Heart of Steel Half-Morph Sword Saint, Madara is willing to call me the strongest

[Heart of Steel: 3000 Gold Coins]

Health: 900

Basic health recovery: 200%

Devour: When you are less than three meters away from the enemy target, you can charge for 3 seconds and launch a powerful attack. The charged attack will cause 100 (+10% of the health from each equipment) additional physical damage and provide you with permanent maximum health equal to 12% of the damage value.

Tip: Each enemy target has a 30-second cooldown period, and it is only effective for targets whose strength meets the system's judgment. A single target can only trigger the effect twice at most.

[Are you sure you want to purchase Heart Steel? This operation is irreversible! ]

"confirm!"

[Health attribute +900]

[Basic health recovery: +200%]

[Activate equipment passive: Huge Devour! ]

As Uchiha Yi silently confirmed in his heart, his entire body seemed to evolve again, and a faint golden light surged out of his body.

After a few seconds, the physical evolution was completed.

Uchiha Yi could feel that his vitality had increased significantly.

"Okay, it's almost time to get ready to go back to the village."

Uchiha Yi muttered to himself, sheathed the shadow blade in his hand, and then his figure flashed and rushed towards the border of the Fire Country.

Although the reconnaissance mission was not completed, it was enough to kill Chiyo, a high-ranking elder of the Sand Village.

There are only a few Kage-level strongmen in the Sand Village at present. The death of Chiyo is equivalent to having an arm cut off.

Unless the newly appointed Fourth Kazekage personally takes action, there is no way to stop Konoha's troops.

After this battle, the threat posed by the Sand Village to Konoha was almost negligible.

Next, Konoha can safely intervene in the war with the Cloud Ninja.

On the way back, Uchiha Yi lowered his head slightly, his eyes filled with contemplation.

He was thinking about how to quickly stack the passive of Heart of Steel.

I don’t know if this passive skill is effective on teammates in the village.

Go back to Kakashi and give it a try.

……

After half an hour.

Dozens of figures slowly emerged from the yellow sand. They were wearing Sand Village ninja uniforms and began to search around.

Leading the way were two jonin from the Sand Village, Pakura and Maki.

The two men looked solemnly as they glanced around vigilantly.

There were traces of fierce fighting everywhere around, the land was turned up, the rocks were broken, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

There are also a large number of puppet parts scattered around the battlefield.

"Is this the Chikamatsu Ten?"

Pakula's face changed as he recognized the white-robed puppet lying on the ground.

This is Elder Chiyo's trump card, the secret technique of puppetry, the Chikamatsu Ten.

An ominous premonition arose in Pakula's heart.

As his eyes moved, Pakula spotted the figure lying on the ground not far away, as well as a pool of blood.

"Elder Chiyo?!"

Maki's face turned pale in an instant, his mouth opened wide, and his arms began to tremble slightly.

With a whoosh, Pakula leapt to Chiyo's body.

With the last bit of hope left, she turned Chiyo's body over.

However, the reality is cruel.

Chiyo lay quietly on the ground, not breathing, with no light in her pupils, and no signs of life at all.

The surrounding Sand Ninjas also gathered around, their faces trembling with horror at the thought of that possibility.

Pakula's expression was gloomy. He opened and closed his mouth several times before he managed to squeeze out a few words: "Elder Chiyo died in battle."

Hearing this, Maki's face twisted in shock.

Several of the Sand Ninjas closest to the area trembled immediately.

At this moment, all the Sand Ninjas present seemed to realize what had happened. The atmosphere suddenly became dead silent, and everyone stared at the body lying on the ground with horror in their eyes.

Silence! Deathly silence!

The atmosphere in the entire area seemed to be frozen at this moment, and the expressions on everyone's faces were stiff at this moment.

A Sunagakure jonin swallowed and asked in a hoarse voice: "You mean, Elder Chiyo, she is dead?!"

The next moment, there was an uproar!

"Elder Chiyo died in battle?"

"How is that possible? This can't be true!"

"It was Uchiha Yi, he killed Elder Chiyo?!"

All the Sand Ninjas present looked at each other in bewilderment. They were all shocked by the news of Chiyo's death in battle.

In an instant, complex emotions such as shock, disbelief, unacceptability, regret, despair, etc. appeared on the face of the Sand Village ninja.

Chiyo is not only the advisory elder of the Sand Village, but also their respected senior.

She is even the mentor of many puppeteers present. The puppeteer inheritance of the entire Sand Village is almost entirely supported by Chiyo.

Her death is undoubtedly a huge loss to the Sand Village.

It's not just a loss of strength, but also a spiritual loss.

……

One day later.

The top leaders of the Sand Village held a general meeting.

Sitting in the first seat was the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, his eyes were bloodshot and his gaze was extremely cold.

After hearing the news, he didn't sleep all night last night.

The other Sand Village high-level officials present also had ugly and depressed expressions.

Many of the Sand Village jonin had resentful expressions on their faces, their hands clenched into fists, and hatred in their eyes.

"A bunch of rubbish, surrounded by hundreds of ninjas, but Uchiha Yi broke through all by himself, and even Chiyo-sama..."

Luo Sha's face turned ashen and his eyes were filled with anger.

Chiyo has a very high level of seniority in the Sand Village, so even he has to respectfully address her as "senior".

The death of such a pillar ninja of the Sand Village dealt a heavy blow to the entire Sand Village.

It can be said that from this moment on, the Sand Village no longer has the qualifications to fight against Konoha.

Even passive defense is extremely difficult.

The Sand Village has just recovered from the chaos caused by the disappearance of the Third Kazekage, and Rasa was able to secure the position of Kazekage with the support of Chiyo.

Now that Chiyo is dead, the morale of the Sand Village, which had finally recovered, will fall to its lowest point again.

The atmosphere in the meeting room of the Sand Village was tense and solemn.

Luo Sha looked at everyone present and asked in a deep voice, "Everyone, what do you think about the upcoming war situation?"

The high-ranking members of the Sand Village exchanged glances, expressing their worries and depression.

After a long silence, an elderly Sand Village advisor slowly stood up and said with a serious expression, "Lord Kazekage, under the current circumstances, I think we should withdraw the troops deployed in the River Country and adopt a more solid defensive strategy."

Upon hearing this, Luo Sha frowned and said, "You mean, we should give up our plan to attack Konoha?"

The elder nodded and continued, "Yes, Master Kazekage, our current strength is not enough to support multi-front operations. Moreover, the situation in the Land of Earth is not clear, and the Cloud Ninja is not that easy to deal with."

"I support Elder Takuno's opinion. We are simply... no longer a match for Konoha. Right now we can only adopt a passive defense, otherwise it will only cause meaningless losses."

Luo Sha was silent for a moment, and then continued to ask for the opinions of several Sunagakure jonin.

"Lord Kazekage, we should prioritize ensuring safety within the Kingdom of Wind rather than risking a war outside."

"I think so too."

"..."

The Sunagakure executives in the conference room expressed their opinions one after another, and most of them preferred a conservative strategy.

Luo Sha fell into deep thought. After hesitating for a moment, he finally made a decision:

"For the long-term benefit of the Sand Village, I will inform Pakura to abandon the battle plan and withdraw the troops from the River Country. As for the troops from the Land of Earth, we can only rely on the Tsuchikage..."