The three girls were injured to varying degrees and almost had to be hospitalized for a while, but Naruto didn't do anything and was discharged the same day.

Tsunade didn't look for him, and he was happy to be idle and went straight home.

I haven't been back for a month, and my home is still the same. Nine-tails lay on the couch, boxes and boxes of empty wine bottles piled up on the balcony, windows wide open, and wind chimes ringing softly.

After washing, Naruto blew his hair, and the Nine-Tails suddenly woke up.

"Oh, back?"

"I'm back." Naruto blew his hair dry and put on his clothes casually, "You're home alone this month?" ”

"Pretty much, once in a while the old man goes out for a walk." Nine-Tails slumped in the sofa with a honey smile on his face, "Human beings are really stupid, and no one notices the old man when he walks on the street." ”

"It's just a dog, what's there to pay attention to." Naruto said mercilessly.

"Hehe, what do you know?" Nine-Tails took out a pair of small glasses with his paws and put them on the bridge of his nose, looking like a wise dog, "Humans relax their vigilance against the old man, this is the old man's good disguise." ”

"yes, that's amazing." Naruto said perfunctorily.

"When I paid for takoyaki, the woman said the same thing." Nine-Tails nodded and said.

"What woman?" He asked, turning his head.

"That. Blonde woman. Nine-Tails rolled over and pulled out a bottle of wine from under him and said, "That woman came once when you weren't there. ”

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked as he went into the kitchen and poured a glass of water, leaning back in the kitchen while drinking.

"Hehe, you are all slaves of the old man." Nine-Tails skillfully bit the cap of the bottle with his teeth and spit it in the trash can, "It's the same thing you do every day, clean everywhere." ”

"Hmm" he didn't say anything, put down his glass and slouched down on the couch.

"How do you feel like you're weak?" Nine-Tails took another sip of wine and asked, "After you come back, you have a little less to say?" ”

"Adult affairs, fox don't care." Naruto glanced at it and pulled out the key to the underfloor heating generator he had taken from Kazeka-chanyuki from his pocket.

The key is purple crystalline and more like a long necklace. He lay on the couch, one hand in the air, and watched intently.

The reward for option 2 is to upgrade the Flying Thor, but now the mission has been aborted.

Although the client has been buried in the sea, the protection target Fenghua Xiaoxue is still alive, as long as she is willing to restart the Snow Country mission. Aborted tasks can still be restarted instead of ending them directly.

Konoha has already received an honorarium, and he will not refuse Fenghua Xiaoxue if he is reasonable.

The question is, how do you convince the immortal Fenghua Xiaoxue to embark on the journey to the Snow Country again? Would she be willing?

After thinking about it for a long time, Naruto sighed and held the key in his palm with his backhand.

Let's take one step at a time.

Something like this is happening, whether it's an accident or something else. After drifting around on the sea, Fenghua Xiaoxue's spirit is fragile enough, so it is better not to stimulate her easily.

Some things are not rushed, and it is still a long time anyway.

After putting aside the matter of Fenghua Xiaoxue for a while, he thought about the mysterious murals and strange statues in the country of Vortex, and suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a shrine of the Vortex clan outside the village.

After careful recollection, the number of statues in the ruins seems to be twenty-seven.

"Hey, Nine-Tails."

He turned his head to look at the Nine-Tails from the couch, "Have you seen the Six Dao Immortals?" ”

"Yes." The Nine-Tails paused in his drinking movements and looked up at Naruto, "What?" ”

"Are the Six Dao Immortals gods?" Naruto asked suddenly.

"I don't know, I guess." Nine-Tails paused visibly and changed his words, "No. ”

"What kind of thing is an immortal?" Naruto sat up from the couch and looked at the Nine-Tails with a complicated gaze, "Immortals who can live, grow old, sickness and die, no matter how you look at it, don't look like gods. ”

"You ask. The old man didn't know very well. Nine-Tails thought for a moment and said, "The old man hasn't seen the Six Dao Immortals a few times, but as long as he appears, the old man senses his presence." ”

"And now?"

"Now?" Nine-Tails' tone rose and he asked rhetorically, "What do you think?" ”

"In other words, the Six Dao Immortals have disappeared." Naruto got up and paced around the living room, "But I often hear people talking about evil god sacrifices outside?" ”

"There are some villages in the country of Kawanoku that also worship the god of death, and the ghoul seal and the reincarnation of the filthy earth are also real."

"I don't know." Hearing the name of the Grim Reaper, Nine-Tails suddenly drooped his head and said vaguely, "What are you asking those things for?" ”

"Nothing, just ask." Naruto said.

If the Six Dao Immortals really existed, then what about before the Six Dao? If those gods also existed, their power would have been withdrawn and existing as ninjutsu.

The ghoul seal and the reincarnation of the filthy earth are both sealing techniques in a sense. But the end of all truth is destruction, the country of the vortex that has disappeared.

Naruto started to get excited, it was much more interesting than ninjutsu.

Ever since the ghost warriors of the Bird Country, he has been interested in the option of seizing the rights of a country. Simple illusions can even build faith and control over the people of a nation.

What if it's really God? If the Uzumaki clan can cut the power of the Grim Reaper, can they also try?

He really didn't want to be the Hokage, but if it was to become a party of faith, it would be quite emotional just to think about it. Konoha can't stay until he gets old, and there will always be a day when he leaves.

The Kawa no Kuni mission, the Bird Country Quest, and the Snow Country quest, the system has been luring him to seize control of the small country. Naruto wasn't stupid either, and it didn't make much use for worldly rights to come.

If you really want him to get started with management and run a small country diligently, it is also blind. What's more, he is still Konoha Shinobi now, and it doesn't make sense to seize control too early.

The Toki in the Land of Birds, the Wind Flower and Snow in the Land of Snow, and the Queen of Loulan quest that has not yet been triggered. The blood of royal power is continued through the royal daughter, and if this is the case, the role of the church comes.

The problem now is to figure out the relationship between the Uzumaki Clan and those strange powers, although the Vortex Clan is withering, but the bloodline is immortal, and there will definitely be something special to be found.

Thinking of this, Naruto felt that it was still necessary to go to the shrine of the Uzumaki clan. The location is right in the Konoha Forest, some distance from the village.

"I'm going to go out for a while." Naruto put on his clothes and bent down to change his shoes in the hallway, "You stay at home by yourself." ”

"Huh." Nine-Tails curled up on the couch and muffled, recalling the fear of having its soul dominated.

That was the time the ghoul sealed it down, and so was the time Naruto ordered it to swallow the ninja who swallowed the roots. A tall soul that makes people shudder.

Nine-Tails had no doubt that he would match that guy with a white-haired demon with a white short knife and blue-faced fangs.

Naruto left the house in a huff and walked towards the opposite outside of the village. didn't take a few steps, and a few people came to meet him, dusty, looking like they had come back from the road overnight.

"Hello Teacher Asma." Naruto smiled awkwardly and ran into the tenth class.

"Yo, it's Naruto."

"Naruto!"

"Coming back?"

Asma, who had just returned from a mission, watched as three disciples mingled with a yellow-haired one. didn't urge, lit a cigarette and looked at it with a smile.

"You guy, I heard there was an accident at sea." Shikamaru reached out and touched Naruto's hands and feet, "It's a miracle that there is nothing at all." ”

"What can happen to me? It's just a shipwreck. Seeing his acquaintance, Naruto couldn't help but boast, "If it weren't for the ship in the deep sea, I would have come back a long time ago." ”

"You're not simple, you're not easy, and you've brought back the mission goal." Shikamaru nudged Naruto's shoulder.

"That's, you don't inquire, my 100% task completion rate, I'm claimed. Yes!! Ino! I'm still a patient! ”

Ino twisted him hard, and said angrily, "Don't get carried away there, and you have to be embarrassed to pick up a life!" You look like a sick person! ”

"Forget it, forget it, Ino." Ding Ji came out to pull the bias, "It's already a miracle that Naruto can come back, maybe there are really injuries on his body." ”

"Ding Ci, don't be deceived by that guy, if you really have an injury, you can't be discharged from the hospital." Shikamaru mends the knife path.

"Oh, that's good." Ding Ci took a step back.

Ino grabbed Naruto, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Where are you going?"

"I" Naruto was a little stuck, he couldn't say he was going to the Uzumaki Clan's Clothed Tomb to have a look.

This thing is a bit unlucky no matter how you say it, and it's a bit evasive for people who often go on missions. Except for himself, there are no taboos, because he doesn't believe this, it doesn't matter if he dances on the grave before the mission.

Even if there was an accident at sea last time, he will dare to go next time.

Just as Naruto was lying in his mind and typing the draft, Asma on the side suddenly took a puff of cigarette and spoke.

"Let's disband the tenth class on the spot, I still have some things, Shikamaru will go to the Hokage Building later to make up for this mission report."

Ino was stunned, and looked back to see the smile in Asma's eyes.

"Yes." The three of Pig, Deer and Butterfly responded.

After Asma left, Shikamaru's shoulders suddenly collapsed, and he said in defeat.

"I'm doing the mission report again!"

Ding Ji looked away and said with some weakness, "Shikamaru, I want to help too, but you know, the mission report I wrote will be sent back by Tsunade-sama." ”

Ino grabbed Naruto and didn't let go, turned his head to look at Shikamaru and was about to speak, but Shikamaru said first.

"Forget it, I'll do it, Ino, let's go first."

After saying that, he pulled Ding Ci and left.

Suddenly only Ino and Naruto were left on the road, and Ino let go of Naruto and asked again.

"Where are you going?"

"I'll go to the shrine and have a look."

"Shrine?" Ino frowned slightly, and turned his head to look around, "Which shrine?" What do you go to that kind of place for what? ”

"This. Take a look. Naruto said, "I found something outside, so I wanted to go over and take a look." ”

"Wait for me."

"Huh?" Naruto was stunned.

"Ah what, I said I'll go with you." Ino said.

Naruto's home was nearby, and Ino simply went straight to him to wash up. Rushing overnight, Ino's face was full of exhaustion, but he didn't care about anything else.

The whole person soaked in the bathtub and almost fell asleep.

There was a knock on the bathroom door.

"What for?" Ino asked a little angrily.

"It's nothing, you look like you're tired, or just rest here, me." Naruto proposed, standing outside the bathroom door.

"No way!" Ino refused, "If you go alone, I'll throw away the key and never care about it again." ”

"Uh," Naruto said, "I mean, it's not early yet, so it's better to go tomorrow." ”

The next morning.

The shrine of the Vortex clan.

The vermilion torii gate stands tall and is engraved with the emblem of the Vortex family.

Naruto and Ino stood in the courtyard, looking up at the tattered eaves, and glanced at the shrine with half a door missing. This place was even more desolate than he had imagined.

There was an abandoned well in the courtyard, and a white sunlight shone alone on it, and it was filled with green algae. The front of the shrine is overgrown with weeds and crumbling rubble everywhere.

It was early spring, and the dilapidated walls were covered with green plants, as if they had just been fished out of the water. Perhaps because of the rain in the forest, the ground was covered with moss.

(End of chapter)