Chapter 71 Roots
(The chapters are posted in reverse order, 71 is in the next chapter, you can start from the next chapter first)
In response to Danzo's question, Uchiha Feiyu shrugged and said nonchalantly:
"You're overthinking it. What Konoha's Root, what Ninja World's Darkness... Aren't our Konoha Village just a bunch of ninja mercenaries working for money? Why do we have to make it so grand?"

"You can only do things for money and for benefits. As long as the price you pay is enough, I will naturally be willing to serve you. As for expecting me to be a tool or cannon fodder... Old man, you should take it easy. This is no longer popular nowadays!"

Danzo was almost choked to death by Uchiha Feiyu's words. Even the two Root ninjas standing behind him, who were known to have no emotions, looked at Uchiha Feiyu with stunned eyes.

After a long while, the Root leader came back to his senses and slammed his cane hard:

"You, don't you have any will of fire? Are you a ninja from Konoha?"

"With your current strength, you are outstanding even in the entire ninja world. Don't you have any dreams like world peace, becoming a Hokage, and helping the world?"

Uchiha Feiyu rolled his eyes slightly:

"Haha, if you are poor, you can take care of yourself; if you are rich, you can have many wives and concubines, and help the world. Whoever wants to do it can do it. Anyway, I won't do it!"

"If you let me join the Root, as long as the treatment is good enough and the amount is enough, then I will work for you, no matter if it is dirty work or clean work. As for ideals, let's not talk about it. Talking too much will hurt feelings!"

"Summer insects can't talk about ice!!"

Danzo Shimura slammed his cane hard, said something angrily, then turned and left.

Uchiha Feiyu chuckled and glanced at Orochimaru beside him:
"This old man has a strong desire for control. As soon as he came in, he wanted to drug me and put me on a dog chain!"

"Haha, old people have these problems. But Feiyu, you are really sober enough."

"I can't help it. People always have to live for themselves, especially someone like me who has no parents and no relatives. I don't have the heart to sacrifice my life for Konoha."

"Teacher Orochimaru, as one of the three ninjas and even a strong candidate for the position of Hokage, tell me, do you really believe in the Will of Fire?"

In response to the question from his disciple Uchiha Feiyu, Orochimaru finally just chuckled and said nothing, but it seemed like he had said everything.

Walking into Konoha's root base, Uchiha Feiyu looked at the expressionless ninjas in the base who looked like robots, with a faint smile on his face.

It was not until Orochimaru brought him to a training ground platform and looked at a group of young ninjas around ten years old below that Uchiha Feiyu frowned slightly.

Danzo Shimura stood in the center of the platform. When he saw Uchiha Feiyu coming, he just snorted lightly. However, Uchiha Feiyu didn't pay any attention to him at all. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the bloody scene below.

These young ninjas were holding kunai and shuriken and engaging in real combat with real swords and guns. What was even more tragic was that at least half of the young ninjas had turned into corpses, while the rest were still gritting their teeth and fighting each other.

"Is this the method for cultivating roots? It's really cruel..."

"Kid, why do you think the Root can support the big tree of Konoha? Let me tell you, kid, every year, out of ten orphans adopted by the Root, only one or two can become real Root ninjas, and the others are just stepping stones to become real Root ninjas!" "The cruel training that Root ninjas have to endure is unimaginable for a ninja like you who grew up playing games in the greenhouse of the ninja school!"

Facing Shimura Danzo's impassioned speech, Uchiha Feiyu blinked his eyes and asked softly:
"How many elite jonin are there in the Root? How many Kage-level ninjas are there? Which ninja can compare to my strength?"

"Cough cough cough cough..."

Danzo coughed violently a few times and was suddenly speechless.

Although the root cultivation method is very cruel and seems to be very efficient, in fact...

It is impossible to cultivate a true Kage-level ninja through this kind of brainwashing training. Even becoming a Jonin is quite difficult. At best, the lower limit of the Root can be raised to the level of an elite Chunin.

Moreover, the average talents of the orphans taken in by Danzo were not very good.
Such a cruel breeding method requires a huge number of orphans. In addition, as the saying goes, "rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows", the orphans taken in by the Root are definitely not orphans from Konoha, but are selected from the entire Fire Country.

Because of the years of intermarriage between ninjas and the Konohagakure, even ordinary civilians have much higher ninja talents than ordinary people.

However, even though these ordinary orphans from the Land of Fire have been selected, their talents are not comparable to those of the family ninjas in the Konoha Village, and they are even inferior to the ordinary children in the Konoha Village.

Due to the lack of talent and the way of training that wiped out their spirituality, this also resulted in the lower limit of the Root ninjas being high but the upper limit being very low. Except for some ninjas who were cheated from the Konoha family, the orphans trained by the Root themselves were at best special jonin.

Uchiha Feiyu's words directly touched Danzo's lungs. This guy had a sullen face throughout the entire training process.

Danzo originally wanted to use this cruel training to intimidate Uchiha Feiyu, but unfortunately the Uchiha in front of him was unmoved and didn't care about this cruel scene at all - if he knew how many people Uchiha Feiyu had killed on the battlefield, he probably wouldn't do such useless work.

They were just some young ninjas that he didn't know. It was not like Uchiha Feiyu had never killed youngsters on the battlefield before. He had never encountered anyone under ten years old, but he had killed almost a dozen ninjas aged twelve or thirteen.

After the training, only about 1/3 of the young ninjas were left standing in the entire training ground. The other sixty or seventy ninjas had already become corpses. Orochimaru licked his lips lightly and said to Shimura Danzo:

"Elder Danzo, can you hand over these ninja bodies to me?"

"What do you want these ninja corpses for? They are not good materials for human experiments."

Shimura Danzo frowned and asked, then waved his hand:
"Are you going to feed your summoned beast Mansaku again? You are the master of the summoned beast. As a ninja, you should teach your summoned beast a lesson!"

Orochimaru chuckled and spoke in a low voice:
"Of course not for Manda, this time, I need a large number of ordinary ninja corpses to practice a special ninjutsu!"

"After thinking about it, Elder Danzo, only your root can help me. If the ninjutsu training this time is successful, then the method you want to suppress the cell rejection reaction will be offered to me with both hands."

(End of this chapter)