Of the Ninja World's three great sacred lands, Lin Qing had long been familiar with Mount Myoboku and Ryūchi Cave. Only Shikkotsu Forest was a place he was truly visiting for the first time.
Under the effects of the Reverse Summoning Technique, Lin Qing and the little slug arrived at the edge of Shikkotsu Forest.
The moment he entered, he caught the scent of highly concentrated Natural Energy permeating the air. Gathered together, that Natural Energy formed a visible white mist that drifted through the sky.
Enveloped in the dense fog was a vast forest, filled as far as the eye could see with towering ancient trees.
Perhaps due to being steeped in the white mist year-round, the trunks were smooth as stalactites, or perhaps more like stark white bones.
The giant trees crisscrossed one another, forming a natural maze.
This was... Shikkotsu Forest.
"Lord Lin Qing, please follow me."
The little slug led the way.
Lin Qing followed behind, heading deeper into the forest.
Along the way, he saw countless slugs of all sizes clinging to the trees, devouring Natural Energy to cultivate themselves.
Once they reached a certain stage of cultivation and became large slugs, they would split apart with a splash, breaking into countless little slugs. Each would crawl onto a tree and repeat the process all over again, in an endless cycle.
All things returned to oneself.
Lin Qing recalled Minato Namikaze's description of the Katsuyu Sage.
Using clones to cultivate and feed the results back to the main body was certainly more efficient than cultivating alone.
But when Lin Qing put himself in that position, he immediately thought of a problem—
"Even if the clones can transfer their cultivation results back to the main body, how is the main body supposed to contain that much