Chapter 118 A Feat That Shook the Shinobi World! Obito Is Shocked

Very soon, the results of Konoha’s two major battles against the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Stone spread throughout the entire shinobi world.

And the name of Uchiha Reiji completely resounded across the shinobi world.

He had captured the Perfect Jinchūriki Killer B alive and killed the Fourth Raikage!

With the power of the Eight-Tails, he had single-handedly annihilated the Hidden Cloud’s elite army!

Afterward, he had even brought the Eight-Tails directly into the Hidden Cloud Village and destroyed the Raikage Building, along with the mountain beneath it, with a single Tailed Beast Bomb!

After that, Reiji had gone to the Hidden Grass Village.

He had directly sunk the island where Hōzuki Castle prison was located!

Every Hidden Grass shinobi who had gone into battle had been wiped out.

And what came afterward was even more outrageous!

With an absolutely overwhelming display of power, he had defeated the five-thousand-man Hidden Stone army led by the Third Tsuchikage, ōnoki.

The Hidden Stone army had been beaten into a scattered retreat!

In the end, only around a thousand people had successfully escaped back to the Hidden Stone Village.

And basically every single one of them was injured.

In fact, the surviving Hidden Stone shinobi knew this better than anyone:

If Uchiha Reiji had wanted to wipe them all out, he absolutely could have done it!

Not to mention that he had only relied on his own power and had not even used the Eight-Tails.

After crushing their Hidden Stone army, he had merely pursued them casually, as though he were driving a flock of sheep fleeing for their lives.

Yet even so, they had lost several thousand men during their retreat!

A golden giant taller than a mountain peak—and that damn thing could even fly!

A casual swing of its blade could cut through an entire mountain!

Susanoo had flown through the sky without even going all-out to kill them. It merely hacked here and slashed there, yet so many of them had died.

If the opponent had been determined to annihilate them all, perhaps not a single one of them would have been able to escape!

Inside the Hidden Sand Village.

The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had just finished reading the battle report. His face was filled with lingering fear.

Fortunately, he had chickened out earlier!

When he had seen the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Stone invading the Land of Fire together, he had chosen to wait and see.

According to his original plan, he had intended to observe the situation first.

If Konoha could not hold out, then the Hidden Sand Village could take advantage of the chaos and seize some territory in the Land of Fire.

The Land of Wind was a terrible place with practically no money.

How fertile and prosperous was the Land of Fire’s territory?

Now, it seemed that his decision had been absolutely correct.

Otherwise, if the Hidden Sand Village had suffered losses as severe as those of the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Stone, it really would have been finished.

The Land of Wind already had a terrible environment, and both the daimyo and the Hidden Sand Village were short of money.

Now the daimyo was even unwilling to provide the Hidden Sand Village with sufficient funding, causing the village to become poorer and poorer. The number of shinobi it possessed was also lower than that of the other four great hidden villages.

If several thousand more shinobi had died on the battlefield, the Hidden Sand Village would probably have become a second-rate hidden village like the Hidden Grass or Hidden Rain.

"Uchiha Reiji..."

Rasa looked at the name on the battle report, his face filled with emotion.

"Truly, the younger generation is formidable."

The two wars could basically be said to have been won by Uchiha Reiji alone.

He was practically comparable to Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara back in their era.

Having someone like this in Konoha was naturally not a good thing.

"It’s a pity that Sarutobi Hiruzen is dead."

For a moment, the Fourth Kazekage actually felt somewhat regretful.

If Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō were still alive, perhaps they could have caused Uchiha Reiji to die in Konoha’s internal struggle.

Wasn’t that exactly how the Konoha White Fang had died back then?

Tanzaku Town.

"Lady Tsunade, Jiraiya-sama sent another letter."

Shizune handed the letter in her hand to Tsunade, who had just walked out of the gambling den, and could not help sighing inwardly.

Before going inside, Tsunade had been carrying a box filled with money.

After coming out, forget about the money—she had even lost the road fare.

She did not even know whether she had somehow managed to owe even more money.

"Another letter? What a nuisance!"

Tsunade clicked her tongue and impatiently opened the letter.

It first talked about the current state of the war, and then, just like the previous few times, Jiraiya asked her to return and become Hokage.

Tsunade did not care about any of that.

Become Hokage?

Did she have nothing better to do?

It was such a thankless and exhausting job. Why didn’t Jiraiya do it himself?

Every day, he went around doing all sorts of lecherous things under the excuse of gathering material!

Now that Konoha needed a Hokage, he did not want to do it himself and suddenly remembered her!

However, when she saw Jiraiya mention that Uchiha Reiji intended to abolish the position of Hokage, her hand suddenly stopped.

She did not care who became Hokage.

But the Hokage position represented the painstaking efforts of her grandfather. She still did not want it to disappear.

"Ugh, what a nuisance!"

Tsunade irritably scratched her long, pale-golden hair.

"Shizune, get ready to return to the village."

She had happened to rack up quite a lot of debt recently, so she might as well return to the village and hide for a while.

Hidden Mist Village, Mizukage Building.

The Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, had become extremely reclusive. Even the Anbu who normally guarded him had been withdrawn.

Naturally, this was Obito’s idea.

The Fourth Mizukage had been placed under his genjutsu.

If other people were allowed to interact with the Mizukage on a daily basis, it would be troublesome if they noticed something over time.

"Perfect Form... Susanoo?"

Uchiha Obito was momentarily stunned.

"That’s right. It was definitely the Perfect Form!"

Black Zetsu spoke with absolute certainty.

He had not witnessed the battle himself, but White Zetsu had been secretly gathering intelligence around the battlefield where Konoha and the Hidden Stone had clashed.

According to that White Zetsu’s description, Susanoo had grown legs, developed wings on its back, and no longer had the weakness beneath its feet.

That was absolutely Perfect Susanoo!

"That’s impossible! Even if Uchiha Reiji awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, he shouldn’t be able to achieve that!"

Obito denied it outright.

Having inherited Uchiha Madara’s legacy, he was extremely familiar with the Sharingan’s evolutionary path.

To awaken Perfect Susanoo, one had to possess the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan!

To evolve an ordinary Mangekyō into an Eternal Mangekyō, one had to transplant a sibling’s Mangekyō Sharingan!

This was one of the reasons he had valued Uchiha Itachi more when choosing his helper for the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Uchiha Itachi had a younger brother, meaning he had the possibility of awakening the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Reiji, on the other hand, had no hope of reaching the Eternal level.

Moreover, even after obtaining the Eternal Mangekyō, the ocular power of someone who had just advanced was still insufficient to awaken Perfect Susanoo.

The ocular power of the Eternal Mangekyō had to be developed to its absolute limit, and only when combined with an enormous amount of chakra could one possibly awaken Perfect Susanoo!

Even if Uchiha Reiji possessed the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, how much chakra could he possibly have to activate Perfect Susanoo?

He was still so young!

"I don’t know how he managed to do it. Perhaps... he possesses some kind of ocular jutsu that can amplify Susanoo?"

Black Zetsu was equally baffled and could only tentatively speculate.

No one could say for certain what ocular jutsu would awaken from a Mangekyō Sharingan.

An ocular jutsu like Obito’s Kamui was incredibly powerful. Even Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu considered it an extremely formidable ability.

If Uchiha Reiji had awakened an ocular jutsu capable of amplifying Susanoo, then it could roughly explain what had happened.

But it was only an explanation that barely made sense.

An ordinary Mangekyō would still eventually lead to blindness, no matter how powerful its ocular jutsu was!

According to White Zetsu’s description, after Uchiha Reiji had activated Perfect Susanoo, he had seemed completely unhurried. He had simply played around with the Hidden Stone.

Didn’t he care about the consumption of his ocular power?

The expression beneath Obito’s mask shifted slightly as he asked,

"Is there really no other way for an ordinary Mangekyō to avoid blindness besides evolving into the Eternal Mangekyō and transplanting First Hokage cells?"

"No!"

Black Zetsu answered decisively.

Evolving into the Eternal Mangekyō meant advancing Yin Release and reaching an entirely new level.

Transplanting First Hokage cells provided a supplement of Yang Release. Through the fusion of Yin and Yang, one’s ocular power could be explosively enhanced.

Both methods relied on external assistance.

One involved transplanting a sibling’s eyes, while the other involved transplanting First Hokage cells.

Even Uchiha Madara, the reincarnation of Indra’s chakra, had once nearly gone blind and had relied on his younger brother’s eyes to obtain Eternal ocular power.

Uchiha Reiji, even if he was the reincarnation of Indra’s chakra in this generation, had no reason to be stronger than Uchiha Madara.

"I see."

Obito pondered for a moment before saying,

"Have Nagato send someone to test him. Ideally, we should confirm exactly what Uchiha Reiji’s ocular jutsu is."

It would be even better if they could figure out why Uchiha Reiji knew the nature of his ocular jutsu!

Obito’s face was filled with resentment.

Even now, he still had not figured out what had happened.

At this point, he did not even dare to appear in front of Uchiha Reiji!

His opponent knew his ocular jutsu and could even activate Perfect Susanoo!

"If I’d known this would happen, I should have killed him directly back then!"

With his current strength, he could probably only rely on Kamui’s intangibility combined with Izanagi to preserve his life.

Obito ground his teeth in hatred.

He had always coveted the power of Susanoo as well.

But with only one Mangekyō Sharingan, he had tried many times and still failed to awaken it.

Yet Uchiha Reiji had already mastered Perfect Susanoo!

Damn it, how infuriating!

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