I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 106 How could you do this, meow!

The already listless Miwa Masayo suddenly thought of a question, her spirits lifted, and she turned around sharply to look at Uchiha Yu.

Uchiha Yu asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

The tabby cat tilted its head and stared at its owner, asking in a strange tone, "A mark that can be sensed from this far away, is it the mark of the Flying Thunder God? When did you successfully develop it, meow?"

Uchiha Yu replied, "It's only more than half done. This mark still can't respond to my technique. There are still many problems to solve..."

"Meow! You managed to do this much when you were eating and drinking with me, what more could I ask for!"

Masase Miwa got angrier and angrier: "Yu, you can't do this, meow! It's supposed to be rest time, but you're still working so hard. You're making me feel stupid and lazy, meow!"

Uchiha Yu explained helplessly, "This isn't my fault. I suddenly had an inspiration, and suddenly it reached this level. I didn't really want to..."

"You should start resting properly from now on, and..."

Miwa Masayo looked around. The beach was a mess from the battle and filthy from the octopus's blue blood. The seawater was a mixture of emulsified squid slime and black octopus ink, making everything filthy.

Uchiha Yu noticed her distress and comforted her, "Don't worry, squid mucus, octopus blood, and ink are all easily degradable proteins. When the tide comes in, the seawater will flood this place, and all the mess will be dissolved by the seawater."

"When the tide recedes at sunrise, even the beach will return to its original state."

Miwa Masayo felt relieved. Just then, she spotted a clean rock and pointed at it with her white paw, saying, "Then you can stay there with me and watch the stars. We'll wait for the sunrise together."

"Should we take those octopus tentacles...?"

"You're not even going to clean up those two octopus tentacles, meow!"

Miwa Masayo gave Uchiha Yu a cute but fierce look and said, "Such a big piece of meat won't spoil even if it's soaked in seawater all night. It'll be perfect for removing the fishy smell of blood."

"Okay, okay, let's look at the stars together."

"That's more like it, meow! That's what resting is all about, meow! You're not allowed to secretly work hard to improve, meow!"

"well."

The ink expelled by the octopus spread gradually under the push of the rising tide, turning the entire seawater into pitch-black ink. The remaining campfire on the beach was also submerged and completely extinguished by the tide.

The surrounding environment was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, making the starlight in the sky appear even more dazzling.

Although there is no Milky Way stretching across the sky in the ninja world, the allure of the starry sky is not diminished, and it still deeply attracts Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo, who are lying on the reef.

Uchiha Yu stretched out his right hand and made a grasping motion toward the sky, as if he could catch the twinkling stars.

"I hope that one day we can achieve physical immortality and step into the sea of ​​stars as true immortals."

"Meow."

Miwa Masayo wanted Uchiha Yu to watch the stars with her, but she couldn't stay awake and became sleepy, only giving the simplest response to Uchiha Yu's words.

"Okay, go to sleep. I'll stay with you."

"You're not allowed to secretly work hard, meow?"

"No, I'll just sit here, listen to the waves, watch the stars, and watch the sunrise."

"I want to see the sunrise too, meow."

"Okay, I'll call you."

Having received Uchiha Yu's promise, Miwa Masayo fell fast asleep.

Ever since they arrived in the Land of Hot Springs, Masayo Miwa has been inexplicably tense, constantly on edge and ready for battle.

Later, after obtaining Kyo, Uchiha Yu became somewhat absent-minded, which made Miwa Masayo even more anxious. For the past three years, Uchiha Yu had taken meticulous care of her and protected her with his powerful strength. Now that Uchiha Yu was in trouble, the tabby cat felt obligated to take on the responsibility of protecting her human.

This situation continued until yesterday. Uchiha Yu had initially subdued Katsuki and left the Land of Hot Springs that had made Miwa Masayo uneasy. The burden on her suddenly disappeared, and her psychological tension vanished, leading to a major emotional outburst.

Not only did Miwa Masayo act like a spoiled child towards Uchiha Yuu like never before, but he also took the initiative to provoke the octopus monster with tailed beast chakra, acting as a tank in the battle.

After venting his frustrations for most of the night, Masayo Miwa was completely exhausted, both mentally and physically.

Exhausted, the tabby cat nestled in Uchiha Yu's arms. It was the safest place in her mind, and only when she relaxed could she resist the drowsiness and drift into a sweet dream.

Uchiha Yu stroked the fur of the little tabby cat, listened quietly to the waves of the sea, looked up at the twinkling starry sky, and felt a sense of peace in his heart, involuntarily entering a wonderful state of mind.

The feeling was very familiar. After a little recollection, Uchiha Yu remembered that it was the same feeling he had experienced a few months ago in the early summer, in his own courtyard, just before he completed the 100-day Foundation Establishment.

This means that one's spiritual practice has reached a new stage of perfection, and one is in the best state of being full of energy and spirit.

Back then, completing the Foundation Establishment stage meant stepping directly into the Foundation Building stage, but today I can only sense the active natural energy, especially those pale purple light spots, which are more active than ever before. It seems that if I wanted, I could absorb this lightning-attribute natural energy into my body and begin the final step of the Foundation Building stage.

But deep down, he seemed to sense that now was not the best time to absorb the natural energy of lightning and start a new stage for the host. He needed to be patient for a while.

Uchiha Yu decided to trust his intuition.

Besides, he had just promised Miwa Masayo a break. If he were to complete his breakthrough while the tabby cat was sleeping, wouldn't he make the cat very angry?

She'll definitely ignore me for days, and I'll run back to my cat castle to sulk, or sneak back to Konoha and ruin the cured meat, ham, salted fish, and other things I left at home.

Those things are certainly not worth much, and it's very efficient to cultivate by yourself alone. The feeling of burying yourself in cultivation is incredibly enjoyable.

But on this deserted island, without the companionship of Miwa Masayo as a source of entertainment, the life of cultivation would be far too dull.

Cultivators are not emotionless, desireless, or unambitious stone statues.

On the contrary, cultivators have lofty ideals, great aspirations, and unimaginable desires; they crave immortality!

It's just that cultivators pursue too many things, so ordinary people, seeing that the wealth they care about is indifferent to cultivators, have the illusion that the cultivators are otherworldly.

Uchiha Yu was very aware of this; he positioned himself as a great thief who stood in the sky and absorbed the wealth and resources of the ninja world.

He wants many things.

Therefore, Uchiha Yu will not break his promise, especially not to his partner.

Moreover, bathing in the sea breeze, completely emptying your mind, and immersing yourself in the feeling of great physical fullness is a novel and comfortable state.

It's a bit like secretly getting a perfect score on a test in school, hiding the paper from everyone, and feeling secretly smug.

As the eastern coastline began to glow with the first rays of light, Uchiha Yuu awakened Miwa Masayo and invited her to watch the sunrise together.

While the horizon was already turning bluish-white, the island side remained pitch black, allowing for a clear observation of the changing colors of the sky.

As the sky gradually brightened, the white in the horizon slowly turned into blue. The moment the last ray of white light disappeared, Uchiha Yu's eyes were filled with a purple glow. He subconsciously opened his mouth and took a breath.

Uchiha Yu smacked his lips in confusion. He had just taken a big breath of the slightly fishy sea breeze, but it seemed that something else had been absorbed into his body.

He took a few more deep breaths, but the feeling was gone. He looked up at the bright blue horizon, lost in thought.

In the blink of an eye, the purple light vanished completely, and the bright red sun emerged from the sea. The orange-red sunlight shone on the faces of Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo, gradually turning orange and then quickly evolving into yellow.

When the sunlight turned golden and dazzling, the sun had fully risen above the sea, and the world was bathed in light, completely dispelling everything from the previous night.

For Masayo Miwa, this was her first time watching the sunrise at sea, and she was deeply moved.

As for Uchiha Yu, he saw almost nothing.

As the first rays of sunlight shone on his face, he recalled the information about that breath he had just experienced—the purple radiance in the instant before sunrise, which was the so-called "rising sun purple aura."

Uchiha Yu no longer cared about sunrise or sunset. He carefully examined his body but found nothing different until he examined his dantian, which was between reality and illusion. There he found that a wisp of purple energy was floating in the center of his dantian, slowly spreading outwards and upwards.

During this process, his body seemed to receive some benefits, but he couldn't clearly compare them. Perhaps the benefits were too slight for him to perceive clearly.

Through a faint intuitive feeling, Uchiha Yu confirmed that this wisp of purple energy was beneficial, but it would require long-term persistence to accumulate sufficient results.

It's just a matter of persistence. After I established my foundation, I always started training my body before sunrise. As long as I mastered the timing, I wouldn't miss that wisp of purple aura before sunrise every day.

[I have a question: If I fly westward by plane, wouldn't I be able to absorb the auspicious energy 24 hours a day?]

The speed requirement is quite high, approaching 1666 kilometers per hour, which is 1.5 times the speed of sound.

[Where in the ninja world would I get a supersonic plane? If I could reach that speed... it's unimaginable.]

By the time Uchiha Yu came to his senses, having abandoned this unrealistic fantasy, the sunrise had completely ended.

Miwa Masayo gently patted Uchiha Yu's arm with her paw and said, "Thank you for waking me up. Here's a gift for you as a thank you, meow."

After saying that, the tabby cat stretched out its cute little paw, and on its round paw pad, a smooth and lustrous pearl was reflecting a soft luster under the sunlight.

Uchiha Yu asked in surprise, "What is this thing?"

Masayo Miwa is a generous cat sage. Apart from delicious food, she has no concept of possessions and would never hide a pearl on her person.

Masayo Miwa tilted his head and said, "I don't know, meow. I dug two of them out of that giant octopus's body last night, meow."

As it spoke, the tabby cat raised its other paw, which also held a round pearl, reflecting a lustrous glow.

She brought the two beads to her nose and smelled them, praising, "They smell so good, meow."

"That giant octopus smelled terrible inside, but those two beads smelled really good, meow."

Uchiha Yu knew that pearls were not unique to clams; conches, crabs, and squid could also produce pearls, although clams were easier to produce and produced a huge quantity.

Pearls produced by mollusks such as octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are not aggregates of calcium carbonate and aragonite crystals, but rather a glaze composed of calcium phosphate and apatite crystals, which has a very high hardness.

But the giant octopus we encountered last night exuded a very strong tailed beast chakra, and the pearl inside its body must be different from ordinary glazed pearls, perhaps containing some kind of extraordinary properties.

Uchiha Yu curiously reached out to take the octopus pearls, casually asking, "Rika-chan, from which part of your body did you get these two pearls?"

The tabby cat let her owner pick up the pearl. She tilted her head and thought for a moment before answering, "It was dug out from the incision, meow."

"Now that I think about it, it seems like there were other pearls on the octopus's head too."

Suddenly, Masayo Miwa noticed that Yuu Uchiha's eyes were glazed over as he slowly put the pearl into his mouth. She was terrified, her fur standing on end, and she screamed, "Meow! Yuu, how could you do this!?"

"How could you eat pearls, meow? What if they're poisonous, meow?!"

The tabby cat wasn't upset about its spoils, but rather worried that its human would get sick from eating them, since the octopus pearl originated from a monster related to tailed beasts.

Tailed beasts are always associated with a variety of negative words: hatred, loathing, killing, madness. Who can guarantee that tailed beasts are not poisonous?

She stood up in a panic, trying to slap her owner's cheek with her paws to stop him from eating the pearl, but the tabby cat's movements were stopped by a pair of large hands, and she was held in the safest embrace, unable to break free at all.

In the end, Miwa Masayo could only watch helplessly as Uchiha Yu swallowed the two octopus pearls.

Uchiha Yu wasn't a fool; it's just that as a pioneering cultivator, he habitually relied on his body and intuition when it came to matters of the extraordinary.

When his fingers touched the octopus pearls, two tiny arcs of electricity burst forth from the two pearls, striking the nearest finger precisely.

The stabbing pain started in the index finger, traveled up to the wrist, elbow, and shoulder, and was only dissolved by the natural energy mobilized when it approached the heart.

It wasn't that the current was very strong, but rather that it was moving too fast. Uchiha Yu didn't have time to react at all, and neither did his chakra and natural energy.

If it weren't for the fact that the heart meridian completely protects the heart, he would probably have experienced the feeling of his heart being pierced by needles this time.

But as the lightning was dissipated, the first strand of lightning-attribute natural energy also merged into Uchiha Yu's body.

Yes, the octopus that emanated tailed beast chakra, the power contained in the octopus pearl dug out of its body was actually pure lightning-attribute natural energy.

There are so many inexplicable contradictions here that it could practically boil Uchiha Yu's brain while he was thinking about it.

Fortunately, he wasn't a theoretical cultivator, but rather a purely experiential cultivator.

When Uchiha Yu proved that the Five Elements did not exist, he regarded the so-called theory of immortal cultivation as nothing more than toilet paper.

Uchiha Yu treated toilet paper like a god.

When you need it, you're incredibly grateful and wish you could kiss it, but when you don't need it, it's good enough if you don't even think about it, and the more common attitude is to complain that it takes up space.

Since the theory doesn't hold water, let's not consider it.

Besides, there's no time right now to give Uchiha Yu a quiet moment to think about the problem.

The first wisp of lightning-attribute natural energy was absorbed by Uchiha Yu. The active lightning-attribute natural energy from the outside world rushed in and joyfully merged into his body, flowing into the surging torrent in his meridians.

The fourth stage of advancement in the Foundation Establishment period has begun.

The addition of lightning-attribute natural energy altered Uchiha Yu's internal environment. His muscles, bones, nerves, meridians, and even every cell underwent changes, with vibrant life emerging from the most basic cells.

The lightning-attribute natural energy also disrupted the original balance of natural energy. At this time, Uchiha Yu had to take the initiative to intervene to ensure that the gradually chaotic natural energy would not damage his meridians.

But soon, Uchiha Yu realized the problem: the lightning elemental energy in the environment was insufficient.

Although the natural energy of thunder is gathering, and even boiling rapidly, he has determined that all the free natural energy of thunder within his perception range is not enough to rebuild the rebalancing of fire, earth, wind, and thunder.

His breakthrough will fail if he cannot restore the balance in one fell swoop.

Uchiha Yu wasn't even sure if he could accumulate enough lightning-attribute natural energy over a long period of time to rebuild a new balance of the four elements.

It is very likely that if this breakthrough fails, his path to immortality will be severed, and he will be stuck at the Foundation Establishment stage, forcibly breaking through to the next stage with three or four kinds of natural energy.

Moreover, even if there is still a chance and a breakthrough is eventually achieved, it is unknown how much extra time it will take, which is a huge waste of time.

Just as he was feeling uneasy, Uchiha Yu sensed a unique lightning-attribute natural energy, and this energy was in his hands, inside those two octopus pearls.

At the same time, his body also developed a strong craving for pearls, just like when he saw that strange metal object that looked like tree bark in the Land of Rivers.

Anyway, following his body's feelings and intuition, Uchiha Yu has successfully reached this point. In any case, he has already eaten things that are even more inedible and gained huge benefits from them.

Then continue to trust your body's signals and eat the treasures you crave.

Without much thought, Uchiha Yu made up his mind. He reached out and put the pearl into his mouth, ignoring the tabby cat's panicked protests, and swallowed it.

(End of this chapter)