Red sand dust

In Konoha Village, Shana was hurriedly arranging things about Xiang Rin, and came quickly just to cheer her sister up. She unexpectedly discovered that Miss Saya, who had rarely entered the third trial, actually didn't worry about the Chunin Exam. But doing something else.

"With our family background, do we still need to earn resources by making a name for ourselves in the Chunin Exams?"

June is coming to an end, and in the first days of July, the Land of Fire, which is blessed with abundant natural resources, is still unbearably hot at noon, but it is not so unbearable in the morning and evening.

At three o'clock in the morning, after breakfast, Miss Saya returned to her room and played with a group of puppets covered with fine runes. She had no intention of going out to practice.

Even the special training teacher arranged by the family was sent away. Miss Saya, who was immersed in her own affairs, had no special expression for her sister's arrival, which disappointed Shanai who was very excited.

"But, don't we represent the face of the village? We can't show weakness to the Konoha ninjas..."

Miss Shanai was a little worried. From time to time, there were rumors that a certain candidate's strength had improved by leaps and bounds under the guidance of a well-known senior. Even Ziluo and Chao Feng, who had also advanced, were not slacking off.

"You do not understand!"

Miss Saya said indifferently,

"Entering the third test means I have completed my task. The next step is not too important to me! As long as the eleven candidates appear at the conference venue, they will be considered by everyone to be the best of the year who are qualified to compete with each other. , winning or losing only concerns the face of Feng Ying and the advisors and elders, and the actual impact is limited..."

It would be great if you could win first place, but competition is always unpredictable. Just work hard, but you don't have to be persistent or even delay your own business.

"All right!"

Originally, I wanted to keep in touch with her more and talk about Xiang Rin by the way, but now it seems that it is not the time. My sister obviously has little interest in irrelevant people, and Xiang Rin, who has nothing to do with her, is a dispensable outsider.

"It's also a good thing to study puppetry. Sister, have you made any achievements recently?"

"Thinking and trying are much more valuable than aimless practice! For example, this..."

As she spoke, Miss Saya waved her hands, and several puppets floated in front of her eyes under the control of chakra threads.

"These puppets are just pieced together from biological materials. In essence, they are just lifeless balls of flesh. However, the modulated symbiotic cell clusters parasitized in them, which not only gave the puppets some special abilities, but also wonderful things happened. Variety……"

"Are...are they alive?"

Shanai asked with some confusion.

"It should be said that it is active, but it is not a complete life!"

Miss Saya shook her head and replied,

"When the early puppet masters were determining the direction of development, they had a heated debate between the two routes of 'hunting and plundering' and 'farming and breeding'. In the end, they chose the very conservative latter..."

Sana, who didn't know much about onee-sama's strange topics, couldn't keep up and could only listen with an innocent face.

"The latter has higher requirements on the puppet master's qualifications and supply of materials. Without talent, it is impossible. Without good materials and accessories, making puppets is useless. Both are indispensable; the former has higher adaptability and more imaginative potential. Space, however, the methods are very radical and difficult to be accepted by others. If you are not careful, you will violate the taboo..."

The puppet imitation technique inherited from Saya's family belongs to the former. It is a relatively mild one and has a much better reputation than the "righteous man" puppet and the infamous human puppet who both perished.

"Does this have anything to do with onee-sama's practice?"

"Not just puppet masters, almost all inheritances in the ninja world can be classified into these two categories. The former seizes external power to strengthen itself, and the latter taps internal potential! In fact, these two are not completely unrelated, such as the establishment of the 'Cradle Garden' It's very gentle. The 'artificial elves' sign a contract and absorb the power of other ninjas to strengthen themselves. The means are secondary, the key is the goal you want to achieve..."

Shanai finally understood the last sentence.

"So, onee-sama and Daimaru established the 'Cradle Garden' with the ultimate goal of establishing a heritage holy land unique to Suna Ninja that can rival the three major psychic beast holy lands?"

"That's right!"

Saya answered very definitely, maybe there were some other ideas at the beginning, but those were not important.

"It's just now that I discovered that the current operation of the 'Cradle Garden', combined with Daimaru's natural power, will bring about some unpredictable consequences. For example, the 'artificial elves' are actually 'artificial elves' that were given human hearts by Daimaru and I." God, even if those little guys are still weak now, they will definitely become stronger in the future! 'Myth' is actually not that far away from us..."

"What do you mean by 'myth'?"

Shanai was a little out of his mind and looked at a few books scattered on the table with names that seemed to be related to ancient legends and stories.

"literal meaning!"

Miss Saya replied matter-of-factly,

"After reaching a certain height, ninjas become farther and farther away from ordinary people, so they must discover some truths from those 'inhuman' legends, find what they should do, and avoid some possible traps …”

"trap?"

"For example, in the spiritual realm, there are too many painful lessons from being subverted by the secondary personality!"

In the unofficial history of the ninja world, many originally kind-hearted spirits appeared, but eventually turned into evil spirits that caused trouble in the world.

The transcendent gods, after descending their power and incarnating, were contaminated by the evil thoughts of the world and degenerated into monsters who did all kinds of evil.

"Is it so dangerous for spiritual mystics to go to high and deep places?"

Shanai stuck out his tongue in fear.

"It's the same in every field. This is why we must strictly control the spread of forbidden arts!"

Miss Saya didn't want to explain to her younger sister Shanai, who didn't understand much, but she seemed to be trying to convince herself.

"In a long period of time, in a field that no one has experienced and has no precedents to follow, you can only rely on yourself to control it. Persevering in oneself requires unshakable obsession to preserve oneself in a dark field full of dangers..."

Yes, after running the "Cradle Garden" for a period of time with Daimaru, I also met many people of all kinds, and I deeply realized what the "incarnation of obsession" that Daimaru occasionally talked about meant.

This is the key core that establishes its own existence and inheritance. Its importance is equivalent to Orochimaru's Yamata no Orochi, the Sharingan of the Uchiha family, the tailed beast in the Jinchuriki body, etc.

The Ido in Kurama Yakumo's body is actually the incarnation of a twisted obsession, rooted deep in his soul, but was finally wiped out by his true form.

If you are not fully prepared, you will step into the depths of your spirit and soul, and you will die without knowing how.