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#353 - Is Danzo dead?

Finally, Liang Yue spent another two hours or so explaining the cultivation and application of sword aura to Sasuke.

After he finished, Sasuke couldn't wait to go home and study it, while Liang Yue stayed in Konoha Village for a few more days.

Unfortunately, Hinata, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was currently on a mission with Shino and Kiba, led by Kurenai Yuhi, and he heard that she wouldn't be back for a while.

However, Hanabi, that little girl, caught Liang Yue this time and kept pestering him to teach her ninjutsu during the days he was in Konoha.

After thinking about it, Liang Yue also taught Hanabi Hyuga about sword aura.

Although the Hyuga family's usual training and combat methods were mostly hand-to-hand combat, and they rarely used kunai, shuriken, and other weapons common in the ninja system.

However, because of Liang Yue's current status in Hanabi's heart, it wasn't difficult for him to teach her how to use and cultivate weapons.

Moreover, there were already some subtle similarities between the Hyuga's Gentle Fist and the Chinese martial art Baguazhang.

In this case, converting fist techniques to sword techniques for cultivation could almost be considered a natural progression.

At least, that's how Liang Yue saw it...

In addition, it's worth mentioning that the reason why Liang Yue chose to teach little Hanabi the special technique of sword aura was because, in his understanding, the Hyuga family's taijutsu-based chakra cultivation method was, to some extent, similar to the position of sword aura in the martial arts system.

Both had chosen to take a different path, abandoning complex ninjutsu or martial arts techniques, and pursuing a single path of close combat or swordsmanship to the end.

If martial arts was a broad road, then the path of sword aura, the cultivation of sword energy, was a special passage in this martial arts thoroughfare.

Flat and straight, but also somewhat narrow~

Once you stepped on it, it was almost impossible to turn back, and it was almost impossible to choose to give up halfway and practice other techniques.

Swordsmen valued moving forward bravely, and they also followed a single upward path.

Compared to the complex martial arts system, sword cultivators had their own distinct characteristics.

For example, powerful offensiveness, extreme energy attributes, and so on.

The Hyuga family's Gentle Fist was probably like this as well. Combined with the unique chakra energy of this clan, their position in the ninja world was unique, and they had their own distinct characteristics.

If the two could be combined, or even superimposed, it should be a rather interesting scenario.

After staying in Konoha and teaching Hanabi for a week, Liang Yue returned to Shikkotsu Forest again.

Then, after saying hello to the Slug Sage, he entered another period of closed-door cultivation.

...

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than two years had passed~

Under the abundant natural energy supply of Shikkotsu Forest, and with the reasonable application of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, Liang Yue had made rapid progress during this period.

Including the year before Orochimaru came, in these three years, Liang Yue had cultivated the thirteenth level of the "Evergreen Skill" to the twelfth level!

That's right~ He now had the cultivation level of the twelfth level of the Qi Refining stage!

According to the logic of the cultivation world, as early as the tenth level of the Evergreen Skill, Liang Yue had already been qualified to attack the ultimate barrier of the Qi Refining stage and strive to advance to the higher Foundation Establishment stage.

But he didn't choose to do so.

Firstly, Liang Yue didn't have the assistance of miraculous pills like the Foundation Establishment Pill.

He was clearly cultivating the techniques from the world of "A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality", but he couldn't follow the normal cultivation process of Han Lao Mo and take pills to cultivate, which made Liang Yue feel somewhat uncertain in his heart.

Secondly, he wasn't in a hurry to break through to a higher level.

For some unknown reason, Liang Yue's experience in the Naruto world would last for a full fifteen years. Now, including the three years of recent closed-door cultivation, only a little over six years had passed.

Time was too abundant, and there was no need to rush.

Moreover, the "Evergreen Skill" was already the highest-level technique that Liang Yue currently possessed. Apart from this, he had nothing else to practice.

The thirteenth level of the Evergreen Skill corresponded to the thirteen realms of the Qi Refining stage in the cultivation system~

Since there was such an opportunity before him, allowing him to continue to develop towards the profound and subtle before advancing to a higher level.

Then Liang Yue would naturally not be greedy for quick success, so as not to leave any regrets or even hidden dangers for subsequent cultivation.

...

"Chunqiu-kun, Chunqiu-kun~ Can you hear me?"

Just as Liang Yue was quietly sitting in his small house, meditating and cultivating with three shadow clones, a gentle female voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

The owner of this voice was none other than the Slug Sage~

"I'm here, is there something wrong, Slug Sage?"

Dividing a trace of his mind to control the shadow clones to continue cultivating, Liang Yue's main body came outside the small house.

Then, he looked up at the distant, huge figure that was hundreds of meters tall.

"It's like this, Tsunade-sama just sent me a message, saying that she wants you to go back, and it's best to go back immediately."

"Tsunade... If I calculate the time, it seems like it's that time again~ Hmm, I understand, Slug Sage! Thank you! I'll go back now!"

"You're welcome, Chunqiu-kun~"

Looking at the old aunt inside the window, who was sighing with her head buried in a pile of documents, Liang Yue said with a slightly sympathetic tone.

"Now that you're back, hurry up and come in."

Hearing this, Tsunade stretched lazily, and without turning her head back, said.

"What's the matter?"

Stepping through the window sill, Liang Yue looked at Tsunade, who was already somewhat absentmindedly slumped in her chair, and asked.

"There are three things in total. First, I just received a distress signal from Sunagakure. Gaara, their newly appointed Fifth Kazekage, has been captured by the Akatsuki.

I have already sent Kakashi and Naruto to support them."

As she said this, Tsunade slowly stood up from her seat and twisted her waist a few times in front of him without any scruples. The bones all over her body made a crackling sound.

"Second, Jiraiya is going to Amegakure."

"And the third thing, not long ago, that old guy Danzo died. He was killed by Sasuke, using that golden... sword aura that you taught him?

That Uchiha brat has now defected from Konoha. Although I don't really care about Danzo, he was, after all, an elder of our ninja village and can't just be let go."

"...So, you want me to go after Sasuke?"

"Choose one of these three things yourself."

"I choose to go to Amegakure with Jiraiya."