Chapter 148 Communication
"How much time has passed?"
Nagato, who had recovered some of his strength and power with the nutrient solution that Lu Nie had prepared beforehand, finally felt that his body was no longer heavy and weak. He glanced at the sky and asked subconsciously.
In the narrow gap between life and death, his last moments were completely confused, and every minute and every second was a blur to him. He could no longer be sure how long he had been there, and how much time had passed in the ninja world.
"It's been about seven hours since Yahiko sent me the message."
Shikagane gave a reply that surprised Nagato.
Although Nagato had been mentally prepared, he was still shocked by Lu Nie's answer. It turned out that after staying there for such a long and torturous time, only seven hours had passed in the Ninja World?
If his body's condition had not clearly told him that everything he had felt before was real, Nagato would have suspected that he had fallen under some particularly powerful illusion.
"Where's Yahiko?"
After Nagato came to his senses, he quickly asked about Yahiko.
"Don't worry about him. If nothing unexpected happens, he should come over to us. I just happened to inform him that you and Shisui are safe.
Also, do you want to wait here for him to make peace, or leave on your own and make peace in the Rain Country?
Forget it, your body hasn't recovered yet, so you can recuperate here first."
Lu Nie waved his hand as he spoke. In front of Nagato, he bit his finger and summoned a small white snake as thick as a finger. Then he took out a scroll and used chakra as a pen to write down the information and his current approximate location on it. Then he watched the summoned small white snake open its mouth, swallow the scroll, and then disappear in a puff of white smoke.
"Can you move on your own? It's not safe here. We have to change location." After doing all this, Lu Nie looked at Nagato with an inquiring look.
"I can."
After feeling the condition of his body, Nagato moved his limbs under Lu Nie's gaze, indicating that he was in good physical condition and did not need Lu Nie's support or help.
"Let's go." Luna took the lead and walked in front, while Hongdou threw Shisui on her shoulders and carried him to follow Luna.
With Red Bean's current stamina and strength, Shisui's weight would not have any impact on her movements. If possible, she could even hold Shisui in one hand and Nagato in the other.
"Is it possible that even a country as big as the Fire Nation would be engulfed in war?"
On the way, Nagato saw a lot of ruins caused by large-scale ninjutsu and ninja destruction. It can be seen that this area has recently experienced extremely fierce ninja battles, and the battles can even be said to be frequent.
Considering what Lu Nie did before, it was obvious that he had been tied down on the battlefield for a while. Otherwise, there would be no need to pass on the message and ask them to come and help Shisui.
"The geographical location and rich resources of the Land of Fire determine that it must be the center of war. Every ninja village has the ambition to take over Konoha, replace Konoha, and become Konoha.
During the tense period of the Ninja World War, the small countries between the five major countries could not even serve as a buffer zone."
Lu Nie found a previously determined camping location, and only after checking that the traps and barriers he had set up before leaving were not triggered did he feel a little relieved.
This at least means that this foothold has not been discovered and has not been exposed! This can give their team a chance to rest.
"Shisui, he..."
Seeing Uchiha Shisui being put down by Anko and leaning his back against a big tree, Nagato's face showed worry.
He and Shisui had gone through this, and it could be said that they had lived and died together. Thinking that Shisui might not be able to continue to be an active ninja on the battlefield because of blindness, Nagato felt a little sad.
Especially Shisui's eyes, because the original reason for the excessive consumption of pupil power was that he came to help them deal with Hanzo of Rain Village.
"Don't worry, if it's just blindness, it's not difficult to solve. The medical ninja can replace his eyes with a pair of suitable ones.
Even if it's just for Shisui to get a new pair of Sharingan, it's fine for the Uchiha clan. The problem is Shisui's own Mangekyō. "
Lu Nie was also speechless.
“Tell me, what kind of enemy did you encounter to force you, Yahiko, and Shisui to this point?
Yahiko only said in the intelligence that you encountered a dangerous and powerful enemy who could use Wood Release."
"Didn't Yahiko tell you that the one fighting us was White Zetsu?" Nagato asked in surprise, sitting next to Kagawa.
"White Zetsu?" Lu Nie blinked. Yahiko didn't elaborate on this in the intelligence. When he saw the intelligence Yahiko passed on, he thought that it was Uchiha Madara who came out to exercise and do old age rehabilitation and fitness, which forced Shisui to use the reverse summoning technique, which is the black cavity's version of the ninjutsu to enter the narrow gap between life and death.
But then I thought about it and it seemed unlikely. If it was Uchiha Madara, Yahiko would at least have mentioned it in the intelligence.
He believed that if it was Uchiha Madara, Shisui would definitely be able to feel the other party's eye power and abnormality, and alert Nagato and Yahiko.
"Yes, but unlike the Bai Jue you found, his face was encased in a swirling mask."
While looking at Shisui who was still unconscious across from him, Nagato recalled the previous battle scenes and answered seriously.
Under the guidance of teacher Jiraiya, Nagato had understood what his eyes meant. However, the pride and natural pride in his heart had completely collapsed under the successive blows.
Whether it was Hanzo or any enemy whose name had never been heard of in the ninja world, as well as Shisui of the Mangekyo and Kagome, they all made him feel devastated.
Especially Hanzo, if it weren't for Kane's intervention, he, Yahiko, and Konan, the three of them who had depended on each other since childhood, might have died in the Rain Country long ago.
The pupil technique that comes with the Rinnegan is like a bloodline limit. Of course, he can master that kind of power naturally without any learning.
However, because the power level of the Rinnegan was extremely high, whenever he intended to use and practice some of the eye techniques, Nagato could feel the sense of crisis conveyed to him by his sixth sense.
He was unable to use the Rinnegan's eye techniques as he wished. Before meeting Lu Nie, only under great emotional fluctuations could he break through the sense of crisis and successfully launch the Rinnegan's powerful eye techniques regardless of the consequences.
In most cases, the pupil techniques of the Samsara Eye were sometimes effective and sometimes not. After all, the consumption of each pupil technique was too much for a young boy like him.
Even though he was a member of the Uzumaki clan and had a natural physique with an amazing amount of chakra, before his body had truly grown up, he could not stably provide the consumption required by the eye technique to bear the burden it brought to his body. If he really reached a desperate situation, he might be able to fully stimulate the power of the Samsara Eye in the event of an extreme emotional outburst, but Nagato could not be sure of the consequences.
Perhaps his body will be drained by the pupil technique of the Rinnegan?
After Lu Nie studied the Rinnegan for a while, Nagato felt a little relieved when the Rinnegan was installed in his eye socket again.
Whether it is consumption or the application of some spontaneous pupil techniques.
Now, Nagato can be said to have initially mastered some of the power of the Rinnegan.
The power of the Samsara Eye is still strong, but after experiencing the blow and witnessing the earth-shattering duel between Shisui and White Zetsu, although Nagato is not disappointed with the power of the Samsara Eye, he will not have the so-called arrogant mentality. What's more, he now knows that the Samsara Eye is not his own.
"Who are those White Zetsu? Is the one behind them the enemy wearing the Uzumaki mask?"
Nagato has always wanted to know who his Samsara Eye came from, and what kind of thoughts and plans he has for him. It is impossible that the other party just randomly chose him and then inherited his eyes, right?
"Are you sure you want to know?" Lu Nie did not intend to tell everything he still remembered and knew, but he also did not want to be a riddle teller.
If Nagato had not turned evil, he would have been a very upright and trustworthy friend. But once he turned evil, he would be just like the evil Uchiha, completely stubborn and obsessed with his own revenge and world.
Without sufficient bonds and not being the protagonist, Kane suspects that even Shisui's full power of Kotoamatsukami would not be able to change the other party's will.
"Of course! If it's just me, it doesn't matter. Whether he keeps the eyes with me or wants to take them back in the future, I can accept it. But what if he has some bad intentions? Will he do something to Konan and Yahiko?
At least I should know what the other party's purpose is, right?" Nagato nodded.
Although the Rinnegan is the eye of the legendary Six Paths Sage, to Nagato, it is not as important as Yahiko and Konan in his heart.
Since he was willing to give the Rinnegan as a bargaining chip to Kakui for research in order to save Yahiko, it means that the Rinnegan is not absolutely important to him.
"You should know about the Pure Land, right?" Lu Nie asked softly.
"The final resting place of all souls in the Ninja World." Although Nagato didn't know why Luna mentioned the Pure Land, he still nodded and answered.
"Not now. The soul has another place to go."
"Hueco Mundo, or Hell, I've heard Shisui talk about it. I remember him saying that the emergence of Hueco Mundo Hell is related to you."
"It's about you too!"
"I?"
Nagato was a little confused by Kane's sudden words. He searched through his memories, but couldn't think of when he had been to Hueco Mundo, or done anything related to Hueco Mundo.
"Rinnegan!" Lu Ni reached out and touched Nagato's eye sockets. He spread out two fingers and pointed at the Rinnegan in Nagato's eye sockets.
"Its power is very special. It helped me locate the Pure Land and gain certain permissions. In other words, these eyes have the highest control authority over all chakras!"
"The highest control authority?" It was the first time that Nagato heard such a statement, and based on what Luna had done in the past, Nagato believed his words without a doubt. He had great trust in him until there was factual refutation.
Especially in the study of the Rinnegan, although he has the Rinnegan, when it comes to understanding and cognition of the Rinnegan, Nagato is not sure if he can catch up with Shikagawa.
"Or in other words, it's the difference in chakra quality."
"I don't quite understand." Nagato was a little confused. If he was talking about learning ninjutsu, relying on the Samsara Eye, he could achieve the same level as the Sharingan copying ninjutsu, learning and applying it at the same time, but if it involves some research and theory that requires brains, sorry, he is not yet grown up and does not have the learning environment.
At least he doesn't have the accumulated knowledge of ninjutsu stored in the Rain Village of the Rain Country.
"Chakra with attributes can release ninjutsu of corresponding attributes, and the fusion of two chakras of different attributes will become a bloodline limit, which has more powerful power and characteristics than ordinary ninjutsu.
Above the bloodline limit, there is also the bloodline elimination that fuses three attributes."
"Does this have anything to do with the Rinnegan and what I want to know?" Nagato looked at Kane weakly and asked in a low voice.
"What I want to tell you is that the level of the Samsara Eye is higher than the three-attribute bloodline elimination. The eye appears only by chance. And one of its functions is to communicate with the Pure Land. It has some authority over the Pure Land!
I said this, maybe you can understand the peculiarity of these eyes. Could it be that the pupil technique of the Samsara Eye that you felt did not sense the Pure Land?"
Lu Nie said calmly.
"Feel the Pure Land?" Nagato recalled what he had in his mind. It was as if the Rinnegan was unlocked naturally as his body grew, and then the eye techniques were explored and understood, and he found that some of them did involve the human soul.
"King of Hell?" Nagato asked subconsciously.
This pupil technique had only recently appeared in his mind. From what he perceived in his mind, this pupil technique had the ability to pull a person's soul out of their body!
In the soul state, as Nagato who summoned the King of Hell, he can ask any questions to the pulled out soul and will not be refused to answer.
This eye technique can be used for torture!
Of course, in Nagato's understanding, the so-called Yama is a series of eye techniques, which has many branch-system abilities that spread out.
However, he now realizes that he cannot master this eye technique well, and using it may cause irreparable damage to the people around him.
"Legend has it that it possesses incredible power! It can even bring the dead back to life! And according to my research, it does have this power!" Lu Nie gave the answer frankly.
"Resurrect the dead? Is there really such a power?" Nagato was silent for a moment.
"The Second Hokage invented a ninjutsu that allowed the dead to briefly return to the world of the living." Lu Nie gave an example.
(End of this chapter)