Searching for the Cave

Those two were actually her children, born with the natives!

Unable to bring herself to do it—after all, even a vicious tiger would not eat its cubs—Princess Kaguya softened and spared the two children.

What happened afterward became clear.

Under Kaguya's protection, the two brothers gradually grew into leaders of the local natives. As a series of events unfolded, they accidentally discovered that their mother was an alien!

My mom is an alien! How could they possibly tolerate that!

For the greater good! They had to kill their mother!

With the Toad Sage's natural energy, the elder brother, Hagoromo, swiftly accomplished this great feat!

He was also later revered as the ancestor of the shinobi world—the Sage of Six Paths.

That was the origin of the Naruto World.

Ye Liang knew that all Chakra originated from the entire Kaguya Clan. It was precisely their deaths that allowed every person on Earth to receive a portion of Chakra.

But the Chakra in each person's body was fixed. It lay hidden in every corner of the body, while also being sealed away by the meridians.

A ninja's Chakra training consisted of gradually removing those seals and gaining access to more of their latent Chakra.

Ye Liang did not know whether he possessed Chakra himself. All his abilities had been granted by the system, so his own potential had never been awakened. Ninja Chakra training, meanwhile, took years starting from childhood!

Ye Liang did not have that kind of time.

He had once considered using a special training method to temporarily open the body's meridians and obtain its Chakra, but that was clearly not feasible.

Because only Might Duy knew that training method. Many people in his previous life knew its name: the Eight Gates Formation!

Unfortunately, Might Duy had been dispatched to the front lines by the Hokage.

That left only one option: follow the Sage of Six Paths' example and learn senjutsu, the art of absorbing nature's power.

Senjutsu!

This was actually Earth's original energy. The Sage of Six Paths had learned it through the Toad Sage, but the White Snake Sage and the Slug Sage also knew this senjutsu.

The Slug Sage was out of the question. The original story had never even mentioned where she was, but the White Snake Sage was worth a try.

In the second part, Boruto, Boruto had once gone to the White Snake Sage's home, Ryūchi Cave, in order to save his companion Mitsuki!

Ye Liang vaguely remembered where that guy Boruto had entered Ryūchi Cave. Although one needed to be destined to enter such a sacred place, Ye Liang wanted to give it a try.

He was a transmigrator, after all!

"Ha ha, I'll start with you." Lying in his room, Ye Liang immediately burst into laughter.

"Ye Liang! What are you going crazy over now? Are you even going to sleep?" Anko complained from beside him.

She had found him strange today. Ye Liang had always been carefree, but today he had suddenly started poring over Chakra materials. Every so often, he would lower his head in thought, making it look as though he was actually studying.

"Hmph, woman! All you know is sleeping every day. You have no ambition at all."

"You say that as if you're really reading!"

"Of course! Reading makes me happy!"

"Books are the ladder of human progress!"

"Genius is made up of one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!"

"Light gives us experience, and reading gives us knowledge—Ostrovsky." Ye Liang fired off a rapid barrage, leaving Anko unable to offer a single rebuttal!

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"By the way, what does Ostrovsky mean?" Anko was completely baffled. It was her first time seeing Ye Liang so devoted to studying. Still, why did everything he said today make so much sense?

"It's a sentence-final particle. What an illiterate."

He had recited too quickly and accidentally let it slip!

"So that's what it is."

Late at night.

Ye Liang came alone to the small forest near the Valley of the End.

In the original story, Boruto had found Ryūchi Cave near this forest. But in truth, the forest had long been traversed by countless people. Besides Boruto, the only ones who had truly entered Ryūchi Cave were Mitsuki and Kabuto Yakushi.

Boruto had not been born yet, and Mitsuki had not yet been developed. As for Kabuto Yakushi, Ye Liang was certain that guy was still in the orphanage.

In his previous life, Kabuto Yakushi had been sent to an orphanage during the war. Unfortunately, after training there for a while, the orphanage had sent him to the front lines as a spy!

That was why Orochimaru later took a fancy to him and trained him into a godlike powerhouse. But now, he probably would not get that chance.

Orochimaru had already been sent to prison.

Of course, Ye Liang was not counting on him to find Ryūchi Cave!

After searching the forest from end to end, Ye Liang used an enhanced Body Flicker Technique to carefully inspect every corner, yet found no trace of Ryūchi Cave.

"Could it be that I'm really not destined for it?"

It was the first time Ye Liang had doubted himself. As a transmigrator, even if he did not have some destiny bonus, he should at least have an exploration bonus or something.

But Ye Liang had turned the entire little forest upside down and truly found no clues.

"Am I really without fate or affinity?" Ye Liang grew despondent.

But only an instant later, he raised his head again!

If he could not grow stronger, he would be killed!

Ye Liang might not have an earth-shattering intellect, but he still possessed the sense of urgency that came with facing a crisis!

Ye Liang began to think.

He thought for an hour.

"That's it! Boruto saw Ryūchi Cave after passing through a patch of mist, but no matter where Ryūchi Cave actually was, Boruto never traveled very far!"

"In other words, Ryūchi Cave is still in this little forest. It's just hidden, perhaps by the environment or some other deceptive method."

Ye Liang instantly understood everything!

As a modern person, he believed in science, in the law of conservation of mass, and that Naruto was not a fantasy world. As long as it was a scientific world, there had to be a way to force an explanation!

A sudden idea struck Ye Liang, and he began charging Shinra Tensei at the vast forest.

"How many floors can a bag of rice carry?" he roared, his body slowly floating into the air.

Shinra Tensei could be charged to increase its power geometrically.

Ye Liang figured that since he could not find Ryūchi Cave, he might as well use a wide-range attack to destroy the little forest directly. Once the obstacles were gone, Ryūchi Cave would naturally reveal itself!

After gathering enough power, he released all his Chakra in one breath!

"Boom!"

A vast expanse of forest—nearly half the area of Konoha—was cleared away by Shinra Tensei!

"Ha ha, this method will definitely work!" Ye Liang swiftly sat cross-legged and began recovering his Chakra.

He had destroyed nearly half the little forest in one go. At this rate, he would only need twenty full-power Shinra Tensei attacks to clear all the forest. Factoring in recovery time, he could accomplish this great feat in about a month!

Ye Liang went to Konoha and bought some Military Rations Pills to replenish his strength, then began carrying out his plan.

"Boom! Boom!"

Over the course of a month, the little forest never stopped rumbling. Fortunately, this world had no forest protection laws, or Ye Liang would have been thrown into prison.