In the dark room, the air seemed to be absolutely stagnant at this moment.
Ian leaned against the broken wall extremely casually, with those deep eyes that seemed to be able to see through all things in the universe, coldly staring at a translucent spirit slowly emerging from Void in front of him. It was an old man holding a black tin staff and wearing a white royal robe.
There were several Truth-Seeking Ballss exuding a destructive aura suspended around him, and circles of extremely mysterious ripples were clearly engraved in those lavender eyes - Rinnegan!
"After watching for so long, what do you want to do?" Ian's tone revealed a trace of undisguised contempt and impatience.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki floating in mid-air - that is, Shinobi World, the 'Six Path Immortal' who is worshiped as a god, was shocked when he heard this, and a trace of disbelief flashed in his pair of ancient Rinnegan: "You... actually recognize me?"
"I know everything. There are few secrets in this world that I don't know." Ian sneered and declared extremely domineeringly.
Hagoromo's gray brows frowned deeply. He felt an extremely familiar and extremely disgusting arrogance from the strange mutilated man in front of him. That kind of aloof attitude, looking at everything like ants, was exactly the same as his mother - Kaguya Otsutsuki, and those Otsutsuki Clan who came from the depths of the starry sky!
"Are you... aren't you from the Otsutsuki Clan?" Hagoromo asked nervously, holding a tin stick in his hand.
"Don't compare that inferior space Parasite bug to me, no." Ian refused unceremoniously.
"Then what's the connection between you two?"
"I said Hagoromo old man, where did you get all this nonsense?" A trace of displeasure flashed in Ian's eyes.
Being reprimanded like this by a disabled person who had lost his limbs, Hagoromo's face suddenly became very ugly, but he still suppressed the fear in his heart and warned extremely seriously, "Your sudden arrival has extremely seriously disrupted the fate of this planet. As Guardians of this earth, I must find out whether you are an enemy or a friend!"
"Disrupting destiny? That's natural." Ian sneered, as if he heard some big joke, "But I advise you to keep it in your stomach. As long as you don't bother me and don't block my way, nothing will happen to this little broken planet. When I get what I want, I will naturally pat my butt and leave."
"What if I insist on blocking your way?" Hagoromo asked in a deep voice, and Truth-Seeking Balls around him began to emit dangerous energy fluctuations.
Ian looked at him as if he were an idiot, with a sarcastic arc at the corner of his mouth. "You look like a ghost with only a ray of remnant soul left? What do you think you can do? Pass that pitiful chakra to your Two unlucky sons who are constantly reincarnating? Don't be naive, they are just slightly older children in my eyes. To say the least, even if they were standing in front of me right now, it would be no more difficult for me to crush them to death than to crush a bedbug!"
He paused and dropped an extremely fatal bombshell. "If you have free time to waste time here with me, you might as well worry more about your good mother who is sealed on the moon. Go check that seal. That is the most important thing you should do."
"What's wrong with the seal?! Is the seal loose?!" Hagoromo's face suddenly changed, and he could no longer maintain the calmness in his voice. You know, the reason why he has been wandering around in the world for thousands of years and refused to ascend to heaven is because he was afraid that his mother Kaguya Otsutsuki would break the seal and drag the world into Abyss again!
"Who knows?" Ian shrugged extremely viciously, "But you should know very well that that woman will not give up so easily."
Hagoromo stared at Ian for a while, frowning. There were too many mysteries and sense of crisis in this alien life form that he could not understand.. However, compared with the unknown Ian, the threat of mother Kaguya's Resurrection and Otsutsuki Clan deep in the starry sky are the real Sword of Damocles hanging over Shinobi World's head!
"... You can take care of yourself." Hagoromo sighed deeply, and his figure gradually turned into a point of light and disappeared directly into the air. Apparently he was in a hurry to go to the moon to explore the seal.
Ian watched him leave coldly without saying any more nonsense. In normal times, if he was in a good mood, he might even play diplomatic terms with this kind of 'pioneer' from an indigenous planet.
But now he is preoccupied with how to repair this terrible broken body as soon as possible, and he has no leisure time at all. What's more, his plan for this trip to another world is only a few months, and he will return to the Arcane Empire immediately after getting Divine Tree Source.
He slowly closed his eyes and immersed all his mind into the meat grinder-like battlefield in his body.
'With Rowena's previous research information on Void Law, it won't take too long to completely expel the violent Void Energy remaining in the body.' Ian thought secretly in his heart.
At this moment, the vast sea of magic power and the extremely compressed Battle Aura in his body are running wildly, suppressing those Void Energy who are trying to obliterate him.
'The really troublesome thing is the extremely strange and unanalyzable unknown force mixed in Void Energy!' He could sense extremely keenly that it was the unknown force that even made him feel palpitating, which was firmly hindering the self-healing and regeneration of his physical body.
'The top priority is to send a distress signal to the Empire base camp first and ask them to send a fleet or use high-dimensional space transmission to pick me up.' After making up his mind, Ian began to concentrate on repairing his damaged soul Sea of Consciousness. As long as Sea of Consciousness regains a trace of clarity, he can cross the barriers of endless dimensions and forcibly contact the central main server of Tower Spirit Morgana.
A few days later, accompanied by a burst of hurried footsteps, Tsunade brought Silencing back to this dilapidated room.
"I have prepared everything you told me." Tsunade looked at Ian who closed his eyes tightly and said in a complicated tone.
"Done so quickly?" Ian slowly opened his eyes and raised his eyebrows in surprise. With Konoha Village's current surveillance intensity, it is not an easy task to quietly create a top-notch cloning laboratory that meets his requirements under the nose.
"Silencing suggested that we can directly use a secret experimental base that Orochimaru abandoned outside the village when he defected. It can be put into use directly after a little renovation, saving a lot of trouble." Tsunade explained.
Hearing this, the corner of Ian's mouth couldn't help but twitch violently. He guessed the truth extremely keenly: This was not to save trouble, but this woman who was addicted to gambling clearly wanted to squeeze out as much profit as possible from the huge construction funds he gave her, so that she could go to the casino to kill everyone in the future!
"What a wonderful idea, well done, Ms. Silencing." Ian praised with a half-smile.
Silencing, who was holding Pigwidgeon Tonton, immediately blushed with embarrassment and waved his hands at a loss. "This... this is what I should do, you are exaggerating."
"Hey! Stop teasing me Silencing in front of me!" Tsunade glared at Ian like an old hen guarding its calf.
"I'm just stating a fact and expressing my sincere gratitude." Ian turned over Byakugan helplessly, "Now that the laboratory is ready, let's leave quickly. Please find someone to carry me there."
"Are you kidding? Why do you want us to carry you?" Tsunade crossed his arms and looked unhappy.
"As you can see, I only have one arm left. Do you want me to use this arm to crawl over like a caterpillar?" Ian pointed to his empty lower body.
"Don't you keep saying that you have the power of a god? Fly over there!" Tsunade retorted mercilessly.
Ian was immediately choked and speechless. Indeed, as long as he is willing, he can levitate himself in mid-air with just a little Psychic Energy, which is even smoother and faster than walking. After all, it is much less laborious than releasing high-level magic.
But he really didn't want to waste even a tiny bit of his precious recovery energy on such a meaningless journey.
"Okay, okay, Silencing, go get him a wheelchair." Looking at Ian's weak and dead look, Tsunade finally relented and became impatient. Silencing quickly pushed a wooden wheelchair from outside, carefully moved Ian up, and pushed it all the way to the renovated laboratory hidden underground..
Looking at the extremely rough but currently considered top-notch experimental equipment Shinobi World neatly arranged in the laboratory, Ian nodded slightly. "It's still barely usable. So, let's start right away.
In the past few days, I have gained a very basic understanding of your Chakra System, but that is far from enough. Next, I will personally write an extremely detailed outline of the cloning theory, and you, Tsunade, need to perfectly cultivate a brand new body for me based on my outline!"
He needs a local clone that can perfectly fit the special energy system of chakra, so as to use it as a springboard to deeply analyze the power laws of this planet.
Then, Silencing unfolded huge blank scrolls. Ian's remaining hand was waving like an afterimage, and lines of extremely complex data and theories that surpassed the current Shinobi World technology for thousands of years appeared on the paper.
"<Fundamentals of Molecular Biology>, "Extremely Rapid Cell Culture and Division", "Perfect Embryonic Development", "Gene Recombination and Micromanipulation", "Somatic Cell Nuclear High-Dimensional Transplantation Technology"..." Tsunade looked at the dazzling professional terms and precise illustrations on the scroll. His beautiful eyes became brighter and brighter, Blink glowed with unprecedented fanaticism. "Oh my god... if we can fully understand this knowledge, Medical Ninjutsu's system will usher in a great leap that can overturn history!"
"With these miraculous medical skills, we will definitely be able to save countless ninjas who are dying or disabled during missions in the future, Master Tsunade!" Silencing's voice was trembling with excitement.
"Concentrate and don't interrupt." Ian said coldly without raising his head.
Tsunade raised his head from the scroll and looked at Ian with complex eyes. "You seem to be very indifferent to these miraculous medical skills that can save countless lives? Don't you care at all about how many people you can save?"
"Of course I care about life." Ian stopped writing, with a trace of extremely rare seriousness and compassion in his eyes, "But the problem is that your so-called ninja system has been rotten since Source! As long as this deformed system is not completely destroyed, no matter how incredible your medical skills are and how many lives you save, the tragedy of war and killing will never stop!" As for those alien threats from the depths of the starry sky, Ian has not revealed them at this moment.
"What do you mean? What do you mean it sucks from Source?" Tsunade's brows immediately stood up, and an unknown fire erupted.
"Isn't it? You high-ranking shadows and senior officials have instilled extremely distorted values into those children who have not been deeply involved in the world since childhood, telling them that ninjas are emotionless tools and weapons for killing people in the village! And what is the only meaning of a weapon's existence? Besides killing, what else can it be?!" Ian's words were like a sharp scalpel, mercilessly cutting open Shinobi World's glamorous fig leaf.
He stared at Tsunade with burning eyes, and his voice became louder and louder, as if he was declaring the crimes of the world. "What's even more disgusting is that you actually impose this kind of crazy brainwashing education on children, and you even don't hesitate to use those six or seven-year-old children who can't hold a kunai firmly as cannon fodder and send them to the mince. A machine-like battlefield! Although I can understand that this is because the development of your civilization is still at an extremely barbaric and backward stage, I still cannot forgive this anti-human behavior! You can't imagine how much irreversible and devastating trauma this Hell-like torture will cause to the minds of those children!"
In the Arcane Empire's extremely complete psychological research, Ian simply did not dare to think about how many ninjas on this planet are cold on the surface, but secretly suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression and various severe schizophrenia.
Tsunade opened her mouth, but found that she could not refute even a single word. She wanted to defend the village she loved so much, but the tragic death of Dan Kato and the immature face of her younger brother Nawaki, who was blown up beyond recognition by the detonating talisman, uncontrollably appeared in her mind.
If... if this world really had a different philosophy, if children didn't need to go to the battlefield, would they... won't die?
"Could it be... that your world really has no war and is full of peace?" Tsunade's voice contained a hint of unnoticeable trembling and expectation.
"Of course not." Ian shattered her illusions coldly, "In this vast universe, true and absolute peace does not exist. At least, it does not exist before absolute unity is achieved." He paused and his tone became extremely proud.
"But! In my Arcane Empire, the absolute minimum age threshold for joining the army is thirty years old! If the situation really deteriorates to the point of life and death, and the standards have to be lowered for compulsory recruitment, that is also the bottom line of twenty-five, twenty-one, or even eighteen years old that cannot be compromised! Let a group of six- and seven-year-old children bleed and sacrifice for adults? In our place, the person who proposed such a bill will be directly sent to a military court and shot!"
The entire laboratory fell into deathly silence.
"Okay, let's not talk about these heavy topics." Ian stopped talking in time, "I have already deduced an extremely complete theoretical model on how to perfectly reproduce and strengthen the human body's chakra meridian network. Next, it depends on your hands-on ability."
"You obviously don't use chakra energy at all, how on earth did you become so powerful?" Tsunade was still immersed in extreme shock.
"That's another power system that is above you. Stop talking nonsense and focus on work!"
For the next whole month, Tsunade stayed in the laboratory almost sleeplessly. With the extremely unbelievable future theory provided by Ian, and her own Medical Ninjutsu talent that surpassed Shinobi World, she finally miraculously overcame all the technical barriers and successfully cultivated a perfect clone!
When Ian was pushed in front of the huge cylindrical culture tank in a wheelchair, looking at the flawless body soaked in the green nutrient solution with perfect muscle lines, he nodded with satisfaction. "Well done, your practical talent is a little better than I expected."
"Is this a compliment to me?" Tsunade turned over Byakugan angrily, but there was a trace of unconcealable pride in his eyes.
"Whatever you think." Ian ignored her and slowly closed his eyes. The next second, an extremely obscure but extremely terrifying soul wave suddenly emerged from his broken eyebrows, turned into an invisible sharp sword, and directly pierced the eyebrows of the clone in the culture tank! This is Archmage's extremely advanced Soul Splitting and Possession Technique!
"Wow--!"
In the culture tank, the originally lifeless clone suddenly opened its eyes! It was a pair of eyes as deep as the abyss! Then, with a heart-wrenching sound of shattering glass, the clone directly kicked the bulkhead of the culture tank made of special strengthened glass. With green nutrient solution splashing everywhere, it stepped out with a Haki!
"The fit of this body is simply perfect." The brand new "Ian" moved his wrist, feeling the surging vitality and power in his body, and commented with great satisfaction.
"Hurry up and put on your clothes! You exhibitionist, don't you have any sense of shame?!" Tsunade looked at the naked man in front of her. Although she had never seen anything big at her age, she couldn't help but blush and scolded.
"Please, you are an old woman who is over 50 years old. Is there anything in this world that you haven't seen yet?" Ian retorted unceremoniously.
"Bang--!"
Tsunade was so angry that Monster Strength punched the broken body sitting in the wheelchair with a punch that could crack a monument. However, just like before, not even a hair on the body could be shaken. "Tell me what you just said again! You old immortal monster who has lived for thousands of years!"
"My soul will always remain eighteen years old, do you understand?" The clone Ian casually took the clothes handed over by Silencing with a red face and put them on, and replied extremely narcissistically.
"You bastard!"
"Master Tsunade, please calm down!" Silencing on the side was so frightened that she quickly stepped forward and desperately hugged Tsunade's arm to dissuade him. In the past extremely magical month, she witnessed with her own eyes how this mysterious man could easily arouse Master Tsunade's anger.
However, Silencing secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Because since the death of Dan Kato and Nawaki, Master Tsunade has been like a walking corpse.
And now, she finally saw the vivid and vibrant mood swings in Master Tsunade again. Even Wrath was much better than the dead silence before. It was as if the time that Master Tsunade had been completely frozen finally began to flow again.
A smile appeared on the corner of Ian's mouth, and then he completely fell into a deep sleep, transferring all his consciousness to the clone. The clone sat cross-legged on the ground and immediately began to try to refine chakra under the unique laws of this plane.
Generally speaking, the total amount of chakra of a ninja is extremely cruelly limited by his innate genes and bloodline, and the upper limit that can be increased through hard training is extremely small. But Ian is obviously an anomaly that goes against common sense.
"What... such a terrifying amount of chakra!" Silencing looked at Ian, who was concentrating with his eyes closed, and his voice was trembling. This chakra storm that seemed to completely submerge the entire underground laboratory was really terrifying. "This simply reminds me of Lord First Hokage... No, this is even much larger than the chakra of the first generation!"
Half an hour later, clone Ian slowly opened his eyes, and there was a trace of extremely rare confusion in those deep eyes.
"This is illogical. I have made a perfect golden ratio Fusion between the spiritual energy of my body and the physical energy contained in my cells. In theory, I should be able to extract endless chakra. But why... I still hit some kind of invisible upper limit of chakra?"
Although the sleeping body could not speak, he still gave his own deduction conclusion through Soul Link: "This is easy to explain. Otsutsuki Clan planted trees everywhere in the universe, essentially to plunder a planet's massive amount of magic power and all the genetic information evolved from this planet. It can be seen that genetic lineage is likely to be the ultimate shackle that determines the upper limit of the power of this planet."
"It seems that we still need to collect more and deeper core intelligence." Clone Ian came to the conclusion. "Before that, let me test this new power system in actual combat."
Ian strode to the center of the specially opened training field, and formed several extremely basic seals with his hands like butterflies through flowers at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
"Fire Release: The Art of Fireball!" "Water Release..." "Earth Release..." "Wind Release..."
In his hands, Five Elements Release switched wildly and smoothly like a juggling act. The power of each escape technique was comparable to the destructive power of S-level forbidden techniques!
"I see... the so-called seal is just an extremely crude low-level energy guidance method. This is completely consistent with the underlying physical logic of us Arcane Empire low-level mages who must recite spells when casting spells, or rely on Arcane Runes in the magic circle Cornerstone to guide magic power." Ian commented with great disdain.
Later, he even abandoned the seals directly, and with his extremely abnormal micro-manipulation ability, he instantly performed various high-level ninjutsu that he had collected from the rebellious ninja's mind. In an instant, he even improved and created several compound ninjutsus with extremely lethal power!
"You... you actually mastered so many complex and profound ninjutsu in just one month?!" Tsunade, who witnessed all this, was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"Is this something worth making a fuss about?" Ian turned to look at her, as if looking at a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
"No matter how abnormal your own strength is, when you come into contact with a completely unfamiliar power system, you can achieve such an unheard-of learning speed. This is simply ridiculous to the extreme!"
"That's because you are extremely sadly limited by your knowledge of this low-dimensional world." Ian stood with his hands behind his hands extremely arrogantly, "My arcane power system has already climbed to a high level that you can't even look up to. As the saying goes, 'from a high place', when I look down at your extremely primitive and rough power system, I don't need to learn it from scratch.
I only need to conduct an extremely simple comparison and dismantling of it with the vast high-dimensional Truth in my mind, and I can instantly understand all its underlying logic!"
This is absolute realm suppression! This is the dimensionality reduction strike of civilization dimension!
"But even so, this still requires extremely terrifying knowledge base as support. Moreover, looking at your extremely skilled posture just now, this is definitely not the first time you have carried out this kind of 'brute force cracking' on other systems, right?" Tsunade's vision is still extremely vicious, and he can see through the essence at a glance.
"Haha, have you finally realized how amazing and talented this emperor is? He is handsome, resourceful, powerful, and knowledgeable!" Ian laughed without humility.
"Extremely narcissistic, missing arms and legs." Tsunade complained coldly word by word.
"You are discriminating against people with disabilities in an extremely egregious way!"
"I'm just stating the facts extremely objectively."
"Whatever you say." Ian suddenly stopped smiling, and his eyes became extremely unpredictable, "But you should leave immediately now to pack your luggage."
"What do you mean? Why should I leave?" Tsunade suddenly felt an extremely strong ominous premonition in his heart.
Ian looked at her and said word for word in an almost cold tone of voice, "Because... your beloved teacher, Third Hokage, is about to die."