Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 297 The Xia Zuos Who Suddenly Became Stronger

Earth, Greece, Sanctuary.

Xia Zuo shuddered and woke up from his dream.

He patted the stone bed beneath him, looked at the clean stone house beside him, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

There isn't even a stone table or stool in this dilapidated house.

He was the man who defeated Shaka's disciple Shiva in front of the Gold Saint, and stole the Peacock Silver Cloth. He was a second-tier Saint adorned with gold and silver.

As a result, I ended up with such living conditions. It's really, really frustrating.

There was nothing they could do. The Pope was an old stoic who had ruled the Sanctuary for 190 years. His authority was so great that no one dared to offer any suggestions. He believed that a harsh life would help the Saints improve their fighting power, and even the Gold Saints didn't have soft beds to sleep on.

Inside the 12 Palaces, apart from the Gold Saints' undergarments and the capes on their backs, there wasn't even a single piece of cloth.

Aside from the stone and the gold armor, there was nothing else.

No wonder Aries Mu loves to stay in the Pamir Plateau, Virgo Shaka spends half the year in India, and Aquarius Kamya lives in the Arctic.

Although the environment in those places is notoriously bad, the Holy Land is even worse.

Xia Zuo sighed again: "[Boss Saga, when exactly are you going to go crazy and send this 200-year-old Deng away?]"

Why would he think that way?

Because under the Pope's rule, no trouble could arise in the Sanctuary, the conflicts between the Gold Saints were suppressed, and their energy was focused on the lower realms.

Shaka then came into Shaka's sights after defeating Shiva.

Although Buddhists may chant about "emptiness of the four elements" and "letting go leads to Buddhahood," they are just saying it to others, trying to fool people into honestly suffering.

If these bald monks really thought that way, why would they build such a large temple, occupy such a large area of ​​land, and support such a large group of burly warrior monks?

As the leader of the Buddhist sect among the Saints, Shaka is naturally a petty person without realizing it.

Shaka stole the Saint Cloth that Shaka's disciple had his eye on. Shaka couldn't bring himself to kill Shaka, so he stared at Shaka and muttered "asceticism," "letting go," and "abstaining from greed, anger, and ignorance!"

As a Silver Saint, Shazam was entitled to let things go in one ear and out the other, but the Sanctuary's administrators dared not.

Therefore, given the poor living conditions of the Saints, Shazam became the lowest point in terms of treatment across the entire Sanctuary.

It's incredibly painful.

If the old Pope were to pass away, the Gold Saints would surely notice. Without this powerful figure to suppress them, they would desperately scheme against each other.

Not only will Virgo Shaka have no time to keep an eye on Shaka, but the discipline of the entire Sanctuary will also be relaxed.

Xia Zuo remembered that when the official storyline began, many of the Gold Saints, Silver Saints, and Bronze Saints of the Sanctuary had left the Sanctuary and settled in various parts of the world, even in the underworld.

What they did, Grandpa Xia Zuo naturally did as well.

Then I'll go to Milijian, and following the example of Marvel's Xia Zuo, I'll just find any conglomerate and have them support my enjoyment. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Xia Zuo was overjoyed at the thought of his wonderful future life and laughed out loud.

Only when a powerful force of the Five Elements erupted from within him did he cease his fantasies of a decadent life and calmly control and digest this force of the Five Elements emanating from the pine nuts.

The five elements, with their mutual generation and restraint, form a perfect independent power system, possessing both great compatibility and strong exclusivity.

As an innate spiritual root, the five-needle pine is of an incredibly high grade. Even a mere pine cone, a consumable exchange item, was deemed by the main god to be worth millions of reward points and an S-level storyline.

This force of the five elements is so strong that it exhibits a strong exclusivity.

If it were any other Xia Zuo, he would probably have to make choices, deliberately using his inherently strong fire element to suppress the circulation of the five elements' power, thereby absorbing and digesting it.

But Saint Seiya Shazam was different; he chose the Peacock Cloth.

Regardless of how the Peacock Saints of the past thousands of generations understood the Peacock constellation, Xia Zuo didn't care at all.

In his mind, there was only one embodiment of the peacock's power, and that was none other than Kong Xuan, "born at the beginning of chaos, the ancestral bird of birds, the phoenix, whose five-colored divine light could not be blocked, and whose eyes were wide open and whose crown was red."

With Kong Xuan as the ultimate reference for his own power system, Xia Zuo would only feel that he had too little of the power of the Five Elements, and he was not worried at all that his frost and cutting power would be destroyed by the power of the Five Elements.

After all, it wouldn't hurt to destroy it.

Xia Zuo used all his strength to suppress the boiling fire element, restoring the balance of the five elements and thus resuming the smooth cycle of mutual generation and restraint.

Using the burst of energy after the Five Elements cycle was restored, Xia Zuo forcibly erased the Cosmo imprint on the Peacock Cloth and replaced it with the Peacock Power as he understood it.

As a massive influx of the five elements' power poured in, the Peacock Cloth began to slowly change its shape, becoming richer in detail and its wings becoming wider.

Beyond the minor detail improvements, the most noticeable change is the addition of five long tail feathers; if you ignore the blue, yellow, and red markings...

If you look at the five colors, black and white, you'll find that the shape of these five tail feathers is very similar to that of a phoenix tail.

However, the shape of the Peacock Cloth is not stable.

Even after Xia Zuo had fully digested the power of the Five Elements from the Five Needle Pine Seeds, the Peacock Cloth was still trembling, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Without any hesitation, Xia Zuo slashed the arteries on his wrists with both hands and used his sword energy to open the wounds to prevent them from healing instantly.

Xia Zuo's blood gushed out, soaking the trembling Peacock Saint Cloth, the splattered blood shimmering with a faint five-colored light.

With the support of Shazo's blood, the trembling of the Peacock Cloth stopped instantly.

Because the Saint Cloth had been damaged by the removal of the Cosmo imprints from previous Saints, it was now being filled with Shazam's blood, which combined the power of the five elements, making it even stronger.

Once all the damage was repaired, the aura of the Peacock Cloth suddenly surged, instantly surpassing the level of the Silver Cloth, only slightly inferior to the Gold Cloth.

This is already quite remarkable. You have to know that the Gold Cloth is superior to the Silver Cloth from the very beginning, and the Gold Saints of all generations are stronger than the Silver Saints, so their legacy is naturally much greater.

The fact that Shaza's strength is slightly below that of the Gold Cloth proves that he has surpassed the average level of the Gold Saints.

The Peacock Cloth has undergone a complete transformation, and its ethereal spirituality has become stronger, instinctively wanting to be close to its master.

Then the Peacock Cloth spontaneously disintegrated its peacock form, and its 21 parts transformed into 21 streams of light, which re-converged on Shaza's body, completely enveloping him.

The transformed Peacock Cloth covers an area no less than that of the Gold Cloth. Not only does it have a half-exquisite mask covering its mouth and nose, but it also has a fan-shaped peacock tail on its back.

The peacock's tail feathers shimmered with brilliant light, surrounding five five-colored tail feathers that moved without wind, displaying astonishing majesty and splendor.

Shazo was very satisfied with the new look of his Saint Cloth.

To be honest, Xia Zuo didn't like the Peacock Cloth before the change at all. He disliked its shabby appearance with only a few modules and hated its green color scheme, which was unappealing no matter how you looked at it.

After donning the Saint Cloth, Xia Zuo received a powerful response from it, which activated his already extremely powerful Five Elements Power. Suddenly, he felt his whole body swell up.

Indescribable information flooded his mind instantly, allowing him to "see" a completely new world.

His inner universe was also powerfully stimulated and expanded instantly, allowing him to clearly perceive more details within it, naturally making his control over his inner universe stronger.

Instinct told Xia Zuo that this was the Seventh Sense.

Xia Zuo felt more at ease than ever before; he no longer had to fear Shaka.

Dragon Ball world, Earth, a small town on the outskirts of a western city.

After the Saiyan Shazo woke up, he felt the energy surging out wildly. He couldn't wait to go to the forest on the edge of the farm and enter the basement of the training ground.

His spaceship is housed here, and the spherical spaceship is equipped with a specially designed combat capability detector with a detection limit of up to 15.

Standing in front of the spaceship's hatch, Xia Zuo unleashed his full power, and the readings on the detector jumped rapidly: 10.

10,000, 1 ...20,000 — 130,000.

After reaching 13, the growth rate slowed down, but it continued to grow steadily.

After 35 minutes, the combat power value exceeded 14, and Xia Zuo stopped unleashing his aura.

It wasn't that his combat power had reached its limit, but rather that his Qi was increasing too rapidly, causing a problem with the balance of power within his body, and he dared not continue.

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And it really can't continue.

Before Xia Zuo left, he learned that the detection limit of the medium-sized combat capability detector was not 15, but 60.

Therefore, setting a cap of 15 must have a special purpose.

Xia Zuo suspects that the combat power of 15 is a warning value, a value that the combat power detector manufacturer believes can threaten them.

If a value exceeding the warning threshold is detected, the combat capability detector may ignore its own command to shut down communications and send a signal directly into space.

It's important to know that this detector and spaceship were brought from Planet Vegeta, and the people who control Planet Vegeta's industry and technology are from Frieza's army, and there isn't a single Saiyan among them.

Therefore, if a signal were to be sent, the target of the communication would inevitably be Frieza's army.

Now is not the time to meet Frieza.

Xia Zuo gathered his energy, stepped out of the heavily guarded basement, and once again sensed the two energies locked in fierce combat in the distance.

That was the site of the World Martial Arts Tournament, and the two sides fighting were both acquaintances of Xia Zuo: Sun Wukong and the young Piccolo Daimaō.

Of course, this Piccolo Demon King is not worthy of the name now; his aura is very pure, without any trace of blood or evil.

Xia Zuo could even sense a touch of innocence in that aura.

The battle between the two aliens was interesting, but they were so weak that Shazo didn't even bother to go and see them.

"Let's wait until their fighting power is fully unleashed before we formally contact and befriend these potential threats who could be killed with a single breath."

"My task now is to readjust my ki, control my power, and then—go to the Temple of the Gods once more."

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In the world of Claymore, in the desolate wilderness.

The 11th-ranked Greatsword Shaza had just woken up when he felt waves of cramping pain in his stomach.

"This, this is... diarrhea?"

"Holy crap, I haven't felt anything like this for five whole years since I became a half-demon! Ugh~~ This is killing me!"

A few minutes later, Xia Zuo emerged from the bushes looking refreshed. She casually lifted her clothes and saw that the last trace of scar on her stomach had disappeared, making her smooth abdomen look exceptionally alluring.

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"It looks so good, just like me."

Xia Zuo waved his hand and created a full-body ice mirror in front of him, looking at the unchanged blond hair and silver eyes.

She asked herself in confusion, "Now, am I still considered a half-demon?"

When Xia Zuo was solving the problem, he felt that all the demonic flesh and blood in his body had been expelled, with not a single cell remaining.

In every sense, she couldn't be considered a half-demon because she had no demon cells, yet she somehow retained the power and physique of a half-demon.

Even the power he shared with more than a dozen Xia Zuo was presented as the demonic power he was familiar with.

If her soul power hadn't also increased in tandem, allowing her to control the release of her own power, the entire continent would probably have sensed her peculiar demonic aura.

Xia Zuo chuckled, "That seems like a good idea too. The organization, Xi Luoli, and Beima will probably all mistakenly believe that a new Abyss has been born, and then they'll be nervously asking around for information."

"It should be very interesting."

Xia Zuo put his clothes back on, donned his armor, slung his greatsword over his shoulder, and left the stinking grove.

Before leaving, she casually tossed out a purple flame, which instantly ignited the entire forest.

"How can a beautiful woman smell bad?"

"Oh dear, what should we do next?"

"Let me think, what in this world can I use to pass the time?"

Xia Zuo fell silent, her steel boots making a clanging sound as they stepped on the ground.

Half an hour later, she suddenly stopped and lamented, "I just solved the problem of survival, and now I'm finding out how terrible this world is."

"Barren and boring, hopeless and barbaric, it doesn't even reach the level of a dry lunch, how can it be so uninteresting?"

"Destroy it!"

"Wait, I've got it! There's still something beautiful in this world."

A smile appeared on the face of the greatsword Xia Zuo: "The only thing that can comfort my soul is, of course, the exquisite and beautiful Silver-Eyed Witch."

"Hehe, the resolute and decisive Phantom Miria, the elegant and serene Divine Eye Galadriel, the sweet and lovely Wind Slayer Flora, so many beauties to get close to."

"Oh, right, and the most beautiful goddess, the smiling Teresa, I won't let you die."

Xia Zuo seemed to have found the motivation to live, and her whole being became more energetic. She started walking again, striding towards the distance.

Amidst the crisp sound of footsteps, Xia Zuo's deep voice rang out: "It seems that race doesn't need to be strictly controlled. Xi Luoli was once a half-demon silver-eyed witch, and her human form was also very beautiful—"