"Does the Land of Waves have a Daimyo?"
Bai Mo suddenly thought of a question.
However, Tazuna had already left to attend to important matters, so he simply found a villager Tazuna had left to entertain them and asked.
"It seems there used to be one."
The older villager recalled.
"So, that means there isn't one now?"
"No."
"That saves a lot of trouble then."
Bai Mo had just been thinking that if the Land of Waves had a Daimyo, such a useless waste would have to be dealt with before heading to the Land of Water.
It turned out the Land of Waves currently had no Daimyo at all.
No wonder Gato, a gangster merchant, could almost control the entire nation's lifelines.
It wasn't strange for a small country to lose its Daimyo.
For example, Orochimaru's Sound Village in the Land of Rice Fields was also a small country.
Orochimaru later had a very humorous charge against him, which was "bribing the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields, establishing the Sound Village, and then occupying the Land of Rice Fields."
The charge of "bribing the Daimyo" shows how humble and pathetic the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields was.
Two days later.
Bai Mo and his group arrived in the Land of Water by boat.
"Kirigakure, Kirigakure. I thought this place was Pandaria shrouded in thick fog.
The environment isn't bad at all; sunshine, beaches, and sea breeze. It's quite suitable to be a tourist destination in peacetime."
Bai Mo stretched after getting off the boat.
His words were, of course, a joke.
Who would dare to visit Kirigakure now? They might be killed as a spy by a Blood Mist ninja.
Even Kirigakure during the Boruto era was only settled after Mei Terumī and Chōjūrō, with blood on their hands, suppressed the troublesome Blood Mist elders for over a decade.
"Hmm? What a coincidence?"
Bai Mo suddenly looked towards the distant forest.
At this moment, Itachi, Kisame, and Zabuza had just disembarked from a boat.
"Are they Kirigakure ninja?"
Itachi's gaze followed the direction Bai Mo was looking, and it took him a while to notice the movement.
His conviction that Bai Mo was practicing Sage Mode deepened a bit—extraordinary perception ability √
"Yes, and they are one of our targets this time."
Bai Mo certainly wasn't relying on perception.
His perception ability was stronger than average, but it hadn't reached the level of Byakugan's clairvoyance (thousand-mile eyes).
He had simply seen two minutes into the future.
That's right.
Bai Mo's derivative ability, Time Deletion, had grown from mere tens of seconds to two minutes.
This growth was initiated by Bai Mo himself as he conducted an experiment.
First, Itachi's guesses about Bai Mo had always been wrong.
Bai Mo did not possess Sage Mode.
As a transmigrator, Bai Mo was not a soul transmigration that strictly adhered to self-discipline, but a body transmigration. Even though his physical age had regressed to childhood, it was indeed a body transmigration.
Just as Bai Mo had previously explained the history to Akatsuki members, chakra only came into existence after Ōtsutsuki Kaguya brought the Ten-Tails, the Divine Tree.
Bai Mo, having transmigrated, had no chakra in his body.
This was different from Might Guy and Lee.
They simply couldn't use ninjutsu, but they still had chakra.
Even ordinary civilians simply hadn't refined their chakra.
But Bai Mo had none; he truly had none.
After Bai Mo arrived in Konoha, he found Yakushi Kabuto, the director of the orphanage.
He planned to have Yakushi Kabuto take in some orphans from Amegakure.
And while he was at it, he wanted Kabuto to examine his physical condition and see if there was any way for him to cultivate.
—Bai Mo had great trust in Yakushi Kabuto, who had been corrected by Izanami.
And the personality-corrected Yakushi Kabuto indeed did not disappoint Bai Mo. Taking in orphans was already part of his duty, so he directly sent people to pick them up.
Regarding Bai Mo's physical condition, Yakushi Kabuto studied it for only one day before giving Bai Mo an answer.
Yakushi Kabuto provided Bai Mo with a method to absorb Natural Energy, allowing Bai Mo to use Natural Energy in place of chakra for cultivation.
He didn't say much else.
Bai Mo could understand why Yakushi Kabuto didn't elaborate.
Everything has its pros and cons.
Yakushi Kabuto, having been corrected by Izanami, now had a very high loyalty to Konoha. Even though he was strictly forbidden from continuing any experiments, he didn't mind and diligently performed his duties as the orphanage director.
Not to mention he had promised Konoha not to conduct such experiments again; even if he did discover something, he wouldn't casually tell Bai Mo, a newcomer whose identity and character were completely unknown.
So, Bai Mo didn't pay attention at the time. After obtaining the method to absorb Natural Energy, Bai Mo began to cultivate.
In the ninja world, extracting chakra involves balancing body and spirit.
Sage Mode's Sage chakra requires balancing the body, spirit, and Natural Energy.
In terms of equation substitution, it can also be seen as a combination of one's own chakra and Natural Energy.
If there's too little Natural Energy, one cannot enter Sage Mode.
If there's too much Natural Energy, one will gradually be assimilated, a fate worse than death.
However, Bai Mo had no chakra; he purely absorbed Natural Energy.
Furthermore.
Bai Mo experienced no abnormalities when absorbing Natural Energy. It seemed to be because Bai Mo didn't need to maintain balance—the most stable state is when only one thing exists.
Why "seemed to be"? Because Bai Mo himself wasn't clear on the specifics.
Bai Mo's current thought was that he needed to find an opportunity to bring Orochimaru back so he could figure out the problems with his own body.
Otherwise, everything would just be guesswork.
For example, regarding the acquisition of his Time Deletion ability, Bai Mo guessed that he gained the ability by coming into contact with a high-level ninjutsu of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
But later, he discovered there was another variable at the time.
While gaining the ability, the Natural Energy stored in his body rapidly depleted, decreasing by at least four-fifths.
So, during this time, after automatically drawing in Natural Energy, Bai Mo tried to inject Natural Energy again in the direction of the original depletion and consumption.
As expected, his Time Deletion ability strengthened.
—
"Kisame, Zabuza, you two leave from this direction. After quickly dealing with the Daimyo, immediately take a boat and leave the Land of Water. You don't need to wait for us."
Bai Mo pointed in another direction.
"Understood."
"Then those people are up to you."
Kisame and Zabuza departed.
"We'll go help those who are coming in a moment."
After a period of silence, Bai Mo suddenly said to Itachi.
Bai Mo knew about one of the major upheavals in Kirigakure—the Fourth Mizukage Yagura being discovered under genjutsu control and subsequently released by Ao. This event happened around this year.
He just hadn't expected it to happen so coincidentally.
Right in front of them.
On the Kirigakure side, Mei Terumī had discovered the abnormality of the Fourth Mizukage Yagura, suspecting that Yagura was under genjutsu. She had Ao, who possessed the Byakugan, conduct a secret investigation.
Ao used his Byakugan and saw that Yagura's brain chakra was chaotic, clearly indicating he was under powerful genjutsu control.
So they told this to the Kirigakure ninja who shared their aspirations, deciding to help the Fourth Mizukage break free from the genjutsu.
But since Yagura was being controlled, he naturally wouldn't just surrender and wait to have the genjutsu dispelled.
Thus, this great battle in Kirigakure came to be.
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