"Are you looking for me?" The owner of the ship, a man with a strong body but a big belly, sparse hair, dry and rough skin, and a sharp look in his forties, looked up and down. Ito Chenghou said.

"Yes." Ito Cheng nodded and admitted.

"What's the matter?" the ship owner asked with a frown.

"I wonder if the shipowner has heard of the Country of Whirlpool." Ito Cheng looked up at the shipowner and asked quietly.

"Whirlpool Country?" The ship owner frowned, and then said, "Are you talking about the small country that exists on a peninsula between the Fire Country and the Water Country, close to the southeast of the Fire Country?"

"That's it." Ito Cheng's eyes lit up and he admitted with a smile.

"If it is it, you may be disappointed. That country perished ten years ago." The ship owner said.

"I know." Ito Cheng smiled nonchalantly, "I went there for other reasons."

"Oh." The ship owner also understood the point and nodded to express his understanding. He did not ask why Ito Cheng went there, but instead asked, "Then what do you mean by coming to me..."

"Yes, I'm going to rent your boat and sailors, please take me there." Ito Cheng smiled.

"Sorry, I won't do this business." The ship owner shook his head regretfully.

"Why?" Ito Cheng asked with an unknown frown.

"Because the Kingdom of Whirlpool has now become a stronghold for pirates, I will not risk the lives of myself and my men." The ship owner looked at Ito and said in a serious voice.

"That's it." Ito Cheng frowned, lowered his head and pondered for a moment. He raised his head and looked at the ship owner and said, "Otherwise, you can send me to the peninsula where the Country of Whirlpool is located, and then give me a small boat to put me down, and let me row across by myself. As for the pirates I may encounter on the road, I will deal with them." .”

"You!?" The ship owner looked up and down again at Ito Cheng standing in front of him in surprise, and said in surprise. In his eyes, Ito, who has fair skin, looks young, and is well-dressed, is a child from a big family, who may be a rival to the pirates there.

The ship owner was surprised. Ito Cheng didn't say anything, but waved his arm directly to the cabin wall on the side. He only heard three muffled sounds of "take, take, take, take~", and three black shurikens immediately appeared on the side. On the siding, one of the sharp edges is deeply inserted into the siding.

"Ninja." The other two sailors in the cabin, except the ship's boss, exclaimed, and then stared at Ito Cheng with their expressions changing wildly, and were cautiously on guard. Even though they knew they were no match for ninjas, their survival instinct still made them do this.

"Since you are a ninja, that's good." The captain nodded and said, "rent a ship and go to sea. Including the sailors' employment fees, supplies, etc., the total is 350,000."

"Okay." Ito Cheng nodded and agreed. Then he reached into his pocket, took out three dozen thick khaki notes, threw them on the table in front of the ship owner, and happily handed over the money.

"That's right." The ship's owner took the coins and checked them in his hand, nodded and said, "Xianyi, go notify the others and tell them to get ready, and we will go to sea later."

"Yes, boss." The sailor named Ito Cheng who led the way immediately responded loudly without stopping. He turned around and left the cabin, notifying others to prepare to go to sea.

"Wei Dou, take this ninja-sama to rest." After Kenichi ran out, the ship owner ordered another young sailor standing behind him.

"Yes, boss." The sailor nodded and walked to Ito Cheng. After Ito Cheng walked to the wall and took off the shuriken on it. He took him out of the cabin and walked to another cabin not far from the cabin where the captain was.

"Ninja-sama is here." The sailor led Ito into the room and said, "Sir, you can rest. I will inform you when I get to the place."

"I understand. You go down." Ito Cheng waved his hand and said.

"Yes." The sailor agreed, carefully exited the room, and closed the door.

Shortly after the sailor left, Ito Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the room and resting, suddenly felt the ship's body shake slightly and knew that the ship had set sail...

Most of a day later, when it was completely dark outside, the sailor named Yuito appeared in front of Ito Cheng again and reminded him that the ship had arrived near the peninsula where the Country of Uzumaki was located.

"So fast, I thought it would take at least a day." Ito Cheng said in surprise as he stood up from the bed.

"This is because of good luck. There happened to be a favorable wind blowing here in the past few days, which increased the sailing speed a lot." Wei Dou explained.

"Oh." Ito responded calmly.

After a while, the two walked out of the cabin and came to the deck. They saw the captain who had been waiting on the deck for a long time. After nodding to him, they boarded the small boat hanging on the outside of the ship under the leadership of Wei Dou. In a wooden boat.

"Let the boat go." Seeing Ito Cheng sitting down, the boat owner immediately ordered.

Then, several burly sailors standing on the edge of the boat immediately pulled the rope and slowly lowered the small wooden boat Ito was riding on. When it was less than half a meter away from the sea, it suddenly fell and landed on the sea.

"Crash~" After the wooden boat entered the water, there was a large splash of water.

Then Ito Cheng took out two wooden sticks from the small wooden boat and rowed towards the Uzumaki Country Peninsula.

"Return." After Ito Cheng left a distance, the ship owner's order came faintly from the night sky, and then he saw the big ship that sent I Tocheng over slowly turning its bow and heading towards the town from where it came. .

"What a cautious guy." Hearing the order from the ship owner, Ito said to himself.

In this way, after more than ten minutes of paddling with his arms, Ito Cheng finally saw the Uzumaki Country Peninsula, which had become a pirate stronghold. Then Ito Cheng took Mu Qiang back into the boat, stood up, kicked his feet violently, and fell to the water not far from the small wooden boat amid the violent shaking of the wooden boat. He filled the soles of his feet with his thoughts and imitated the ninjas. He stepped on the water and ran quickly towards the Uzumaki Country Peninsula.

"Sure enough, Nian Qi can be used to walk on water like chakra." Ito Cheng thought to himself while running on the water.

What is chakra? It is the product of a mixture of physical and spiritual energy. What is Nian? The life energy in the human body. But to put it in a general way, physical energy is not bad, and nature and other things also involve the spirit. The combination of the two can actually be regarded as a different kind of chakra energy. So based on this, Ito Cheng started his first water walk with the mentality of giving it a try. Anyway, even if he failed, he could still use Qing Gong to complete the task of crossing the water. However, compared with Chakra, Qing Gong cannot currently achieve suspension. It just stopped on the surface of the water.

"You can already walk on the water, but now the only thing left is the sky where you can fly, telekinesis and dance skills..." Ito Cheng sighed in his heart as he gradually ran to the shore.

"Pap." Soon, Ito Cheng's feet stepped on the ground of the peninsula. Then quickly walk through the beach and reef area and land on the ground of the peninsula.

"The Kingdom of Whirlpool has been destroyed for ten years, and I don't know what else will be left. I just hope that there is a secret room in the capital of the Kingdom of Whirlpool, and then some useful sealing scrolls can be left for me." Quickly Xiang Lili In the center of the peninsula, a group of dilapidated buildings can be seen, Ito thought.

Next, Ito Cheng quickened his pace and walked through the outermost ruins of the Kingdom of Whirlpool, avoiding the pirates that occasionally appeared inside, and went straight to the palace of the Kingdom of Whirlpool in the center.

At this time, the palace has long lost any trace of its original appearance. In addition to its own signs of dilapidation, the pirate leaders living here have also completely destroyed the environment here. There are traces of filth left behind after drinking and having fun everywhere. , the weird smell that permeated the air could not be dissipated even by the sea breeze.

However, Ito Cheng was not a descendant of Uzumaki, so he had no feeling for this situation, so he simply ignored the situation in the palace, stood in an abandoned courtyard where no one was paying attention, and opened his mental power to explore the palace of the country of Uzumaki. stand up.

"Found it." A moment later, Ito Cheng, who was scanning the entire palace ground, felt his mental energy suddenly drained, and then a dark passage appeared in his perception.

Then Ito Cheng's figure suddenly flashed, quickly came to the top of the perceived passage, activated the decomposition and refinement, and quickly landed towards the passage below. A moment later, as his feet became empty, Ito Cheng fell into the passage. Then, Ito Cheng waved his hand to conjure a wooden stick, lit it on fire, and walked deeper into the passage with it.

The passage is not too long, but it is a bit winding. It has a winding and spiral feel, which is consistent with the name of the whirlpool clan. Just like this, Ito Cheng finally walked through this passage and came to the secret room directly below the palace of the Kingdom of Whirlpool.

"It's really big." Looking at the secret room in front of him, Ito Cheng sighed.

The secret room is very large, probably more than a hundred square meters. The surrounding walls are in an arc shape. If viewed from a high altitude, it is exactly a circle. In the center of the circle is a square high platform similar to an altar, with a figure carved on it. This kind of complicated sealing technique, at least Ito Cheng, who has knowledge of yin and yang technique, can't understand it.

In addition, with the altar as the center, there are also some strange patterns carved on the floor of the secret room, which extend outward from the four corners of the altar to the surrounding walls, then vertically upward, and continue to move upward after touching the top wall. The center spreads until it rejoins the center point directly above the altar.

But other than that, there is really nothing in this secret room except dust.

"I wipe it, it's so damn clean." Looking at the empty secret room, Ito couldn't help but cursed.

In this case, Ito Cheng didn't want to stay in this secret room anymore. He quickly returned to the ground along the original path with a torch. Without blocking the breach, he came directly to the palace and used a very violent method. The method was used to stop the pirates who were running on the village women they had obtained from unknown sources, forcing them to recruit sailors and send themselves back to the land overnight.