Blind

"We struck it rich!" Kamiya Keiyun was a little excited. He was not thinking about making a fortune, though. Ginseng could aid cultivation; anyone who used it to get rich was an idiot!

Even if he sold it, he would have to process it first. He could not let others recognize the raw material, or everyone would start digging for ginseng. What would Kamiya Keiyun dig then?

As for how to process it, naturally, he would refine pills!

"Hmm, I wonder if anyone in this world studies traditional medicine. Later, I'll find some recipes for replenishing qi and nourishing blood, then try refining them!" Kamiya Keiyun did not dig up the remaining ginseng.

Two roots were enough. He had only eaten a few root fibers, yet he was already getting overnourished. His nose had even started bleeding.

Two ginseng roots would be enough for him for several months.

With ginseng, Kamiya Keiyun naturally no longer needed to trudge along at a snail's pace.

The stick in his hand felt quite handy. Besides, he had discovered the ginseng while processing this stick, so it held great sentimental value.

Kamiya Keiyun simply kept it in his hand. In any case, it did not affect his use of Catching Wind and Shadow.

"Takeoff!" Kamiya Keiyun rose to his feet and swiftly sprinted forward.

Half an hour later, he finally ran out of the mountains. He turned back for one last look, committing the place to memory.

Moon Viewing Mountain.

Moon Viewing Mountain was a geographical divide. South of it lay mostly hills, while to the north stretched vast plains.

Looking into the distance from the ground, there was not the slightest rise or dip anywhere far ahead.

The Naruto World did not yet have scientists dedicated to studying geography, so no one had named this plain. In reality, it was an alluvial plain formed over tens of thousands of years by the frequently flooding Moon Viewing River. It could therefore be called the Moon Viewing Plain.

The Moon Viewing River originated in the Land of Snow, flowed through the Land of Demons, the Land of Bears, and the Land of Birds, then split into two in the Land of Rain. One branch headed north through the Land of Grass and the Land of the Waterfall before entering the sea,

While the other passed through the Land of Rivers and entered the sea.

The Moon Viewing Plain contained three countries, including the Land of Fire, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Grass. Most of the plain lay within the Land of Fire, which was why it had more arable land and richer resources.

Once he arrived here, it became rare to go so far without seeing a single village. Not far ahead of Kamiya Keiyun was a town even slightly larger than Konoha!

He felt that he could no longer run about as recklessly as before.

Granted, the density of ninja within the Land of Fire was not high, but encountering even one carried the risk of exposure.

But Keiyun did not want to slow down either. Although there were still twenty-six days until the wedding, Kamiya Keiyun could not truly wait until the twenty-sixth day to kill Shimura Ken. That would be far too obvious!

If he could act early, it would be best to do so.

"I need to stay hidden while maintaining my speed!" Kamiya Keiyun raised his head and saw birds flying freely through the sky.

So, could I turn into a bird and fly over?

Objects created by the Transformation Technique had physical form. In theory, if he transformed into a bird, he would become a real bird!

He raised his hands and formed Hand Seals. "Transform!"

"Coo coo..." Kamiya Keiyun turned into an uploader, but the next second, he reverted to human form.

"I forgot. I can't use ninjutsu while maintaining the Transformation Technique, and I can't use Wind God Leg either. In other words, I have to fly purely with my wings?" Kamiya Keiyun was speechless. He had just tried to use Catching Wind and Shadow in bird form, only to disrupt the Transformation Technique's maintenance.

But if he flew with wings, his body weighed a full thirty-five kilograms. To lift a body that heavy, he would need wings with a span of over one meter.

The Transformation Technique could alter one's form, but not one's weight. That was why the transformed target could not differ too greatly in size from the user.

But with wings that large, he would be exhausted after only a few flaps.

"I'll give it a try!" Kamiya Keiyun raised his hands and formed Hand Seals. "Transform!"

This time, he transformed into a jet-black giant eagle. Eagles ruled the skies; in this form, few birds should come bother him.

This eagle was seventy centimeters long, with a wingspan nearing 2.2 meters. Carrying thirty-five kilograms would absolutely not be a problem. The question was how long Kamiya Keiyun could keep it up!

"Fly!" Kamiya Keiyun was not a bird and did not know how to fly, but he had just learned Catching Wind and Shadow and was exceptionally familiar with the wind. Before long, he grasped the technique and slowly took flight.

But after flying only several dozen meters, he flapped clumsily back down to the ground.

"No, flying with wings alone is like lifting a thirty-five-kilogram weight with both arms. I can't keep that up for long!" Kamiya Keiyun returned to human form and shook out his somewhat sore arms. Fortunately, he had not flown too high, or he might have fallen to his death.

If one method failed, he would try another.

"Could I control the wind and use it to lift myself? I could first create a Shadow Clone, then turn myself into an eagle, and have the Shadow Clone control the wind." Shadow Clones had no weight, so one could stand on the eagle's back.

In short, he would turn himself into a mount, while his clone became the rider.

Kamiya Keiyun felt that this should not be difficult. Chakra was omnipotent; if it could control mud and earth, could it not control wind?

Hei Bei gave him confidence. Hei Bei clearly did not have Earth Style, yet he could still use the Mud to Stone Technique.

So whether he possessed that attribute was not important. With Heaven Rewards Diligence, anything was possible!

He did not transform into a bird again. Kamiya Keiyun walked slowly, trying at the same time to find that sensation of becoming one with the wind.

Just like when he had created the Mud to Stone Technique and felt himself becoming one with the earth.

Yet after sensing for a long while, quite a bit of Chakra had drained away, but that feeling never appeared.

"Wait, something's wrong. How did I get so obsessed?" Kamiya Keiyun shook his head. He realized he had been influenced by the nickname Wind Ghost. Wind—what was wind? Wind was merely a phenomenon caused by the movement of air.

Strictly speaking, wind was an adjective, not a noun. There was no substance called wind in this world at all.

How could he merge with something that did not exist?

So Kamiya Keiyun should not sense the wind. He should sense gases—more specifically, nitrogen and oxygen!

He did not know the composition of the air in this world, but its environment was similar to Earth's. That meant its atmosphere was most likely also primarily nitrogen, supplemented by oxygen.

So sensing gases should definitely work.

After clarifying his goal, Kamiya Keiyun relaxed his mind and began sensing the gases around him.

After a while, Kamiya Keiyun shook his head. It would not work.

Perhaps because his eyes were taking in too much information from the world at once, his mind could not focus on the air.

"Hmm." Kamiya Keiyun looked at the stick in his right hand and fell into thought.

I only picked up this stick at random. How did it suddenly become useful again?

Half an hour later, a young boy wearing a light-blue jacket and black trousers, with shaggy long hair, entered the town and drew everyone's attention.

The town was bustling with people. A child was nothing unusual, even if this child was quite cute.

But this child had his eyes tightly shut, his brows deeply furrowed, and a stick in hand that he kept tapping against the ground. That was uncommon!

Was this actually a blind child?

Passersby cast pitying looks at him. Then they recalled the war that had ended not long ago, its latest fighting having even penetrated the Land of Fire and approached the town.

Had the war caused this?

"What a pitiful child."

"I've never seen him before. He isn't from our town, and he has no family with him."

"He must be a war orphan. Even his parents are gone."

"This damned war."

Tap, tap, tap. Tapping the ground with his stick, what else could Kamiya Keiyun do? He could only keep smiling.