Kato Shizune.
7 days later, Danzo mastered the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal, and he engraved the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal on all 20 children.
On these children’s tongues, the curse mark of two yin lines and four yang lines appeared.
Yoru thought to himself, Danzo, you would never imagine that I have nearly half of the Uzumaki Clan.
The Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal that you consider your trump card will sooner or later be undone by little Yuka Uzumaki.
When it comes to sealing jutsu, the Uzumaki Clan is the real deal, the male one, while you, Danzo, are the fake, the female one.
The Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal is lower Gen and upper Qian, the hexagram image of the Dun Hexagram among the I Ching’s Sixty-Four Hexagrams.
Among the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing jutsu, the Four Symbols Seal, the Eight Trigrams Seal, and the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal seem to have some relation to the Two Principles, Four Symbols, Eight Trigrams, and Sixty-Four Hexagrams from his previous life’s I Ching.
Yoru suspected that these seals all required Yin Release and Yang Release chakra.
Not Qiao Yi’s “improper” Yin Release and Yang Release, but true Yin Release and Yang Release.
The Four Symbols Seal was the core seal of the Uzumaki Clan; he needed to find an opportunity to learn it from Yuka.
Those engraved with the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal could not reveal any information related to missions.
Even if Danzo ordered them to assassinate the Hokage, and they were captured and interrogated, or killed and information extracted from their corpse’s brain, no intelligence could be obtained.
In this way, they would become true mission machines.
It didn’t matter whether they were absolutely loyal to Danzo; as long as they completed missions for Danzo without leaking his intelligence, it was fine.
They were thorough tools.
Uchiha Itachi had said that every ninjutsu had a weakness.
Danzo absolutely trusted the ninja engraved with the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal. If Yoru and Yuka could crack the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal, it would be easy to send Danzo false intelligence and turn the tables on him.
After training Yamanaka Ruri and the others, Yoru would occasionally go to observe Bing training the children.
Today was dissection training.
Bing moved the dead test subjects from Orochimaru’s laboratory to the training ground.
He required all the 4-year-old children to dissect the corpses and extract the corpses’ hearts using their own methods.
After assigning the mission, Bing saw Fox nearby, so he walked over and stood with Fox.
“Fox Captain, Root will become stronger in the future.”
“Then congratulations to you.”
Yoru couldn’t help but say: “The kids are too afraid of the corpses. Look at those kids; tears are flowing from under their masks and dripping to their feet.”
Bing said: “Being ordinary villagers of Konoha is happy; they don’t have to face the cruelty of ninja. Being ninja is cruel, and being Root ninja is even more cruel. They must quickly get used to death and corpses.”
Yoru turned and left, unwilling to watch any longer.
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The full moon was like a silver plate.
Yoru waited until the new full moon night.
He communicated with Yuka, and Yuka said that the Scroll of Seals she had didn’t have a method to undo the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal, but she could try to crack it.
The Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal required the caster’s blood, and the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal engraved on each person was different.
Yuka believed that to crack Danzo’s Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal, it was best to capture a specimen and send it to Yuka for her to study.
Kids were out of the question; Yoru was at the moral bottom line of Anbu, but he couldn’t bring himself to send a kid to Yuka for experiments.
He still had to start from Bing and Gui.
Given Danzo’s ruthlessness, Bing and Gui might very well be engraved with the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal.
He planned to use the guardian ninja of the Land of Grass’s Shimura Clan to lure Bing or Gui out of the village, then send Bing or Gui to Yuka.
To defeat the guardian jonin of the Shimura Clan, Shiroki sub-account’s strength was a bit insufficient.
This month, how should he strengthen himself?
Shiroki sub-account’s strength wasn’t top-notch enough; what if… he downgraded the Sharingan to Shiroki sub-account?
Now, the two-tomoe Sharingan strength provided a nice boost to battle.
The single-tomoe had improved insight, and now the two-tomoe greatly increased genjutsu power.
It would be better to learn a few genjutsu to boost Shiroki’s strength.
The only trouble was that if exposed, Danzo would fight the Uchiha to the death.
The Uchiha Clan would bear another big pot.
Thinking carefully, the Uchiha Clan was going to be annihilated anyway; could bearing more pots be worse than clan annihilation?
He would have to make the Uchiha suffer a bit more.
He also had to be as careful as possible not to let Yuka discover he had the Sharingan.
If Yuka found out, he would say it was transplanted to hide his Senju identity.
Yuka absolutely trusted him, much easier to fool than Tsunade.
Once decided, he acted; Yoru found the squad’s ninjutsu scroll and searched for genjutsu on it.
Genjutsu: Nirvana Temple Technique, which he had already mastered.
Genjutsu: Binding Technique, a technique that made the target unable to move.
After selecting, Yoru prepared to learn the Binding Technique.
Before waiting for Yuka’s intelligence, Yoru trained Root new recruits every day and learned genjutsu.
He would occasionally go to the outside of the orphanage.
Fewer children remained in the orphanage; they had been taken by Danzo to Root.
On the orphanage’s small blackboard with the recipe, a contact code appeared.
Yakushi Nonou urgently wanted to contact Fox, but Yoru didn’t want to deal with her.
The false intelligence given last time had nearly gotten Yuka and the others killed in the Land of Iron; that was unforgivable.
A few days later, Yoru saw the code on the blackboard pointing to a location 3 kilometers away in a certain direction.
Yoru remembered that there was a park.
Did Yakushi Nonou want to meet him in the park?
Yoru saw the code but ignored it, leaving Yakushi Nonou hanging for a few days.
Five days later, Yoru saw the code still there and confirmed that Yakushi Nonou was truly anxious.
That evening, Yoru appeared in the park.
On a bench by the small lake sat a girl wearing black-framed glasses.
The girl’s long hair was smooth, and from the back, her figure was graceful.
The girl suddenly looked up, her anxious expression slightly easing; she sensed one more person in the dense forest behind her.
“You finally came, Fox.”
“What do you want with me?”
Yakushi Nonou heard the hostility and alienation in Fox’s tone and asked: “Fox, why are you suddenly so dissatisfied with me?”
“You told me last time that Root sent two people to the Land of Iron, but in the end four went, nearly killing Lord Kiiroinu’s secretly trained subordinate. You caused me to fail in my job, so of course I’m dissatisfied with you.”
Yakushi Nonou thought to herself, so Root’s four people were indeed killed by Kiiroinu’s men?
Kiiroinu was the Third Hokage’s son; if Yakushi Nonou exposed Kiiroinu, she would surely die without a burial place.
“I’m sorry, Fox, intelligence work is like that; I can’t guarantee my intelligence is 100% accurate. The one who obtains the intelligence has the duty to judge its truth, and I’m a spy, not the final decision-maker.”
Yoru asked: “You risked returning to Konoha Village and repeatedly signaled to meet via the blackboard; what do you want?”
Yoru wasn’t afraid of Yakushi Nonou.
Her weakness was the orphanage’s children.
People with weaknesses were easiest to control; Danzo could control her, and he, Fox, could too.
It was just that Yoru wasn’t that despicable for now.
Yakushi Nonou said: “Fox, on certain matters, we can cooperate.
Do you know where the orphanage’s 7 children went?”
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