Chapter 240
Although it is unclear whether the Amaterasu fire still exists after Itachi opens the Mangekyō, but with this sealing technique that restricts people's movements, Amaterasu will not still be called the fire of mercy, right?
The lethality of Fire Release is beyond words, but in my impression, its actual combat record is not that good. Even the combat record of a fairy technique of Goemon's level is hard to describe.
Technology Development Department.
After hearing Tsunade's decision, Orochimaru's clone narrowed his eyes and said with some emotion: "Tsunade is going to be ahead of us this time."
It would be great if the White Snake Immortal could be as easy to talk to as the Living Slug Immortal. If that doesn't work, even the Big Toad Immortal from Mount Myōboku would be fine. At least even if he is rejected, he doesn't have to worry about risking his life.
But the White Snake Immortal...
Orochimaru shook his head. The simplest and most brutal way to make the opponent give up his reverse scale is to defeat him.
Perhaps he would be the last of the three ninjas to have his own spiritual weapon.
However, Orochimaru is not in a hurry. If it really doesn't work, he can then pull Jiraiya, Tsunade and Kakui to give the White Snake Sage a "just" group fight.
Even so, his relationship with Long Didong might be completely broken.
"I'm leaving! Be careful during this time." Tsunade waved her hand. She and Lu Nie were going to the Wet Bone Forest and another place. Even Lu Nie couldn't be sure of the time until they could get the spiritual weapon back.
"We have Jiraiya and I. If something really goes wrong, our teacher is in good condition." Orochimaru's tone showed no sympathy for the retired Third Generation. At least at this stage, his teacher's physical fitness and strength were still maintained at a relatively peak state.
If a problem really arises, we can, if necessary, ask the old Hokage or old advisors to come out and take responsibility.
Tsunade could hear the "malice" hidden in Orochimaru's words towards the Third Hokage, but she didn't care. She had very complicated feelings for the old man who was now enjoying his retirement life, and she was even happy to see him encounter some bad things.
After making some preparations and saying goodbye, Tsunade, who entrusted the affairs of the medical department to pharmacist Nono, and Kane were summoned to the Wet Bone Forest by the slugs over there using the reverse summoning technique.
However, this time, the two were not summoned by the Living Slug Sage. Instead, they used a sub-body to send a palm-sized slug filled with fairy chakra to Tsunade's hands.
"Let's leave our bodies here for now, and let the slugs help maintain our vitality." Lu Nie entered the Collapsing Jade mode and waved a miniature dagger in his hand that looked like an enlarged scalpel.
"I remember that your spiritual weapon is a wooden sword?" Tsunade was a little curious when she saw the short sword that appeared in the Lu Nie Hougyoku mode.
According to what Lu Nie said, shouldn't a person have only one spiritual weapon bound to his soul?
"This is the true form. It is an advanced form that can tap into the latent power of the spiritual weapon after it has been fine-tuned." Lu Nie replied.
Tsunade nodded. Although she didn't have a deep understanding of what Lu Nie said, it was nothing more than another way to master the ability of spiritual tools and explore their uses and potential. As long as she had her own spiritual tool, she would naturally experience and touch and experience these.
"Where are we going?" Tsunade asked finally.
"The world of the dead." Lu Nie said, and swung his sword to separate Tsunade's soul from her powerful body.
Nourished by the power of the Hogyoku, Tsunade's soul has already undergone some kind of transformation, and there is a huge gap in quality between her and ordinary ninja souls.
Besides being more solid and no less powerful, the biggest difference is that she can resist the call from the Pure Land.
In other words, relying solely on the power of her soul, she could forcibly stay in the ninja world and move around as if she were alive.
A rune extended from Lu Nei's soul to Tsunade's body, connecting the two together like a black rune chain.
Then a black cavity appeared in front of the two. Lu Nie walked in first, followed by Tsunade. Passing through a dark corridor, there was no light around, and the perception was greatly weakened. There was almost no sense of direction here. The only thing that made Tsunade sure that she was not wrong was the rune flashing on her wrist.
It seemed like she had been walking in the corridor for a long time, but it also seemed like it was just a moment. The ratio of consciousness and time suddenly became chaotic at this moment. That indescribable feeling of abruptness instantly flooded Tsunade's whole body.
When she came out of that strange feeling and looked around, she realized that she and Lu Nie had come to an environment with monotonous colors and full of dead silence.
Tall, bare trees blocked out the sun, blotting out the dark sky. The surrounding light was very dim, and visibility was only a few meters away from the body.
However, the amplified perception in the Broken Jade Mode was brought over and can replace part of the function of the eyes here.
Looking at the dark depths around her, Tsunade had a vague feeling of being spied on.
"Is this the world of the dead, the Pure Land?" Tsunade asked curiously, looking at Lu Nie beside her. People always have all kinds of imaginations about the world of the dead. But after experiencing it in person, Tsunade felt only desolation and inexplicable discomfort.
Perception was like a sensitive radar, constantly giving her some messy feelings, but looking at Luna's calm appearance, Tsunade felt that she was being a little too worried and too sensitive about the peeping and danger she sensed.
"No, this is another world of the dead. It is different from the pure land where chakra souls go." Lu Ni shook his head and denied Tsunade's words.
"What's the difference?" Tsunade followed Luna's footsteps while tensing her mind. Whether it was because of her sense of danger or her experience as a ninja, she realized that this place was not a good place. Fortunately, she still had a power in her body that made her feel at ease. It was not that after losing her body, her soul became powerless.
“Most of the souls here are distorted and alienated. Some were summoned away by the Pure Land, while others were swallowed by Jutu and brought here.
They are active and wandering here! This place represents the strongest desires and darkness in people's hearts. Because of the loss of souls and some memories, they devour their own kind all the time to fill the defects in their souls. "
Lu Nie stopped and turned to look at Tsunade. Under her gloomy gaze, he said calmly, "They are like a pack of hungry wolves. Our complete souls are like a delicious delicacy with an irresistible aroma to them."
"So, those malicious eyes that I sensed are real?" Tsunade gritted her teeth and clenched her fists.
"Yes. This is the Forest of Void! For those who have not been able to leave this forest and are wandering aimlessly in it, this is the place where the souls of Ju Tu are poured out.
We need to harvest some souls and find the necessary materials in this forest." While Lu Nie was speaking, he heard rustling sounds all around.
They were so densely packed that they seemed like thousands of ants surrounding them.
The first to appear in front of Tsunade were several faceless people in human form, but in the next moment, they quickly turned into several people that were constantly recalled in Tsunade's memory. Originally, those faces had become a little blurry in her memory, but at this moment, those faces became extremely clear.
The repressed emotions were vented out uncontrollably at this moment.
"Duan, Rope Tree, Great Grandpa, Second Grandpa, Grandma!" Tsunade called out these people's names almost subconsciously.
And her shouting made the people on the other side more lively and even responded.
"Is that Tsunade-chan?"
"elder sister!"
Just when Tsunade couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to rush over, a blazing fire passed in front of her and covered those people.
"No!"
Tsunade lost her composure instantly when she saw this scene, and almost instantly swung her clenched fist towards Lu Ni who was attacking beside her.
"Wake up, Tsunade-senpai! Those are not the people in your memory!" After being hit by Tsunade's fist, Lu Nie's feet left two grooves on the ground beneath his feet. He used the connection between the runes to awaken Tsunade from the mental shock.
"Look around."
Seeing that Tsunade stopped the next attack, Lu Nie motioned her to look around. Tsunade, who had regained consciousness, looked around in a daze, and saw that in just a short period of time, the two of them had been surrounded by at least a hundred faceless men one after another.
As her eyes fell on these faceless men, they all transformed into the faces of the people she longed to see in her memory.
At the same time, there seemed to be an inexplicable force that was deepening her memory and stirring up her emotions.
"What is this?" Tsunade and Kagome stood together. Even though she had experienced two Ninja World Wars and seen all kinds of powerful and strange enemies, she still felt a little scalp-tingling when she saw the scene before her.
"They are the Hollows that were created after the incomplete souls were detained in this world and under the influence of the Hollow Forest. They have no memories of their own, so they long to possess all souls with memories.
They use those memories as food and change themselves. Their ability is to peek into the people with the deepest memories in people's hearts and stir up the emotions of the peekers. During this period, your memories of those people will be dug out from the deepest part of your memory and then become their nourishment.
They are the Faceless Ones, and they are one of the materials we need to collect this time. Be careful of their abilities. If you give a definition, their power represents the Yin power of Chakra, which is biased towards illusion.
But they have no consciousness, only instinct. As long as you lock up your memories and don't leak a lot, there will be no problem."
Lu Nie explained to Tsunade in a very fast tone, and while dodging the attacks of the Faceless Men, he reminded her: "Don't associate any memories and methods with these people, otherwise they will be able to replicate their abilities.
Don't hold back, and fight as quickly as possible. I can't even tell how many faceless men there are here. The longer we stay here, the more faceless men will gather here.
If we attract other more powerful evolutionary entities, there will be some delays."
"That's easier said than done!" Tsunade gritted her teeth and punched an old man who was using Wood Release, sending wood chips flying everywhere.
Fortunately, although these Faceless Men can replicate his abilities, they are still a far cry from Great Grandpa and his true strength.
However, it was still eye-opening for Tsunade to see that the previously confused enemies suddenly became organized and coordinated.
She knew that Luna and Orochimaru had an experiment called Hollows, and she also vaguely knew that there was a space like another world related to souls and Hollows, but she never knew that this place was so strange!
If these Hollows could go to the Ninja World, it might be a disaster more terrible than the Ninja World War!
The faceless men disappeared quickly at the hands of Kagawa and Tsunade, and occasionally one or two dark stones the size of a fingernail would fall to the ground.
The siege of more than a hundred faceless men even made Tsunade, who thought she was invincible in the ninja world, feel flustered and embarrassed.
This was really her first time coming into contact with these virtual beings, and all the intelligence and information about the other side was collected in the previous battle.
If it wasn't for Lu Nie, she might have fallen into the trap from the beginning. Maybe there wouldn't be any fatal danger, but that was just a possibility that hadn't happened.
My body aches!
Tsunade only felt a blade suddenly cutting through her body, and her heart sank instantly.
Flying Thunder God Slash!
It’s my second grandfather’s technique!
Has her memory been peeped into to this extent?
Tsunade used the energy of the injured soul to heal quickly, and glanced at Lu Nie. The faceless men around her were all replicas of the characters in her memory, but Lu Nie's memory seemed to be impossible to be peeped into.
Tsunade's sense of danger became stronger again in an instant. She almost leaned over to avoid another wind-condensed blade, grabbed the second-generation replica who had teleported over, and threw him to the ground, smashing him heavily on a group of faceless men who were rushing over.
My feet hurt!
Tsunade jumped high and slashed the ground below with her feet. The ground around her shook and rolled suddenly like an earthquake. A circle of faceless men were blown into the air and cut in half by a circular wind cut from Luna.
Pieces of black crystals fell and were absorbed by the shadow condensed by Lu Nie using the power of Yin Dun.
After fighting for a while, Lu Nie sensed that more and more virtual beings were gathering towards this side, and a powerful pressure burst out from his body.
That kind of tangible aura made Tsunade feel heavy in her heart, as if she had met a powerful enemy that made her extremely frightened.
The faceless men that had surrounded them froze, then under the pressure of fear, they all retreated and disappeared into the darkness of the Void Forest.
"Is it solved?" Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief. With so many great grandfathers, second grandfathers, and grandmothers cooperating with her in the battle, even though their strength was not as good as the originals, she suffered a lot. She suppressed the panic in her heart caused by the impact of Lu Nie's aura, withstood the pressure, and asked with relief the moment Lu Nie's aura dissipated.
"Of course not, but we have to leave quickly. I can only scare them for a moment, it's useless against some powerful Hollows. They will come back soon." Lu Ni opened the shadow space and called on Tsunade to retreat.
(End of this chapter)