At the same time, the Akatsuki organization secret base, Nine Eyes Cemetery.
Uchiha Itachi was taking Kisame, who had regained consciousness, to tell the other Akatsuki members who were standing on the fingers of the heretic demon about the entire process of the failed capture of the Nine-Tails.
Of course, this does not include the subsequent cooperation transactions between him and Li Chuan.
"I didn't expect that I could seriously injure Kisame with one blow, forcing you to flee in embarrassment. This prince of the Fire Country has such strong strength, I have never heard of it before."
The shadow of Tendo Payne standing on his thumb, after hearing Itachi and Kisame's report, turned to look at the pitcher plant-like Zetsu on the other side:
"What information do you have about this Prince of the Fire Country?"
"What a coincidence. I was about to report to you, the leader, that the mysterious ninja who killed Hidan you asked me to investigate before was none other than the prince of the Fire Country, Marokawa."
Jue shook his pitcher plant and replied cheerfully.
Among the official members of the Akatsuki organization, except for Tendo Payne, Konan and Zetsu who are controlled by Nagato, most of them are S-class rebel ninjas from major ninja villages.
Uchiha Itachi and Orochimaru, the S-class rebel ninjas of Konoha Hidden Village in the Land of Fire.
The S-class rebel ninjas Kisame Kisame and Juuzou Loquat of Kirikage Village in the Land of Water.
Hidan, an S-class rebel ninja from Yunin Village in the Country of Izumi.
The S-class rebel ninja Kakuto of Taki Ninja Village in the Kingdom of Waterfall.
Deidara, the S-class rebel ninja from the Rock Ninja Village in the Earth Country.
The S-class rebel ninja scorpion from Sand Ninja Village in the Kingdom of Wind.
The last one is Hijikata, an elite Jonin from the early days of Akatsuki.
Three of these official members have died and one has defected.
The one who defected was Orochimaru. Among the three who died, one was Juzo Juzo, who was killed by the Fourth Mizukage to save Itachi while fighting with the Fourth Mizukage, and the other was because he was disliked by Angle when he teamed up with Kakuzu.
Hijikata's movements were too slow and he killed the enemy as well.
And the last one, Hidan, who claimed to have immortality, was killed by a mysterious ninja when he teamed up with Kakuzu.
After Hidan's death, Nagato immediately sent Zetsu, who was best at gathering intelligence, to investigate the mysterious ninja. Through the information from the money exchange and some espionage activities, he finally determined that the employer was Marokawa, the prince of the Land of Fire.
"It turns out it's him. This damn guy dared to defraud me of my money and asked me to get rid of him!"
Before Tendo Payne could speak, Kakuzu jumped up in anger.
He was not angry at all about the death of his teammate Hidan. What he was angry about was that so much money turned into air in the end. What he loved most in his life was money.
This hurt him even more than killing him.
"Senior, don't be angry. If you are angry, your health will be bad. We will go to the town ahead to soak in a hot spring to cool down."
Next to the angle, a phantom wearing a yellow spiral mask with only one eye exposed said nonchalantly.
He is none other than Hidan who became the new member of the Akatsuki organization.
"Shut up, I hate noisy people. If you keep making noises, I will send you down to accompany Hidan!"
"It's scary, it's scary, I'm still a newcomer."
A Fei immediately looked like he was trembling.
"Kakuzu, calm down. It's not easy for him to take action in Konoha. Now is not the time to fully expose the strength of the organization. Zetsu continues."
Tiandao turned his head and glanced at Kakuzu. Although Kakuzu was unwilling, he still kept his mouth shut.
Jue shook his head and continued:
"Yuanchuan, the prince of the Kingdom of Fire, was twenty-one years old. His mother died in childbirth, and his father fell from a horse and died when he was four years old. He has been silent since he was a child. He has lived in the prince's palace for a long time and rarely goes out.
A year ago, he joined the Fire Temple and began to learn ninjutsu. He once appeared in the Kingdom of Waves to help the locals fight against the merchant Cardo, and later led the Fire Kingdom nobles to participate in the Konoha Chunin Examination.
When Orochimaru and Suna Ninja attacked Konoha, he saved many seriously injured ninjas and villagers with extremely superb medical ninjutsu, and was accepted as a disciple by the third generation."
"Are you sure you just started learning ninjutsu a year ago?"
Tiandao Payne frowned, and other members of the organization also showed disbelief.
Everyone is the most talented ninja in the history of each major ninja village, and many of them have already possessed the strength of jonin in their youth.
But in one year, he went from an ordinary person to a ninja who could kill Hidan, easily defeat Kisame, Uchiha Itachi, and possess extremely high healing ninjutsu.
This kind of thing is simply a fantasy, it is impossible for even the six realms of rebirth to be so talented.
"We can't be sure. This is the information we have heard so far. We can only confirm that he did go to the Fire Temple a year ago. Maybe he had been learning ninjutsu at the Prince's Mansion before.
It is even possible that he is not at the Prince's Mansion at all, but is learning ninjutsu elsewhere. After all, he rarely goes out and may not show up once a year."
Jue spread his arms, he didn't believe that someone could have such strength in a year.
"This person's strength is more troublesome, so don't worry about him for now."
Tiandao Payne thought for a while, and then said:
"Since the capture of the Nine-Tails failed, and it will take three years for the Three-Tails to be reborn, we will suspend the capture of the tailed beasts, make all our efforts to earn funds, and continue to provoke wars between some small countries..."
To be able to defeat Kisame and force Itachi back, even if Akatsuki wanted to defeat him with such strength, it would not be that easy.
And now Konoha knows some information about Akatsuki from somewhere. If he is too ostentatious and Konoha discovers Akatsuki's ultimate purpose, then he will be in trouble.
Before they collect all nine tailed beasts, they don't have the strength to compete with all the ninja villages in the world.
The meeting ended, and the phantoms disappeared one by one, and Itachi heard Kakuzu murmuring before he disappeared:
"Hmph, since I'm not allowed to go to Konoha to kill him, then I'll go to the Fire Temple to kill his master. It just so happens that the reward on the land of the Fire Temple is thirty million taels, which is also a good target."
...
Sarutobi Station in Konoha Village, inside Li Chuan's residence.
"This motion capture capability is very good."
In the closet space temporarily transformed with the Traceless Stretching Spell, Li Chuan was making various attempts after transplanting the Mangekyō Sharingan.
And in his constant attempts, he also discovered some uses of the Sharingan that he had ignored before.
Before he decided to transplant the Sharingan, he mainly focused on the two abilities of Tsukuyomi and Susanoo. However, when he actually adapted to the Sharingan, he discovered that some of the basic abilities of the Sharingan were already very useful.
The holder of the Sharingan has extraordinary insight and can observe the flow of chakra, and can cast and see through illusions, copying body techniques and non-blood limited ninjutsu.
The Mangekyō Sharingan can bring these functions to the extreme.
As a physically strong Taijutsu master, with the insight of the Mangekyou Sharingan, he can be said to be even more powerful in close combat, and can respond to enemy attacks faster.
Especially in the future when facing those Golden Saints whose melee combat capabilities are even more perverted than mine.