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"Mist Hiding?"
"Heh!"
Looking at the thick fog all around, with visibility less than a meter, Kenshi shook his head, a hint of mockery playing on his lips.
This Mist Hiding Technique, which blocked visual perception, was useless against his chakra perception ability.
Using the fog as cover, Kakuzu employed silent assassination steps, silently and stealthily approaching Kenshi from below, attempting to attack Kenshi with the black lines of Earth Grudge Fear and steal his heart.
All of this was exposed to Kenshi's chakra perception ability.
Kenshi suddenly felt a bit bored.
The fighting spirit he had just ignited vanished without a trace.
In terms of jutsu, chakra amount, perception ability, and physical reaction, he was far ahead of Kakuzu.
In the face of absolute strength, combat experience, combat skills, and tactical coordination were all just clouds, seen through by Kenshi.
This wasn't a fight at all.
It was just a one-sided beating.
"Boring."
"Let's study how this Earth Grudge Fear secret technique steals other people's hearts."
Kenshi activated his mind and used the Perception Deprivation Technique.
In the fog, Kakuzu reached the spot below Kenshi, ready to unleash his tentacle attack, but he discovered that he had lost control of his body, including the black lines inside. Only his five hearts were still beating.
"Wind Release - Tidal Wave Technique!"
A strong wind gathered around Kenshi and then spread outwards, like ripples in water, instantly dispersing the fog within a five-kilometer radius.
Below, Kakuzu had already fallen to the ground, his eyes fixed on Kenshi falling from the sky above, but in reality, he couldn't see anything. His consciousness was bound in the consciousness space.
On either side of his body, two hearts wrapped in black lines thumped rhythmically.
Having lost control of the black lines, the hearts detached from his body couldn't maintain the form of black monsters and reverted to their state of hearts wrapped in black lines.
"Genjutsu?"
"No, not genjutsu!"
Trapped in his consciousness, losing his body's perception, Kakuzu was startled, but he quickly realized that he hadn't been hit by genjutsu. He had been hit by a jutsu similar to a paralysis technique, but this jutsu had deprived him of control over his body and the black lines.
Kakuzu could still sense the existence of his hearts, but no matter how he controlled them to attack his body, his body remained motionless. The black line tentacles wrapped around his hearts only moved instinctively, not under his control.
Kenshi landed beside Kakuzu, squatting down, and picked up one of the hearts wrapped in black lines on the ground.
As soon as his body made contact, Kenshi sensed the unique chakra nature changes and form changes in the black lines.
Kenshi tried to condense the same chakra, but no black lines appeared in his hand.
"Flesh, huh... just as I thought!"
Kenshi's lips curled up into a slight smile. The black lines were not condensed from chakra. They were special Earth Grudge Fear chakra fused with flesh, turning into black lines, so they still possessed some characteristics of flesh, such as nerve conduction.
Because of this, Kenshi could use the Perception Deprivation Technique to deprive Kakuzu's hearts of control over the black lines, making him into a vegetable.
In a way, Kakuzu wasn't human anymore.
He had become a kind of alternative chakra creature.
After his entire body was transformed into black lines, his brain and other vital organs were no longer vital. His heart became his only vital point.
In Kenshi's perception, Kakuzu's heart was special. It was like a brain, with countless nerve fibers spreading across it. A large amount of chakra was also mainly stored there.
His soul was also mainly residing there.
Kenshi wanted to obtain the complete Earth Grudge Fear secret technique. He had to possess Kakuzu's body with his spirit body and explore his memories through his soul to obtain the Earth Grudge Fear secret technique.
"Boom!"
To be safe, Kenshi split off a shadow clone before using the Spirit Transformation Technique to transform into a spirit body and possess Kakuzu.
"This is... the Spirit Transformation Technique!"
The moment Kenshi's spirit body possessed him, in the consciousness space, the knowledgeable Kakuzu sensed it, but he could only sense it. He was powerless to stop Kenshi's spirit body from invading.
After the spirit body of the Spirit Transformation Technique possessed the enemy, in addition to directly attacking the opponent's soul or seizing control of the opponent's body, it could also use soul penetration to explore the enemy's memories.
At this moment, the memory spirit body faded and penetrated into Kakuzu's soul, beginning to explore Kakuzu's memories.
Soon, Kakuzu's memories came to the beginning of everything.
Three years after the establishment of Konoha, three years after the First Hokage, the God of Shinobi, pacified the world and established Konoha, his name was known throughout the ninja world.
In the Hidden Waterfall Village, Kakuzu, the strongest, most prestigious, and most likely candidate to become the Second Mizukage, suddenly received a classified mission from the village's higher-ups.
"Go kill the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju!"
"Ah? Me?"
The moment Kakuzu received the mission request, his brain froze for a moment. He was the strongest of the younger generation in the Hidden Waterfall Village, but his strength was only that of a Jōnin. To make him kill the First Hokage, who could control the Tailed Beasts as pets, this... Kakuzu was speechless.
Later, the higher-ups in the village said that this was a test for the Second Mizukage. If he didn't even have the courage to confront the God of Shinobi, how could he lead the Hidden Waterfall Village towards becoming a great nation?
At that time, Kakuzu, who dreamed of becoming Mizukage and saw the village as his home, couldn't resist this kind of provocation.
So, he resolutely embarked on the path of assassinating the God of Shinobi.
Actually, calling it assassination, facing a cheat like Hashirama, there was no difference between assassination and open assassination.
Perhaps he saw the passion in Kakuzu's heart for the village. Perhaps Kakuzu was just attacking him. Perhaps Hashirama longed for peace.
In any case, he didn't kill Kakuzu, who had come to kill him. Instead, he didn't use Wood Release. He just played a game of taijutsu with Kakuzu, letting Kakuzu try his best before realizing that the mission had failed and automatically retreating.
Back in the Hidden Waterfall Village, Kakuzu thought that he had fought with all his might and survived against the God of Shinobi. Not only did this prove his courage, but it also proved that his strength qualified him to lead the Hidden Waterfall Village towards greatness.
As it turned out... the mission was just an excuse.
The reason why the village's higher-ups gave Kakuzu an impossible mission to kill the First Hokage was naturally to make him fail, so that they would have an excuse to suppress Kakuzu and support their own people to take power.
No matter which village it was, those who enjoyed power and became politicians were all dirty at heart.
The establishment of the ninja villages gave birth to the first batch of politicians with dirty hearts. In their minds, personal power was above the interests of the village.
Kakuzu's reputation had become an obstacle on their path to power and had to be eliminated.
Of course, they didn't think about killing Kakuzu. They just wanted to damage his reputation.
As a result, Kakuzu, like a sunny boy suddenly corrupted by darkness, faced the accusations and insults of the village's higher-ups, and the villagers who revealed their ugly faces under the guidance of the higher-ups' public opinion. Kakuzu completely lost his sense of belonging to the village.
So, under the cover of darkness one night, he sneaked into the village's secret chamber where forbidden techniques were stored and stole the Earth Grudge Fear secret technique scroll.
Kakuzu's talent was truly high. Everyone in the village who was qualified to learn the Earth Grudge Fear secret technique had failed to learn it.
But he learned Earth Grudge Fear in just a few minutes, transforming his entire body into the black lines of Earth Grudge Fear.
After that, Kakuzu directly assassinated all the village's higher-ups, stole their hearts, and defected from the Hidden Waterfall Village.
When Kenshi saw this part of the memory, he withdrew.
"Kakuzu, a real man. At least he's not the kind of man who throws a kunai from 800 meters away and runs."
Kenshi could testify that Kakuzu really fought the First Hokage. Although the First Hokage wasn't serious and was just playing around, it wasn't the kind of fight that people online said where he just threw a kunai and ran.
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