In a forest somewhere outside the base, one of Amane's Shadow Clones sat cross-legged on a rock with her eyes tightly shut. Ignoring the occasional thumping sounds behind her, she focused on sensing while also undergoing another form of cultivation.
Kagura Minds Eye.
When in use, one only needs to close their eyes, and the eye of Chakra known as the 'Mind's Eye' will open. No Chakra fluctuations within a radius of dozens of kilometers can escape Amane's detection.
Because of this characteristic, Amane can perceive exactly who someone is and what Jutsu they are using.
In the original work, this was one of the strongest Sensing Techniques to appear. After two months of cultivation, both overt and covert, Amane has basically mastered the use of this move.
Her appearance in the forest outside this base is proof of that.
It is precisely because she possesses this powerful sensing ability that she can boldly bring so many Shadow Clones here to cultivate with peace of mind.
"Do you want to take a break and let me take over? If you keep maintaining Kagura Minds Eye, you'll disappear very soon."
Suddenly, a Shadow Clone who was practicing Nature Transformation ran over and asked.
"Since I no longer need to constantly maintain Transformation Jutsu to deceive others, the efficiency of my cultivation has clearly improved by more than just a notch. The time I can maintain it is still more than enough."
"I've already learned Rasengan. I learned Wind Nature Transformation before coming here, as well as Water and Lightning Nature Transformations. Now, what's left and relatively important is..."
"The Tongue Binding Seal."
Suddenly, another Shadow Clone finished her cultivation and ran over to join the conversation.
"There's no longer any need to continue deducing this Jutsu. I'll return this information to the main body first. We're heading off."
After saying that, with a 'poof,' she performed a disappearance on the spot.
"Looks like it was a success."
The slacking Amane, who had come to talk to the sensing Amane, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
As individuals split off from the main body, precisely because they lack the memories of the previous life, in a certain sense, they are more like Uzumaki Tian Yin.
Therefore, no matter which one it is, they all have an obsession with returning to Konoha and finding their only relative in this world.
"It's not that simple. Even if I regain true freedom, I can't go back without solving the identity issue. Is that bastard bandage-man likely to let me go easily?"
"Well, I am the descendant of a hero after all... Forget it, it's indeed not worth expecting. I wonder what brother is doing right now?"
At this time, inside the school in Konoha Village, Uzumaki Naruto, who had just recently entered the second grade, was standing outside the classroom holding two buckets when he sneezed.
Back to the group of Amanes who were cultivating. Since they had just finished analyzing the Tongue Binding Seal, which was a major concern, everyone had fallen into slacker mode.
After all, there was really nowhere left to grind for the time being, except for the Earth nature Chakra Nature Transformation, but Amane rarely showed any talent in that area, leading to slow progress.
This was no surprise; after all, Earth nature Chakra didn't originally belong to Amane, but rather to a small patch of pale skin on her arm.
The traces of the past Hashirama cells injection seemed destined to remain on Amane's body forever.
After that, perhaps it would be the turn of the fusion-type Nature Transformation Rasengan.
Although Amane was very interested in this cultivation—after all, in the original work, there was only a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and then various other Rasenshuriken—logically, it shouldn't be like that. Each attribute should have its own unique transformation.
For example, the Lightning Nature Transformation Rasengan that appeared later in boruto could turn invisible and even fly.
Unfortunately, the Chakra of these clones was almost exhausted today.
Since things have come to this, we'll talk about it next time.
The Amane responsible for sensing with Kagura Minds Eye suddenly felt a bit angry. Why, while everyone was slacking off, did the one who just said she would replace me run away?
She really wanted to rush over and send her directly to see the main body! Unfortunately, her reason told her to endure. Others could slack off, but she absolutely could not!
Therefore, when she discovered an abnormality not far away, even though it didn't seem to be coming for them, an evil smile appeared on her face.
"Stop playing, everyone! There's a situation!"
With one call, everyone's gaze turned toward her.
It turned out that through the perception of Kagura Minds Eye, a 'person' was slowly approaching the vicinity of the base. His entire body was covered in Kunai and shuriken, and his stumbling appearance made it seem as if he were about to die at any moment.
Why was 'person' in quotation marks? Because he didn't have his own Chakra, and his actions were being controlled by this external Chakra throughout the process.
It was either a corpse or a puppet-type Ninjutsu to begin with.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this method is miraculous. The external Chakra completely replaces the body's functions, mimicking the flow exactly like a real person. Ordinary sensing methods wouldn't be able to discover it at all."
Although Kagura Minds Eye does not possess the same abnormal insight as the Byakugan, this Uzumaki secret technique takes the perception of Chakra characteristics to an extreme. Therefore, she could also discover this anomaly.
Suddenly, the corpse glanced in the direction of the Amanes.
"It's an expert! I was actually counter-detected. As expected, I haven't fully mastered this secret technique yet."
Unlike when she learned the Adamantine Sealing Chains, where she had laid a solid foundation of understanding by learning various Sealing Jutsus, this Kagura Minds Eye was clearly a bit rushed.
Amane turned her head and signaled the other versions of herself to quickly clean up the traces of their cultivation, because in her perception, something was rushing toward them at high speed!
"This speed, this uncomfortable Chakra! I'm definitely no match for them right now! Don't clean the site, dispel immediately!"
Even a moment's hesitation would be a lack of respect for her own life!
So what if the traces of her cultivation were discovered? Prioritizing the concealment of her identity information was the most important thing.
Thus, just as a giant White-scaled snake appeared on the grounds, the last Shadow Clone disguised with Transformation Jutsu disappeared simultaneously.
"Escaped, and even left a watch to see who it was. The Shadow Clone is used quite skillfully."
The White-scaled snake opened its mouth, and Orochimaru crawled out from it.
Looking at the surrounding traces that hadn't been cleaned up in time, Orochimaru excitedly stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.
He didn't think his perception was wrong. Back when he transplanted Hashirama cells into that child, he had conveniently obtained her sample. In other words, Uzumaki Tian Yin is indeed in the Land of Water right now!
"The world is unpredictable, Danzo. You deliberately sent that child here, didn't you?"
Although he had defected from Konoha, if he completely lost his eyes and ears, let alone realizing his ambitions, he would one day lose touch with the world and meet his downfall.
Just now, when he sensed Uzumaki Tian Yin's presence here, Orochimaru had already organized the intelligence and guessed Danzo's thoughts and methods.
Indeed, there is no better place than the Land of Water. As long as one makes slight arrangements and keeps a low profile, it is the most suitable hiding place and an excellent venue for making small moves.
Just like the current Orochimaru.
"This is cultivation. Let me see."
As one of the Sannin, and the one among them who most intensively studied Ninjutsu, Orochimaru instantly judged from the clues that Amane was mainly conducting Chakra Nature Transformation and further refined Chakra control here.
The general principle is that the more massive the Chakra, the harder it is to control. But clearly, Amane, or the person who made her do this, wanted to compensate for this deficiency.
"Hmm! Could this be the Tongue Binding Seal!"
Despite having suffered considerable damage, besides Danzo, the one with the deepest understanding of this Cursed seal in this world was undoubtedly Orochimaru, who had worked together with him and defected.
Uzumaki Tian Yin was actually investigating the Tongue Binding Seal!
This discovery caused Orochimaru's eyes to flash with a peculiar light for a moment.