A month passed, and Hanyu's injuries first improved and then recovered completely.
He didn't do anything else during this period of time. What he paid most attention to was Orochimaru's freshwater aquaculture experiment. However, it seemed that Orochimaru had not produced any results, so he finally started to get in touch with something he had decided to get in touch with a long time ago.
The erosion problem on Hanyu's body cannot be solved for the time being, but apart from this, his physical condition has now been fully recovered, and the mass evaporated from his body has now been "replenished".
So…the deepest part of the Wet Bone Forest.
Hanyu kept walking forward along a deep and secret passage. He had been walking in this place for quite a while, so long that he couldn't tell whether this was a barrier inside the slug's body or an ordinary cave outside the slug's body.
After an unknown amount of time, Hanyu finally noticed a light appearing ahead.
"Katsuyu, is this the way?" he asked Katsuyu that was leading the way.
However, this question did not receive a timely answer. Hanyu glanced sideways and found that the little slug on his shoulder seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.
So Hanyu could only stop and did not rush forward.
After about five minutes of silence, Katsuyu finally spoke, "It's right here, Master Hanyu... I'm sorry, I've lived too long, and those important memories are hidden in the deepest part of my mind, and it takes a lot of time to extract them.
And... this makes me feel somewhat confused and out of place."
Hanyu nodded, accepting this statement. If you live too long, it is not surprising to have such problems.
Even Katsuyu itself doesn't know how many years it has lived. As far as it can remember, one moment it was just a weak creature crawling among the leaves, and the next moment it had a body as big as a mountain.
From the beginning, Katsuyu did seem a lot more unfamiliar to Hanyu, and... just now it seemed to have taken it a while to react before confirming that the person next to it was Hanyu, not Senju or anyone else from earlier.
"Compared to a life form like you, a ninja's life is always short and weak , and the time of existence is equivalent to a kind of wisdom, so you will know such secrets that should only belong to the world."
What is talking to Hanyu now seems to be a slug, but it also seems not to be a slug. It should be said that it is Katsuyu's "deep consciousness."
"Please move forward, Master Hanyu."
Following the slug's request, or after getting the slug's permission, Hanyu continued to move forward, and began to walk towards the light ahead step by step.
Then he walked out of the cave, and a space so vast that there was no visible edge appeared before his eyes.
wrong.
A certain sense of spatial dislocation prompted Hanyu to turn back, but a strange thing happened: he did not see the deep passage he had walked through.
Behind him was grassland, and beyond that was a forest.
This... is still the Wet Bone Forest, but Hanyu is not sure where in the Wet Bone Forest it is.
Walking forward, an "altar"-like thing made of huge and rough stones appeared in front of Hanyu. Perhaps because it was so old, the thing was not much higher than the ground, but was laid on the ground like a floor tile.
Hanyu bent down, and his fingertips ran across the grainy, unprocessed stone... His fingers just touched the ritual engraved on the stone.
This deeply engraved spell looks very simple in lines, but Hanyu has reason to believe that it is something extremely complex - this circular, spider-web-like spell has a diameter of at least one hundred meters.
There was no need for the slug to say anything more, as Hanyu naturally walked to the center of the ceremony.
When Hanyu stood again in the center of the ritual, no matter how open the space seemed, he had reason to believe that this was actually a place hidden inside the slug's body - at least half hidden inside the slug's body. Although he could see the sky when he raised his head, such a secret place certainly could not be left outside casually.
"Are you ready, Lord Hanyu?" Katsuyu asked again.
"I'm not looking for instant success. For difficult tasks, I will always be prepared to spend a considerable amount of time. This time, I just had a rough feel for it, not even the 'entry', so... do I need to make any special preparations?"
"It's mainly about psychological and spiritual preparation. Even though it's just a brief contact and can be described as just a caress between each other, that kind of intense stimulation is something most ninjas can't stand, and the result of being unable to stand it is death. It... is such a dangerous thing." Katsuyu explained.
It was indeed a little different from before. Otherwise, if Hanyu was going to make that particularly dangerous attempt, its attitude would definitely not be like this.
What Katsuyu just said sounded a bit like "You'll die soon, and that's it . "
But even if there was a warning in the slug's words, Hanyu had already come this far, so there was definitely no possibility of stopping.
"It's okay. I've always been confident in my mental quality and mental willpower, so… I can start right away," Hanyu said.
This is actually the truth. If he didn't have the mental advantage, how could he be so crazy... No, if he didn't have the mental advantage, how could he be so good at making hand seals.
And since he was fully prepared, the slug didn't say anything more.
Just as Hanyu was about to ask it what to do next, the little slug on his shoulder suddenly swelled up, and then "swallowed" Hanyu whole.
Well, the slug wrapped Hanyu up.
"Now is the right time, stay standing, relax mentally, and don't resist too much."
The slug's sound came again, and Hanyu felt as if his ears were filled with water. He could not hear the sound clearly.
But he still heard what he should have heard, it's just...right posture, relaxed, right time, why does this sound like preparation for conception?
Hanyu is really generous. He can still daydream at this time, which shows that he has definitely reached the standard of "relaxation".
His entire body was wrapped in the slug and he had lost control of his body. The fluid inside the slug began to wriggle slowly, and before he knew it, Hanyu's palms were facing each other, and then they were put together the next moment.
The slug that wraps around Hanyu is an excellent medium - an excellent medium for conducting natural energy.
In the instant that Hanyu put his hands together, his active brain seemed to be stuffed into a concrete mixer, and the huge pressure made him confused.
Pure, overwhelming, overwhelming energy forced its way into Hanyu's body, making him feel as if he was about to burst.
Then, in Hanyu's consciousness…
All tangible and material matter disappeared.
Only his thoughts and will float in pure energy.
Below him was a bottomless abyss, and above him was a sun so hot that it could melt everything. Hanyu could not tell whether he was falling into the abyss due to the pull of the earth's gravity, or rushing towards the corona due to the gravity of the star.
Weightlessness, or traveling at high speed through endless space.
Hanyu's senses first began to become confused and disorganized, and then his senses disappeared - along with his personal sense of existence.
You know, exposure to natural energy is not a problem. The problem is that the slug exposed Hanyu to too much of it, just like putting a baby in a huge wine barrel. Hanyu's experience is even worse than this metaphor.
Hanyu lost his breath, maybe for just a few seconds, or maybe forever.
"Ahem. Ahem."
When Hanyu regained consciousness, he was coughing violently. It is possible that he was awakened by the physical sensation of about to cough out his lungs.
His vision gradually returned to his unfocused eyes, and Hanyu found himself kneeling on the ground with his hands supporting his upper body - this is the most standard orz.
Then, Hanyu felt his limbs getting sore, and the ground became particularly warm... So he put his face on the ground, and then relaxed his limbs... This turned from orz to plop.
After a while, he finally struggled to turn over and changed from lying down to lying down.
The sky kept spinning in his vision, and Hanyu's senses were in a mess. He had no choice but to raise his forearms to cover his eyes... Well, this posture looked like he was crying out of grievance.
It was unknown how long it took for his brain to regain normal thinking ability.
The fairy arts of Myoboku Mountain, Ryuchi Cave and Wet Bone Forest are different. In the past, Hanyu wondered whether the first generation Hokage needed to accumulate natural energy when entering the Sage Mode, or could enter it directly.
After all, the first Hokage didn't learn his magic from a toad, so it doesn't necessarily have those characteristics.
And now, Hanyu is more inclined to believe that the first Hokage's senjutsu technique is the latter case.
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