Chapter 311: Too Few Elite Jōnin
Yoru used Reverse Summoning to return to the village.
He came to the front of the izakaya, grabbed a bottle of wine in the dark, and drank it by himself.
In the dark night, Yoru pondered his own strength growth methods.
The improvement of chakra amount now faced a problem: there were too few elite jonin, and not enough suitable elite jonin.
Elite jonin, like Kakashi who was just starting to lead a class in the original story, were very few in number in the ninja world.
In the ideal state, he would farm chakra amount on a certain elite jonin, then resurrect them and kill that elite jonin afterward, thus eliminating the problem forever and avoiding thoroughly dying from dying twice on the same person.
Konoha’s elite jonin currently numbered no more than 10, and the options suitable for farming chakra amount while ensuring they could be killed immediately afterward were very limited.
His own strength improvement needed careful scheming and could not stagnate.
Tomorrow after going to Anbu, he would list a roster of elite jonin: elite jonin inside Konoha Village and elite jonin from enemy villages.
According to this roster, he would select suitable targets to farm chakra amount.
Either they would be in the same camp as him in the future, or they could be killed immediately after farming chakra amount, with no aftermath.
If neither was possible, he could only slowly farm jonin level chakra amount during each Anbu mission and Underground Exchange mission.
There were even fewer Kage level ninja.
Recently, he could not casually provoke Kage level ninja.
Kage level ninja’s chakra amount would be farmed after he himself entered Kage level.
He needed to prepare mentally that when he became Kage level and Super Shadow, he would have to slowly accumulate chakra amount from low-level ninja.
Without suitable elite jonin or Kage level ninja, in a few more years, chakra amount improvement would be very slow.
This was also a problem many ninja would encounter: after the high-speed period of strength growth, there was a long stagnation period.
The next morning, Yoru went to Anbu and retrieved the list of Konoha ninja.
Anbu had lists and rough intelligence on all Konoha ninja.
Thanks to his Fox Captain identity, he had such great authority.
Aside from high-ranking officials and Kage level ninja, Konoha’s elite jonin were very few.
Anbu: Kiiroinu, Lynx, and himself, 3 people.
Senju Clan: Senju Hanaki, 1 person.
Uchiha Clan: Uchiha Kane and Uchiha Touka, 2 people.
Hyuga Clan: Clan Head Hyuga Tianyue, 1 person.
Sarutobi Clan: Third Hokage’s younger brother Sarutobi Nihaku, Sarutobi Hiruzen’s son, 2 people.
Shimura Clan, excluding Lynx, only Shimura Kaho remained, 1 person.
Ino-Shika-Cho three clans, Aburame Clan, their four clan heads were all elite jonin, 4 people.
As for Inuzuka Clan clan head, his strength was not elite jonin level, only jonin.
Among civilian ninja, there were 3 elite jonin.
Excluding himself, there were a total of 16 elite jonin.
In the next full moon cycle, who should he farm chakra amount from?
Who could be killed?
The Daimyo of the Land of Grass was attacked, such a big event happened, yet Yoru acted like nothing was wrong and continued surveillance missions inside the village.
He followed Uzumaki Kushina from a distance, watching the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
Uzumaki Kushina was completing a D-rank mission while complaining.
“Tsunade older sister! I am a kunoichi who wants to become Hokage, how can I keep doing these little missions of finding cats and dogs?”
“Kushina! All ninja start from doing D-rank missions!” Tsunade said:
“You should feel fortunate. If it were wartime, you all would be sent to the front line now.
On the front line, B-rank missions that could result in death happen at any moment.
I, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, when the three of us first went to the battlefield, how many times did we nearly think we were going to die.
Those genin who sacrificed on the front line within two months of graduation must envy you, being able to do boring D-rank missions inside the village.
Also! I am your teacher now, in the squad, call me Tsunade-sensei!”
Kushina however said: “Tsunade-sensei, it’s precisely because you went to the battlefield early and your strength grew fast enough that you are all now the Sannin, right?”
Tsunade knocked Kushina on the head and said: “You are a survivor of the Uzumaki Clan, how could you possibly go to the battlefield and fight like us as genin?”
“Why can’t I go to the battlefield, why can’t I do dangerous missions! If I have to stay in the village because of my identity, then doesn’t that mean my two teammates can’t go to the battlefield either?”
Kushina’s two teammates were both from the Senju Clan, and they said:
“Kushina, you don’t need to worry about us. We are here to learn medical ninjutsu from Tsunade-sama, it’s fine not leaving the village.”
Kushina felt somewhat helpless.
To take care of her, her teammates were also medical ninja who did not leave the village. It seemed in the short term, she could not leave Konoha Village.
However, she still wanted to investigate the truth behind the Uzumaki Clan’s clan annihilation.
She vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the Uzumaki Clan’s clan annihilation.
Yoru crouched behind a chimney, watching the distant Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from afar.
Even Tsunade did not notice Yoru.
Yoru and Tsunade suddenly looked up at the sky.
A layer of special chakra appeared above the sky.
This chakra was like a cover, covering overhead.
Barrier… Yoru saw it; this was a special barrier.
Not the village’s protective barrier, but a smaller second barrier.
Hanashika appeared near the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Not finding Fox Captain, he revealed himself, letting Fox Squad Leader see him.
Yoru used Body Flicker to appear beside Hanashika.
Hanashika thought to himself that the captain’s strength was truly strong. He said: “Captain, Barrier Unit Leader Yamanaka Inoichi requests you come over.”
“Okay.”
Yoru had Hanashika take over monitoring the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while he headed to the Barrier Unit.
The Barrier Unit was located on the top floor of a tall building, monitoring Konoha Village’s village protection barrier.
When he entered the Barrier Unit, he saw Third Hokage and Kiiroinu both there.
Yamanaka Inoichi, the Yamanaka Clan clan head and also Barrier Unit Leader, saw that all the important people had arrived and began explaining:
“This is the new barrier we set up, a barrier specially designed for the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s actions are constrained by the barrier within a range centered on the Senju Compound with a radius of 3 kilometers.
As soon as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki leaves this area, the Barrier Unit will immediately know.”
Yoru looked at the barrier’s range and thought to himself that Kushina was truly pitiful.
Konoha Village was a semicircular village with the Hokage Rock mountain body as the diameter. Now within this semicircle, there was a small circle.
This small circle’s diameter was approximately one-quarter of the Hokage Rock mountain body’s length.
Kushina’s activity area was constrained within this small circle.
Yamanaka Inoichi continued: “This barrier is named the Nine-Tails Barrier.
The Barrier Unit will have a three-shift rotating squad dedicated to reminding the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
Once the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki leaves the Nine-Tails Barrier, Yamanaka Clan ninja will use secret jutsu to enter Kushina’s brain and warn her to return.”
Third Hokage turned his head and asked: “Fox, your sealing jutsu level is very good. What do you think of this barrier?”
