Ninja Pot Shadow

After taking a punch to the head from the Fourth Raikage, Killer Bee became slightly more serious. He paused for a second before replying, "Hachi said... that's probably what the little guy meant."

"Then why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

"Brother, you didn't even ask me?"

The ninjas of Kumogakure are a bunch of muscle maniacs. When it comes to physical training and ninjutsu, Ino is definitely no match for them, she's miles behind. But when it comes to spiritual energy, they're not even worthy of carrying Ino's shoes.

The Fourth Raikage looked at the waterfall and felt it was a waste to let all that water just flow away. But he wasn't a Jinchūriki, and he didn't cultivate spiritual energy, so he couldn't think of any use for it for himself.

Ino exclaimed in amazement, expressing her sincere admiration for Kumogakure and Kamejima. The Fourth Raikage didn't know how to respond, so he just mumbled "uh-huh" to get by.

Tsunade whispered a few words to her, explaining the precautions for spirit transformation that the master and disciple had already discussed twice before, and now she was going to repeat them again. Then she handed her a bottle of medicine.

Feeling uneasy, he even considered taking off his crystal necklace to give it to her.

Ino politely declined, please don't!

Without enough Asura chakra, whoever wears your necklace will die! I may be greedy, but I value my life even more. I want to live a few more days! You can keep it for yourself.

Ino drank the medicine made from rare ingredients such as datura, ginseng, red salamander, giant vine, and ancient mud.

The medicine was very bitter, but it had a certain cohesive property. Ino felt that her spiritual energy was slowly accumulating from a misty state and gradually solidifying.

She walked to the platform in front of the waterfall and sat down cross-legged.

While telling himself to concentrate, he slowly opened the Yang seal, releasing the Yin attribute chakra he had accumulated during this period.

The Spirit Transformation Technique requires a large amount of Yin-attribute chakra, and potions can help to condense it. The True Waterfall allows one to see the darkness in their heart and is also an excellent place to temper spiritual energy.

However, due to the biomagnetic field of the giant tortoise on Turtle Island, this place is more like a double-edged sword.

Unless Ino's spiritual energy is stronger than that of the giant tortoise whose age is unknown, the higher her spiritual energy, the greater the impact she will be.

She unleashed her Yin-attribute chakra, resisting the influence of Turtle Island while using the environment to refine her spiritual energy, gradually freeing it from the constraints of her body to complete the final step of the Spirit Transformation Technique.

When her spiritual energy gathers together to form a new way of chakra aggregation, and her consciousness completely separates from her body, she becomes a true spirit.

A spirit is not a soul; it can wander freely under the sun without any impact.

The Sage of Six Paths was a spirit. His body died because the Ten-Tails was extracted, but his consciousness remained. His wish was not fulfilled, so he was stuck between life and death, neither rising nor falling. So, was he alive or dead? Don't ask, that's just the characteristic of a sage.

After Obito died, he was able to send Kakashi his Sharingan from a distance, which is a characteristic of Sages who become spirits.

Ino can't do something that powerful right now. Obito was the second Ten-Tails Jinchuriki in the history of the ninja world. Even if his time was a little short, he was still a Sage. The realm of a Sage and the things he can do are simply beyond the comprehension of a mortal like Ino.

Sages can absorb energy through tailed beasts and human emotions to replenish their own energy losses; their energy source is already external energy.

On Ino's side, the energy that makes up her spirit body is still chakra, and the essence of chakra is still a mixture of physical energy and spiritual energy, which is internal energy and cannot be changed at present.

The spiritual energy can be extracted from consciousness, but the physical energy still depends on the body. In other words, once the portion of the spirit that belongs to the physical energy is exhausted, it must return to the body to replenish it.

Leaving the physical body aside, the Spirit Transformation Technique takes a different approach, completing a process that uses chakra to allow the soul to return from the acquired to the innate state.

The giant snake that Orochimaru used during his Reanimation Jutsu was also a kind of spirit in a sense. However, the key to Reanimation Jutsu lies in the word "reincarnation," and the requirements for shaping the spirit are very low. In order to successfully reincarnate, he abandoned too many things. Not to mention the period of weakness and the damage to his soul, even his personality changed. An honest Orochimaru who enjoys his blessings, an Orochimaru who can't run like a ninja and can only run like an ordinary person with swinging arms, is that still Orochimaru? That can be considered a completely different person.

The requirements for immortality in the Reincarnation of the Corpse are too low. It is a plundering kind of immortality. It steals other people's talents, steals other people's bloodline limits, and swallows other people's memories all at once. This is a crooked path that takes too big a step and ends up tearing its own balls.

The key to spiritual transformation lies in transformation—absorbing the essence and turning it into one's own sustenance, drinking wine sip by sip, and walking the path step by step.

Each spiritual transformation is a process of making oneself purer and raising one's life level. This process is slow, but it is reliable.

Ino gradually detached herself from her perception of the outside world. She could no longer hear the voices from Shizune and Tonton. She immersed all her mind in the deepest part of her spiritual world, and the chakra in her body began to undergo its first spiritual transformation according to the trajectory of the spiritual transformation technique.

Chapter 203 Ino vs. Ino

To Tsunade and the others, Ino sat motionless in front of the real waterfall, but in her mental world, a different, seemingly real scene was unfolding.

She remained seated, the blue sky and lush green grass still before her. Then, under her gaze, a familiar figure emerged from the waterfall.

The blonde woman wore a purple sleeveless crop top and mesh lingerie pants; her skin was fair, and her expression was slightly haughty.

The Ino who emerged from the waterfall bears a resemblance of over 90%, the only difference being her eyes.

Those were purple Rinnegan eyes.

Ino waved her hand at the air, conjuring a tin staff out of thin air. With a tremor, seven Truth-Seeking Balls filled with domineering energy appeared behind her.

Sitting there, Ino was first taken aback, then sighed with disbelief: "...Good heavens, is my future path really this wild? Is this like becoming an immortal?"

Senjin Ino smiled enigmatically: "What do you think? I am you. Isn't this all your dream? I have realized my dream. The future world belongs to me, and of course, it belongs to you too. Come on, merge with me, join me, and become a higher level of me."

Ino stood up, supporting herself on her knees, and patted off non-existent dirt from her body: "Sounds pretty convincing. Okay, not bad. You can absorb me now."

Senjin Ino stood still.

Ino looked at her and said, "Why aren't you moving? Can't you move, or do you not know how to move? I've never seen a sage before; they're all just figments of my imagination. Who are you trying to scare by looking like this?"

"I want to see it, I want to see the view from a higher place..." The superfluous things on Ino's body quickly disappeared. When she returned to normal, her eyes were full of madness. She fiercely pulled out a kunai and stabbed it into Ino's throat: "So you must die!"

With a crisp clang, Ino parried the attack, also gripping the kunai in reverse.

Having already discovered that she couldn't use ninjutsu in the mental world, she lowered her center of gravity and swept her foot towards her opponent's ankle. Caught a flash of fire out of the corner of her eye, she quickly withdrew her move and rolled to the side. She felt a heavy push on her shoulder, followed by a loud "bang".

"My lord, times have changed." The person opposite Ino had changed into a pose where she held a cross-shaped spear in her left hand and a musket in her right hand. The flash just now was from the muzzle of the gun.

“Times haven’t changed!” Ino used Yugito’s fighting techniques, leaning back and supporting herself with her left hand, kicking out with both feet in quick succession, all of which landed on her opponent’s lower abdomen.

Ino, who was opposite, took two steps back, hurriedly threw away her musket, and swung her cross-shaped spear with one arm, intending to unleash a powerful attack on her.

Ino scoffed, instantly lunging into the other woman's arms, grabbing her throat with her left hand, slamming her against the rock wall, and then stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and abdomen: "You idiot, how could I possibly use a spear like that! Do you even have a brain?"

The other party turned into black smoke and disappeared, but less than a minute later, she reappeared. This time, the madness in her eyes turned into arrogance, just like the way Sasuke looked at Naruto in the early days.

"Ah—behold my illusion, a mirage!"

While Ino exclaimed, "What amazing illusion!" she used her legs to clamp the fake Ino's head and twist it forcefully to the side.

The fake Ino used the "Thirty-Six Troubles Wind," but was kicked hard in the groin by her and then stabbed in the throat.

After reforming into human form, the fake Ino started shouting "Ultra Instinct" again. Then Ino grabbed her hair, delivered a vicious knee strike to her face, grabbed her head, and snapped her neck with a "crack".

Ino absolutely refuses to acknowledge that these chuunibyou characters are her dark side. She believes that her darker self is too obsessed with power, resulting in her main body not understanding the concepts of these techniques and only being able to call out their names. As for how to use them, sorry, even her main body doesn't know!

Each time she defeated the fake Ino, she felt her spiritual energy become a little purer. The increase wasn't significant, but it made her feel much more relaxed, as if she had unloaded layers of burdens.

She was purified, and the fake Ino side also seemed to be making a move.

The seven emotions representing arrogance, rudeness, pride, negativity, vanity, jealousy, and cowardice have been defeated. These emotions will still arise in the future, after all, she is a living person, not a god without desires. But for now, Ino has no such emotions in her heart.

She calmly watched the waterfall, waiting for her eighth opponent.

Ino, shrouded in thick black mist, emerged from behind the waterfall.

Just one glance was enough to tell that this guy was no ordinary person, definitely not like those other goofballs. The moment Ino saw him, she knew the emotions he represented: malice, absolute malice, malice towards people, the village, the system, and the entire world.

"Do I have such strong malice towards the world? I think I'm usually quite mild-mannered."

Malicious Ino pointed a finger at her: "Hypocrite, you've been wearing a mask for too long, you don't even dare to face your own true self anymore, I despise you."

Forget about hypocrisy, defeating you is all that matters! Ino had a very accurate premonition that nine was the ultimate, but the last bit of negative emotion in her heart could not be dispelled. Defeating eight fake Inos would complete her journey of tempering her heart.

With a series of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh," she threw out three shuriken in quick succession. Even in the mental world, imagining these things required chakra. She didn't contemplate nuclear weapons, but instead used the most basic ninja techniques to test the waters.

The malevolent Ino opened her mouth wide, and the enormous malevolence was like a black hole, with a suction force appearing out of nowhere. Not to mention the three shuriken, even the entire mental world was distorted.

Ino concentrated her chakra in her right fist, then leaped high into the air and unleashed a meteor-like punch towards the direction of the malicious Ino.

A large hole was punched in the ground, and the aftershocks spread out in a spiderweb pattern in all directions. Ino's skill, which was like a black hole, was interrupted. She retreated, and Ino twisted her waist and swung her arm, elbowing her in the chest.

Ino deliberately dodged to the right, but Ino had already anticipated her move and lunged forward, his shoulder slamming into her face.

Malice Ino embraced her like a lover, then opened his mouth wide, as if it contained countless fangs, and bit down on her shoulder. The fangs pierced through her skin and muscles, and with a twist of his head, he tore off a large chunk of flesh from her shoulder.

Despite the excruciating pain, Ino pushed off with her feet, and the two of them tumbled to the ground like gourds.

She imagined the ground beneath her feet was the hardest metal in the world, then grabbed the head of the malicious Ino and slammed it against the ground again and again.

Chapter 204 Sasuke's Extraordinary Encounter

At the same time that Ino wrestled with the malicious Ino on Kame Island.

Konoha Village.

Sasuke, who had been promoted to Chunin, spent two days observing outside the Shueido Bookstore. He was extremely dissatisfied with the bookstore's publication of Sasuke's coming-of-age story and harbored a lot of resentment towards the author, Kasugano Sakura.

However, a few days ago, because Ino kept appearing in the shop to settle accounts with the bookstore owner, he didn't want the other party to see him in such an embarrassing situation, so he refrained from showing himself. He only came over these past two days after hearing that Ino had left the village.

The bookstore owner was a very reasonable businessman. He knew that the ninjas were powerful, and even with Jiraiya as their backer, he would avoid offending them if possible. After Sasuke expressed his dissatisfaction, he immediately proposed a compensation plan.

He was very polite: "Sir, how about this? Well, for every book we sell, we'll give you a commission of one tael."

Sasuke roared, "Are you kidding me? You think I'm here to ask you for money? I'm here to tell you to stop selling this book!"

"Two ounces."

"You are insulting me! You are insulting the Uchiha clan!"

The bookstore owner said leisurely, "Alright, three taels of commission, that's the most I can do."

Sasuke immediately hesitated...

He wasn't stupid. Regardless of who the author of the book was, the infatuated girls in the village were the main buyers. Whether the book existed or not, they would all be just as infatuated. If he stopped the book from selling, it wouldn't have much of an impact on those guys. What if he agreed? He could get a commission of three taels of silver for every book sold.

It smells nice...

Kakashi formally accepted Sasuke as his apprentice and systematically developed a training plan for him.

Sasuke is nominally a clan ninja, but his clan has long since disappeared. If he didn't have the Sharingan, you could easily call him a commoner ninja.

His foundation was based on the ninja academy system; it wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't high either.

Ino has already created her own "Composite Ninjutsu: Poison Pufferfish". This technique is not very sophisticated and has a lot of room for improvement. However, in the evaluation of Tsunade and Jiraiya, it is already comparable to Kakashi, who invented Chidori at the age of twelve.

Sasuke's understanding of ninjutsu is still at a very basic level.

He doesn't know that he'll be slashing around with Susanoo every day in the future. From his current perspective, the foundation of a ninja is still ninjutsu. If you talk to him about Gundam, he'll definitely think you're talking nonsense.

Kakashi, with his extensive theoretical knowledge, spent several days in a row on his sickbed explaining the application of ninjutsu to Sasuke.

He explained very thoroughly how to use Lightning Release, Fire Release, and Sharingan.

Sasuke's family tradition is gone, but his Hatake clan's ninjutsu tradition still exists. They can teach how to increase chakra with secret medicines, how to train the body using special methods, and how to develop new chakra attributes.

Sasuke felt that he was not even as good as Ino in the field of ninjutsu, let alone Itachi Uchiha. When he fought Zabuza Momochi, he became interested in swordsmanship, and Kakashi taught him his family's swordsmanship.