"Roar—"
The red giant looked up at the sky, opening its mouth in a furious roar.
Kimimaro and Yukihime, standing nearby, were startled, Yukihime's face turning pale as she gazed at the mountain-like giant.
"What… what is that monster? Oh, right, your teacher is still over there. He won't be in danger, will he?" Yukihime asked Kimimaro worriedly.
"That… that seems to be teacher…" Little Kimimaro murmured, but he wasn't entirely sure, because when he fought Orochimaru that night, Susanoo wasn't as massive as it was now.
And it didn't have armor or flesh; that night, it was a skeletal giant.
However, the immense Susanoo before them, the Chakra it emitted, truly felt like Uchiha Nagi's to Kimimaro.
"Not enough, still not enough—"
Uchiha Nagi controlled the enormous, complete Susanoo, beginning to output energy. Uchiha Itachi had once used Susanoo to launch long-range attacks with the Yasaka Magatama against Nagato's Chibaku Tensei, but in essence, it was merely a change in the nature of energy.
Later, Kakashi used Susanoo to output Kamui Shuriken, which was also just a variation of energy and Ninjutsu.
Therefore, Uchiha Nagi chose swordsmanship—
The red Susanoo giant pulled out the Sword of Totsuka, half-crouched, and unleashed a powerful technique towards the distance.
"Destructive Kill: Final Style, Blue Silver Chaotic Remnant Light—"
The Sword of Totsuka brandished thousands of flying blades, and the entire desert echoed with deafening explosions, as if it were being bombed by modern fighter jets.
Boom! Boom!!!
As if subjected to a concentrated attack of small Tailed Beast Balls, the desert continuously erupted with small mushroom clouds. The sand, due to the immense energy and high temperature, directly crystallized, eventually forming a large expanse of crystallized land.
It looked as if it had been plowed, with numerous uneven furrows.
"Hoo…"
After unleashing a massive output of energy through Susanoo with Destructive Kill, Uchiha Nagi let out a sigh of relief.
Still standing on the ground, Uchiha Nagi felt that the Dragon Vein's energy had been largely released and could finally be sealed. Joyfully, he began to form hand signs.
"Seal—"
After a few hand signs, the Yin Seal on his body began to lock, securely storing the absorbed and converted Dragon Vein energy. Unlike Tsunade, Uchiha Nagi not only had a Five Elements Bagua seal on his abdomen but also one on his head.
Because his energy wasn't his own, he couldn't store all of it between his eyebrows like Tsunade. Both Buddhist and Daoist traditions refer to the space between the eyebrows as the 'Sea of Consciousness,' roughly the spiritual world.
However, the Dantian has historically been the place where most people store energy, and the Tailed Beast is also sealed here, yet not quite. Sasuke could still enter the spiritual world of the Nine-Tailed and Naruto through his eyes.
So it's hard to say whether a Tailed Beast is in the spiritual world of the head or the Dantian in the abdomen… But the Yin Seal on Uchiha Nagi's head was just a lock. The power of the Dragon Vein was still stored in his abdomen. If someone wanted to open it, they would first have to open the Yin Seal on his head, followed by the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Technique learned from Minato, and finally the core, which was the formula Mukade used to lock the Dragon Vein's power.
With three different formulas combined, an ordinary person truly couldn't undo it, and only Uchiha Nagi, as the owner, could unlock it.
And in his sealing, just like Minato Namikaze, he left an opening for circulation. If his body grew stronger, he could input and store energy; if his body ran out of Chakra, he could output it.
Only in emergencies would the Yin Seal on his head be fully released—Uchiha Nagi sent out a Shadow Clone to look at the pattern… "Why does it look a bit like Erlang Shen's…"
On the surface, it looked a bit like a human eye, but upon closer inspection, it showed three intertwined formulas, each combining head and tail yet remaining incompatible, making it resemble Erlang Shen's forehead tattoo. [Jiao Ye's Erlang Shen]
"Forget it, I'll just grow my bangs longer…" Uchiha Nagi glanced at it and then dismissed it.
He took another look at the Dragon Vein. The energy accumulated over more than a decade had been completely drained by him, but that didn't mean the Dragon Vein was gone. The energy within was still slowly growing, nourishing the land of Rouran Country.
He believed that in a few years, plants would gradually grow here, and in less than a decade, it would return to the once lush and verdant Rouran Country.
With the Dragon Vein as a reserve nuclear battery, Uchiha Nagi finally felt a little at ease, no longer panicking, no longer worrying about running out of 'blue' (Chakra) and having to flee in the future. Although the Dragon Vein within his body couldn't automatically recharge like a Tailed Beast, it was sufficient as emergency reserve energy.
He hadn't seen how much energy a Tailed Beast had, but he could be sure that the Dragon Vein energy in his Yin Seal now was definitely more than Ichibi's… [So dangerous, I almost got killed…]
From a building wreckage less than a kilometer from Uchiha Nagi, White Zetsu's head slowly emerged.
White Zetsu possessed the ability to burrow through the earth. Although the Land of Wind was a desert, burrowing through sand was more difficult, but it still didn't stump him.
Because Uchiha Nagi's sensory ability, his spatial perception, was very unique, an animal-like intuition. The moment White Zetsu got a little close, Uchiha Nagi would frown and search around, scaring him into hiding far away.
He hadn't expected to almost be hit by the Destructive Kill, which had the destructive power of a small Tailed Beast Ball, unleashed by Uchiha Nagi this time.
Fortunately, he ran fast, but being too far away, he couldn't monitor what Uchiha Nagi was doing.
[Never mind, never mind. Anyway, Obito only told me to find him, not to listen to what he says…]
White Zetsu thought for a moment and decided it was better to lurk far away in the ground and follow… ————
Such a large explosion within the Land of Wind naturally couldn't be hidden from the Land of Wind's Anbu. A massive explosion like a Tailed Beast Ball would certainly require Ninja to investigate.
However, this time, it was strangely quiet; the Kazekage of Hidden Sand Village didn't even send a single person.
The reason they were too lazy to investigate even a potential enemy invasion was because Hidden Sand Village was facing a huge crisis.
In the Village, most families began to mourn… Since the plague, those Nano-Poison Insects, spread throughout Hidden Sand Village, it rapidly escalated. The more Chakra a Ninja used, the deeper their body was poisoned. Now, most of the dead in the Village were Ninja, already a third of them.
Finally, as white cloths hung in every household in mourning, Konoha's medical support team arrived belatedly. It was unclear if the Sandaime deliberately delayed their arrival, otherwise, with a Ninja's speed, arriving a week earlier would have been no problem.
But one must bow when under another's roof. The Fourth Kazekage swallowed his anger and humbly invited the support team into their hospital.
"Everyone, the critically ill patients are all here, including my daughter. I trouble all of you with them," the Fourth Kazekage said respectfully.
"You're too kind, Kazekage-sama. Give us some time; I believe the problem is not too big…" The leader was Shibi Aburame, Shino Aburame's father.
Upon entering the hospital, he and several members of the Aburame Clan, along with medical personnel, began to extract the Nano-Poison Insects.
Then, using the Aburame Clan's insects, they began to cultivate them. Within a few hours, they were able to cultivate insects that were immune to or could counteract these poisonous insects. These were then combined with medicines prepared by the medical personnel and given to the patients. The first patient was cured very quickly.
When the first patient was cured, Hidden Sand Village's medical staff eagerly invited Shibi Aburame to treat Temari. Because she was young, she didn't have as much Chakra, so the Nano-Poison Insects hadn't multiplied excessively in her body, but after prolonged poisoning, she was also on her last breath.
Seeing that they had cured Temari, the Kazekage's daughter, they immediately invited Shibi Aburame to the Kazekage's office… because the Kazekage himself had also been afflicted. However, Hidden Sand Village had used their limited medical resources to suppress the poison in the Kazekage's body.
Arriving at the Kazekage's office, Shibi Aburame released his new poisonous insects, which counteracted the Nano-Poison Insects in the Kazekage's body. After giving him the medicine, the poison in his body was finally cleared.
"Thank you all very much. Without you, I don't know what Hidden Sand Village would have become," the Fourth Kazekage said gratefully.
"From now on, Hidden Sand Village and Konoha will be allied brother nations. As long as Konoha has any needs, Hidden Sand Village will unconditionally support…"
Shibi Aburame, wrapped in his clothes and sunglasses, showed no expression, merely bowing slightly, "You are too kind, Kazekage-sama. Matters of alliance must be decided by the Hokage. Since you are well, I will go to the hospital to treat other patients first."
The Fourth Kazekage nodded, "Understood. Then I trouble you. Baki, please see our guests out…"
"Please~"
Shortly after Shibi Aburame left, the Fourth Kazekage's face immediately darkened. He clenched his hands tightly, his gaze fiercely fixed on the direction Shibi Aburame had departed.
"Hmph, Konoha, you hypocritical bunch. Don't think I don't know that this plague was your doing…"
"Sooner or later, for all the people who died in Hidden Sand Village this time, I will make you Konoha repay this blood debt with interest…" One might say that those who can become leaders are all master actors. Just moments ago, he was full of gratitude in front of them, but now his face was filled with irreconcilable hatred.
"It seems that even if those Nano-Poison Insects weren't released by Konoha, they are inseparable from the Aburame Clan…" An old, hoarse voice came, and Granny Chiyo's figure slowly emerged from the shadows.
"Indeed, besides the Aburame Clan, no other clan can cultivate such tiny poisonous insects," the Fourth Kazekage said, his face grim, nodding.
"Then what are your plans now? Hidden Sand Village has suffered heavy casualties this time; most of our Jonin have tragically died from these poisonous insects. Even if we launch a war, we cannot win. Moreover, the other party just sent a medical team to help Hidden Sand Village. If we were to launch a war, we would have no moral standing…" Chiyo sighed.
Her son and daughter-in-law had both died at Konoha's hands; her hatred ran deep, and her grandson was even missing. But a national war wasn't something her personal vendetta could decide… [PS, I originally wanted to kill Temari, let her die from the poisonous insects, but then I thought people might scold me, so I let her off… ]
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