I am the most popular character in Naruto!

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Bear country.

Nestled within a vast, dense forest, the country is bordered by a treacherous, poisonous valley called Hell Valley.

Hell Valley effectively prevents invasions by external enemies, but it also restricts the opportunities for the people of Bear Country to go out.

To understand how "Blank" discovered this place, we must start with the records of his ancestors from two hundred years ago.

To pay for her sister's medical treatment, "Blank" spent all her savings and searched everywhere for work and assignments.

He was very intelligent and exceptionally talented, but he was disliked because he had a frail younger sister.

According to research on ancestral records, two hundred years ago, a meteorite fell from the sky in this place. The exact location of the fall is unknown, and the records are very vague.

With a "let's give it a try" attitude, "Blank" followed various clues, broke through the poisonous canyon and primeval forest, and actually found the location where the meteorite fell.

After finding the location, the sensor immediately went off, and when "Blank" saw the large "S" rating, he felt like he had won the lottery!

However, due to his limited strength, he retreated before he could continue exploring.

Since we've already obtained the location coordinates, the rest can be left to the person who commissioned the task; they can get their share.

"Blank" was very clear about his position. He only wanted to help himself and his sister live a better life by obtaining rewards, and he never thought about taking anything from the S-level location for himself.

Even if he were to find what exists over there, he probably wouldn't be able to enjoy it.

Indeed, after returning to the Mercenary Guild, "Blank" enjoyed the hospitality of Reiko Kawasawa, and had a blue-haired girl and a red-haired girl keep him company for a night. Then he was personally received by Chiaki, who taught him a superhuman strength technique, cured his sister's illness, and directly brought him to the pinnacle of his life.

Good fortune and misfortune are intertwined. If "Blank" really has the idea of ​​seizing the opportunity, then he probably won't succeed.

Fortunately, his strength was limited, so he retreated from the outer perimeter.

Otherwise, if you go a little further in, "Blank" will discover that in the center of the primeval forest, there is actually a self-sufficient village!

The village is not large, but it has a population of several dozen people.

The entire village is built around an ancestral hall, and there is an eerie magnetic field emanating from inside and outside the village, making people feel physically and mentally uncomfortable.

For some reason, everyone in this village is very beautiful, especially the men, who are all very handsome and have great physiques.

They thrived in this primeval forest teeming with wild beasts, and with the meteorite in the center of the village providing energy, they entered a strange little world.

The ninjas in this village rarely live past 40, with an alarmingly short average lifespan.

Without training, they would only live to be 5 or 60 years old on average, and many ninjas would even die suddenly at the age of 30.

This has resulted in the village's size never growing, which is very frustrating.

However, as the population grows, there will always be one or two clever people.

The third village chief, who inexplicably lived to be a hundred years old, also known as the third Hoshikage of Hoshinin Village, suddenly realized a problem.

Could there be something wrong with the meteorite in the center of the village?

For example, could this meteorite release radioactive substances that are harmful to human health?

So he arranged for a family of ninjas to stay away from the meteorite, beginning a twenty-year-long controlled experiment...

Chapter 659 Firefly Summer

Forest of Stars.

Smoke curled from a wooden cabin nestled in the forest, and a handsome young man with black hair sat in the courtyard, constantly fiddling with the chakra in his hands.

He kneaded the colorful chakra in his hands into various shapes, such as flowers, trees, birds, and beasts, which looked particularly exquisite.

The wooden house wasn't big, but it felt very cozy. Various farm tools were placed in the yard, and there were small plots of land and free-range chickens and ducks next to the yard.

"Subaru, time to eat. Stop playing with your chakra."

The door to the cottage opened, and a gentle woman with long red hair came out, patting the boy's head and smiling as she spoke.

The black-haired boy called "Subaru" raised his head and presented the woman with a rose made of chakra, saying happily, "Mom! Look, look! These are flowers I gave you!"

"Wow, what beautiful flowers! Thank you."

The red-haired woman knelt down, took the chakra flower from the boy's hand, and pulled him into the wooden house. "I've prepared delicious hamburger patties for you today~"

"Really? Thank you, Mom!"

The boy walked happily ahead, but a trace of sorrow flashed in the red-haired woman's eyes as she casually crushed the chakra rose in her hand.

The red-haired woman gestured for the boy to sit down, served him food, and then sat quietly in the chair watching him happily and cheerfully eat his hamburger patties. As he ate, he kept telling himself that he could now control his chakra very well.

The more the red-haired woman listened to the boy's words, the more worried she became, despite her smile.

After coaxing the boy to rest after finishing his meal, she cleaned up the dishes, walked to the door of the cabin, covered her hands, and looked out at the dark forest.

Swoosh

After an unknown amount of time, a figure darted out of the forest, with a pair of colorful wings hanging on its back. Upon seeing the red-haired woman, it paused slightly and landed in front of her.

"Summer, why aren't you asleep yet?"

The man with the colorful wings landed lightly in front of the red-haired woman and gracefully folded his wings back.

He was as handsome as an elf, with a pair of eyes that shone like stars beneath his short black hair.

"Fireflies..."

The red-haired woman, Xia Rixing, stepped forward and grasped the man's hand, saying worriedly, "Subaru's ninja talent is just too good... Even from this far away from Xingxing, he can't stop himself from absorbing Xingxing's power..."

"I am anxious……"

After hearing his wife's words, Yinghuoxing pursed his lips and then sighed.

"It was all destined..."

"I'm afraid even the Third Hokage didn't expect that the two of us would have such good aptitude, and Subaru even inherited our aptitude..."

In the Star Village, the chakra training method passed down through generations of ninjas involves extracting chakra from the omnipresent energy of stars in the air.

Through the energy of the stars, their chakra is activated, thus completing the unique secret techniques of the Star Ninja Village.

Peacock Secret Technique!

Whether it was intentional on the part of the centenarian Third Hokage or not, the couple he selected as the control group happened to be the strongest pair of ninjas in the entire history of Hoshigakure.

Aside from those ninjas who died while practicing the Peacock Secret Technique, the only remaining ninjas of Star Village who can fully utilize and master the Peacock Secret Technique are the couple Natsumi and Firefly Star.

Because of their special physical constitutions, they have a strong resistance to the radioactive substances contained in stellar energy, which is why they were able to cultivate to this level using stellar energy.

Based on ninja strength, Xia Rixing and Ying Huoxing have already reached the level of elite Jonin.

In addition to the unique nature of the Peacock Technique and the high activity of chakra granted by the energy of the stars, the two of them could even join forces to fight against Kage-level ninjas.

Even so, both Xia Rixing and Ying Huoxing knew very well that the experiment conducted by the Third Hoshikage was correct.

Stellar energy contains radioactive energy that can harm the human body. If one overuses stellar energy for cultivation, the body will suffer considerable damage.

Even if you don't cultivate using star energy, just being within the range of star energy will cause continuous damage to your body.

The fact that my family moved away from the center of Hoshinobi Village is a good example of this.

Summer Star and Firefly Star are the most skilled ninjas in Star Village, so they are naturally the most sensitive to star energy.

They can sense how much harm star energy can cause to the human body. Firefly Star, who frequently travels to Star Ninja Village to trade daily necessities, can easily determine Subaru's physical health by comparing him with his peers in the village.

Even though Subaru was almost completely far from the center of Hoshigakure, he absorbed the free-floating star energy in the air and used this meager star energy and his extremely high talent to become a genin. His body was also quite healthy, at least much healthier than when Natsumi and Hotaru became genin.

"Actually, if possible... summer."

After a moment of contemplation, Firefly Star said to his beautiful wife, "I want to steal the stars so that the entire Star Ninja Village can live a normal life!"

"The Third Hokage's experiments have clearly proven that the reason why the entire Hoshigakure could not develop was because of that star."

"If I steal the stars, the people of Star Ninja Village will lose the Peacock Technique, but they will also gain an opportunity to develop!"

Firefly's eyes revealed hope for the future, but Xia Rixing's expression was full of worry. "Firefly, this is too dangerous..."

"The energy around the star is so concentrated that it has almost formed a forbidden zone, inaccessible to ordinary people..."

Even though Xia Rixing and Ying Huoxing were the core members of Xingren Village, their previous training only involved absorbing energy from the outer ring of the star, and they never dared to go inside.

"That's precisely why I'm even more determined to go in!"

A resolute look appeared on Yinghuo's face. "I am the strongest in the entire Xingnin Village. If even I cannot enter, then that star will remain in Xingnin Village forever!"

"Perhaps we can persuade everyone to leave?"

Xia Rixing grabbed Yinghuoxing again, pleading, "We'll find a way out of the outer poisonous fog canyon. Don't risk getting close to Xingxing, okay?"

"Think of our children..."

Firefly looked at Subaru, who was sleeping soundly in the house, and a hint of hesitation flashed across her face, but it was quickly replaced by a resolute expression.

"It is for the sake of the children, and for the sake of the many children of Xingnin Village, that I am doing this!"

Fireflies!

Xia Rixing was going crazy; she felt like her husband was going to his death.

Just then, a soft, delicate voice that neither of them had ever heard before rang out.

"Excuse me, is this the Star Ninja Village?"

Chapter 660 The Dark Forest Law

"who?!"

Summer Star and Firefly Star were terrified.

The place where their family lived was a location deliberately found by the three generations of Star Shadows, a place where the star energy was the weakest.

Located deep within a hidden forest, almost close to the outer edge of the poisonous gas canyon, how could any outsider possibly find this place?

and many more……

outsider?

Summer Star and Firefly Star immediately realized that they had never heard such a soft and delicate voice before. This was definitely not a voice that anyone from Star Ninja Village could make.

Due to the issue of star energy, everyone in Star Ninja Village has a slightly hoarse voice. Even though they are all very good-looking, their voices are still significantly affected.