Naruto: From Fake to Real, Deceiving the Ninja World.

boom! !

Just like waves crashing against rocks, a raging flood rushes towards a dam.

A hurricane swept across the sky, and the purple venomous dragon crashed into it, creating a deafening roar!

This appears to be an unequal collision.

The combined, desperate attack of all the Sand Village ninjas was not something Hanzo could easily break alone.

The solidified venomous dragon collided with the hurricane, and its body surface collapsed and scattered!

The dispersed poisonous fog, like tides, split off to the left and right of the hurricane.

"Okay, we can stop it!"

Chiyo, who had been on edge, breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "Hold on, everyone..."

Before she could finish speaking, a shrill scream, inhuman and agonizing, erupted from the throat of a Sand Village ninja.

"what!!"

Chiyo instinctively turned her head to look, and saw that the Sand Village ninja had released his hand seals, was tightly choking his own throat, his eyes bulging and bloodshot.

His cheeks, neck, and all exposed skin were as if they had been splashed with an invisible strong acid, and they swelled, blistered, and then ulcerated at a visible speed!

Pus and blood seeped from under the ulcerated skin, emitting a nauseating stench!

"help me……"

He staggered forward and fell, futilely reaching out his hand. His body convulsed violently, and a purplish-black liquid corroding his internal organs gushed from his mouth.

But in less than three seconds, this once-powerful Jonin stopped convulsing in extreme pain. His skin ulcerated and dissolved over a large area, revealing blackened muscle tissue and white bone!

In the end, it turned into a pool of black, rotten flesh emitting purple smoke and a foul stench, and even the soil beneath it was corroded and turned charred black!

"How is that possible? There's definitely no..."

Chiyo's expression changed instantly, her words faltered, and her face turned visibly pale.

"puff!"

She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which was also mixed with purple blood.

As if all the bones in her body were being eaten away, Qian knelt on the ground with a pained and twisted expression, struggling to raise her bloodshot eyes.

She finally noticed that when the rainwater came into contact with the poisonous mist that the venomous dragon had transformed into, it was rapidly corroded and evaporated, emitting a terrifying hissing sound, and the moisture condensed back into poisonous mist.

If someone inhales even a tiny wisp of it, it will use the chakra within their body to rapidly erode the body's cells and flesh.

Even without inhalation, it is extremely toxic and corrosive.

A Sand Village Jonin watched helplessly as his muscular arm, starting from the point of contact, rapidly turned black like burning paper.

Then, like wax, it melts and peels off, revealing the bright red muscle beneath the skin. Immediately afterward, the muscle turns black and dissolves into pus and blood at a visible speed!

The intense pain caused him to let out a howl that sounded inhuman. He tried to use a kunai to cut away the corroded parts, but the kunai made a sizzling sound as soon as it touched the wound!

He could only watch in despair as his arm completely dissolved from his fingertips to his shoulder, leaving only a piece of white bone emitting purple smoke and dripping pus!

The excruciating pain and the toxins instantly destroyed his will. He screamed and fell to the ground, rolling around. Other parts of his body also began to fester rapidly!

But it soon came to an abrupt end, and like everyone else, it melted away like a piece of snow, turning into a pool of black blood and rotten flesh.

Skin dissolution, muscle ulceration, and exposed bone!

Screams, wails, and vomiting echoed throughout the camp!

Some people tried to use water to wash it off, but the water boiled and evaporated instantly upon contact with the venom, which instead spread the poison gas!

Someone tried to cover the wound with soil, but the soil was also corroded!

The entire camp instantly transformed into a terrifying inferno, flowing with pus and blood, emitting a foul stench, and littered with dissolving humanoid remains!

In an instant, the screams and howls of beasts, mixed with pain and despair, filled the entire world!

"Cough cough! Hanzo..."

Feeling her life force slipping away and watching the Sand Village ninjas die one after another, Chiyo's eyes initially showed resentment and anger, but quickly turned into calm and relief.

"I've lived this long, and I never thought I'd die like this. It's truly ugly."

With these thoughts in mind, her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, until finally, her consciousness was plunged into darkness.

……

I don't know how much time passed; it could have been a moment or a few minutes.

As if drifting into a different world, Chiyo's consciousness opened her eyes in a daze.

All she could see was darkness.

In the darkness, she saw a person and a huge black shadow.

The enormous black shadow was constantly devouring something, and just as the shadow reached out its hand as if to swallow her whole.

The person in the distance spoke up.

“That’s enough,” he said. “I’ll keep this one.”

Then, the dark figure actually stopped, and after a moment, as if it hadn't spoken in a long time, it uttered a hoarse and unfamiliar voice.

"Yes, as you wish."

Upon hearing the voice, Chiyo suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

It seems that someone who had long since died in memory was being awakened at this moment, and the hatred etched deep in the soul was being stirred up.

She suddenly realized who the voice belonged to.

It was the man who killed her son and daughter-in-law.

—Sakushige Hatake!

Chapter 136 The Automated Hatchery of 'Virtual'

Once, the Box of Ecstasy contained neither heaven nor earth, only a distorted existence devoid of any concept of time.

But now the interior of the Chest of Elysium has completely changed.

The ground is paved with huge stone slabs that are as smooth as a mirror and as black as ink, and the top is also a huge arched dome made of the same black stone.

The stone walls on all four sides, reaching to the dome, are carved with four faces representing "joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness." Ten giant pillars, like supporting giant trees, stand in various parts of the palace, supporting the dome at the very top.

The interior of this Box of Bliss is now clearly a vast, well-structured palace with boundaries and a solid framework.

The only stone seat is located at the top of the highest platform at the deepest part of the stairs, where the 'Shadow' sits quietly, watching everything before it.

The eerie blue candlelight burning on the four walls could not illuminate the darkness outside the hall, but it was enough for 'Shadow' to clearly see the devouring feast unfolding below.

Hundreds of illusory humanoid spirits are now colliding, tearing, and devouring each other, relying on their remaining instincts.

After melting other spirits into itself, the illusory spirit will solidify into a trace.

And such things happen in every corner of the palace space.

"Woo..."

"hiss……"

Countless illusory and blurry spirits emitted incomprehensible hisses, wandering and devouring within the palace like headless flies, filled with the most primal and uncontrollable hunger.

"Now that the Box of Elysium has been modified, it should be considered a virtual, fully automated incubator."

Looking at the scene before him, 'Shadow' pondered in his heart.

Once the modified "Box of Elysium" is placed in a specific location, it will act like an invisible black hole, or rather, like a giant "soul siphon" device.

It can automatically attract and devour all the recently deceased souls within a certain range that have not yet dissipated or entered the Pure Land.

Most importantly, the "Box of Elysium" is not only for storing souls.

Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—these four emotions intertwine and encompass most feelings, which is also known as "obsession."

The seemingly conflicting and repetitive words "joy" and "happiness" actually have different meanings. The former is more in line with the meaning of "joy," while the latter is more inclined towards "desire" and "love."

The original purpose of the Box of Elysium was to amplify these human emotions, thereby seeing through and manipulating human desires to guide their behavior.

After being modified with points, the Box of Elysium can use its twisted power to amplify the emotions of those souls and erode them.

Only one intense obsession and desire remained, amplified to the extreme by the Box of Elysium: the thirst for power, the obsession with revenge, the instinct for survival...

Therefore, the stronger a soul's obsessions and desires were in its previous life, the more it yearns for survival and the stronger its instinct to devour other souls to maintain itself.

In this enclosed space where only souls exist, they are like wild beasts that are never full, following only one law: eat, or be eaten!

This is the cruel ecosystem of the Box of Bliss, a place of endless devouring and evolution where losers are merely nourishment for the strong.

Thus, the concept of 'emptiness' came into being.

'Shadow' turned its head to look in another direction.

A soul that had devoured dozens of its kind gradually coalesced as if catalyzed by an invisible force. The dozens of souls roared and struggled, and began to mutate.

Their twisted and deformed bodies gradually merged, their size rapidly expanding like an inflated balloon, and the chaotic spirits were forcibly mixed into one body.

A massive, bloated figure, several meters tall, slowly took shape, and a white bone mask with only a mouth gradually covered the place where the face should have been.

It has no hands or feet, only a black body, as if covered by a black robe.

A newly born lower-level Hollow has successfully transformed.

It let out a low, hollow roar, moved clumsily, instinctively searching for more souls to secure itself, and opened its mouth to greedily devour several spirits that couldn't escape in time.

The devoured spirit collapsed and decomposed like a sandcastle, turning into a clump of turbid spiritual energy that was sucked into its mouth, while the ethereal body swelled and emitted a satisfied growl.

"Has it already begun to take shape?" 'Shadow's' eyes flickered slightly. "It's indeed different from the lower-level Hollows that were forcibly created using points before."

Previously, he transformed Karin's mother into a 'Hollow'. Because she was forcibly catalyzed into a Great Hollow using points, she was like an ordinary spirit, unable to touch physical objects, nor could she be touched by ordinary weapons or ninjutsu.

However, the Hollow that Orochimaru transformed through his "Soul Eater" and the Box of Elysium now possesses a physical form to some extent, so it can naturally destroy physical objects and be touched by some ninjutsu and weapons.

“However, the Hollows born in this way are completely different individuals compared to the original spirits that still possessed memories,” 'Shadow' said thoughtfully.

If Karin's mother, who was previously brought to life using points, still possessed a certain degree of memory, emotion, and rationality.

So, the Hollows born in this way are like Orochimaru who tried to devour souls with a human body, but was also affected by the memories and emotions mixed in with the souls.

These great voids will have their memories, emotions, and personalities from their previous lives disrupted, reorganized, and merged, ultimately being completely distorted and polluted, transforming into a completely new individual existence.

With that in mind, 'Shadow' turned its gaze to another spot in front of it.

In the presence of lower-level Great Void beings, ordinary spirits are the lowest level of sustenance.

However, there are also predators at higher levels of the food chain in this space.

"Roar!"

A creature with biological features such as hands and feet casually grabbed and crushed several tearing spirits into pieces, absorbing the spiritual energy released after the spirits were crushed into its belly.

Compared to those lower-ranking Hollows, it is not particularly tall, but it is very robust and strong, and it has already begun to show signs of human form and intelligence.

A hollow void lies in its abdomen, and a stark white bone mask covers its entire face, from which two points of cold, scarlet light can be seen.

Its movements are swift and precise, weaving through countless souls.

Wherever it passed, countless spirits were swiftly annihilated like candles blown by a gale.

Without a doubt, this is a mid-level Hollow.

A low-level Hollow requires the spirits of dozens of ordinary ninjas to be absorbed and fused together, and these low-level Hollows basically have no individual consciousness and act purely on instinct.

However, if among all the merged spirits, one spirit has a higher level of individual consciousness and strength than the others, then a lower-level Hollow with individual consciousness can be formed.

Only these special lower-level Hollows, by absorbing more lower-level Hollows to strengthen themselves, can eventually evolve into mid-level Hollows.

Therefore, although the face beneath the mask of that mid-level Hollow cannot be seen, the 'shadow' is very clear.

The core consciousness of that Hollow was none other than the former White Fang of Konoha.

—Sakumo Hatake.

Chapter 137 Ten Blades

"Roar!"