radicalducati Chapter 131 An Unusual Third Evolution: The War Begins in a Fierce Stage
Chapter 131 An Unusual Third Evolution: The War Begins in a Fierce Stage
Chapter 131 A Different Third Evolution: The War Begins in a Feverish Phase
"It'll be soon, very soon—"
On a deserted island far from the Ninja Continent, in an underground space filled with barrier techniques.
Gojo lay on the soft bed, watching the pocket watch ticking in his hand. With each second hand, the anticipation in his eyes grew stronger.
Unbeknownst to him, at this time, the eastern border base of the Land of Fire on the Ninja Continent had been invaded by the Hidden Mist Village.
Even if she knew, Gojo Yoru didn't care at all.
Now, no matter how big the problem is, it's nothing to him.
His evolution is the most important thing.
Even if Kushina Uzumaki, Orochimaru, Konan, and Tsunade are all dead, Gojo Yoru, who has already collected their body tissues, will have a way to revive them in the future.
Even if they die, Gojo Yoru will not return during the evolution period.
It was already 11:55 p.m., and in five minutes, Gojo Yoru's birthday would be over.
Evolution had already quietly begun; at this time normally, Gojo Yoru would already be asleep.
For people with sufficient Qi and blood, insomnia is a very rare occurrence.
Falling asleep quickly and waking up refreshed are the hallmarks of a healthy person.
But now, Gojo Yoru is not sleepy at all. Even after clearing her mind and emptying her brain, she is unable to fall asleep.
The third evolution has already begun to warm up. Just wait for your heart to start pounding like a drum. Gojo Yoru's potential ceiling will start to rise again. His space-time chakra capacity and all-around talents will reach new levels.
As the pocket watch showed 11:59, the second hand completed its final tick, and Gojo Yoru unconsciously held her breath.
Click—thump!
A sound, fainter than a mosquito's buzz, rang out in the silent underground space.
The heavy, pounding sound, like the beating of a drum, suddenly echoed.
Lying down, Gojo saw his own chest and his heart skipped a beat uncontrollably.
Immediately, just like Goku in Dragon Ball GT seeing Earth and then transforming into Super Saiyan 4, his eyes suddenly became dull, his body twitched slightly, and his chest heaved.
The sound of my heartbeat was like someone was beating a drum inside, and the rhythm was incredibly fast.
For an ordinary person, a heartbeat at this rate would have caused blood vessels to rupture, resulting in massive internal bleeding and death.
Even during the first two evolutions, Gojo Yoru's reaction wasn't this exaggerated; it was just like being overworked and experiencing palpitations and chest tightness.
But now, Gojo Yoru's body was convulsing, and her vacant eyes seemed to have lost consciousness.
In fact, Gojo Yoru did not lose consciousness.
On the contrary, he is now very lucid.
At this moment, Gojo Yoru was as if she were performing a spiritification technique, with her spirit and body becoming independent. Even if her body was injured, her spirit would not feel pain.
This evolution was unprecedentedly intense.
That mysterious force directly separated Gojo Yoru's consciousness from his physical body.
Even if Gojo Yoru wanted to get up, her body simply wouldn't obey her commands.
While her body was reacting dramatically, Gojo Yoru only felt a strong warm current, as if she were soaking in a hot spring.
The previous two episodes of palpitations and chest tightness were completely nonexistent.
Just as Gojo Yoru predicted, the third evolution was a huge watershed moment.
In cultivation novels, it's not about advancing from the early stage to the late stage, but rather from the middle stage to the late stage, or from the late stage to the Great Perfection stage.
It may seem like only a small improvement, but the difference is enormous.
Just like the Nascent Soul stage in cultivation novels, you can still fight in the early and middle stages, but in the later stages you become a great cultivator who can easily defeat those in the middle stage and instantly kill those in the early stage.
Even though the evolution is not yet over, Gojo Yoru has already seen a result.
That is, after the third evolution, his space-time chakra capacity will definitely not be as simple as the second evolution, which was just a matter of advancing from genin to chunin, and from chunin to jonin.
With his third evolution, his space-time chakra capacity might at least be at the ace level, or even at the level of the Five Kage.
At that moment, Gojo felt a surge of relief.
Fortunately, by overcoming the bottleneck of his all-around talent, he foresaw in advance that the third evolution would be a watershed moment on the "ladder to godhood," and prepared so much work in advance. He even deliberately released a smokescreen, leaving the ninja continent behind, and came to an uninhabited island to spend his third evolution.
Otherwise, he would lose control of his body for nearly two weeks, and Gojo Yoru was genuinely worried that the enemy would find an opportunity to assassinate him.
After all, he was just an ordinary person with no strength to even kill a chicken, and a kunai could easily finish him off.
However, Gojo Yoru, whose consciousness was temporarily separated from his body, could not see or know that the spacetime chakra within him was in a state of turmoil, surging wildly throughout his body.
The S-rank secret technique, Space-Time Yin Seal, also extracted all the space-time chakra stored up over the past few years.
Within his cells, he continuously secreted spacetime power, creating a resonance effect with the surrounding space, thus integrating his body into the real world.
Even if one has the ability to perceive and ignore the barrier set up by Gojou Yoru, one still cannot sense Gojou Yoru's presence at all.
Even if the eye technique's ability to see through objects can locate Gojo Yoru, without the ability to distort or tear space, it cannot harm Gojo Yoru's body.
Gojo Yoru is currently in a state of absolute defense, in a state of ethereal transformation.
Just as Gojo Yoru was undergoing his third and different evolution.
News of the attack on the eastern border base by the Mist Ninja also reached Konoha.
A special alarm sounded immediately in Konoha at dawn.
The clan leaders of the various ninja clans, who had already fallen asleep, the ace fighters who were staying in the villages, and the all-around Jonin who had just entered the upper echelons, all opened their eyes, quickly got up, dressed, and flew towards the newly built Hokage Building in afterimages.
This special alarm sound is an emergency summons signal specifically for Konoha's high-ranking officials and all-around Jonin.
The lights came on in the conference room of the Hokage Building. The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, along with the three elders, Danzo Shimura, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane, were already seated in front of the main seat and the secondary seats on either side, waiting solemnly for the higher-ups to take their places.
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Soon, the clan leaders of the ninja clans, led by the Uchiha clan, also took their seats.
Then there are ace fighters like Sakumo Hatake, Dan Kato, Ban Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, and Yoru Mimura, as well as all-around Jonin, and — the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina Uzumaki.
Kushina Uzumaki sat next to Tsunade, and next to Tsunade was an empty seat, next to which sat the current head of the Uchiha clan.
Clearly, this empty space is where Gojo Yoru would be seated.
In this world where bloodline is paramount, the hierarchy is very clear. Commoners do not have surnames; having a surname means that one's ancestors were once glorious.
Even traditional buildings could only be constructed by ninja clans and powerful families.
Although Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina were not members of the ninja clan, their strength and strategic position allowed them to sit in the seat of the ninja clan leader.
If it weren't for the need to give face to these Konoha elders, Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina should have been sitting on either side of Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Even if Gojo Yoru isn't there, no one dares to sit in his seat.
After all the clan chiefs and Jonin in the village took their places, Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't waste any words and said directly, "Just now, the support troops at the eastern border base sent back intelligence that they have been invaded by Kirigakure. I have already sent people to provide support."
Upon hearing this, all the Jonin's expressions changed.
The clan chief of Kurama said with disbelief, "The Hidden Mist Village actually attacked us! Why would they do this, and how dare they?"
Over the years, Konoha's strength has been evident to all.
There are still many elderly people in the village, who have lived since the Warring States period.
Many people have witnessed the power of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
In terms of strategic deterrence, Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina may not be as good as Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, but their strength is definitely at the pinnacle of the ninja world.
Gojou Yoru's spacetime bloodline is even more extraordinary.
As long as Gojo Yoru is there, even if Konoha lacks talent like Iwagakure, it will not be afraid of the other four great ninja villages.
Not to mention, Konoha not only has no shortage of high-level combat power, but its national strength also surpasses that of the First Shinobi World War era.
Their Konoha is now stronger than ever before.
With such national strength, the fact that Konoha did not launch a war to expand its territory already demonstrates that they were adhering to the peace principles left by the First Hokage.
As a result, they didn't make a move, but Kirigakure attacked them instead.
Not only the clan leader of the Kurama clan, but also the clan leaders and Jonin of other ninja clans were incredulous.
"Could it be that after the First Shinobi World War, Kirigakure not only recovered its national strength in the years since, but also, like Konoha, ushered in an era of talent explosion?"
One of the Jonin said, "As far as I know, there is an elite ninja group in Kirigakure, which, like the Anbu, is directly under the Mizukage. This group consists of seven Jonin who wield special ninja swords and specialize in carrying out high-difficulty missions for the Mizukage. Legend has it that the seven of them can conquer a small country in one night if they work together, and each of them is likely to be at the ace level."
"Seven ace fighters?"
Many people also thought of this elite ninja group, their eyes filled with solemnity: "If that's the case, then Kirigakure is indeed not to be underestimated."
Tsunade then looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi and asked, "Don't we have any spies in Kirigakure?"
"Yes, but due to its geographical location and the fact that Kirigakure is almost completely isolated, Konoha's control over information about Kirigakure is far inferior to that of the other three ninja villages," Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a grim expression. "Moreover, over the years, many of our spies have lost contact and may have been exposed or killed."
"Moreover, this ninja village is very special. The upper echelons have always been controlled by the bloodline ninja clan. Our spies cannot infiltrate the upper echelons at all, and we know nothing about their decisions."
"So I also can't understand why Kirigakure suddenly broke the balance and declared war on our Land of Fire."
Danzo Shimura sneered, "Whatever the reason, since the enemy has taken the initiative to declare war, we must make them pay a heavy price."
I second that.
All the Jonin also wore cold expressions and immediately praised Danzo's suggestion.
Since the inception of the ninja village system, Konoha has always been recognized as the strongest ninja village.
Both of the Shinobi World Wars saw him defeat multiple opponents single-handedly.
Now that their national strength has reached its strongest point in history, there are still people who dare to declare war on them.
All the Jonin felt offended.
Moreover, unlike during the Second Shinobi World War, Hiruzen Sarutobi had to deal with various shinobi clans and hope that they would send their clansmen to fight.
They even went so far as to unite with other ninja clans to put pressure on the Uchiha clan.
Hiruzen Sarutobi has now reached the pinnacle of his power.
Even the two powerful clans, the Uchiha and Hyuga, and no other ninja clan dared to underestimate the Third Hokage.
Because he possesses two trump cards: a space-time ninja and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
This combination is practically a young version of the First Hokage and Lady Mito.
The future of Konoha will also belong to them.
Now is the perfect time to cultivate goodwill. Anyone who dares to contradict the Third Hokage will not only offend the person in power, but also the future God of Shinobi and the strongest Jinchuriki.
Nobody would dare to be so reckless!
If Gojo Yoru hadn't been absent, these people would have all looked at Gojo Yoru before seconding the motion, wanting to get his opinion.
Just two words—loyalty!
After all, the major ninja clans joined Konoha for Hashirama Senju. The "sycophant" gene passed down from their ancestors, along with the records left behind, made it very clear to them that the gap between the God of Shinobi and them was not as big as the gap between a genin and the top of the Five Kage, but rather like the gap between two different worlds.
Taking in the changes in these people's expressions and reactions, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt incredibly pleased.
Is this what it felt like when the First Hokage and Tobirama were Hokage?
No need for scheming, no need for concerted pressure, everyone will flock to you and share your burdens —
Although Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that all of this was brought about by Yoru Gojo and Kushina Uzumaki, he was still filled with a sense of accomplishment.
Konoha will reach a peak under his leadership that neither the First Hokage nor the Second Hokage could achieve.
Then, Hiruzen Sarutobi slowly spoke: "Since everyone agrees—"
Before the rest of the words could be finished, the gazes of Hiruzen Sarutobi and all the Jonin suddenly shifted to the side of the main seat.
Suddenly, a figure appeared beside Hiruzen Sarutobi, kneeling on one knee. It was a member of the Anbu.
At times like these, even the Anbu directly under the Hokage cannot eavesdrop on the Jonin's conversations, let alone appear in the meeting room at will.
Anyone who dares to interrupt the meeting at this time must be doing something big.
really----
The Jonin immediately saw the Anbu member bowing his head and respectfully reporting, "Lord Hokage, this is intelligence from the western border base."
Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.
When he took the scroll and unrolled it, his face quickly turned grim.
Setting down the scroll, Hiruzen Sarutobi addressed the Jonin in a deep voice: "Something terrible has happened. Just now, the Sand Village of the Land of Wind launched an invasion against our western border base."
Upon hearing this, the Jonin's expressions changed drastically.