"Yoru, you and Kushina go capture him. I'll send Anbu to assist you!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't hesitate to deploy his two strongest trump cards.
Gojo Yoru asked, "Hokage-sama, do you suspect that Jonin named Hiruko is the mastermind behind the Impure World Reincarnation?"
Before Sarutobi Hiruzen could answer, Gojo Yoru began to analyze: "If he really is the mastermind, it means he has two major trump cards, the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Hokage. He must have already left Flying Thunder God formulas outside. Sending more people to capture him would be futile."
"Moreover, that mastermind could formulate nearly unsolvable combos and tactics to deal with me, which means he is a calm-headed, quick-witted assassin. Blindly capturing him might lead us into his trap, wasting powerful combat forces in vain."
Sarutobi Hiruzen slowly calmed down, returning to his politician side, and nodded in agreement: "You make a lot of sense. Indeed, we need to be cautious."
After speaking, Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the Anbu member still kneeling on one knee and asked, "Have you found out what Forbidden Jutsu Hiruko stole? Is the Impure World Reincarnation scroll still there, and does the seal record traces of other Chakra using the Unsealing Technique?"
"Hokage-sama, please wait a moment..."
The Anbu member didn't answer immediately but touched the radio headset hidden in his mask and hair, then reported respectfully: "According to the investigation, only one Forbidden Jutsu scroll is missing from the library, the unfinished Chimera Technique. The Impure World Reincarnation scroll is not missing, and the Chakra on the seal is still there, with no traces of the Unsealing Technique."
Sarutobi Hiruzen breathed a sigh of relief, his uneasiness dissipating a lot.
In this case, the possibility of Hiruko being the mastermind behind the Impure World Reincarnation was very small.
The next second, Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart sank again.
If not Hiruko, it meant there was a high probability it was an outsider.
Especially since this mastermind had such strong killing intent towards Gojo Yoru, the possibility of an enemy country was extremely high.
Could it really be someone from Kumogakure?
If not, who could it be?
Danzo?
Sarutobi Hiruzen only felt a splitting headache.
Regardless, Hiruko's matter had to be prioritized.
Just as Sarutobi Hiruzen was about to say something, the Anbu member reported again: "Hokage-sama, Orochimaru-sama, Jiraiya-sama, and Tsunade-sama have gone to pursue Hiruko."
Sarutobi Hiruzen's furrowed brows relaxed slightly: "In that case, leave Hiruko to Orochimaru and the others. After all, they are classmates and friends."
Sarutobi Hiruzen also felt somewhat guilty. He didn't expect that he would also have a day of misjudgment.
Because Hiruko had a good relationship with Team Hiruzen, and sensing ninjas were sent to the battlefield during the Second Great Ninja War, he transferred Hiruko to guard the Forbidden Jutsu library.
Unexpectedly, it almost caused a catastrophe.
If Hiruko really was that mastermind, he would be creating a great enemy and a huge potential danger for Gojo Yoru and Konoha.
Gojo Yoru didn't volunteer to help either.
He knew very well who the mastermind behind the Impure World Reincarnation was. If not for worrying that the unsolvable combo would happen again and wanting to scour the entire Konoha to eliminate White Zetsu, he wouldn't even have planned to report this matter to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Gojo Yoru still had a good impression of Hiruko, a guy with a tragic color.
If he hadn't awakened the Space-Time Kekkei Genkai, his game strategy would have been to become the ultimate Hiruko.
Moreover, guys who could become movie BOSSes were not ordinary people. If possible, Gojo Yoru also wanted to arrange Hiruko to work for him.
This made it even more impossible to take action.
Thus, Gojo Yoru changed the subject: "Hokage-sama, Kushina and I will search the village first. After this event ends, please convene a Jonin Meeting and let me enter the clan grounds of major ninja clans to search."
"I'll trouble you for this period. If you need anything, just tell me." Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded.
Compared to Hiruko, clearing mines for the village was more important.
After all, as Gojo Yoru said, if Hiruko really was the mastermind, chasing him was unnecessary.
If not, letting Team Hiruzen pursue him was enough. Being Hiruko's classmates and friends, Orochimaru and the others might be able to persuade him to turn over a new leaf.
As for what Forbidden Jutsu the Chimera Technique was, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't recall for a moment.
An unfinished Forbidden Jutsu meant it didn't possess much power, possibly just an inspiration.
Hiruko's defection should be due to fear of punishment.
With Sarutobi Hiruzen's permission, Gojo Yoru began to use intangibility and spatial sensing to clear mines in Konoha.
Unfortunately, his spatial sensing couldn't cover the entire Konoha yet; otherwise, it wouldn't be so troublesome.
However, in this Ninja World, few sensing abilities could cover the entire Konoha. After all, just the Forest of Death required ten kilometers to reach the central tower.
Having almost been tricked by Uchiha Madara, Gojo Yoru would not underestimate this Asura of the Ninja World again.
The other party obviously valued him very much, even using such insidious means. Without turning Konoha upside down, Gojo Yoru really couldn't sleep.
Who knew if Uchiha Madara, unable to deal with him, would target Uzumaki Kushina, wanting him to experience the pain of loss?
After the Nine-Tails died, it could revive in the Ninja World. If Uzumaki Kushina were decomposed into atomic states, Gojo Yoru couldn't even use Nagato's Rinnegan to revive her.
So Gojo Yoru not only had to turn Konoha upside down but also prepare for Uchiha Madara to act against his cherished ones.
In the following days, Gojo Yoru really sensed familiar light points on many commoners, which were the characteristics of White Zetsu clones using the Spore Technique to parasitize.
Gojo Yoru didn't act against those commoners but told Sarutobi Hiruzen the news. Then, joining forces with the Barrier Squad and Sealing Squad, they imprisoned those commoners and forced out the White Zetsu clones parasitic in their bodies.
This time, not giving them a chance to turn into plants, Gojo Yoru used Sealing Jutsu to seal the White Zetsu clones.
Unfortunately, these White Zetsu clones had no brains. The Yamanaka clan's Mind Reading Technique and Genjutsu were ineffective against them, and no intelligence could be collected.
Gojo Yoru wasn't surprised. He did this just to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
In the subsequent mine clearing, Gojo Yoru indeed couldn't sense the familiar light points, meaning the White Zetsu clones who infiltrated Konoha using the Spore Technique had either fled or used the Substitute Technique for higher-level disguise.
Spatial sensing completely countered Mayfly and the Spore Technique but couldn't do anything about the Substitute Technique.
Gojo Yoru planned to use the Spirit Transformation Technique to possess Uzumaki Kushina after clearing the mines, assisting her in developing the Negative Emotion Sensing version of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura.
As long as Uzumaki Kushina mastered such Mind's Eye of the Kagura, Konoha would be his base, and Uchiha Madara couldn't intervene at all.
Gojo Yoru suddenly had a premonition.
It was highly likely that the Third Great Ninja War would still break out in the future, which would be a game between him and Uchiha Madara.
Gojo Yoru, who had smooth sailing in these few years and whose strength had reached the pinnacle of the Ninja World, finally felt a trace of pressure again.
But more than that, it was fighting spirit and excitement.
Times had changed. When Gojo Yoru was still weak, he just wanted to hide and develop.
Now that his strength reached the pinnacle of the Ninja World, Gojo Yoru needed pressure to force himself to grow.
In the smooth sailing of these few years, Gojo Yoru didn't grow much except for developing spatial sensing and the space-time version of the Spirit Transformation Technique.
Some inspirations couldn't be developed due to limited Space-Time Chakra and talent.
Unlike during the Second Great Ninja War, the pressure brought by Hanzo the Salamander and the exposure of the Space-Time Kekkei Genkai made him grow rapidly. To deal with Hanzo the Salamander's Body Flicker and assassination techniques, the mental agility brought by the second talent improvement allowed Gojo Yoru to specifically develop the Laser Beam and Chidori series.
To avoid assassination, he thought of the Spirit Transformation Technique, thus generating the idea of developing spatial sensing.
The Ninjutsu Gojo Yoru developed were either inspirations from certain anime in his previous life or due to external pressure forcing him to constantly find his own flaws and then try every means to compensate.
Being targeted by a powerful enemy had both disadvantages and advantages.
The disadvantage was that carelessness could lead to death.
The advantage was that Gojo Yoru might have a flash of inspiration one day due to his second improved agile thinking, coming up with a powerful Ninjutsu and then slowly developing it.
Gojo Yoru suddenly urgently wanted the third evolution to arrive quickly.
With the verification of the previous two times, he was now 100% certain that the third evolution was a huge watershed.
Like a cultivator advancing from early stage to middle stage, and middle stage to late stage great cultivator in cultivation novels.
In the Ninja World, it was the dimensional gap between Kage level promoting to Super Kage level, and Super Kage level becoming Six Paths level.
Compared to the all-around talent improvement, the increase in Space-Time Chakra capacity was secondary.
Of course, this was just an illusion; both were very important.
Only when both improved simultaneously would Gojo Yoru have enough talent and energy to materialize certain incredible ideas.
...
Time flew by, and unknowingly, it turned to March of Konoha Year 42.
Uchiha Madara's almost unsolvable combo and tactics scared Uzumaki Kushina quite a bit.
The girl, so close to death for the first time, no longer cherished the last time of going on missions. Instead, she had a direction for effort. For half a year, she had been fighting Kurama, snatching Nine-Tails Chakra to cultivate the Negative Emotion Sensing version of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura.
This was also the benefit of a strong enemy.
In these few years, Uzumaki Kushina had become extremely arrogant.
In terms of combat power, besides Gojo Yoru, few people in the entire Konoha could compare with her.
Looking at Uzushiogakure, there weren't many geniuses who could awaken three unique abilities simultaneously.
Awakening three abilities, she found almost no opponents in medical, sensing, and sealing aspects.
Uzumaki Kushina, more all-around than Jonin and Elite Jonin, thought she had no shortcomings.
Unexpectedly, such an all-around and powerful her was almost instantly killed.
That fear and dread made Uzumaki Kushina have nightmares of being instantly killed for a long time, waking up many times, and even needing to hug Gojo Yoru to sleep.
If Kurama hadn't been locked up by the Eight Trigrams Seal, and Gojo Yoru hadn't always come in time to reinforce the seal, he would have found many opportunities to break through the seal.
Gojo Yoru didn't tell Uzumaki Kushina that the person assassinating them wasn't actually in Konoha but Uchiha Madara hiding somewhere unknown.
With an unknown strong enemy spurring her on, Uzumaki Kushina had the motivation to become stronger, quickly realizing her potential to reach the Super Kage level.
When she mastered the Negative Emotion Sensing version of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, Gojo Yoru would let her cultivate Shikkotsu Forest Sage Mode, then cultivate five nature transformations, develop various Rasenshurikens, and finally constantly absorb Nine-Tails Chakra to see if she could use the vast Nine-Tails Chakra like the Uchiha Clan's Mangekyo Sharingan to open "Kurama Mode" without bonding with Kurama, that is, complete Tailed Beast transformation.
Kurama was the most special existence among the nine Tailed Beasts. Not only was his Chakra amount amazing, half of the Nine-Tails equal to the complete Eight-Tails, even his expressive power was more exaggerated than the Eight-Tails.
It was also because the Nine-Tails' complete Tailed Beast transformation, unlike other Jinchuriki turning into the appearance of the Tailed Beast, was a golden energy form.
It was this energy form that gave Gojo Yoru inspiration.
Susanoo was the manifestation of Yin Release Chakra, and the Nine-Tails' complete Tailed Beast transformation was the anthropomorphic transformation of Nine-Tails Chakra.
Then why couldn't the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, like other Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, suppress the Tailed Beast's will with their own will through hard training without bonding with the Tailed Beast, controlling the Tailed Beast's body with human consciousness?
Wasn't the Uchiha Clan's Perfect Susanoo based on this principle?
Once Uzumaki Kushina could achieve this level, she could not only drive a Gundam but also cast Tailed Beast Bombs alone, or even create Sage Art: Five Release Rasenshuriken as big as a Tailed Beast Bomb.
This was the ability to rewrite map plates, also standard for Super Kage level powerhouses.
By then, Nagato wouldn't be her opponent either.
No matter how much the Preta Path could absorb, it needed time to absorb, during which it was in a stiff state. Even if it could release Shinra Tensei while absorbing Ninjutsu, Uzumaki Kushina had more than one way to deal with him.
As long as Uzumaki Kushina could achieve this level, her strength would surpass Naruto and Sasuke when fighting Six Paths Obito, infinitely close to Uchiha Madara in the Battle of the Valley of the End.
Placed in the Super Kage level, she would also be an outstanding existence.
Uzumaki Kushina was working hard to become stronger...
Orochimaru, who failed to catch Hiruko, had new research besides space-time.
That was the sealed White Zetsu clone.
Orochimaru was very interested in this creature very similar to humans but without a brain.
In just a few days, he came to a conclusion.
The mastermind behind the Impure World Reincarnation definitely wasn't from Konoha.
The existence of such creatures and the means they possessed were simply existences from another dimension.
If they were created by someone, the other party was either a very powerful scientist or an unfathomable powerhouse, or even some unknown force.
The Impure World Reincarnation and this creature might just be one of their means.
At the same time, Orochimaru also became interested in the Impure World Reincarnation and obtained permission from Sarutobi Hiruzen to research Forbidden Jutsu.
Even though the original destiny changed, Orochimaru still obtained the Impure World Reincarnation, just in a different way and with different treatment.
Gojo Yoru wasn't idle in this half year either.
Besides helping Uzumaki Kushina and Konan become stronger, he was also improving his own foundation.
Although Gojo Yoru's strength was difficult to improve due to insufficient talent and energy, his foundation had reached the limit of the second evolution in these few years.
Now Gojo Yoru had all Yin, Yang, and Five Elements attributes and mastered seven nature transformations.
Relying on Chakra control at the pinnacle of the Ninja World, Gojo Yoru cultivated the nature transformations of the five elements to the level of being able to cast three-element composite Ninjutsu.
The reason he couldn't do five-element composite Ninjutsu wasn't lack of talent, but insufficient Chakra amount.
Besides three-element composite Ninjutsu, Gojo Yoru could also merge Space-Time Chakra with some Five Elements Ninjutsu, no longer limited to the Lightning Release Chidori series.
The Ninjutsu that cut open Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique last year was Space-Time Chakra attached to Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique.
Although Gojo Yoru's slash was small, it could cut through Perfect Susanoo's katana and mountain-splitting slashes.
Now half a year later, Gojo Yoru had reached the bottleneck within the bottleneck, just waiting for the third evolution to raise his upper limit to a new height.
...
Konoha Year 42, March 20th.
Another graduation season.
All sixth-grade students in ninja villages faced the first major hurdle of their ninja careers.
Passing this hurdle meant turning from trainee ninjas to true ninjas.
Failing meant repeating a year or accepting invitations from other departments to become special types of ninjas. The future upper limit would be at most Tokubetsu Jonin, with hope of becoming an all-rounder Jonin close to zero.
Compared to the anxious sixth graders, the geniuses of the elite class who applied for early graduation in the third grade were full of confidence.
Even Uchiha Obito, the dead-last Uchiha in the original work, affected by the butterfly effect, found his field of expertise, stimulated his potential in advance, and possessed the ability to graduate early.
All geniuses applying for early graduation passed the assessment.
To repay Sarutobi Hiruzen's cultivation kindness, Gojo Yoru officially transformed into a Jonin instructor. Besides the internally decided Asuma Sarutobi, he also submitted the names of two other students he selected to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
As one of Konoha's foundations, Gojo Yoru naturally had the privilege of selecting students.
Especially since Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted him to be Asuma Sarutobi's Jonin instructor, he would definitely agree to some of Gojo Yoru's willful acts.
When Sarutobi Hiruzen saw the names of the other two subordinates selected by Gojo Yoru, he felt somewhat troubled and had a headache.
His arrangement was disrupted.
But he had to give face to Gojo Yoru, so he could only reassign the teams.
Then Gojo Yoru caused another butterfly effect, only this time it was intentional, a kind of mischief after becoming the pinnacle of the Ninja World.
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