Following the guidance, the simulation continued.
[Faced with the pressure Tsunade placed on you, you remained neither humble nor pushy. You told her that she had made a serious mistake. If you had truly mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, then her threat would be completely useless. If you hadn't mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, then her threat would also become meaningless.]
[Finally, you concluded with this: "Is the Hokage-sama truly prepared to sever ties with a user of the Flying Thunder God?" Tsunade was so angry at your words that her melons trembled, but she was already helpless against you. She could try to take the risk of capturing you, but she couldn't bear the consequences of you defecting.]
[In the end, Tsunade was not Sarutobi Hiruzen or Danzo. Faced with something she truly couldn't control, she wouldn't try to eliminate the other party, but would instead try to negotiate. So she had you name a price based on your own abilities, and if you could satisfy her, she would never again concern herself with how Danzo died.]
[Relying on your profound understanding of Sunagakure, you proposed a solution completely beyond Tsunade's expectations. Intrigued by this idea, she let you leave the Hokage's office and then began to seriously consider the feasibility of this plan.]
[Three days later, Tsunade and Rasa reached an agreement. Rasa wrote a letter, having Gaara and Temari return to Konoha as exchange students, while he himself could return to Sunagakure. However, before Rasa left Konoha, Tsunade arranged for you to quietly place the Flying Thunder God mark on Rasa.]
Seeing this, Ryun mentally reviewed the operational logic behind it.
Actually, it was very simple. At this point, Naruto's talk-no-jutsu had already moved Gaara; it was impossible for him to launch an attack on Konoha again. Rasa was unaware of this; in his view, Gaara's personality was still violent and cruel, and leaving Gaara in Konoha would only cause chaos there.
If Gaara died because of this, Shukaku would resurrect in the desert, and then he could naturally go catch Shukaku again and remake the jinchūriki. There was no doubt that Rasa at this time was capable of such a thing; he was an ambitious and ruthless character.
As for feeling regret after being reanimated by the Impure World Reincarnation, that was a matter after his death. The living Rasa wouldn't consider so much. Finally, with you placing the Flying Thunder God mark on him, even if Rasa later wanted to betray the alliance between Sunagakure and Konoha, you could make him disappear at any time.
[Through your behind-the-scenes mediation, peace came to Konoha and Sunagakure, and you began to be valued by Tsunade. However, you were unwilling to be a ninja, nor did you want to be a Konoha bureaucrat, and Tsunade simply couldn't do anything about you.]
[Not only that, but Tsunade also had to take time to cooperate with you on medical ninjutsu research. If she hadn't realized your research was extremely valuable and she herself wanted to know the answers, she might have fallen out with you long ago.]
[This peaceful life didn't last long before Sasuke chose to defect. This time, because Gaara and Temari were already studying in Konoha, the team sent to retrieve Sasuke became even stronger. On Orochimaru's side, without Kimimaro, he could only act personally, bringing Yakushi Kabuto.]
Seeing this, Ryun couldn't help but twitch his mouth. Orochimaru was in a bit of a sorry state now... this was probably what they meant by being down on one's luck, right?
However, this worked to Ryun's advantage.
[You also silently followed the Sasuke retrieval team and, during the battle, placed the Flying Thunder God mark on Sasuke, Kabuto, and Orochimaru. Although you couldn't take Sasuke back from Orochimaru, you learned the spatiotemporal coordinates of many of Orochimaru's hideouts.]
Ryun couldn't help but get excited. Once the simulation was over, he would write these things down. Then, if Ryun wanted to cooperate with Orochimaru later, having these coordinates would make it much easier.
Of course, Ryun could also choose to make contact with Orochimaru during the Chūnin Exams. The only problem was that doing so was a bit too risky and might cause Ryun himself to be unable to continue in Konoha. Whether to do this or not would depend on whether Ryun's own subsequent simulations would be restricted.
[After the failure to retrieve Sasuke, Naruto left with Jiraiya for training. On your suggestion, Tsunade took Sakura as her disciple, and you also demonstrated your unreasonable medical ninjutsu. Tsunade demanded an explanation from you, but you chose to ignore her, leaving Tsunade so angry her watermelons trembled.]
[Subsequently, Sakura learned medical ninjutsu under your and Tsunade's guidance, her strength advancing rapidly. And you didn't forget your own research, wanting to thoroughly clarify the relationship between chakra and life force.]
[In the 67th year of Konoha, as Sakura's studies bore fruit, she also joined your research. Then Sakura suggested that if you had no leads, you might try researching your cellular activation. Because she felt your cellular activation was very similar to how Tsunade kept herself young through the Yin Seal.]
Upon seeing this line in reality, Ryun was so surprised he jumped straight up.
Why hadn't he thought of that?
Indeed, a young mind was more useful!
Ryun's eyes shone. The Yin Seal keeping one young was also a form of cellular activation, wasn't it? Only, this process was driven and regulated by the Yin Seal, whereas Ryun's current cellular activation was a talent. So what was the biggest difference between the two?
Amidst Ryun's anticipation, the simulation provided the answer!
[In the 68th year of Konoha, the increasingly tense situation in the ninja world didn't make you give up your research. You finally clarified your thinking: the essence of cellular activation is the growth and evolution of life, while what the Yin Seal brings to cells is merely increased activity, not a change in the life sense.]
[At first glance, this conclusion seemed unrelated to both chakra and life force, but you keenly sensed a fundamental connection between them. Finally, before the Great Ninja War, having personally experienced the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, you understood everything.]
[Survival and evolution are the instincts of life. This instinct drives countless cells to connect into a whole system, connecting to each other with faint spiritual power, ultimately forming a chakra imbued with a life will. This kind of power can truly be named life force, possessing the miraculous effect of regenerating dead things or bringing inorganic matter to life.]
[In contrast, the chakra produced by ninjas is mixed with the ninja's own spiritual will. While this certainly makes the chakra full of combat power, it also causes this chakra to lose the original characteristics of life force.]
[This also explains why chakra cannot be used to replenish life force: because chakra is already degraded when it is produced. To use degraded chakra to replenish life force, you must purify the chakra to its limit while simultaneously reinfusing it with a life will that transcends the ninja's individual will.]
Ryun pondered these words, feeling he understood.
Although it seemed a bit abstract, he got it. In short, life force was also a special kind of chakra. This kind of chakra couldn't be refined by a person's subjective spiritual will; it was the manifestation of a person's life instinct.
For an ordinary ninja, merely transferring this life instinct to another person was already as difficult as climbing to the sky, like Chiyo's forbidden technique, the Life-Giving Reincarnation. As for creating life force from nothing, that was a process where a ninja transcended themselves from spirit to chakra, and its difficulty was probably no less than learning and mastering Yin-Yang Release.
If it was still hard to understand, Ryun had an even simpler analogy. The process of turning chakra into life force was the process of an ordinary ninja trying to bypass Yin-Yang Release to create life. It was a mortal will audaciously trying to directly surpass the gods; it would be ridiculous for this difficulty not to be high.
Seeing this, Ryun even felt a bit dejected, feeling that continuing the research seemed pointless. But at this moment, the simulation gave Ryun another surprise.
[Understanding all this, you realize it's impossible for a ninja to generate life force by themselves. So why not create an unconscious, pure spiritual entity, similar to a fetus, and have it simulate the most primordial spiritual stirring, thereby guiding the continuous generation of life force?]
Holy crap!
Ryun's eyes widened. What was this about? Creating an external avatar?
No, upon closer thought, Ryun realized it was actually more similar to Kaguya creating Black Zetsu. The only difference was that they wouldn't infuse the created spiritual entity with will, but would instead have it provide only pure life force.
This way, anyone could have a talent effect similar to cellular activation, and could even freely mobilize life force for combat or saving others. But what was the difference between this and cellular activation?
After a little thought, Ryun understood the biggest difference between the two.
Cellular activation devoured all chakra to strengthen oneself, unable to give back to others. The spiritual fetus could convert physical energy, food energy, etc., into pure life force, used to nourish oneself and heal others.
Eh... why did this configuration feel a bit familiar?
Sigh—the ultimate forms of these two wouldn't be the Divine Tree and the Ninja Sect, would they?
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