I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 302 People who lack love fear excessive love, just as people who lack water fear excessive water.

Nature is fragile. Although every climate has its own homeostasis, it is like a bubble that bursts at the slightest touch.

It's like a desert. Deserts are extremely arid, and people, animals, and plants there are all in a state of water shortage. If a sudden flood occurs, it seems like a good thing.

However, due to the long-term drought, this land has lost its ability to retain and prevent water from entering. Excessive water will not improve the land; instead, it will make it a mess.

Just like people, gifts that seem to bring joy often conceal unbearable consequences.

Tatsuma looked in Minato's direction. He hadn't told anyone about this plan, not even Minato, whom he trusted most.

Tatsuma is not someone who can easily open his heart, so although Minato is his most trusted friend, the degree of trust is even less than that some people have for casual acquaintances.

Seeing that Minato had given him a gesture indicating that he could retreat at any time, Tatsuma nodded and returned the gesture, ending his psychic communication with Ueyu.

Minato frowned, somewhat puzzled, but he ended the psychic communication with Bunta and then flashed to Tenfu's side, taking him away.

With one hand holding the scroll and the other pressed to the ground, Tatsuma once again sensed the distance of the Sunagakure support forces. Rasa's side had also reacted and had begun to converge on Tatsuma's direction.

But Tatsuma was still waiting; he was waiting for the right moment when a Sunagakure ninja could be controlled, but at a great cost.

If a dozen or so Jonin worked together, they should be able to do it, right?

The earwig came up to Chenma's side, pushed up its sunglasses, and said, "Class monitor, seven seconds left."

Seven seconds was enough time for Rasa and Karura to get close enough to launch an attack. Tatsuma nodded, knowing he couldn't hesitate any longer. With a flick of his right hand, he unleashed the two rolls.

The scroll's length, when unrolled, far exceeds that of a typical sealing scroll, and the densely packed sealing techniques on it are enough to make one's head spin.

The earwig looked down and a look of doubt appeared on its face. It had thought that the scroll in Tatsuma's hand would still contain explosive tags, since the series of explosive tags had indeed had a great effect.

However, judging from the length of the scroll and the complexity of the spell, if it is only used to seal the explosive tags, then the number of explosive tags is probably not enough to cover the entire Land of Wind.

Regardless of whether Tatsuma is that crazy, even if he really is, the village wouldn't be able to produce that many explosive tags for him.

Before the earwig could figure it out, Chenma had already started forming hand seals. After finishing the last seal, Chenma struck the two bundles of scrolls with his right hand.

The sealing technique was activated and began to surge continuously. The scroll that was originally lying flat on the ground also began to ripple like waves.

The earwig could even sense that what it was inhaling into its lungs was no longer the extremely dry air of the Land of Wind; the heavy, humid feeling was even worse than that of the Land of Rain, more like drowning.

"Let's go."

For some reason, the earwig suddenly felt that his voice, as the class monitor, had become somewhat heavy. Perhaps it was the whistling yellow sand and gold dust in his ears that affected his hearing.

The next moment, Chenma's hand was already on his shoulder. Earwig was certain that he smelled a salty, sticky, and fishy smell before he felt weightlessness.

He had only ever smelled this scent at the seaside, apart from the red-light district!

"Whoosh! Boom!"

Luo Sha swore he had never seen so much water before, and he had never imagined that water could be described as being as vast as mountains.

But the water that kept surging in front of him gave him the feeling that it was not water, but a mountain about to collapse, a water mountain whose peak he could not see even when he looked up.

"Secret Technique! Quicksand Storm!"

While Rasa was still in shock, Karura, watching the cascading water, began manipulating the sand, attempting to fight against the collapsing mountain of water.

"Rasa!"

The moment the sand and water clashed, Karura's face turned pale, and he shouted at Rasa. Rasa then came to his senses, clasped his hands together, and tried to control the gold sand to work together with Karura.

But the gold dust was too heavy, and he simply didn't have enough time to finish it.

"Boom!"

As the mountain of water cascaded down, Rasa, Karura, and the others were instantly knocked unconscious. The quicksand that had barely managed to hold off the mountain of water for less than three seconds also instantly went out of control.

From an aerial perspective, the desert at this moment appears to be an inland sea, spreading outwards.

"Ding~ [Patience +580], [Spirit +488], [Seal +451], [Wisdom +443], [Body]. Pick up?"

As Chenma traveled through the space, he also heard the system's announcement at this moment. His expression did not change, and he simply muttered in his mind, "Pick it up."

"It's Rasa and the others!"

At this moment, the reinforcements from Sunagakure finally arrived. They had already seen the situation from a distance, but when they rushed over, they could only see Rasa and the others floating in the water.

"You two, go and rescue Luo Sha and the others. You go and inform the village. Everyone else, follow me to stop the seawater from spreading."

The leader quickly issued orders. Unlike young people like Luo Sha who only stayed in the village and its surroundings, his years of traveling all over the country made him realize that the water flowing out was not ordinary water.

It was seawater!

The thought of the consequences of the seawater spreading made him tremble uncontrollably. If the seawater spread, it would destroy all the surrounding oases before the desert could engulf them.

At the same time, towns, industrial areas, and even some rivers with already pitifully small flow rates will be completely destroyed, affecting far more than just the area covered by seawater.

Their only option now is to block the seawater, because there are no rivers in the entire Land of Wind that can hold so much water.

The only option is to stop the seawater from spreading first, and then urgently dig a large enough river to divert the seawater to the ocean, or to other countries with better river channels, such as the land of rivers.

News of what happened here quickly reached Sunagakure. The Third Kazekage, without having time to hold a meeting to discuss solutions, rushed directly to the scene of the incident.

As for the instigator, Tatsuma had already returned to the Land of Fire. They did not go directly back to the village because the continuous Flying Thunder God teleportation was not something an ordinary person could withstand.

Moreover, the group needed to rest after the battle, so Tatsuma had previously agreed on a place to stay, and the four of them arrived at the agreed-upon location.

Minato paced back and forth, watching Tatsuma appear with the earwigs. He finally breathed a sigh of relief. Tatsuma's proficiency with the Flying Thunder God Technique was no less than his own; he shouldn't have arrived so late.

Although it was only a gap of a dozen seconds, Minato had already thought countless times about going to help Tatsuma.

Seeing that Chenma was unharmed, his anxiety finally subsided. He first helped Chenma steady the dizzy earwig and helped it sit down, then asked:

"Why is it so late? And what's that smell?"

Minato twitched his nose a few times. Tatsuma and the earwig seemed to have a scent that didn't belong to the desert. Tatsuma waved his hand and said, "We just sent a small gift to Sunagakure."

Tatsuma didn't explain further, and Minato didn't press the matter further. Instead, he said, "Then you should rest for a bit. Leave the guard duty to me."

Upon hearing this, Tatsuma did not refuse. He had consumed too much chakra, which meant he had also used up too much physical strength, and he did need to rest for a while.

He took out a soldier's ration pill, put one in his mouth, and sat down to rest, not rushing to refine his chakra as he had during the battle.

The divine tree cells in Chenma's body proliferate rapidly when he is injured, which is also the time when he proliferates the fastest. The next time is when he is physically weak, including when he is suffering from illness, sequelae of injury, and general weakness.

For example, right now, his chakra has been depleted and his physical strength is almost exhausted. In this situation, his body's cellular immunity will also decline to a certain extent, which gives the Divine Tree cells an easier opportunity to engulf body cells.

Even during normal chakra extraction, the body's own cells' ability to resist the Divine Tree cells will decrease. Although it is not as obvious as when injured, Tatsuma can judge this from the increase in the upper limit of his talent.

This is also a major reason why Tatsuma didn't study the Yin Seal even after Mito Uzumaki's Yin Seal was exhausted.

Leaving aside the difficulty of learning the Yin Seal and its flaws, the process of storing power in the Yin Seal is equivalent to helping the Divine Tree cells proliferate.

The chakra of the Yin Seal doesn't come out of thin air; it can only be stored up during non-combat time, and this process requires refining more chakra every day to replenish it.

While it may seem that consuming chakra during wartime is no different from storing it during peacetime, and the latter appears to be more convenient, the Yin Seal has its flaws.

Its drawback is that when the Yin Seal is broken, the chakra flowing out of the seal and into the body is excessive and overflowing.

This excess chakra is an unnecessary expenditure; for Tatsuma, it is the portion of his own cells that should have been used to resist the proliferation of the Divine Tree cells, but instead became Divine Tree cells.

Before figuring out a way to inhibit the proliferation of the Divine Tree cells, or fully understanding the effects of the Divine Tree cells, Chenma will not attempt this method. As for what happens after finding a solution or clarifying the consequences...

This time was sufficient for Tatsuma's chakra reserves to grow to the point where he no longer needed the Yin Seal.

Even if there are some shortcomings, he can fully utilize the two talents of "Residual Blood Awakening" and "Training Through Battle" brought by the "White Yaksha" physique, and quickly realize his talents.

The thought of the ever-expanding Divine Tree cells within his body made Tatsuma's heart, which had just calmed down from the battle, start to feel restless again.

His knowledge was insufficient to support him in completing such research. During his collaboration with Orochimaru, he was the one who proposed the inspiration and direction, while Orochimaru implemented it.

In other words, to fully uncover the secrets of the Divine Tree cells, we must rely on Orochimaru, but Orochimaru's research requires a large amount of money.

Chenma kept recalling the products he had used in his previous life that seemed to offer the potential to make him a fortune, but he rejected them one by one.

Mobile phones, computers, the internet, and so on are not things that one person or one team can handle. These things require the maintenance of an entire ecosystem to achieve profitability; otherwise, the amount of money burned would far exceed Orochimaru's existing research.

As for those that don't rely on the ecosystem, they don't seem to make much money, and the initial investment is also difficult for Chenma to afford.

Perhaps running a real business isn't for him; he can only try selling technology and solutions. Orochimaru had thought about that before, too.

However, this plan has many difficulties in implementation, since the village has taken back all ownership of the research results of Tatsuma and Orochimaru during their time at the Wood Release Research Institute.

This behavior itself is nothing special; after all, Tatsuma still has a lot of technology and solutions to offer. What he cares about is the attitude of the village and the Daimyo Prefecture.

If he comes up with any new technology or supporting solutions, what if the village daimyo comes along and asks, "How can you prove that this was developed with the help of the Wood Release Research Institute?"

Just thinking about it made Chenma feel that there were many difficulties. The business empire had to be built up slowly, but his health couldn't wait.

Moreover, some research cannot be accomplished with just money; it also requires permission, or even a special license.

Tatsuma closed his eyes briefly, burying all his worries deep inside. He opened them again and said to Minato, "Let me take over. You can rest for a while."

(End of this chapter)