On the other side, after Kusuo and Shion left, he continued to sweep through the various small battlefields. Whenever he struck, it was with lightning speed, decisively slaying all enemies. Everywhere he passed was a devastating steamroll.
[Current Role-Play Percentage: 78.99%.]
Kusuo looked at his panel. The rate at which his role-play percentage was increasing was getting slower and slower. He remembered when he had first discovered that he could gain percentage by killing enemies, two mere chunin could increase it by about 1%. Now, he had just casually killed several hundred Hidden Stone chunin, and it had only increased by about 1% in total.
But it was understandable. Even in the games of his previous life, the experience gained from grinding maps would become abnormally slow in the later stages. At this rate, if he wanted to max out his role-play percentage and "graduate," he would probably need a lot more "mobs."
As for who these "mobs" were, Kusuo already had a good idea in his heart. To be honest, if the three great nations didn't proactively start a war, he really had no way of dealing with those Kage hiding in their villages. But now...
Another matter was the mystery of combining the breathing method with chakra. Through the tempering of the breathing method, Kusuo's body was stronger than all the Kage. So much so that he was certain that once he successfully unlocked one hundred percent of the Yoriichi Tsugikuni template, the state of his opened Mark would be no worse than Guy's after opening the Eight Gates, and perhaps even surpass it.
But... without becoming a user of Kekkei Mōra, one could not achieve eternal life in a single day. Below the level of Kekkei Mōra, even for the Sage of Six Paths, the final result would be death, with only a vast and pure chakra left to be passed down through the ages. If you were lucky, you could let your spiritual body exist forever, silently watching everything in the ninja world. But once the spiritual body left the physical body and could no longer be nourished, every use of it represented a form of consumption.
So, if Kusuo wanted eternal life, he had to advance to the level of Kekkei Mōra. And to do that, a massive amount of chakra was indispensable. The breathing method was certainly powerful, so powerful that he could kill all the enemies in the world with his sword. But the accompanying drawback was that he rarely stored chakra. The chakra that entered his body with every breath was all broken down by his cells into pure energy that flowed throughout his body. His Kage-level chakra reserves were entirely a reward from the system. If word of this got out, it would probably shock the entire ninja world. A single person, with almost no chakra refinement training, possessed the chakra reserves of a Kage.
Although Kusuo had never used it. His sword aura, every time he slashed, did not carry a single trace of chakra fluctuation. But obtaining a massive amount of chakra was still a goal that could not be ignored.
"Mount Myoboku, Shikkotsu Forest, Ryuchi Cave..."
"Kusuo, what are you saying?" Shion, who was pressed against him, heard him muttering.
"It's nothing. Just thinking about some things," Kusuo said with a smile.
Shion opened her eyes wide and asked curiously, "What things? Can you tell me?"
Seeing the girl's appearance, and since it wasn't anything worth keeping secret, Kusuo told her what he had just been thinking.
"You need a large amount of chakra or energy?" Shion was very puzzled. She didn't understand what he needed these for. In her eyes, the breathing secret art he had taught them was already very powerful.
"But if Kusuo needs chakra, maybe I can help."
Shion's words made Kusuo slightly surprised. "How so?"
"Have you forgotten? I have all of Mōryō's chakra in my body. It is born from the negative emotions of all things in the world. As long as there is slaughter, deception, betrayal, greed, and other negative emotions in the world, Mōryō will be immortal. So, I can completely give you all of Mōryō's chakra. It will just revive again at the next node. It's just that at that time, it will have a new consciousness, and we will have to subdue it again."
Negative emotions... energy...?!
In an instant, it was as if Kusuo had a sudden enlightenment. He instantly connected many things. He had originally just planned to learn some methods of absorbing sage art chakra through the three great sage regions and use it as one of his backup chakra sources. Now that he thought about it, he had really been using a golden bowl as a rice bowl, abandoning the root for the branches.
Back then, how did the first wisp of chakra in the ninja world come to be? After the God Tree was planted, it bore the fruit of chakra. Then Kaguya ate it, and from then on, the entire ninja world possessed chakra. So then, where did the energy of the God Tree come from? It was precisely from absorbing the energy of nature, that is, sage art chakra, that it was condensed.
Although there might be a difference between the two, it was undeniable that nature energy was the source of chakra. Moreover, the natural energy contained in the entire world was endless. It was no exaggeration to say that it was inexhaustible.
Imagine, back then, the sage art talisman that the Great Toad Sage had given to the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, could elevate his brother Hamura to the Six Paths level. It was imaginable just how terrifying the upper limit of natural energy was.
"Thank you, Shion!" Now that he thought of it, Kusuo was a little excited. He smiled and thanked her.
"`ˇYou're welcome." Shion shyly buried her head, very happy that she could help him. Little did she know that Kusuo was not thanking her because she was willing to give up Mōryō's chakra, but because her words had completely opened up his train of thought.
Immediately, he wanted to try using the breathing method to absorb natural energy.
Seeing Kusuo sit down cross-legged, Shion tactfully left first, and by the way, summoned a few more terracotta warriors to surround their former country, the Land of Demons.
VMM!
One wisp after another of blue energy fluctuations was attracted by a human-shaped vortex, pouring in from Kusuo's nasal cavity. Gradually, a surging, vast chakra fluctuation swept through everything. The huge energy even tore Kusuo's red upper garment. This was also the first time his clothes had been damaged.
But it didn't last long. Kusuo immediately felt his body become a little stiff, with a faint tendency to turn to stone. Immediately, he stopped absorbing the natural energy and temporarily meditated to sense it.
"Hah! Hoo~" The sound of long and short, rhythmic breathing was heard. Faintly, the color of the mark on Kusuo's forehead seemed to have deepened a little.
Just as he was fully entering a state of meditation, a heroic female voice interrupted him. "Stinking brat? Is that you?"
The unique form of address immediately let him guess who the newcomer was.
"Lady Tsunade, why have you also come to the battlefield?"
Kusuo opened his eyes. Just as he was about to greet her, he found that Tsunade's eyes were staring at his upper body without blinking. He looked down and found that his red clothes had been torn by the natural energy.
"Have you had enough of a look, Lady Tsunade?" Kusuo was not flustered at all, not having the slightest awareness that he had been seen by a member of the opposite sex. "In any case, I've seen your 'scenery' before. Letting you see my upper body just makes us even."
Hearing Kusuo's calm tone, Tsunade's eye twitched. This stinking brat... he just had to bring that up. If he hadn't said it, I would have forgotten.
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