Chapter 174 Sansho Fish Hanzo

Just as Jiraiya and others were trying their best to sneak into the Sand Village, Natsuki also crossed the Wind Country and arrived in the Rain Country where it was raining continuously after a whole day of flying.

After arriving at the Rain Country, Xia Rixing had to slow down. The environment here was not very friendly to flying. Not to mention the continuous drizzle that hindered flying, flying too high could easily lead to being struck by lightning.

Fortunately, the territory of the Rain Country is small, and Xia Rixing quickly arrived at the Rain Village. He then took out the Flying Thunder God Kunai and input chakra into it.

A flash of light passed, and Uchiha Feiyu appeared in front of Xia Rixing in an instant. Finally, his huge mental power spread out and scanned the entire Rain Village.

"Hmm? No...Isn't Nagato in the Rain Village yet?"

After a moment, Uchiha Feiyu frowned slightly. There was no outstanding chakra in the Rain Village now. The strongest one was just about the same as an ordinary Kage, and did not pose any threat to Uchiha Feiyu.

If Uchiha Feiyu guessed correctly, the one he sensed should be Hanzo of the Rain Village. Although this guy has a great reputation and is even called a demigod, his strength is actually not much stronger than that of an ordinary Kage.

The real reason why other ninja villages are unwilling to get entangled with this guy is because Hanzo of the Salamander is a completely poisonous person. Even his breath carries toxins, and his effect in clearing out soldiers on the battlefield is absolutely first-class.

Apart from the transplanted poison sac and the toxin from the summoned beast Salamander, Hanzo's strength is not much stronger than that of the "strongest third-generation Kazekage". It cannot be said that he is a completely exaggerated fake, but he is indeed overrated.

As for Nagato, even if most of his chakra was absorbed by the Rinnegan, the quality of his chakra was far greater than that of an ordinary Kage-level warrior.

After turning his head to think for a while, Uchiha Feiyu quickly figured it out. It should be the butterfly effect of him killing Shimura Danzo and Uchiha Madara that led to this change.

Obviously, there is no real conflict between Hanzo of the Salamander and the Akatsuki organization now, and Nagato has not killed Hanzo of the Salamander and taken over the Rain Village.

"If you think about it carefully, you will understand that Jiraiya can take Yahiko and Konan with him. Obviously, the plot of the Rain Country has completely taken a different path."

"But no matter what, the Akatsuki headquarters should still be in the Rain Country. I believe Hanzo must have enough information there."

Thinking of this, Uchiha Feiyu first said something to Xia Rixing, asking her to go back to the Sand Village directly, and then he slowly walked into the Rain Village.

Relying on his powerful illusion, Uchiha Feiyu moved freely in the Rain Village. All the ninjas in the streets and alleys ignored him. Soon, he arrived at the high tower in the center of the Rain Village.

This is the most heavily guarded place in the Ninja Village. Although Hanzo of the Salamander was not beaten to a pulp by the Outer Path Statue summoned by Nagato as in the original novel, and had to be guarded by ninjas all the time to protect him, the now old and frail Hanzo of the Salamander still takes his protection work very seriously.

But how could these Rain Village ninjas fight against Uchiha Feiyu? He walked in through the main gate of the tower openly and swaggeringly, and the ninjas beside him who were staring at him with wide eyes knew nothing about it.

In the room inside the tower, Salamander Hanzo was sitting quietly on a futon, holding a sickle and meditating with his eyes closed.

As he got older, Salamander Hanzo liked this quiet atmosphere more and more, and no longer liked to go out and practice martial arts like he did when he was young.

As for the reason for this change, Hanzo of the Salamander was very clear in his mind. When he was young, he needed to show his strength in front of many ninjas and boost the confidence of his own ninja village.

At that time, he was indeed very powerful. His top-notch swordsmanship and water escape, coupled with his own poison, were enough to make any opponent fear him.

What a pity... I am old now!

The impact of aging on physical ninjas is much stronger than that on ninjutsu and illusion ninjas. Except for the poison, most of Hanzo's strength is in swordsmanship and teleportation. The decline in strength after aging is even greater than that of ordinary ninjas.

Not to mention that when he was young, in pursuit of powerful strength, Hanzo of the Salamander transplanted the highly poisonous poison sac of the Salamander into himself. Although this made him invincible when he was young and swept away many opponents, it also made his body age much faster than that of ordinary ninjas when he was old.

Although Hanzo of the Salamander has a strong resistance to poisons, it cannot withstand the toxins being consumed in its body day and night. Now, at the age of 50, Hanzo of the Salamander is in such poor health that he is no different from a 70-year-old man.

At times like this, Hanzo of the Salamander could only keep a low profile and reduce the number of times he attacked, so as to avoid letting other ninjas see his weakness.

After being immersed in the high spirits of his youth for a long time, Hanzo suddenly woke up and opened his eyes:
"Weird, why is it so quiet outside?!"

There was continuous drizzle in the Rain Kingdom all the time. Even in the high tower, there would be extremely subtle sounds of raindrops entering into it. It was difficult to notice under normal circumstances, but when Salamander Hanzo was in a state of meditation, these subtle sounds of rain could be heard clearly.

Now that the sound of rain had disappeared, Hanzo Salamander's first reaction was not that the sky outside had cleared up or the rain had stopped, but that he had fallen into an illusion!

He remembered very clearly that the sound of raindrops outside was not the kind that gradually became smaller and finally stopped, but suddenly disappeared at a certain point.

It was as if an invisible curtain suddenly covered the surroundings. Salamander Hanzo looked around carefully. Although he did not notice any flaws, the sense of disobedience intensified in his heart.

Looking at Salamander Hanzo looking around as if he had noticed something, Uchiha Feiyu was a little surprised. It was the first time that his illusion technique of controlling the five senses was discovered to have a flaw.

Of course, this was also because Uchiha Feiyu didn't put much effort into it. After all, with his current strength, he really didn't need to be so cautious anymore. Therefore, he didn't put much effort into performing the illusion - if he couldn't control his five senses, the worst that could happen was that he could just use a Soul-Saving Technique.

With a slight wave of his hand, Uchiha Feiyu broke the illusion he had set up. Salamander Hanzo trembled all over, and seeing the stranger who suddenly appeared in his room, he instinctively clenched the sickle in his hand and quickly retreated.

After just taking a step back, Salamander Hanzo froze there. Uchiha Feiyu in front of him had disappeared without a trace, and behind him, a hand patted his shoulder.

So fast!

After feeling Uchiha Feiyu's speed, Salamander Hanzo was almost in disbelief and was completely stunned.

You know, besides his poison and swordsmanship, Hanzo is most famous for his incredibly fast teleportation technique. Even though he is old and weak now, with his rich experience, the speed of his teleportation technique at the beginning is not much slower than when he was young.

Even for a fellow Kage-level ninja, it was not easy to stick to him, let alone suddenly appear behind him and pat him on the shoulder.

Forcibly suppressing the urge to look back, Hanzo Salamander exerted force on his feet and used the body-flickering technique again to rush forward. However, halfway through the technique, his face changed drastically.

Because Uchiha Feiyu had appeared in front of him from behind him, pressing a finger on his forehead.

Cut off the cassock!
The sickle in his hand drew an oblique arc of light and chopped directly towards Uchiha Feiyu. However, the sickle in his hand only drew an empty phantom. Then he felt a finger pressing on his neck. A numb feeling spread from his neck, and he fell to the ground.

Before the feeling of numbness spread throughout his body, Salamander Hanzo struggled to stretch out his arms and pulled on the breathing mask on his face. As he fell to the ground, the breathing mask was pulled off by him.

"Who are you? What do you want to do with me?"

The Salamander Hanzo who fell to the ground asked Uchiha Feiyu with a cold face. Uchiha Feiyu chuckled, looked at his breathing mask that fell to the ground, and shook his head:
"Want to delay time? You don't really think that the poison gas discharged from your body can hurt me, do you?"

"The poison sac of the salamander is indeed very terrifying, but the ninjutsu of the ninja world has been developing. After the transformation from the ninja clan to the ninja village model, the ninjutsu in the past few decades has developed faster than the previous hundreds of years."

"Among all the ninjutsu, the fastest developing one is the medical ninjutsu. Ten years ago, your salamander Hanzo's breath might have been an extremely terrible poison with no antidote, but now at least the Sand Ninja, Rock Ninja, and Konoha definitely have a way to cure the salamander toxin!"

Uchiha Feiyu was not bragging. After the major ninja clans became ninja villages, ninjutsu did usher in a huge development. Why were almost all the second-generation Kages of the major ninja villages great inventors? That was the result of the collision and exchange of the secret ninjutsu of the ninja clans.

In the past, due to the restrictions of the ninja family, medical ninjutsu had almost no system at all. It was only after the establishment of the ninja village that the branch of medical ninjutsu appeared.

A dozen or twenty years ago, medical ninjutsu was in its infancy, which is why Hanzo Salamander earned the reputation of a demigod with his poison.

If it were today, Hanzo of the Salamander would not be able to let the Three Ninjas go, and I'm afraid any one of the Three Ninjas would be able to beat him badly.

Uchiha Feiyu is an all-round ninjutsu master thanks to his ability to summon spirits and generals. His medical ninjutsu is only slightly worse than Tsunade's - however, he is immune to Hanzo's poison, not because of medical ninjutsu, but because of his extremely strong physique and Six Paths level bloodline.

After hearing what Uchiha Feiyu said, Hanzo of the Salamander's face suddenly became a little ugly. He did want to rely on his poisonous breath to plot against Uchiha Feiyu, but after Uchiha Feiyu pointed out that his poison had become outdated, he really had no means of resistance.

"Damn it... If I'm not mistaken, you should be the traitorous Uchiha from Konohagakure!"

"Do you want to control me and occupy the entire Rain Village? Or is all this a conspiracy of Konoha?"

Uchiha Feiyu shrugged lightly, looked at the tears of this era in front of him, and said briskly:
"You think too much. I came here just to ask for information about the Akatsuki organization."

As soon as these words came out, Salamander Hanzo was completely stunned. You, an Uchiha, ran to the Rain Village and defeated me, a demigod of the ninja world, just to ask about the Akatsuki organization?

The Akatsuki organization is quite famous in the Land of Rain, but in the entire ninja world, who knows what it is?
However, he is a well-known strong man in the entire ninja world, and the Rain Village is also considered to be the strongest second-tier ninja village, which is much stronger than the Akatsuki organization!

Seeing the look of doubt on the face of Salamander Hanzo, Uchiha Feiyu rolled his eyes and said:

"Don't just stand there like an idiot... You don't want me to use illusion to force you to get information, do you?"

After hearing what Uchiha Feiyu said, Salamander Hanzo finally reacted and spoke in a deep voice:
"You just need information about Akatsuki?"

"That's right, don't tell me you don't have any information about Akatsuki! As the boss of Rain Country, you must be very concerned about the second place of Rain Country!"

"The Rain Country has been closed off from the outside world for these years. Apart from paying attention to domestic organizations, there is no other intelligence that the Rain Ninjas should be paying attention to!"

What Uchiha Feiyu said was right. Since the Second Ninja World War, the Rain Country has been in a state of isolation, prohibiting ninjas from other countries from entering or leaving.

The Land of Rain itself is a country with poor mountains, bad waters and a harsh climate. Coupled with the threat of Hanzo the Salamander, the strength of the Rain Ninjas cannot be underestimated. Naturally, ninjas from other countries have no interest in coming here.

Without other ninjas and the Rain Ninjas not fond of going out, the intelligence system of the Rain Country would naturally be fully utilized within the country. Among them, the intelligence on the Akatsuki organization was of course the top priority. The intelligence on the three leaders of the Akatsuki organization alone could fill an entire drawer.

"Okay, I got it! What information do you want to know about Akatsuki?"

"I want to ask, where is the base of Akatsuki?"

Akatsuki's base...

For a moment, Salamander Hanzo fell silent. Uchiha Feiyu tilted his head slightly, feeling a little strange about his behavior:
"What? You don't even know where the Akatsuki base is? I don't believe that the Rain Ninja is so lame."

"I know……"

Salamander Hanzo said in a low voice, his eyes filled with a look as if he had been beaten up for no reason:

"I'm not the only one who knows... In the entire Rain Village, almost any ninja knows where the Akatsuki's base is!"

Uchiha Feiyu got one thing wrong - the current Akatsuki organization was not a secret organization preparing to subvert the ninja world. Their base, like other ninja villages, appeared openly.

(End of this chapter)