Konoha: I, Uchiha, am brimming with positive energy

Chapter 350 Other Methods

"Eh~, what's going on? Why do I keep dreaming about bumping into Ino?"

When Sakura woke up, her mind was filled with the dream from last night: that muscular body, the wild collisions of the game, and even Ino's shouts echoed clearly in her ears.

As she reached down, a blush immediately spread across Sakura's face. It had been four or five days already, and she encountered this situation every time she woke up.

"Should we ask Ino sometime?"

The thought had barely crossed her mind when Sakura blushed and shook her head in rejection; even the best of friends wouldn't talk about such things.

Sakura then quietly got up, somewhat furtively took out a new set of clothes, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower, washing off the sticky residue before changing into a clean set of clothes.

After coming out of the bathroom, Sakura took off the bed sheet and threw it into the washing machine to wash it.

After finishing all this early in the morning, Sakura felt relieved and went to make breakfast for Sarada. By the time she finished making breakfast, Sarada had just gotten up. Sakura quickly ate her breakfast and then left home before Sarada.

Konoha Village has been very busy lately, as if it has returned to a period of war alert. All ninjas are on standby for at least twelve hours a day in order to guard against the arrival of alien beasts.

However, during the third and fourth occurrences, the five great ninja villages did not exhibit any unusual behavior. Moreover, they dispatched numerous ninjas and confirmed with other small countries that no trace of the strange beasts had been found.

This gave the five great ninja villages a moment of relief, but also a sense of unease.

Although the strange beasts did not descend upon the Five Great Nations, they must have reached the Ninja World. The next step is to find these descending strange beasts and kill them.

Otherwise, if a strange beast like the one that first appeared were to surface, it would definitely pose a significant threat to the ninja world.

Uchiha Yoichi didn't care much about these alien beasts. The sea kings that first descended, although they were very large, could only turn into life energy if they encountered him.

Without some special abilities, it would be impossible for any beast to deal with Yomotsu no Tsurugi. Whenever Uchiha Yoichi uses this eye technique, he is almost like a god.

In the past few days, Uchiha Yoichi has been trying to refine pills in the Kamui dimension and has also learned a little about the unknown energy that lingers around him. However, he has no interest in magic and there is no environment in the ninja world where magic can be used.

However, Uchiha Yoichi managed to find the White Whale's Destruction Mist and used its horn and its most powerful heart to create a pill.

If you swallow it, you will eliminate your own existence. If you swallow a second pill, you will be able to counteract the effect of the first pill and restore your own existence.

The White Whale's Annihilation Mist seems to be linked to authority, and its effects are so domineering that even after Kamui's clone consumed a pill, Uchiha Yoichi completely forgot that he had a Kamui clone.

Later, it was only after Kamui's clone voluntarily consumed the second pill that the power of the Annihilation Mist was removed.

Uchiha Yoichi only refined three pills. After two were eaten by Kamui clones, Uchiha Yoichi kept the last one.

This kind of pill has no effect; it only works on people who have been affected by the Mist of Annihilation. In other words, it is a specific type of pill. Now that the white whales have all been killed, the factors of the Mist of Annihilation are all in the white whales' horns, so it is impossible for anyone else to be affected by the Mist of Annihilation.

Temari is the only customer left who wants this type of elixir.

After returning from the Kamui dimension, Uchiha Yoichi didn't stay long before going to Ino and telling her that he wanted to see the white whale's corpse.

If we're going to pretend to concoct medicine, then we have to make it look convincing.

After receiving permission, Uchiha Yoichi went to retrieve some body tissue from the white whale. Temari quickly learned of this and rushed to Uchiha Yoichi's pharmacy.

These past few days have been tough for Temari. She's completely broke. Although she's thinking of going to the Nara family home to withdraw her savings, the security team has been patrolling a lot lately, and if she gets caught doing something like that, she might be locked up.

In the end, Temari had to borrow some money from Uchiha Yoichi to afford a hotel room; otherwise, she would have had to find a way to steal the savings book from the Nara family.

Upon arriving at Yangyi Pharmacy, Temari anxiously rang the bell several times on the first floor before Yangyi Uchiha came down from upstairs.

"Oh, it's you. What's the rush? Are you here to pay back the money?"

Uchiha Yoichi said to Temari in an unfriendly tone that he hated people nagging him, so he asked Temari to return the money.

"I will definitely pay you back after I regain my sense of self; this amount of money is nothing."

Upon hearing about the repayment, Temari's tone softened immediately. Then, unable to contain her anxiety, she asked, "I heard you went to see the beluga whale carcass this morning. How did it go? Did you do any research?"

"You seem to be well-informed. Come on up and tell us."

Uchiha Yoichi looked at Temari and said something to her, then closed the door and went upstairs.

Temari hesitated for only a moment before following Uchiha Yoichi. In the past, as Shikamaru's wife, she would never have gone to a place like the bedroom with another man, but now she just wanted to reclaim her own existence, and she had been there a few days ago.

Upon reaching the third floor, Uchiha Yoichi brought Temari a cup of tea, then sat down and said, "We have made a discovery that may be related to this white whale. It seems that Konoha is also having others research it. You can wait for the results of Konoha's research."

"Over there... I also went to ask Shikamaru. He probably asked Orochimaru for help, but it doesn't seem to be going well with Orochimaru either, and Shikamaru..."

As Temari finished speaking, she slowly lowered her head. She had been visiting Shikamaru too frequently lately, and Shikamaru was also dealing with a lot of things. Today, she had told Shikamaru that she needed to take care of Shikadai's diet, which made Shikamaru angry with her.

From Nara Shikamaru's perspective, it's like a strange woman is lecturing him in the tone of his wife, and this woman isn't even his wife.

So Nara Shikamaru angrily scolded his admiring daughter, telling her not to come looking for him again and to just stay in Konoha.

Uchiha Yoichi didn't care about the conflict between Temari and Nara Shikamaru. In his opinion, Temari wasn't as easy to win over as Lady Ino, but she was still acceptable as a "thirst-quenching" option.

"Although I have made some progress in my research thanks to alchemy, the expenses have been considerable, especially the purchase of important body parts from a beluga whale carcass on the black market, which cost a lot."

Temari suddenly interrupted, puzzled, "Buying the body of a white whale on the black market? Isn't that whale in Konoha?"

"I heard that when Konoha found it, the white whale had already been killed, and even the body wasn't very intact. I don't know how it got out; however, the materials from those white whale carcasses on the underground black market were too expensive, costing me quite a bit."

Uchiha Yoichi casually told a lie, then changed the subject and continued to Temari, saying, "Speaking of which, have you found what I need? If you don't have those things, even if you find a solution, I won't help you."

"No, can I exchange it for something else? I can give you money, five million taels, no, ten million taels is fine too!"

Upon hearing this, Temari immediately pleaded, saying that the things Uchiha Yoichi wanted were too rare. According to other pharmacy owners, even ginseng that had grown for two thousand years might not exist in the ninja world. If it did, it could buy at least a dozen mountains.

"I'm not short of money. A billion taels is nothing to me; I could even give it to you right now. If you find what I need, I can even buy it for a billion taels. Do you understand?"

Uchiha Yoichi chuckled and said, "Money is just useless paper to me. I can use this paper to exchange for the medicinal herbs I need."

"But those things are really hard to find," Temari explained anxiously. She saw hope, but because there was no reward, she couldn't go back to the way things were before.

"This is your problem. I can't help you for nothing. Everything comes at a price."

Uchiha Yoichi picked up his teacup and took another sip, then continued speaking to Temari, "I should be able to develop a secret medicine to cure this condition in about four or five days. Come find me again whenever you can collect what I need. But it's best to hurry, because the secret medicine is very inconvenient to preserve and will lose its potency in about ten days."

"Ten days? How is that possible?"

Temari looked troubled and said, "According to what those pharmacy owners said, it would be very difficult to find one in ten years or so, let alone in ten days!"

"You bastard, you don't really want to give it to me, are you? Are you just playing games with me like this?"

Temari stood up angrily, went to Uchiha Yoichi, grabbed him by the collar and questioned him; in her impression, an Onmyoji was a being with peculiar abilities but weaker combat skills than a ninja, which was why she was so impolite.

"You expect something in return for your efforts. It's really unreasonable for someone like you to only want to take from me without paying anything in return. We're not even close, why should I help you unconditionally?"

Uchiha Yoichi said casually, not paying attention to Temari's actions, but instead carefully examining Temari; this woman with a beautiful face and a heroic air.

"Or, you can try to get this secret medicine from me in another way!"

Upon hearing that there were other methods, Temari quickly asked, "What methods?"

Uchiha Yang smiled and said, "I haven't had sex in a long time, and I don't want to go to the red-light district. If you're willing to chat with me for a night, I can give you the secret medicine for free. If not, just prepare the medicinal herbs I need."

"You, you bastard!"

Upon hearing about X's life and chatting all night, Temari immediately thought of Uchiha Yoichi's plans. She was Nara Shikamaru's wife, and that bastard actually had such thoughts about her.

"I'll beat you to a pulp!"

Temari had been in a bad mood these past few days, and being teased by Uchiha Yoichi only fueled her anger. She raised her fist, ready to give Uchiha Yoichi a good beating.

However, Uchiha Yoichi quickly drew a Command Seal in the air, which then transformed into a binding force, immobilizing Temari's body.

He then deftly broke free from the temari ball, took a few steps back, and said, "If you don't want to, that's fine. It saves me the trouble of making medicine. Your affairs have nothing to do with me. If you don't want to do this, then please go back. Don't come looking for me again!"

(End of this chapter)