"Lord Danzo, over here."

  Iricate underground passageways, two Konoha ninjas led the way.

  Following behind them, Shimura Danzo walked her fast nor slow, unhurried, like... well, like a big shot's pace. Although his harsh face made it difficult to exude the aura of a superior, he was indeed a big shot in Konoha.

  After walking for a while and turning a er, a corpse appeared in front of them. Aeam of Root ninjas was guarding the area.

  A corpse was just a corpse, and there was nothing surprising about it in theory, but this corpse ecial...

  Well, particurly fragmented.

  "When was it discovered?" Danzo g the bloodstains on the ground and then asked.

  "This m. I found that he hadn't returned on time, so I searched along his patrol route for this mission, and then I found this corpse... The time of death was st night. He should have been killed instantly by some special method," a Root ninja said.

  "The enemy left here quickly. This brutal killing effect shouldn't have been iional. The teique he used is just this type of teique... But I have no idea about a cutting ninjutsu of this power. It seems that this matter o be thhly iigated," Danzo looked at the deting marks all over the walls, ground, and ceiling, and made a retively accurate judgment.

  Habara was a bit nervous at the time. In order to ehat he killed the enemy, he had been a little excessive when he made his move. Otherwise, this dead Root ninja wouldn't have been cut into so many pieces.

  "It's a bit difficult to directly obtain information about the time of death..." another Root ninja said with some difficulty.

  Want to know what happened when the deceased died? Sorry, it's physically impossible, because his head was almost turned into tofu, and the kind with various meat toppings added.

  "Are there any other anomalies?"

  "The underground facility that reviously cleared by the Anbu, a wall in one of the rooms ened yesterday, but we have no way of knowing what the other party took."

  "Then start the iigation from Orochimaru's subordihe people reted to this underground facility, and the Konoha ninjas who participated in the clearing operation," Danzo said.

  There was nothing to say about this. Sihe person eared here yesterday's main purpose was to take something from the base, then this person was undoubtedly reted to this pce.

  But a correct judgment didn't mean that the a could proceed smoothly. One ninja reminded, "Lord Danzo, this reviously Orochimaru's secret research site, and afterwards it was handed over to the Hokage's direbu... There will be some invenien the iigation."

  "Don't worry, someone died. Hiruzen will cooperate," Danzo said, pletely uned about the possible resistance.

  The way he said it, it seemed to express this meaning – "Although I'm not the Hokage, Konoha is actually my home."

  A secluded path by a stream.

  Although a cruel murder had unfortunately occurred st night, Habara judged that it was difficult for Konoha to identify the real culprit. Of course, the saying "if you don't want ao know, don't do it," applied. Whether Konoha could quickly catch the murderer had nothing to do with Habara, so at this time he boldly came to this pce that he had always used for training.

  As a batant, Habara's attack power and defense power were very good, but high attack power didn't mean he could pierce everything, and "absolute defense" was just an exaggeration. It could actually be sidered that his attack power and defense power were railed up. His abilities had greatly improved in a short period of time, but this didn't mean that his qualities as a ninja had greatly improved.

  The current Habara couldn't deal with truly strong oppos, so he had to tio enhance his strength.

  And after joining the battlefield several times, Habara could clearly feel his shortings... Chakra, this was the usual weakness of all ordinary ninjas.

  Although the shorting was easy to find, what about the method to improve it?

  Habara decided to take stock of what he had.

  First was the Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths that he had recovered in the Land of Fields. The Kohaku no Johei (Amber Purifying Pot), Shichiseiken (Seven-Star Sword), and Benihisago (Crimson Gourd) were used together. The Crimson Gourd was a very powerful sealing taiheoretically on the same level as the Kohaku no Johei that the Cloud was currently keeping, just with a differehod of use.

  The Golden opy Rope could make abstract cepts materialize, and then the Seven-Star Sword could cut them... To be ho, Habara felt that these three things were not suitable for use in immediate bat.

  As for the Bashosen (Banana Palm Fan), it was certainly a powerful offereasured tool, but Habara had never used it. Using this thing would e a huge amount of chakra, which was a bit terproductive... If Habara had that much chakra, would he still o use something like the Bashosen?

  So, after a brief iory, it could be found that although the Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths were very powerful, Habara couldn't use any of them for the time being.

  Then there was the mysterious scroll that Habara had "picked up" st night. Leaving aside the various intelligeed tent about Orochimaru, there were two things about teiques... The research results of "Living Corpse Reination" and the design cept of the "Cursed Seal."

  Perhaps Hotaru had been by Orochimaru's side for a long time, or perhaps her spying abilities were outstanding. In short, she was able to obtaihings... To put it bluntly, no wonder Orochimaru wao kill her.

  Habara certainly couldn't use Living Corpse Reination, but the relevant tent was very high-end, making one have to admire Orochimaru's madness... Living Corpse Reination was certainly not a simple matter of extrag the caster's chakra or spirit and then seizing a new body, otherwise it would be too simple.

  In fact, it was a transformation ritual that verted all of a person's inal chakra and spiritual sciousness into a special energy-information mixed unified entity, and thehis "unified entity" to seize a new body.

  In other words, this teique was not a simple spiritual transfer, but actually a plex process of transformation - transfer - reverse transformation.

  Habara thought about it for a while, and then he uood this statement. Because when Orochimaru reinated, in addition to his inal body and his current body, there was also a "white srue form." This corresponded exactly to the tent recorded on the scroll.

  After reading the tents of this scroll, Habara o express his admiration for Orochimaru's talent, and then re-rolled the scroll and put it away... Living Corpse Reination was very powerful, but useless.

  Then Habara looked at the scroll. The way to quickly enhance his strength, sure enough, there was only this...

  The Cursed Seal and the method of using natural energy. This was the clearest path in front of Habara.