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The Rotten Wood Technique, as the name suggests, allows the body to be like rotting wood, erasing all pheromones and remaining undetected by anyone.
It's a rather powerful secret stealth secret technique.
It is said that the Uesugi family once had a glorious period thanks to this secret technique.
Satoru Hyūga frowned and thought. When it comes to stealth secret techniques, apart from the Rotten Wood Technique, there is also a well - known Kekkei Genkai.
Transparency Release!
It can not only erase pheromones but also make the body visually invisible, truly a perfect form of concealment.
Except for one weakness.
One can't move.
If you move, you'll reveal yourself.
Satoru Hyūga suddenly understood why that Hayate Gekkō was so useless. Being invisible when still and visible when moving, such a frustrating Kekkei Genkai ability is really easy to picture just by thinking about it.
So strictly speaking, this secret technique that doesn't change its effect due to movement is, in a sense, more useful than Transparency Release.
"Should I hand it in?"
"However, the mission the Hokage gave me doesn't seem to include this secret technique, right?"
After only a moment of hesitation, Satoru Hyūga made a decision.
Hand it in? Hell no!
The Hokage probably doesn't even know that Uesugi Tetsu carried the cultivation method of this secret technique with him. Otherwise, it would have been noted in the mission book. And with such an amazingly effective secret technique, it would be a disservice to oneself not to learn it.
The sky was gradually getting dark. Satoru Hyūga simply made a fire in the cave and started to cultivate the Rotten Wood Technique.
The way chakra flows is quite peculiar. After its operation, the body's life reaction starts to decline, the heartbeat fluctuation decreases, breathing slows down, and the bio - magnetic field becomes quite unnoticeable, just like a hibernating creature.
"Is this the reason for the inconsistency between Uesugi Tetsu's bio - magnetic field and chakra levels?"
Satoru Hyūga showed a look of sudden realization.
It seems, that what ultimately killed Uesugi Tetsu was his arrogance. The Rotten Wood Technique is indeed very powerful; even some Sensing Barriers can't detect him.
However, in the eyes of Satoru Hyūga, who has dual sensing abilities, this change is as conspicuous as a freak.
Then, he began to cultivate this secret technique.
In the dim cave, the flickering yellow firelight shone on his face with his eyes closed.
In the Grass Country.
Inside a town.
Due to the developed underground black market industry here, a large number of strange ninjas have gathered in this town.
Walking on the street, you can see many ninjas with their faces covered. Some even wrap their whole bodies in black robes, only showing a pair of eyes.
In a small team, Rasa, who was walking in front, suddenly frowned and looked back in confusion.
"Lord Rasa, what's wrong?"
A ninja beside him leaned over and asked in a low voice.
"Strange, I suddenly had the feeling of being spied on just now."
Rasa pondered for a moment, and a look of confusion appeared on his face hidden by the mask.
That feeling was very familiar; it was as if he had experienced it before, yet he couldn't recall exactly where.
"It's probably just an illusion!"
"
Rasa shook his head, and his face gradually turned cold.
After last time's mission failure in the Land of Iron, the Tsuchikage was furious. To appease the other party, Sunagakure had paid a huge price.
With Yakura fanning the flames, his standing in the eyes of the Third Kazekage also declined.
After waiting for so long, he finally found an opportunity and took the initiative to take on this mission to eliminate the traitorous ninja, all in order to regain his status.
"This mission is very important. We must find that traitor and don't cause any unnecessary complications."
"Roger," a few ninjas beside him murmured.
Not far away, Satoru Hyūga slightly raised his head, and the corners of his mouth under the silver mask curled up slightly.
"Rasa. He actually came here. This is interesting."
He originally planned to come back to change the bounty for Uesugi Tetsu, but unexpectedly, he found a big fish.
Everyone's bio-magnetic field is unique. He had met Rasa in the Land of Iron before, so naturally he also remembered the characteristics of the other party's bio-magnetic field.
Satoru Hyūga didn't have a good impression of Rasa at all. He remembered that Rasa forced the start of the Third Shinobi World War. He did it to secure his position as the Fourth Kazekage and cleanse the internal opposition in Sunagakure.
Once the Third Shinobi World War broke out, it meant that he would directly face the threat of war, and his development time would be greatly shortened!
This involved his fundamental interests.
"I'm really curious about what they're doing here."
Satoru Hyūga couldn't help but be curious.
The next day.
A disguised Sand ninja quietly pushed open the door and reported to Rasa inside.
"My lord, we've confirmed that the traitorous ninja Pa has been active in this area before, taking on underground black market missions to exchange for bounties."
"Humph! That wanted traitorous ninja actually dared to hit the underground black market for bounties. What nerve!"
Rasa couldn't help but grit his teeth slightly.
Pa was once a quite excellent Puppet master Jonin in Sunagakure and was highly regarded. However, he defected from the village after mutilating his comrades for the Puppet secret technique, the White Secret Skill.
Sunagakure didn't have many people to begin with, and after what he did, the village suffered a great loss.
It made Rasa hate him to the core.
"Perception ninjas, continue to monitor. Once you find the whereabouts of that traitor, inform me immediately."
"Yes!"
On the roof of the house where they were, a thin figure was crouching, with his ears close to the bottom.
"Traitorous ninja? Monitoring?"
Satoru Hyūga frowned slightly and vaguely guessed something.
"Looks like their purpose for coming here this time is to eliminate the traitorous ninjas in Sunagakure?"
Almost all the ninja villages have zero tolerance for traitorous ninjas. The mission Satoru Hyūga had just completed was also to eliminate the traitorous ninjas in Konoha.
Except for Kirigakure, because they have so many traitorous ninjas that they simply can't manage them all.
Satoru Hyūga couldn't help but sigh at the power of //Rotten Wood Technique//Rotten Wood Technique[/b]. At such a close distance, the other party didn't even notice him. You know, there were perception ninjas among these Sand ninjas.
Although the Byakugan can see the opponent's body from afar, it can't hear the content of the conversation.
As for lip-reading, it's simply unrealistic to capture every single lip movement in the Byakugan's gray - vision.
Once, in the Land of Iron, he encountered Rasa. At that time, he wracked his brains and combined the power of Electromagnetic Force with the Bugs of Shibi Aburame to finally obtain the information.
Now that Shibi Aburame is not around anymore, the //Rotten Wood Technique//Rotten Wood Technique[/b] has made up for this shortcoming.
Satoru Hyūga was like a withered log on the roof, emitting no fluctuations at all, quietly lurking on it.
It wasn't until evening.
The Sand ninjas who went out for surveillance came back to report.
"Lord Rasa, Pa has appeared and is coming this way. He shouldn't have noticed us."
"Good!"
Rasa's eyes lit up.
Once he eliminates this traitorous ninja, his prestige in the village will surely rise significantly, and his chances of becoming the Fourth Kazekage in the future will increase a little more.
"Let's start the operation!"
After the people in the room were ready, they immediately rushed to the location in the intelligence.
On the roof, Satoru Hyūga stared at the direction where they had left, and his eyes gradually narrowed.