Chapter 203 Monthly Reading

After awakening the Rinnegan, Richard mastered all other Rinnegan ninjutsu except for the special eye techniques such as the Heaven's Hand Power and the Wheel Grave and the Edge Prison.

Among them is the Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragon Nine Sealing.

Although he knows this ninjutsu, he has never used it.

As for the reason, it is very simple.

Because the Phantom Dragon Nine Sealing requires the gathering of other ninjas to activate the special effect of the Outer Path Demon Statue, and seal the tailed beast in the body of the Jinchūriki into the Outer Path Demon Statue.

Richard is alone, so even if he masters this ninjutsu, he can't use it.

When Parker brought back the information about Scorpion in the River Country, Richard and his friends set off.

In order to save Gaara and meet his grandson at the same time, Chiyo, like in the original work, set off with them.

Kakashi, Kai and others welcomed Chiyo's joining.

Although they have never fought with Chiyo, they have heard of Chiyo's name and know that Chiyo was once the strongest puppeteer in the Sand Village.

Although the puppeteer's ability to control will decline due to age.

But compared with ninjas who need to fight at close range, the puppeteer is much less affected.

Not only that, as they grow older, the puppeteer's experience will become richer.

In other words, older puppeteers may be more difficult to deal with than younger ones.

Chiyo and Kankuro are two good examples.

Like Temari, Chiyo also temporarily joined Team 7 and acted with Kakashi, Sai, and Sakura.

As for Richard, he was still a bachelor and acted alone.

After leaving the Sand Village, they went straight to the Akatsuki base discovered by Parker.

Because Gaara had been captured for three days, except for Richard, Kakashi and the others increased their travel speed to the maximum.

Just as they were heading to the secret base of the Akatsuki organization, the seal of the one-tail also reached the final stage.

The River Country is located between the Wind Country and the Fire Country, and is less than half a day away from the Sand Village.

Unlike Kakashi and others who were already very alert, Richard, who was flying in the air, still had a calm face.

Even if he didn't take action, with the strength of Kakashi and Kai, they could defeat Sasori and Deidara.

Although Sasori and Deidara were both powerful S-level ninjas, he was not very interested in either of them.

There was only one person he cared about now, and that was Obito who was disguised as Afei.

In the original work, Obito did not participate in the capture of the One-Tail, nor did he fight with Kakashi and others when they rescued Gaara.

Now, Obito not only participated in the capture of the One-Tail, but also had a high probability of fighting with Kakashi and others.

If there were no other changes, Obito was now in the secret base of the River Country.

Although he didn't know why Obito, disguised as Afei, participated in the capture of the One-Tail, Richard's intuition told him that Obito must be planning something in secret.

Otherwise, Obito would definitely not participate in the capture of the One-Tail.

River Country.

The secret base of the Akatsuki organization.

"There are 10 people moving quickly towards the secret base of River Country. They are very fast."

"One of them is Richard, the other 7 are Konoha ninjas, and there are 2 ninjas from Sand Village."

He said to Pein, Konan and others.

After hearing his words, Pein, Konan and others who were jointly performing the Phantom Dragon Nine Seals frowned.

Not counting Orochimaru who has left the Akatsuki organization, in the current Akatsuki organization, only Nagato and Konan have fought with Richard.

As for the others, they have heard of his name a lot in the past three years, but have not fought with him.

To be precise, they have never even seen him.

"Richard is not a Konoha ninja, how could he come to rescue the One-Tail Jinchuriki?"

Nagato controlled Pein and asked Pein to speak.

"As far as I know, he has a good relationship with the Fifth Hokage. It should be that the Fifth Hokage asked him for help."

Itachi replied immediately.

Although he left Konoha as a traitor and joined Akatsuki, he usually paid close attention to the situation in Konoha.

"I heard that he opened a private firm in Konoha to accept commissions from other people. Perhaps the Fifth Hokage commissioned him."

After Itachi finished speaking, Kisame's voice immediately rang out.

As Itachi's teammate, Kisame trusted and respected Itachi in a special way.

Although when they first joined Akatsuki, the relationship between the two of them was not very good, and they even almost fought because of a disagreement.

But after teaming up with Itachi, their relationship became better and better.

"Who did Konoha send over?"

Nagato asked while controlling Pein.

"Kakashi and Mai Dai Kai both brought their own teams. I don't have much impression of the newcomers in Team 7, and I don't know their specific identities."

Ze immediately replied.

Although Neji and Rock Lee were not very famous, Zetsu still recognized them.

In Akatsuki, he was mainly responsible for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.

Whether it was Neji and Rock Lee, or the rookies in the other four hidden villages, he knew everything clearly.

As for Sai.

I never recognized Sai, purely because Sai was a member of the Root before and rarely showed up in the outside world with his real identity.

"It will take some time to seal the One-Tail. Who is willing to go over and stop them?"

Pain's voice sounded again.

Although they are now using the Phantom Dragon Nine Seals to seal the One-Tail, except for Sasori, Deidara, and Obito, no one else is in the Land of Rivers.

In the secret base of the Land of Rivers, there are only Sasori and Deidara.

Obito, who disguised himself as Afei, was driven out of the base by Sasori and Deidara because he is not yet an official member of the Akatsuki organization.

On the surface, it was the two of them who drove out Obito, who was chattering and not yet an official member.

But in fact, even if they didn't do this, Obito would find a reason to leave.

He didn't want to stay in the base for three days doing nothing, watching Sasori and Deidara use the Phantom Dragon Nine Seals to seal the One-Tail.

Although he could also join in, he didn't intend to do so.

Because his current identity is Afei, a newcomer who wants to join the Akatsuki organization, not Uchiha Madara.

"Since they are from Konoha, let me and Kisame deal with it."

Itachi said.

He had never met Richard, but he didn't like Richard at all.

To be precise, after knowing that Richard sent Sasuke to Orochimaru as a student, he, who was obsessed with his younger brother, had a lot of resentment towards Richard.

If Sasuke took the initiative to go to Orochimaru and worship Orochimaru as his master, he would not have any objection.

Because this was Sasuke's own decision.

But the current situation is that Sasuke went to Orochimaru because of Richard.

From Itachi's point of view, Richard's doing this was equivalent to giving Sasuke to Orochimaru.

And Orochimaru has always had ambitions for the Uchiha clan's Sharingan.

"Okay, then you two will handle it."

Nagato controlled Pein and replied.

Although he knew that even if Itachi and Kisame took action personally, they would not be able to defeat Richard, but they did not need to defeat Richard now, they just needed to stop Richard and the others for a while.

After instructing Scorpion to prepare two sacrifices, Nagato did not hesitate and immediately performed the Elephant Turning Technique, distributing part of Itachi and Kisame's chakra to the sacrifices.

As the Elephant Turning Technique was performed, Scorpion's two subordinates immediately turned into the appearance of Itachi and Kisame.

In addition to their identical appearances, they also possessed the same abilities as Itachi and Kisame.

Whether it was Itachi's Sharingan or Kisame's broadsword Samehada, they were perfectly simulated by the Elephant Turning Technique.

Not only that, they were all controlled by Itachi and Kisame with their consciousness.

When Pain performed the Elephant Turning Technique and gave himself a "puppet" completely controlled by himself, Itachi and Kisame immediately controlled the puppet and left the base.

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In the forest tens of kilometers away from the Akatsuki base, "Itachi" and "Kisame" appeared in front of Richard and the others.

After seeing them, Kakashi immediately became alert and stopped Kai and others who wanted to take action immediately.

When Itachi and Kisame went to Konoha, they did not fight with Kakashi, Kai and others.

Although there is no fight in the original work, after seeing "Itachi", Kakashi knew that the next battle would not be easy.

Before Itachi "defected" from the village, Itachi and Kakashi were companions in the Anbu.

Not only did they serve as guards for the Third Hokage together, but they also carried out the task of protecting Kai together.

Compared with Kai and others, Kakashi knows Itachi's strength better.

When he was still in the Anbu, Itachi, who was nine years younger than him, had strength that was not inferior to him.

And in the night of the Uchiha clan extermination, Itachi showed strength far beyond him.

Although Kakashi has been in high spirits and reminded Kai and others with a serious face, Kakashi still underestimated Itachi at this time.

At this time, Kakashi did not know that Itachi possessed the unreasonable and powerful illusion of "Tsukuyomi", and did not know that Itachi mastered Susanoo.

After reminding Kai and others, Kakashi pulled up his forehead protector and revealed his Sharingan.

Then, he took the lead, cast Raikiri, and attacked Itachi first.

Richard knew that Kakashi did this to end the battle in the shortest time and avoid Sakura and Neji from getting hurt.

But he never thought that Itachi's current strength was more terrifying than he expected.

Before he came to Itachi, he was hit by Itachi's Tsukuyomi.

Although he had been trying his best to guard against Itachi's illusion, Tsukuyomi was not an ordinary illusion.

Without any suspense, Kakashi was immediately pulled into the Tsukuyomi space by Itachi.

Itachi did not show courtesy to Kakashi and tortured Kakashi severely in the Tsukuyomi space for three days and three nights.

For Kakashi, these were three days that he would never forget.

From Richard's point of view, Kakashi, who cast Raikiri, fell down with weak legs as soon as he came to Itachi.

Except for Richard, Itachi, and Kisame, no one else knew what Itachi did to Kakashi.

After seeing his "best friend" Kakashi being defeated in a weird way, Kai did not hesitate and immediately used the Eight Gates.

Itachi and Kisame did not stand there stupidly and let him use the Eight Gates.

But when Kai used the Eight Gates, they launched an attack at the same time.

In terms of numbers, Kai and his team had an absolute advantage in numbers.

But the situation on the field was just one-sided.

Except for the experienced Chiyo and the powerful Kai, Sakura, Sai, Temari, Neji, Rock Lee, and Tenten were all confused by the attacks of Itachi and Kisame.

Not long after, Sakura, Tenten and others were either trapped by Itachi's illusion or trapped or injured by Kisame's water ninjutsu.

The gap is too big!

Richard, floating in the air, sighed.

Although Itachi and Kisame who fought with Sakura and others were not their real bodies, but puppets created by the Elephant Turning Technique, they only had 30% of the chakra of the real bodies.

But for Sakura and others, Itachi and Kisame were still not something they could deal with.

Even Kai and Chiyo, because they had to protect them, could not exert their full strength.

After floating in the air for a while, Richard landed on the lake created by Kisame's water ninjutsu.

"Bullying children is not something adults should do. Let me play with you two."

Richard stood on the water and said to Itachi and Kisame.

After seeing him and himself looking at each other, Itachi did not hesitate and once again performed Tsukuyomi, trying to pull Richard's spirit into the Tsukuyomi space.

The next second, an incredible expression appeared on his face.

Tsukuyomi failed!

Itachi looked at Richard in disbelief.

"Don't make a fuss. Tsukuyomi is just an illusion after all."

"You are very good at illusions. You should know that illusions have an inevitable disadvantage, that is, illusions cannot affect people whose spirit and will are far superior to yours."

"And my spirit and will are much stronger than you think."

Richard said slowly.

In the original work, Tsukuyomi's performance can be called unsolvable.

But Tsukuyomi is not really unsolvable.

If you have to say it, you can only say that people in the Naruto world are too weak, so Tsukuyomi has a nearly unsolvable performance.

After discovering that Tsukuyomi failed, Itachi guessed that Richard's spirit and will had exceeded the limit of Tsukuyomi.

Although he didn't know why Richard had such an amazing spirit and will, he didn't waste time and immediately performed the second eye technique of the Mangekyō Sharingan, Amaterasu.

As Amaterasu was performed, black flames appeared out of thin air.

However, before Amaterasu's black flames hit Richard, Richard disappeared from Itachi's sight.

"I guessed correctly. You will most likely use Amaterasu after Tsukuyomi."

"It turns out that I guessed right."

Richard's voice sounded behind Itachi.

After hearing his voice, Itachi turned around abruptly and tried to distance himself from Richard.

At this moment, Richard opened his Samsara Eye and raised his right hand to aim at Itachi and Kisame.

Shinra Tensei!

Without any hesitation, he immediately used Shinra Tensei.

The terrifying impact instantly sent Itachi and Kisame flying dozens of meters away.

Richard did not use his full strength.

Otherwise, the two of them would not have been as simple as being thrown dozens of meters away.

"Did Pein tell you that I fought him three years ago?"

Richard said to Itachi and Kisame.

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