Escaping the Mist Ninja starts with backstabbing your teacher.

Chapter 283 The Delayed Start of the Experiment

After leaving Konoha, Izumi returned to the Kamui Space, where construction of the City of Bones was still proceeding as planned.

Several skeletal dragons slowly moved along the main road, while small puppets silently busied themselves among the buildings.

When Izumi entered the laboratory, Mumei was sitting at the control panel, holding a newly opened lollipop in her hand.

Several chakra screens floated in front of them, one of which was displaying the structure diagram of the Flying Thunder God Technique in real time.

"The contents of the Book of Seals have been fully analyzed." Nameless took the lollipop out of his mouth and gestured with his chin toward the screen.

"The Flying Thunder God Technique's structure was originally created by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and improved by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze."

"From the underlying logic of the technique, its core is to anchor the caster's own chakra as a spacetime coordinate to a fixed location, and then instantly transfer it through reverse summoning."

"This technique requires an extremely high degree of precision in controlling the user's chakra, and it can only transfer the user's own chakra or objects that are in direct contact with it."

"So it's perfect for moving objects." Izumi walked to the experimental table, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and scanned the Flying Thunder God Technique structure diagram layer by layer with his Byakugan.

"I don't need to use it to transfer people; the Divine Might Space has already solved the problem of transferring people."

"What I need is instantaneous delivery of items, such as chakra batteries, sealing scrolls, and intelligence samples."

"The Eight Thousand Spears System can monitor the intelligence dynamics of the entire ninja world in real time, and the platform it establishes requires a large number of physical goods transactions."

"But if every transaction needs to be manually transferred through the Divine Might Space, it's too inefficient."

"If we simplify the Flying Thunder God technique, we only need to retain the parts about anchoring spacetime coordinates and reversing the flow of objects."

"By removing the module that allows the caster to teleport, it can be made into a portable teleportation array."

"Two matching sealing array plates, one placed in the City of Bones, and the other carried by the trading party."

"The trading parties place the items to be transferred on the array plate, inject chakra to activate it, and the items will be instantly transferred to the corresponding array plate in the City of Bones."

"Similarly, we can also transmit chakra batteries or intelligence samples back through the array plate."

The nameless fingertips tapped rapidly on the control panel, transforming Izumi's thoughts into a simulation diagram of the technique in real time.

A circular array structure consisting of two nested layers of sealing patterns appeared on the screen.

"It is theoretically feasible. The simplified version of the Flying Thunder God Formation does not require a living being to support it, which will greatly reduce chakra consumption and improve the stability of the technique."

"Hmm, the array plate is still troublesome. It would be best to use your eight thousand spear marks as markers for relocation."

"Next, I will conduct research and optimize it into a standalone teleportation spell."

"You can try to research the two-way teleportation of the array plate. Set up the main array plate in the city and equip the others with secondary array plates."

"Whether it's the other party sending items, us sending them, or the two parties conducting a transaction."

"They all go through us as intermediaries, passing through our hands once."

"As for safety, let Momona look for a suitable sealing technique and have her assist you in your research."

"To trade any items through our platform, you must purchase our Sealing Technique Scroll."

"Only items sealed with this sealing technique are permitted to be traded."

Izumi took a silver-cased chakra battery from the drawer of the lab bench, held it in his palm, and let it slowly rotate under the cool white light.

"By the way, inform Nagato that the anonymous trading platform in the City of Bones will soon be launching a test logistics system."

"If the Akatsuki organization wants to conduct intelligence trading business on the platform, they can take the opportunity to experience Kamui's teleportation, which is much more efficient than using White Zetsu clones to deliver intelligence."

Wuming put the lollipop back in his mouth and quickly jotted down a few notes on the control panel.

Currently, the trading system can only rely on Izumi's own divine power, requiring him to personally deliver the goods.

For the time being, existing purchase orders will be delivered using the Snow Country caravan.

For some high-value orders, Izumikawa needs to handle the shipping itself.

Izumi put the chakra battery back in the drawer and turned to walk towards a separate sealing experiment table deep inside the laboratory.

"Because of the situation in Konoha, there's something I've been putting off for a long time."

"Given the current situation in the ninja world, there will definitely be people who try to cross the line. Just let me know when that happens."

"Regarding platform issues, you can also notify me of any transactions that require my participation."

After finishing his instructions to the nameless man, Izumi left and headed to another place.

He looked at the sealed tray in the center of the experimental table, where a fist-sized dark purple meteorite lay quietly.

The "star" of Star Ninja Village!

This was what he had been putting off, and he looked at the surface covered with dense, radiating patterns.

Under the cool white light, it glowed with a very faint pale purple light, like some kind of sleeping life slowly breathing.

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"The training method of the Star Village is to place this star next to the body and absorb the chakra radiation emitted by it."

"But this kind of radiation is harmful to the human body. Long-term exposure can lead to cell mutation, which is why the ninjas of Xingnin Village do not live long."

"They used the most primitive absorption method—direct exposure."

"And this star fragment is very likely a fragment of the Ten-Tails, which is why it can have such a significant impact on chakra mutations."

"If we can get this star to absorb the tailed beast's chakra, then the answer will be proven."

"If it absorbs all the tailed beasts' chakra, it may become a miniature artificial Ten-Tails core."

"Of course, whether it will be successful remains to be seen."

"Similarly, you can also try incorporating natural chakra or sage chakra into it for experiments."

At the tip of the bone knife in his hand, a wisp of chakra sample from the One-Tailed Shukaku was gently pulsating.

The pale yellow halo, with the rough texture unique to sand and magnetism, looked like two stars with completely different attributes probing each other under the light purple glow on the surface of the star stone fragment.

He slowly pressed down the bone blade, and Shukaku's chakra touched the star stone fragment, causing a tiny energy ripple to erupt at the point of contact.

The radial patterns on the surface of the star stone suddenly brightened, like ancient runes that had been activated, and began to actively devour Shukaku's chakra.

There was no rejection, no explosion, only an almost famishing absorption.

The halo of light from the fragments flowed slowly from pale purple, and the radial patterns on the surface became clearer, as if they had been infused with new life.

The recording module of the Eight Thousand Spears system automatically generates lines of data logs on the chakra screen on the side of the experimental platform, recording the changes at each key node in a concise and precise manner.

One tail, stable absorption.

The radiation output was within the safe threshold, and no fission reaction occurred in the internal structure of the star stone.

Preliminary assessment suggests that Shukaku's chakra is highly compatible with the star stone.

Perhaps it is because it is part of the Ten-Tails and has a natural affinity for tailed beast chakra.

Izumi didn't look at the data; he pushed the Star Stone fragment, which had already absorbed the chakra of the One-Tailed Beast, aside.

Using a bone knife, he retrieved a wisp of dark blue flame from another sealed jar—the chakra of the Two-Tails, Matatabi.

Matatabi's chakra was even more intense than Shukaku's, carrying a heat that could burn everything. When it first came into contact with the star stone fragment, the eerie yellow aura on the surface of the fragment trembled violently.

The flames burned a ring of extremely fine scorch marks on the surface of the fragments, but then the radial patterns lit up again, swallowing the eerie blue flames inch by inch.

The halo of the fragments changed from pale yellow to pale blue, and the scorch marks were covered by newly formed light patterns.

Its absorption speed is faster than that of the One-Tailed Beast, as if the fragments had learned how to more efficiently accept the tailed beast's chakra after the first absorption.

The three-tailed Isobu's deep blue water-style chakra was rapidly broken down into countless tiny energy particles by its radial patterns upon contact with the fragment, and then swallowed up by the fragment as a whole.

The four-tailed Son Goku, with its dark red Lava Release chakra carrying the high temperature of magma, rolled around on the surface of the fragments for a moment before being completely absorbed.

The Five-Tails, Kokuo, emitted intense white steam chakra that violently vaporized on the surface of the fragment, and the fragment's aura changed from dark red to intense white in just a few breaths.

After all the chakra of the five tailed beasts was absorbed, the radial patterns on the surface of the fragments lit up completely.

It was no longer just a few scattered rays of light, but the entire fragment was glowing, like a miniature star compressed to the size of a fingernail.

Izumikawa put down the bone knife and held the star stone fragment, which had fused with the chakra of the five tailed beasts, in his palm.

The white eye's vision penetrated the surface of the fragments, scanning layer by layer the internal energy structure.

Five distinct chakras intertwined, merged, and recombined within the fragment, forming an extremely complex yet stable energy matrix.

"Record the data." His voice wasn't loud; it was merely a confirmation of the system module.

"The Star Stone fragments have successfully absorbed the chakra of the One-Tailed to Five-Tailed Beasts. The radiation output is stable, and there has been no rejection reaction or explosion."

"Preliminary verification shows that this star stone fragment can absorb the chakra of the tailed beasts, and the radiation intensity increases after absorption, and the chakra fluctuations are closer to the characteristics of the tailed beast aggregate."

"Next, we need to collect chakra samples from the Six-Tails Saiken and the Seven-Tails Chomei. Until then, the Star Stone experiment is suspended."

"First, let's conduct a comparative test using Jugo cells and Sage Chakra to see if the effect of natural energy on the Star Stone is the same as that of Tailed Beast Chakra."

He turned around and took a small clump of pale green cytokine cells from the culture tank on the other side of the lab bench.

Gently lift it with the tip of a bone knife and place it next to a new piece of starstone.

The moment the Juwu cells came into contact with the astral radiation, they began to divide actively, and a very faint gray halo appeared on the surface of the cell membrane.

That was a unique reaction that Jugo's cells exhibited when they instinctively converted the natural energy in the surrounding environment into Sage Chakra.

Instead of directly implanting Jugo cells into the surface of the star stone, Izumi first placed them within the radiation range of the star stone to observe the interaction pattern between natural energy and the star stone.

He turned around and took a small clump of pale green cytokine cells from the culture tank on the other side of the lab bench.

Gently lift it with the tip of a bone knife and place it next to a new piece of starstone.

The moment the Juwu cells came into contact with the astral radiation, they began to divide actively, and a very faint gray halo appeared on the surface of the cell membrane.

That was a unique reaction that Jugo's cells exhibited when they instinctively converted the natural energy in the surrounding environment into Sage Chakra.

However, unlike before, this gray halo did not evenly envelop the entire cluster of cells as usual; instead, its shape was forcibly distorted by the radiation from the starstone.

The gray light danced irregularly on the cell surface, sometimes contracting and sometimes expanding, as if being repeatedly torn apart by an unseen force.

Izumikawa used the Byakugan's vision to lock onto the inside of the cell, where the natural energy conversion circuit in Jugo's cell was being disrupted by the starstone radiation.

The Sage Chakra, which should have been steadily supplied, oscillated repeatedly along an extremely irregular path inside the cells.

This creates an energy frequency that is completely different from that of regular Sage Chakra.

This mutated Sage Chakra is sharper and more unstable than ordinary Sage Art, and carries an extremely subtle radiating characteristic.

The cells themselves begin to undergo very slight alterations during such fluctuations.

The edges become sharper than normal recurrent cells, and the division rate is also faster than in the normal state.

He sealed the mutated cytomegalovirus cells separately in a culture dish and put the starstone fragments back into the sealed tray.

The star stone did not absorb the mutated Sage Chakra, nor did it absorb the natural energy scattered around Jugo's cells.

It keeps them outside the surface, like a living organism whose digestive system is not yet fully formed.

It exhibits an almost indifferent rejection towards energy sources that do not belong to the tailed beast's chakra.

The pale purple aura on the surface of the fragment did not even fluctuate due to the mutated Sage Chakra that was so close at hand.

He sealed the irradiated Juvederm cell samples and labeled them "Radiation Variant-01".

Then I went to the lab bench and recorded the data one by one.

Star Stone currently only recognizes Tailed Beast Chakra; it cannot digest or absorb natural energy.

This star from outer space may need to gather the chakra of all nine tailed beasts to truly "grow" into an existence capable of digesting natural energy.

It is a seed, but it has not yet developed a complete digestive system.

For it to fully transform, star stones alone are not enough; more conditions are needed.

The experiment is now temporarily suspended.

Izumikawa stood in front of the lab table, looking at the star stone that emitted a pale purple glow.

Izumi looked at the quietly shimmering fragments in the sealed tray and sighed softly.

The sigh was very soft, so soft that he himself hardly noticed it, but a faint trace of regret did flash in his eyes.

"It only recognizes the chakra of the tailed beasts, but not natural energy."

"Is its digestive system incomplete, or was it born to devour tailed beasts?"

"If it really is a fragment of the Ten-Tails, then its current state is like an unhatched egg."

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"The tailed beast's chakra is the shell, and natural energy is the air outside the shell. If it can't leave the shell, it can't breathe."

"It's a bit of a pity, but it just proves one thing: we must get our hands on the Six-Tails and Seven-Tails' chakra as soon as possible."

"Only when all the chakra of the nine tailed beasts is gathered together, and we see if it will hatch from an egg into a larva, can we truly complete the verification."