When it was dark, most of the people in Konoha Village were still asleep, and Naruto and Li Luo had already gotten up and started practicing.

One of the advantages of living with Rock Lee is that he is constantly being pushed to face the relative limits of one's efforts.

In the training room of Akai's house.

Li Luo was doing a push-up exercise on the side, and the two hundred were just warming up. Naruto held a wooden knife in his hand and kept slashing the sword pile in front of him, one move at a time, the more he slashed, the more attentive he became, and the more he slashed, the more he concentrated.

The first half of swordsmanship cultivation is to split the stake with an iron sword, a thousand swings, and the sword and sword split through the wood, which is considered to be the first half of the practice.

The middle half of swordsmanship cultivation is to split the stake with a wooden knife, a thousand swings, and the sword splits through the wood, which is considered to be the middle half of the practice, this swordsmanship realm, even in the entire ninja world, can be called a master, and fight with people, you can smash and break the weapon in the opponent's hand between several swords, attack with the trend, and find a gap.

The second half of swordsmanship cultivation is to split iron stakes with iron swords, slash thousands of times, and the sword splits through iron shards, which is considered to be the second half of practice...... This realm Bai Yun has not really reached in the morning, he can do it, but in that state, every sword is bursting with full strength, and he can't do a thousand sword slashes, in Bai Yun's morning words, his sword heart and physique still need further cultivation.

Moreover, even after completing these three stages of cultivation, there is further cultivation, after the swordsman completes these three stages of cultivation, the skill of swinging the sword has almost been tempered and polished countless times, and it is deeply imprinted in the instinct, and the use of the sword is more familiar than the use of chopsticks, and it can even reach the point of meaning the sword.

At this point, the main point of swordsmanship cultivation is the word "interruption".

Break down the smooth sword movements into one point after another, and use these points as nodes to move the sword and stop the sword.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to understand this concept, but it is easy for athletes, especially professional athletes, to understand.

Any bodily action, after tempering countless times and imprinting into the body's memory, a thought in the mind urges, the body can do it naturally, and even if it is forcibly interrupted, it will feel very uncomfortable, because the will is violating the memory of the body engraved countless times.

Only the truly top-notch masters of this way can send and receive freely, advance and retreat from the heart. Only when this point is reached, can it be called the top swordsman of the real sword, and it is no longer the sword that is controlled by people.

Of course, even Naruto is far from that realm right now.

"Brother Naruto, Brother Li, I'm Tiantian, it's time to go out today." Outside the door, there was the shouting of the immature and lovely children's voice every day.

"Okay."

"Uncle Kai, come and call us every day, the breakfast is in the pot, you get up and eat it when it's hot." Rock Lee responded, and Naruto wiped the sweat from his cheeks before running to Uncle Kai's bedroom to confess.

Some time ago, Maitkai had just completed an S-class mission, returning to Konoha to recuperate, as if he had fought with a Shinobi of Iwa Ninja Village in the previous mission, Maitkai was forced to open the five doors, although he successfully completed the task, but after he came back, he became cowardly, and he was a little unenergetic for a while.

"Got it, Naruto. Well, I'll go and eat hot when I wake up. A palm stretched out from the frog quilt and shook it, Maitkai said.

Naruto shook his head and walked out of the Maite family's mansion with Rock Lee, today is a ninja school day off, some time ago, Naruto promised to help Tian Tian go to the commission to find a ninjutsu scroll suitable for her.

In the morning, the Hokage Building's Konoha Mission Entrustment Office, the Ninjutsu Scroll Exchange Room.

"Well, the C-level ninjutsu list scrolls available for exchange are all here, you pick them slowly, and tell me when you're ready."

"Thank you."

"I'm sorry for your trouble."

Looking at the very polite children in front of him, the person in charge of the exchange room shook his head and walked out, he has seen a lot of this situation every day, basically Shinobi has just completed the ninja task, and the first time he exchanged the ninjutsu scroll, it will be like this.

Expectant, excited, feeling that it was a turning point in his fate.

But in fact, each ninja's ultimate achievement is determined by most of his life, not by the right choice.

"Naruto-kun, by all means, you must help me choose a ninjutsu scroll." Because he cared too much, although he knew that Naruto would do his best, he couldn't help but say this every day.

"Got it, knowing Sister Tiantian, Brother Naruto will choose well." Seeing that Tian Tian was getting too close to Naruto, Hinata was so angry that she puffed up her chubby face and leaned in to separate the two of them.

Naruto, Li Luo, Ningji, Hinata, and Tiantian, they came together to choose a C-level ninjutsu scroll, and used the five of the twelve ninjas of Konoha , if the time of this moment is recorded, it is also quite commemorative.

According to what Naruto said a few days ago, Ning Ci and Li Luo were all ninjutsu of the ninja control type, and they soon found a few that looked quite good: Naruto's "Wind Demon Shuriken Use Experience" is not suitable for daily cultivation, it is a throwing method that focuses on strength and chakra control, and Tian Tian is more suitable for cultivating fine, unique, skillful, and wonderful throwing techniques.

What's more, after the night of the Uchiha's extermination, the Uchiha family's scroll library was burned clean, although Naruto privately suspected that it was secretly swallowed by the three generations or Danzo, but no matter what, those orphans of the Uchiha family couldn't learn, so Naruto engraved a copy of the throwing experience and returned the original to the Uchiha family, benevolent and righteous.

"Tian Tian, what do you think of this 'manipulation technique'? This is a C-level starting ninja control enhancement ninjutsu, which requires extremely high ninja use talent and a lot of training, and the follow-up ninja is also very good, and it feels very suitable for you. At this time, Ning Ci opened a scroll and handed it to Tian Tian, and said excitedly.

"Well, it's really perfect for me, Brother Naruto, what do you see?" Tian Tian took the scroll from Ning Ji's hand and brought it to Naruto on the side, and showed it to him.

Actually, Tian Tian is one year older than Naruto, but Naruto's temperament is too mature, coupled with his excellent intelligence, he is in charge of everything, so Tian Tian consciously calls Naruto his brother, and Naruto also takes it for granted.

"Well, this ninjutsu is indeed very suitable for you, and it can improve your combat power in a very short time. However, I don't think you need to practice it from a young age, and what you need now is not to improve your combat power in a short period of time. ”

"Tian Tian, what do you think of the sealing technique?" As he spoke, Naruto, who was standing in the corner of the room, unfolded the scroll in his hand to Tiantian:

Sealing, a very versatile type of art, can be used by ninjas to seal objects and even lives, and then psychically retrieve them if necessary. It's just that sealing requires a fairly high level of knowledge, and the vast majority of ninjas lack this talent.

"However, Brother Naruto didn't say ...... before"

"Didn't you come here at that time, I didn't expect that there was a category of sealing techniques in the C-level ninjutsu scroll, although it was not practical, but judging from the introduction, this is the basis for cultivating higher-level sealing techniques."

"Days, I know your goal is to become a tough female ninja like the 'legendary Three Ninja' Tsunade. However, after this period of time, you should know that the gap between you and me, with Ningji, with Li Luo, and with Hinata, and this gap will continue to increase over time...... The inheritance of the secret art of the big family cannot be smoothed out by one or two CB-level ninjutsu. ”

In fact, it's more about talent, personal gaps, every day is even far from working harder than Hinata, she also considerately helps her father share the shop work for a long time from time to time, it is impossible to be like Hinata, she can almost ignore everything and concentrate on cultivating her own combat power.

"If it is really a life-and-death fight, although the legendary three ninjas are equally famous, Tsunade-sama is actually weaker than Jiraiya-sama and Orochimaru, but in terms of prestige, Tsunade-sama is not inferior to the other two, because in addition to her powerful combat power, Tsunade-sama is also an excellent medical ninja, and her significance on the battlefield is even far higher than the other two."

Originally, listening to Naruto's constant words, Xiao Tian was becoming more and more unhappy, her mouth pursed, and it seemed that she could cry at any time.

However, as soon as Naruto's words changed, Tiantian's eyes gradually brightened, and his mouth stopped pursing.

The person who points out the problem is annoying, but if the person who points out the problem has the ability to solve the problem, then it will be admirable and convincing.

"On the battlefield, combat power is of course the first and most important, but everyone is working hard to cultivate, so it is difficult to open a qualitative gap between each other. And logistics is always the top priority, and the sealing technique is difficult to practice, but I think that if you practice it well every day, whether it is in the ninja army or on any other occasion in the future, your importance is worth being much stronger than you, and desperately protecting. ”

"Since we can't compete with the family ninjas in a straight race, then we choose to overtake in the corner, and when you carry a troop's food, weapons, and wound medicine on you every day, even Hokage-sama will look sideways for you."

"Okay."

"I trust Naruto's brother's judgment, and I've decided to practice sealing." As soon as she took the scroll from Naruto's hand, she said this every day, and now she was completely impressed by the bright prospects that Naruto had depicted.

"But...... Cultivating the sealing technique is certainly a shortcut to overtaking in a corner, but every day you don't forget to improve your combat power, especially the physical arts, after becoming a ninja who is proficient in sealing techniques, you are our treasure, but at the same time, you will also become the target of the enemy's crazy attack, and physical skills are relatively the strongest skills to save life. ”

"I know, I know, by your side, as long as my physical skills can keep up with the progress, I think that when I graduate from the ninja school, I will be able to protect myself."

The Hyuga family is known as the strongest family in Konoha physical arts, representing the pinnacle of soft boxing. The Maite family is the strongest in Konoha physical arts, representing the pinnacle of Gangquan. Follow these people around me every day, and after graduating from ninja school, physical skills are indeed not bad.

In this way, every day he took the scroll that recorded the C-class sealing technique, and he was so happy that he ran to the person in charge to register. She vaguely understood that after making today's choice, her future forbearance path would become smooth.

"Okay, this point, let's go have lunch first, and then go to the forest base to cultivate in the afternoon." After completing the ninja selection, the small Uzuni walked out of the room, and Naruto walked last, leaving the exchange room full of scrolls.

However, when he closed the door, when he looked up, he found that the corridor in front of him was empty.

Then, because of the poor lighting, the lights in the corridor, which were also lit in the morning during the day, suddenly fluctuated, and one after the other became dark.

（…… Naruto gritted his teeth, his hand gripping the handle of the Akamatsu sword, which almost never left his side. However, at this moment, a low and terrifying voice suddenly sounded in his ears behind him: "The battle between ninjas is like the hell of Shura!" ”

Naruto listened to the malevolent whisper, and the palm holding the handle of Akamatsu became stronger and harder, and his muscles gradually bulged and bruised.

However, in the next moment, he forcibly controlled himself with reason and did not draw his sword to attack, but turned around little by little, looked at the ugly, weird, and hideous man who appeared behind him, and controlled himself to look at the other party.

One moment, two moments, three moments......

"Naruto, Naruto?"

"Brother Naruto?"

"Naruto, what's wrong with you, what are you doing?" The ugly, weird, and hideous man in front of him distorted and faded, and finally Naruto seemed to have returned to the real world, in front of Hinata Ninji and a group of people who were watching him with concern.

"Whew...... Call...... What just happened? The hand that gripped the handle of the sword and let go, Naruto asked as if he was almost in collapse with sweat on his face.

"Nothing happened, did it? It's Brother Naruto You were suddenly stunned just now, and then suddenly you held the hilt of your sword, and your expression became terrifying. Hinata was visibly frightened, and she ran over and grabbed Naruto's arm sleeves with both hands.

（…… After more than a year, finally, is it finally coming again? Moreover, it feels worse and worse every time. ）

"It should be, it should be that I have been cultivating too crazy during this time, and I am always practicing slashing and killing enemies in my mind, so that I fell into an illusion for a while." Naruto stroked his forehead with his hand, wiped away the sweat, and then when his palm fell, the whole person had returned to his usual calm and calm state.

"However, don't go to the forest base to cultivate today, let's go eat, sing, and go shopping, okay?" Smiling and holding Hinata's hand, the warmth of the palm calmed down the little chubby girl beside her.

"Yes, of course."

"Alas, Naruto, you're practicing too hard, so sooner or later something will go wrong."

When the others saw the scene just now, of course they wouldn't object to Naruto's proposal, they were too young to perceive the danger of the scene just now, but they could faintly feel that Naruto had something on their minds.

At noon and in the afternoon of the day, Naruto took the children to a big meal, to sing, to go shopping, to have fun and relax.

Ningji, Hinata and they are young after all, and they will soon forget what happened in the exchange room in the morning.

…………

As the night wore on, the invasion of all kinds of illusions became more and more intense, and many times, Naruto even felt that those were not illusions, but some real things that happened, although weird, although terrifying, although they seemed incredible.

But it's because it's so incredible, so it makes people feel that it goes beyond the limits of the brain, and it's not an illusion.

At the same time, on the other hand, Naruto also had to sigh that Taiyin Zhenren's methods were really clever, in the morning in the Hokage Building, under the nose of the shadow-level powerhouse of the third generation of ape flying sun, Taiyin cast a spell on himself, and actually hid it from everyone, and at night, he endured Maitkai's side in Konoha strength, but with Maitkai's beast instinct, he didn't find any abnormality in himself.

(Or maybe it's because it's all about the changes in my own body and mind, so no one else can interfere with it, and it's not easy for anyone else to get involved.) ）

The night is getting deeper. When it was time to go to bed, Naruto said to Li Luo, who was on the bed next to him, "Xiao Li, if I can't get up tomorrow, you remember to help me ask for leave from school." ”

"How come, when are you ...... Naruto, are you feeling unwell again? Xiao Li suddenly looked solemn and thought of something.

"Haha, a little." Naruto stroked his forehead with his hand, and didn't say anything more because of Xiao Li's worries, until now, he didn't know if dying in the mental world meant that he was really dead, if so, then, after tonight, he really might not wake up from a dream.

However, this is something that can only be solved by oneself, and telling it to the people around them only makes them more worried and sad.

Lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, when the eyes closed, the phantom image like a frenzy swooped up again, completely engulfing his entire consciousness.

This time, Naruto felt his consciousness float up like a float into the sky, the bed behind him became smaller and smaller, Xiao Li couldn't fall asleep over and over, and then, his consciousness passed through the roof of the house, flying faster and faster, and slowly, the entire Konoha fell into his eyes, and then quickly became smaller......

The lower plane, the vast and infinite abyssal world of the realm, is filled with chaotic and violent energy, and the fiery red flame whirlwind shatters all matter.

The many broken worlds that have fallen from the middle plane to the lower plane are like isolated islands, or bubbles, which instinctively get close to each other, huddle together to resist the abyssal energy storm, and devour and merge with each other, hoping to gain enough world power to break free from the falling force and float back to the middle plane universe, the heavens and all the worlds.

The terrible thing about the abyss is that it makes people hold on to hope forever, and then, when you try so hard to catch that light of hope, you find that it is the fire that burns the souls of all beings!

Souls who do not understand this knowledge, once they lose the protection of the original ruined world and are exposed to the endless abyss, 991% of them will be shattered in an instant, and the souls of the world are all food in the endless abyss, and more than 99% of the individual souls of the living beings in the world are so weak that they are not as good as floating, fragile and not worth mentioning.

Under the guidance and protection of some kind of power, Naruto only had time to gaze at the terrifying abyss of endless flames, and the next moment he was channeled from the bubble of the Hokage world into another, even smaller bubble.

This process is lightning fast, otherwise, once the delicious soul breath has fully spread, the ghosts will not know what terrible evil demons they will attract.

In the process of rapidly approaching a light blue sphere, the light blue sphere flashed with a series of coherent picture scenes, as if countless rays of light were radiating towards this side:

The wandering soul only felt that he was looking at the scenes and scenes very clearly, all of which were the various events and changes that were constantly happening on that planet, flickering before his eyes as if watching a movie.

The next moment, Naruto felt that he had fallen to the ground, and at this moment, his whole body was red and spread to the heat, and he even caused a burst of white smoke when he fell into the cave puddle, as if he had just been fished out of the lava, but he was not burned into ashes.

"Grunt, grunt." Because of his unbearable hunger and thirst, Naruto first stuck to the ground and drank the water in the cave pit, and after a while, he didn't know how much water he drank, and he gradually eased up. Rationality gradually returns to the neural network that is almost like a burning, red-hot steel wire.

(Why was it okay last time, and this time it feels like I'm almost dead?) Is Taiyin deliberately fixing me? Looking up and looking around to the left and right, there was a black stone cave surrounded by white mist, the light was dim, and at this time, Naruto suddenly saw a woman's back flashing not far away, gorgeous costume, purple skirt.

Instinctively, Naruto ran after the beauty's back.

"Sister, that sister, stop for a moment, please wait." On the one hand, it was because of its weakness, and on the other hand, because the figure was like a ghostly ghost, and it was extremely fast, and Naruto chased after it with all his might, but he could only see the dress flickering around the corner, and then follow closely.

After a few turns, the figure in front of him finally slowed down, and even from behind, Naruto could be sure that it was a bewitching beauty, and at this moment, she strolled forward gracefully and movingly, her hands as white as jade carrying wooden plates and teapots, and her vision gradually expanded. Naruto, or Zhu Peng, once again saw the guy in the cave in front of him, who he never wanted to see again in his life.

"Taiyin!" As if he was spitting out between his teeth, he looked at the man in the Taoist robe who was holding his son alone, and roared like this.

"You'd better be quiet, disturbing the master's Yaxing...... I'll kill you. The beautiful woman turned sideways, but her gaze was as sharp as a knife.