A month and a half later.
When Qifeng returned to Konoha again, his entire spirit had undergone earth-shattering changes.
From the outside, he seemed unchanged, but invisibly, he gave people a sense of unfathomable depth.
He vaguely had the feeling of a transcendent master, and his gestures seemed to carry a bit of agility.
This was the overall change brought about after he had fully learned the Sage Arts of the Ryūchi Cave, Mount Myōboku, and Shikkotsu Forest, the three great sacred places.
Just as he had guessed, the Sage Art of Ryūchi Cave strengthened chakra reserves, body toughness, and recovery ability; the Sage Art of Mount Myōboku strengthened ninjutsu intensity and body strength; and the Sage Art of Shikkotsu Forest strengthened his own recovery ability, plus a special skill: the dispersal of body and consciousness.
The Slug Sage of Shikkotsu Forest had a body size unmatched by anyone in the ninja world. Even the slug summoned by Tsunade using the Summoning Technique was only a part of the Slug Sage.
The Slug Sage possessed the ability to divide its body into thousands, and the consciousness of each divided body was interconnected with the main consciousness, and also had the ability to transmit chakra to each other.
This ability was not very useful to Qifeng, but the perverted and terrifying recovery ability meant that Qifeng, in Sage Mode, already had a terrifying recovery ability similar to that of Hashirama Senju.
Of course, this could not be achieved by solely cultivating the Sage Art of Shikkotsu Forest; it was something he possessed after learning all the Sage Arts of the three great sacred places.
Learning all the Sage Arts of the three sacred places would not cause them to suppress each other; instead, they would complement each other, superimposing and accumulating the strength of their abilities.
Comparing horizontally to the Sage of Six Paths.
It was no exaggeration to say that, in terms of abilities alone, Qifeng, who had learned the Sage Arts of the three great sacred places, already had the same Sage Art abilities as the Sage of Six Paths, whether it was ninjutsu, chakra reserves, body strength, body toughness, or even recovery ability.
Of course, the so-called "same" referred to the category of Sage Arts, not the degree of Sage Arts.
For example, the power of the same Sage Art would definitely be very different when used by the Sage of Six Paths and when used by Qifeng.
This was a difference in magnitude.
But if Qifeng was given a chance to increase his own magnitude to the level of the Sage of Six Paths, he would be an existence comparable to the Sage of Six Paths.
Of course, the difference in magnitude was the key.
But after learning the Sage Arts of the three great sacred places, Qifeng had already made great improvements in strength.
However, Qifeng's transformation, an insignificant character in Konoha, did not attract much attention from Konoha. It was just that Orochimaru vaguely felt that Qifeng might have accomplished something remarkable in this short period of time.
Orochimaru also had a relatively deep understanding of the extent to which Qifeng's strength had reached.
The most direct feeling was that Orochimaru could feel a considerable threat from him.
In his snake-like sensitive perception, he had an intuition that if he fought Qifeng head-on, he might die!
This feeling surprised Orochimaru.
You must know that his specialty was self-preservation and escape, but the appearance of this intuition was so clear and certain.
This made Orochimaru have to formally re-examine the cooperative relationship between him and Qifeng.
However, Orochimaru did not intend to publicize that Konoha actually had such a strong person hidden within. Anyway, Konoha would have nothing to do with him soon.
Rather than offending Qifeng and revealing his secrets, it was better to see what interesting things would happen in the future with Qifeng, who had such strength, hidden in Konoha.
Just thinking about it made him feel very amused.
After ending the two-month-long Sage Art training, Qifeng finally had a little confidence.
Then, he turned around and plunged back into his research with Orochimaru.
Sage Art was not the path to the pinnacle of this world after all. To construct all things and integrate two opposing forces was the path to the strongest in this world.
And the entire Konoha also fell into a long-lost peace.
Under the leadership of Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and the assistance of Hiruzen Sarutobi, Konoha quickly recovered from the shadow of the Third Shinobi World War and once again entered a period of rapid development in the Konoha style.
And a conspiracy against Konoha was quietly underway.
Chapter 208 Uchiha... Madara!
Qifeng, who returned to Konoha, returned to his previous life.
Eating, sleeping, teasing Orochimaru, cough, cooperating with Orochimaru.
And his puppet clone had been methodically undertaking the work of Konoha's Root.
With Kushina Uzumaki's pregnancy, Qifeng certainly did not fail to notice the other members of the Konoha 12.
In addition to Naruto, the one he valued most was Fugaku Uchiha's second child, Sasuke!
Perhaps it was because the state of the Uchiha clan was gradually improving, so Fugaku Uchiha and his wife Mikoto Uchiha worked harder a few more times, and didn't take any measures, so they suddenly became pregnant again.
And for the appearance of Sasuke, the happiest person was not Fugaku Uchiha, nor Mikoto Uchiha, but their eldest son, Sasuke's brother, Itachi Uchiha!
After feeling a strong brotherly affection from Shisui Uchiha, Itachi successfully transformed into a brother-con.
He had made full preparations for his soon-to-be-born younger brother and had made plans to become a qualified older brother.
Don't ask why he knew it was a boy.
There was too much black technology in the ninja world.
Therefore, before Sasuke was born, his name had already been decided.
"What are you going to name him?" Qifeng looked at Mikoto Uchiha, who was full of maternal radiance, and Itachi, who was obediently waiting by Mikoto's side, and asked with a smile.
Fugaku Uchiha poured a cup of tea for Qifeng and said with a smile, "We'll call him Sasuke. It's the same name as the Third Hokage's father. I hope this child can become a great ninja like the Third Hokage's father in the future."
Sarutobi Sasuke, with Qifeng's current identity, he might even have to call him grandfather.
However, Sarutobi Sasuke was indeed a very powerful ninja.
Before Konoha was established, he was the head of the Sarutobi clan, possessing chakra of five attributes, and was very powerful. Even the Uchiha clan recognized him very much. It is said that Hiruzen Sarutobi's five chakra attributes were inherited from Sarutobi Sasuke.
And Fugaku Uchiha giving his second son this name, to put it nicely, is that he has great expectations for him, but to put it bluntly, it's actually...
Too lazy to think.
However, Qifeng still nodded in agreement, "Not bad."
Deliberately saying it to him, I don't know if it counts as flattering the Sarutobi clan.
In the Naruto world, people are still very enthusiastic about directly using the names of deceased immortals for their descendants. This is not only a kind of remembrance, but also a kind of expectation.
After all, the predecessors whose names are used must be remarkable predecessors.
