The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 17 Chakra Conducting Materials

The strength of a puppet depends mainly on two factors.

The first is the maker's skills, including the design of the puppet, the use of mechanical techniques, and even the drawing of sealing runes.

The second, of course, is the materials used to make the puppets.

Especially for high-performance puppets, because they need to draw various rune spells, they must use a lot of chakra conduction materials.

Because these materials can conduct chakra, they have been widely used in important fields such as talismans, barriers, and advanced ninja tools.

Therefore, they have always been regarded as the most important strategic resources by various villages and countries and are very scarce in the market.

When Hideki first taught himself puppetry, he didn't have the support of the village like the Sunagakure puppeteers, but his neck was choked by these chakra conducting materials for a long time.

He was able to think of using hair to make the handle line because of this experience in the past...

Even now, many of the materials for his puppets are actually taken from other puppeteers' puppets...

But he is no longer at the stage where he can eat his fill and the whole family will not be hungry.

Students' practice, workshop products, and even the upgrade of one's own puppets all require chakra conduction materials.

Although once the courses and workshops are on track, the village should provide a certain quota.

But these tiny amounts of materials borrowed from other departments are naturally not enough to meet the needs of Hideki's grand blueprint.

So Hideki had to be self-sufficient and find ways to find more sources of chakra conducting materials.

As for how to find such materials, Hideki was naturally fully prepared.

In fact, a long time ago, ninja predecessors who used mechanical techniques or sealing techniques had already invented methods to find chakra conducting materials.

According to books, materials that can transfer chakra do not exist naturally in the ninja world.

Whether it is chakra metal or animal and plant materials, they are often immersed in high-concentration chakra sources for many years before they acquire the ability to transmit chakra.

The most common source of high-concentration chakra is naturally the famous nine tailed beasts.

They like to sleep for decades, and the chakra emitted from their bodies is enough to enable local animals, plants and even minerals with a high degree of compatibility to gain the ability to conduct chakra.

Some plants and animals will even quickly evolve new characteristics depending on the environment, and may even become creatures that can refine chakra on their own.

Among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist, Samehada is the best among them.

Having followed the three-tailed Isobu for many years, it even acquired the ability to actively absorb and transmit chakra.

The method used by ninjas in the past to find new materials was actually very simple, which was to infuse a little chakra into various materials that had never been seen before.

Based on the differences in chakra conduction performance, one can roughly judge the quality of the material.

And Hideki, relying on the brainstorming technique and combining it with the strong chakra control developed from it, even created a more sophisticated detection method based on the work of his predecessors.

He can penetrate chakra into the material, thus clearly understanding the basic physical properties of the material, such as density, ductility, toughness, etc.

More importantly, Hideki could even sense a half-real, half-virtual vein-like substance hidden deep within the material.

After many experiments, Hideki has determined that they are the fundamental reasons why the material can transmit chakra.

More importantly, their functions and appearance made it hard for Hideki not to think of the meridian system in the human body...

In fact, after Hideki's verification, the two are indeed very similar, and can even be said to have the same origin.

This discovery, combined with his understanding of the original work, was like a bolt of lightning to Hideki at the time, and he suddenly understood a lot of things.

Chakra is an alien energy that only appeared in the ninja world thousands of years ago.

So it is obvious that before this it was impossible for a meridian system specifically used to transport chakras to exist in the human body.

Of course, humans do not obtain the power of the meridian system and chakra by relying on the Six Paths Sage to shake hands with each person one by one like in the TV animation.

Eliminate all impossible situations, and whatever remains, no matter how unbelievable it is, is the truth!

At that time, all humans were affected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi and were hung on the Sacred Tree and gradually transformed into White Zetsu.

Although the two filial brothers, the Six Paths Sage, eventually defeated Kaguya and rescued everyone from the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

But reconstructive surgery is not something that can be canceled midway and then treated as if nothing happened.

Therefore, there are still traces of the transformation by the sacred tree left in the human body, and that is the so-called meridian system.

Even the talents and special abilities of the current ninja clan may be derived from their ancestors who were more highly transformed at that time. And the current civilians are the descendants of the humans who were less transformed at that time...

Therefore, even without the guidance of the Six Paths Sage, humans will sooner or later master the use of chakra on their own.

The Six Paths Sage probably saw this, so he took the initiative to establish the Ninja Clan, clarify the true meaning of Chakra, and try to guide humans onto the peaceful path of mutual understanding through Chakra.

Of course, his good intentions were ultimately in vain.

Although figuring out the secret of how humans mastered chakra doesn't seem to have much impact on Hideki's current situation.

But at least from then on he was able to look at things related to chakra from a higher perspective, which played a great role in his future research.

But the biggest benefit of this secret now is that it gives Hideki inspiration on where to look for chakra conduction materials.

One of the easiest places to ship goods is the Great Konoha Forest...

The story begins when Hideki was a child.

Like many ninjas, Hideki also practiced various training in this forest since he was a child.

So he knew that this vast Konoha Forest was a paradise of biodiversity, nurturing countless species of animals and plants.

It is said that even old hunters with decades of experience always discover species they have never seen before every time they enter this forest.

However, as a time traveler, Hideki discovered a strange feature of this forest that is difficult for ordinary people to notice.

That is, many plants that should have existed in different latitudes and different ecological environments in Xiushu's previous life can gather here and show habits that are very different from his previous life.

At first, Hideki didn't take it seriously. He just attributed it to the fact that this was a different world after all, and it was normal for the plants' habits to be different from those in his previous life.

However, after Hideki began to venture into the ninja world, he repeatedly discovered that those plants grew in the environment where they were supposed to grow, which was not much different from his previous life.

This also made Hideki begin to realize that this forest was unusual...

Later, after he concluded from various books that chakra might allow plants to evolve characteristics that adapt to the environment, he came up with a bold conjecture.

First, after Hideki's inspection, he found that although it was not very obvious, some of the plants here did have the rudiments of a meridian system inside.

Secondly, there is no record in historical records of the tailed beasts living here for a long period of time in the past hundred years.

Considering the fact that the sacred tree can transform living things through chakra, the answer is obvious.

However, Hideki did not make a final conclusion at that time.

He followed the trail of these special plants all the way, and when he finally arrived at the legendary Valley of the End, he fully confirmed his idea:
Wood escape!

It seems that in the earth-shattering battle of the Valley of the End, Hashirama Senju's Wood Release not only changed the surrounding terrain, but also gave the plants here unlimited possibilities.

The reason why the effect of this Wood Release can cover the entire Valley of the End is not difficult to guess.

According to the original work, although Hashirama Senju did eventually defeat Uchiha Madara through the magic of senjutsu, wood escape, true thousand hands, and top Buddha.

But in fact, Madara's powerful Susanoo was not completely powerless. It actually smashed all the thousand wooden hands behind the Buddha statue.

Even judging from the miserable appearance of Hashirama at the back, perhaps even the huge Buddha statue itself might not be spared.

You have to know that Wood Release is not like other Five Elements Release techniques. The wood used in it can last forever.

So it was natural that the broken pieces of the wooden hand were scattered all over the Valley of the End.

The Wood Release Chakra contained in it also dissipated, turning the entire Valley of the End into a paradise for plant evolution...

Since the sacred tree can transform humans to create White Zetsu, it is reasonable that the Wood Release technique derived from the sacred tree can transform plants.

As for those plants that shouldn't exist here, their seeds probably came here many years ago, but because the environment is not suitable for their growth, they have been dormant underground for many years.

They were able to survive until now only after being awakened from underground by Wood Release and using chakra to adapt to the environment.

Today, the Konoha Forest has the amazing sight of plants from different ecological environments gathered together.

Although most plants have only slightly evolved characteristics to adapt to the environment, the unformed chakra meridians in their bodies make them unable to be used as chakra materials.

But there are still a few lucky ones who can change their fate through Wood Release Chakra and become rare plants that can be used as chakra conducting materials.

And Hideki's target is exactly them!

(End of this chapter)