The thick fog was blown away by a gust of mountain wind.
Seimei Take a step--
Then, his pupils suddenly dilated.
At that moment, he felt as if his heart had been squeezed hard, and then began to beat violently - a kind of throbbing that he had not experienced for decades, like the throbbing when he first saw the forging of the legendary magic weapon in his youth.
"... this..."
Seimei's lips moved slightly, and his voice was a little hoarse, with a hint of trembling that he was not even aware of.
In the field of vision when the fog dissipated, a huge beast lay quietly at the bottom of the canyon.
That is a steel behemoth.
It is nearly 400 meters long and over 100 meters in size. The hull is in the shape of an island. Although the outer shell has been severely damaged at this time, the hull has also been broken and deformed in many places.
The exposed armor was covered with thick layers of new rust and moss.
But that magnificent momentum, that precise structure, that posture like a dormant giant beast--
It was still like a heavy hammer, hitting Seimei hard on the heart!
Seimei almost subconsciously used the mechanical structure in his body to fly into the sky, flying in the direction of the steel behemoth.
The speed is getting faster and faster, more and more urgent.
All of his attention at the moment was firmly absorbed by the steel behemoth in front of him.
Seimei flew to the front of the fortress and raised his head--
The top of the fortress was almost inserted into the low-hanging clouds and mist. Those densely packed armor plates, those layers of mechanical structures, those dizzyingly complex pipeline layouts... everything unfolded before his eyes into a breathtaking mechanical picture.
Seimei stretched out his hand and gently stroked an armor plate on the outer wall of the fortress.
The touch - cold, hard, rough - made him feel an indescribable excitement!
"This material..."
Seimei came closer, his eyes fixed on the metal texture on the surface of the armor plate, and his fingers slowly slid on it, as if caressing a precious work of art.
"Iron ore is doped with chakra conductive metal... No, it's not just doped - it's an alloy smelted through a special process!"
"Laminated forging technology! And... no... it has one more layer than ordinary laminated forging... Chakra transmission circuit... there are chakra channels reserved between each layer!"
Seimei turned his head suddenly and looked at Uchiha Jun beside him. His usually calm eyes were shining with an almost fanatical light at this moment.
"Boss! This kind of structure! This kind of material! This is definitely not something that ordinary Sky Ninja can make!"
Uchiha Jun leaned against a raised metal plate on the outer wall of the fortress, folded his arms and looked at him with a faint smile on his lips, "What? It's more powerful than you think?"
"Awesome? This is more than awesome!"
Seimei almost shouted. He opened his arms and pointed at the huge steel beast, his tone full of exclamation, "This is an epic creation! Suspension power, laminated armor, chakra conduction structure... every technology has reached a very high level!"
Seimei turned around, walked quickly to a damaged armor plate at the bottom of the fortress, squatted down, and carefully inspected the exposed internal structure.
His fingers gently stroked the broken pipelines, the precisely meshed gears, and the burnt mechanical components whose original shape could still be seen -
Every time he touched it, his eyes would light up.
"This transmission structure... they use a unique snap-on connection method, which can reduce energy loss while ensuring transmission efficiency..."
Seimei became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice became louder and louder, and eventually it even turned into a soliloquy.
"How does such a large structure fly?!"
"This... this is a suspended anti-gravity structure... Damn it, have the technological level of these Sky Ninjas developed to this level?!... No! No... Fuck, I made a mistake, it turns out that they are just using chakra to generate huge vortex force to fly the bricks!"
"This fucking lighting structure is just for showing off?! Fuck it!!"
Seimei stood up while cursing angrily, completely forgetting that Uchiha Jun was still there, and went straight around to the other side of the fortress, trying to see more mechanical structures.
Just like a naughty boy who got a novel toy, he was overjoyed.
Seimei walked through a broken passage and pressed his palm gently on the handrail of the passage, feeling the texture and temperature of the metal.
"The connection method between the outer armor plate and the internal frame is also unique... a buffer structure is used to effectively disperse external impact forces..."
Seimei whispered to himself, every few dozen steps, a new detail would come into view, triggering a new round of wonder and thinking.
Seeing that Seimei would not regain his rationality from his enthusiasm for machinery for a while, Uchiha Jun looked at En Oyashiro beside him and said.
"You can stay here and I'll go find Shennong and get rid of him."
"Yes!"
Land of Rivers border, a small village named "Grass Wall Village".
The sun shines through the clouds and falls on the thatched roofs of the village. Smoke rises from cooking stoves, and the air is filled with the smell of straw and livestock dung.
This is the junction area between Land of Fire and Land of Rivers, about a week's journey from Dragon Bone Gorge - it's one of those small border villages that "may not even be marked on the map".
It was early afternoon when Uchiha Jun and Chino arrived.
"It's right here. This Shennong is quite good at hiding. Even Konoha's Anbu won't be able to detect it for a while. When the Shennong is detected, Shennong will also run away."
Looking at the environment in the village, Uchiha Jun said calmly, while using Sharingan to find the location of Shennong.
Chino nodded slightly, said nothing, and just looked around with Ketsuryūgan.
Her Ketsuryūgan was particularly keen on sensing this breath of life - in a moment, she locked onto several directions.
"The third room on the left in front."
"There is a strong smell of herbs, and there are life fluctuations of about three or four people - one of the chakras has a very special attribute, and it is very obscure."
"Shennong." Uchiha Jun's mouth curved slightly, "I didn't expect to find this guy's hiding place as soon as I came up!"
"Let's go!"
The two of them walked directly to the main entrance.
The door is made of wood. It looks like it has been around for some time. The door shaft has been covered with a thin layer of paste.
Uchiha Jun raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Coming, coming -" a gentle male voice came from inside the door, and then the wooden door was opened.
The person who opened the door was a man who looked to be in his early forties.
He was wearing a washed-white gray short coat and a half-worn white doctor's robe, with a few pieces of herbal powder stained on the front of the robe.
With a straight and gentle face and a professional smile on his lips, he looked like an ordinary country doctor.
But Uchiha Jun's Sharingan had already captured the latent chakra fluctuations in his body that were deliberately suppressed to an extremely low level the moment he opened the door.
--The magnitude of this chakra is at least the Special Jonin level, and may even be higher!
Genjutsu·Sharingan!
A flash of scarlet light flashed in Uchiha Jun's eyes.
Shennong's pupils suddenly dilated!
The body instinctively wants to make dodge movements - but Shennong's conscious reaction speed obviously cannot keep up with the invasion speed of Uchiha Jun's Mangekyo Genjutsu!
"Plop--"
Shennong's body fell softly to the ground, and his eyes had lost focus and became empty and lifeless.
Uchiha Jun walked up to him, squatted down, grabbed his collar with his left hand and lifted him halfway up, and put the index and middle fingers of his right hand on his forehead.
"Tell me, Sky Ninja Village's recovery plan, and the whereabouts of Zero-Tails Technique."
Shennong's voice responded mechanically like a puppet whose soul had been taken away.
"Sky Ninja Village's... revival plan... let Air Fortress take off again, and use Sky Ninja Village's military power to force Five Great Nations to recognize Land of Sky's independent status..."
"Where is the whereabouts of Zero-Tails Technique?"
Shennong's voice paused, as if he was trying to remember something. "What is Zero-Tails?... I don't know..."
Uchiha Jun was silent for a moment, and suddenly recalled the plot of the original work.
--Arrived early.
Konoha's "Artificial Tailed Beast Project" started after the end of Third Shinobi World War. At this point in time, Zero-Tails Technique doesn't even have a shadow.
And Shennong is just a homeless dog on the run now. He doesn't have Zero-Tails Technique in his hands. He only has medical skills and some strength, but nothing substantial.
Everything he did was just to give himself a serious 'identity' over the years through this kind act of practicing medicine, so that he could sneak into Konoha to steal the secret technique in the future.
'Damn, love is a waste of time.'
Uchiha Jun let go of his hand and let Shennong's head hit the ground heavily.
Looking down at the unconscious leader Sky Ninja, there was a hint of irritation between his eyebrows.
'I originally expected to get Zero-Tails Technique-related information from you and directly raise Air Fortress, but it turned out to be an empty shell..."
"Puff--"
He casually shot Kunai to kill Shennong to prevent his occupation of Nestlé from being leaked.
"It seems that I can only do my own research."