The short branch inserted into the monk’s abdomen was different in color and shape from the Wood Release that Uchiha Gin was familiar with. It was gray-brown all over, like a dead tree that had been dried for a long time. The branches were covered with thorns and the tips were shining coldly.

Although one could feel the tremendous vitality it exudes, anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that it was the energy that had been absorbed from the life source of the Shaman.

“Has this thing existed from the beginning?”

Uchiha Gin frowned and looked at him for a while, then turned to ask Chiyo who looked nervous beside him,

“No, when we found the teacher, he was already in a coma, and there was no strange branch on his body.”

Chiyo shook her head. As soon as they found out that Shamen had lost contact, they started a carpet search along the way.
Finally, the broken bodies of a Sand Ninja Anbu team were found less than a hundred miles away from Loulan. These people were the escort team that followed Shamon to Loulan.

The Sand Village realized that the situation was out of control, and immediately sent in more personnel to conduct a thorough search of the surrounding area.

Unexpectedly, they actually found a sphere made of yellow sand under the thick yellow sand, and the whole ball was covered with dense spells.

As a disciple, Chiyo immediately recognized that this was her teacher’s magnetic ninjutsu, Grain Sealing Palm, a defensive ninjutsu that would not be lifted as long as the caster was alive.

Chiyo, who used this ninjutsu to determine that Shamen’s life was not in danger, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and with the help of the secret scroll left by her teacher, she lifted the Grain Sealing Palm on the spot.

As the sand ball collapsed, the unconscious monk saw the light of day again.

“It was normal at first.”

After listening to Chiyo’s description, Uchiha Gin’s eyes were full of thought. It seemed that the seed of the small tree in Shamen Laodi’s abdomen was planted in his body intentionally.

But what is the purpose of doing this? If you just want to kill Shamon, you can use other more convenient means. Why bother to plant such an inefficient killing weapon in his stomach?

“Have you ever tried to remove this thing?”

Instead of rashly touching the unknown plant with his hands, Uchiha Gin took out a black stick and poked it up and down curiously, only to find that the little thing was standing firm.
Tsk, the roots are quite deep~
“You can’t cut it.”

Chiyo shook her head gloomily. Uchiha Gin blinked in confusion.
“This plant is connected to the teacher’s life. If it is directly pulled out, the teacher’s life will also come to an end.”

“How did you know?”

Chiyo bit her lip when asked, her pretty face full of regret.

“Well, let me explain.”

Just then, an old man covered in bandages pushed the door open and walked out, staggering. It was obvious that he didn’t have many days left to live.

“who is he?”

Uchiha Gin pointed at the old man who was wrapped like a mummy with curiosity. He felt that the old man’s hoarse voice sounded familiar to him.
“Master Reito, you should go and rest now.”

The visitor was none other than Reito who was accidentally injured by the Sand Ninja on the city wall. After experiencing a bombardment by friendly forces, this hero stood up tenaciously again, and after some simple treatment, returned to the public eye again.

“Huh? So you’re not dead yet?”

Upon hearing the name, Uchiha Gin instantly remembered the extra in front of him. He didn’t expect that after so many years, this old guy has not yet logged off to play mahjong with the Six Paths Patriarch.

“Well!”

Hearing Uchiha Gin’s unintentional words, Reito’s bandaged head spurted out a stream of blood with a sound, and his hunched body trembled uncontrollably, and it seemed that he was very angry.

“Master Shodai, calm down and consider the overall situation.”

Ebizo, who was standing by, immediately stepped forward to support the staggering Reito and helped him calm down.

“Hmph! I’ll let you go for now.”

Reito gritted his teeth, glared at Uchiha Gin fiercely, and then slowly spoke,
“When I first discovered the Salmon, I ordered the medical ninja to treat him immediately. However, the result was counterproductive. Not only did it fail to wake up the Salmon, but it accelerated the growth of the plant.”

It turned out that as soon as Shamon was exposed, Chiyo, a medical ninja, started to treat the teacher, and poured the life energy converted from chakra into his body without paying.
However, after several hours of rescue, Salmon showed no signs of waking up and his body became weaker. People then discovered that there was a small bulge in his abdomen.
At first, Chiyo blushed when she saw it, thinking that the teacher had given too much tutoring. But after observing for a while, she found something wrong with the position. After lifting up the clothes, this strange sprout came into everyone’s sight.

At this time, it was too late for Chiyo to remove the foreign body. Under the watering of the medical ninjutsu full of life energy, the seeds hidden in the body of Shamon took root prematurely as if injected with chicken blood.
The roots entrenched in the body have penetrated deeply into the monk’s internal organs, meridians, and assimilated with his life until the day of his death.

“It’s all my fault, if I had checked carefully.”

Chiyo covered her face in pain, tears as big as beans rolling down her cheeks. She had an unshirkable responsibility for the teacher’s current condition.

“No, it was all my fault. You don’t have to blame yourself.”

Reito shook his head and took all the responsibility for the medical accident. If anything really happened to Shamon, the only people the Sand Village could rely on were Chiyo and her brother, and they couldn’t let them have any negative information.

“Master Shodai, this has nothing to do with you.”

Wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, Chiyo straightened her back and realized that everyone has their own consequences and she must be responsible for this matter.

Seeing the old and the young taking the blame for each other, Uchiha Gin scratched his head in annoyance.

It turned out that they had good intentions but ended up with bad results. They artificially ripened the seeds in the salmon’s body, which led to his critical condition.

Walking forward and patting Chiyo on the head, Uchiha Gin interrupted the conversation between the two with a calm expression.

“Okay, okay, instead of sharing the blame, why not think about how to treat the salmonella.”

“Uncle Yin, do you have a solution?”

Feeling the warmth from the big hand above her head, a blush flashed across Chiyo’s face. For some reason, after hearing Uchiha Gin’s voice, she felt a sense of inexplicable peace of mind in her heart.

“I need to examine it thoroughly before I can make any judgement.”

Uchiha Gin neither nodded nor shook his head. The situation in Shamon Prison was a bit complicated now. The first thing he needed to figure out was the origin of this plant.

“Everyone who is not in the know should leave first. I need a quiet environment.”

Taking out a pair of surgical gloves from the ninja tool bag behind him, Uchiha Gin turned around and said to everyone in the room,
Feeling a little bored, Uchiha Hikaru and Otsutsuki Tsukishime turned around and left first. They were better at killing people than saving them.

“Ok.”

The people from the Sand Ninja side looked at each other, and finally Chiyo stood up. The others didn’t say anything more and followed her out.

When there were no more strangers in the room, Uchiha Gin’s eyes passed over the unconscious Shamon and fell on the quilt spread out beside him.

This quilt is definitely not simple. From the complex spells on it, Uchiha Gin can tell that this is a sealing technique used to extract the chakra of the tailed beasts.
This quilt must be the main reason why Shamon was able to be sucked in for so long without dying.

“For some things, it’s better to ask the person involved directly, or the beast in question.”

Uchiha Gin said, raising his hand to take out the card placed in the center of the seal, stroking the familiar texture of the card, a red light flashed in his eyes,
The next moment, his spirit entered a huge alien space. In this space, yellow sand was everywhere and fierce winds were as sharp as knives.
In the center of the space, there lay a dying raccoon cat. However, its appearance was much more miserable than the fat ball in Uchiha Gin’s memory.

“Hey, I remember the raccoon cat I locked up, how come it turned into a weasel?” “Who?!”

The teasing voice passed through the strong wind and landed steadily in Shukaku’s ears, frightening it so much that it wanted to get up and check, but it rolled over on the spot due to lack of physical strength.

“Haha, you even learned to flip over on your stomach, not bad~”

Seeing this funny scene, Uchiha Gin smiled and walked in front of Shukaku, his half-closed eyes exuding a cold aura that chilled the tailed beasts.

“You are you!”

The two copper-coin-like animal pupils drooped and collided with Uchiha Gin’s slightly red eyes. Shukaku was so scared that his tail shrank.
“What are you looking at? I’m here to take you away!”

Smiling, he raised his hand to say hello. Uchiha Gin looked up and down at Shukaku, who had successfully lost weight, and reached out to pat his skinny belly.
Shukaku cautiously stepped back a few steps to distance himself from him. As one of the few people (beasts) in the world who knew the true identity of Uchiha Gin, he naturally did not dare to underestimate this strange human in front of him.

“What are you doing here? I get it, you’re here to reclaim me, right?!”

Confused Shukaku used his walnut-sized brain to quickly think about Uchiha Gin’s intentions and concluded that he was here to capture him. The huge beast head instantly showed a trace of struggle.
If it’s gone, and only the big blue reptile is left, wouldn’t that bald guy Salmon be dead?

“Why, you still don’t want to leave?”

Catching Shukaku’s undisguised micro-expression, Uchiha Gin raised his eyebrows curiously.

Logically speaking, Shukaku became such a miserable appearance because of his imprisonment in Shamon. It should be eager to draw a clear line immediately and turn back into its previous chubby and majestic appearance.

“Leave? I’ll just go to another place to stay in prison. I’m fine here.”

Facing Uchiha Gin’s interesting questioning, Shukaku turned his head away somewhat stiffly.

“It seems that you get along well with the Shamen prisoner.”

“Who gets along well with that bald guy! If it weren’t for the fact that he helped me beat up that stinky fox, I wouldn’t have given him my precious chakra.”

Shukaku’s face turned red after being exposed. He turned his back to Uchiha Gin and shouted as loudly as he could, but his speech was in a standard slurred manner.

“Okay, I didn’t come here to take you away.”

Uchiha Gin chuckled and shook his head.

“really?”

Shukaku was stunned when he heard this, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
In a flash, Uchiha Gin appeared in front of the arrogant Shukaku again, his scarlet eyes staring directly into the pair of copper-coin-like animal pupils, his voice revealing a rare solemnity.
“I just want to ask, what kind of enemy did he encounter in Shamen Prison?”

“.”

Hearing this question, Shukaku’s pupils shrank slightly, and the corners of his mouth, which had just been grinning, froze in an instant. There was a hint of fear in his expression that greatly confused Uchiha Gin.

In the entire ninja world, there are many people who can defeat the tailed beasts, but there are only a handful of people who can make the tailed beasts show expressions of fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Apart from Uchiha Gin, who cut the tails of many tailed beasts, there are only Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

“Is it Hashirama’s prison?”

Seeing Shukaku remained silent, Uchiha Gin frowned and asked,

Whether it was the joint letter of denunciation from the major ninja villages or the wood escape artifacts left at the scene, all these suspicions pointed to the long-missing Senju Hashirama.
But Uchiha Gin believed that the attacker had only stolen the power in Hashirama’s prison, and not him himself.

“It’s him, but it’s not him.”

After a brief recollection, Shukaku spoke uncertainly,

really!

This answer coincides with Uchiha Gin’s guess, the enemy did use the power of Senju Hashirama.

“Although he looks like the descendant of Asura, there is something indescribably strange about him.”

“weird?”

When he heard Shukaku say the word “weird”, he suddenly felt a little curious. If the enemy was simply stealing the power of Wood Release, it shouldn’t be enough to make the tailed beasts feel weird, right?
“Yes, that human is not right. He is more like a human than a human.”

When Shukaku spoke, his face was tightly wrinkled, as if he was recalling a very painful experience, and there was an imperceptible trembling in his eyes.

“More like what?”

“More like us.”

At the same time that Uchiha Gin was examining Shamon,

In a cave less than a hundred miles outside Loulan City, a burly figure wearing a black cloak and sitting cross-legged slowly opened his eyes.

If there were someone familiar with Senju Hashirama present at this moment, they would definitely be shocked.
Because the face hidden under the cloak was exactly the same as the missing Senju Hashirama.
The only difference is that this Senju Hashirama’s expression is very stiff, and there is no trace of life in his black eyes, as if he is a cold corpse.
“The target of the mission is alive. Do you want to continue the mission?”

Suddenly, he opened his mouth and asked word by word to the void beside him,

“Number One, your expression was the best this time, and you recovered the most chakra. If you want to continue, I have no objection.”

Suddenly, a large black and red hole appeared in the dark void, and then Cixian’s cold voice was heard from it, but the satisfaction in her tone was clearly audible.

“Received, mission confirmed to continue.”

Number One nodded expressionlessly after receiving the affirmation.

despair!–

Wearing traditional monk robes, Jixian stepped out of the portal and looked at the No. 1 experimental subject with eyes full of satisfaction.
Among the current experimental subjects, No. 1 is the one with the best mission completion rate. Although the results of the others are good, they did not bring back much benefits.

“However, just in case, I will let number three and number four assist you.”

despair!–

despair!–

As they were talking, two more cloaked figures walked out of the portal. Judging from their appearance, they looked like they were carved from the same mold as No. 1.

Number One raised his head, glanced at the other two test subjects expressionlessly, and nodded slightly.

Looking at the three experimental subjects present, Jigen’s mouth curled up slightly. As long as he successfully seized the power of all the tailed beasts, his plan to ascend to godhood would take another big step forward.

“The end of the Tailed Beast Knight has come.” (End of this chapter)