Analyzing the Ninja World Starting from Konoha

Chapter 141 Green Marsh Land

Early fame is not always a good thing.

He wasn't worried about Minato Namikaze, but the key issue was Aoba, who was still too young at fifteen.

This would make Aoba a target of other ninja villages, and a prime target for assassination. After all, the other major ninja villages besides Konoha wouldn't want Konoha to produce another Hashirama Senju.

Compared to external factors, he was more worried about the instability from within Konoha itself.

Danzo was a figure who even Danzo found troublesome. He couldn't understand how Aoba had provoked this Root leader.

However, what troubles Jiraiya the most right now is the whereabouts of Aoba.

The information relayed from the village, confirmed by Kurenai Yuhi, indicates that Aoba has indeed contracted with a group of summoning beasts, which is good news.

At least we know this kid is still alive.

The bad thing is that this kid has been summoned to some corner of the ninja world, and his return date is uncertain.

Don't ask, just know that Jiraiya is very experienced.

This gave Jiraiya a real headache.

However, he also came up with a crooked idea: to have someone transform into Aoba's appearance and occasionally show their face at the base.

The main reason is that ever since Aoba defeated Roshi that day, Iwagakure has unusually tightened its defenses and has not made any further provocations.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, two Jinchuriki were almost captured, which made Iwagakure somewhat hesitant to act.

They dared not release the Jinchūriki again so casually.

Without the strong support of the Jinchuriki, the harassment and friction from the lower levels pose no threat to Konoha.

Both sides tacitly maintained restraint and refrained from attacking, plunging the entire battlefield of the Land of Grass into an extremely eerie calm.

Although it is unknown how long this brief peace will last, we will take it one day at a time.

Meanwhile, in the Land of Fire, in Tanabata Town.

In a corner of a noisy tavern.

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"Lady Tsunade! Lady Tsunade! Look at this!"

With her pink pet pig, Tuntun, in her arms and waving an intelligence scroll in her hand, Shizune ran excitedly toward a table covered with empty wine bottles.

Beside the table, a blonde woman with an extremely voluptuous figure was slumped over the surface, belching drunkenly.

It was Tsunade, who had been away from Konoha for a long time.

"Hiccup—What's all that yelling? Quiet down, don't disturb my drinking—"

Tsunade waved her hand impatiently, her cheeks flushed with the effects of alcohol.

"Lady Tsunade! Look! It's Aoba-kun's information!"

Shizune spread the scroll out on the table, her eyes sparkling. "Aoba-kun defeated the Four-Tails Jinchuriki of Iwagakure on the front lines of the Land of Grass! Now everyone says he's the future of Konoha!"

Tsunade leaned back lazily in her chair, her eyes slightly lowered as she glanced at the contents of the scroll.

In fact, she already knew about the situation at the front.

Not long ago, she received a handwritten letter from the old man, Hiruzen Sarutobi, which detailed the tense situation at the front and earnestly hoped that she could return to the village to help.

But Tsunade simply threw the letter into the trash can.

Go back? What can I do if I go back?

She picked up her wine glass, looking at the sake swirling slightly inside, a hint of undisguised pain and self-mockery flashing deep in her eyes.

What use is a medical ninja who can't even look at blood and can't hold a scalpel? He's not even as good as a genin.

However, when her gaze fell on the information about Aoba again, she couldn't help but smile slightly.

"He defeated the Jinchuriki of Iwagakure on the battlefield—this brat's growth rate is truly astonishing."

Tsunade wasn't surprised by Aoba's talent. Back in the medical experimental class at the Ninja Academy, this kid had almost fooled her.

If it weren't for the unexpected exposure during the exam, she wouldn't have realized that this kid had been pretending all along.

Despite being quite strong, he always prefers to hide his abilities and is surprisingly afraid of dying.

But his medical talent is indeed outstanding.

Unfortunately, by then, she was already disheartened by the deaths of Rope Tree and Broken, and had no intention of taking on disciples. So she simply taught him her strange strength training techniques.

I never expected that the kid from back then would have grown to the point where he could fight against the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts.

Time flies!

Tsunade casually tossed the intelligence scroll onto the table and let out a long sigh.

However, this exclamation lasted for less than three seconds.

Tsunade's gaze suddenly shifted, fixing on the bulging little cloth bag in Shizune's arms.

That's a quiet, private stash of money.

"Mute it."

"Um?

'

"Can you lend me some more money? Just this one last time! I'm sure I can win it all back this time!"

Shizune instinctively clutched her chest, backing away warily. "No! Lady Tsunade, this is the tenth time this month you've said 'this is the last time'!"

"Tch, you stingy person."

Tsunade pursed her lips, then stretched out two fingers from deep within her chest and pulled out a scroll.

Shizune stared wide-eyed at the scroll in Tsunade's hand; it looked strangely familiar.

She quickly rummaged through her small cloth bag, but the scroll that Qingye had given her was gone.

"Lady Tsunade, how could you steal?"

Silent and furious, he reached out to rob it back.

However, with Tsunade's strength, how could she possibly let her take it? She suppressed Shizune with one hand.

"Lady Tsunade, that money is for emergencies, we can't touch it!"

Shizune was so anxious that she almost cried. "And—and this money was specially left to me by Aoba before she left the village. The scroll requires a specific hand seal sequence to open."

Upon hearing that it was from Aoba, Tsunade raised an eyebrow and released her mute.

Shizune always thought she had hidden it well, but Tsunade had already discovered it, only she didn't know who gave her the scroll.

It seemed as if they already knew that Shizune would go hungry if she followed them.

What a bastard!

I am Tsunade, the granddaughter of the First Hokage of Konoha, and yet I was—

I have to say, that kid has a pretty good eye for people!

So accurate it was as if I'd known all along —

Tsunade picked up the scroll and looked at it over and over again.

Tsunade glanced at Shizune, who was on the verge of tears, and tossed the scroll back.

I picked up the bottle and poured myself a glass.

"What an unlovable brat, who is he trying to protect himself from?"

Holding her wine glass, Tsunade gave a light snort, but a hint of disdain appeared on her face.

With a seal of that level, she could break it in a matter of minutes!

That being said, Tsunade did not forcibly break the seal, otherwise she would not have returned it to Shizune.

The other side of the ninja world.

There exists a forgotten corner of the world—the Blue Marshland.

This is the habitat of the lizards.

According to the lizards, hundreds of years ago, the Vast Marshland was a giant swamp basin with an extremely rich ecosystem. Warm geothermal energy gushed from the ground, nourishing countless exotic plants and mineral veins, making it a paradise for the lizards to live and thrive for generations.

However, the territorial wars between the spirit beast clans completely changed everything.

Although the lizard race barely managed to retain sovereignty over the Blue Marshland, the entire ecosystem had already suffered a devastating blow.

The once shimmering swamp has almost dried up, leaving only a few murky pools of stagnant water. The once lush and exotic vegetation is now nothing but bare, gray-brown hills and cracked, scorched earth.

The entire tribe thus fell into a long slumber.

In an ancient cave ruin in the Blue Marshland, a dozen strong, cold lights illuminated the cave.

This place was originally a sacred site for the lizard tribe, and mottled murals and faded runes still remain on the cave walls.

Unfortunately, as the lizard race gradually declined, the entire group fell into a long slumber, and this once glorious holy land became dilapidated, covered with the dust of time and cobwebs.

Now, this place has been completely transformed into Yamashiro Aoba's temporary laboratory.

The cave is extremely spacious, and because it is located inside the mountain, it maintains a constant low temperature and has an extremely stable geological structure, making it a perfect place for delicate and complex experimental instruments.

Aoba understood why Orochimaru's laboratories in the ninja world were all underground; the machines were simply too cumbersome.

All of these devices were secretly purchased by Aoba through underground gold exchange shops and various other channels, and then transported to the Blue Marshland in batches using spirit communication techniques.

As a result, Qingye has invested all the profits from her hot pot restaurant over the years.

The rows of sophisticated instruments gleamed with a cold light, creating a stark contrast with the surrounding mottled ancient murals.

The lizard clan highly valued Qingye, their contractor, and directly vacated this most suitable sacred site for him to explore.

Tick, tick.

The sounds of precision instruments echoed in the empty cave.

Wearing a mask and gloves, Aoba carefully removed a test tube from the centrifuge.

Inside the test tube, the dark red serum shimmered faintly under the light.

He picked up a specially made glass dropper and carefully extracted the separated dark red serum, then precisely injected the serum into another pre-prepared light blue nutrient solution.

The once calm liquid instantly reacted violently as if boiling, its color rapidly changing to a pale red, faintly radiating a scorching heat.

"The chip scans the drug's components."

[Command confirmed, scanning in progress — Molecular stability: 87%, Chakra gene fusion rate: 82%, reaching the predetermined threshold.]

A large amount of data was projected onto the retina, and the corners of Qingye's mouth slightly curled up under the mask.

After nearly a month of analysis and research, combined with a large number of bloodline limit samples collected previously, he finally completely cracked the underlying secrets of Lava Release.

Or rather, he has basically grasped the underlying logic of the "chakra fusion type" bloodline limit.

In fact, the principle had been understood long ago; Lao Zi's Lava Release simply made his conclusion more complete.

As a meticulous researcher, I need to take into account even the smallest variable.

He also understood that any logically consistent theory is nothing but a fantasy before it has been tested in practice.

After confirming that everything was correct, Qingye took the medicine and turned to walk to the other side of the cave.