Feast of the Mortal World: Ten Directions Absorption Array!

Rumble!

After the Ten-Tails sank into the earth, the huge seed on its back began to sprout. In an instant, it burst through the soil and grew into a lush tree dozens of meters tall!

Crack!

The Sword of Totsuka was withdrawn, its blade returning to the gourd and its tip becoming the stopper. Susanoo vanished, and the tree quickly filled the gap in the soil.

Tobirama gazed at the tree. "Just looking at it, you'd think it was an ordinary tree that happened to be especially lush..."

Mito said, "But Natural Energy has begun gathering around here!"

Yu stepped forward. "Uncle Tobirama, tell us about your latest masterpiece, the 'Ten Directions Absorption Array'!"

Tobirama had grown used to Yu addressing him that way. He folded his arms across his chest. "The Ten Directions Absorption Array is Barrier Ninjutsu. With the Divine Tree at its core, it boosts the tree's absorption efficiency from ten directions: above, below, east, west, south, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest!"

"Only you could come up with that..." Yu said admiringly, then asked what mattered most to him. "So how much faster can this Ten Directions Absorption Array make the Divine Tree absorb energy?"

After a moment's thought, Tobirama said, "If all goes well, it can make the Divine Tree grow ten times faster!"

"Ten times!?" Everyone, Yu included, was stunned.

The tenfold flow of time in the Uzuki Time Zone had already shortened the Divine Tree's thousand-year growth cycle to a hundred years. If Tobirama's technique could make it absorb energy ten times faster on top of that... those hundred years would be cut down to just ten!

If all went well, Yu could obtain the Divine Tree's Chakra Fruit in ten years!

Tobirama added, "Of course, setting up this array is extremely complicated.