Travel through Konoha and open treasure chests

♂nbsp; The Akatsuki organization does not have many restrictions on the actions of members within the organization. As long as the assigned tasks are successfully completed, they can go out as they wish, so there is no need to report to Payne when traveling far away.

That afternoon, Bai Mingyu followed Xie and left the Grass Country stronghold.

In addition to Deidara, he was accompanied by Izumi Uchiha.

As for Kimimaro, he was left in the stronghold with the ice clone left by Bai Mingyu. When he went out several times in the past, he missed the tasks assigned by the organization, and Ye Cang completed them all by himself. Although the female sand ninja didn't say anything, Bai Mingyu was still a little embarrassed, leaving an ice clone behind. If there was anything As for the matter, it was easy to do.

The journey from the Country of Grass to Loulan is not too far.

Along the way, Bai Mingyu inquired some information from Xie, and finally knew why he thought the place name Loulan sounded familiar.

In the original work, this place does appear.

And it seems to be related to something - dragon veins.

In the background of the original story, the dragon vein is called the lifeblood of the earth. It is said that it contains an immeasurable amount of chakra. If used carelessly, it may even destroy the entire earth. Because he was sealed by the Fourth Hokage during the mission twenty years ago and has been silent since then, Bai Mingyu has never heard anyone mention it despite traveling in the ninja world for so long.

The reason why Xie knew this place was because he had been there once when he was a child.

Speaking of...

Scorpion's actual age is actually almost forty years old, but because he started to transform his body when he was a teenager, he changed from a living body of flesh and blood to the current puppet body, leaving only A small part of the body tissue in the lower heart area is used to maintain the movement of chakra, so his appearance looks much younger, but his experience and knowledge are far beyond that of others.

According to Xie, Loulan was once a quite prosperous country.

Because there are a lot of mineral resources buried under the land around this place, including many rare ores like chakra conductive metals. The people of Loulan Kingdom have accumulated a lot of wealth just by mining ores year after year. Moreover, it also has quite good smelting technology and has produced a group of excellent craftsmen. It was once an important source for purchasing ninja tools in Sunagakure Village.

As Sunagakure's genius puppet master, Xie would naturally be exposed to these things, and therefore knew about Loulan's existence.

but……

"That country no longer exists."

Xie narrowed his eyes slightly, seeming to be recalling his previous experiences: "About ten years ago, when the Third Ninja War broke out, the Loulan Kingdom was destroyed because of its involvement in the Ninja War. It was originally prosperous. The city fell underground, and the mines under mining were gradually abandoned. The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind once wanted to send troops to annex the Loulan ruins, but the place had been damaged too badly, leaving only ruins. Even if the mining was barely restored, it would be impossible. The gains outweigh the losses, so I had to give up.

After I left Sand Hidden Village, I visited that place once and mined some rare ores with the help of puppets, but I was unable to go deep into it. "

"is it?"

Bai Mingyu thought for a while, and seemed to say intentionally or unintentionally: "I once looked through the ANBU mission records when I was in Konoha. It seems that... the Fourth Hokage once visited Loulan when he was young?"

This sentence is of course made up.

However, among the people present, only he and Quan were from Konoha, and Quan would definitely not tell the truth even if he knew it, so Bai Mingyu was not worried about being exposed.

Besides, this is the fact.

"Is it golden glitter... Yes, that man has indeed been to Loulan."

Xie nodded and did not deny: "I don't know much about that matter. It is said that before the fall of Loulan, there was an ambitious man who wanted to seize the power of that country. The Queen of Loulan chose to ask for help from Konoha, so the Third Hokage sent A team of Jonin went to perform the mission, including Minato Namikaze, who had not yet become Hokage at that time. In fact, what I am interested in is related to him."

"Ok?"

Bai Mingyu turned his head and glanced.

"Dragon Vein."

Xie seemed to hesitate for a moment before saying the term: "The reason Loulan is rich in minerals is because deep underground in the ancient city of Loulan, there is a huge energy crystal, called the 'Dragon Vein'. It is a The nearly endless chakra, even a small part of it leaking out from the cracks in the ground, is enough to maintain the operation of the entire Loulan Kingdom. This is the goal of the ambitious man who tried to control Loulan. However, that guy's plan ultimately failed. , and the Dragon Vein was also sealed by the Fourth Hokage's sealing technique. I have tried to crack it, but failed."

"..."

Bai Mingyu probably knew what was going on.

Apparently, Scorpion also had plans for Dragon Vein.

This is normal. After all, Dragon Vein is a power comparable to that of tailed beasts. Unless it is a humanoid tailed beast like Kisame, no one will think that he has too much chakra. As for Scorpion, if he can control the power of Dragon Vein Chakra, his puppetry can be even more refined, and even break through the limit of hundreds of machines, and it is not impossible to control thousands of puppets at the same time.

However, Scorpion could not break the seal of the fourth generation.

After all, the fourth generation learned the sealing technique from Kushina, and the latter inherited the inheritance of the Uzumaki clan, so the sealing technique laid down was naturally not so easy to be broken. Although Scorpion is a shadow-level puppet master, he is not proficient in sealing techniques, and the sealing techniques of other villages are far from comparable to the Uzumaki clan in terms of the strength and complexity of the techniques.

But no matter how strong the seal is, it will loosen over time.

Now, nearly twenty years later, it is difficult to say how effective those sealing techniques can still be.

"It seems like..."

Maybe I also have a chance to get a piece of the pie?

Bai Mingyu lowered his eyes slightly, his thoughts surging.

He has no intention of becoming a jinchuriki. Although sealing the tailed beast in his body means that he will gain a huge amount of chakra, it will also cause countless troubles, not to mention the tailed beast once it is extracted. If you go out, the jinchuriki will die. But Dragon Vein Chakra is a little different. The power level of this thing is no less than that of the nine tailed beasts, and it has no consciousness. It is just an extremely pure chakra.

And judging from the situation in the original work, it seems that the relationship is quite mild.

Even ordinary people like Queen Loulan without any ninjutsu ability can control it with the power of blood.

If you can get it... maybe it will be a big benefit to yourself.