Chapter 46: Conversation with Master Yuan

"This is the village you have to protect, Hashirama!" Madara murmured to himself, his tone full of love and hate.

"Send a few more White Zetsu clones to infiltrate Konoha, collect information about the Uchiha clan, and find an Uchiha descendant who can carry my name as soon as possible. My body can't hold on for too long." After a while, Uchiha Madara, who had calmed down, instructed the White Zetsu's original body.

"Lord Madara! There is one more thing. My clone in the Land of Lightning found out a piece of information. The Third Mizukage wrote a letter to the Third Raikage, inviting the Hidden Cloud Village to join forces against the Land of Whirlpools and seize their sealing technique!" White Zetsu added.

"The Land of Whirlpools, the Uzumaki Clan?" Uchiha Madara muttered to himself, thought for a moment, and then said to the White Zetsu's original body, "Whether it's the perception ability or the sealing technique of this clan, it may affect my plan later. Now that Nagato has come to nurture my Samsara Eye, it seems that I should get rid of this damn clan first."

It is not known whether Uchiha Madara remembered Hashirama Senju who was kidnapped by Uzumaki Mito or he really thought that the people of the Uzumaki clan would pose a threat to his plan. In any case, Uchiha Madara also sent a large number of White Zetsu clones to the Whirlpool Country to collect intelligence, preparing to follow the Village of Mist and Village of Cloud to attack the Whirlpool Country.

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The attention turned back to Qingsi.

Qingsi returned home and immediately went to see Master Yuan, ready to talk to him about the affairs of the Whirlpool Country.

"Little Qingsi is back!" Master Yuan was very happy to see Qingsi coming back.

Although he was quite confident in Qingsi's ability, and Qingsi was not participating in a combat mission this time, this was after all the first time for his grandson to go abroad, and Master Yuan still had the worry as an old man about his younger generation going on a long journey.

"Grandpa! I'm back!" Qingsi was also in a good mood. After having Master Yuan as a relative, it was the first time he had been away from home for such a long time.

After talking about the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, the two began to talk about business.

"Grandpa, do you know that the Mizukage is plotting against the Whirlpool Country?" Qing Si asked. He wanted to make sure whether the Master knew about this. Although Grandpa Master had a high status in the village, he had not intervened in the affairs of the village for some time.

"I know. In fact, it was me who suggested to Mizukage-sama that you deliver the letter to Kumogakure." Yuanshi replied with a smile. He knew what Qingsi wanted to ask.

"After the Second-generation Gengetsu and the Second-generation Tsuchikage died together, we in the Hidden Mist Village no longer have any other top powerhouses except the current Third-generation. Although there are still some Kage-level fighters, they are just ordinary Kage-level. What we lack is a strong person who can make the final decision and change the situation on the battlefield. Therefore, at the suggestion of Master Mizukage, we began to experiment with the Jinchūriki." The master continued to explain.

"However, our Kirigakure lacks the inheritance of sealing techniques, nor has it produced any strong people who are proficient in sealing techniques, so the experiment has not progressed smoothly. We have tried ninjas of all levels of strength, but none of them have succeeded. No one can survive after borrowing the power of the tailed beasts. Those who are lucky enough to survive after using the power of the tailed beasts will soon lose themselves in the rampage of the tailed beasts. Many outstanding ninjas have died without any achievements." The master looked a little gloomy, sighed deeply, and then continued, his tone full of heaviness and unwillingness.

"The sealing technique inherited by the Uzumaki clan of the Whirlpool Country is something we urgently need, and our only chance to obtain it during the upcoming Ninja World War is to snatch it. Otherwise, when Konoha is free, we will not have any chance to get the sealing technique. Although the Uzumaki clan is only a nominal ally of Konoha, Konoha will not allow other villages to get involved. This is why Lord Mizukage proposed this plan."

"Grandpa, do you know which two tailed beasts our Kirigakure has?" Qingsi asked. He was quite concerned about this and was also a little curious.

Kiyoshi knew that the Sand Village had the one-tailed Shukaku, and the Konoha Village had the strongest nine-tailed Kurama. He learned during a mission a while ago that one of the tailed beasts of the Kumogakure Village was the eight-tailed Gyuki. As for the whereabouts of the other tailed beasts, even though he now controlled the underground gold exchange, he still didn't know much. After all, after seeing the scene of the Nine-tailed Jinchuriki Uzumaki Mito taking action in the First Ninja World War, each village had regarded the tailed beasts as their own strategic nuclear weapons and tightly blocked the news.

"Initially, all eight tailed beasts were obtained by Konoha. At the first Five Kage Summit, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, sold the other seven tailed beasts except the Nine-Tails. The Sand Village already had one tail, so they didn't want the other tailed beasts. The Iwagakure Village got the Four-Tails and the Five-Tails, our Mist Village got the Three-Tails and the Six-Tails, and the Kumogakure got the Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails. As for the last Seven-Tails, it was given to the Takigakure Village, which had equally strong overall strength at the time." Master Yuan answered Qingsi's question in detail. After all, he was his great grandson, and Qingsi was strong enough now. His elite jonin strength was also among the best in the Mist Village. There was nothing he couldn't tell him about such a secret.

"Three-tailed Isobu and Six-tailed Rhino?" Qingsi thought to himself.

(Note: The tailed beasts did not hate humans at the beginning. At the beginning, they maintained a good relationship with humans. Later, they were gradually captured by certain people who pursued power. Although he had not watched Naruto much in his previous life, Seiji, who had a thousand years of memory, knew the names of each of the nine tailed beasts clearly.)