Chapter 280: Fortress in Hand

Too deliberate, everything was too deliberate, as if this mission full of unreasonable loopholes was planned in advance a long time ago...!

So, the scheming frog keeps touching your belly!!!

This so-called spy is actually a member of Danzo's group!!!

Besides, we will talk about whether there is any important information about the Hidden Cloud Village separately!

But this mission was 100% a trap set by Shimura Danzo for Hatake Sakumo! He wanted to use this mission to get rid of Hatake Sakumo...!

Kiyoshi could imagine that as long as Hatake Sakumo failed in this secret mission, regardless of whether Hatake Sakumo died in the mission or not, Danzo Shimura would have plenty of ways to destroy Hatake Sakumo, who was more like a samurai than a ninja, and make Konoha's White Fang lose its edge forever!

It can only be said that it's all because of power. Although Hatake Sakumo himself may not have any idea about the position of Hokage and does not want to fight for it, he has a large number of supporters under him during his many years of fighting career. Even if he does not want to fight, there are still people who will push him to fight for it invisibly!

Moreover, the prestige of "Konoha White Fang" Hatake Sakumo in Konoha Village, and even in the entire Fire Country, is too high. After all, even the Daimyo of the Fire Country personally came forward to grant him the Hokage half-sleeves, which symbolizes honor and status!

However, in the minds of Konoha's top leaders, the most taboo thing is Hatake Sakumo's lofty prestige.

You know, being more successful than your boss is a big taboo in the workplace!

And according to the current situation, if things continue to develop, it is very likely that Hatake Sakumo will be the new Hokage!

If Hatake Sakumo is from the Hokage faction, then everything doesn't matter. It would be fine if he were to become the Fourth Hokage naturally. After all, the interests of the Hokage faction are closely tied together.

However, not only is Hatake Sakumo not from the same faction as the Hokage, but he and the Hokage faction have nothing in common at all.

This is not a good thing for the Hokage series. How could they allow someone who is outside of their system to exist?

After all, the Konoha high-level officials do not want the position of Hokage to eventually fall into the hands of someone who is not from the Hokage family.

The person who succeeds the Fourth Hokage must be from their own Hokage lineage, only then can they feel at ease.

Therefore, it is very clear that Danzo Shimura's purpose is to represent the Hokage line to suppress Hatake Sakumo, or even simply make him disappear.

After all, Konoha is the leader in the ninja world, with many Kage-level warriors. Losing Hatake Sakumo is no big deal in Danzo Shimura's opinion. Moreover, although he did not say it explicitly, Danzo Shimura knew that his good friend, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, must be thinking the same thing in his heart.

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After passing the detailed intelligence to the Anbu who were on standby in the Land of Hot Springs and having them relay the information to Kakuzu, Kiyoshi no longer cared about the matter. No matter what the final outcome of Hatake Sakumo was, whether he broke through the siege and returned to Konoha, or was successfully killed by Kakuzu, it would be a great thing for the Hidden Mist Village.

The Konoha high-ranking officials, immersed in the glory of winning the Second Ninja World War, had no idea at this time that this wave of suffocating operations of theirs would eventually bring Konoha into such an abyss.

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A few days later, Uzumaki Shinki and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen returned to the Hidden Mist Village with Shennong, who they had captured alive.

Shennong kept thinking along the way about what kind of words he should use so that the Hidden Mist Village would spare his life after they had used him.

As for the Hidden Mist Village using special means to forcibly read his memory, he was not afraid. Although the Hidden Mist Village did not pay much attention to ninjutsu, he was still the leader of the Hidden Mist Village. Therefore, there was still a protective seal in his brain set with dark chakra.

Once one forcibly reads his memory, both the person reading the memory and the person whose memory is read will be eroded by the dark chakra and go berserk.

Therefore, in Shennong's opinion, the Hidden Mist Village could not be so stupid. Since they captured him, they must want to get something he had. This gave him hope of surviving and reaching a cooperation with the Hidden Mist Village.

However, Shennong was overthinking after all. With his narrow vision, he had no idea that there was such an outrageous eye technique as the Rinnegan in the ninja world.

After the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Demon handed Shennong over to Qingsi, before Shennong could open his mouth to negotiate with Qingsi, Qingsi directly opened his Rinnegan, condensed a chakra ball shining with green light in his hand, flashed in front of Shennong, and inserted his hand into Shennong's chest.

That's right, Qingsi doesn't need to make any deal with Shennong at all. He can just use the Rinnegan to turn him into a living puppet, just like Kaguya Musashi before. As long as there is no one who exceeds the upper limit of Qingsi's Rinnegan and is kind enough to help Shennong release the control of the Rinnegan, then Shennong can only honestly become Qingsi's most loyal subordinate.

After Shennong was controlled, everything Shennong owned naturally belonged to Qingsi.

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The former site of the Sky Ninja Village, deep underground.

Under the guidance of his guide Shennong, Qingsi came to the fortress named Anker Bandian by Shennong. Of course, the fortress has now regained its name of Angkor Fortress. After all, this fortress belongs to Qingsi and the Hidden Mist Village, so Qingsi will certainly not continue to use such a difficult name.

In the center of the power room of the Angkor Fortress, Qingsi saw the "Zero Tail Nothingness" formed by the dark chakra. Without paying attention to the restless movements of the Zero Tail, Qingsi directly launched the eye technique "Takama-ga-hara" and took it in.

This is the best food for the little Ten-Tails. Although it is not a tailed beast separated from the Ten-Tails of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, it is not much inferior to the tailed beasts, and is enough for the little Ten-Tails to digest for a while.

Qingsi left Shennong in the Angkor Fortress and asked him to integrate the rest of the air ninjas.

After losing the power provided by the Zero Tail, if the Angkor Fortress wants to have the ability to fly, it can only let these air ninjas provide power for the fortress.

Qingsi felt no pity in using these cannon fodders from the Empty Ninja Village who dreamed of ruling the ninja world. After all, they were of such high status that they dared to plot against the entire ninja world like him!