Chapter 40 - Shun Learns the Art of Darkness
Root underground base.
Danzo's office.
Danzo took out the information that the Third Hokage had given him in advance when he sent the child over from the drawer next to the table.
He didn't see it then, but now he wants to see how amazing that kid is, worthy of Hiruzen's obsession with him.
At first, I couldn't remember who the child the third generation was talking about was, but later I remembered it and my curiosity was aroused.
If he remembered correctly, it was because of that child that Hiruzen was humiliated by the two brats of the Uchiha family, which made Hiruzen begin to lean towards his suggestion of establishing the Root.
"Huruzen studied it secretly for over half a year before handing it over to the Root."
Thinking of this information, Danzo's expression gradually became solemn. It was obvious that this child had a big secret and a big threat, and he could not be allowed to get out alive.
"Hmm... The Yamanaka Clan's Shinranshin Jutsu didn't work, especially with the chakra sealed?"
"The Second-Daime's illusion technique - Darkness Walking Technique was also useless. Was it all done while the chakra was sealed?"
"This is impossible!!!"
Danzo, who had been somewhat indifferent to Li Yao, now looked completely serious.
If what the information said was true, the secret of that child could not be explained away by simply saying he was immune to illusions.
Before this, Danzo only thought that the immunity to illusions mentioned by the Third Hokage was based on the child having some special bloodline limit.
As a result, even with the chakra sealed, he is immune to the Mind-Ran Shen Jutsu and the Dark Movement Jutsu, which is very scary.
It's simply not something that an ordinary bloodline limit can do.
Danzo continued reading, and the information detailed the process of Li Yao being tortured, as well as the record of the third generation's unsuccessful use of illusions on Li Yao during this process.
The last three generations left a message for Danzo.
If we can't figure out the secret of Li Yao's chakra, then we must kill him quickly and never let him walk out of the laboratory alive.
Although the third generation did not say how dangerous Li Yao was.
But Danzo could sense the fear of Li Yao between the lines of the Third Generation's words.
Because he could also think that Li Yao had such a special physique, his talent in illusion must be terrifying.
Just like the Uchiha clan who have a strong resistance to illusions, they also have a unique talent in illusions.
Therefore, once Li Yao possesses illusions, his illusions will definitely be much stronger than those of others, and the danger to Konoha will increase dramatically.
It is obviously not allowed to let such a person who poses a great threat to Konoha walk out of the laboratory alive.
This threat also indirectly illustrates how powerful Li Yao is in resisting illusions.
"No wonder Hiruzen attaches so much importance to it. If everything written above is true, then the importance of that child is indeed on a higher level."
After reading the information, Danzo began to pay more attention to Li Yao's ability to be immune to illusions.
After putting away the information, he walked towards Laboratory No. 2.
"Well, someone is coming."
When Danzo walked to the door of Laboratory No. 2 and stopped, Li Yao, who was concentrating on reversing and refining the chakra attributes of the Dark Movement Technique, sensed it through his chakra perception ability.
He immediately stopped condensing chakra, and also stopped controlling the physical energy and mental energy to merge into chakra.
Ever since he determined that acupuncture points could conceal and store chakra, Li Yao had never stopped controlling the naturally overflowing physical and mental energy to fuse and condense them into chakra.
Because this kind of control has become like an instinct to him and does not require too much effort.
This time he took the initiative to stop gathering chakra.
Now Li Yao didn't know who the person who came in was, or whether he had the ability to sense chakra.
For him, this was a severe test to see whether the chakra stored in the acupuncture points could be hidden from the perception of powerful ninjas.
At this moment, the chakra in all his acupuncture points combined is hundreds of times the chakra in his dantian.
This amount of chakra is no less than that of the four Anbu who had been guarding him.
Now it depends on whether people can notice it.
When Danzo pushed the door open, he saw Li Yao floating in the transparent glass cabin wrapped in nutrient solution.
Li Yao now has the body of a nine-year-old, but his face looks even older, with obvious wrinkles. Not much black hair is left, and the rest is completely white. He looks like a hunchbacked old man of fifty years old.
"I didn't expect Hiruzen to have such a cruel side!"
Danzo sighed, then thought of something and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
"Even if I don't do anything to this kid, given his current physical condition, he'll age at least ten years faster than others in a year. At most, in four or five years, this poor kid will collapse and die."
"Without the nutrient solution, my body would probably collapse and I would die in a year or two."
Danzo shook his head. In his opinion, the Third Generation's worries were completely unnecessary. This kid named Li Yao was no longer a threat to Konoha.
I can only say that the torture that three generations endured in those six months was too severe.
Li Yao's body seemed to be just aging, and there was nothing else wrong with him. However, it was this rapid aging that left him with little time left.
Li Yao actually had some understanding of his current physical condition, but he didn't have time to think about it.
His only thought was to get out first.
Everything else will be possible only after he escapes from Konoha.
Otherwise everything will be in vain.
Li Yao sensed Danzo's shaking head through his chakra perception ability. He couldn't hear the sound, so he didn't know what Danzo meant at the moment.
But then he understood Danzo's actions.
"Illusion - Darkness Walking Technique!"
Danzo, the sixth brother, is worthy of being a friend who grew up under the same crotch as the third generation. They act exactly the same way. As soon as he arrived, he used the illusion of darkness on Li Yao.
Li Yao smiled happily in his heart.
The illusion technique of dark movement, which originally took one or two months to learn, will not take that long this time.
As Danzo released the Dark Movement Technique, the illusory chakra passed through the glass and entered Li Yao's body, trying to penetrate into Li Yao's chakra.
At this moment, Li Yao sensed the changes in the nature and form of the chakra attributes of the Darkness Technique.
Then Li Yao's mind moved, and a wisp of illusory chakra appeared in the Shengmen acupoint, which was the chakra of the Darkness Technique.
Compared with the chakra of the Eight Diagrams Sealing Technique, it was obviously much easier for Li Yao to condense the chakra of the Darkness Walking Technique.
In other words, as his chakra amount increased, his chakra perception ability also increased a lot, especially in the case of contact, he could almost instantly perceive the changes in the nature and properties of the Dark Walking Technique chakra.
With the information of the changes in nature and attributes, and with Li Yao's absolute control over his own chakra, it would only take a moment to copy the dark chakra with the same changes in nature and form.
Danzo didn't know that Li Yao had already learned this A+ or even S-level illusion through the Darkness Walking Technique he released once.
Danzo frowned, then relaxed.
Hiruzen was right, this brat's chakra was indeed special, and his illusion dark chakra couldn't penetrate it either.
"What's the reason?"
While Danzo was curious about the reason why Li Yao was immune to illusions, he walked to the operating table, extracted the nutrient solution in the glass cabin where Li Yao was, then flattened the glass cabin, opened the cabin door, took Li Yao out, and placed him on the operating table.
"What does this guy want to do?"
"Are you going to torture me again?"
With only chakra perception ability, Li Yao could only judge what the visitor intended to do by his own body movements and the visitor's actions.
He was obviously lying in bed now.
The man was about to do something to him.
Li Yao was secretly preparing himself, ready to strike in advance if he noticed anything was wrong with the other party's actions.
Even if you die, you have to make some noise.
He didn't want to die peacefully like this.
Danzo took out a glass test tube filled with a dark green liquid, and then took out a scalpel and tweezers.
hiss!
Danzo held a sharp scalpel and cut open the surface skin on Li Yao's thigh, revealing the bright red muscle inside.
Li Yao sensed a gap in the chakra on his thigh, and his mind moved, but he then resisted the urge to attack.
The visitor might be torturing him.
The chakra gap on his thigh didn't expand, so it probably didn't mean he wanted to kill him.
Danzo used tweezers to remove a small piece of flesh from Li Yao's thigh and put it into a test tube of dark green nutrient solution. Then, after briefly treating Li Yao's wound, he took the dark green test tube and left.