"Hokage-sama, are you alright?"
"Zero casualties, that's great! Thankfully, Izayoi-sama intervened in time!"
"So strong! That punch just now, I felt like it could shatter a mountain."
"As expected of the legendary Wood Release!"
"..."
As the battle ended, the small dark room, like a demon god's mask, slowly opened.
Konoha ninja swarmed in, surrounding the bewildered Tsunade and others. They checked the bodies of the unconscious Anbu and ninja, and the results they got made everyone extremely happy.
Because of Izayoi's timely rescue, all the injured and bleeding comrades had their lives saved.
Toneri Otsutsuki's attack only destroyed the Hokage Building.
"You said besides the Hokage Building, there are three other places with the Four Red Yang Formation?"
Tsunade, who had just recovered, heard bad news from Shikaku Nara and her expression immediately changed slightly.
"Yes, Hokage-sama."
Shikaku Nara nodded respectfully and said, "Those three Four Red Yang Formations are at Izayoi-sama's house, the Uchiha Clan Grounds, and a waterfall area outside the village."
"Why did that guy suddenly attack us, and with such clear targets?" Tsunade frowned, "Could it be that he wants to hunt us, turn our corpses into Human Puppets, and strengthen his Human Puppet army?"
"This subordinate finds it a bit strange."
Shikaku Nara calmly analyzed, "According to the observations of myself and the Hyuga Clan members, although the targets of these Human Puppets are the high-level combatants led by the Hokage-sama, the Chakra of these Human Puppets is sometimes weak and sometimes strong. When fighting several opponents at once, the Human Puppets' Chakra volume will surge, or be on par with the strongest person among the targets."
"In one-on-one battles, the Human Puppets' Chakra is either at the same level as the opponent, or slightly inferior."
"What's even stranger is that they didn't attack with the intention of killing their opponents, but rather to insert those Black Rods into the targets' bodies. After disrupting their Chakra flow, they would knock them unconscious."
"Afterwards, they didn't finish them off, nor did they take the unconscious people with them. Instead, they teleported away on their own."
"This was the case for the Anbu, as well as Sasuke Uchiha and Uzumaki Naruto."
"This doesn't seem like hunting high-level combatants to create Human Puppets at all. It's more like... an experiment!"
Tsunade's eyebrows furrowed again, "You mean he's testing the strength of those Human Puppets on us?"
"This subordinate believes that possibility is greater than hunting." Shikaku Nara nodded, "Although Chakra doesn't represent strength, the condition for using the Four Red Yang Formation requires gathering four ninja with Kage-level Chakra. Four Four Red Yang Formations mean that the sixteen Human Puppets performing the jutsu all possess Kage-level Chakra volume. Moreover, the Human Puppets fighting the Hokage-sama, Jiraiya-sama, and Izayoi-sama all had Kage-level Chakra, and the other Human Puppets were all elite combatants, or at least Special Jonin level Chakra..."
"All this Chakra is transmitted into the Chakra Core through those Black Rods, which is as absurd as a Tailed Beast. It's completely different from the intelligence about the Human Puppet army attacking the Hidden Cloud Village last year."
"If this subordinate is not mistaken, that Toneri Otsutsuki has already obtained a Tailed Beast, or even become a Jinchuriki."
After listening to Shikaku Nara's analysis, Tsunade couldn't help but sigh, "It seems the second round of the Sage Eye is coming soon. In the face of such super-standard combat power, one of our Five Great Shinobi Villages can only be reduced to a testing ground. It's truly frustrating."
"If it's truly an experiment, perhaps not only our Konoha was attacked, but other villages couldn't avoid it either." Shikaku Nara also sighed, "Perhaps just as he called us, in the face of the Sage Eye, the ninja of our Five Great Shinobi Villages are nothing more than monkeys."
"I hope his goal is truly just to retrieve the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path." Tsunade said in a deep voice, "If he retrieves the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and returns to the Moon to continue being their high and mighty 'gods', I actually hope that in the second round of confrontation, the guy named Toneri Otsutsuki wins."
Shikaku Nara remained silent. This was beyond his scope of knowledge.
However, if it was truly as Tsunade said, he also hoped that the visitor from the Moon would win.
As long as that visitor from the Moon dealt with the Akatsuki leader and returned to the Moon with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, unwilling to breathe the same air as the monkeys of the Shinobi World, then the future of the Shinobi World would be decided by their Konoha Wood Release ninja.
Since everyone in Konoha was on their side, Izayoi, who didn't want to accidentally kill his future subordinates, only waited for half an hour until the Human Puppets defeated Sasuke Uchiha before taking action to end the battle.
Other villages were not so lucky.
The ninja who were instantly killed were fortunate enough to have their lives saved.
However, the ninja who narrowly avoided the Lightning Release Chakra Mode + Yin-Yang Release Black Rods were almost all either dead or crippled.
Unless they possessed a Bloodline Limit with a purple Perk, Izayoi's Wood Clones had no patience to play hide-and-seek with them. They would start with large-scale or highly destructive ultimate techniques.
Ninja with purple Perks, however, received Izayoi's mercy and patient companionship.
After all, the reason Sasori of the Red Sand and Deidara weren't killed by Izayoi back then was because they had good personalities and were both strong individuals with double purple Perks.
The cooldown for purple Perks is a full year, which means they are like leeks that can be harvested once a year. Killing the chicken to get the eggs is simply too wasteful.
Therefore, 95% of the ninja who died in the Four Great Shinobi Villages were ninja without purple Perks.
The bodies of ninja with purple Perks who were accidentally killed would also be taken away by the Human Puppets to enhance the strength of the Human Puppet army.
After more than an hour, the turmoil in the Shinobi World finally ended. The Human Puppets left the same way they came.
All that remained were the Five Kage Buildings turned into ruins.
The Five Kage who were not defeated or killed were all filled with anger and frustration, their eyes burning with killing intent.
Unfortunately, no matter how angry they were, it was just impotent rage.
Wanting to tear Toneri Otsutsuki into a million pieces was also just a thought.
In the face of super-standard combat power, the Five Kage were no different from ordinary people.
The enemy they were facing now was equivalent to Madara Uchiha without Hashirama Senju to restrain him.
In the following two days, Toneri Otsutsuki's infamous reputation quickly spread throughout the entire Shinobi World again.
Because of this, the small villages that were not within the hunting range couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while also feeling a sense of schadenfreude.
Fortunately, they were weak and not worthy of being targeted by Toneri Otsutsuki.
Hopefully, the strength of these great shinobi villages will continue to be weakened by Toneri Otsutsuki.
This way, even if they are still not a match for the great shinobi villages, their status will be elevated in the eyes of the great shinobi villages.
And the wishes of these small shinobi villages were quickly realized.
A week after the turmoil ended, the major shinobi villages all knew each other's situation and analyzed Toneri Otsutsuki's intentions with their think tanks. While the Five Kage were hesitating whether to hold a Five Kage Summit,
Human Puppets once again descended upon the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and barriers rose again.
The number of Human Puppets that descended this time was double that of the last time, but the barriers were no longer all Four Red Yang Formations.
Only one Four Red Yang Formation trapped the Five Kage or Jinchuriki. The other Human Puppets used the Four Violet Flames Formation to trap those ninja who had purple Perks but didn't drop them last time and were not the targets last time.
In a week's time, these ninja's injuries had all healed, returning to full health, and they could continue to farm Perks.
Five Wood Clones were responsible for controlling the Human Puppet army, and two other Wood Clones were responsible for recording the information of the ninja who dropped Perks and those who didn't.
This attack was still clearly targeted.
Izayoi would not rest until all the purple Perks of the Five Great Shinobi Villages were farmed out.
Every time this happened, Izayoi would lament how thin-skinned he was.
With the disappearance of the Senju, their bloodline diluted, and the demise of the Uchiha Clan, the Uzumaki Clan, and the Hozuki Clan and Kaguya Clan of the Hidden Mist Village... there are simply too few ninja clans with Kekkei Genkai in the Shinobi World now.
Among them, the one with the most clan members and considered a prestigious family is only the Hyuga Clan of Konoha.
But coincidentally, this Kekkei Genkai ninja clan is Hinata's maternal family.
And Hinata is the only one who knows Izayoi's Tenseigan and his secret of being 'Toneri Otsutsuki'.
Although he knew Hinata wouldn't blame him, Izayoi couldn't bring himself to beat up his future father-in-law and the others.
In this era of peace, the decline of talent is too severe.
Konoha was ruined by Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura, and the Hidden Mist Village was also turned into the weakest overall by Uchiha Obito.
These two villages are also the villages with the most Kekkei Genkai ninja clans.
If Izayoi had been born during the First, Second, or even Third Great Shinobi War, he could have easily earned a massive amount of points.
The Otsutsuki Bloodline could also be dropped and then upgraded to a red Perk using points.
If he had developed cautiously until now, he might already have Perks above red all over his body, and his strength might have long surpassed the Sage of Six Paths.
But fortunately, this era also has Naruto and Sasuke, Hinata, and Toneri Otsutsuki on the Moon.
Izayoi's current targets are mainly Uzumaki Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha, and attacking the Five Great Shinobi Villages is just a side job to earn some extra money.
As long as he drops a red Perk, even if he has terrible luck, he can get at least 100,000 points.
If he is kissed by the goddess of luck, he might directly get 990,000 points and upgrade a red Perk to an unknown new level at a 1:1 ratio.
And so...
Every week thereafter, the Human Puppet army would descend upon the Five Great Shinobi Villages to farm Perks.
Gradually, the Five Kage discovered that Toneri Otsutsuki seemed to be using them for training.
Most of the time, he would knock out or seriously injure his subordinates, and casualties were accidental killings due to excessive force.
The Five Kage felt extremely aggrieved by this but were completely helpless.
Especially the short-tempered Fourth Raikage, if the Hidden Cloud Village had already built a Chakra Cannon, he would definitely not be able to resist firing a shot at the Moon now.
...
The situation of the Five Great Shinobi Villages naturally could not be hidden from the Akatsuki, whose White Zetsu clones were spread throughout the Shinobi World.
At this time, in the Kamui Dimension, Nagato and Uchiha Obito, along with Black and White Zetsu, were holding a meeting.
The theme of the meeting was Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts.
"Except for the Three-Tails, which hasn't been revived yet, the One-Tail to Nine-Tails Jinchuriki are still alive. That ridiculous Chakra doesn't seem to be provided by the Tailed Beasts," Black and White Zetsu reported to Nagato. White Zetsu wondered, "Moreover, his training targets also include the One-Tail Jinchuriki of Sunagakure, the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki of the Hidden Stone Village, and the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Eight-Tails Jinchuriki of the Hidden Cloud Village, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of Konoha. As a result, none of these Jinchuriki were killed, nor were the Tailed Beasts extracted from their bodies."
"It seems the situation you least wanted to see has appeared," Uchiha Obito said. "He has obtained that Gelel Stone mine."
Nagato lightly tapped the table made of Wood Release with his finger and analyzed softly, "The energy of the Gelel Stone is only pure Natural Energy and life force. The device of the Mobile Fortress only uses the energy inside to create armored people and cannot be converted into Tailed Beast-level Chakra."
"If it's training, the Human Puppets shouldn't have massive Chakra inside them, but rather turn into various strange beasts, like that Hyde and his subordinates, or... Sage Mode."
"This massive Chakra is either because Toneri Otsutsuki has made astonishing progress, or... he has obtained a Chakra source similar to a Tailed Beast."
Black Zetsu fell silent, and the feeling of being out of control arose in his heart again.
The Dead Demon Consuming Seal is a technique where only the caster and the target can see the legendary Death God.
Otherwise, only those whose strength reaches the level and dimension of the Death God can perceive and see the existence of the Death God.
Coupled with the Nine Tails' astonishing Chakra, even half of it is stronger than a complete Eight Tails, so Black Zetsu didn't know that the Death God had split the Nine Tails in half.
At first, he, like Shikaku Nara, suspected that Toneri Otsutsuki had obtained a Tailed Beast.
If that were the case, it wouldn't be worth panicking, as long as the Tailed Beast wasn't dead.
However, after he and White Zetsu investigated, they found that not a single Jinchuriki was missing, which was terrifying to think about.
What exactly is that massive Chakra?
And where did it come from?!
Is it Toneri Otsutsuki's own, or from an external source?
Regardless of which it is, it's bad news.
Nagato, whose mind had become clearer, couldn't figure it out this time either, so he instructed Black and White Zetsu, "Zetsu, speed up a bit. My intuition tells me that once he achieves this 'unknown objective,' he will likely make a move against us."
"Yes!"
...
Just like that, two months passed.
It was a new week, and the Five Great Shinobi Villages, already accustomed to the Human Puppet army's air raids, were on high alert.
However, even late into the night, no Human Puppets appeared out of thin air.
The next day was the same.
And the third day...
The Five Kage and the ninjas of the Five Great Shinobi Villages looked somewhat dazed, seemingly unable to believe that the nightmare was over.
It wasn't until the week had passed and still no Human Puppets descended that their tense nerves finally relaxed.
Some ninjas with strong mental fortitude even couldn't help but shed tears.
It's... finally over!
That devil who didn't kill them but only liked to torment them had finally let them go.
Little did they know, they had only temporarily lost their value.
Once the leeks grew, the harvesting blade could descend at any moment.
...
"Soon, it's almost time..."
In the hot spring pool, Izayoi looked at the personal panel in front of him and murmured.
In the points section of the personal panel, a six-digit number was displayed.
[Points: 799999]
In these past two months of unrestrained hunting, Izayoi had gained... five hundred thousand points!
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