Chapter 227 Building a Stronghold

If you want to create a secret stronghold, you need to consider all aspects of funds, manpower, and location selection. Starting from scratch is cumbersome and complicated.

The empty shell of the Heretic Golem is in the Kingdom of Earth, so the location is naturally within the Kingdom of Earth. As for the funds that need to be implemented as soon as possible, Ye Zi only thinks of Muzi's treasury. In the past, he felt that the farther away from this woman, the better. Only now do I realize that I was really lucky to have taken over the task of escorting Muzi.

The general direction, location selection and funding are not difficult to solve, but the difficulty is manpower. There is currently no available talent, only one of Nanako's subordinates, and if you want to start with the war leftover, you must have a person in charge.

Now that he is a member of Akatsuki, he is busy with tasks almost all the time. It is difficult to spare time to find orphans with decent talents. If you think about it carefully, this is a trouble. However, even if the manpower cannot be implemented as soon as possible, a stronghold must be established first.

After considering the general direction, you also have to carefully consider many things, such as not letting Jue know the true purpose of establishing the stronghold, because he cannot trust Jue.

If it was just to increase the combat power of Hashirama's cell clones, it would be fine, but Ye Zi's deeper purpose was to covet those samsara eyes.

After deciding on the direction of the location, Ye Zi took advantage of Nagato not releasing the next mission, leading Nanako and Yu to the Kingdom of Earth.

The empty shell of the Outer Demon Statue is located, as well as the remains of Uchiha Madara, near the destroyed Kannabi Bridge. Since the bridge was destroyed by Minato, the Iwa Ninja gave up on the reconstruction work and seemed to have re-planned it. Another supply route was created, so the Kannabi Bridge that made Minato famous, now only the remains and legends remain.

Naturally, Ye Zi's movements cannot be hidden from Bai Jue's eyes.

When the three of them arrived near the Kannabi Bridge, Bai Zetsu appeared in front of them elusively.

Ye Zi had been mentally prepared for Bai Jue's appearance, so she didn't react at all. On the contrary, Nanako and Yu were startled, especially Nanako. When Jue appeared, her eyes were fixed on Jue's side. On the pale body.

The broken bridge body of Kannabi Bridge exposed thick steel bars, which have been corroded by time and rusted. The river under the bridge is still covered with a large amount of debris.

Bai Jue stood at the position where Ye Zi once attacked Minato, looked at Nanako and Yu next to Ye Zi, and asked curiously: "Who are these two people? And, what do you want to do?"

His tone was not a question, maybe he was just curious, or maybe there was a deeper reason, but he didn't reveal it. The most important thing is that he can't figure out Ye Zi's motive for coming back here.

Faced with Bai Jue's question, Ye Zi said calmly: "This is my subordinate, and I am here to strengthen my trump card."

Nanako and Yu had no reaction to the identities Ye Zitao gave them.

"Subordinate?" Bai Jue looked slightly startled, his eyes lingering on Nanako and Yu, and said calmly: "It's hard to imagine, what is your so-called enhanced trump card?"

Although he did not monitor Ye Zi specifically, he did not recover the clones scattered in various places. He only knew that Ye Zi went to the Wild Country and took two people with him after coming out. Because the presence of the Wild Country was too weak , so he did not set up an informant in the wild country and did not know the information of these two people.

It's nothing to just bring out two people, but when their direction is here, Bai Jue's body will follow.

This subordinate who appeared out of nowhere only slightly surprised him. What he cared about was Ye Zi's motive for returning here.

Ye Zi took out the medicine developed by Nanako and said calmly: "Call a clone to come out."

Bai Jue was stunned for a moment, but quickly stretched out his hand and asked the nearest clone to come forward.

"Inject it and see." When the clone came here, Ye Zi threw the medicine to the clone.

After the clone caught the medicine, under Bai Jue's gaze, he injected it directly into his chest.

"Um?"

About five seconds later, Bai Jue's eyes suddenly hardened.

I saw that the clone's figure had directly grown in size, with knuckle-thick veins emerging from the surface of the skin, and the energy contained in the body more than doubled in an instant.

"Is this?" Bai Jue could feel that the clone's own energy was significantly enhanced, but its vitality was passing rapidly. What he noticed immediately was not the enhanced energy, but the rapidly passing vitality.

"It can actually interfere with Hashirama's cells. No, this is not just interference, but forcing changes in Hashirama's cells." Bai Jue suppressed the surprise in his heart, feeling the clone's passing vitality and enhanced Amount of chakra.

Is it to increase chakra at the cost of life? What kind of potion is this? If it is used against him, it will not be fun. Moreover, Hashirama's cells are so powerful that drugs can be used to affect them.

Bai Jue looked at the clone in silence. He saw everything clearly without any need for experiments.

About five minutes later, the vitality of the clone that had been injected with the drug bottomed out, and cracks began to appear in the body. However, the clone's face was expressionless. It started to collapse from the feet, and then extended upwards. In just three seconds, the entire body collapsed. Into a pile of dry residue.

"How?" Ye Zi looked at Bai Jue.

"Is this the potion developed by those two women?" Bai Jue frowned deeply. This was the first time he showed such an expression in front of Ye Zi.

If it can affect Hashirama's cells, it can also affect him. If he is injected with this medicine, he will probably end up with the same fate as the clone.

Ye Zi glanced at Nanako and said: "This was developed by Nanako. She used to be from Konoha and was also my colleague. You don't have to be too surprised about the potion. Even Orochimaru, I'm afraid Hashirama has eaten it thoroughly. cell."

Nanako had many doubts in her heart, but she was wise enough not to interrupt.

"This is not good news for me." Bai Jue said.

Ye Zi looked at him expressionlessly and said calmly: "This potion was not created for you. Don't just pay attention to its flaws. Clones are one of our trump cards. With this potion, you can instantly form a wave." A combat power that cannot be ignored, that’s what it does.”

Bai Jue was silent when he heard the words, while Black Jue didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

"I want to open up a research base near here to make this potion more perfect." Ye Zi took a look at the surrounding environment. He would not build a base in such a conspicuous place. If he wanted to build it, he would have to choose a good place. Must be hidden.

"I understand." Bai Jue's frown slowly relaxed. He knew that this medicine was fatal to clones, but it was undeniable that it could triple the combat effectiveness of clones. The so-called disadvantage was that it required sacrifice. The price of life, and life is the last thing that clones need to care about.

After letting Bai Jue know about this matter, Ye Zi led the two of them to find a mountain surrounded by dense trees and bushes.

"This is it."

Ye Zi looked at the mountain, which was only a few kilometers away from the Heretic Demon.

"Wood escape..."

He held his hands together, mobilized a large amount of chakra, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

Chakra is transmitted to the ground through his feet, forming tree trunks, like roots, which penetrate into the ground and spread out around the dark underground. After roughly building a shape, Ye Zi increases the output of chakra quantity.

The tree trunks that were originally one person thick suddenly grew in size, squeezing the soil underground to form passages, and the square shape formed by the combination of multiple tree trunks was the room. This huge movement caused the entire ground to rumble and shake. The mountain is also shaking.

The ground heaved and cracked, and trees fell with it.

A large amount of chakra was output, and Ye Zi slowly got up.

"It's true that you actually used Wood Escape to build a base." Bai Jue praised.

Nanako and Yu felt the vibrations on the ground, and their eyes gradually changed when they looked at Ye Zi.