Naruto: The Abstract Strategist of the Akatsuki

Chapter 196 Confusion, Extreme Confusion

"If someone else is a genius and has their own path, then let them go ahead and walk it. They can slowly turn back when they hit a wall."

Bai Mo's thing is for those of us who can't see the road ahead and don't know where to go.

Tsunade expressed her opinion.

She was absolutely right.

Just like her creative regeneration, it has reached its limit and there is no way to go any further.

Because according to her development process, no matter what, creation and regeneration require consuming lifespan, so wouldn't going any further just make herself die even faster?

"Yes, I see you as very confused, Heitu."

Bai Mo nodded.

"Huh? Oh right, I'm confused, extremely confused."

Heitu was staring blankly at the red pearl when he heard Bai Mo's words. He quickly agreed and then put the stone away.

Fearing she might object and say something that made her confused, Bai Mo would take the good thing back.

Kurotsuchi is a practical ninja. If it weren't for the fact that her elemental attributes are water, earth, and fire, and she couldn't learn Dust Release, given her personality, she would have pestered Onoki to teach her Dust Release long ago.

Heitu put the stone into the small pocket at the back of his pants and patted it twice to make sure it was safe and secure.

"Alright, mission's over here, I should head back now... duck?"

Hei Tu raised his hands, stretched, and was about to say goodbye when he suddenly felt a heat on his bottom.

Bai Mo secretly touched her? No, isn't this blatantly touching her?

Hei Tu's body stiffened instantly.

and many more.

Oh, it doesn't seem so.

Bai Mo reached into the pocket behind her back, took out the stone, walked to the front, grabbed her hand, and placed it back in her palm.

"As everyone knows, things that go in your back pocket or tuck into your waistband are things that the person doesn't want; this should be put in front."

Bai Mo said earnestly.

"Huh? There's such a saying?"

Hei Tu was dumbfounded.

However, she readily agreed and put the stone in her front pocket.

"Hoo hoo hoo, I've put all the chakra away at the Gedo Mazo."

He turned off Susanoo and ran back, waving and grinning.

The giant that was just consecrated has now finished fighting and is waving back.

It gave Bai Mo the feeling that he had just undergone an Ultraman transformation.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"hey-hey."

Seeing the "warm" scene of the group, Ziyuan felt very envious.

*smack*

Ding.

Ziyuan's bell fell to the ground.

Note: The bells here refer to real bells, not bells that symbolize a male organ. Shion is not a futa.

"Ah~"

Shion suddenly began to glow, and a powerful burst of chakra erupted from her body.

As mentioned before, the witch and the demon are a pair of star-crossed lovers.

Both of them are like frogs in a well.

Rather than saying that the priestess sealed the demon with her own power, it would be more accurate to say that the demon sealed the priestess's power; the two sealed each other.

Now it's all nonsense.

The priestess's destiny has ended; with the bell shattered, her power is naturally unsealed.

"Oh, such powerful strength, it's on par with the demons."

Uchiha Hikaru turned around, activated his Susanoo skeleton, shielded the group behind him, took a piece of candy from his pocket, and popped it into his mouth.

They are on par with demons and monsters...

Are you referring to that demon who was so terrified that he cried and begged for mercy without even being hit, and was eventually set off with fireworks?

"I……"

After the power burst ended, Shion felt the "powerful" energy within her body after the seal was broken, and looked at her hands in confusion.

"I'm so lost too, I need guidance!"

Ziyuan mustered her courage, ran up to Bai Mo, and said in a pleading tone.

"?"

Bai Mo knew, of course, that Zi Yuan must be confused. Someone like her, who knew nothing before and suddenly gained great power without any goals, would naturally be confused.

However, Bai Mo and the others' conversation just now was about their confusion regarding power.

Ziyuan already didn't know how to use this power, so if she were given a stone, she would be even more clueless about what to do.

This is a feeling of being lost in life.

"If you don't know what to do, then come to the Land of Rain to study and learn. Learning makes people happy. Learning without thinking is futile, and thinking without learning is dangerous."

Bai Mo thought for a moment and gave a suggestion.

"That last sentence seems quite philosophical, what does it mean?"

Tsunade was curious.

"If you study but don't think, you'll go online; if you think but don't study, you'll take out a loan."

"?"

She knows about loans, but what is the internet? Who is "the internet"?

Tsunade was also confused.

"But...but what about the Land of Demons? I am the priestess of the Land of Demons, its leader..."

Ziyuan responded softly.

"?"

Bai Mo smiled.

"Little sister, do you want to hear what you're saying?"

What should be done about the Land of Demons?

You're making it sound like before today, you were Shang Yang, Li Si, or Zhang Juzheng of the Ghost Kingdom.

The Land of Demons cannot function without you. You alone are the pillar supporting its development; you are the backbone of the nation.

"By the way, have you ever managed the Land of Demons before? Even for anything?"

"..."

Bai Mo's bluntness made Zi Yuan feel embarrassed.

Thinking about it carefully, it really is true.

Whether or not she exists in the Land of Demons, it makes no difference to anyone else.

Before today, the affairs of the Land of Demons could not possibly be entrusted to a twelve-year-old child like her.

Her daily routine consists of eating, sleeping, and doing a little exercise indoors to maintain her figure and prevent herself from becoming a couch potato.

"Okay, I'll go study."

Ziyuan accepted Bai Mo's suggestion, "I need to go back and tell everyone first."

"OK."

Bai Mo and his group, along with the priestess Shion who had awakened her powers, embarked on their journey back to the Land of Demons.

On the way, Tsunade raised a question that suddenly came to her mind.

"Does Kaguya Otsutsuki, as the progenitor of chakra, mean that all chakra in the world originated from her?"

"The total amount of chakra is fixed. Even if we collect the chakra of these monsters, it's still a drop in the ocean."

"No, that's not true."

Bai Mo had thought about Tsunade's problem before he came.

Kaguya Otsutsuki's descent requires the Infinite Tsukuyomi to reunite everyone's chakra.

So is it really "everyone"?

Obviously not. Half of the Nine-Tails, as well as all the sealed entities, were not absorbed by the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Even those who were caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi only had a portion of their essence absorbed.

If all the chakra is absorbed, then like Kakashi and Six Paths First Love, they will just die instantly.

Therefore, it is quite obvious that the total amount of chakra in the ninja world now far exceeds the total amount of chakra that Kaguya had when she was the progenitor of chakra after eating the fruit.

"If the total amount of chakra is fixed, then explaining many things becomes hellish."

In response to Tsunade's question, Bai Mo proposed a hypothesis: "Think about it, if the total amount of chakra is fixed, and everyone in the ninja world has chakra in their bodies, even ordinary people, they just can't use it. If their chakra is drained, they will die."

This means that the population of the ninja world is directly linked to chakra.

Your great-grandfather, Hashirama Senju, occupied too much chakra. His life meant that no one else could be born. Only after his death could there be peace and a large number of babies be born.

"And then there's the Uzumaki clan, whose average chakra levels are off the charts, so the Uzumaki clan has to be wiped out so that the ninja world's population can increase?"