Chapter 35: Shan Zhong Cheng Yi
He had just arrived at the camp and had already obtained the contract with Ryuchi Cave. For Uchiha Feiyu, this was a good start.

After leaving the command room, Uchiha Feiyu found an open space and began to summon big snakes. He first started with a snake as thick as a wrist, then one as thick as a bucket, and finally a giant python that was twenty or thirty meters long and two or three meters in diameter.

In the end, Uchiha Feiyu discovered that the intelligence of these snakes, including those giant pythons that were twenty or thirty meters long, was not very high. They were slightly stronger than ordinary chakra beasts, but the strongest would not exceed a ten-year-old child.

Obviously, this giant snake with low intelligence should be a complete cannon fodder in Longdi Cave. Unless there is a large-scale death in a short period of time, it is estimated that it will not attract the attention of the intelligent giant snakes in Longdi Cave at all.

Afterwards, Uchiha Feiyu summoned out ordinary poisonous snakes and large pythons one after another, killed them and absorbed their souls.

Despite the huge difference in physical size, the soul of a large python is actually only about one or two times stronger than that of a venomous snake as thick as a wrist. Considering that the large pythons should be at a higher position in the ecological chain in Ryuchi Cave and their number cannot be countless, Uchiha Feiyu finally decided to absorb the souls of ordinary pythons every day.

The Soul-Conquering General's ability to subdue souls also has certain limits. Every time it devours a soul, some resentment will be entangled on itself. Uchiha Feiyu can use the power of the Sharingan to dissipate and transform these resentments, but that also requires a process.

This is because the resentment absorbed from the animal souls is far less powerful than that from real humans. Otherwise, the resentment might rush to the brain and turn one into a complete lunatic.

Uchiha Feiyu tried it and found that he could digest the souls of hundreds of pythons every day. This number was a drop in the bucket for the Longdi Cave. The number of pythons devouring each other was probably dozens of times more than what he digested every day.

And even though the soul was absorbed, the python's body would still return to Longdi Cave and become food for the snakes in Longdi Cave. In the final analysis, Longdi Cave did not suffer any loss.

The souls of hundreds of dragon cave pythons are enough to significantly improve Uchiha Feiyu's physique and spirit.

As long as he persists in absorbing these souls every day, Uchiha Feiyu is confident that his chakra will increase several times in two or three months. After a year, he will definitely have chakra at the level of Kage, and after ten years, he will have chakra close to the level of the tailed beast.

In fact, the improvement of chakra is secondary. The improvement of physical strength and spirit may have a greater bonus to Uchiha Feiyu in the later stage. This essential improvement is enough to make Uchiha Feiyu's life level gradually surpass that of ordinary ninjas.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Feiyu didn't have time to kill and absorb the souls of these pythons because he had to go on a mission the next day.

"Captain Feiyu, I have brought Lord Orochimaru's warrant. From today on, I will be your subordinate."

The door of the tent was opened, and the person who spoke was a ninja in his 20s with blond hair and a calm look.

Uchiha Feiyu took the warrant handed over by the ninja, which contained a topographic map. Uchiha Feiyu's mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare at the location on the map and kill the four-man team of Sand Ninja.

This is also the norm in battles among the major ninja villages. Ninjas have great flexibility and lethality, but their defense is still at a level where they can be stabbed to death by kunai, making them not suitable for large-scale legion operations at all.

As for the kind of positional warfare involving hundreds of ninjas, it would only happen at the beginning and end of the war because the casualties were too heavy. Most of the time, all the ninjas were divided into small teams, and they would engage in flexible battles such as raids, infiltration, intelligence, and guerrilla warfare, constantly eliminating the enemy's strongholds and killing the enemy's team members until one side could no longer hold on, and then they would launch the final decisive battle.

The Konoha White Fang back then was famous throughout the ninja world because of their incredible lethality against these teams. In this respect, the Golden Flash will be even better than them. High-speed ninjas can be said to have the upper hand in team battles.

"Tell me your name, your abilities and your ninjutsu."

Uchiha Feiyu walked out of the tent with the blond young man behind him, and asked as he walked. The blond young man had a calm expression and did not look down on the young Feiyu at all:

"My name is Yamanaka Chengyi, and I am a Chunin of the Yamanaka clan. I am good at perception ninjutsu and have a certain ability to telepathically communicate over long distances. However, my level of mental ninjutsu is not good, so I don't have much combat power."

Perception ninjas and communication ninjas are extremely rare talents among ninjas. If Yamanaka Masaru's own combat power was not even inferior to that of ordinary Chunins, he should have become a special Jonin by now.

The mental ninjutsu that this ninja from the Yamanaka clan is good at are almost all auxiliary, and even the most basic offensive ninjutsu of the Yamanaka clan, the Heart Transmigration Technique, is not practiced very well. However, when combined with Uchiha Feiyu, it can be said to be just right.

After leaving the camp, Uchiha Feiyu took Yamanaka Chengyi directly into the jungle of River Country and slowly moved towards the location of the Sand Ninja Camp on the map.

Of course he didn't have the courage to attack the Sand Ninja camp directly, but the closer he got to the Sand Ninja camp, the greater the possibility of encountering a hostile team. If he stayed near the Konoha Village camp, he wouldn't encounter any Sand Ninja.

As the two of them moved forward, Uchiha Feiyu was also talking to Yamanaka Chengyi. This ninja from the Yamanaka clan had a calm and steady personality. He did not care about Uchiha Feiyu's age and answered all his questions.

"The Sand Village's offensive has now calmed down a lot. In the first two months of the war, there were battles involving hundreds of ninjas almost every few days. In those two months, nearly two thousand ninjas were killed or injured on both sides."

After listening to Yamanaka Chengyi's introduction to the battlefield, Uchiha Feiyu was thoughtful:
"It seems that the Sand Ninja can no longer hold on. As the saying goes, the first push is strong, the second is weak, and the third is exhausted. As the attackers did not gain an advantage at the beginning, I am afraid that the casualties will be greater on the other side."

"Captain, you're right. At the beginning, the Sand Ninjas blamed our Konoha for the disappearance of the Third Kazekage. Their offensive was extremely fierce, so the casualties were very heavy. Of the more than 2000 ninjas who died or were injured in those two months, % were from the Sand Ninjas."

Shan Zhongcheng nodded slightly, confirming Uchiha Feiyu's guess:
"However... because the war happened rather suddenly, the current Kawa no Kuni has not undergone a scorched earth campaign, so the Sand Ninja can still hold on for a while."

"It seems... the Sand Ninja Village relies on looting the present-day River Country to maintain morale and logistics."

Uchiha Feiyu glanced at the map in his hand and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)