Naruto: Cultivating to Immortality

Chapter 72 2nd Generation 3rd Generation

Having returned to his secluded training ground, Hyuga Kanan's mindset has undergone a significant change, no longer displaying the restlessness and impatience he once felt.

Just now, after intertwining with the rules of heaven and earth, Hyuga Kanan realized the vastness of the world's rules. These are not things that he could learn and master overnight. Even with the support of the world's will's soul-refining energy, it would be impossible to break through quickly.

What I need now is to restore my balanced mindset and cultivate step by step. If I can accelerate my cultivation, then I will; otherwise, I will carefully comprehend and gradually improve.

Through the power of divine sense, one could perceive that on the mountaintop, countless natural energies condensed into mist, merging with the cultivation grounds and enveloping oneself within it.

The quantity may not be as large as that of Mount Myoboku, Shikorin, and Ryuchi Cave, which have accumulated over thousands of years and can directly liquefy natural energy, but it is still very concentrated.

This is a cultivation environment created by the World Will using its own rules and authority. The World Will is also unwilling to be possessed, have its will erased and become someone else's origin, so it tries its best to create the best environment for itself so that it can quickly improve its strength and create a chance for itself.

However, although the current rich natural energy environment is very good and can increase the abundance of energy in my body, I need to break through my current realm to better utilize this natural energy.

The mountaintop was completely empty except for the presence of Hyuga Kanan, a living being sitting cross-legged in a crevice shrouded in mist formed by natural energy.

In the surrounding void, violent natural energy flickers and flows from time to time, mixing with the boulders and snow on the mountain to form a natural protective circle, isolating it from the outside world.

Hyuga Kanan continuously absorbed and refined the essence of it, comprehending the rules of heaven and earth.

Endless natural energy gathers here at all times, constantly transforming the surrounding natural environment. If this continues, in a hundred years, this place will become a sacred place for those who cultivate natural energy, just like Mount Myoboku.

Hyuga Kanan, having sensed the power of the world's rules, slowly recalled the power of those rules that he had unconsciously sensed when resonating with them before, allowing him to understand and utilize them more clearly.

Hyuga Kanan initially only had a slight understanding and did not directly experience the feeling of merging with the power of the rules that she had felt before.

He had no prior understanding of the power of the world's rules. That encounter with the power of the rules allowed Hyuga Kanan to perceive a small portion of the residual feeling. Without that encounter, Hyuga Kanan would have had to rely on time to slowly analyze and understand the world's rules.

The world's rules are composed of countless laws, and these laws are what Hyuga Kanan must analyze. Only by understanding how these laws operate can one further access the world's rules.

He had previously refined the soul energy of a Jonin and obtained the affinity of the laws of earth, fire, and water. This allowed him to better analyze the laws of these three elements, learn their operating rules more quickly, and better prepare for further learning and utilizing the rules of the world.

Moreover, within the Qiankun Inheritance Jade, the soul energy cluster of the Water Without Moon Trace contains world rules formed by the operation of the water element law. After utilizing the power of the rules, water escape can be directly transformed into ice escape. This is the advantage of utilizing the power of the rules over simply using the water element law. As long as one absorbs the power of the rules formed by the operation of the water element law, one can quickly condense the innate flower of water-based rules, thus directly breaking through to the innate realm.

However, the speed at which he refined Shui Wuyuehen's soul energy was also very slow. Therefore, he could only start with the three elemental affinities he knew, constantly analyzing the operating rules of the three elemental laws, so that he could understand a little bit of them. Then, he spent a lot of time constantly strengthening this little bit until he finally condensed the innate flower.

After Hyuga Kanan devoted himself to training, the ninja world seemed to return to its original trajectory.

The war between the Mist Ninja and the Leaf Village broke out as scheduled. Even after the Leaf Village saw through the Mist Ninja's surprise attack strategy, they still launched this all-out attack.

With Konoha fully prepared, the most intense clash between the Mist Ninja and Konoha since the start of the war erupted.

Both sides deployed more than 3000 ninjas to engage in the most brutal battle, with various small-scale attacks occurring frequently.

However, the strength of the Mist Ninja was clearly weaker than that of the Leaf Village. Although the various bloodline limit clans of the Mist Ninja dispatched many bloodline ninjas, causing huge casualties to the Leaf Village, the secret techniques and bloodline ninjutsu of the Leaf Village's various clans also directly dealt heavy blows to these clans. A large number of Mist Ninja bloodline clan ninjas were killed by Leaf Village ninjas, which even shook the foundation of these clans.

These clans with bloodlines from the Hidden Mist Village paid an unimaginable price to gain power over the Hidden Mist Village and breach the Fire Country's borders, which were defended by Konoha, but still failed.

The former site of the Land of Whirlpools, a frontline outpost of Konoha.

Brick and stone watchtowers collapsed with a crash, bamboo and wood observation towers were scattered by the impact, and the massive flow of water leveled the entire area. From a distance, it looked as if a huge torrent of water had crashed in, as if the area had been hit by a flood.

"Reporting to the Mizukage, it seems that the Konoha ninja at these outposts received the order to retreat long ago. They only put up a brief resistance before quickly retreating. Only a small number were attacked from both sides by our forces, while most of them had already retreated and escaped our attack range without our intervention."

The Third Mizukage, who had been calmly listening to his subordinates' report, frowned upon hearing this and muttered under his breath, "It seems Konoha was very well prepared. Our attack was very fast, yet this Konoha force still managed to escape."

"This..." The subordinate who was reporting the situation looked embarrassed and didn't know how to answer the Mizukage in front of him.

After thinking it over, the Third Mizukage still didn't want to give up so easily, and said directly, "I will lead you to continue the attack and not give Konoha a chance to breathe, and break through the enemy's defenses directly."

The subordinate nodded in agreement, also very excited.

This time, they followed the Mizukage in the attack, and the Konoha troops were completely unable to resist, and could only retreat continuously.

They have already breached Konoha's third line of defense. At most, there is still one more line of defense left, and the Mist Ninja will be able to directly storm into Konoha's camp and enter the Land of Fire.

In other directions, those arrogant blood clans were constantly thwarted by the Konoha forces. Not only did they fail to break through any of their defenses, but they also inflicted heavy casualties on the Mist Ninja, rendering them incapable of launching any offensive attacks.

However, the Third Mizukage was not in a good mood. He knew that this was the limit of what the Mist Ninja could achieve. The blood clans of the Mist Ninja on the flanks had failed to break through Konoha's defenses and had suffered significant losses, essentially rendering them incapable of fighting. If his forces continued to advance and were blocked, they could be surrounded and encircled by the Konoha ninja on the flanks at any moment.

"Damn those clan ninjas!"

The Third Mizukage couldn't help but curse. In Kirigakure, they relied on their clan's power to disobey his orders as the Mizukage, but now they were behaving so poorly that they couldn't even cover for his side.

However, things are going relatively smoothly for me right now. As long as my forces can't stop Konoha, then Konoha's forces will be split in two. I can then freely support one side and encircle and annihilate half of Konoha's forces. In that case, the balance of victory will shift directly to Kirigakure.

The Third Mizukage also knew that if they failed to break through the Konoha forces and were intercepted, they would have no choice but to lead their troops to retreat and return to the Land of Water.

Clearly unwilling to give up, the Third Mizukage decided to lead his team into attack, hoping to give the Mist Ninja one last chance.

However, Konoha was also prepared. The Konoha troops kept retreating in order to accumulate strength and wait for the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, to personally lead the troops to meet them head-on.

Subsequently, both sides proceeded with their plans. The Mist Ninja forces, led by the Third Mizukage, continued their attack on the Konoha forces. On the Konoha side, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, quickly arrived at his designated position, awaiting the Mist Ninja's attack and preparing to halt them there, creating an opportunity for the Konoha forces on his flanks to encircle them.

Stepping on the lush green grass and passing through the dense jungle, with the sun constantly shining on him, the Third Mizukage felt even more envious of this excellent environment.

The Land of Water is shrouded in mist year-round, with extremely high humidity, making it difficult to enjoy the warm atmosphere of direct sunlight. And this is only the Land of Whirlpools, a small country bordering the Land of Fire.

The purpose of this war was to find a piece of land in the Land of Water that could be directly connected to the mainland, and the Land of Whirlpools had a very good piece of land.

However, Konoha Village will not allow the Mist Ninja to station ninja forces next to the Land of Fire, nor will it provide the Land of Water with a direct border with the Land of Fire, as this would threaten Konoha Village's status and income at any time.

On the other side, the Third Hokage was constantly assigning tasks for the upcoming battle, preparing to use this battle to drive the Mist Ninja directly into the sea, giving them no chance to set foot in the Land of Fire.

Ten minutes later, the scout ninjas from both sides clashed, but quickly retreated to report back.

Both sides knew that this battle was crucial to determining the outcome. One side aimed to drive the enemy into the sea, while the other side aimed to break through the enemy's defenses and divide their forces to create an opportunity for victory later.

Soon, the two sides' troops met directly in this area.

The three generations of shadows from the two villages clashed directly, marking the first official battle.

The Third Mizukage is currently the strongest person in Kirigakure, so his strength is naturally very formidable. He uses Water Release ninjutsu in an exaggerated way, and the Water Release ninjutsu he uses casually has great power and range.

The Third Hokage was proficient in all five ninjutsu, and his various combinations of ninjutsu maximized their power, making him extremely skilled in offensive techniques.

The two now stood facing each other, their auras constantly converging, making the surrounding air feel oppressive.

Battle is imminent.