Underworld Swamp and Changes in Combat Logic
[Next is testing the Underworld Swamp...]
Lin Ke swallowed a Soldier Pill, feeling his Chakra almost fully restored, and used Summoning: Rashomon again.
"Creak~"
Accompanied by the sound of the gate opening, the short, fat man in a suit walked out, his face full of anger. He opened his mouth and said, "You bastard—"
The shadow quickly covered his mouth.
Lin Ke didn't even look at the guy, his expression serious as he formed hand seals.
*Underworld Swamp!*
The targeted land quickly transformed into an ominous, turbid swamp. Under the moonlight, the swamp exuded a strange and evil aura.
"Ugh, ugh~" Kado struggled in terror, trying to say something to beg for mercy, but the two shadows grabbed him on either side and threw him in.
"Spare me, I... blurp~ glug" He sank quickly, his mouth filling with mud in the blink of an eye.
Then, as if skipping frames, he was completely swallowed.
"Bang!" At the same time, Rashomon slammed shut and quickly dissipated.
[Something has changed]
Lin Ke's expression turned serious. Even Rashomon had ended. Could it be that Kado had returned to the Pure Land?
Could it be that the ability of the Underworld Swamp is to directly send the dead back to the Pure Land? Would it be particularly effective against Impure World Reincarnation?
Filled with doubt, he formed hand seals again to release the Summoning Jutsu, but he couldn't find the soul of Kado that he wanted to confirm—
Which meant that Kado's soul was...
[Is the Summoning Jutsu connection broken, or has it really been completely destroyed?]
Lin Ke frowned, pondering the possibilities. Either way, the Underworld Swamp should be used with caution. The ability to invalidate Summoning Jutsu meant it could restrain his own techniques.
If it destroys souls, doing it too much might provoke the Sage of Six Paths. That's no joke. In the Naruto World, there's basically no ability to kill souls.
Even Kaguya could only watch helplessly as Obito's soul transmitted Chakra and dual Kamui to Kakashi.
The closest thing to destroying souls is the Death God, but the Death God itself doesn't have self-awareness. The Death God's blade cuts open the soul and swallows it into its belly, which isn't strictly killing.
Orochimaru cut open the Death God's belly and immediately retrieved his hands. The lost souls directly returned to the embrace of their bodies.
It's clear that the Death God only cuts and isolates, unable to destroy.
Although the Sage of Six Paths is portrayed as a peace-loving old man, Lin Ke felt that if someone who could wantonly destroy all souls appeared, the Sage of Six Paths, as the group owner of the Pure Land, might jump out and slap him.
Saying he has no ability to interfere with the mortal world is just fooling fools. He can summon the past Hokage to release the Summoning Jutsu and summon the unrelated Kakashi four, and he can directly undo Impure World Reincarnation. Whether he has the strength or not, just the ability to summon the dead at will is already a superior substitute for his Summoning Jutsu and Rashomon.
"Huh?"
Lin Ke was pondering when he noticed that the Underworld Swamp in front of him hadn't disappeared. Theoretically, the time was up, but why was it still there?
"Glug, glug~" The still-existing Underworld Swamp suddenly began to change, constantly churning and bubbling, as if something was surging up.
A foul stench gradually spread. He couldn't help but hold his breath, and just as he was about to actively cancel the Ninjutsu, a figure floated up from below.
Through the tattered clothes and hairstyle, he could vaguely identify it as Kado, but the guy's current appearance was terrifying. His body was covered in cysts, with insects constantly moving back and forth in the large pores. His face was completely disfigured, and lumps made his face extremely abstract. His mismatched eyes were full of resentment towards everything.
The stench was coming from him.
His upper body floated out of the swamp and stopped, opening his mouth to drop handfuls of wriggling maggots, then maintaining a resentful gaze at everything.
[Not destroyed, but...]
Lin Ke felt his sanity plummeting. Even if such a thing was alive, it would probably be very painful, right?
"Are you Kado?" He wasn't in a hurry to cancel the technique now, and asked.
The shadows stood in front of him, ready to stand up and block bullets at any time.
Kado, who had fallen into the Underworld Swamp, didn't speak. Apart from resentment, there seemed to be nothing else in his eerie pupils. No answer, no feedback.
Like a walking corpse.
[In Japanese mythology, the Underworld is a land of filth, but the place the Underworld Swamp leads to is too filthy, it's practically like...]
Lin Ke recalled the unlucky fellow he had seen in his previous life who fell into a latrine and drowned, and Kado was exactly the same now.
He tried asking a few more questions, but was unable to communicate, so he simply canceled the jutsu.
Kado gurgled and sank in again, and the swamp on the ground gradually dried up, not quickly, taking about a dozen seconds to dry, and even after a few minutes, the small patch of soil where Kado had been was still muddy.
This was in stark contrast to the swamp disappearing immediately after the jutsu was released before.
Lin Ke had his shadow poke the extra mud with a stick, but there was no reaction. He found two rabbits and threw them over. The rabbits landed and stepped in the mud, then ran off, smacking their lips.
It seemed that apart from the stench and the disgusting black and yellow color, there was nothing special about this mud.
[I still can't move it casually, I'll have the shadow watch it, and see if there are any changes later...] - The next day, early morning.
Opening Gate! Rest Gate!
*[Extreme Effect · Substitution Jutsu!]*
Old acquaintance, Metal Stand.
"Phew!" Lin Ke exited Eight Gates Mode, collapsed on the tatami, and had his shadow feed him Soldier Pills. After a while, his severely depleted body recovered. He first used Mystical Palm Technique on himself to relieve the discomfort caused by overdrawing his body's energy, and then slowly sat up.
He looked at the little cuties wiggling their small bodies, stretched his body, and added another Mystical Palm Technique before going out to eat.
For Lin Ke, the biggest change brought about by the Eight Gates Mode was his use of the Substitution Jutsu -
Originally, he would draw a few to a dozen times during battle to see if there were any useful Stands for temporary use, after all, under normal circumstances, using all of his Chakra would only last for a little over an hour.
Even without considering the other physical exertion during battle, as a lottery-drawing Substitution Jutsu, it was impossible to only use it once, after all, who knew if a useful Stand would appear.
So he had always summoned Stands before battle, anyway, the pace of battle was quite fast, a useful Stand was enough to end the battle in a minute, often a first-time kill, and stalemates were rare.
But since he had the Eight Gates Mode, which could overdraw his body and obtain multiple times the amount of Chakra beyond his limit, coupled with the effect of the Extreme Effect Soldier Pills, he could release a Stand that could last for eight hours without regard to bodily harm -
This meant that his battle logic had changed.
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