Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 496 Experiment Successful

[Chapter Bonus Scene: Yuki is holding an instrument in his hand, while the Fourth Raikage stands beside him with his arms crossed and a serious expression on his face. Yuki's wife and sister-in-law are looking at him with worry.]

Travelogue: Recording these things is such a hassle...

……

Regardless of why the initial travelogue was written about visiting Kumogakure.

The fact is that travelogues are not theoretically trusted in Kumogakure.

This is perfectly normal. After marrying a foreign wife and moving to a foreign country, it's impossible for people there to completely trust someone from another country.

However, after this incident, the travelogue will no longer be distrusted in Kumogakure.

And the task of writing the travelogue can now officially begin.

Yes, just as the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure thought, Yuki did indeed receive the mission from Yua to go to Kumogakure.

However, unlike what the Fourth Raikage had imagined, Yugi, Yua's son, was not tasked with stealing intelligence like other undercover ninjas, nor was he meant to cause trouble within the Hidden Cloud Village.

The task of writing a travelogue is actually very simple, just one thing:

He wanted to make Kumogakure prosperous and strong, but he also wanted the people of Kumogakure to know that it was his travelogue that made Kumogakure prosperous and strong.

This isn't a stealth mission or an undercover mission. If you really want to say something, it might be somewhat related to an infiltration mission.

The travelogue's purpose in visiting Kumogakure was genuinely to improve the lives of the villagers.

So he vigorously developed terraced farming techniques. Although he had Wood Release ninjutsu that could make things twice as easy, the villagers of Kumogakure did not.

However, the villagers of Kumogakure are all muscular men with inexhaustible strength.

Under these conditions, it seems not impossible to modify the terraced fields for planting.

As a result, the travelogue greatly improved the lives of the villagers in Kumogakure, reducing Kumogakure's dependence on Iwagakure for food.

The Land of Lightning, where Kumogakure is located, has very rich natural resources, and meat is never in short supply. However, the lack of staple foods and only eating meat is a major drawback.

It's easy to imagine how important this terraced farming method described in the travelogue is to Kumogakure.

Therefore, when Yua spoke with the Fourth Raikage on the phone about having his son chosen as the test subject, the Fourth Raikage was much more determined to refuse than Yua.

The Fourth Raikage finally understood.

The travelogue contains absolutely no information gathering missions.

You son of a bitch, have you ever seen a ninja who gathers intelligence and does nothing but sit there all day thinking about how to grow food on the mountain?

The key point is that after it was grown, the traveler tried it and said that the taste wasn't very good and needed to be improved.

The Fourth Raikage was dumbfounded.

During the reign of his father, the Third Raikage, Kumogakure experienced two large-scale economic crises.

One instance was during the early years of the Third Raikage's rule. He wasn't even born then, so he doesn't know the specifics, but he heard from the elders that it was very serious. Moreover, at that time, Iwagakure took advantage of the situation, selling a bag of grain for 500,000 ryo, and only accepting money from Konoha, not Kumogakure.

People actually starved to death in Kumogakure back then.

Later, other merchants joined forces to drive down the prices of goods from Kumogakure before reselling them to Konoha. Even if they sold them at par, because Konoha's currency was very strong, these merchants were still able to continue exchanging goods for supplies in Kumogakure.

Both times, the Third Raikage used swift and decisive methods to suppress them.

The reason why the business in Hidden Cloud Village is now half dead is because of this incident.

This time it wasn't as serious, but food prices still went up.

The Fourth Raikage experienced this firsthand.

Therefore, the Fourth Raikage valued food very much.

Travelogues solve this problem.

Although it only solved a small part of the problem, it was enough to make the Fourth Raikage happy.

So when Yua said he wanted to use Yuki as a test subject, the Fourth Raikage was even angrier than Yua.

Unfortunately, the travelogue itself was something I was willing to write.

The experiment was a success.

Orochimaru did not lie to Yua; the Six Paths Chakra can be perfectly compatible with the human body.

After obtaining the Six Paths Chakra, Yuki became extremely powerful.

Moreover, unlike many ninja clans in Konoha who are unable to store Six Paths Chakra.

For some reason, the Six Paths Chakra within Yuki's body was very quiet, and it was able to coexist harmoniously with the ordinary chakra within his body and the Slug Sage's Sage Technique Chakra.

This greatly encouraged You Ya.

Orochimaru also became very interested.

He was fascinated by the chakra reactions between Sage Chakra and Six Paths Chakra.

then……

Orochimaru has his eye on Jiraiya.

Unfortunately, unlike Jiraiya, Orochimaru simply doesn't have natural energy within him to refine Sage Chakra.

The original plan was to have Jiraiya come over immediately.

However, since Yua and Tsunade had a fight, Orochimaru thought he could temporarily focus on researching how to mass-produce them.

Fortunately, Tsunade's anger came and went quickly.

After speaking with Yuki on the phone and confirming with him again and again, Tsunade was finally relieved to find that Yuki was in good health.

She then looked at her beloved grandson and told the travel writer to work harder and have more big, healthy sons.

Of course, it would be great if it were a granddaughter. At the end of the year, Tsunade gave Yuki a strict order: he had to bring the child back.

The travelogue writer, looking exasperated, agreed.

After that, Tsunade apologized to Yua.

Yuya was somewhat surprised; this Tsunade was really too virtuous, she even apologized.

Could it be a fake Tsunade?

Tsunade was instantly enraged and gave Yua a good beating before the two made up.

Afterwards, Orochimaru's side also obtained Sage Chakra from Jiraiya.

Unlike the rarity of Six Paths Chakra, Jiraiya could produce Sage Chakra indefinitely.

Of course, this will take time.

However, with the help of the two immortals, Fukasaku and Shima... and the immortal toad, the production would be even faster.

Currently, it is in the experimental stage, and the demand is not large.

Orochimaru doesn't need to trouble the two immortal toads for the time being.

Then, Yuya remembered the inscription on the monument in their village that Fugaku Uchiha had mentioned.

After much thought, You Ya put forward his own conjecture.

Using Hashirama cells as a carrier, members of the Uchiha clan with the Mangekyou Sharingan contributed some chakra, and then the Sage Chakra and Uchiha chakra were fused together to see if it would be successful.

Orochimaru tried it and found that it could be fused, but the quality was not good enough.

Yuya thought about it again and set her sights on the Nine-Tails...

What if we add the Nine-Tails' chakra?

So... two months after the research on the Six Paths Chakra began...

The Six Paths Chakra has been successfully replicated...

(End of this chapter)