At dusk the next day, Naruto carried a basket of fresh herbs on his back and came to a river on the outskirts.

He didn't come to catch fish to practice medical ninjutsu, but to collect the last one of the ingredients for the preparation of the Soldier Food Pill.

The Soldier Food Pill is made of various medicinal herbs, and the main and secondary are distinct. Some medicinal materials are dispensable, some can be substituted, and the main materials are different for different effects of the soldier food pills. However, some of the main materials are medicinal materials that are needed for many types of military food pills or secret medicines. For example, mandala grass, vitality ginseng, large vine, red salamander...... Unless it is the all-purpose mud containing various herbal essences on Nanakusa Island, it can be used as a substitute, so there is no need to think about this for the time being.

Due to the general distribution map of wild medicinal herbs provided by Granny Cat, Naruto temporarily made up for the growth habits of these medicinal herbs last night, plus the help of the shadow clone. Running around, it was easy to collect most of the herbs.

Except for one medicinal herb that is more troublesome, that is, the red salamander. Red salamanders, like red salamanders, are amphibians, unlike plants and herbs that grow in fixed places, and are not easy to find even if they know their range of activity.

Coupled with the nocturnal habit of the red salamander, Naruto deliberately left the red salamander last.

Naruto Bokaze stepped on the slippery cobblestones and came to the river indicated on the map, frowning:

"Shouldn't the average river be crystal clear? It's clear enough, but it doesn't seem to be bottomless. ”

Then I looked at the sloping riverbed with pebbles around me, and it seemed that the water level had receded a lot, and it was still so deep. This brings a lot of inconvenience to catching red salamanders.

But thinking about it is relieved. If the red salamanders didn't live in deep water, with their valuable value, they would have been captured and extinct by the herb pickers long ago, where would it be Naruto's turn to get him.

It is said that Konoha Village has a special cultivation and cultivation base for various medicinal herbs, and even red salamanders have breeding bases. It's so convenient, where do you need to be so troublesome as him.

Naruto put down the basket full of herbs and took off his clothes and pants, leaving only boxers. Then he plunged headlong into the water and made a lot of splashes. Start a refreshing swim.

Because he has been busy all day, he has long been sweating all his life. After all, it's not in the immortal martial arts novel, and if you cultivate to a certain extent, you can get a pure and leakless body. No matter how powerful a ninja is, he is still human, and he still has to sweat.

Just before the red salamanders come out to move, check the depth of the water. In this way, I have points in my heart and it is convenient to make plans to catch red salamanders.

It's just that the results of the diving test are not very good. The average depth of a river a few meters wide is seven or eight meters, and in some places it is more than 10 meters in the middle zone.

Even if you plan to use the water escape ninjutsu to entrap the red salamander in the water, it is not easy. Because with his current strength, it is easy to affect the flow of water on the surface of the water by using the Water Escape Ninjutsu, and it is more difficult to affect the bottom of the deep water area.

Naruto decided to rehearse a few times in advance, so as not to make a mistake for the first time after dark and scare the red salamanders away. As long as you succeed in killing a relatively large red salamander for the first time, the preparation of 200 pills for the cat ninja is more than enough, and the surplus is enough for yourself to prepare the soldier food pills needed for cultivation.

After he climbed ashore, he closed his eyes and sat cross-legged and began to practice the immortal mode, which was a relatively strong state perception.

Even when you close your eyes, you can feel your eyelids flush slightly from the setting sun, and you can hear the sounds of nature such as the wind, water, and birdsong, and your body seems to feel the subtle flow of air.

It seems that the perception is much sharper, but in fact, it is disturbed by external information and has not yet entered a real meditation state.

When Naruto quickly entered a state of true meditation, these sights, hearings, and touches seemed to be gone. This shows that the superfluous information from the outside world obtained by the five senses is filtered, and the spirit is more restrained and concentrated.

He seemed to be in a dark and silent space without light and sound, and only his spiritual power was like a stone thrown into calm water, with himself as the center, splashing a circle of ripples that spread outward.

Perceptual ability is a kind of "vision" that is more wonderful. Being able to control what you want to "see" and what you don't want to "see" seems to be shifting the "vision" you don't want to see to the life you want to see.

In the past, the "ripples" of the perceptual state were centered on oneself and spread horizontally to the surroundings, but today is the first time that the ripples have been controlled to spread underwater and probe, which has increased some difficulty. However, it is not a big problem to perceive the underwater.

When the first ripple reveals the turbulent currents and other things at the bottom of the river, the second time it ignores everything else, and only perceives the outlines of the various fish in the water more clearly. Since the perceptual state ignores the current, the silhouettes of these fish appear to swim in different heights.

Suddenly, Naruto sensed that not far from the water in the range of his perception, there was a long, round outline of a fish, much like the size of a red salamander. I was happy in my heart: Could it be that there are red salamanders coming out before it gets dark?

Water String Blade.

He suddenly stretched out his right index finger and swiped it, and the thin needle-like blue chakra line about three zhang long stretched out from the fingertip acupoint, cutting into the water without a trace of waves. Splits the perceived strip outline in two.

This move was inspired by Hinata's guardian gossip sixty-four palms in the plot.

Chakra lines can be used to bind enemies or manipulate golems. However, if the chakra line is further condensed into a finer and tougher shape with better chakra control, it will show the cutting ability of steel wire.

His chakra control ability is not average good, and he can do even more incredible things.

Therefore, he not only embodied the use of chakra lines similar to the protection of gossip in advance, but also integrated them into it after mastering the changes in the nature of chakra, and derived different applications.

With his control over the chakra, he can condense a long line of ordinary chakra. However, if you want to ensure the same attack power as the guardian Bagua, the difficulty of control will be greatly increased, and the limit of the temporary effective attack distance is 5 meters.

He named the attack of the chakra line after the string blade because he thought of the strings. The string is also a type of line, but it gives a sharper feel. The brain hole comes from many two-dimensional characters who used strings to attack in their previous lives.

After incorporating different chakra nature changes, ordinary string blades will also have different changes.

Incorporating into the wind increases the sharp cutting force, but increases the difficulty of control and shortens the effective attack distance of the string blade.

Incorporating water also increases the difficulty of control a bit, but the water-based chakra has good malleability, and when you decrease and increase, it will appear to extend the length of the string blade, increasing the effective attack range.

Corresponding to the chakra line and the chakra that integrates water, wind, and feng shui properties, the difficulty of control increases in turn: a light blue string blade of 5 meters, a dark blue water string blade of 10 zhang, a light cyan wind string blade of 1 meter, and a blue feng shui string of 2 zhang.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that what had surfaced was only a large fish similar to a red salamander, so he complained: "Since it is a fish, give me a long flat body, don't give me illusions." Forget it, let's try again. ”

Just now, I was worried that my perception underwater would be affected, so my perception was concentrated in the vicinity. However, after trying it once, I found that although it was a little more difficult, it was not serious, and a larger range of perception could be used.

It's just that this time, after the perception opened up to a radius of a kilometer, he suddenly found that there was someone not far behind him when he came.

If you are passing in other directions, you may be passing by or someone who has arrived at this place before you. But it was the back of the road when he came, obviously following him, and he sighed secretly: careless.

Naruto has been secretly out training without any accidents, so let his guard down. Except for when cultivating, he will use his perception ability as a warning, and he usually doesn't pay so much attention to hurrying.

However, Naruto Bofu won't be too worried, and in Konoha Village, there shouldn't be anyone who is unfavorable to him. The worst possibility is only to expose the true strength, which will not endanger lives.

And he's a bit of a fluke. If he was only following him today, it just so happened that he was running around collecting herbs today and had not shown his true strength. He was not worried about the discovery of the water string blade, as the fine needle-like chakra lines could not be seen by the ordinary naked eye, unless a large number of chakras were substantiated.