Chapter 208
"Didn't you notice? Your own alienation!"
In response to the centipede that was forcibly expelled from the puppet's body with a look of disbelief on its face, Lu Nie gently reminded it.
"What alienation?" Baizu still did not give up on snatching control of the dragon vein from Lu Nie, but no matter how he called upon the queen's bloodline power, the dragon vein power that always responded to him in the past was now so silent that it was frightening.
"Mastering a power far beyond your own will come at a price! This is true for Jinchūriki, and it's true for you too."
Lu Nie pulled the knife out of the puppet's body, and walked to the place where the dragon veins converged on the puppet's corpse that had lost the support of the dragon veins and was scattered like a broken building block. He turned the blade, pointed the tip of the blade at the ground, loosened the grip of the knife, and watched it pierce the eye at the place where the dragon veins converged.
"Impossible! The Jinchūriki lost control because that power has the will of the tailed beast! Dragon veins have no will." Baizu denied what Lu Nie said, and shouted at the same time: "Besides, I also brought the spirit-suppressing stone! This is the technology you will use to restrain and suppress the will of the tailed beast in the future, allowing the Jinchūriki to freely use the power of the tailed beast, and combing the natural energy!"
"Is that so?" Lu Nie was a little surprised, but soon shook his head again, "I never believe in any absolute restraint technology.
I don't know how you obtained the so-called spirit-suppressing stone, but if this technology was created by me, the original concept would never be to suppress the will of the tailed beasts, but to assist the jinchūriki to communicate with the tailed beasts without losing control and to achieve mutual understanding.
The same is true for natural energy, which is all done to lower the threshold for cultivation. Your brutal suppression and forced plunder are not the real purpose of the creation of the Spiritual Stone. "
"I……"
Baizu wanted to say something, but suddenly, he found that he could not control his puppet body freely. It seemed that there was an extremely stubborn and tenacious force interfering with him and competing with him for control of his body.
"Do you feel it? The dragon vein does have no will, but what about the Queen of Loulan who was made into a human puppet and merged into his body?"
Lu Nie noticed the abnormality of the centipede, and the purple energy leaking out from the gaps of the puppet body, just like the chakra coat of the tailed beast, leaking power outwards.
This means that the centipede can no longer control the energy within its body.
“It is a very bold attempt to transplant the dragon vein as the energy core into one’s puppet body and turn oneself into the dragon vein’s Jinchūriki.
But once the balance between you and it is broken, you will naturally suffer the backlash from it."
"Impossible, she's dead!" Centipede's current state was like a Jinchuriki who was about to lose control under the influence of the tailed beast.
Lu Nie did not continue speaking. As he looked at the centipede that was tumbling on the spot as if it was having a seizure, a strange emotion flashed in his eyes.
He felt a familiar power from the centipede.
That is a person's consciousness following his own abilities, or it is his bloodline awakening.
……
Haruno Sakura tried to free Naruto from the net among the rubble she had cleared, but the net made her feel powerless. Just as she was anxious, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind her. Haruno Sakura turned around in surprise and looked at Lu Nie who had come behind her without her knowing when, and subconsciously made way.
Looking at Lu Nie passing by him, she felt a heart-pounding panic. With her perception, she shouldn't have been able to fail to notice that the other person was so close to her.
Especially when the battle is not over yet and is in danger.
A pair of rock arms emerged from the ground, grabbed the net on the ground, and shook it off. Uzumaki Naruto, who was entangled in it, was shaken out and fell dizzy.
"What is this?" Haruno Sakura was a little surprised why Shikagawa's ninjutsu could ignore the characteristics of the spirit-suppressing stone and still retain the power to move, but seeing that Naruto finally got free from the net, she didn't care about much at the moment, she stepped forward, grabbed Naruto's arm, and pulled him to a safe place.
As expected, the Soul-Suppressing Stone was only effective against pure chakra, but it was not so restrained when facing fairy techniques that possessed natural energy.
Lu Nie was thoughtful. For ninjas who don't know fairy arts and can't master natural energy, and only master chakra, the spirit-suppressing stone has a restraint similar to a seal!
As long as it is large enough, it will not be a problem to suppress a tailed beast for a long time like the Five Finger Mountain, even if that tailed beast is the Nine-Tailed Fox.
But facing the immortals who have mastered the power of immortal arts, its effect is not so obvious. If the power of the void, or the transformed soul power, is added, it is just an ordinary, perhaps rare stone.
"What happened to him?" Naruto woke up and stood up with the help of his friends. His eyes immediately moved to the centipede that was rolling on the ground and howling miserably. After all, in the quiet and closed underground space, his heart-wrenching screams and the changes in his body could not help but attract people's attention.
"He's fading!"
The one who answered Naruto was Maki of the Sand Ninja. He looked at the changes that were happening to the Centipede step by step, his face was extremely ugly, and he had a sense of crisis that was trembling with fear.
He had seen hollowed-out ninjas on the battlefield with his own eyes! Every hollowed-out ninja was a ruthless and powerful killing machine.
But the ninja's virtualization requires that kind of mask as a medium!
The results of the Sand Village's research on the masks remain a mystery. No one knows how far they have been studied and how many secrets have been uncovered.
What Baizu took away from the Sand Village was the manufacturing and manipulation techniques of puppets. As for the secrets of the Hollow Mask, which even he, a close confidant of the Kazekage, didn't know much about, the other party shouldn't be able to obtain it!
When accepting this mission, Lord Fengying never mentioned to him the loss of the Hollow Mask.
But if the virtual mask has not been lost, then what about the centipede that is becoming illusory in front of us?
Is it a factor of the future?
"Void?"
Although Yamato and the others did not understand what Machi said, the cold sweat on the other party's face, the cautious yet fearful expression, and the sense of crisis brought by the ever-expanding power of the centipede made them clearly realize that something was wrong.
"Can't you interrupt him?"
Yamato asked Maki tentatively.
"The process of virtualization cannot be interrupted. Even your approach will be regarded as food by the opponent." Lu Nie answered Yamato as he looked at the centipede that was almost taking shape and the entire puppet body was stretched into a centipede-like alien body.
(End of this chapter)