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Chapter 238 The Situation in Shenzhou - Tailed Beasts Gathered

The founding ceremony has ended, and the shadows reborn from the Impure World have returned to the Pure Land.

The bustling activity in Yanjing is only temporary; the silent busyness, on the other hand, lasts much longer.

Ning Yuan had always been curious about what an emperor or ruler of a country was busy with every day, and just how busy they were.

Is 8 hours a day enough? Is overtime required?

Once he sat down in the seat, he realized that it wasn't difficult to sit there at all, and it wasn't actually that busy.

The first reason is that the Guining Immortal Dynasty has a well-established hierarchical system and a clear division of labor.

Most things can be handled by specialists, so many things never even reach Ningyuan.

The practice of officials in the Qing Dynasty sending edicts every day to ask the emperor if he was hungry, thirsty, or wanted to eat pears would never have happened during the emperor's return to his parents' home.

This alone reduced Ningyuan's workload by 80%.

Secondly, Guining Immortal Dynasty has no neighboring countries, at least not for the time being.

Having no neighboring countries means no territorial disputes, no diplomatic crises, and no need to worry about what other countries might do or to make any moves to deal with them.

This reduces the workload by 80%.

Then, thirdly, the people are different.

No matter how powerful a leader or president is on Earth, they are still just mortals with limited vision, and can only read a limited number of words and handle a limited number of matters each day.

Ning Yuan's brain, however, is equipped with the LV7 Arcane Pen Hall. Reading ten lines at a glance and remembering everything he reads is commonplace for him, and applying what he has learned to other situations is effortless. As a result, the same task would take others three or four hours, or even more than ten hours, to complete.

When it comes to him, it's all taken care of in just a few minutes.

All these factors combined mean that although Ning Yuan has a lot of work, he doesn't work many hours.

He didn't even need to do it himself; he could just create a clone and solve the problem.

So, from Ningyuan's perspective, being the leader of a country is a piece of cake!

"This is the situation in Shenzhou!" In Ning Yuan's office, Hei Jue handed over a thick document.

Shenzhou is another continent in the ninja world, but it is not described much in the Naruto series. It is only mentioned that people from Shenzhou came by ship to do business, so many people have no impression of this place.

Ning Yuan was the same; he had even forgotten about the term.

It wasn't until he met the Mizukage of Kirigakure and heard the word from him again that Ning Yuan noticed this place.

After that, naturally, Black Zetsu was instructed to send White Zetsu to investigate the situation in Shenzhou.

It's only been a little over ten days, and Black Zetsu already has results.

"The Divine Continent is not a very large continent, roughly the size of the Fire Country, Thunder Country, and the Land of Fire combined. There are more than a dozen countries scattered across it, but they all use a unified written language, which is somewhat similar to the Chinese script you've created!"

Ning Yuan looked at the map drawn by Bai Jue. The shape of the entire Divine Continent was like an inverted gourd, with a large landmass on top and a smaller landmass below.

"We checked their historical records, and it's said that 1,700 years ago, there was frequent communication between the Ninja World Continent and the Divine Continent. Our writing system was also transmitted from the Divine Continent around that time!"

Black Zetsu didn't look at Ning Yuan with much surprise, because the writing system in Shenzhou had developed independently for 1700 years. Although it had some similarities to the Chinese writing system invented by Ning Yuan, anyone with eyes could tell that they were completely different.

Ning Yuan was not surprised that the ninja script actually originated from the Divine Continent.

During the archaeological excavation in Guining Xianchao, it was discovered that older tombs and sites did not contain any written records.

Once a cemetery with inscriptions is discovered, those inscriptions must be already formed.

What does that mean?

In other words, archaeological discoveries in the ninja world have not revealed a process of script evolution. The script here seems to have appeared suddenly, and it was already in a mature state when it appeared.

If it were a native script, it would never exhibit these characteristics; it must have been learned from abroad!

Hei Jue also brought over a book from Shenzhou called "The Chronicles of the Heavenly Boat". Ning Yuan opened it and flipped through it for a while, only to find that he couldn't understand it very well.

The script used in this region is somewhat similar to traditional Chinese characters, but only in form; the meanings are completely different.

However, it is also clear that these characters are inherited from Chinese characters and are all pictographic.

Just as it was not the Qin Dynasty that unified China, but another of the Seven Warring States, that led to differences in the textual lineage of later generations.

"They don't have chakra in Shenzhou. Their cultivation involves directly absorbing natural energy, which the locals call the Immortal Path. In fact, the term 'Immortal' itself originated from Shenzhou!"

"Hiss!" Ning Yuan gasped, then asked, "Could it be that the Divine Continent is a world of cultivation? Are the people there very powerful? Are there any experts there who can move mountains and fill seas?"

You should know that the immortals in Ryūchi Cave can live for thousands of years.

If a person successfully embarks on the path of cultivation and lives for another thousand years, wouldn't that be incredible?

"I haven't seen anyone that strong, I've never even heard of them!" Black Zetsu shook his head. "The White Zetsu I sent over observed the battles of some renowned figures in the martial arts world, and I felt that the strongest among them was only a Chunin!"

"Furthermore, it's very difficult for them to release their internal energy. Someone who can release a sword aura a foot long is already called a sword immortal!"

"So that's how it is?" Ning Yuan mused. So, the Divine Continent is a low-level martial arts world!

A mere foot of sword energy is enough to call oneself a sword immortal; it feels like this level is similar to that of the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

Ning Yuan flipped through the documents written by Bai Jue, as well as the books that Bai Jue had collected.

To understand a country, the first thing to do is to understand its history.

Therefore, most of the books that White Zetsu brought back were history books.

I never imagined that China, like the Central Plains, had a tradition of recording history.

Although Ningyuan couldn't read the text in these historical books, it wasn't a big problem.

He collected all of the dozen or so historical books into the Arcane Pen Hall and then began translating them.

The writing system of the ninja world was inherited from Shenzhou. Although it has changed over the past thousand years, some parts are still mutually intelligible.

Once some parts are mutually intelligible, other texts can be translated by connecting them to the context, combining features such as frequency of use and character shape.

Ning Yuan took the lead and confirmed that these books could be deciphered.

Then, Talented Creator, activate!

In an instant, Ning Yuan's brain entered a state of overclocking, with a large amount of textual information surging in his mind. Books that were originally somewhat unfamiliar suddenly became familiar and dear.

Even the grammar and syntax were gradually taken over by Ning Yuan.

After a short while, Ning Yuan felt that he could now use this new language to write poetry and essays!

At this moment, he naturally understood the contents of this history book completely.

This set of historical books was actually compiled by later generations and used as teaching materials for school students to explain history.

The complete set of textbooks consists of 16 books, but they do not tell the stories of 16 dynasties. Instead, they cover six periods, spanning more than 5,000 years and the history of 127 countries.

These six periods can be divided into:

Ancient times (before the Mao calendar) ~ 3000 years ago

Medieval period, 3000-2200 BC

The Age of Immortals (1100 BC - 2200 BC)

Wu Dynasty (200-1100 BC)

Dynasty Era (200 BC to 600 BC)

Warring States Period (600 AD - present)

In ancient times, during the tribal era, humans ate raw meat and drank blood. They had just developed writing and invented many basic necessities for human life, such as vehicles, boats, fishing nets, and bows and arrows.

Humans collectively refer to the entire ancient period as a single era, and record the stories of several famous tribal leaders within it to teach children to be brave, confident, and united in friendship.

During the medieval period, similar to the Xia and Shang dynasties of China, the concept of a nation had already emerged in China, and several early states had formed.

During the Immortal Era, a great sage in Shenzhou discovered natural energy and began to try using it. In this process, the concept of cultivating immortality was born in Shenzhou. Those who absorbed natural chakra to strengthen themselves were called immortals.

Historical records state that during the era of immortals, there were powerful beings who could chase mountains and seize the moon, live forever, and change the world in the blink of an eye.

But one day, all these immortals disappeared, and no one could find them.

Not only did the immortals disappear, but their cultivation methods and successors also vanished. As a result, later generations either speculated that these immortals ascended to heaven with their disciples, or that the legends of immortals were simply false and that cultivators never existed.

The era of immortals came to an end. Although there were still people in later generations who utilized natural energy, their strength, even after cultivating until death, was only enough to split a rock.

The Martial Arts Era followed the Immortal Era. Since no one in the world could become an immortal, the Path of Immortality became the Path of Martial Arts. The strongest in the Path of Martial Arts then emerged and created a Martial Arts Dynasty that suppressed the world with martial arts.

It's somewhat similar to the era of Fengyun, where there was no emperor, but there was a supreme martial arts master.

During the Wu Dynasty, more and more people practiced martial arts, and many geniuses emerged, including some who surpassed even the supreme martial arts masters. As a result, the Wu Dynasty gradually lost its prestige and eventually collapsed.

Because almost everyone practices martial arts, it is virtually impossible for a martial arts family to establish another country.

So the major martial arts families united and established a new nation.

Thus, the dynasty was established, and the Divine Continent ushered in the dynastic era.

But dynasties inevitably decline, and in their place arise martial arts families that feed on the dynasty and grow ever stronger.

After the dynasty fell, some martial arts families did consider unifying again, but the pinnacle of martial arts cultivation was there and not difficult to reach, so there were too many people at the same pinnacle, making unification extremely difficult.

So these martial arts families divided up their territories and established their own countries.

These countries are constantly at war with each other in their struggle for resources, population, martial arts techniques, and other things.

Thus, the dynasty collapsed, and the Divine Continent entered the Warring States period.

Therefore, the present-day continent of Shenzhou is also known as the Warring States period.

More than four hundred years have passed since the fall of the dynasty and the beginning of the Warring States period!

"What a magnificent Warring States period!"

Although the histories of China and the Central Plains are roughly the same length, their richness and excitement are vastly different.

Because of the existence of immortality and martial arts, those who can appear on the historical stage of Shenzhou are almost all powerful cultivators who have achieved success in their cultivation; the names of ordinary people are not worthy of appearing at all.

Their stories are interesting to read once or twice, but they get boring after a while.

It cannot compare to the excitement of Chinese history, with its emperors, generals, talented scholars, beautiful women, and peasant uprisings taking turns to appear.

Moreover, since China doesn't have superpowers, its technology is at least still developing.

However, in Shenzhou, because of the existence of martial arts, everyone pursued martial arts, to the point that technology almost stagnated in the feudal era.

To this day, they haven't even invented gunpowder over there!

Ning Yuan didn't linger on the stories of emperors, generals, and powerful figures of the Divine Continent, but instead focused his attention on the year 1100 before the Mao calendar.

In 1100 BC, the immortals of Shenzhou suddenly disappeared from the world.

So, where did they go?

Could it be true, as their descendants say, that these immortals ascended to heaven?

Ning Yuan disagreed.

The people of Shenzhou were baffled by this matter, but Ning Yuan had some ideas.

The sacred tree planted by the Ōtsutsuki clan ripens only once every thousand years, meaning that the Ōtsutsuki clan planted the sacred tree around 1000 years before the Mao calendar.

In 1000 BC, two horned, pale-skinned aliens came to this world and encountered a group of immortals who could fly and escape into the earth. What will happen between them?

This isn't a female-oriented website, so it's impossible for a local to fall in love with an alien.

That definitely means war is going to break out.

Immortals are very strong, but unfortunately, they are not as strong as aliens.

So they were all killed, and their heritage was destroyed.

There are no records of this incident in China, but it is likely that the Otsutsuki clan did it thoroughly, killing all those who knew about it.

But they didn't kill them all; some of them escaped to the Ninja World Continent.

As a result, the memories of this war on the Ninja World Continent were passed down to later generations.

It's a Naruto movie, the one with Grell's Stone.

Someone mentioned that a great battle in ancient times used up all the Grell Stones.

It's unclear whether the immortals used up all the Grell Stones to fight the aliens, or whether the aliens stole the Grell Stones after killing all the immortals.

In any case, this incident does prove that a great war took place two thousand years ago.

This incident also conveniently proves why those who came after the Immortal Era were not as strong as the cultivators of the Immortal Era.

Because an extremely valuable cultivation resource: the Grell Stone, is gone!

The two aliens not only wreaked havoc on the Divine Continent, but they were also active in the Ninja World.

Because of the natural chakra in the ninja world, a large number of strange gods were born, and all of these gods were killed by the Otsutsuki.

"What are you planning to do? Will you unify the Divine Continent as well?" Hei Jue asked curiously.

"I have that idea!" The idea of ​​a ball or something like that sounds pretty exciting.

However, Ning Yuan shook his head: "But it's not feasible right now."

The distance to Shenzhou is too far. Guining currently has neither mobile phones nor telephones, making it impossible to manage.

Of course, the most important thing is that there is a severe shortage of talent in Guining.

Now even a third-grade elementary school graduate can become a town mayor. If they take over Shenzhou as well, what will they do then? Will a third-grade elementary school graduate become the mayor?

"However, you can keep your men for now!" Ning Yuan added, "If we don't fight now, we'll have to fight later anyway. We can develop for eleven or twelve years, that should be enough!"

Black Zetsu nodded, indicating that he understood.

Ning Yuan put the file down and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Black Zetsu blinked, a hint of smugness in his eyes, and asked, "I heard that Kirigakure has already sent over the Jinchuriki of the Three-Tails and the Six-Tails. Does that mean we've gathered all nine Tailed Beasts?"

"So, isn't it time to bring my mother back to life?"

"This isn't possible right now!" Ning Yuan shook his head.

Hei Jue's already dark face twisted in agony: "Ning Yuan, you're not going to back out, are you?!"

Ning Yuan rolled her eyes: "You've been with me for two years now, don't you know me? When have I ever broken a promise?"

Hei Jue looked completely bewildered, but his eyes clearly showed disbelief.

Ning Yuan sighed and asked again, "Do you know what the cultivation technique I'm practicing is called?"

"I know, the Phoenix Heavenly Technique!" Hei Jue nodded.

"Phoenix Heavenly Attack" is derived from "Phoenix Genealogy Chart" by incorporating immortal techniques. It is an authentic method of cultivating immortality, and the energy cultivated is refined immortal power.

Of course, this is what they call it in this world. According to the terminology used in the cultivation world, it should be called magical power.

"I was able to comprehend the methods of chakra storage, meridian cultivation, and the Heavenly Technique not because I'm particularly intelligent, but because I stood on the shoulders of giants!" Ning Yuan said. "These are all cultivation paths that already exist in the world; I've simply gone a little further! You admit that!"

Black Zetsu nodded. The chakra storage method was borrowed from the Yin Seal Technique, the meridian circulation method was improved from the Hyuga clan's acupoint technique, and the Phoenix Heavenly Art was a fusion of Sage Mode cultivation methods. Indeed, they were all improved from the cultivation methods that already existed locally.

"So, what should be the next step for the Phoenix Heavenly Skill?" Ning Yuan asked again.

"This? You're asking me? How would I know?!" Hei Jue looked completely bewildered. "Besides, what does this have to do with your promise?"

"Of course it's related!" Ning Yuan said, "You don't know the next step of the Phoenix Heavenly Technique, but your mother does!"

Kaguya Otsutsuki is no ordinary person; she comes from the Otsutsuki clan and is a guardian.

The title "Guardian" is actually a bit of an exaggeration; in reality, Kaguya's status is no different from that of a swordsman.

But don't underestimate the position of a maid. In fact, because many people chat without hiding it from their maids, and maids also spread gossip about their masters, this position is extremely well-informed.

And since they are guardians, their strength can't be low, right?

Even if the core skills aren't taught to Kaguya, surely some of the less essential techniques should be taught to her?

In conclusion, Kaguya Otsutsuki not only possesses secret ninjutsu from the Otsutsuki clan, but also likely information about her future path.

"My path of cultivation doesn't want to be limited to the 'Phoenix Heavenly Art,' and to contend with the Otsutsuki clan arriving from the stars, one 'Phoenix Heavenly Art' probably won't be enough!" Ning Yuan laughed. "After all, no matter how much energy you store, it can't match someone's unlimited chakra!"

Hei Zetsu nodded; that's the point.

Ning Yuan didn't hide the fact that he was practicing the Phoenix Heavenly Technique from Hei Zetsu because the Phoenix Heavenly Technique was powerful only for people in the ninja world, but not necessarily for the Otsutsuki clan.

"Since I want to know what happens next, I have to rescue your mother!" Ning Yuan spread his hands. "Now you understand, right? Our interests are aligned, so there's no way I can go back on my word!"

Hei Jue nodded; only then did he believe it.

You can't blame Ning Yuan for being long-winded. He's seen countless movies and read countless novels, and many falling out have been caused by misunderstandings or a lack of timely communication.

Hei Jue also controls the intelligence system of the Gui Ning Immortal Dynasty.

If he wanted to cause trouble, suppressing it would be easy, but finding a conscientious, honest, and objective tool would be much more difficult.

Besides, if he ends up with Kaguya, then Black Zetsu will be like his own son!

Therefore, he doesn't mind being patient with Blackbeard.

"Since you've said that, I'll choose to believe you. But you have to tell me why it's not possible now. What difficulties have you encountered? I can help you solve them!" Hei Jue asked.

"Well then, I can't explain it to you clearly in a short time. Let me take you to see it!" Ning Yuan separated one of his avatars to handle government affairs, and then put his hand on Hei Jue's shoulder.

The next second, the two had disappeared from the office.

(End of this chapter)