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"Wind Release - Flowing Cloud Bird Technique."
Torifū exhaled a cloud of mist from his mouth, which slowly condensed into dozens of small white cloud birds, circling and dancing above his head. He reached out and touched one of the small birds, feeling a slight chill, which was quite nice.
Torifū then took out an upgraded version of the crystal seeds, equal in number to the cloud birds, and precisely threw them into the birds' bodies.
Subsequently, he controlled the cloud birds to fly in all directions. Once each cloud bird reached its designated location, it would swoop down, insert the crystal seed into the soil, and then its task would be completed, dissolving and dissipating immediately. After releasing the cloud bird ninjutsu several times in a row, crystal flowers had bloomed in half of the forest.
To avoid being discovered, Torifū had deliberately chosen a relatively hidden location, so that if they were not damaged, they could still be used in the future. As the flowers spewed out mist, Torifū could sense everyone within the mist, essentially setting up a village-protecting barrier outside the village.
By this time, an hour had passed since Torifū had left the village, and at this rate, he would be able to plant the seeds all around the outer forest of Konoha Village in another hour. Fortunately, Torifū had the habit of preparing many seeds in advance; otherwise, releasing ninjutsu continuously like this would really drain his chakra.
After nearly another hour, he finally planted the seeds throughout the entire forest! Then, Torifū released ninjutsu to stimulate the growth of the seeds and used the Crystal Connection Technique to connect all the crystal flowers. Having completed all of this, Torifū could finally relax a little.
Torifū was very confident in his ninjutsu. As long as he waited for his chakra to recover for a while, he could release the Cloud Mist Sensing Technique and let the mist fill the entire forest!
Even Uchiha Madara would definitely not be able to avoid the mist's detection, after all, Madara's chakra was so vast! Moreover, with Uchiha Madara's personality, he would not choose to hide his own chakra and launch a sneak attack. As long as he knew his location in the first place, it would be easy to handle.
Torifū shook the non-existent sweat from his forehead and sighed softly: "This Konoha Village is doomed without me sooner or later."
"Wind Release - Cloud Mist Sensing Technique."
In an instant, a large amount of chakra within his body was completely consumed, and he couldn't help but feel mentally exhausted; even his eyelids felt heavy. Torifū's breathing became somewhat rapid; obviously, this ninjutsu that surrounded the entire outer perimeter of Konoha Village had consumed him too much.
Fortunately, it was just ordinary mist, and it did not drain Torifū's chakra in an instant. In addition, there was still some thin mist in the forest in the early morning, which allowed Torifū to boldly release such a wide-range ninjutsu.
The so-called Cloud Mist Sensing Technique was actually just ordinary mist, but Torifū had deliberately given it this name to make it sound more stylish. The crystal flowers began to spew out thick clouds of mist, instantly assimilating with the morning mist when they met.
Before long, the mist spread throughout the forest. If someone accidentally strayed into here, it would probably take some effort to find a way out. However, there was no need to worry, as Torifū was constantly sensing everything; such a situation would not occur.
Seeing that the mist was getting thicker and thicker, Torifū stretched lazily and planned to return to the village to tell his sensei or Tobirama about this matter. Otherwise, it would be bad if it was mistaken for an enemy attack.
After Torifū returned to Konoha Village, the ninjas in the village had indeed noticed the abnormal mist in the forest outside the village. Each of them was filled with vigilance, and only after Torifū explained it to them did everyone breathe a sigh of relief. But some still didn't understand why he had to go to such great lengths to do this. Did anyone really dare to invade Konoha?
Torifū just smiled but didn't say anything, because he was really afraid of scaring them to death and also afraid of being treated as a lunatic. After all, who would believe that Uchiha Madara would attack Konoha today? Even Hashirama, when he heard that Uchiha Madara had appeared in the village, his first reaction was joy rather than thinking that Uchiha Madara would attack the village.
Without chatting too much with the ninjas, Torifū went straight to the Hokage's office. At this time, even if his sensei hadn't gotten up and was still sleeping in, Tobirama must have gotten up. The two were about the same, and it was the same to talk to either of them. After all, in the hearts of the village ninjas, the Second Hokage must be Senju Tobirama.
Torifū's speed was very fast. Before long, he arrived at the door of the Hokage's office, gently knocked a few times, and a voice came from inside the room, telling Torifū to enter.
"Sensei, Tobirama-sama, I have something to report," Torifū bowed to the two adults and explained his purpose.
"Oh? What's the matter so early in the morning? Tell me about it," Tobirama asked with interest.
Because Torifū could often come up with strange and bizarre ideas and could also develop many ninjutsu that he couldn't think of, Tobirama was very fond of Torifū. He believed that it was a waste of talent for a genius ninja like Torifū to follow his elder brother and learn taijutsu every day, so he had been trying to snatch this disciple from his elder brother!
"It's like this, I went to the forest outside the village early this morning…"
Torifū gave Hashirama and Tobirama a detailed report of what he had done after leaving the forest this morning, but he didn't say that it was to deal with Uchiha Madara. He only said that it was to strengthen the village's defenses and that he would be able to sense any foreign ninjas in an instant.
The mist was different from other techniques. The mist in the forest was not easy to dissipate, so the mist formation that Torifū had set up could be said to be long-lasting.
Hashirama and Tobirama understood everything after listening to Torifū's explanation of the whole story.
"Good boy, I was just telling my elder brother that the commotion outside must be you tinkering with a new technique again. I guessed right."
Tobirama was now more and more satisfied with Torifū, while his group of disciples, although their talents and strengths were all good, and their teamwork was also very tacit, they were just a little lacking in developing ninjutsu.
Among these people, only Hiruzen had some talent for developing ninjutsu. The rest of them were all hopeless, and Hiruzen's ability to develop ninjutsu was simply incomparable to Torifū. This kid could develop seven or eight new techniques a year, while Hiruzen could only come up with one or two.
Tobirama now had only one feeling: I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light! Before discovering Torifū, Tobirama often said to Hiruzen: "Monkey, you are my most promising disciple, don't let me down!" And now, the sentence that Tobirama said to Hiruzen most often was: "Look at Torifū, and then look at you! He develops so many ninjutsu a year! You can't even squeeze out a fart in half a year!"
In short, Tobirama was now dissatisfied with everything about Hiruzen and looked at Torifū like a treasure, always thinking about snatching him from his elder brother.
"Torifū, you did a good job with this. In this way, Konoha Village will become safer. You must be tired today?" Hashirama looked at his disciple with satisfaction. To be able to release such a large-scale ninjutsu at such a young age was indeed a genius!