To a certain extent, Ninja who use Chakra and ordinary people are two different species.
Starting from the Six Paths Sage, he had long ago made a very clear distinction between ordinary people and Ninja.
Could the Daimyo find a way to cultivate Chakra? He certainly could, so why didn't he practice? Didn't he know the importance of wielding military power?
Even children on the Ninja side can refine Chakra, which shows that there are no intellectual requirements for Chakra.
But the Daimyo and his relatives could never cultivate Chakra, and the root cause lies here.
They did not receive the Six Paths Sage's permission.
The Six Paths Sage had wide authority, but he couldn't control stones.
It's not surprising that some natural mineral veins with Chakra exist in nature.
Ino found some remaining gelel stones inside the airship. Compared to the gelel stone on the fat man's hand, these were all finger-sized, appeared murky in color, and contained relatively little Chakra. Many of the stones showed signs of previous use, so it was unclear how many owners they had passed through.
There should be more gelel stones on the Southern Continent, but Ino didn't travel across the ocean to the Southern Continent; it was too far.
According to the red-nosed old man, it would take three months of sailing to see the edge of the continent. Even if Ino's clay giant bird flew much faster than their wooden sailboat, it would still require a very long journey.
She waited in place for three days until Karin arrived.
Karin's expression was joyful, exceedingly happy.
"Why are you so happy? Did you pick up money outside?" Ino asked curiously.
"Hehehe, no, no." Karin showed a shy expression.
Ino was bewildered. This girl was silly and often did inexplicable things, but fortunately, she was very efficient and extremely loyal to Ino.
She called Karin from far away because she wanted to figure out how to deal with this airship.
If she couldn't defeat Ōtsutsuki Kaguya three years later, she couldn't really climb a tree, could she? How embarrassing that would be. Would it be okay to run away with someone beforehand? She thought it was worth a try.
"Have you practiced the Sealing Technique I gave you last time?" she asked Karin.
Ino had obtained many Sealing Techniques from the Shinigami; almost all of the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Techniques were collected.
Her own Sealing Technique practice was decent; she was considered an expert in this area.
Whether it was to reward her or for sealing Yin Kurama in the future, Ino needed a helper, and Karin, with her Uzumaki Clan bloodline, was an excellent assistant.
Karin, looking troubled, tapped her head: "That... that Four Symbols Seal, I'm not very proficient with it."
You Uzumaki Clan members are all fools! Did you trade all your intelligence for Chakra?
Ino didn't know what was so difficult about it. She asked Karin to raise questions, and she would explain.
"Oh, oh, I don't understand at all, my foundation is so poor! Can you demonstrate it for me personally? Please?" Karin looked at her with anticipation.
Could she say no to that?
"Alright, how should we demonstrate it?"
"Use the Four Symbols Seal on me once, so I can experience it myself." Karin's top was zippered. Without a word, she pulled it up from the bottom! From Ino's perspective, almost half of her chest was visible.
She coughed and placed her hand on Karin's lower abdomen, intending to gather Chakra according to the Four Symbols Seal's technique.
Karin suddenly shouted: "Wait!"
"What's wrong?"
"...My, my stomach hurts. I'm afraid I'll be nervous after the sealing, and what if... what if that happens? Right?"
Ino blinked. That shouldn't matter, right?
But she still nodded: "Alright then, I'll seal a little higher up. Is this okay?"
"A little higher up."
"Here?"
"Can you... can you go a little higher up?"
Seeing that Karin was about to pull the zipper further up, and Ino's hand was almost at her heart.
She quickly stopped her, thinking, 'Benefactress, you mustn't, you mustn't! This nun is already sweating!'
In the end, she left an incomplete Four Symbols Seal on Karin's lower abdomen for Karin to ponder and study daily. The Sealing Technique would automatically dissipate in a few days.
Karin lacked Orochimaru's guidance, and many fundamental knowledge points were severely missing, so Ino had to help her fill those gaps.
After confirming that Karin's training during this period hadn't caused any damage to her Chakra pathways, the two finally got down to business.
Ino took her to see the airship wreckage, and such a massive man-made object also startled Karin.
The airship was taller than many mountains she had seen.
"Actually, I don't have too many demands. You gather people and have them research this thing for me."
Ino spoke very vaguely, and Karin looked puzzled: "Research? How do I research it? What do I use to research it?"
Ino glared at her, thinking, 'If the leader knows everything, what do I need you for?' Karin was first confused, then lowered her head, looking quite wronged like a meek wife.
"Ahem, I have three requirements. First, it must be kept secret. Second, it must be efficient; time is short, at most three or four years, I might need to use it. Third, hmm... I haven't thought of it yet. Oh, right, the third point is actually similar to the second. You research it and see how to make this thing fly into the sky. I think it can fly."
Karin looked at her in horror, then turned to look at the over four-hundred-meter-tall airship, then at her own stomach, thinking, 'Isn't it less difficult for us to have a child right now than to get this thing into the sky?'
Ino also felt she was asking for too much: "Really, believe me, I think this thing can fly. It's just too severely damaged. In the future, maybe we can ride this thing together..."
She gestured: "Maybe it'll just whoosh out of this world? Then we'll be far away from the Ninja World, completely safe. We'll find a place where no one knows us and live quietly."
Karin didn't understand any of her fantasies or conjectures, but she understood the repeated "we" and "us" later on.
A world for two? Far from the Ninja World? That seemed not bad either.
The scientific level of this world was not high, but not low either. Many technologies had not been popularized simply because factors like transportation and warfare hindered the development of science and technology.
Now that Ino provided a research direction, Karin could use the Cross Guild's vast funds to hire scientists from various countries to research this airship.
Ino first used Earth Release Ninjutsu to hide the airship underground, then used Wood Release to cover the surrounding area. Afterwards, according to the list Karin gave her, she "invited" several well-known scientists to research the airship. The area for dozens of miles around was uninhabited, so she wasn't worried about them escaping.
After dealing with everything, Karin handed her a letter: "Oh, right, this is a letter Father asked me to give you when I came."
Father? Who?
Ino opened the letter and realized it was Inoichi's handwriting. She looked at Karin, wanting to say, 'Don't take advantage of me, that's my dad, not your dad!'
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