"Attack Konohagakure?" Nagato fell somewhat silent.
His parents had both been killed by shinobi from Konohagakure, and the person who had stabbed them in the back and caused Akatsuki to be destroyed had also been a Konoha shinobi, so his attitude toward Konohagakure was undoubtedly one of hostility. But his sensei Jiraiya just happened to be a shinobi of Konoha.
His feelings toward Jiraiya were rather complicated.
When he was young, Jiraiya had saved his life, taught him ninjutsu, and taught him the principles of loving peace, and had always been a special existence in his heart, both a sensei and a father.
It could be said that the earliest ideals of Akatsuki could not be separated from Jiraiya's influence.
However, although Jiraiya's ideals were correct, they were really far too naive, completely out of place with this world, fundamentally impossible to realize.
That was why there had been Akatsuki's first destruction, why Yahiko had died because of it, and why Nagato had also been crippled because of it.
But even so, he had never hated Jiraiya, and all the more did not want to have a direct confrontation with him.
"Hey, Leader, if you don't want to kill Jiraiya, when the time comes just leave Jiraiya to me to deal with," Uchiha Yasuo said in an extremely "considerate" tone.
"If you really don't want to see him, that's even simpler. Before the great war, just send a few beauties to seduce him and delay him for a few days, and he will definitely be late."
"You really do know everything!" Nagato's expression stiffened; he gave him a deep look, then shook his head and said, "Since we are going to wipe out Konohagakure, we definitely can't get around the Legendary Sannin. I will go and settle things with him myself."
"It started with him, and it will end with him."
"That works too." Uchiha Yasuo nodded noncommittally. "So, in that case, our deal is concluded?"
Nagato nodded solemnly.
"Alright! Once my body has recovered, I will take the initiative to launch an attack on Konohagakure, annihilate Konohagakure, and seize the Nine-Tails."
"Haha..." Uchiha Yasuo began to laugh happily, the tomoe in his Sharingan spinning for a moment and changing into the form of a Mangekyō. "Then what are we waiting for? Let me heal your injuries!"
He stood up, moved close to Nagato, placed his hand on Nagato's body, converted all of his ocular power into the power of Yang Release, and poured it into Nagato's body.
"Hey, this body of yours really is badly damaged."
As soon as Uchiha Yasuo began the treatment, he felt that Nagato's body was like a bottomless pit, absorbing his Yang Release power without leaving a single drop.
When he had been injured before, under the effect of Yang Release he had always recovered in an instant; its effect was comparable to the First Hokage's Wood Release, requiring only the consumption of a very small amount of power to produce an enormous effect.
But Nagato's body was truly extremely depleted; even though he continuously poured in Yang Release, it only allowed Nagato's condition to improve just a little.
As his ocular power was spurred and used at high intensity, his left eye once again began to shed bloody tears, but he did not care in the slightest; he still desperately squeezed out his chakra, strenuously converting it into Yang Release.
"Alright, let's stop here for today!" Nagato flicked lightly, bouncing Uchiha Yasuo back a few steps. "Your eyes need time to rest, and this body of mine also can't recover in just a day or two; there's no need to be too hasty."
"Konan, arrange a room for him to live in, and treat him once every day at this time. It shouldn't take very long before I can make a full recovery."
Konan nodded, gave Uchiha Yasuo a grateful look, and gestured for him to follow behind her.
"Alright then, I'll patiently wait a few days."
Uchiha Yasuo indifferently wiped away the tear tracks under his eyes, narrowed his eyes, and followed Konan out of the tower.
Inside the tower, Konan found a clean room and let Uchiha Yasuo move in.
Uchiha Yasuo casually glanced around twice, then asked: "Hey, which room does Orochimaru live in?"
"From now on he and I are partners; I have to get properly close to him."
Konan gave him a deep look without asking anything, merely pointed out the direction for him, then took her leave and departed.
As soon as Konan left, Uchiha Yasuo went out the door, swayed unhurriedly toward the room where Orochimaru lived, and, when he arrived, went 'bang, bang' on the door.
"Hey, Orochimaru, I'm your good partner! I've come to hang out with you!"
As the door opened, Orochimaru's sinister face was revealed.
"So it was you, Yasuo. I was just thinking about the information you mentioned before!"
"Please, come in!"
Orochimaru stepped aside from the doorway, and Uchiha Yasuo strode in and looked around; he saw that it was clean and tidy here, with books and scrolls placed everywhere, but there were no experimental items, so it was obvious that his laboratory was not here.
He casually found a place to sit down, and Orochimaru sat opposite him, poured the tea, and, without being polite, asked bluntly:
"That 'technique of immortality' you mentioned before—what does it refer to?"
Uchiha Yasuo leisurely took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly: "Before that, let me first tell Orochimaru-sama a story."
"A story about the ancestors of my Uchiha clan."
"Once upon a time, there was such a Rabbit Goddess... Later, she gave birth to two sons, one called Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, and one called Ōtsutsuki Hamura..."
"Later again, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo became the Sage of Six Paths and had two sons, one called Asura and one called Indra..."
"Later again, there were Senju Hashirama... and Uchiha Madara..."
"So, tracing the Uchiha clan back up the line, in fact it can be traced back to the Sage of Six Paths and the Rabbit Goddess above them."
He briefly told Orochimaru some background stories, but apart from explaining the lineage inheritance relationships, he did not mention even half a sentence of those important key points.
"Ah, so that's how it is!" Orochimaru listened with leisurely fascination and could not help sighing. "As expected of a great clan of Konoha; these secrets are probably completely unknown to outsiders."
"However, what you said—aside from showing that the Uchiha clan's bloodline is noble—what does it have to do with the technique of immortality?"
"Hehe..." Uchiha Yasuo laughed, then said mysteriously, "Then what if I told you that the Rabbit Goddess of those years, and her two sons, even now still remain somewhere in the shinobi world?"
"What?" Upon hearing this, Orochimaru's expression instantly changed. "That's impossible!"
"It has already been so many years; they…"
Halfway through his words, Orochimaru suddenly realized something, and asked in a trembling voice: "Is it the technique of immortality?"
"Correct!" Uchiha Yasuo nodded. "It is the genuine technique of immortality!"
"The Rabbit Goddess' technique of immortality is called 'Kekkei Mora', an ability formed by fusing together all seven nature transformations—Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, Lightning, Yin, and Yang—and it is an existence that surpasses both kekkei genkai and kekkei tōta."
"However, the Rabbit Goddess is of the Ōtsutsuki clan and was born with 'Kekkei Mora'. If you want to obtain it, you must find a way to fuse it yourself later on."
"Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's technique of immortality is slightly inferior and is called 'Sage of Six Paths', and one only needs to synthesize the Rinnegan and then become the Ten-Tails jinchūriki to achieve it."
"Ōtsutsuki Hamura's technique of immortality is the weakest, but it is the easiest to accomplish. It is called 'Tenseigan', and one only needs to gather a large number of Byakugan and fuse them together to naturally obtain it."
On Orochimaru's pale face, an abnormal flush instantly appeared; his eyes flashed with excited light, and his long tongue, like a snake's tongue, licked around his lips.
Only after a long moment did he calm down. Looking at Uchiha Yasuo, who was leisurely drinking his tea, he said in a deep voice: "Among the three methods, you only stated the synthesis method of the 'Tenseigan'. In other words, what you actually want is for me to go into Konohagakure and seize a large amount of Byakugan."
"Is that right?"
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