Planning (makeup chapter)

"Glug glug~"

Watching the Black Bear struggle desperately in the Underworld Swamp, its body half-swallowed before it managed to escape, its face filled with terror as it tried to flee, Lin Ke slapped the Black Bear unconscious and tossed it back in. In no time, it was completely submerged.

[The larger the creature, the faster it sinks. Hmm, this seems to conform to normal physics, but the binding strength has also changed. The larger the creature, the stronger the binding force of the swamp, or perhaps it's not size, but the strength of the soul?]

He pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to Maki.

"No matter what, I'm not going down there."

This hardworking, rough-skinned Pokémon—I mean, Mr. Maki—actually showed resistance, exhibiting the 'awareness' trait, saying, "The aura inside is very ominous. I am a dead man, not a living corpse."

"Alright." Lin Ke didn't force it, after all, he couldn't control the dead.

That made testing a bit troublesome.

He couldn't just grab someone from the village and throw them in, and he'd already thrown in a bunch of animals. He felt like if he caught any more, the village would protest.

The consumption of the Underworld Swamp was really high. Of all the Ninjutsu he possessed, this one consumed the most Chakra, bar none. The A-rank Mystical Palm Technique and Chakra Scalpel were nothing compared to it.

The consumption of the Mystical Palm Technique was so high that he only dared to use it for a few seconds at crucial moments during a battle to ensure his hand seal speed—

For example, when fighting Sasori, he was able to instantly release the Body Binding Technique because he had activated the Mystical Palm Technique for a split second, making him so fast that even Sasori couldn't react before the technique was completed.

Releasing the Underworld Swamp directly drained almost a third of his Chakra. After all, it was an A-rank Earth Release used by Jiraiya, who had a Spirit of 10. For a guy with about the same amount of Chakra as Kakashi, it was really pushing it.

[In other words, I can only use it twice in a fight at most, and that's if I don't use any other techniques. The consumption is too high.]

Lin Ke shook his head, thinking. The duration of the Underworld Swamp did justify the consumption. Maki had been in it for ten minutes before leaving, and the swamp was still bubbling.

Since he was idle anyway, he simply threw in everything he could find to test it.

Not counting the rabbits, tigers, centipedes, Black Bears, and the like that he had already thrown in, he added a bunch of other objects such as tree trunks, large rocks, wild fruits, and so on.

Half an hour later, the Underworld Swamp dissipated, and Lin Ke hadn't discovered the swamp's carrying capacity limit. It swallowed everything he threw in. The sinking speed of corpses and objects was about the same, very slow. Living things sank faster, and the larger and more intelligent the living thing, the faster it sank and the stronger the binding ability became (this was questionable).

By the way, he also lost a shadow. He sent a shadow over to see what was happening, but it was directly swallowed by the Underworld Swamp, swallowed in a two-dimensional sense. It disappeared in an instant.

He permanently lost contact with it.

Lin Ke waited for the Underworld Swamp to disappear, but he didn't see the shadow return. He used Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage Technique to drill underground and observe. The range of the Underworld Swamp seemed to be only a small area on the surface. There was nothing underground.

It was as if the things swallowed had disappeared into thin air.

[Even Maki felt something was wrong. I have a feeling that the Underworld Swamp isn't connected to the Pure Land...]

A very dangerous technique.

Lin Ke defined the Underworld Swamp as such. Techniques involving space-time were definitely troublesome. Rashomon and the Summoning Jutsu were at least things that existed in manga, like the Pure Land. The Underworld Swamp, however, was unknown where it connected to.

The Underworld didn't sound good. The Land of the Dead in Japanese mythology was a terrifying place of filth and darkness.

He swallowed two Soldier Pills. After a while, he released another Underworld Swamp. As expected, nothing changed. He had a strange feeling that if he threw a person down there, he might see the true power of this technique.

Throwing a soul down there should be about the same.

But it was still the same problem. Human experiments involving life-threatening situations were really hard to do in the village.

[On the bright side, the worst-case scenario is that I have an interdimensional junkyard.]

Lin Ke wasn't disappointed. Not every Ninjutsu could mutate into a powerful one. Releasing the Underworld Swamp twice in a short period of time consumed a bit too much Chakra. Even with Soldier Pills, he couldn't recover. He gave up on other training, gave himself a dose of the Mystical Palm Technique, and set off to the Jonin waiting room to rest.

Recently, he had been getting along very well with the other Jonin. The story of Nara Yan Shui being cured had slowly spread. Although Shikaku-sensei had used the Nara Clan's secret medicine as an excuse, everyone who could become a Jonin wasn't stupid. They knew what level the Nara Clan was at.

Just like the shadow technique he used was theoretically a secret technique passed down outside the Nara Clan, but who would believe that other Nara could do it?

Besides Nara Yan Shui, Rock Lee's recovery further proved that he possessed powerful medical abilities—

It was an illness that a large group of Jonin in the Medical Team thought was incurable and required Tsunade to return to treat, but he had easily cured it.

For a time, he, the youngest Special Jonin, was extremely popular. With his displayed gentleness and approachability, in a few days, basically everyone could greet him and chat with him.

No matter what faction they belonged to, no Jonin would reject a friendly and outstanding physician.

Lin Ke chatted and rested in the Jonin waiting room until evening. He had already sent a shadow home to cook dinner, so he leisurely walked home.

[It's time to put the development of potent medicine on the agenda, and also the training of techniques.] On the way, he thought about what he needed to do next.

After conquering the Underworld Swamp, there were no Earth Release Ninjutsu that needed to be trained in the short term. The nature transformation of Wind Release would probably take several months. Anyway, it was quite troublesome. He wasn't a genius in nature transformation training. His training speed was no different from that of ordinary ninjas. He could only slowly grind it out with time.

Sealing Jutsu, Summoning Jutsu, Medical Ninjutsu, he had learned almost everything Konoha Village had to offer that he could learn. Unless he made a huge contribution or became a Kage, the Forbidden Techniques in the Book of Seals would never be open to him.

The remaining secret techniques were either difficult to obtain, such as the secret techniques of ninja clans, or had a low probability of being learned, such as the Flying Thunder God Technique. This space-time Ninjutsu was not a Forbidden Technique, but a secret technique of extremely high difficulty. In Konoha Village, only two people had fully learned it over the years.

Then there was the Eight Gates Formation Technique. This secret technique was not a secret. Not only was it widely spread and had a long history, but even the fifteen-year-old good-for-nothing Genin Might Duy was able to learn it. Although it had been given more importance after the Seven Ninja Swordsmen incident, it was still no problem for Lin Ke, a Special Jonin, to apply to learn it.

The main reason he hadn't officially started learning it was that this Taijutsu was very difficult and a waste of time.

So difficult that even the Hyuga Clan's genius, Hyuga Neji, couldn't learn it.

This involved a deeper question: why were so many high-level techniques open to the public, but few people learned them?

The reason was similar to how advanced secret techniques like calculus were open to most people in his previous life.

Many high-level secret techniques in Konoha Village were the same. It wasn't that the village didn't give everyone a chance to learn; the higher-ups all hoped that a few more Namikaze Minatos or Might Duys would emerge, but that was obviously unrealistic.

This level of secret technique was not just a matter of effort, but also required some kind of talent.

Lin Ke felt that he was a bit stuck in terms of talent. He had been stuck on the Rasengan for so long. But now that there were no Ninjutsu he needed to learn, he planned to pick up the Rasengan again in a couple of days and then apply to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique and the Eight Gates Formation.

Whether he could learn them or not was another matter, but he had to try.

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