Especially during this period, in order to raise morale, the news had already spread everywhere. Many people in Konoha knew that Tsunade had gone on a rampage in the Land of Earth, killing quite a few Rock Ninja and even injuring the Tsuchikage.
Knowing how formidable Tsunade was, Ren could not help but admire her somewhat. But after Jiraiya finished speaking, Orochimaru looked over again, and Ren could not help feeling uneasy.
Suddenly, a masked person appeared and dropped to one knee. "Lady Tsunade, Lord Orochimaru, Lord Jiraiya, the Hokage has issued a summons. All resting ninja in Konoha are to assemble!"
As those words fell, the Sannin, who had been chatting and laughing moments ago, all fell silent, coldness appearing in their eyes!
Chapter 52: The Rules of the Trash Station
Time flew by, and several months passed in the blink of an eye!
Over those months, Ren had grown quite a bit, especially in height. He no longer looked like a six-year-old child at all.
At that moment, Ren sat quietly in his family courtyard, enjoying the gentle breeze as he watched the Chakra slowly spinning in his right hand.
"Buzz... buzz..."
Visible Chakra gathered together, forming a small whirlwind.
A smile appeared on Ren's face as he stared at the blue sphere in his palm. "Rasengan!"
As his words fell, the Chakra slowly dispersed.
Ren slowly stepped out of the pool and gazed at the blue sky. "I've finally mastered the Rasengan!"
Ren spoke calmly, a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Several months had already passed since that gathering at the training ground.
During those months, Ren had honestly focused on training and had not asked about anything else. He knew that the summons back then represented the outbreak of war.
That was right—it had broken out. The Second Shinobi World War in the Naruto World had erupted in its early stages, reached a stalemate in the middle stages, and had now entered its explosive final phase.
The fierce battles at the beginning had wiped out many powerful ninja. During the middle stage, the ninja had continually worn each other down and exhausted one another... until many powerful ninja had been forged amid the fighting, leading to the outbreak in the later stage of the Second Shinobi World War.
It could be said that the current escalation had been entirely expected.
However, this outbreak had been somewhat accidental, and it was even connected to Ren.
Tsunade had severely injured the Tsuchikage, wounding his waist. Although he had recovered, it had provoked the fury of the Rock Ninja.
A grieving army was bound to win. Driven by sorrow and indignation, the Rock Ninja had directly invaded the Land of Fire, completely igniting the Second Shinobi World War.
Ren did not know whether it was because the timeline had been brought forward, but this war, which should have been extremely brutal, had become somewhat dramatic. The generation that should have matured by now seemed rather inexperienced in the current fighting. However, as the battles continued, they were all improving, and the scale of the conflict kept escalating.
It could be said that the current course of the war was one of steadily expanding the scale of the fighting over time, pushing it to the limit, and finally erupting into an earth-shattering battle.
Ren saw it clearly, but he also knew that the current Second Shinobi World War had nothing to do with him. Perhaps he would catch the tail end of the war in the future, but Ren truly did not want to step onto the battlefield.
It was not cowardice, nor was it fear. He simply disdained it. Ren clearly understood that the so-called great wars of the Naruto World were nothing but a joke.
The war between Asura and Indra had begun merely because of the position of leader of Ninshu.
The wars that came afterward were downright ridiculous. During the Warring States Era, nations fought wars while ninja served as mercenaries, killing one another for money.
Sometimes, Ren truly found it absurd. The ninja clans of the Warring States Era had actually fought over money. Of course, Ren also knew that they began by killing for money, only to become bloodshot with hatred through endless fighting. In the end, there was no longer any money involved—only slaughter born of hatred. Perhaps Black Zetsu had stirred things up behind the scenes, but Ren still found the initial motive bizarre. If they lacked money, why not just seize it? After all, the nations of the Naruto World back then consisted of ordinary people, who could not resist ninja at all.
The current Second Shinobi World War was somewhat more normal. It had begun because of imbalanced economic development between nations, leading to war. As for the future Third Shinobi World War, it would break out merely because the Third Kazekage disappeared. The Fourth Shinobi World War was even stranger—it would be fought for peace.
Although the Fourth Shinobi World War involved too many factors, it was ultimately still a war fought for peace.
Thinking of that, Ren, with his experiences from Earth, truly did not know what kind of peace there was to speak of. The wars of the Naruto World were simply nonsensical.
What meaning was there in him participating in such wars? Was it to improve his strength? If he wanted to improve his strength, Ren only needed to keep training and wait for the Trash Station to produce garbage. That would allow him to grow stronger continuously.
As for combat experience, that was easy to handle as well. He could go out into the world and take on assassination missions. Assassination missions could not only build combat experience but were also safer. After all, too many possibilities existed on the battlefield. Battles on the battlefield involved thousands, even tens of thousands, of people fighting. Anything could happen.
Putting that aside, Ren was very happy today because he had successfully mastered the Rasengan. ...
Ren entered his bedroom, changed clothes, and looked at himself in the mirror. "Although I've mastered the Rasengan, my overall strength hasn't improved much. It's a pity I can't get any garbage. This is really speechless. If I don't become stronger myself, the Trash Station can hardly spit out any garbage."
Over the past few months, Ren had received garbage twice, but neither batch had come from a powerful world. Because of that, Ren had finally figured out several traits of the Trash Station.
First: the stronger Ren became, the higher the grade of the garbage that appeared. In other words, as Ren continued to grow stronger, the worlds producing the garbage would also become stronger.
Second: the number of times garbage appeared was not fixed. Aside from the Trash Station producing garbage when Ren improved, it also produced garbage at fixed intervals every year. Originally, this fixed occurrence happened once a year. But as Ren grew older, it had become once every four months. He estimated that it would happen even more often in the future.
Third: when Ren's strength increased, the garbage he obtained came from higher-level worlds. However, the amount of garbage obtained through such leaps depended on how much Ren had improved. If Ren improved only a little, perhaps no garbage would appear at all. If he improved greatly, new garbage would appear, and it would come from worlds with powerful forces. In other words, the greater his improvement, the stronger the world the garbage came from.
Having thoroughly figured out the rules of the Trash Station, Ren began training with clear goals in mind.
Training in the ninja world was nothing more than Chakra, ninjutsu, taijutsu, and Genjutsu! Over the past few months, Ren had finally mastered the Rasengan. One had to know that in the Naruto World, the Rasengan was one of the ninjutsu with the greatest potential for growth. Unfortunately, although Ren was confident that mastering the Rasengan had greatly increased his strength—and that using it in battle would absolutely allow him to defeat anyone at the same level—the Trash Station showed no reaction whatsoever. This made Ren understand that while training in ninjutsu could improve his strength, such improvement would not cause garbage to appear.
If he wanted the Trash Station to produce garbage, he needed a fundamental improvement. In other words, only when Ren's body, spiritual power, or Chakra became stronger would the Trash Station produce garbage. And it could not be a tiny increase—it had to be a leap.
Chapter 53: Useless Garbage
"Whew..."
Ren entered his bedroom and looked at himself in the mirror. "What exactly is going on with this Trash Station? It feels like it's urging me to become stronger. Only by becoming stronger can I grow even stronger."
He shook his head, thoughts filling his heart. This Trash Station truly seemed like some sort of urging machine, forcing Ren to improve his body, spiritual power, and Chakra.
Unfortunately, of those three, Ren could only choose to improve his body. After all, improving spiritual power required him to cultivate the Meditation Technique step by step. Although the growth was slow, being able to improve at all was already good. To greatly improve spiritual power, he would need a fortuitous opportunity.
Increasing Chakra was the same. Ren was only six years old now, yet the amount of Chakra he possessed was already terrifying. He did not want to extract too much and damage his cells, affecting his future growth.
Therefore, Ren could only strengthen his physique. But after being tempered by the Foundation-Building Spirit Liquid, his physique had already far surpassed that of children his age. Even with daily medicinal baths and Magical Beast meat every day, his improvements were still very slow.
Ren felt rather helpless about this.
Shaking his head, he spotted a pistol on the bedside table, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
This pistol was one of his gains from the past few months, as well as new garbage produced by the Trash Station during that time.
The first batch of garbage had come from an urban world, specifically from the period of the Second World War.
When Ren saw the designation of the Independent Regiment, he knew that this garbage had come from the world of Bright Sword.
What kind of world was Bright Sword? It was a world without any energy system. It could not even be considered a technological world, since the technology of its Second World War era was not advanced.
This batch of garbage seemed to have come from the Yamamoto Squad's raid. Ren had obtained quite a few guns and cannons, but how powerful could firearms from the Second World War be? The only worthwhile gains were one intact artillery piece and three shells. Aside from those, there was only the pistol by Ren's bed, which seemed to be the gun Chu Yunfei had given Li Yunlong!
Other than that, there were many corpses and damaged firearms and cannons. Ren had thrown all of them into Beast King Mountain for it to digest and Devour. The broken firearms and cannons were used to forge weapons. After all, the Bulldog and Bully Dog of the Dog Clan were natural blacksmiths capable of crafting many weapons. Having this steel was not bad either.
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