After inspecting the experimental body, Chao Yanqian put the experimental body back in the incubator intact, and cleaned up the messed-up experimental equipment again, leaving everything done without a trace.
In fact, with Orochimaru's shrewdness, as long as Orochimaru returns to the laboratory, he will be able to immediately notice that someone has entered his laboratory and seen some things.
But Orochimaru also knows that, given Chao Yanqian's abilities, Chao Yanqian would definitely not be able to open the door of the laboratory, so the only person who could have entered the laboratory would be Shimura Danzo. But Shimura Danzo had already betrayed Orochimaru and informed the Third Hokage that Orochimaru was conducting forbidden research.
Therefore, as long as Shimura Danzo does not reveal his cooperative relationship with Chao Yanqian, Orochimaru would not suspect Chao Yanqian in any way.
And for this, Chao Yanqian was very confident.
After returning home, Chao Yanqian reorganized his own records of the changes during the fusion of the experimental body's First Hokage cells, then combined them with the experimental results previously mastered by Orochimaru, and began to reverse-engineer the method of fusing the First Hokage cells with Orochimaru's technique.
At the same time, Chao Yanqian also began to research a vaccine that could resist the toxicity based on the configuration of the cytotoxic properties.
Time flew by, and another month passed.
In this month, Chao Yanqian finally heard the news he cared about most:
Koychi was dead.
Judging from the information returned from the frontlines, it was the Kirigakure ninja who captured koychi's life, then used koychi's life as a bargaining chip to threaten Kakashi into killing Might Guy.
Faced with the threat from the Kirigakure ninja, Kakashi hesitated, and while Kakashi was hesitating, koychi chose to commit suicide.
The rest of the matter became a bit vague, and Kakashi himself was unwilling to say more. However, according to Might Guy's words, it seemed that Might Guy and Kakashi continued to fight the Kirigakure ninja after koychi's suicide. After losing to the enemy, they were seriously injured by the sunagakure ninja and fell into a coma.
But when Konoha's support arrived, only Might Guy and Kakashi were alive on the scene. In addition, over twenty elite sunagakure ninjas had all been killed, and their deaths were extremely miserable.
According to Might Guy, he had fallen into a coma before Kakashi, and only Kakashi would know the rest of what happened.
But Kakashi also said that he had been severely injured by the Kirigakure ninja. Kakashi did not know how the more than twenty Kirigakure ninjas had died.
Regarding this matter, both Konoha and sunagakure sent people to investigate, but they found no clues, and in the end, it could only be regarded as an unsolved case.
Even the Kirigakure ninja suspected that Chao Yanqian or Bo Feng Shuimen had supported Kakashi and the others using the Flying Thunder God Technique, but they had not shown themselves.
Even the Third Hokage specifically questioned Chao Yanqian, but Chao Yanqian had been quietly staying in the village during that period. Furthermore, among Kakashi's group, no one had the characteristics associated with Chao Yanqian, so Chao Yanqian could not have supported them.
Although he still cared a little about this matter, since the result was already set, Chao Yanqian could not change it.
This incident only further proved the importance of strength to a ninja. Without strength, one could not protect the bonds they valued.
Land of Hot Water.
As the intersection of the Land of Fire, the Land of Lightning, and the Land of Water, the Land of Hot Water naturally became the battlefield of the three great ninja villages.
With Onoki agreeing to cooperate with Konoha, the ninjas of sunagaure also quietly entered the battlefield, preparing to catch Kumogakure by surprise.
Once Iwagakure moved, the Third Hokage immediately gave orders to Chao Yanqian: go to the battlefield to attract the attention of Kirigakure's ninjas, let the Kirigakure ninjas chase and kill Chao Yanqian, and draw out most of Kirigakure's forces.
Given Kirigakure's hatred toward Chao Yanqian, as long as he appeared, the Kirigakure ninja would definitely spare no effort to hunt him down.
At that point, Konoha would have an excuse to transfer some ninjas from the Kumogakure battlefield, resist Kirigakure's forces, and let sunagakure and Kumogakure fight each other.
Of course, in order not to discourage the enthusiasm of their allies, Konoha's ninjas would also assist sunagakure during the battle between sunagakure and Kumogakure. Once Kumogakure's main force was fully dragged down by sunagakure, Konoha would launch a surprise attack and completely defeat Kumogakure.
"Puff!"
A Kirigakure ninja clutched his throat and fell to the ground, his eyes full of unwillingness. His not-yet-dead body twitched unconsciously. Chao Yanqian glanced at the remaining three and rushed up.
'Cautiously' letting one Kirigakure ninja escape, Chao Yanqian took a short rest and once again set out to hunt more Kirigakure squads.
For an entire day, Chao Yanqian was seeking out and picking fights with Kirigakure forces, sometimes letting one or two escape, and sometimes slaughtering them all.
Chao Yanqian could already imagine what kind of reaction would occur once Kirigakure learned that he was massacring their ninjas.
After the Three-Tails incident, the Kirigakure ninja were eager to slash Chao Yanqian into pieces to avenge their hatred. Had Chao Yanqian not been hiding inside Konoha, Kirigakure would have long ago issued a kill-on-sight order against him.
Chao Yanqian was not only the main culprit behind the destruction of Kirigakure's forces but also a mountain that suppressed Kirigakure's prestige.
As long as Chao Yanqian lived, the Kirigakure ninja would always be reminded of the village's disgrace. Other villages would also think that Kirigakure was ultimately nothing special, since even a teenager could humiliate them.
Therefore, when Kirigakure learned that Chao Yanqian was assassinating their ninjas, the order to pursue and kill him would undoubtedly sound again.
As long as large numbers of Kirigakure ninjas left their village, Chao Yanqian's mission would be complete.
When Konoha and Kumogakure were divided, the Third Ninja World War came to an end. Even though small frictions would continue among villages, Konoha having successively defeated the other four major village woulld finally pull out from the quagmire of war.
But soon after, Konoha began its decline.
Bo Feng Shuimen died in the Nine-Tails attack, Kushina Uzumaki perished, Konoha lost a large number of elite ninjas, and during the Hyuga Affair later, Konoha was forced to compromise with Kumogakure.
Back when Kumogakure tried to kidnap Kushina Uzumaki, Bo Feng Shuimen killed the kidnapper instantly, and Kumogakure didn't dare to say anything. But during the Hyuga Affair, Konoha was so weakened that they had to give in.
Although the Kumogakure ninja in the Kushina incident did not hold the status of a "diplomatic envoy," it still proved that Konoha had become weaker compared to its heyday.
However, these matters had little to do with Chao Yanqian. What Chao Yanqian was planning now was how to obtain the summoning scroll of Ryuchi Cave during Orochimaru's defection incident.
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