Chapter 166: One Tube of Chakra = One Asuma
Chapter 166: One Tube of Chakra = One Asuma
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"That's natural!" Just then, Teuchi also poked his head out from the kitchen. "This is a delicacy I created after traveling all over the ninja world and drawing on the strengths of many!"
"Huh? Lord Hokage?" Teuchi looked at the person walking into the shop and was momentarily stunned. "Why are you here?"
"Naturally, it's for these two brats. Give me a portion of extra spicy bamboo shoot ramen," Uchiha Douhuan chuckled, nodding at Teuchi. After ordering, he came and sat down beside the two blondes in the shop.
It had to be said, Teuchi truly was a chef with aspirations. With Konoha's rapid development today, as Konoha's landmark delicacy, many merchants had proposed cooperating with him to expand his business, wanting to sell his ramen throughout the entire ninja world. But Teuchi, considering that expanding the business would affect the quality of the ramen, rejected these proposals, even though he would lose a lot of money as a result.
And some of those merchants who really didn't want to miss such a huge business opportunity wanted to use some underhanded tactics to force Teuchi to comply or obtain his recipe. But this group clearly forgot one thing: Teuchi's backing in Konoha was possibly even stronger than Kado's. After all, Kado was just the Hokage's white glove, but Teuchi could proudly say that this generation of Konoha ninjas all grew up eating his ramen.
Those who wanted to pull some petty tricks had barely finalized their plans before Kakashi took them to the Naka River Grand Hotel to thoroughly experience the temperature of the Naka River in winter.
"Teacher!"
"Hokage Uncle!"
The two blondes greeted him. Uchiha Douhuan said helplessly, "Didn't I say? There's really no need for the 'Uncle' title."
"Oh," Deidara replied nonchalantly.
After Uchiha Douhuan finished his ramen and bid farewell to Teuchi, he finally took the two blondes away. After sending Naruto back first, Uchiha Douhuan, on the other hand, led Deidara towards the village outskirts.
"I've already communicated with your teacher. The Tsuchikage's opinion is for you to stay in Konoha for a period as an exchange student, so you can be far from the flames of war in the Land of Earth. At the same time, he also asked me to guide your training a bit," Uchiha Douhuan explained to Deidara as they walked.
"Let's put training aside for now; let's have a good chat about art," Deidara said, rubbing his hands. "After your guidance last time, I've gained some new insights into art."
"No rush, no rush," Uchiha Douhuan waved his hand. "Art is something where haste makes waste. Tomorrow, I'll designate a place for you, and you can properly demonstrate your learning achievements from this period."
"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm!" Deidara nodded hastily, simultaneously thinking to himself:
[Konoha is still better! Those hidebound old fogeys in Iwagakure, how could they understand his art!]
After bringing Deidara to a construction site on the edge of the village that was being prepared for development, Uchiha Douhuan arranged for this kid to stay in a thatched hut. This place was originally the village's Training Ground #9. With Konoha's development, the ninjas' training grounds were all moved to the south of the village, and this area was then planned as a future residential zone. This thatched hut was originally the resting place for ninjas at the training ground.
Uchiha Douhuan naturally wouldn't arrange for this kid to live in Konoha's core district. Otherwise, with this kid's personality, who knows what he might blow up on a whim someday. Although he could directly demand compensation from the Tsuchikage, frequent explosions would definitely severely affect Konoha's property values. Therefore, Uchiha Douhuan decisively placed this kid in this desolate countryside. Here, he could blow up whatever he wanted, as long as he dispatched two Water Style ninjas to watch over him and prevent the kid from starting a forest fire.
Of course, Uchiha Douhuan definitely wouldn't say this directly to Deidara.
"Originally, I planned for you to live with Naruto. But considering you are an artist, and artists need to be close to nature to gain inspiration, I arranged for you to stay here. You shouldn't have any objections, right?" Uchiha Douhuan asked with a smile.
"This is truly fantastic!" Deidara looked excitedly at the surrounding green waters and lush mountains, nodding with satisfaction. "Thank you so much, Hokage Uncle!"
*See, he even has to thank me!*
"I will send someone over to take care of you. If you need anything, just tell him directly. Our Konoha treats every guest who comes here well," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Then what we agreed on for tomorrow..." Deidara showed a slightly shy smile. Uchiha Douhuan's arrangements were too thoughtful; he felt a bit embarrassed.
"I'll come pick you up personally tomorrow," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Then it's settled!" Deidara said joyfully.
Early the next morning, Uchiha Douhuan went to Deidara's lodging and took the kid to the area indicated in the blueprints Yamato had given him.
From the dark circles under the kid's eyes, it was easy to tell Deidara probably hadn't slept all night from excitement.
After arriving at the location, Uchiha Douhuan couldn't help but say, "Why don't you go back and sleep for a bit first? Demonstrating your art isn't urgent for this short while."
"No, no, no! My condition is excellent!" How could Deidara be willing to wait any longer? He immediately perked up, took out a piece of clay, put it in his mouth, and chewed. Before long, he spat out a large lump of clay, which transformed into a large bird before the two of them.
After Deidara stepped onto the large bird, he said to Uchiha Douhuan, "Let's go, let's go up first."
Uchiha Douhuan nodded and followed him onto the bird's back. The giant bird flapped its wings and took off.
After reaching the sky, Uchiha Douhuan also understood why Yamato felt a headache about this place.
This area, covering roughly over 400,000 square meters, if it only required digging a deep pit of over 200,000 square meters for the foundation, although the labor cost would be high, it wasn't entirely without profit.
But if one also considered the numerous large rocks standing tall in this area, besides using exploding tags for demolition, there seemed to be no other economical and practical method.
While Uchiha Douhuan was observing this construction site, Deidara also began his preparations, taking out a handful of clay and chewing continuously. Not only that, but his two palms also each sprouted a bizarre mouth and began chewing clay.
Then, under Uchiha Douhuan's astonished gaze, Deidara successively took out numerous metal blocks and metal powders preserved by various methods.
Among them were even those extremely reactive elemental metals, such as metallic sodium and metallic magnesium, lying quietly in two kerosene cans sealed with sealing formulas.
Seeing these, Uchiha Douhuan was dumbfounded. One must know, the method for producing the elemental forms of these metals was unknown even to him, a transmigrator. Yet this kid Deidara actually managed to create these things through his own research?
"This... how did you make this?" Uchiha Douhuan asked, pointing at a jar that looked like it contained metallic sodium.
"You mean this?" Deidara looked in the direction Uchiha Douhuan's finger was pointing, then said with a smile, "I call this Exploding Red Metal. Let me tell you, this stuff is incredibly powerful! It makes a sharp cracking sound when it touches water, and the explosion is quite significant."
"I know. I'm asking how you made it. This stuff shouldn't exist in nature, right?" Uchiha Douhuan ignored the somewhat crude name and asked.
"Oh, this. Use an iron crucible, fill it with caustic soda, then continuously heat it with high-intensity Fire Style. Then you can get a bit of this metal," Deidara explained. "Making this stuff is quite troublesome. There are only a few ninjas in our Iwagakure who can achieve that Fire Style temperature. It's very expensive to ask for their help. This one jar of metal cost me half a year's allowance. It should be cheaper to make this in your Konoha, right?"
Uchiha Douhuan: ...
This kid seemed to be more than just a demolition genius. Although the kid's purpose in making this stuff was for explosions, to be able to figure out how to produce elemental sodium through self-exploration in the ninja world, an environment where the average person was semi-literate, this kid's talent in this area was simply breathtaking.
"Alright, preparations complete!" Deidara said enthusiastically, then directly smashed the few glass jars and containers preserving various other metals. Lumps of clay surged up the moment those containers shattered, enveloping and devouring those various metals. The surfaces of those clay lumps also took on various brilliant colors, shining brightly under the sunlight.
Then, Deidara roared explosively: "Explosion Release: Art of a Hundred Blooming Flowers!"
As Deidara's voice fell, a lump of processed clay beside him instantly transformed into a giant bird, flying towards the ground. Two seconds later, a massive explosion echoed through the sky. A huge mushroom cloud rose from this open ground, sending rubble and soil flying outwards.
However, what shocked Uchiha Douhuan even more was yet to come. Uchiha Douhuan keenly detected a ripple of space-time ninjutsu from the center of the explosion. Then, two pieces of metal-infused clay hovering beside Deidara instantly vanished. Two more booming sounds followed, and simultaneously rising were mushroom clouds with dazzling dual-colored strong light.
Then, the space-time ripple occurred again. This time, four more pieces of clay beside Deidara disappeared. The next instant, explosions followed closely, and four-colored mushroom clouds rose again beside the slightly faded dual-colored mushroom clouds.
Soon, eight more pieces of clay vanished from beside Deidara, and eight more mushroom clouds of different colors exploded below.
"Holy crap! Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags?" Uchiha Douhuan looked at Deidara's technique in surprise. The principle of this thing was too similar to the Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags technique developed by that inherently evil old Senju devil! Both utilized the chakra from the initial explosion to trigger pre-set summoning technique formulas, summoning double the explosives to the center of the explosion, thereby achieving a chain reaction effect.
However, although the principles were similar, the commotion Deidara created looked far more dazzling than the Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags. This, in broad daylight, looked just like setting off fireworks. From Uchiha Douhuan's perspective, the mushroom clouds formed by the explosions below looked like a gradually blooming colorful flower.
At this moment, Deidara, controlling the ninjutsu, was also drenched in sweat. It was clear this ninjutsu consumed a huge amount of his energy; his chakra was now about to hit rock bottom.
"Hokage Uncle! Lend a hand! Use a Water Style down below! I'm out of chakra!" Deidara, drenched in sweat, said to Uchiha Douhuan while maintaining the ninjutsu.
At this moment, Uchiha Douhuan also understood Deidara's plan. After forming hand seals, he used Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique.
A massive water curtain generated out of thin air, then was blasted into mist by the impact of the explosions!
"Next is the final blow!" Deidara roared. The remaining clay beside him, fused with those extremely reactive metals, transformed into birds and charged towards the water mist in mid-air.
Then came the most classic "Floating, Melting, Resounding, Red" – along with sharp cracking sounds, the final wave of explosions erupted.
Deidara at this point was also squeezed dry of his last bit of chakra. Even the large clay bird beneath his feet could no longer be maintained. After the large bird dissipated, the two fell downwards together. Although they were hundreds of meters in the air, Deidara stared fixedly at the commotion he had created, a satisfied smile on his face.
Uchiha Douhuan helplessly shook his head, then activated his Mangekyou Sharingan. A giant Susanoo appeared out of thin air, enveloping the two and re-suspending them in the sky.
An ordinary person seeing such a scene would only marvel at the might of the Susanoo. But was Deidara an ordinary person? This kid's gaze still hadn't left the flower-like mushroom cloud he had created, a look of utter contentment on his face.
Uchiha Douhuan beside Deidara couldn't help but admire the kid's attainments in explosions. This ninjutsu alone, if classified by ninjutsu rank, was definitely an S-rank ninjutsu. And considering its danger to the caster, this technique would only be placed in the Scroll of Seals after being created. Yet, a ninjutsu of this level actually came from the hands of a ten-year-old boy.
After the mushroom cloud slowly dissipated, the two also landed steadily. A giant pit, a thousand meters in diameter and dozens of meters deep, was left on the ground.
Although it was still more than halfway short of the dimensions Yamato needed, if this commotion were to be created using exploding tags, even with the Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags technique, nearly ten thousand exploding tags would be required. Calculating at the price Konoha sold them to Takigakure – 3500 Ryo per tag – it could be said that one tube of Deidara's chakra was equivalent to one Asuma.
"How about it? My latest research achievement!" Although his stamina was completely drained, Deidara still lifted his head, looking proudly at Uchiha Douhuan.
"Not bad! In this art form, you have already begun to walk your own path. Here, eat some soldier pills first, recover some chakra," Uchiha Douhuan smiled kindly, then handed over a few soldier pills. *What demolition genius is this? This is practically a money-printing machine!*
While Deidara was recovering his chakra, Uchiha Douhuan surveyed the deep pit before him, calculated the difference from the area Yamato needed for the foundation, and after a while, spoke to him again, "However, don't you think your art just now was a bit too superficial? Although the explosion was dazzling, I feel that dazzling colors alone are not enough to touch the highest palace of art."
"Makes sense!" Deidara, after recovering a bit of chakra, performed a kip-up and stood up. Uchiha Douhuan's words sparked new thoughts in him.
(End of Chapter)
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