Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 29 Sea of ​​Souls

Aburame Tetsumaru's body was penetrated by Kato's soul. At that moment, he fell into absolute silence and could not hear anything. What he saw were countless light balls, familiar light balls.

Right before his eyes, hundreds of light balls dimmed, and many of them even shattered and sank.

This is the sea of ​​light of the soul? The sea of ​​light I saw before crossing over?

Before Aburame Tetsumaru could figure out what was happening, a powerful tugging feeling covered him.

Then he regained his hearing and found that he was facing the ground and was in pain all over his body. There was also someone pressing on him and he couldn't move at all.

"Catch him and kill him!" This was Tsunade-sama's order. Oh, the Jinchuriki was not dead and escaped?

"Save people, move everyone out."

"Whoever goes to the camp, call all the genin, we need manpower here."

"Who still has bandages? Who still has first aid kits?"

Gradually, various sounds became more and more blurred, the vision was gradually covered by a red curtain, blood soaked into the hair, and then dripped from the forehead to the ground, and soon Aburame Tetsumaru was unconscious again.

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The war was jointly initiated by Iwagakure and Amegakure. The super-god Sansho Hanzo first defeated the allied forces of Konoha and Iron Country in the Country of Grass, and then defeated the ninja army led by the Hokage disciples at the border of the Country of Fire.

At the same time, Iwagakure sent nearly a thousand ninjas, including the jinchuriki Lao Murasaki and the son of the Tsuchikage, the Jounin of the Yellow Earth, to join forces with the remaining forces of Amegakure to plan a sneak attack on the Konoha camp on the border of the Land of Rain. They were intercepted by the Konoha Jounin Kato.

Crash and start early.

Then Hanzo marched westward and cooperated with Onoki to defeat three Sunagakure troops in succession, including the puppet master troops led by Chiyo. He cooperated with Loess to destroy Sunagakure's five camps in the Land of Rain and drove out all Sunagakure ninjas.

The land of rain.

Finally, he led the legion to confront the Konoha Ninja Army again, winning nine out of ten battles, forcing Konoha to abandon all outposts and camps on the border, and retreated to the hinterland of the Land of Fire before regaining a foothold.

The first climax of the Second Ninja War came to an end. The four nations of Fire, Rain, Wind, and Iron suffered heavy losses and had to lick their wounds and regain their strength.

Hanzo, the leader of Yuyin Village, spanned three thousand miles, killed countless people, and his reputation reached a new height.

How high?

The disciple of the Hokage of Konoha Village was spared after being defeated by him, and was given the additional title of "Konoha Sannin".

At first everyone regarded this title as a shame, and the three parties involved would beat someone up if they heard it.

As Hanzo's achievements became more and more exaggerated and his reputation became more and more famous, some people began to call him "demigod".

"Konoha Sannin" has just become a recognized title as Hanzo became famous. At least if you call him "Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas" to your face, he won't hit you anymore, and at most he will glare at you.

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Well? I'm back again. Isn't it dead?

Aburame Tetsumaru, who was in the light ball state, was a little panicked. My soul was knocked away by Kato Dan's soul?

Why? Why? Because I am a time traveler and the combination of spirit and body is not perfect?

Stay still, don't panic, take a deep breath...

I don’t have any lungs, so breathing is a hammer.

Anyway, don't panic, let me see what I can do?

Aburame Tetsumaru tried hard to remember what he could do in the light ball state. He didn't know how long it had passed before he felt the force of dragging. This time he was sure that the force was dragging downwards.

Then he woke up.

Aburame Tetsumaru, who was extremely confused, listened to the nurse's explanation of her condition. She had a cracked skull, a total of seven fractures to her legs, right hand and ribs, but she was otherwise fine.

What a ghost, something is wrong with my soul, but I can't say it.

When the medical ninja asked him if he had any other questions, Aburame Tetsumaru could only shake his head. How dare you say that?

If you really say it, either no one will believe it and you will be treated as a lunatic, or some people will believe it and you will be treated as a test subject.

Just like time travel, the Sea of ​​Souls is also a secret that can only be buried deep in the heart, and everything can only be explored by oneself.

A few days later, Captain Ueno came to bid farewell to his only subordinate. Aburame Tetsumaru's injury was stable but could not be cured. He would return to Konoha Village with hundreds of other seriously injured people to temporarily escape the war.

Captain Ueno regretfully complained that his team had to be rebuilt again. Tetsumaru returned to the village to recover from his injuries and would definitely be promoted to chuunin. Neither of the two newcomers were able to survive the recovery and died in the final outbreak of the Jinchuuriki.

Aburame Tetsumaru drooled with envy. Captain Ueno was really a lucky star. In such a big scene, several jonins lay down, and one chuunin had a bunch of his hair burned off in the end. It was outrageous.

I feel that the disadvantages of being promoted to chuunin are too great, and I no longer have the luck to protect me.

After a long journey of fifteen days, Aburame Tetsumaru returned to Konoha Village.

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In the Sea of ​​Souls, Aburame Tetsumaru in the state of a light ball cannot form seals, but it is more convenient to construct chakra runes, and the runes promote the operation of the spell.

Ninja Technique·Clone Technique

The light ball Aburame Tetsumaru separated out a second light ball, but unfortunately it was a fake light ball with only light effect, and it dissipated not long after.

Aburame Tetsumaru thought about the experience of the clone technique for a while, and then turned his sight "above". In the extreme darkness in the distance of the sea of ​​light, stars were shining like the bright night sky.

After looking at the starry sky in the sea of ​​light for a while, Aburame Tetsumaru sank into consciousness, fell downwards on his own initiative, and then woke up in reality.

After returning to Konoha for half a month, Aburame Tetsumaru's body had basically recovered.

Although it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, it certainly doesn't need to be done for ninjas. For example, "minor injuries" such as the fractures of the Uzumaki Senju only last three to five days.

The parasitic worms in Aburame's family can help fix bones, transport nutrients, and even secrete hormones on wounds to stimulate bone growth. Therefore, Aburame's iron pills only took thirty days to restore health.

Although he recovered, his mother still forbade him to practice. After Aburame and Kaze and Aburame Tetsumaru and their sons were dispatched to the front lines of Water Kingdom and Rain Kingdom respectively, Aburame Aiko stayed in the village.

Not all members of a ninja family can be sent to the front line. This is the default rule of Konoha Village. On the one hand, it can avoid extremely tragic situations such as extermination, and on the other hand, it can reserve a fighting force for the village for emergency response.

When Tetsumaru Aburame was seriously injured and returned to the village, Aiko Aburame took time off to take care of her son.

Aburame Tetsumaru, who was idle and had itchy bones all over, revolted and fought hard on the battlefield for more than half a year. The hard life greatly promoted Aburame Tetsumaru's growth. He is 171 centimeters tall and weighs 62 kilograms. For a boy who is about to be eleven years old,

Say, it's overgrown.

However, Aiko Aburame, who was only 1.5 meters tall, used a special skill. She covered Tetsumaru's face with tears, and Tetsumaru was defeated instantly.

Aburame Tetsuwan can only sleep in, walk, and read every day.

Walking on the streets of Konoha, you can clearly feel the changes.

After the war began, Konoha Village rapidly prospered. Massive military expenditures were poured into Konoha Village from the national capital, and then replaced with massive amounts of food, materials, weapons, cutting tools, medicinal materials, cloth, paper, and other materials that could be used in the war.

At the same time, a large number of high-level missions released during the war generated huge mission bonuses. In addition to the consumption of ninjas on the front line, a large amount of money was also sent back to Konoha Village. Ninja families were very rich.

As a result, merchants from the Fire Country and neighboring countries were attracted, bringing in a variety of goods to sell in exchange for high profits. The merchants made a lot of money, and also provided ordinary residents with considerable income through hired workers. They also

Consumption began, further stimulating the economy of Konoha Village.

Really idle, Aburame Tetsumaru went to visit the insect fields and helped harvest ant sugar and insect wax. The only job she could do was to buy ingredients and then cook.

Cooking is Aburame Tetsumaru's main chore at home. Since Tetsumaru started cooking at the age of six, the mistress of Aburame's house has not cooked for many years.

Her cooking skills have deteriorated from being able to cook the food well but not being delicious, to the point where it's not necessarily cooked, but it's definitely unpalatable.

While her son and husband were away in the war, Aburame Aiko was overwhelmed by her cooking skills, and had no choice but to eat in the hospital cafeteria, takeout, or go out in restaurants.

Therefore, after Tiewan regained health, the first activity allowed was not walking, but cooking.

After dinner, I walked with my mother, chatted with relatives, and finally washed up and went to bed.

After getting into bed, Aburame Tetsumaru started another busy activity.

Since being knocked into the sea of ​​souls by Kato Dan's soul, Aburame Tetsumaru has mastered the skill of actively entering and exiting, so he enters it every night to explore this novel world.

Because there is a feeling of surfacing when you come to the sea of ​​souls, and a strong downward dragging feeling when you leave and return to the body, Aburame Tetsumaru calls it login and offline.

After dozens of explorations, I have mastered some conditions of the Sea of ​​Souls:

The sea of ​​souls is divided into upper and lower parts, with starlight above and black mist below.

The light balls often break, dim, and fall downward into the black fog, which may represent death; correspondingly, small light balls continue to rise from the black fog below, and then gradually grow in size, which may represent rebirth.

The light balls in the Sea of ​​Souls are large and small, with slightly different colors and different heights.

Most of the soul light balls are located on two levels with a height difference, because Tiewan himself is located on the higher level. He guessed that this is because of the difference caused by the power of chakra.

At a higher position, there were hundreds of large light balls. Tiewan compared the light balls with his clones and found that the smaller ones were ten times larger than himself.

At a higher position, even at a height that the clone's light ball cannot reach, there are more than a dozen giant light balls.

These giant light balls are divided into four groups, and their characteristics are so obvious that Aburame Tetsumaru can make guesses based on his memory.

The largest height is also the tallest dark golden ball of light. Its brilliance is dim, and it is probably the sealed Kaguya.

The second largest white ball of light exists alone, and it is most likely that it is the Slug Immortal.

The third largest yellow light ball is accompanied by two large and three small ones, a total of five giant light balls, which may be from the Toad Immortal clan.

The last blue-green light ball is accompanied by three large and three small giant light balls, which should be of the Ryūchi Cave lineage.

But there were still several light balls, and Aburame Tetsumaru couldn't guess who they were.

The most puzzling thing is that in the black mist below the soul sea, there is a vague outline of a giant spherical shape, and there are more than one. Maybe there are six immortal brothers among them.

The most important thing is that chakra can be mobilized in the soul sea.

Aburame Tetsumaru can spray chakra and turn around at will, but no matter how hard she sprays, her position cannot move even a little bit.

Aburame Tetsumaru can also construct ninjutsu through runes, but only the transformation technique and the clone technique have actual effects. The transformation technique can change its own color, and the clone technique can copy a transparent ball of light and then blow it away with chakra

.

He continued to use the clone technique, and then used chakra to blow out the copied light balls, trying to obtain more information by hitting other light balls.

Unfortunately, the cloned light ball is too fragile and cannot fly very far before disintegrating. Even if it is occasionally destroyed due to collision, it will not affect the target at all and will not receive any feedback.

This elusive situation made Aburame Tetsumaru's curiosity explode.

He desperately wanted to get the advanced version of the clone technique, the shadow clone technique, which is a B-level ninjutsu. The shadow clone is not only stronger, but also can return to memory after being broken, which is too precious.

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Under the sunshine at ten o'clock in the morning, Aburame Tetsumaru got up lazily and went out slowly. She first bought ingredients for lunch and dinner, and also bought a large amount of insect food.

Make lunch when you get home, eat your own portion first, then pack a lunch box and take the lunch box to the hospital for your mother.

After being teased by the aunts, aunts, and young ladies in the hospital, Aburame Tetsumaru was unable to parry, and her counterattack was ineffective, so she could only hurriedly deliver a lunch box and escape as soon as possible.

Launching a counterattack in this kind of matter requires hardware support. Although he is a tall and powerful person, he is only eleven years old after all, and there is still a long way to go before he can truly develop.

After leaving the hospital, Aburame Tetsuwan prepared to go shopping in the afternoon. Cultivating bugs requires more than just insect food, charcoal, metals, chemicals, and glassware are all bulk consumables.

Some of the bugs in Aburame Tetsumaru have a particularly high demand for metals, such as locusts, self-exploding beetles, armored beetles, etc. Their shells are made of metal, so you have to buy a lot of metal.

“Purchase limit?!”

"Yes, the wartime ban issued by Hokage-sama must be followed by ninjas who are not on the front line. As a genin, sir, you can only buy 5 kunai or 5 kilograms of metal materials in the village every month."

Aburame Tetsumaru was confused. His plan was to buy 100 kilograms of iron, 20 kilograms of copper, lead, tin, zinc, etc., which would total five kilograms, and this was only ten days' consumption.

Ever since Sarutobi Sasuke led the entire clan to join Konoha, the Sarutobi clan has monopolized the iron ore business in the Land of Fire. After Hiruzen Sarutobi became Hokage, the Sarutobi clan further monopolized all metal materials, and there were many in Konoha.

A shop that sells ninja tools, but metal materials can only be purchased through the Sarutobi clan.

Therefore, when Hokage-sama issues a purchase restriction order for metal materials, the execution efficiency will be very high, and the executioners will all be members of his clan.

There must be channels such as smuggling, but the Fire Nation generally exports metal materials and imports ninja weapons. The volume of dark side channels cannot meet the demand, but the price increase is likely to be unlimited.

NND, the Sarutobi clan is trying to take advantage of me, but I don’t know if the Sandaime was involved. Well, even if he wasn’t involved, it’s his fault.

Let's go through the formal process first and try to apply for special purchase permissions. Aburame Tetsumaru thought about it for a long time and decided not to take the risk of purchasing through secret channels for the time being.

Aburame Tetsumaru wrote an application letter, describing in detail his fighting style, as well as the huge demand for metal materials and the necessity of this demand, and applied for a quota exemption permit.

After finishing the writing, he realized that it was too detailed, totaling more than 18,000 words. Tetsumaru thought about it and felt that it was unlikely that the Sandaime would have time to read it all. No matter how well written it was, it would be nonsense, so he had to go to the trouble of shortening it to less than a thousand words.

After writing the letter of complaint, Aburame Tetsumaru realized that as a genin, he did not have the right to submit a letter to the Hokage.

In Konoha Village, only Jonin is qualified to express opinions to the Hokage, and they must go through a process and be reviewed by civilian ninjas. Only individuals named by the Hokage himself and given privileges can skip the process, such as the red-haired girl in the village now.

Elder Shiki Aburame, who was closer to him, had already retired, and his right to submit letters to the Hokage had been revoked.

Since the jounin of the Aburame family does not have special privileges, Daitetsumaru's letter can only be sent to the Hokage building, and it will be screened by the Hokage before it can be seen by the Hokage.

Not to mention that it will take dozens of days to complete the process, it is more likely that some civilian ninja will judge that this matter is not important and then throw it into the trash can, never to be heard from again.

If you are lucky enough to arrive at the Hokage's office, you still have to see if the Hokage appreciates the fighting prowess of Aburame Tetsumaru and if there is a reason to open an opening for him.

No matter how low the possibility was, Aburame Tetsumaru still asked an Aburame jounin to submit a letter on his behalf, and then thought of other ways. For example, not every ninja needed so many comrades recuperating in the village.

of metal, they can completely buy the amount they can't use.

After spending many days concentrating the remaining purchase limits of his comrades into his own hands and purchasing 107 kilograms of various metals, Aburame Tetsumaru gave up.

It’s too troublesome. Quotas cannot be circulated. We can only inquire from house to house and buy bit by bit. Do we have to come here once a month?

A few days later, more purchase restrictions were issued. Chemical agents, medical agents, detonating charms, military pills, medical materials, and even cloth were also included in the purchase restrictions. Valuables such as glassware were not restricted, but the market

No one is selling it anymore.

Aburame Tetsumaru is completely helpless. His fighting power is supported by a large number of psychic insects, and the consumption of metal during the cultivation process is huge.

Take the migratory locust, which loses the most, as an example. The hard and sharp shell of the locust's head contains 40 grams of iron. In the battle with the Jinchūriki, as many as 540 migratory locusts were lost at one time, which is more than 20 kilograms of iron.

From a certain point of view, Aburame Tetsumaru is similar to the future Emperor Ou Tenten, and his fighting power depends on spending money.

Now it's better, even if you have money, you can't buy metal.

Three days later, Aburame Tetsumaru used up the last of his inventory. In desperation, he finally remembered the three skills he had inherited as the Black-Hearted Red Star Rabbit: growing vegetables, making cottages, and self-reliance.

Aburame Tetsumaru found "Aburame Tetsumaru's Encyclopedia of Insects" again. The total number of insects recorded so far has exceeded 20,000 species.

Affected by chakra and parasites, the bugs in the Aburame Forest have an incredibly high mutation rate. Coupled with a higher elimination rate, the bugs are replaced at an exaggerated rate.

Before graduating from ninja training, Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that of the more than 600 kinds of insects originally recorded in the "Insect Encyclopedia", more than 50 species no longer existed.

For the purpose of preserving gene seeds, Aburame Tetsumaru kept bugs in her hut, with a large glass box for each type of bug to keep the reproduction number at a minimum.

If Aburame Tetsumaru discovers the value of this insect, he will make great efforts to cultivate it and expand the population.

Or if a certain kind of bug proves that it has sufficient survival ability and will not be eliminated, Aburame Tetsuwan will release it to free up space for breeding.

After flipping through the "Encyclopedia of Insects", Aburame Tetsumaru narrowed down several types of insects and started experimenting.

(End of chapter)