Chapter 152 Fragments of the Sacred Tree and Thousand-Hand Pillars (6400 words) (Please subscribe an

Mito's death did not alarm the people of Konoha, because Mito had "died once" before and had a grand funeral.

Therefore, the second funeral that ushered in Mito's death was held in a very low-key secret. Only a few people who knew that Mito was alive came to attend the funeral.

At the funeral, Kirito looked at the familiar person who had lost his breath forever, and felt pain in his heart, making him unable to hold back tears.

Beside, Naoki and Tsunade were also crying bitterly.

There were naturally three generations of people attending the funeral this time. Looking at Mito's body on the coffin, he couldn't help but show a trace of sadness and loneliness on his face.

Since Mito's death, all the powerful ninjas who founded Konoha have passed away. Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara, Senju Tobirama, Uzumaki Mito and other thunderous names have disappeared from history. In the long river.

In the future, only books and people's memories can continue the legends of their lives.

"Wherever the leaves fly, fire grows endlessly. First generation sir, teacher, Mito-sama, the will of fire you left behind has been successfully passed on to the new generation, Tsunade, Nousuki, and Kiri. Everyone is the inheritor of the will of fire, you can rest assured that as the Hokage, I, Sarutobi Hiruzen, will protect them from wind and rain and let them grow up smoothly."

The third generation turned to look at Tsunade, Naoki and Kirito at this time, and saw that they were all sincerely grieving for Mito's death, and quietly made a promise.

Then, he walked up and said a few words of comfort to the three of them one by one, telling them not to wallow in sadness and to cheer up as soon as possible.

Then, he looked at Kushina, the new Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki, with a solemn expression on his face.

Now that Lord Mito has passed away and the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki has not yet grown up, the work of protecting the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki must be arranged as soon as possible.

The Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki is too important to Konoha, and Kushina is still young and not strong enough to control the power of the Nine-Tails.

It is estimated that Konoha will not be able to get help from the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki for a long time. On the contrary, it will need to protect her at all times.

"It stands to reason that the only person in the village who can stably control the Nine-Tails Rampage is Kirito. Letting him serve as a guard to protect Kushina is a way, but Kirito will definitely need to go to the battlefield to experience in the future. During this period Who should protect Kushina is really a headache."

The third generation thought with a slight frown.

After Mito-sama passed away, it was time for him to let Nasuki and Kirito go to the battlefield for training. This was something that had to be done, because without going through the ups and downs outside, these outstanding Konoha buds would not be able to survive. grow up smoothly.

He also came through this way back then.

Although this process will be very dangerous, this is how a ninja grows. Otherwise, he will not be able to become a truly powerful ninja, nor will he be able to convince other ninjas in the village who live and die for the village.

Mito once said that he wanted to bury the body together with the first generation.

So, after everyone finished paying their condolences to Mito, they began to move the coffin secretly.

As the god of ninjas, Senju Hashirama's body is undoubtedly of great value. In order to prevent interested people from desecrating his body, his graveyard is a secret, and only a few people in Konoha know it.

As a disciple of Mito, Kirito was naturally not an outsider and qualified to know this secret. He quietly left Konoha with Tsunade and others, and finally came to a very secret valley in the north of Konoha.

Here, Kirito saw many ancient stone buildings, and some stone pillars with a strong historical atmosphere were engraved with the emblem of the Senju clan.

Also, he discovered that there was a very powerful shielding seal here that could confuse other people's perceptions. Without someone to lead the way, ordinary people would never be able to discover this valley and would just get lost in it.

In addition, there are many powerful beasts living in the valley. A ninja who is not strong enough to be a jounin will accidentally enter it and will be killed by these powerful beasts in minutes.

"This is the cemetery of the Senju Clan. All members of the Senju Clan have always been buried here, including the first and second generation adults."

Mooka beside Kirito took the initiative to introduce him to Kirito.

Kirito nodded when he heard this, and then quietly turned his gaze to Orochimaru, who was next to Sandai not far away, with a cold glint in his eyes.

"Um?"

Orochimaru was very vigilant. Even though he was observing the powerful sealing barrier in the valley with interest at this time, trying to find loopholes in it for fun as usual, he also immediately noticed that someone was trying to find loopholes in it. He showed a very familiar hostility.

He immediately followed the feeling and found that the hostility came from Kirito's side.

However, Kirito had already withdrawn his gaze at this time, leaving him wondering who had shown hostility to him just now.

"Who is the one?"

Orochimaru couldn't tell who it was, so he quickly looked away and thought to himself.

At the same time, he also wanted to know why the person who suddenly showed hostility to him suddenly showed hostility to him.

Under the leadership of Taohua, the elder of the Thousand Hands clan, everyone avoided multiple hidden and deadly traps, and successfully entered the depths of the valley, deep into a huge underground tomb.

Here, Kirito and others saw a large number of sarcophagi. These sarcophagi had names engraved on them, and they were basically members of the Senju clan.

"Ahead is the burial place of past clan leaders. Except for Tsunade, Naoki, Kirito and Kushina, please wait here for now."

Momoka led everyone to a huge stone door deep in the tomb, then turned around and said to Sandai, Mito Kadoen, Koharu Tanzania and others.

Sandai and others also knew the importance of the core of the clan's cemetery, so naturally they would not be dissatisfied. They all nodded knowingly and waited outside.

Seeing this, Taohua was very satisfied with the knowledge of Sandai and others, then turned around and began to quickly form seals to unlock the seal on the stone door.

As the seal was released, the stone door slowly opened automatically.

Seeing this, Naoki and Kirito immediately lifted Mito's coffin one after another and entered, and then went inside with Mooka and others.

Behind the stone gate is a long underground passage that goes deeper into the ground.

A few minutes later, Kirito and others came to a huge underground space.

There is actually an underground lake here. Under the light of the fire, the water is emerald-colored and crystal clear.

There is an island in the center of the lake, with a dead tree growing on the island.

Dozens of sarcophagi were placed around the dead wood.

Here, Kirito felt a very familiar energy, that is, natural energy.

The natural energy concentration in this underground space is actually more than ten times that of the outside world.

Those lake waters gave him the feeling of liquid natural energy.

But the most amazing thing to him was the dead tree on the island in the middle of the lake. Although the dead tree seemed to be dead, it actually still had life. This life was very weak, but extremely tough, and it contained quite astonishing energy. Chakra.

The amount of chakra might not be as high as that of a tailed beast, but the feeling it gave him was not that far off.

Relying on natural energy perception, Kirito felt very familiar with the wood escape chakra in the dead tree.

It is this wood escape chakra that can keep the vitality in this dead wood alive.

Also, it is actually gathering and absorbing the surrounding natural energy, and then converting it into chakra.

Perhaps it is because it continuously gathers natural energy from the outside world that this underground space is filled with rich natural energy.

"Could it be part of the sacred tree? I remember that in the original plot of the animation, all the fragments of the sacred tree were destroyed by the Sage of Six Paths. How come there are fragments of the sacred tree here?"

Kirito stared at the dead trees on the island in the middle of the lake, thinking in confusion.

"Kirito, can you use your magnetic escape to build a bridge that is also an island in the middle of the lake? This lake is not simple, it is a very terrifying trap. Once we ninjas are accidentally touched by this water, if we are not people with huge chakra , he may die in a moment.”

Suddenly, Momo's voice reached Kirito's ears, bringing Kirito back to his senses.

"No problem, Master Mooka."

Kirito replied immediately, then carefully put down the coffin, took out a psychic card from his body, used the psychic technique and release technique, and took out the magnetic escape black rod from it.

He held the magnetic escape black rod, input the thunder escape chakra into it, created a powerful magnetic force, and then controlled the magnetic force to quickly draw out the iron sand from the ground.

Soon, a bridge made of iron sand appeared in front of Taohua and others.

"That's enough, Master Moohua."

Kirito walked up in person and said to Moohua.

Taohua immediately asked others to follow, and successfully entered the island in the middle of the lake with the help of the bridge created by Kirito using magnetic escape.

As soon as Taohua arrived at the island in the middle of the lake, she quickly came to a sarcophagus with a sad expression on her face and murmured: "Sir Hashirama, I'm sorry to bother you."

After saying that, she placed her hands on the sarcophagus, injected chakra, and then quickly performed seals with her hands.

When the seal was completed, the sarcophagus opened slowly.

The body of Senju Hashirama suddenly appeared in front of Kirito and others.

It is very surprising that Senju Hashirama has been dead for more than twenty years, but his body is still lifelike and still maintains a strong vitality. It does not look like a person who has been dead for many years.

"Tsunade Naoki, come and see our grandpa."

Momoka looked at Senju Hashirama who seemed to be sleeping in front of her, and was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and said to Tsunade and Naoki.

"grandfather."

After hearing this, Tsunade came over and saw Hashirama's body. She suddenly said excitedly and sadly, crying uncontrollably.

Shengshu also walked forward quickly, looking at his grandfather's body in silence, with an excited expression on his face.

Before he was born, his grandfather had passed away. He had no memory of Hashirama, only repayment and respect for him.

It was just grief, which he didn't have much when he saw his grandfather.

"Is this the body of the God of Ninja? What an amazing body. Even if he is dead, it actually gives me a very dangerous feeling. I don't know how powerful he would be when he was alive."

Kirito stood on the edge looking at Senju Hashirama's body and marveled in his heart.

How much is the body of Senju Hashirama worth? It can be imagined from the fact that his body still shows no signs of decay. This is simply a miracle.

The blood succession boundary of Mu Dun is really amazing, and the Hashirama cells that are still alive in his body are the treasures of the ninja world.

In the past, Kirito might have wondered why Senju Hashirama died after the battle with Madara Uchiha, even though he was in good health.

But now he is no longer surprised by this problem, because in the ninja world, the death of a ninja is not only the destruction of the body, but also the death of the soul after being severely damaged.

What will be Uchiha Madara's Mangekyō Sharingan power? No one knows this.

But Kirito now estimates that one of them is a powerful pupil technique that may involve the soul, or in order to defeat Senju Hashirama, he mastered some kind of powerful soul ninjutsu.

Senju Hashirama probably died because his soul was severely damaged.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to say that such a strong and healthy body died from serious injuries.

Compared with the body, injuries to the soul are more difficult to heal. Unless the soul is very powerful, it is basically impossible to heal on its own. It will only continue to worsen until the soul is severely injured and dies.

"Tsunade, Naoki, put Mito-sama next to Hashirama-sama."

Mooka continued to look at Senju Hashirama's body for a while, then said to the two of them.

Tsunade and Naoki immediately obeyed. They carefully took out their grandmother's body from the coffin and placed it next to their grandfather.

Before his death, Mito once again activated the Yin Seal to return himself to his youthful and beautiful appearance, and used some special sealing technique on himself to continue to maintain his youthful and beautiful appearance even after his death.

Therefore, except for Mito's gray hair at this time, when put together with Senju Hashirama, it can be said that he is a man and a woman, and they are a perfect match.

"Okay, you two, step back, I'm going to close the sarcophagus again."

Taohua stared blankly at the two people lying in the sarcophagus. The scene where the two were together when they were young flashed through her mind. She couldn't help showing a nostalgic expression on her face, and then sighed.

Tsunade and Naoki looked at the two people in the sarcophagus reluctantly, and then slowly backed away.

Taohua immediately made another seal, restarted the sealing technique on the sarcophagus, and closed the sarcophagus again.

"Lord Taohua, I think the defense here is not strong enough. How about letting me put up a new seal barrier here?"

At this time, Kirito suddenly said.

Momoka heard Kirito say this, with a surprised expression on her face, and replied: "Kirito, although the defense here is insufficient, it is very powerful outside. Unless a shadow-level expert is proficient in sealing techniques, it is impossible to successfully break through. The seal from the outside came here.”

The implication is that Kirito's move is somewhat unnecessary.

But soon, she seemed to remember something and immediately changed her words: "But if you want to do it and don't mind the trouble, then go ahead and do it."

"No trouble, you get out of here first, I will finish it soon."

Kirito shook his head.

Then, he suddenly asked: "Master Taohua, is this dead tree important?"

"Of course it's important. This dead tree existed a long time ago. It has magical power and can keep the corpses around it from rotting for a long time. Because of this, we, the Thousand Hands Clan, transplanted it here. So, you will set a seal later. The barrier must not harm it."

Taohua heard this and replied seriously.

"I see."

Kirito nodded obediently.

After a while, Taohua and others left the island in the middle of the lake and returned to the underground lake.

Seeing this, Kirito immediately slapped his hand, and astonishing chakra fluctuations emerged from his body, and a large number of sealing techniques emerged from his body.

These sealing techniques quickly spread all over the island in the middle of the lake, and even penetrated deep into the lake.

What surprised Taohua was that the sealing techniques formed by chakra did not conflict with the lake water that would swallow up the chakra once it touched it.

The lake is still perfectly calm.

"This boy's sealing skills have actually reached this level. Maybe his sealing skills will surpass Mito-sama in the future."

Taohua noticed this scene and thought in surprise.

At this moment, the sealing technique Kirito performed here was the Four Symbols Seal. At the same time, he also added a sealing technique obtained from the monk Hoichi that can control natural energy through chakra guidance, thereby strengthening its power. power.

If natural energy is not used to enhance its power, the four-image seal here can only seal the entire island in the middle of the lake into a different space. Now that natural energy is added, it may be possible to seal the entire underground lake.

The energy core that supports this enhanced version of the Four Elephants Seal is the chakra in the dead tree.

This time, Kirito used this dead tree as the four-symbol seal in the sealing formation.

Once someone forcibly opens any sarcophagus on the island in the middle of the lake, the four-dimensional seal hidden here will be activated immediately.

Finally, Kirito added a sealing technique, the Nine Layers of Light Array, here.

This sealing technique is also maintained for a long time with the chakra in the body of the dead wood, and the conditions for activation are the same as the four elephant seals.

The Nine Layers of Light Array is the most advanced binding sealing technique that Kirito can now deploy alone. Once activated, even a tailed beast as powerful as a tailed beast cannot escape in a short time.

"It's best that no one pays attention to this place. Teacher, I will never allow anyone to desecrate your body."

After Kirito successfully laid two powerful seals, he turned his head to look at the sarcophagus where Mito was, and murmured.

Afterwards, he walked onto the iron sand bridge he made using magnetic escape, left the island in the middle of the lake, and then left this underground space with Tsunade and others.

This was the end of Mito's funeral.

On the other side, in the country of Waves, in the underground prison of Gojoshin's mansion.

Gojo Shin, played by the clone of White Zetsu, came to a cell deep in the prison. Here, a ninja who had lost his limbs was bound by chains covered with sealing techniques. It was Kakuzu himself.

When he heard the noise, he turned his head with difficulty and looked at the Bai Jue clone outside the cell.

"Give up, I will not join your organization, and I will not surrender to you."

Kakuzu saw the White Zetsu clone and said coldly.

In the past few months, this person used to be that damn mysterious warrior. He claimed to be the leader of some night organization and invited him to join.

Who are they? How could you give in so easily?

And he doesn't trust anyone at all, so it's naturally impossible for him to become someone else's companion.

Besides, the man in front of him beat him like this. He was very angry. It would be good if he didn't kill him. How could he agree to become his subordinate?

Anyway, he is not afraid of death, he has nothing to fear.

When Kirito heard Kakuzu's stubborn words, his expression didn't change at all, but the look he looked at Kakuzu today was particularly cold.

Kakuzu also noticed this keenly, and suddenly realized that today might be his death day.

In response, Kakuzu just sneered indifferently.

Death didn't matter to him at all. From the moment he was betrayed by the village, his heart was actually dead.

The reason why he lives is because he is unwilling to be treated so unfairly.

Therefore, he chose revenge and killed all the senior Taki-nin who betrayed him. He also used the secret technique of Earth Resentment and Yu that he had taken away to take away the hearts of these people and let them die in a long and painful death.

After completing his revenge, he became extremely empty personally. It was not until he discovered that money could fill this emptiness that he began to believe in money and continue to live in order to make money.

But gradually, he began to feel a little tired of making money day after day.

Perhaps in the near future, even if no one kills him, he will choose to commit suicide after losing the pleasure of making money.

Now it's just a matter of moving the schedule forward a little, it's not a big deal.

"Are you really not thinking about it anymore? As long as you agree, I can make you the financial director of Bianhua Pharmaceutical Company, with an annual salary of 100 million. The current turnover of Bianhua Pharmaceutical Company is very high, which can completely satisfy your hobby of counting money."

Kirito and Kirito made one last effort to fight against each other.

Kirito said that it was impossible to accept Kakuzu, a shadow-level warrior who was not inferior to the next force, under his command, Ren Yong.

After all, if Kakuzu can be successfully brought under his command, it can be regarded as changing Kakuzu's fate, and there is a high chance that he can successfully obtain strengthening points.

Unfortunately, Kakuzu was more stubborn than he thought.

Although he had secretly used the spiritual technique Soul Search on Kakuzu to gain Kakuzu's memories and understand his life and personality, he still underestimated his obsession with not trusting anyone.

Even if he throws out the huge bait of being the financial director of Bianhua Pharmaceutical Company, it will be useless.

He really didn't know what Nagato relied on to take Kakuzu under his command. Maybe Kakuzu had changed in some way due to something, but now Kakuzu is just a stone in a pit, hard and smelly, and completely impossible to find. to the possibility of conquering it.

"Impossible is impossible, end my life quickly, don't waste your and my time anymore."

Kakuzu refused Kirito's invitation again without hesitation.

After saying that, he closed his eyes, stopped looking at Kirito, and quietly waited for death to come.

"Oh~, that's such a pity."

When Kirito received a rejection again, he sighed with a regretful expression on his face.

His patience was limited, and that patience ran out with the death of his teacher.

Because after the death of his teacher, it was not long before he went to the battlefield. Before that, he had to find a way to quickly improve his strength again.

Although after acquiring the White Eyes and Blood Dragon Eyes, the ability of the two pairs of eyes has been continuously strengthened under the nourishment of the two powers of Wood Release and Xianjutsu, making his strength rapidly improve. To survive on the battlefield, it is natural to improve your strength as much as possible.

And the strengthening point is the key.

When Kakuzu heard Kirito finally saying that he wanted to kill him, he didn't mean anything. He calmly reopened his eyes and looked at Kirito again.

At this time, Kakuzu's green eyes seemed to be able to speak. When Kirito saw them, he immediately understood what Kakuzu was talking about.

It's saying: "I'll wait for you down there and we'll meet again soon."

"You may not be able to fulfill your wish. I should live for a long time, but maybe one day we will meet again in this world."

Kirito sneered and put his hand on Kakuzu's head.

Kakuzu obviously didn't understand the meaning of what Kirito just said. Just when doubts arose in his heart, he found that his consciousness was disappearing rapidly.

"So this is what death feels like. It doesn't feel special."

Kakuzu thought as he was dying, before falling into eternal darkness.

[You successfully changed the fate of Kakuzu and gained two strengthening points. ]

The moment Kirito ended Kakuzu's life, the long-lost voice from the system immediately reached his ears again.

"Another two strengthening points, where will they be added this time?"

Kirito heard the sound of the system and immediately quietly called up the attribute panel. Looking at the various options that could be enhanced by adding points, he fell into a brief difficulty in choosing.