A week later, at night, Konoha, a modest residential house in a residential area.
A middle-aged ninja with ordinary appearance pushed open the door and came out. His name is Akashi. He is 35 years old today. He is an ordinary Chunin in Konoha and currently works as a teacher in the Ninja School.
As an older man, Akashi, who has been living alone, has a boring night life, and in order to relieve his loneliness, he comes to a nearby tavern to have a few drinks, as he usually does.
When Akashi arrived at the tavern, he ordered a few bottles of cheap rice wine and some dishes from the familiar caretaker, and sat alone in the corner, drinking to himself.
Within a short time, he was already a bit drunk, his face reddening, his eyes drifting off, and he began to say drunken things that others couldn't understand.
Shortly afterward, his head slumped over and he collapsed on the table.
When Akashi was drunk, the other drinkers around him were indifferent to it, because there were too many people like Akashi who drank to relieve their sorrows here, and they were not noticeable at all.
The drinkers did not care, but the shopkeeper could not ignore, he hurriedly instructed the staff to move Akashi to the back of the store to rest in the empty room, so as to make a new place for new customers to come in to spend money.
Soon after Akashi was taken away, a new customer came in, a middle-aged samurai who looked very poor.
The caretaker did not recognize this middle-aged samurai, obviously not a familiar customer, but she did not let the poor look of the other party less warm, but still warmly greeted the other party to come in and sit down, the position is exactly where Akashi just sat.
The samurai ordered a few bottles of cheap rice wine, drank them and left with a drunken check.
An inconspicuous Chunin came to the tavern to drink to relieve his sorrow, and was dragged away after being drunk. Not long after, a down-and-out samurai came in to replace the ordinary Chunin, also drank to relieve his sorrow, and finally left drunkenly.
It all seems so uneventful, and doesn't attract the attention of anyone in the store.
The samurai eventually stumbled back to his place, a dilapidated mansion, and as soon as he entered his cheaply rented room, he collapsed on the floor and fell asleep, snoring.
With a look of disgust, the mistress of the mansion covered the samurai with a quilt and left the room.
When the sound of the hostess's footsteps faded away, the samurai suddenly opened his eyes and continued to snore while one hand flung something at the open window.
In the next moment, a long tongue suddenly appeared and curled around the object before disappearing into thin air.
After the samurai threw something, he closed his eyes again and continued to snore and snore.
At that moment, a small snake hidden in the corner left without a sound.
Shortly afterward, in some underground space in the forest outside of Konoha Village, a candle glued to a wooden table was lit, and the darkness around them was immediately banished.
In front of the candle, a man with long eyebrows was looking at a piece of paper, a deep concentration on his face.
There was not much on the paper. It only said that a transfer student named Uzumaki Kushina appeared in the Ninja School today. Her hair was red.
"A member of Uzumaki Mito's clan? So, it's time to change Konoha's Jinchūriki, or it has already been changed."
Ebizo mused as he placed the piece of paper in his hand onto the candle flame and watched it turn to ashes.
This piece of information was undoubtedly very valuable.
As a high-ranking member of the Sand Ninja, Ebizo understood the meaning of Jinchūriki very well, and also understood what the change of Jinchūriki meant.
"Konoha's method is good. It has completed the replacement of Jinchūriki without anyone noticing. If this is true, then the defense of the Senju clan is not as strong as the previous intelligence said. is it possible to plan for it."
Ebizo tapped the table slowly with his index finger. After a long time, a strange color flashed in his eyes.
When the wind blew, the candle flame in the room was blown out, and everything returned to darkness.
...
Late at night, in the basement where a large number of scrolls were placed, in the Senju clan territory, Kawaki's house.
Kirito sat with his legs crossed on one of the tatami mats here, closing his eyes in a meditation and cultivation pose.
Around him, four black incense sticks were inserted in each of the four directions, and each of the black incense sticks was as thick as a thumb, and when they were lit, they emitted greenish-colored smoke.
The green smoke from the four black incense was in a very strange state at this time, it didn't spread around, but turned into four thin green streams, in a straight line, and injected into the center of the Kirito's body.
The green smoke was an innocuous thing that would not move on its own.
Obviously, the reason why it moved at this time was that Kirito, who was in the center of the four black incense sticks, was inhaling the green smoke into his body in an unknown way.
Soul Incense, that was exactly the name of the four black incense, they were a precious item recorded in the Spirit Transformation Jutsu to assist in the cultivation of the Spirit Transformation Jutsu, originating from the distant Land of Demons, and it was said that they were made by sorceresses to be used to feed the demons.
Kirito wasn't sure how valuable spirit incense was, but the black incense he was currently using was handmade by the sorceress Miroku and belonged to the highest quality of special grade spirit incense.
Who is the Sorceress Miroku, the current guardian sorceress of the Land of Demons, a powerful sorceress with the ability to suppress demons and sprites, her status is equal to that of the daimyo of each country.
Kirito was able to obtain such a high quality soul incense thanks to the help of the Senju clan, and thanks to the help of this special soul incense, his cultivation of the art of spiritualization went very smoothly, which could be described as a thousand miles a day.
He had been cultivating the Spirit Transformation Jutsu for three weeks, and during this time, his soul had grown stronger and stronger, the time for his soul to go out of his body had been extended from a few minutes in the beginning to an hour before he felt tired, and the range of his soul perception had also been expanded to one kilometer.
Within one kilometer, it was difficult for any creature to escape his soul perception.
Around two hours or so, all the soul incense had burned out, and Kirito's practice of the Spirit Transformation Jutsu came to an end today.
Suddenly, a white transparent Kirito burrowed out of Kirito's body and then made a stretching motion.
Spirit out of body.
Once again, Kirito came out of his body in a spiritized state.
In the next moment, Kirito's spirit body quickly became more and more transparent until regular people couldn't even see it with the naked eye.
Invisibility, one of the natural abilities of the spirit body.
However, Kirito in spirit form still has chakra in his body, so bloodline eyes like the Byakugan and Sharingan can still see Kirito, but they can only see a ball of chakra and cannot see Kirito's true face at all.
For this shortcoming of the spirit body, Kirito of course has a way to deal with it, he decisively mobilized the chakra in his body, laid a large number of sealing jutsu on the surface of his spirit body, temporarily letting the spirit body wear a layer of sealing jutsu, temporarily shielding the chakra within the spirit body so that the outside world could not see it.
The method used by Kirito at this point was a method that utilized sealing boundaries to shield the outside world from perception.
Konoha has the Bloodline Limit of the Byakugan, so naturally some people worry about the secret being leaked and develop a sealing barrier technique for the Byakugan pupil technique.
In the sealing jutsu that Mito had taught him, there were several such sealing jutsu that could block the Byakugan ability.
The sealing jutsu he was using now was called the Nightfall Seal, and it was the same sealing jutsu that the Root Headquarters was currently using.
After Kirito patched up the holes in his spirit body, he began maneuvering it upwards through the air, ignoring any objects in his way, and was over Kawaki's house in a flash.
"Let's have a pleasant night trip today as well."
Kirito smiled as he felt the wind blowing at night and looked at the bright moon in the night sky.