Chapter 422: The Twin Trees Garden
Mei Terumi led her defeated troops back to the Mist Village.
At this point, it had been almost a full day since Ino had used the Immortal Zombie and summoned the "Underworld Path."
The Immortal Zombie had initially slammed its hands on the ground. Later, Ino felt the posture was awkward and changed it to a seated posture with hands clasped together, in the lotus position.
Hashirama Senju had his True Several Thousand Hands. She felt it was perfectly reasonable for her Immortal Zombie to have a lotus position.
In that one day, besides her zero-cost shopping, Ino had also done a few things.
She had planted trees in the Mist Village!
She had planted two trees!
These were the seeds Moegi had given her before.
The two towering trees grew vigorously in the land of extreme yin, transforming from death to life. The Immortal Zombie sat in the lotus position between the twin trees. Ino used the Immortal Zombie to comprehend the mysteries of natural energy. From a distance, it really had a bit of the feel of the Sāla grove...
Countless roots hung down from the twin trees. Some Mist villagers who had not managed to escape in time, after getting over their initial panic, quickly calmed down. Many sat directly under the trees and converted.
They allowed the roots to wrap them up like cocoons, their hearts and minds merging with the twin trees.
Ino, with the help of the twin trees, shared many of her newly-made-up stories.
Things like how Hashirama Senju had cut down his father Butsuma Senju's cherry tree and then bravely admitted his mistake, and how a small sparrow had hit one of Konoha's utility poles, and then the Second Hokage had ordered a village-wide power outage to rescue the little sparrow—all sorts of chicken-soup-for-the-soul stories were poured in.
While sharing these little stories, the converted villagers also contributed their wisdom and bodies to help Ino experiment with a Sage Mode for humans.
The scene was very harmonious.
A total of one thousand two hundred and fifty Mist villagers were hanging from the roots of the twin trees.
Zetsu, who had never left, was speechless. This moment now, is just like that moment then. You're not doing this on purpose, are you?
Soon, he overturned this guess himself. Even Zetsu had not personally seen Kaguya plant the tree, let alone Ino.
Ino couldn't possibly know about the God Tree, let alone the Infinite Tsukuyomi. But the scene of over a thousand people hanging from the trees, why did it look so awkward to him?
He called over Obito, who was in the middle of moving house. Old Six, come, let's watch the show together.
"Could this be the Infinite Tsukuyomi?" Obito was shocked. Who is this? Stealing my business? You don't want to live anymore!
When he learned that this was something Ino had unintentionally created, he asked Zetsu very seriously, "Why did she do this? Does she know something?"
Zetsu would not tell Obito the truth. At this moment, he only talked vaguely about Hashirama Senju, briefly mentioned Wood Release, and thought that what was happening now was also a path of Wood Release.
"Is it a necessary stage?" Obito pressed.
How could it be a necessary stage! The previous Hashirama Senju never created such a strange thing.
"It seems there are many secrets in Wood Release," Obito said, while studying Zetsu's expression. He felt that this inscrutable companion was hiding some important information.
Zetsu just smiled and didn't say much more.
Zetsu's current persona was that of a life form created by Madara. After putting off Obito, the two, with the mentality of watching a show, watched from the side. They wanted to see what on earth Ino was up to.
Gonbee did his best to rescue, but besides the "converted," there were still over a thousand people who had fallen into an eternal slumber.
The number of civilians and ninja among them was about half and half.
Many ninja who had experienced the "Bloody Mist" period felt that their sins were heavy. Seeing their old friends calling out to them, they chose to "lie flat." As a result, they lay down and never got up again.
Mei Terumi returned to the village entrance. Looking into the distance, she saw dark clouds gathering. Unlike the storms at sea, the village was completely silent at this moment. Almost no sound could be heard.
The reason for "almost" was that if one listened carefully, some sounds could still be heard.
"What is that sound inside?" she asked Gonbee.
Gonbee sighed heavily. "Lady Mizukage, it's our villagers chanting sutras. At least, I think it's chanting sutras."
They've become like this, what kind of sutras are they chanting?
Mei Terumi pricked up her ears and listened carefully.
"Anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi" this and "good men, good women" that... she was completely bewildered.
The voices were very neat, but it was precisely because of this neatness that it was terrifying.
These were all her villagers!
The power of the chanting reached outside the village. Looking at the villagers next to her, their faces calm, as if they had lost most of their vitality, Mei Terumi gritted her back teeth. "You bastard! I'm going to kill her!"
Her willpower was a notch higher than ordinary ninja. Neither the Underworld Path nor the chanting had much effect on her.
Mei Terumi was holding a ball of fire in her heart. One after another, you all come to bully the Mist Village. You won't die a good death!
"Lady Mizukage! Lady Mizukage! You must calm down, calm down! You ugly woman who can't get married, wake up!" Gonbee didn't care about taboos anymore.
Mei Terumi was indeed a bit agitated and had lost her usual calm mind.
Mainly because she had run all the way back from Red Spot Island, her chakra was greatly depleted. Recently, being tossed around by the Cloud and Konoha like a bag of rice, her mentality had collapsed.
Gonbee's words made her regain her composure. She stared at this advisor. You dare to say I can't get married?
Gonbee, facing her murderous gaze, could only point to the Immortal Zombie in the distance, meaning, you deal with that thing first.
"All of you, wait outside. I will deal with her. If I fail..." Mei Terumi looked at the even more listless Genpaku, as if giving her last words. "If I don't come back, Lord Genpaku will lead the village to surrender to Konoha. All the blame is mine alone."
Ignoring the objections of the others, she walked into the black-and-white village alone.
"Hehe, Sister Mei Terumi, long time no see." Ino was also sitting on top of the Immortal Zombie's head. The moment Mei Terumi entered the range of the ninjutsu, she had sensed her.
Mei Terumi looked at the villagers hanging from the roots, chanting sutras calmly, and anger once again appeared on her face.
She was in no mood to chat with Ino. She immediately unleashed her ultimate technique.
"Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!" Possessing both Lava and Boil Release Kekkei Genkai, Mei Terumi was worthy of her name as the Mizukage.
Boil Release was a combination of Water and Fire chakra nature transformations. The high-temperature mist had an extremely high temperature, but it was different from the domineering nature of Fire Release. This was a powerful ninjutsu that killed without a sound.
Ino also had a headache with this woman's strange Kekkei Genkai. Why didn't Obito kill her back then?
Normal five-element ninjutsu did not have an advantage against Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu, and there was no countering relationship. She gave the Immortal Zombie an order to continue maintaining the "Underworld Path," and leaped up herself, raising her right hand.
A Wood Dragon burst out of the ground and, with a roar, swallowed the rapidly spreading Boil Release mist.
"Hmm?" Ino felt the chakra that made up the Wood Dragon's body being rapidly consumed. The corrosion speed of this Boil Release on the Wood Dragon was even greater than the speed at which the Wood Dragon absorbed chakra.
In less than three seconds, the Wood Dragon had visibly changed. It became limp and soft, and finally, like rotten wood, it collapsed to the ground with a crash.
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