With the speed of the two of them, it took less than a few days to successfully reach the Kingdom of Thunder, the town closest to Yunyin Village.

In the hotel in the town, make final preparations for infiltration.

The geographical location of Kumogakure Village is very different from that of Konoha.

Konoha is in the plains, with flat terrain, while Kumogakure is located among the clouds on the high mountains. The highest mountain is where the Third Raikage's office is located.

The terrain is steep, but the difficulty of infiltrating is much easier than that of Konoha.

Konoha is a huge wall built by humans. It uses barriers and regular ninja patrols to prevent intrusion.

During the day, this job is mainly undertaken by the Konoha Guards, who are in charge of the Konoha wealthy Uchiha clan, while at night, it is the responsibility of the Konoha Guards and ANBU members, divided into two cordons, light and dark.

As for Yunyin Village, due to its terrain, it is surrounded by mountains and has an inherent advantage. It is difficult for ordinary people to approach, and the jungle is dense, so it is relatively easier to sneak into it.

"Teacher Orochimaru, what should we do next?" Toneri asked.

What answered him was a scroll thrown by Orochimaru.

"The art of eliminating facial expressions?"

Looking at the ninjutsu recorded in the scroll, Toneri's eyes lit up.

Rather than saying that this is a ninjutsu, it is actually better to say that it is a form of cross-dressing or disguise.

It's simply...a must-have skill for women's clothing masters!

"Use this technique to sneak into Yunyin Village. You will do some research here first, and I will find two materials."

After Orochimaru finished speaking, he left directly.

Toneri read down bit by bit the content recorded on this scroll. The more he looked at the back, he found that his understanding and knowledge of this technique was too one-sided. If he had known that this technique was so powerful, he should have done it earlier.

Ask Orochimaru for it.

Why is it called the art of eliminating facial expressions?

The reason is very simple: eliminate your own appearance and characteristics, and portray the appearance and all characteristics of others.

To put it simply, it is to dissolve and take away other people's faces and stick them on your own face to disguise yourself.

This is definitely a cruel ninjutsu, because it requires taking away someone else's face, and it is of course self-evident what will happen to the person whose face is taken away.

Toneri knew Orochimaru had this technique a long time ago, but he didn't expect that this technique would even take other people's faces in order to achieve perfect disguise.

And not only the face, but also the physical appearance and characteristics can be copied as long as you are willing. It is definitely an excellent camouflage technique.

The only flaw is that it cannot copy all the abilities of others, otherwise this technique will be really abnormal.

But even so, Toneri felt the power of this technique.

If you use it well, there is no place in the Ninja world that you can't go to.

No wonder Orochimaru in the later period traveled all over the world to recruit subordinates with special abilities. It turned out that he relied not only on his own strong strength, but also on the powerful camouflage ability of the annihilation technique. Then the ninja world can

go.

This is probably the reason why Orochimaru changed his body again and again after developing the reincarnation of the zombies, but he was still able to maintain his own appearance. Whether it was a woman's body or a man's body, the result was the same. This is a real person.

The abilities that a big boss should have.

Later, Orochimaru planned the Konoha Rebellion in order to retain the dignity of the last "ninja hero" for his teacher and send him on his way. He also used this art of erasing the face to capture Rasa, the fourth generation Kazekage at that time.

face, and sitting next to the then elderly Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen without being discovered.

Even the mobilization of the army from Sunagakure Village was not discovered by the people of Sunagakure Village.

To put it bluntly, this is definitely a magical technique.

I didn't expect it to be obtained so inadvertently.

The process was a bit cruel, but the world of Naruto is inherently cruel, and there is nothing unacceptable.

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Night falls.

Toneri, who had reluctantly learned the art of erasing the face, made up with a slight twist to become a cloud ninja. According to Orochimaru, this cloud ninja was a genin who went out on a mission.

The entire team was wiped out by Orochimaru, led by a female chuunin, who became Orochimaru's disguise.

One thing to say, if Orochimaru didn't like to stick out his tongue all the time, his disguise would be absolutely perfect.

And Orochimaru didn't just pick anyone at random. He knew that Toneri knew a little bit of the Thunder Chakra mode, so the person he chose for him was also a genin who knew a little bit of the Thunder Chakra mode.

It can be better disguised and not easily exposed.

"This kind of disguise is just to avoid unnecessary troubles, so you have to be careful and don't rely on disguise, especially when you are not very familiar with it." Orochimaru warned.

He is very experienced in infiltration missions, but this is his first time doing it.

"Understood." Shiren nodded.

"Let's go, take action! Find the location of the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki first. Don't act rashly. Make sure of his identity. If possible, it's best to find his weakness.

We exchange information with each other in this place every night. If it's inconvenient, use the psychic snake."

Shiren nodded again.

The two of them disappeared in a flash.

No one in Cloud Hidden Village knows that there are two Konoha ninjas who have quietly embedded themselves in Cloud Hidden Village.

In fact, it's not just Kumo Hidden Village. There are more or less spies from other hidden villages in all the hidden villages. They are most likely ninjas or civilians. Even Konoha also has spies from other hidden villages.

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Whether it is the ANBU or the roots of Konoha, they all have a long-term and effective mission, which is to search out spies in and around the village.

Moving separately from Orochimaru would be much safer for both of them, and it would be easier to do things alone.

First, I wandered aimlessly around Yunyin Village for a while.

Unlike Konoha, there is still a certain gap between the prosperity of Kumogakure Village and Konoha, but it is many times better than Kumogakure Village and Amegakure Village he has been to before.

Taking advantage of the darkness, we came to the corner of a small alley.

"Psychic art!"

Bang——

Xiaolan was summoned by Sheren.

"Meow--"

Xiaolan looked at Shiren, whose appearance had changed greatly. Her back instantly arched and all the hair on her body stood up.

But it soon calmed down, but the doubts in its eyes did not dissipate.

Because it sensed that its relationship with Sheren's psychic blood contract was still there, but why the appearance, breath, and even some of the characteristics of the body had all changed.

Toneri smiled and gently took off part of the mask on his face, revealing his true appearance.

Xiaolan's eyes suddenly burst into surprise, and she jumped into Toneri's arms, coquettishly.

"Okay, Xiaolan, now we have a very important task."

After hearing what Sheren said, Xiaolan's expression became serious.

"We are now in Cloud Hidden Village, which is also one of the huge hidden villages that we have been unable to penetrate the intelligence network. Now you hide your chakra, gather all the stray cats in Cloud Hidden Village, and follow the instructions

We train them to be our eyes."

"Meow--"

Xiaolan nodded, and after getting Shiren's approval, she disappeared into the alley.

After such a long period of training, Xiaolan at this time can definitely be called a very good Ninja cat.

Now you can expand your intelligence network here, and at the same time, you can recruit those cats to help find the location of the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki.

At this time, the eight-tailed jinchūriki of Kumogakure Village should still be Kirabi's predecessor, Burubi, who had extremely hairy hair.

Very early on, because of his excellent ninjutsu, bloodline, ability, and moral character, he was selected as the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki.

Moreover, when he first became the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki, he was able to suppress and control the Eight-Tails very well. Originally, the Eight-Tails and the senior officials of Hidden Cloud Village were very optimistic about him and felt that he could become a perfect Jinchuuriki and be able to get along well with the Eight-Tails.

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In the beginning, Burubi was also full of confidence in himself, but after he became a Jinchuriki, he found that the attitudes of the people around him had changed. As a result, he became increasingly exhausted physically and mentally. He often imagined the horror of death and what he might face after death.

Seeing such a scene, my heart gradually became weak and not firm enough.

The tailed beasts will go berserk when the jinchuriki is at their weakest. Burubi has also slowly changed from the eight-tailed jinchuriki that people had high hopes for at the beginning to the jinchuriki who may go berserk at any time. People's attitude towards him

The changes will be even greater.

This becomes a vicious cycle.

Therefore, Burubi has always told Kirabi, the next Jinchuriki candidate, to find someone who can fill the hole in his heart and give him a goal and a direction.

But unfortunately, Burubi himself has never found a way to fill the hole in his heart.

In Toneri's original impression, Orochimaru might have taken action against the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki a little later, perhaps until the Third Ninja War had begun to take shape, but he couldn't be sure of these details.
To be continued...