"I am so bored. It has already been a full day and night. Why is the boss still absorbing chakra. Brother Scorpion, why don't you go hurry him along. You are the one who hates waiting for others the most."
Deidara proactively moved close to Sasori of the Red Sand's main body and said with a laugh.
Sasori of the Red Sand was currently repairing Hiruko and his other damaged puppets, so Deidara's form of address for him had changed from 'old man' to 'big brother'.
"I am not waiting for him. I have many things to do." Sasori of the Red Sand said offhandedly. He would not fall for this unlucky guy's trick and foolishly go urge the Dragon Lord boss.
"Huh?"
Sensing the familiar malicious gaze coming at him again, Deidara once again looked towards the immortal duo in the distance and raised a middle finger towards the source of the malicious gaze.
"Bastard, I will definitely kill this yellow haired brat, definitely." Hidan gritted his teeth, grinding them audibly, but he still did not dare to make a move at this time, afraid of disturbing Ryun.
"He can fly. You might not be able to beat him."
Kakuzu's simple sentence nearly made Hidan lose his composure.
"Bastard, what is so great about flying. Can he stay in the sky his whole life."
"He does not need to fly his whole life. Just flying for a while is enough. Deidara using his clay bombs is enough to blast you to pieces. Then you will have to shamelessly beg me to stitch your corpse back together again." Kakuzu mocked expressionlessly.
"Bastard, Kakuzu, which side are you on anyway. I am your teammate. Also, stop talking about corpses all the time. I ask you to stitch my body back together, my body, not a corpse, you bastard." Hidan could not help but roar.
In the next moment, Ryun's cold gaze immediately turned towards them.
"Bastard, what are you screaming about suddenly. If you want to die, do not drag me into it." Kakuzu glared fiercely at Hidan.
"Tch, I have an immortal body, what do I have to fear from death." Hidan remained stubborn, but his voice was clearly much lower.
By the time Ryun had completely filled the internal space of the Ten-Turns Seal with chakra, the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Four-Tails, and Five-Tails had also gathered around him.
"It is time to return to Otogakure." Ryun addressed the four of them.
"How are we doing this. Are we riding them back." Deidara was the first to ask.
"You can walk back yourselves if you want. I can use the Flying Thunder God Technique to take you back. As for the Tailed Beasts, just leave them here, no need to worry. I placed summoning formulas on them. I just need to wait until I return to the village to summon them over one by one."
Ryun gave up on the idea of riding the Tailed Beasts back in a flashy procession.
"Boss, you go back first. We have some personal business to settle here." Hidan jumped out and said hurriedly.
"Hmph, Boss, we will just walk back." Deidara snorted coldly and also stated his position.
"..."
Looking at these two stubborn idiots who were about to start fighting, Ryun felt somewhat helpless for a moment.
"Kakuzu, Scorpion, keep an eye on them. Don't let them go too far."
Ryun tacitly approved of their conflict. After saying this, he suddenly vanished from the spot.
A few minutes later, the eight Tailed Beasts, along with the Gedo Statue, all exploded into smoke. Clearly, they had all been summoned by him to Otogakure.
"Brat, let your Lord Hidan teach you a proper lesson." Hidan raised his scythe, grinned ferociously, and charged at Deidara.
Deidara immediately responded to him with a roar.
Boom.
"Two fools." Kakuzu delivered his verdict expressionlessly.
"Deidara, hurry it up. I do not want to wait for you too long." Sasori of the Red Sand urged coldly.
"Watch me, Brother Scorpion, watch how I blast this cultist into pieces. Art is an explosion. Hah."
Boom.
Otogakure.
After returning to the village, Ryun placed the eight Tailed Beasts and the Gedo Statue underground in Otogakure. Then he went straight into a secret room and couldn't wait to take out that pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.
"I hope I can awaken the Rinnegan, and not just the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan." Ryun murmured to himself.
He possessed a perfected Sage Body, plus the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan which was bound to awaken, and he even had the memories of his death from his previous life. To exaggerate a bit, he had comprehended the truth of Samsara. Logically speaking, most of the conditions had been met. Awakening the Rinnegan should not be a problem.
Filled with anticipation and excitement, Ryun grabbed the eyes with both hands and decisively began absorbing the pupil power.
This pair of Mangekyō Sharingan belonging to Uchiha Obito possessed extremely powerful pupil power. Ryun estimated the total amount was probably ten times that of Uchiha Shisui's.
"Is it because of the Hashirama cells."
He felt it was most likely because of the Hashirama cells, with a small probability being that these eyes had absorbed another pair of eyes when they were still Two Tomoe, causing their pupil power to greatly increase.
This absorption of pupil power did not take very long, but the mutual fusion of the Mangekyō pupil power was extremely slow.
Previously, his Three Tomoe left eye had absorbed Shisui's Mangekyō pupil power very quickly.
"Perhaps last time it was more like devouring, while now it is true fusion."
The actual reason for the slow fusion of his pupil power was that both Ryun's and Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan were too powerful. Both their pupil powers far exceeded normal people's, and the reserves were also enormous, resulting in a relatively difficult fusion process.
In the original story, when Sasuke's and Itachi's eyes fused, both their eyes were nearly blind, with very little pupil power left, before they fused. Even then, Sasuke still lay in White Zetsu's base for a day or two before the fusion was completely finished.
Even though Ryun had a perfected Sage Body as a 'fusion accelerator', wanting to complete the eye evolution in a short time was not that easy.
Of course, he was not in a hurry for this moment. Steady progress was better than fast progress. He had great expectations for these eyes, so even when fusing the pupil power, he was very careful, not daring to boldly devour them like he did with Shisui's eyes, which he had considered dispensable.
Knowing that his eyes could not be opened or used for a while, Ryun simply took a black cloth and completely blindfolded himself. Then he directly disappeared from the secret room and returned to his residence.
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"Uncle Ryun. You actually came back so quickly."
The moment he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return home, Sasuke, who was training on the lawn of the Shadow's residence, noticed him first.
Seeing that only Sasuke was alone outside, Ryun immediately beckoned him over.
"Uncle Ryun, what is wrong with your eyes." Sasuke quickly ran to Ryun and asked with a puzzled expression.
"My eyes are fine. I just cannot open them for now. Sasuke, I have some bad news I need to tell you." A rare serious expression appeared on Ryun's face.
"What bad news." Sasuke unconsciously frowned, a very bad premonition inexplicably arising in his heart.
"Your brother, Uchiha Itachi. He is dead."
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