Five Great Nations in the Ninja World has different terrains, such as Land of Fire, which is mostly in forest plains or valleys and hills, and Land of Lightning, where the entire country is mostly located on plateaus, or Land of Wind, which is a desert landscape.
It is precisely the various geographical differences that make each country have different needs for different resources.
Land of Earth, this is a country where most places are in high mountainous landforms.
Iwagakure is located in the mountains. This makes their village surrounded by rocky mountains and has extremely strong defenses, making it difficult for the enemy to break into it. However, this also brings shortcomings to the village.
Because they are surrounded by high mountains, their terrain is difficult. While it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also makes their communication with the outside world quite poor.
Under the leadership of Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki who inherited First Tsuchikage Will of Stone, in order to survive in this kind of place, the people of this village are united like stones, because only by relying on the strength of the group can they continue to develop and grow.
But now, the face of Third Tsuchikage, who is loved by all Iwa Shinobi, is not very pretty.
Tsuchikage In the office.
"Oh! My old waist!"
Ōnoki covered his waist with one hand, grinned and cursed at Kitsuchi in front of him:
"So I sent you to destroy Land of Fire's railway line. In addition to Shiba who was already lurking in Land of Fire, I also sent a reinforced class composed of at least five Special Jōnins to assist you. But you told me that you were hung up and beaten by a group of dolls who were at most sixteen years old?! You also got three Jōnins?"
"Dad, we weren't hung up and beaten. I still had a slight upper hand against those three brats from Konohagakure!"
Kitsuchi said, rubbing his head in a somewhat naive manner.
Hearing these words, Ōnoki became even more furious. His big nose, which was the same as Kitsuchi's, turned red with anger. His short legs kicked off his position, and he jumped and floated up, giving Kitsuchi a headache.
Without floating, with his height he really wouldn't be able to hit his tall son.
"You're still justified if you haven't completed your mission!"
Kitsuchi felt helplessly where he was beaten.
"But we did underestimate the strength of the opponent, dad."
"Bang!"
Brain collapse x2
"After being beaten like this by a few brats, do you still have the nerve to say it?"
"But Dad, I think..."
"Bang!"
Brain collapse x3
"Two genuine Jōnins died, and the remaining ones were seriously injured. Those are Jōnins! How many Jōnins are there in our entire village!"
Kitsuchi didn't dare to speak anymore.
"Bang!"
Brain breakdown x4
"Dad, why did you hit me again?"
"It's nothing, I just want to hit you! And... Oops, it's all your fault, the old man who hit you slipped his waist again!"
Kitsuchi: e(┬┬┬┬)3cry
Ōnoki, who finally regained his breath, looked helplessly at his silly son.
In terms of personality, Kitsuchi is just like the mountains around Iwagakure, down-to-earth and steady, with a sense of responsibility and team spirit. However, if you want to become a shadow, this kind of personality is not enough. If Third Tsuchikage is not his father, then if Kitsuchi becomes Tsuchikage, it can only be Puppet.
If you want to become a shadow, no matter what, you must at least have a dark heart, otherwise you will not be able to play with so many old villains in Shinobi World, and even trying to settle things in your own village will be quite difficult.
Let's talk about strength, Kitsuchi is not bad. Although Earth Release has very high attainments, even relying on Earth Release's attainments, he will be more advanced in a few years. Although he can cross the door frame of Kage Level, he is only highly accomplished in Earth Release. Once he meets a master who is good at Lightning Release, it will be hard to say.
If nothing else, at least Ōnoki thinks that Kitsuchi will most likely not be able to beat the barbarian Kumogakure next door.
Ōnoki didn't know how long he could live. Even Ōnoki in the original time and space lived until Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, and died at the age of ninety-four due to exhaustion in suppressing the rebellion of Artificial Human.
The current average lifespan of Shinobi World is not very high. Among the five Third Hokage shadows, three Third Hokage, Feng, Lei and Shui, are dead. Now there are only two people left: himself and Hiruzen Sarutobi. Ōnoki doesn't know how long his old bones like Tenten can last.
To be honest, Ōnoki is actually very envious of Hiruzen Sarutobi. Konohagakure has a very good foundation. When he was young, he had a powerful person like First Hokage Second Hokage, who laid a solid foundation for him, allowing him to spend as he pleases.
When they get older, a group of outstanding juniors emerge in the village, not to mention the existence of freaks like Orochimaru, who can directly take care of themselves in peace of mind.
But Ōnoki doesn't dare to take care of his old age. Iwagakure doesn't have the same foundation as Konohagakure. He has taken over the responsibility of Tsuchikage since Second Tsuchikage and Second Mizukage died together. He has been calculating carefully. Now at such an age, he still has to fight on the front line.
"Perhaps... Raikage's suggestion is not unacceptable. Among Shinobi World, the Konohagakure family is the only one. Only the other great ninja villages can unite to have the power to fight against Konohagakure."
Ōnoki waved Kitsuchi to step aside. He would give this matter another careful thought.
Kitsuchi retreated quietly.
"Wait a minute, Kitsuchi! I'm up to my waist again!"
Three years later.
"So, are you really under Sage Mode now?"
Tsunade looked around Orochimaru curiously, then stretched out his finger to poke the mark on Orochimaru's head.
Now the eyeshadow on Orochimaru's face has disappeared, and it is confirmed that it has been replaced by a purple diamond-shaped mark in the center of his forehead, which looks somewhat similar to the one on Tsunade's head.
This is not a pattern caused by the alienation of Sage Mode.
Now Orochimaru has the data from three Perfect Sage Mode who have cultivated into Three Great Sacred Places: himself, Tsunade, and Minato Namikaze. After several years of hard work, Orochimaru finally succeeded in creating Sage Mode that is truly for human use.
The one on the forehead is Yin Seal, which is the same as Tsunade.
However, Orochimaru did not call it Yin Seal. He thought it would be more appropriate to call it Sage Seal.
In fact, in the Chakra system used by ninjas, there are no organs in the body that can store Chakra. Basically, all ninjas extract it from every cell in the body when they need to fight.
Except Tsunade inherits Yin Seal from Mito Uzumaki.
It is worth mentioning that Kushina has also successfully mastered the technique of Yin Seal.
In other worlds, or worlds called immortal cultivation, most human cultivation involves storing energy in the Dantian.
In the initial default of Orochimaru, this is also the path taken.
But unfortunately, this path is incompatible with the Chakra system, or in other words, Natural Energy cannot be stored separately.
Chakra and Natural Energy in the ninja's body are not the same energy. The only way to make them coexist is to combine Chakra and Natural Energy to form Senjutsu Chakra.
Otherwise, it will only cause internal fighting between Chakra and Natural Energy in the body.
Orochimaru can only find another way to completely combine the systems of Chakra and Senjutsu.
After all, after so many years, the physiques of all ninjas have been subtly and naturally selected into a physique suitable for practicing Chakra. Although it is not impossible for a ninja to give up Chakra and practice Senjutsu with all his strength, no one will give up the Chakra that has been obtained and is more conducive to his own practice.
It would be better to think in another direction and completely integrate Senjutsu and Chakra so that the jutsu used has the advantages of both Ninjutsu and Senjutsu.
This gave birth to the so-called Sage Seal, a seal developed by Orochimaru based on Tsunade's Yin Seal specifically for storing Sage Chakra.
In fact, Orochimaru speculates that the so-called immortals are actually similar to themselves.
In cultivating immortals, most of the people who cultivate are the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. The so-called mana, true energy, etc. are mostly the energy formed by combining the three treasures into one.
And Chakra happens to be the energy formed by the one-to-one combination of physical energy and spiritual energy of the body, which corresponds to the essence and spirit in it. Now Natural Energy, which represents the vitality of heaven and earth, is integrated into it. Isn't that the magic power of cultivating immortals?
Of course, according to the current habits of Shinobi World, Orochimaru is still accustomed to calling it Senjutsu Chakra. After all, it is essentially the same as Senjutsu Chakra of Three Great Sacred Places. They are both formed by integrating physical energy, spiritual energy and Natural Energy.
But this is still different from the Senjutsu Chakra that was cultivated by Sage Mode that existed in Shinobi World.
Even the so-called Perfect Sage Mode, the eye shadow on your face, or the frog-like eyes are all the consequences of your body being eroded by the alienated Natural Energy.
That's because the exercises that are practiced are not suitable for human beings to practice at all, but are suitable for Toad, snakes, and Slug to practice.
Orochimaru believes that instead of calling the changes in appearance during the practice of Sage Mode alienation, it is better to call it Yokai Transformation.
Yes, Orochimaru believes that those immortals of Three Great Sacred Places are actually demons in nature, not ordinary beasts.
Although there are some ninja beasts among Shinobi World that can talk and have high intelligence, such as Kaka's Ninja Hound, and Hiruzen Sarutobi's Summoning Beast Enma, they are still hugely different from Three Great Sacred Places's Summoning Beast in some aspects.
That's lifespan.
The births of the three great immortals can all be traced back to the Sage of Six Paths period, and the ages of Fukasaku and Sage Shima like Mount Myōboku are all over 800 years old, and big snakes like Manda and Garaga are over a thousand years old.
Of course, Orochimaru has also consulted Garaga about this matter, and their answer is that they don't know, but often the body size increases a lot after a molt, and when you wake up from hibernation, you will find that a long time has passed.
Of course, as they grow older and stronger, the number of times they hibernate and molt gradually decreases, until now they have almost completely disappeared.
But in fact, every time they shed their skin, their size and strength will increase tremendously. I just don't know if the current Manda still has the function of molting.
The human body in Shinobi World has 13 billion cells, which is very different from the 4 billion cells in other worlds. This also makes the human system of Shinobi World somewhat special, and it is only possible to extract things like Chakra from the body.
And if Orochimaru can now practice this special immortal cultivation mode based on the attainments of Chakra system, then his cultivation speed in this new cultivation system will be rapid.
In terms of conventional ninjutsu, Orochimaru has completely come to an end, but he still has huge room for improvement on the newly born special path of cultivating immortality.
What's more, the trained Senjutsu Chakra not only has far more destructive power than Chakra, but also has extremely diverse changing characteristics of ordinary Chakra, but the most surprising thing is not these.
The real surprise is that this actually improves lifespan.
Orochimaru speculates that as Senjutsu Chakra grows, the body and soul related to it will naturally become stronger, and even the genes in the body will change under the influence of Senjutsu Chakra, thereby increasing lifespan in all aspects.
In fact, ordinary Chakra itself has a certain degree of this ability. This is the reason why many Bloodline Limit can be passed down in the bloodline, but Senjutsu Chakra is more powerful in this regard.
Orochimaru is just starting out in this area now, and since he himself gained immortality by swallowing Dragon Yuan, he can't guess how much his lifespan has been increased.
"So according to you, this new Sage Mode can extend its lifespan?"
Tsunade looked at Orochimaru suspiciously, as if he wanted to confirm whether he was bragging.
There are many ninjutsu in Shinobi World that can reverse life and death, such as One's Own Life Reincarnation, Impure World Reincarnation, etc. Although they are extremely rare, they do have their own uniqueness.
But Tsunade has never heard of a real ninjutsu that fundamentally increases lifespan. Even if Tsunade relies on his own Medical Ninjutsu and Yin Seal, he can still remain young and beautiful even when he is a hundred years old.
But that's just relying on medical science to regulate oneself.
When the Chakra is not much left, and even the Chakra in the Yin Seal is consumed, the life span will still come to an end.
Even if Yin Seal fails at that time, it will lose the effect of adhering to youth when it is about to die, and its appearance will rapidly age and become the true appearance corresponding to its age.
Now that I heard about this new Sage Mode called Xiu Xian developed by Orochimaru, I can't help but be disinterested in Tsunade.
In other words, as long as it is an intelligent life, no one will not have the desire for immortality.
Facing Tsunade's question, Orochimaru nodded gently.
"Then practicing this new Sage Mode, does it mean that you also need to enter Sage Mode?"
Orochimaru: (′? w?`)?