Chapter 159 Transition
Hidden Leaf Village.
Hokage's office building.
"It's good to be back!"
Seeing Tsunade coming back exhausted, the Third Hokage's face revealed an unconcealable joy. Although he also knew that it would be difficult for Tsunade to go to the battlefield in her current state, even if it was just a symbol, it would be enough to change the anxious and uneasy atmosphere in the village due to the war.
Not to mention that Tsunade has unparalleled medical ninjutsu. Even if she can't perform surgery on people herself, she can provide guidance.
"What a trouble. If it weren't for Lunae and the others coming back to complete the mission, I would have gone to find Orochimaru long ago." Tsunade's tone was still a little aggressive when facing the Third Hokage whom she hadn't seen for a long time.
"You got over it?"
The Sandai still had a smiling tone when talking to Tsunade. Anyway, his three disciples now had no respect for this old man.
However, Tsunade's application to go to the front line made the Third Generation a little hesitant, and he asked a question without any context.
“It’s something that needs to be overcome.”
Tsunade also understood the third generation's incoherent questioning. Her hemophobia was indeed a serious hidden danger.
She traveled around the Ninja World and did not return to the village even during the three Ninja World Wars. In addition to wanting to stay away, it was also related to her hemophobia.
Because even if she returned to the village, she would not be able to go to the battlefield. Even as a medical ninja, she would not be able to do so.
Her abnormal behavior of not going to the battlefield would eventually make the villagers and spies aware of something strange. If the information that she suffered from hemophobia was circulated, the ninja world, especially the other five major ninja villages, would probably send a large number of assassination teams to assassinate her.
After all, they have all seen how much Tsunade's medical ninjutsu played a role in Konoha's victory in the Second Ninja World War. After discovering that she has such an obvious weakness, the five major ninja villages really don't mind using this to get rid of Tsunade, this big trouble.
So, apart from being a mascot, she is not very helpful to the village because she cannot overcome her hemophobia. So they just stay away from her.
Now that she had agreed to return to the village with Luna, Tsunade had naturally made the corresponding preparations in her mind.
Hemophobia is something she must overcome!
Whether it's self-protection on the battlefield or experiments involving cooperation with Orochimaru, it's obviously impossible to avoid bloodshed, and at this time, hemophobia will become a major obstacle for her!
"Don't force yourself. Even in the village, the role you can play far exceeds that of many people."
The third generation looked at Tsunade and sighed, feeling even more guilty towards her.
"I know my physical condition very well! Hemophobia is just a psychological disease. I can't cure it because I'm always avoiding it."
As a medical expert, Tsunade knew her own physical condition very well, and was even more aware of the causes and solutions to hemophobia. But before that, she lacked the psychological support to support her.
And now, in order to revive Nawaki and Kato Dan, she has begun to build up new psychological support for herself.
"Thanks a lot."
The Third Hokage thought that the reason Tsunade no longer escaped was because the village was in danger, so his tone became softer.
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Tsunade waved her hand, turned around and left the office with Shizune.
"Well done, Jiraiya! I didn't think you could actually get Tsunade back to the village."
The Third Hokage didn't care about Tsunade's willful attitude. He looked at Jiraiya who was standing beside him, a rare comfortable smile appeared on his face, and he praised her.
"It has nothing to do with me. It was Tsunade who was persuaded by Orochimaru and Kakui." Jiraiya waved his hand and ignored the Third Hokage's words.
"Don't worry, soon there will be a group of Chunins promoted to Jonins. Before long, Lu Nie will be able to receive the Jonin vest and become a Jonin."
The Sandaime looked at Luna and did not break his promise, and made the promise on the spot. After that, he smiled and said to Jiraiya and the others, "Hatake Kakashi in Minato's team has also accumulated a certain amount of merit on the battlefield. I was originally planning to take it slow, but this time with Luna, let's promote him to Jonin as well."
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At Tsunade's urging, Kane, who had just returned to the village and had not rested for a few days, accepted the mission and led the reinforcements squeezed out of the village to the war front between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth.
Jiraiya was reassigned to the battlefield between Konoha and the Hidden Mist Village.
"Is the situation on the front line really that critical?"
On the way, Tsunade asked Lu Nie about the direction of the war. Although she had read the relevant intelligence beforehand and had some understanding, what she saw in the intelligence was not comprehensive.
"In a passive defensive state." Lu Nie answered implicitly.
Tsunade immediately understood. The so-called passive defense state, isn't that a true portrayal of the inability to drive away the invaders due to lack of strength?
This shows that the situation on the battlefield between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth is indeed not good for Konoha. At least the one who has the upper hand should be Iwagakure.
But at the same time, the actual battlefield situation should not be as bad as the intelligence she had seen. It seemed that the front line would be completely lost in the next moment, and then the army would be defeated.
Of course, the battlefield situation is unpredictable, and a single attack or a failed decision could completely change the situation. We still can't take it lightly.
But no matter what, the situation on the front line did not deteriorate to the extent Tsunade had imagined, so she was still very satisfied.
At least Orochimaru led the ninjas of Konoha Village and blocked the 10,000 ninja armies of Ōnoki and Iwagakure on the border for more than a year.
"He should be resting in the village!"
Tsunade turned her head to look at Shisui who was beside Luna. As for Shisui who was already blind, she didn't want to bring him to the battlefield.
Not only is it his philosophy as a medical ninja, but he also doesn't want Shisui to have an accident on the battlefield. After all, even among the Five Kage, many have died in wars of this magnitude.
"This is his own choice. Besides, the village is not safe inside now." Lu Nie did not explain anything to Tsunade in detail. Orochimaru would explain it himself.
After all, the experiments on the Sharingan and the forging of spiritual weapons would be much more convenient if Shisui was by his side.
The team was attacked by an assassination team from the Hidden Mist Village, but they were defeated by Red Bean. Tsunade was also surprised to see Red Bean take action, because her impression of Red Bean was that she was just a little girl with some talent, but now she has developed a bloodline limit similar to Scorch Release!
"Eh? My bloodline limit? It was developed with the help of Shikagawa."
After dealing with the attacker and returning to the team, Anko heard Tsunade's praise and replied shyly, feeling a little embarrassed.
"You and Orochimaru, have you even been able to transform and transplant your bloodline limits? No wonder you have set your sights on life and death! It seems that I am the only one who has stopped moving forward all these years." Tsunade glanced at Kagome, feeling somewhat enlightened and sighing.
During these years of depression, she seemed to have missed a lot of things and wasted a lot of time.
The war on the front line is in full swing, but there are also elite teams from Iwagakure and Kirigakure active in the Land of Fire.
Although there were frictions between the two sides, they clearly had some restraint before Konoha was completely defeated. Especially when they had the same goal or encountered Konoha ninjas, they would often work together tacitly.
Therefore, Lu Nie and the others were extremely cautious along the way.
Many days later, Tsunade, Kagome and others finally arrived at the front line with reinforcements and supplies and met Orochimaru.
Orochimaru had just returned from the battlefield, his body covered in bright red blood, and the atmosphere in the camp was extremely depressing and gloomy.
The arrival of Tsunade, reinforcements, and supplies significantly lifted the gloomy atmosphere in the camp, and many ninjas' eyes also had a little more light and confidence.
"How is it? Are you still afraid of blood?"
Inside the tent, looking at Tsunade who was trying hard to suppress her trembling and inner fear, Orochimaru, who was covered in blood, deliberately walked up to her and greeted her.
"You don't need to worry about me! As long as you can do what you promised me, I will overcome the rest!"
Tsunade subconsciously took a step back, but after waking up, she took another step forward, gathering her willpower to constantly fight against the fear that suddenly arose in her heart when she saw the blood.
"That's better. I have high hopes for you, Tsunade!" Orochimaru did not continue to be aggressive.
"Humph!"
Tsunade snorted.
Soon, Tsunade took over the front-line camps and the wounded in the rear. In order to overcome her fear of blood, she even forced herself to use medical ninjutsu to treat some ninjas whose injuries were not too serious.
"I didn't expect the Technical Development Department could achieve this level under your leadership."
Tsunade was holding a healing talisman in her hand, and she spoke to Orochimaru and Shikagawa in the tent.
Medical ninjas are scarce and insufficient in any ninja village now! Even the first medical department that can systematically train medical ninjas under her leadership is only slightly better than other ninja villages in terms of medical resources.
Because of the difficulty and high threshold of training medical ninjas, the medical department has always been short of manpower. Not to mention achieving her previous ideal that a team of three must have a medical ninja.
Currently, all Konoha can do is to select some people with medical talents from the new generation and put them into a class while maintaining the operation of the medical department.
Generally speaking, the new classes that can be assigned with medical talents are mostly teams with unique characteristics and elite Genin. This can maximize the growth and safety of medical ninjas, rather than consuming them meaninglessly as cannon fodder.
Even strictly speaking, most of them only know some simple medical ninjutsu and cannot be called real medical ninjas.
The appearance of the healing talisman has, in some cases, made up for and alleviated the shortage of medical staff. And with Tsunade's prestige in the medical department, she naturally knew that the technical development department had already produced a medical talisman of a higher level than the healing talisman.
The magic of palm!
This medical ninjutsu is difficult even for professional medical ninjas. Those who can master it are all outstanding medical ninjas, or ninjas with excellent medical talents and high training value.
However, the production process of this kind of healing talisman is too complicated and expensive, so the village did not eliminate it.
The small number of Palm Immortal Art Talismans purchased are only provided to ninjas at the Jonin level, or ninjas who are performing important missions.
"This is the result of Shikagawa's work and has nothing to do with me." Orochimaru knew the significance of the healing talisman to a village, but he did not pay much attention to it itself.
In his selfish mind, no matter how important the healing talisman is to the village, it cannot be compared with the Collapsing Jade in importance.
“There are still many shortcomings.”
Because of the extravagance of the medical talisman, Lu Nie didn't need to spend much effort on his inspiration in this regard. He had a set of ideas for the development of medical talismans in his mind, but due to various factors, there was no need to put them all into practice and create them.
"It's already very good." Tsunade has disassembled the healing talisman and the palm magic talisman during this period and understood their structures.
For her, the manufacturing process of the healing talisman is not complicated. The real trouble is the need for a systematic medical ninja and a huge amount of chakra behind it.
It doesn't take much time for other large ninja villages to get the healing talisman. As long as there are ninjas who understand sealing techniques and medical ninjutsu, they can break it or even create it.
But due to cost constraints, unless they find another way, they will never be able to compare with Konoha in terms of cost consumption.
As for the Palm Immortal Art Talisman, the difficulty and cost of cracking it are a bit too high. Instead of spending a lot of effort to crack and create the Palm Immortal Art Talisman, it is better to invest resources to train a medical ninja and let him master the Palm Immortal Art.
Tsunade took out the healing talisman in front of Orochimaru and Kagane today because she wanted to improve it, practice, restore and even adjust her research status.
After listening to Tsunade's request, Orochimaru and Luna had no objection. Orochimaru didn't care, but Luna thought that no matter what, what he got from the healing talisman was already worth it. Perhaps Tsunade's improvement could bring him another wave, giving him more inspiration in the healing talisman and producing some qualitative changes.
By analogy, the inspiration for the medical talisman can also involve the understanding of medical ninjutsu and even the yang attribute chakra.
As a medical genius, Tsunade might be able to bring him more surprises.
"Also, Tsunade, please get ready. We need to go to a base tonight to conduct the first experiment." Orochimaru suddenly said to Tsunade.
"So soon?" Tsunade frowned. Although she was eager to see her brother and lover, to see them come back to life and accompany her again, but when the time came, she still felt that it was a little too fast.
"In fact, we have made a lot of preparations. All that remains is to verify them one by one! This is a big project!" Orochimaru licked the corner of his lips and said excitedly.
(End of this chapter)