An hour later, Ino estimated that she had snuck in from the top of this ship and had now descended about a hundred meters. By her calculations, she should be nearing the semi-circular structure, which she believed to be either the reactor or the bridge.
In a metal room the size of a basketball court, she saw a middle-aged, fatman wearing a monocle over his left eye.
"Ninja? Are you a Ninja from Konoha Village?" The fatman's face was full of wariness; it seemed the Ninja's bad reputation hadn't left a good impression on him.
Ino looked around; the layout of this room was peculiar.
Smooth, mirror-like metal walls combined with rusty bronze pipes made everything seem out of place. As she walked, Ino became more certain of her conjecture: this was a spaceship, but not a mothership, rather a small, exploratory vessel. She didn't know when it had crashed on this planet, only that it had eventually been dug out of the mountains by the people of the Southern Continent, much like mining, and after countless haphazard modifications, it had become its current appearance.
Ino asked, "I really like your base. How about you sell it to me?"
The fatman first showed a friendly smile: "Actually, you don't need to buy it. You can join us, make this your home, and together we can work to build a peaceful world without war or orphans."
He extended a hand, his words full of lure: "I've seen many Ninja before. Looking at your age, so young and already out killing, I imagine your heart must be in great pain, right? It's such a pity. A girl your age should be living happily with her parents, enjoying life and love, not killing and destroying like a tool. I can see the hesitation in your heart. Join us, and together we can change this world!"
Ino scoffed, 'You're just playing games I've already mastered. You're still too green for this. Go build me a house!'
She stretched her neck: "How boring. I've already sent off thirty-five people like you before. You're the thirty-sixth!"
The fatman didn't understand what she meant by thirty-five or thirty-six, but he knew Ino hadn't been swayed by his words. He immediately dropped his facade and, full of malice, raised his right fist at her.
A glowing green fluorite was set on the back of his hand. As the stone emitted a faint light, the air was forcefully compressed and blasted towards Ino like an air cannon.
"This is the gelel stone, isn't it? Interesting."
To Ino, the opponent's attack was utterly insignificant. It was powerful and fast, but its intent was too obvious.
It's like dodging a bullet; you don't need to be faster than the bullet, just faster than the finger pulling the trigger.
Like the three female knights, the fatman himself had no Chakra. To attack, he had to draw energy from the gelel stone on the back of his hand. This attack efficiency was simply too low.
Ino used two consecutive Body Flicker Technique to trick the fatman, causing the air cannons to miss. Then, she swiftly, like a ghost, rushed to the fatman's side, punching him in the face. Taking advantage of the fatman being knocked back, she delivered another flying kick.
"Painful Sky Foot!" She kicked the fatman in the chest, and seeing his clothes tear to reveal dark blue, steel-like muscles, Ino was a little surprised and kicked him twice more.
The fatman flew high into the air, then fell in a parabolic arc into the distance.
Ino stood in place, flexing her ankle. This guy's body was so hard, like stone.
"Ah! You lowly insect, I'll twist your head off!" The fatman tore off his upper clothing. His entire body was covered in dark blue skin. His chest was now significantly caved in; even with astonishing defense, it hadn't completely withstood Ino's Painful Sky Foot.
Ino was worried this guy might have some big move left. Even killing a chicken can be done with a butcher's knife, so she immediately used her ultimate technique.
"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!" Inside the metal room, relying on her Yang Release Chakra, Ino spontaneously created a large amount of wood. A second later, the winding, coiling wood converged to form a giant dragon that looked quite abstract.
The Wood Dragon let out a silent roar, and with a flick of its body, it coiled around the fatman.
It could even suppress the Nine-Tailed, let alone this guy who was only slightly stronger than a Chunin overall. The gelel stone on the back of the fatman's hand continuously supplied him with Chakra, but all of this Chakra was absorbed by the Wood Dragon. With a crisp "crack," the gelel stone shattered into powder.
"No! No! No, you fool! That was the last gelel stone, a treasure worth a fortune! You brainless idiot, you've ruined everything, it's all over!" The fatman's mind collapsed, and he cursed hysterically.
Ino had no interest in him. She used her prayer beads to summon Shinigami, sending off the freshly made thirty-sixth living stake.
She didn't know the fatman's name, nor did she want to.
Ino toured her spaceship. If she really couldn't defeat Ōtsutsuki Kaguya later, maybe she'd take her family to an alien planet for refuge? Who knows, she might even run into Luffy?
However, how to repair and start this thing was a super challenge; she could only talk, not fix.
These people from the Southern Continent had studied it for hundreds, even thousands of years, and all they managed was to make the spaceship move slowly. Forget flying out of the atmosphere, it couldn't even levitate.
Ino studied it for a long time but couldn't find a clue. This should be a long-term project, requiring collective wisdom.
The minds of the miscellaneous soldiers wielding hammers inside the spaceship had long been erased. Ino killed most of them during her "stealth" mission, and the remaining ones, along with the fatman's "departure," all collapsed and became dead.
Ino used Earth Release to clear away all the bodies, leaving a very clean spaceship wreckage.
Among the fatman's belongings, she found the ge lei er book. This book detailed the mining, smelting, and use techniques of this Chakra-infused mineral vein, and also broadly recorded some reasons for the empire's past downfall.
Ino didn't care about their history, but she was very interested in this new energy source.
Chakra, in essence, is Natural Energy formatted by the Divine Tree. This energy originally existed within the planet, but through the Divine Tree as a medium, it became more docile and easier to shape.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's planting of the Divine Tree was full of malice; it wasn't for the purpose of giving humans Chakra.
The Six Paths Sage was indeed great and selfless. He established Ninshu and distributed his Chakra seed to his followers to spread the ideology of Ninshu.
Chakra cannot be cultivated independently. If your bloodline ancestors did not receive permission from the Six Paths Sage and did not have this Chakra seed implanted in their bloodline, you could practice with secret techniques for a lifetime and still not cultivate Chakra.
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