"Commander, the earthen wall on the east side is crooked!" A young ninja shouted, holding Kunai to the Tenmei. His voice was slightly ethereal, filtered through the thin Mars air.
Tenmei, a cigarette he'd brought from Blue Star —which wouldn't actually light on Mars, it was just a habitual action—walked briskly across the red earth. The newly built Earth Release wall was indeed crooked, with rocks still crumbling from the top. He crouched down and tapped the wall, his fingers dusted with fine powder. " The Chakra injection is too scattered. You bunch of kids, building houses in the Shinobi World wasn't this difficult, was it?"
Two young ninjas beside him scratched their heads and laughed. The Mars soil was as hard as iron, and when Chakra penetrated it, it was always blocked by an inexplicable force field. The Earth Flow Rampart that could be easily completed in the past required twice the Chakra here.
"Watch closely." Tenmei stood up, his hands quickly Hand Seals, his index and middle fingers pressed together against the base of the wall. Pale blue Chakra seeped into the red soil through his fingertips, suddenly making the loose soil layer firm. The crooked city wall slowly straightened, and a layer of fine runes even appeared on its surface— Sealing Jutsu of the Tsubasa Church, capable of enhancing the building's resistance to wind and sand. "Remember this hand seal. Divide your Chakra into three streams and inject them: one to solidify, one to reinforce, and one to embed the runes. Don't save your energy; there's plenty of work to be done later."
"Understood!" The two ninjas immediately followed suit, and this time the city wall was built faster and straighter, with even the edges being much neater.
In the distance, towards Mercury Valley, greenery is spreading at a visible speed. Tsubasa has been planting trees in the canyon for three days, and the initial ironwood forest has now grown to tens of meters tall, with layers of deep green leaves that rustle in the wind. The underground ice melted by the ninjas using Ninjutsu flows out of the canyon and forms a stream at the edge of the forest. The stream water shimmers with a faint blue light—a mineral unique to the Mars ice layer, which looks like shattered gems in the sunlight.
" Senjutsu: Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees!" Tsubasa's voice echoed above the canyon. He hovered in mid-air, his hands Hand Seals so fast they were just afterimages, scattering the ironwood seeds in his arms like rain. The seeds took root in the soil as soon as they landed, sprouting tender shoots that grew into saplings over ten meters tall in just two seconds. The downy hairs on the leaves could block the wind and sand, and the trunk was wrapped with a faint green Immortal Power, as if adding a protective shield to the tree.
Beside Tsubasa, the Tian Yu stuck out its little tongue and licked the drifting red soil, then quickly withdrew it. "It tastes awful! When will this soil ever taste good?"
"Once the trees grow denser, the fallen leaves will pile up into humus, and the soil will soften." Tsubasa smiled and patted her head, then looked down at the researchers standing by the stream. Professor Uzumaki Hyōmei was squatting in the water with a testing instrument, his brows furrowed. "What's wrong?"
"The mineral content in the water is too high. Although it won't affect the ironwood trees, it might make it difficult to grow other plants in the future." Professor Uzumaki Hyōmei stood up and handed the testing equipment to Tsubasa. The values on the screen were glaringly red. "Moreover, the water temperature is too low, and it will freeze again soon. Even with sunlight, it won't rise."
Tsubasa took the detector, glanced at it, and casually handed it to the medical-nin beside him. "Have the ninja squad come over and use Boil Release to raise the water temperature to fifteen degrees Celsius, then use Purification Technique to filter out the minerals." He paused, then added, "Remember to leave some of the original water; the Ironwood Tree needs these minerals to adapt to the Mars world."
"Alright!" The medical-nin immediately ran to find the ninja squad. Not long after, the sound of ninjas Hand Seals came from the stream. " Water Release: Boil Release Technique!" Pale white steam rose from the surface of the stream, the water temperature slowly rose, and the stream, which was originally shimmering with blue light, gradually became clear, and even the red sand at the bottom could be seen clearly.
Professor Uzumaki Hyōmei gazed at the clear stream, his hands trembling with excitement. "This is the power of us ninjas! It's always so amazing... Before, we used machines to purify water, and it could only purify a few hundred liters a day. Now it only takes a few minutes."
" Ninjutsu isn't a panacea." Tsubasa landed on the ground, picked up a leaf from an ironwood tree; the fuzz on the leaf could trap particles of red clay. "Once the teleportation array is built, we'll need to transport more plant seeds and equipment from Blue Star. Ninjutsu alone can't sustain the transformation of a planet."
The teleportation array he mentioned was located in the center of the military base. At that moment, the ninjas were building the infrastructure there. The foundation was made of the hardest space-attribute alloy specially made by Tsubasa in the Shinobi World. Tsubasa had engraved runes all over the surface, and there was Chakra energy machine inside. The base of the entire teleportation array was a circular platform with a diameter of 500 meters. Spatial runes had already been drawn on it. The golden runes shone in the sunlight, as if they had inlaid a layer of gold on the platform.
" Immortal Venerable Tsubasa!" A ninja ran over, holding a sparking part in his hand. "The energy conversion rate of the energy machine is not high enough, and the space energy required for the ultra-long-distance teleportation array is too great. The current energy machine cannot support it."
Tsubasa followed him to the energy machine. The energy machine was powered by Chakra, and its outer shell was made of black alloy, covered with rune wires. The ends of the wires were connected to rune crystals, Chakra inside the crystals surged back and forth like lightning. He reached out and touched a crystal, and immediately felt a surge of energy— the Chakra was too violent to be stably and completely converted into spatial energy.
"Call the Sealing Squad over and set up two more energy machines. This situation has been considered in the Shinobi World for a long time. Three energy machines will effectively enhance the energy concentration." Tsubasa squatted down and drew a complex rune on the outer shell of the energy machine. As soon as the rune was completed, it lit up, and the previously chaotic Chakra instantly became stable and orderly. "Remember, the most taboo thing in long-distance spatial energy transmission is chaotic spatial energy. Every step must be correct, otherwise the transmission channel will collapse. Test it many times to ensure safety."
The Sealing Squad's ninjas arrived quickly. They surrounded the space teleportation base and began installing and adjusting the energy generator. Pale purple sealing runes drilled into the energy generator and connected it to the base along their fingertips. Before long, the spatial energy generated by the energy generator filled the base. The rune crystals at the ends of the rune wires were no longer chaotic, and the Chakra inside turned a stable pale blue, flowing like water along the rune wires into the teleportation array's base.
On the base of the teleportation array, golden runes gradually lit up, and the lines between the runes began to connect, forming a huge spatial teleportation array. Tsubasa stood up and looked at the slowly forming ultra-long-distance teleportation array, and breathed a sigh of relief—this was the most crucial step in transforming Mars. Only by opening up a safe and fast passage between Mars and Blue Star could subsequent construction keep up perfectly.