“This mission is a trap; perhaps we can't just look at the surface.”
Konoha Morgue.
Through the memories transmitted back by the puppet clone, Qifeng's main body also roughly understood the situation of this trip to the Land of Water.
“The mission to contact the Mist Ninja was proposed by the two elders?” Qifeng chuckled.
Those two elders were just people pushed out by Danzo.
As long as you understand the situation of Konoha's high-level officials, you can understand that the two advisors and elders, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, are actually on the same line as Shimura Danzo.
How much energy can those two elders without real power have?
Can they provide such a task?
“So, rather than saying they provided it, it's better to say it was Danzo. Then, the deep meaning of this mission needs to be discussed.”
Anything related to Danzo becomes complicated.
“Should I consider it in a deeper direction? I previously thought it was a trap by the Hidden Mist Village. Could it be that Danzo wants to use the Hidden Mist Village to deal with my puppet clone, or reduce its influence on the battlefield and in Konoha?
After all, once the mission negotiations have results, and Konoha really fails to besiege and assassinate the Third Mizukage and suffers heavy losses, then I, who negotiated this cooperation, will inevitably suffer joint responsibility.”
Qifeng thought deeply and felt that it was not impossible.
“Tsk tsk, thinking like this is actually very reasonable. Did Danzo guess from the beginning that Hiruzen Sarutobi would send me to the Land of Water?”
He rubbed his chin.
“Besides me, the other person with the best chance and ability is Minato Namikaze, who possesses the Flying Thunder God Technique. Is he already starting to try to suppress people who may threaten the position of Hokage? He's making a move a little early.”
Qifeng wasn't sure if he was overthinking it.
But as a person with "persecutory delusions," and suspecting Danzo, no amount of speculation is too much.
“Orochimaru has already been completely controlled by Danzo. At this time, what he should do most is to work hard to help Orochimaru expand his reputation, suppress the rising trend of Minato Namikaze, and finally bring Orochimaru down, which would be ideal.”
“My thoughts are really too dark.”
Qifeng shook his head.
“However, I didn't expect that going to the Land of Water wouldn't bring back the corpse of the Kaguya clan.”
He unfurled a scroll, and several corpses of Mist Ninja were sealed inside.
Then, he performed the Shadow Clone Technique.
Leaving the shadow clone in place, he used the half-baked Flying Thunder God Technique to leave Konoha.
Although because of the war, few people in Konoha usually come to places like the morgue, it's safer to leave a shadow clone behind.
When he opened his eyes again.
He had already appeared in a slightly dim underground base.
Many figures were walking around in the base, occasionally making the sound of puppet joints colliding, proving that they were not living people, but puppets.
Qifeng's arrival did not attract much attention.
Only two puppets brought a white robe and draped it over him.
In the corner, a puppet Scorpion with one white eye and one normal eye had many chakra threads extending from his chest, controlling all the puppets in the base.
With just Puppet Scorpion and a large number of puppets, he alone could become an army.
“Your puppet control is becoming more and more skilled.” Qifeng said lightly, walking to the storage room and putting the several Mist Ninja puppets that were sent in.
At the same time, he could also see that a large number of puppets were neatly arranged in the storage room, all of which were human puppets that had already been made.
It can be said that this base has now become a human puppet manufacturing factory.
“There's no way. Since I can't use the Third Kazekage's human puppet, I can only find my strength back from other aspects.” Puppet Scorpion shrugged.
“That's true.” Qifeng nodded in agreement.
He walked to an experimental table in the middle of the base.
On it were placed many glass utensils, as well as some materials that were being researched, or waiting to be researched.
Since he had gnawed through the information left by Scorpion several times, and the shadow clone had been reading and studying day and night, Qifeng had thoroughly understood all of Scorpion's knowledge and theories.
He can barely be called half a scientist in the ninja world.
Not as good as Orochimaru, but better than many others.
This is the achievement gained by standing on the shoulders of giants.
“Let's continue with the subject that we didn't come to a conclusion on last time: the compatibility of the Hyuga clan's Byakugan and the Kekkai Genkai of the Shikotsumyaku.” Qifeng put on gloves.
It can be seen that there are many petri dishes in front of him, with various labels attached, including "Hyuga," "Uchiha," "Kaguya," "Lava Release," "Scorch Release," and so on.
And the most are "Hyuga," "Uchiha," and "Kaguya."
Puppet Scorpion walked to Qifeng's side and said lightly: “Lacking Hashirama Senju's cells and the reaction of the Uchiha bloodline as a reference, it is difficult to obtain the conclusion we imagined just by colliding the bloodlines of the Hyuga and Kaguya clans.”
“Don't even think about Hashirama Senju's cells for the time being. We can't get them, and Hashirama Senju's cells can't be suppressed by ordinary Uchiha bloodlines. The level gap is too big.”
Qifeng opened the two petri dishes labeled "Hyuga" and "Kaguya."
After extracting a small amount of them and fusing them, he observed the reaction under a microscope.
“The two bloodlines do have a certain possibility of fusion, but there is too little reference data and a lack of experimental samples…”
“Let's do it little by little. The ultimate direction of this world must be the Otsutsuki clan. The Sharingan plus the Wood Release Sage Body is Otsutsuki Hamura. In the absence of Wood Release and Sage Body, the Hyuga and Shikotsumyaku can be considered another way.”
The ultimate direction of the ninja world is to become a god, to become the existence of the Sage of Six Paths.
Qifeng has now begun to study another direction of becoming a god.
Chapter 163 Several Months Later
Several months have passed again.
Whether it was because the false information transmitted by Konoha had worked, or because the major hidden villages also needed some time to recuperate, the ninja world fell into a stalemate.
