Chapter 604 The Whetstone

The border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Earth.

Yamahashi stood under a towering rock wall with an ugly expression on his face. He hadn't found Roshi after such a long time, and there was a high probability that he would no longer be found.

'It's just, how did Roshi escape?'

Yamahashi divided the one thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi into ten teams to search for him, covering the borders of the Land of Earth with the Land of Grass, Land of Rain, Land of Birds, but Roshi still slipped away!

'Didn't Roshi leave the Land of Earth?'

Yamahashi frowned and took out the map of the Land of Earth and neighboring countries, and soon thought of another possibility: 'He ran away to the border of the Land of Waterfall and the Land of Earth.'

'Damn it!'

Yamahashi threw away the map, and felt that he was old and his brain was not good enough anymore. When he was young, he would definitely be able to think of this possibility!

As for now, it seems that he can only call back all the team.

After all, more than a thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi have been wandering outside, which has attracted Konoha's attention. If Konoha can guess Roshi's identity, or even target Roshi, the consequences will be disastrous.

Yamahashi pondered for a while, and then reluctantly ordered all Iwagakure's Shinobi to withdraw!

Half a day later, the one thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi gathered together, and then returned to Iwagakure.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! ...

Several black bugs were flying back and forth on the wet and potholed rock wall in the distance, and when the Iwagakure's Shinobi disappear, they flapped their wings and flew in another direction.

"How is it?"

In the depths of a narrow valley, there are more than a dozen mask-wearing Shinobi wearing Kumogakure's Anbu's attire.

"Hold on."

A petite masked man reached out to retrieve these little black bugs. After some secret code, he said, "The Iwagakure's Shinobi are gone, they don't seem to plan to look for Roshi anymore."

If Kanpū is here, he will definitely find this sound familiar!

After all, this petite figure is none other than Kanpū and Shisui's former teammate: Aburame Yui!

And the people on her side are of course Konoha's Shinobi, and they are members of Anbu's third unit. To hide their identity, they put on Kumogakure's Anbu's attire.

"A thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi can't find the whereabouts of that Roshi. Iwagakure's Shinobi is too stupid."

"What should we do? If we continue like this, we can't do anything."

The tone of Anbu next to her was not very good.

The mission given to them by Minato is only to confirm Roshi's whereabouts, not at all asking them to snatch Roshi under the hands of one thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi, so this mission is actually quite simple. As long as they are not exposed, it can be completed easily, but they didn't expect that one thousand Iwagakure's Shinobi can't find Roshi!

"We can only find him ourselves." Yui said.

"There is too little information about Roshi in our hands, so blindly searching will definitely not work!" The Captain of the third team is also Kanpū's old acquaintance, Jizo.

Jizo was formerly the captain of the sixth team and the boss of Kanpū, Kakashi, and Shisui. It's a pity that it didn't take long to be transferred.

o(╥﹏╥)o

After finished thinking of the past, Jizo said: "First, we should send the information back to the village. Yui, continue to let your insects follow Iwagakure's Shinobi's troops, and see if they really give up."

"Understood." Yui responded.

...

Land of Iron.

The underground laboratory of Konoha Tavern.

Under the shadowless lamp of the operating table, a tied white mouse is screaming wildly, its small eyes are full of fear looking at the man with round eyes.

Kabuto held down the white mouse's belly with one hand, lifted the needle tube with the other hand, then he inserted the needle into the white mouse's belly swiftly, and then push it slowly, pushing the light green liquid in the syringe into the mouse's body.

Chirp!!

The body of the white mouse trembled, and immediately convulsed wildly, then it foamed at the mouth, and finally died.

'Die so soon?'

Kanpū was stunned when he saw this. Before he could recover, he saw the white mouse's corpse twitching suddenly, and then a green sprout grew from its belly. As the white mouse's flesh and blood dried up, this green sprout also grew to the thickness of a finger, and the bright green leaves are shaking.

Kanpū's face twitched upon seeing this: 'This is not Hashirama's cell, is it a poison?'

Kanpū's eyes flickered, and it suddenly occurred to him, 'If I inject it to the enemy…'

'Then won't a grassland grow on the top of their head?!'

On the other hand, Kabuto has already recorded the experimental process one by one, and then compared it with the experimental data of the root, and then scribbled in a notebook after finishing.

Kanpū took a few glances and was dizzy from the various symbols on it. He glanced at the time, and it was almost twelve o'clock, so he said: "Kabuto, I'll go back first."

"Yes." Kabuto was immersed in the experiment, so he subconsciously replied.

Kanpū activated Sage Mode, and disappeared in an instant in an invisible twilight.

It took half a month for Kanpū to rush from the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Iron to the Land of Iron's capital. Although it was also due to the wind and snow, the biggest reason was his shadow clone didn't bury the Flying Thunder God Technique's stones in the Land of Iron.

Fortunately, Kanpū has hands and feet. During this half a month journey, he buried a lot of Flying Thunder God Technique's stones in remote snowfields along the way, so in the future, he can travel back and forth between Konoha and Land of Iron's capital in a matter of minutes.

Back to the underground base of the Forest of Death, Kanpū immediately dug out Hashirama, and instructed: "Practice Wood Release, Chakra is prohibited."

Hashirama stretched out his hands like puppet and begun forming hand seals: "Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence."

"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees."

"Wood Release:…"

Kanpū took the opportunity to throw out the Collection Technique.

The green light cluster in his mind surged and boiled quickly, and then subsided.

The first collection failed.

Kanpū calmly threw out the second Collection Technique.

Still failed.

The third time, it still fails!

Failure is the basic exercise, and Kanpū has long been accustomed to it.

He kicked Hashirama into the wooden coffin, dug a hole for him and buried it with his own hands, and put two incense sticks on it, hoping that Hashirama would bless him to collect successfully next time.

Then, he removed all the shadow clones in the underground base except for the manual power generation and the Byakugan shadow clone that monitored the surroundings, absorbing their training experience during this period of time.

With the 'Sage Body' that combines Hashirama's physique and Uzumaki Clan's physique of Naruto and other clansmen, Kanpū didn't feel uncomfortable at all, and easily absorbs their experience.

But soon after, he frowned.

In terms of Yin-Yang Release, the shadow clones still haven't made any progress. As for training of Gentle Fist and Sharingan Genjutsu, they have also reached a bottleneck. Unless it is actual combat, it is difficult to improve through ordinary training.

'If it's just actual combat, who should I turn to?'

'Akatsuki?'

Akatsuki's members are all S-Rank Missing-nin, and their strength is strong, so they are suitable to be used as whetstone, but now that the two-man teams of Akatsuki have been performing missions outside, and their whereabouts are a mystery, even if Kanpū has Hyōketsu and Taki, they can only find their teammates, that is, Zetsu and Orochimaru.

'Look for them to train?'

'Impossible.'

'Go directly to Amegakure to find Nagato with Sharingan and Byakugan?'

'That's not tempering, that's courting death. Something big will definitely happen if I do that!'

'Then, look for Shinobi from other villages?'

Kanpū still shook his head. Byakugan and Sharingan are both Kekkei Genkai from Konoha. If Kanpū asks shadow clones to go to other Shinobi Villages to cause trouble, it will definitely bring trouble to the village, and with the strange Byakugan and Sharingan Shinobi suddenly appearing, Minato, Uchiha Clan and Hyuga Clan will definitely investigate it!

So it doesn't work either.

'Then from this…'

Kanpū suddenly thought of an old figure in his mind.

'Danzo?!'