"Hoo..."
Seeing the certainty in Professor Xue's expression, Professor Liu took a deep breath and pressed a hand against his chest.
He suppressed the excitement welling up inside him and continued reading.
They had been tracking Ning Feng's cellular development all this time.
This was an excellent sign.
If they could fully understand Ning Feng's body, the overall strength of Chinese players might undergo a qualitative leap.
"The Rinnegan... is actually this terrifying?"
When he reached the third item, Professor Liu completely lost his composure and exclaimed aloud.
Written clearly on the report was:
Five chakra natures coexisting, all with extremely high activity levels.
Combined with their previous research and theories regarding the Rinnegan...
This pointed to one of the Rinnegan's abilities:
Greatly enhancing the user's mastery of all five elemental transformations.
"I knew it would strengthen them... but who could've imagined it would be by this much?"
Professor Liu muttered in disbelief.
Each of the five chakra natures had already reached the pinnacle of Kage-level standards.
In other words, Ning Feng's chakra reserves alone had already surpassed the level of an ordinary Kage.
"If we want to continue the research, we'll have to wait until Ning Feng returns."
Seeing Professor Liu continue flipping through the report only to find blank pages, Professor Xue smiled bitterly.
"He's entered the Naruto world."
When Ning Feng returned to the Naruto world this time, he brought Fu's physical body with him.
Previously, because she had not been properly guided, only her consciousness had entered the world while her real body remained behind in reality.
As his strength continued to grow and he gradually approached the Six Paths realm, Ning Feng increasingly felt that this world was not merely a game.
Everyone here wasn't just cold data.
They were living, breathing people.
The system merely enabled travel between dimensions.
He had a feeling...
Once he reached the Six Paths level—the highest realm this world could accommodate—
He would be able to move freely between both realities at will.
Of course, that goal was still very far away.
After reaching the Super Kage level, every further step became unimaginably difficult.
The only shortcut in front of him was becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.
That was undoubtedly the fastest route to Six Paths power.
Boom!
Ning Feng landed heavily on the ground of the Konoha battlefield.
"Hoo... looks like they evacuated."
He returned to the location where he'd left his Flying Thunder God marker near Minato's kunai.
This time, he had enough opportunity to properly examine his surroundings.
There weren't many Konoha corpses nearby.
The evacuation had likely succeeded.
As for his teacher, Minato Namikaze...
Although Minato was only at the peak of Kage level and definitely couldn't defeat Hashirama or Tobirama...
He could run.
His Flying Thunder God Technique was arguably even smoother than Ning Feng's.
If Minato wanted to leave, who could possibly stop him?
Thinking this, Ning Feng relaxed.
Still...
Why was his Flying Thunder God kunai stuck in the ground here again?
Had Minato accidentally thrown Ning Feng's kunai together with his own during the battle?
That didn't seem like the sort of careless mistake Minato would make.
Shaking his head, Ning Feng decided not to dwell on it.
He casually pulled the kunai from the earth and turned to leave.
Deep within a dark, damp underground cavern...
Yakushi Kabuto was drenched in sweat as he maintained a hand seal.
His chakra surged continuously.
"Damn it..."
The coldness in his eyes intensified behind his glasses.
He had never expected Hashirama Senju to reject his order to slaughter Konoha ninja and actually fight for control over the Edo Tensei body.
It had taken him an enormous amount of time to temporarily suppress Hashirama's consciousness.
"Hmph. I already told you."
As Kabuto finally summoned a coffin and sealed Hashirama back inside, sighing in relief, Madara Uchiha casually remarked from nearby:
"Ninja on my level or Hashirama's cannot truly be controlled by a technique like yours."
"Bullshit."
If not for his wariness toward Madara's methods, Kabuto would've spat in his face.
Easy for you to say now.
Always acting wise after the fact.
If you're so impressive, why haven't you broken free from Edo Tensei yourself?
"Now that Ning Feng is gone, there's no need to pressure Konoha too aggressively."
Madara ignored Kabuto's resentful look.
Spreading out the map on the table, he continued:
"Have Obito secretly search Amegakure for the Tailed Beasts."
"Send Black Zetsu to Kumogakure and determine the location of the Two-Tails Jinchūriki."
Then Madara suddenly remembered something.
"You collected the Fourth Raikage's sample, right?"
"We did."
Kabuto instantly understood what Madara intended.
"However..."
He hesitated.
"Edo Tensei shinobi have obvious signs. People will recognize them."
"Recognize them?"
Madara snorted.
"If they dare point it out, kill them."
They were only one step away from success.
Why would he care whether ants noticed?
"Reanimate the Fourth Raikage and send him with Black Zetsu to locate the Two-Tails."
As a village leader, the Fourth Raikage would naturally know how to find his own village's Jinchūriki.
Then Madara's expression darkened.
"And Nagato..."
"Since he dared betray me..."
Thinking about the Rinnegan still residing in Nagato's eye sockets, Madara released a chilling laugh.
Very few people had ever betrayed Madara Uchiha.
Every one of them was long dead.
Kabuto subconsciously shrank back.
It was difficult to imagine how many mountains of corpses and seas of blood were required to cultivate such overwhelming killing intent.
Hurriedly, he began reanimating the Fourth Raikage and relayed Madara's orders to Obito and Black Zetsu.
"So... they already retreated?"
Ning Feng stared blankly at Minato Namikaze.
After his battle with Obito, Minato looked slightly disheveled.
From Minato's explanation, Ning Feng learned that while pursuing the retreating forces, Hashirama had suddenly broken free of control and been forcibly sealed back into a coffin by Kabuto.
During their battle, Ning Feng had clearly sensed that Hashirama still retained his own consciousness.
Which meant Kabuto had never erased it in the first place.
Hashirama wasn't some naïve fool.
Protecting Konoha's ninja was one of his fundamental principles.
Kabuto's orders had crossed that line completely.
As a result, Hashirama had resisted with everything he had, causing Kabuto's plan to unravel.
"But still..."
Minato couldn't help praising him after hearing how Ning Feng had escaped.
"In that situation, you actually thought of using Reverse Summoning."
Most shinobi would've simply resigned themselves to death.
Yet Ning Feng had managed to devise such an ingenious solution under immense pressure.
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