Chapter 361: Reinforcements
A complete Tailed Beast has very distinct chakra characteristics. For example, the Nine-Tails' violent chakra gives the first impression of being evil.
But inside a Jinchuriki, the Tailed Beast's chakra is markedly different. Even if the Jinchuriki is not strong, the Tailed Beast chakra that erupts will carry many imprints of the ninja's own attributes. A Tailed Beast in this state may have already assimilated somewhat with the Jinchuriki. Ishiro wondered if, after a Jinchuriki's use of a Tailed Beast reaches its peak, they could completely assimilate the Tailed Beast's chakra, digesting the Tailed Beast and making it a part of themselves.
The Tailed Beast chakra that lingers in the air is very different from the previous two. This chakra feels more like a high-level form of energy. Ishiro, having mastered Sage Art, was well-qualified to speak on this point. This chakra is also different from a ninja's. A ninja's chakra dissipates quickly after leaving the body, but a Tailed Beast's chakra can persist for a considerable amount of time. This is somewhat like the dense natural energy within a natural energy sealing barrier.
However, the energy Ishiro had now collected in the gourd was different from the previous three forms. Ishiro felt that this chakra was somewhere between that of a complete Tailed Beast and scattered Tailed Beast chakra. It was neither like a complete Tailed Beast, with its independent life and unique attributes, nor was it like the Tailed Beast chakra lingering in the air, which was purely a form of energy.
The chakra in the gourd seemed to have some life, but this sense of life was very weak, as if it could dissipate at any moment.
Thinking of this, Ishiro once again turned his gaze to Utakata.
Utakata's condition at this time was extremely poor. With a brief scan, Ishiro knew that Utakata was crippled. His life force had been depleted too much, and it was impossible for him to fully recover. After all, he didn't have the monstrous life force of the Uzumaki clan. It was likely that the portion of the Six-Tails' chakra that Ishiro had directly extracted contained some of Utakata's life force.
At this moment, Ishiro thought of someone: Kazuma, one of the Guardian Shinobi of the Land of Fire's Daimyo in the original story. He had collected the Tailed Beast chakra from the night of the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha and sealed it into his son, Sora. He had miraculously managed to preserve the scattered chakra.
Now, feeling the Six-Tails' chakra in the gourd, Ishiro understood a little.
The Tailed Beasts were magical existences. Their state of life was completely different from humans. No human could survive after being split into two parts, a yin and a yang half. But a Tailed Beast could. Moreover, a Tailed Beast has no physical body; it is only chakra. Logically, a Tailed Beast consuming chakra should consume its life force, but that was not the case. The scattered chakra from a complete Tailed Beast's attacks does not contain life force. This is a Tailed Beast's instinct; they couldn't possibly strip away their own life force through repeated attacks.
But when a Tailed Beast becomes a Jinchuriki and merges to a certain extent with the Jinchuriki's life, their control over their own life force is actually not as good as before. At least, it's not as easy to control the part of their life force that has fused with the Jinchuriki.
Just now, Ishiro had successfully separated a part of the Six-Tails' life force from its body. He had relied on the fact that that part of the Tailed Beast's life force had already fused with Utakata. When Ishiro extracted the Tailed Beast's chakra, he was leveraging the Jinchuriki's life force, and that bit of the Tailed Beast's life force came out along with the Jinchuriki's.
The plan to split the Tailed Beasts in Iwagakure was proposed by Ishiro. But splitting a Tailed Beast is very difficult. Ishiro felt that with his almost non-existent foundation in Yin-Yang Release, it was impossible to achieve this.
But holding the gourd, Ishiro suddenly thought of another method. Perhaps by extracting the Jinchuriki's life force and imbuing the scattered Tailed Beast chakra with it, he could preserve this chakra.
But it's too little. This bit of life force was not enough to support the Tailed Beast chakra in the gourd for a long time.
Ishiro looked at Utakata, whose life force was severely depleted, and once again extended his demonic claws.
"You can't grow to your peak now anyway. You no longer have any value for brainwashing and guidance," Ishiro said softly to Utakata.
Five days later, Ishiro looked at the gourd in his hand and revealed a satisfied smile.
For these five days, Ishiro had extracted the Six-Tails' chakra twice a day. Just now, the fragile Utakata's life force had been completely depleted. In total, Ishiro had extracted the Six-Tails' chakra ten times.
Now, the feeling the Six-Tails' chakra in the gourd gave Ishiro was already somewhat close to that of a complete Tailed Beast—of course, only in terms of the nature of the chakra; the amount of chakra was still far from comparable. However, the life force within it was still not enough. It could probably just barely keep the chakra from dissipating and couldn't grow slowly like Sora's chakra in the original story. Ishiro guessed that that chakra was special because it contained Kushina Uzumaki's life force.
The main body of the Six-Tails had completely dispersed after Utakata's death. Under normal circumstances, it would take about three years for the Six-Tails to revive.
After all this trouble, Ishiro's biggest gain was not the gourd of Six-Tails' chakra he had sealed. If Ishiro coveted the Six-Tails, he could have obtained the complete Tailed Beast by simply changing the Jinchuriki. Ishiro's biggest gain was that he had come to understand, to some extent, the special nature of the existence of Tailed Beasts. This was very important for Ishiro, who aspired to the level of the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
But these were matters for the future. The current Ishiro had not yet reached that level.
Ishiro disposed of Utakata's body and then returned to Kirigakure.
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Upon returning to Kirigakure, Ishiro did not rush back to his base but first went to Karasu's place. The base, after all, was full of Mist ninja. Even if all of them died, Ishiro would only regret that his plan had failed; he wouldn't feel sad or too heartbroken. But Karasu was one of his own, a member of the Iwagakure he had already formed a bond with.
When Ishiro arrived near Karasu's residence, he sensed that besides Karasu, there were twelve other ninja in the house.
"It seems the reinforcements have arrived," Ishiro thought.
"Lord Sei." The twelve Iwagakure Anbu, now all wearing the Mist Anbu uniforms Ishiro had prepared for them, bowed to the entering Ishiro along with Karasu. Clearly, Karasu had already briefed them about him. They didn't find it strange that Ishiro suddenly had a gourd hanging from his waist; their Tsuchikage had done many strange things before.
As the Iwagakure Bi-Weekly Report was published more and more, the tastes of the Iwagakure villagers had also become more discerning. The original reporting style of the newspaper began to be criticized, and then some unofficial tabloids appeared in the village. The villagers became more and more interested in the anecdotes and interesting stories about the higher-ups recorded in the tabloids, especially their Lord Tsuchikage. This Tsuchikage of civilian origin had a magical experience and also an abnormal way of thinking. His thoughts always seemed to be different from everyone else's, and he had all sorts of strange ideas. And in most cases, these ideas were able to raise the strength of Iwagakure by a notch.
Ishiro nodded at the group. "It's good that you're here. First, find a place to settle down on the outskirts of my base. You and Karasu must be separate. To outsiders, you are two different groups."
"Karasu is responsible for intelligence in the Third Mizukage's direct Anbu. You three squads are responsible for combat. You must give the impression that you are not under each other's command."
"Yes, Lord Sei," the thirteen replied in unison.
Ishiro then said to Karasu, "Did anything happen at the base while I was out?"
Karasu said, "Lord Sei, there were no problems at the base, but the rumor that you are a member of the Hōzuki clan has begun to spread in the village."
"That doesn't matter. How are things at home? Did anything happen?" Ishiro then asked the twelve newcomers about Iwagakure.
"Lord Sei, everything at home is normal. This is a letter that the village asked me to bring you," one of the Anbu replied, handing over a letter.
Ishiro took the letter and opened it.
The letter was written by Ikura on behalf of the advisory council. The general content was that the village's development was very stable and everything was normal. The strength of Kitsuchi and Han was steadily increasing.
The letter also mentioned a piece of happy news: Katsumata had finally become a Quasi-Jonin. He had learned a lot from the Spirit Transformation Technique and Sharingan genjutsu that Ishiro had given him. Ikura said that Katsumata had really risked his life for this promotion. With the chakra reserves and strength of a chunin, he had transplanted a three-tomoe Sharingan. After the transplant, Katsumata had竟然 successfully used a Sharingan genjutsu. The result almost killed him, and he was still lying in the hospital. But it was precisely because of this risky move that Katsumata finally successfully advanced. With this, all twelve of Ishiro's first three batches of disciples had been promoted to Quasi-Jonin.
After Ishiro finished reading the letter, another Anbu said, "In addition, the village also told us to maintain frequent contact and for me to write letters home often."
Ishiro understood. This must be the intelligence ninja specially arranged by the village for liaison.
Ishiro nodded, then checked on the progress of Karasu's intelligence filtering and gave him another storage scroll of data. Then, he left with the three Anbu squads.
After secretly settling the three squads near the base, Ishiro entered the base. Returning to his room, Noboru and several other special jonin immediately came to report the changes at the base to Ishiro.
"Lord Sei, a dozen more civilian-born ninja have joined us these past few days. According to your instructions before you left, we have continued to carry out missions outside the village and have done our best to maintain order in this vicinity," Noboru said.
Ishiro nodded. "You have done well. Since you have started carrying out missions outside the village, use the missions as a pretext to investigate the whereabouts of Suikazan Fuguki."
"Yes, Lord Sei," the group replied.
"The rest of you, pay attention to whether a major battle is likely to break out between the bloodline clans and the Mizukage's side recently," Ishiro said, a little worried that his interference would cause Minazuki Gyō to make up his mind and launch a decisive battle ahead of schedule.
"Yes." Seeing that Ishiro had no other instructions, Noboru and the others left.
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