Chapter 153: The Power of a Mortal Usurping a God
After the guidance, the simulation continued.
[Faced with the pressure from Tsunade, you remain unyielding. You tell her that she has made a serious mistake. If you have truly mastered the Flying Thunder God, then her threats are useless. If you have not, then her threats are meaningless.]
[Finally, you conclude with this: Is the Hokage truly prepared to have a falling out with a Flying Thunder God user? Tsunade is so angry your words make her 'papayas' tremble, but she is now helpless against you. She could try to risk capturing you, but she cannot bear the consequences of your defection.]
[Tsunade, in the end, is not Hiruzen or Danzō. When faced with something she truly cannot control, she will not try to eliminate the other party, but will try to negotiate. Thus, she asks you to name your price. If you can satisfy her, she can from this day forward stop caring about how Danzō died.]
[And you, with your deep understanding of the Sand Village, give a solution that is completely beyond her expectations. She is very interested in this idea, lets you leave the Hokage's Office, and then begins to seriously consider its feasibility.]
[Three days later, Tsunade and Rasa reach an agreement. Rasa writes a letter, having Gaara and Temari return to Konoha as 'exchange students,' while he is allowed to return to the Sand Village. However, before he leaves, Tsunade arranges for you to silently place a Flying Thunder God mark on him.]
Seeing this, Makoto replayed the operational logic in his mind.
It was actually very simple. The Gaara of this time had already been moved by Naruto's talk-no-jutsu; he would not attack Konoha again. Rasa, however, did not know this. In his eyes, Gaara was still a violent psychopath. Leaving him in Konoha would only cause chaos for the village. If Gaara died as a result, the One-Tails Shukaku would revive in the desert, and he could then naturally go and capture it to create a new Jinchūriki. The Rasa of this time was undoubtedly capable of such a thing; he was an ambitious and ruthless character. As for feeling regret after being reanimated, that was a matter for after his death. The living Rasa would not be concerned with such things.
Finally, with him placing a Hiraishin mark on him, even if Rasa wanted to betray the alliance between Suna and Konoha again in the future, he could make him disappear at any time.
[Through your secret mediation, Konoha and Suna welcome an era of peace, and you begin to be highly valued by Tsunade. But you are neither willing to be a ninja nor a Konoha bureaucrat, and Tsunade is still helpless against you.]
[Not only that, but she also has to make time to cooperate with you on your medical ninjutsu research. If she hadn't realized that your research was extremely valuable and also wanted to know the answer herself, she probably would have had a falling out with you long ago.]
[The peaceful days do not last long. Sasuke chooses to defect. This time, because Gaara and Temari are already studying in Konoha, the Sasuke Recovery Team is much stronger. On Orochimaru's side, without Kimimaro, he is forced to act personally with Kabuto.]
The corner of his mouth twitched. The current Orochimaru was in a bit of a miserable state. This was what it meant to be down on one's luck, right? But this was beneficial to him.
[You also silently follow the Sasuke Recovery Team and, in the process of the battle, leave Hiraishin marks on Sasuke, Kabuto, and Orochimaru. Although you are unable to retrieve Sasuke from Orochimaru's grasp, you learn the space-time coordinates of many of his hideouts.]
He couldn't help but get excited. After the simulation was over, he would memorize all of this. When he wanted to cooperate with Orochimaru in the future, having these coordinates would make things much easier. Of course, he could also choose to contact him during the Chūnin Exams. The only problem was that doing so was a bit too risky and might lead to him being unable to stay in Konoha. Whether to do it or not would depend on whether his future simulations were restricted.
[After the failure of the Sasuke Recovery Mission, Naruto leaves with Jiraiya to train. On your advice, Tsunade takes Sakura as her disciple. You also display your 'unreasonable' medical ninjutsu. Tsunade demands an explanation, but you choose to ignore her. She continues to be so angry her 'watermelons' tremble.]
[Afterward, Sakura studies medical ninjutsu under both your and Tsunade's guidance, and her strength improves by leaps and bounds. You also do not forget your own research, wanting to completely figure out the relationship between chakra and life force.]
[Konoha 67: As Sakura achieves some success, she also joins in your research. She then proposes that if you have no leads, you should try to study your Cell Activation, because she feels it is very similar to how Tsunade uses the Yin Seal to maintain her youth.]
The real Makoto, reading this line, jumped up in shock.
How had he not thought of that? Young minds really were better.
His eyes gleamed. The Yin Seal keeping a person young—was that not a form of Cell Activation? The only difference was that the process was driven and regulated by the Yin Seal, whereas his own was a talent. So what was the biggest difference between the two?
Under his expectant gaze, the simulation gave the answer.
[Konoha 68: The increasingly tense situation in the ninja world does not make you give up your research. You finally sort out your thoughts: the essence of Cell Activation is the growth and evolution of life, whereas the Yin Seal only makes cells active, not changing them in a life-sense.]
[At first glance, this conclusion seems to have nothing to do with chakra and life force, but you keenly perceive that there is a fundamental connection. Finally, before the Great Ninja War, after personally experiencing the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, you understand everything.]
[Survival and evolution are the instincts of life. This instinct prompts the trillions of cells to connect into a single system, linked by a weak spiritual power, ultimately forming a chakra that carries a kind of 'life will.' Only this power can be named 'life force,' possessing the miraculous effect of granting regeneration to the dead or giving life to inorganic matter.]
[In contrast, the chakra produced by a ninja is mixed with the ninja's own spiritual will. While this can make the chakra full of combat power, it also makes it lose the original characteristics of life force.]
[This also explains why you cannot use chakra to replenish life force: because the chakra has already been 'degraded' at the moment of its production. To use degraded chakra to replenish life force, you must first purify it to its absolute limit, and at the same time, re-infuse it with a 'life will' that transcends the ninja's own ego.]
He looked at these words, lost in thought. Although it seemed a bit abstract, he understood.
In short, life force was also a special kind of chakra. This chakra could not be refined through a person's subjective spiritual will; it was a manifestation of life's instinct. For an ordinary ninja to even transfer this life instinct to another person was already as difficult as climbing to heaven, like Chiyo's forbidden jutsu. As for creating life force out of thin air, that was a process where a ninja had to transcend their own self, from spirit to chakra. Its difficulty was probably no less than learning to master Yin-Yang Release.
If it was still hard to understand, he had an even simpler analogy. The process of turning chakra into life force was the process of an ordinary ninja trying to bypass Yin-Yang Release to create life. It was a mortal's will to directly surpass a god. It would be a crime against heaven if it wasn't difficult.
Seeing this, he even felt a little dejected, feeling that there was no point in continuing his research.
But at that moment, the simulation gave him another surprise.
[Understanding all this, you know that it is impossible for a ninja to produce life force by themselves. So why not create an unconscious, pure spiritual body, like a fetus, and have it simulate the most primal 'fetal quickening' of the spirit, thereby guiding the continuous production of life force?]
Holy shit!
His eyes widened. What was this? Creating an external incarnation?
No. Thinking about it carefully, it was actually more similar to how Kaguya had created Black Zetsu. The only difference was that he wouldn't inject his will into the created spiritual body, but would let it only provide pure life force.
This way, anyone could have the effect of a Cell Activation-like talent, and could even freely mobilize life force for combat or to save people.
But what was the difference between it and his own Cell Activation?
After a brief thought, he understood the biggest difference.
His own Cell Activation devoured all chakra to strengthen himself and could not be fed back to others.
But this "Spiritual Fetus" could take physical energy, food energy, etc., and produce pure life force to nourish oneself and heal others.
Hmm, why did this setup feel a bit familiar?
Hiss—Could the ultimate forms of these two things be the God Tree and Ninshū?
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