"Good afternoon, Lin Ke, Naruto."
Ichiraku Uncle cheerfully wiped his hands on his apron and said, "What would you like to eat today?"
"Good afternoon, Miso Ramen." Lin Ke sat down, smiling as he ordered, then turned to Uzumaki Naruto, who had entered with him, and said, "What do you want? It's on me."
"Salt Ramen."
Uzumaki Naruto seemed a bit listless. He sat down, hesitated, and asked, "Where exactly did Sasuke and Perverted Sage go?"
He had asked his father and Kakashi Teacher, but received no answer. Thinking Lin Ke might know, he and Sakura had 'conspired' to sneak into Lin Ke's house and ask.
But alas, as a ninja, he was used to entering through windows. As soon as he landed, he saw a dense crowd of Shadows standing up. After a fierce battle (getting beaten), he was hung on the edge of the Balcony outside the window by the Shadows.
Even Sakura, who was supposed to provide backup, didn't dare to come over. There were just too many dark Shadows.
The key was that they ignored Genjutsu, and he couldn't figure out how to win.
"You just want to know where they went?" Lin Ke found it amusing. "If you wanted to know, you could have just asked me. Running to my house, you're really..."
Because he didn't know the whereabouts of Obito and Black Zetsu, he had been frantically using Uchiha Madara's Susanoo Chakra Cube to create Eight Gates Shadows.
His own improvement had never stopped. The medicine had long since become ineffective. The pain of the Eight Gates Formation Technique gradually allowed him to open the Eight Gates Formation without using anesthetics as his tolerance increased. Then, he repeatedly opened them, torturing himself while becoming more and more tolerant of the pain.
It could also be said that his body and mind were gradually becoming numb to the pain.
This process was impossible for others to replicate. The intense pain led to increased heart burden, accelerated blood flow, increased blood pressure, and the body releasing large amounts of stress hormones, etc.
Lin Ke had suffered at least a hundred heart attacks, more than three hundred cerebral hemorrhages, and more than two hundred organ failures during his training, nearly dying of sudden death thousands of times.
The previously tested Clone Jutsu upper limit was too high. Combined with the Mystical Palm Technique, the training process was a cycle of life and death. He adapted to the pain of opening up to the Third Gate with extreme difficulty, and could open up to the Fifth Gate while standing still, risking his body collapsing.
Under these circumstances, the strength of the Eight Gates Shadows was skyrocketing.
Despite the village protecting him very well, with all sorts of careful care, he actually felt that as long as he didn't encounter experts in Space-Time Ninjutsu or some super-Kage level monsters, he could walk sideways among ordinary Kage.
Especially since it also included different Eight Gates Shadows with various skills and specialties. Although the Wind Release: Great Breakthrough buff was brief, adding more Chakra to create a Shadow was not a problem.
Not to mention the occasional speed breakthrough or strength breakthrough type of Eight Gates Shadow, some Taijutsu breakthrough Eight Gates Shadows could even compete with Guy Teacher in pure Taijutsu. Converting the data, their Taijutsu was estimated to be at the level of 9.
If Uchiha Itachi came again, he could send dozens of Eight Gates Shadows to kick the weasel into an idiot.
Of course, not the healthy version.
Due to the large number of Eight Gates Shadows with professional skills and special abilities being employed, there were more and more ordinary Shadows and old version Eight Gates Shadows being eliminated from the front line. After all, Shadows couldn't become stronger, and their upper limit was fixed from the moment they were created.
The people of Konoha Village didn't know that there were at least thousands of retired Shadows quietly waiting in the shadows throughout the village.
Lin Ke's house was even more of a gathering place for old version Eight Gates Shadows. In a narrow environment with close-range sneak attacks, not to mention Naruto in his normal state, even if he burst into Nine-Tailed Chakra, he might get a beating.
Here's a side note: Jiraiya, in his training, in order to allow Naruto to control the power of the Nine Tails, had opened a little of the Eight Trigrams Sealing without permission, resulting in him being face-to-face beaten by Four Tails Naruto unexpectedly.
After Namikaze Minato came out, he didn't reinforce or reset the Seal, perhaps out of some consideration, but just chatted with his son alone.
So Naruto hasn't been allowed to leave the village yet, and all his missions have been suspended. If the Nine-Tailed Chakra goes berserk, it would be a big problem.
"Sakura, you come in too." Lin Ke glanced at the shy girl outside the door and raised his voice slightly.
Haruno Sakura walked in quickly, sat next to Naruto, and smiled awkwardly, saying, "Haha, what a, what a coincidence."
"Yeah, it's such a coincidence that one of you was hanging on my balcony, and the other was squatting below the balcony." Lin Ke ruthlessly retorted, looking at the two downcast kids, and said, "As for Sasuke, they have their own things to be busy with, you should be able to see him in a while."
The affairs of the Different World will gradually be opened to core members, and Hatake Kakashi, the Hokage candidate's student, is qualified to know these things.
What's more, Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, and he also knows the secret of reincarnation and resurrection. If everything goes according to plan, the Fourth Hokage, who will be a child by then, will probably need Naruto himself to bring him over.
In Senju Tobirama's Different World migration plan, he is in the fifth batch, with a time estimate of one month later, so there is no need to rush.
As for Sakura, she is actually much stronger now than she was at the same time in the manga. Her super talent in Genjutsu allows her Genjutsu level to quickly approach Yuhi Kurenai. You must know that when she just graduated, she had never learned Genjutsu, and her Illusion was already at a level of 6, which is pure talent.
Her Seal is even more outrageous, as high as 8, which means that her Chakra extraction level and Chakra control are stronger than Asuma, only 1 point behind Yuhi Kurenai's 9. Her Wisdom also has the Jonin passing score of 7 points, and her knowledge reserve and combat talent are top-notch.
For Genjutsu-type ninjas, Body, Power, and Speed are actually irrelevant. Spirit needs to be improved, and Illusion, Wisdom, and Seal must meet the standards. Dealing with Chunin and most Jonin who don't have much talent in Genjutsu is simple, easy, and enjoyable.
Unlike the competition with other Nin and Body, if you are hit by Genjutsu, it is basically a one-hit kill.
In the manga, Sakura is still working hard on basic training and learning a lot of knowledge about Medical Ninjutsu under Tsunade, but this version of her has learned a lot of Genjutsu from Yuhi Kurenai, and has been cultivated by Lin Ke with Sasuke for a period of time, making her stronger in all aspects than in the manga.
Now, there is still more than a year before Shippuden, and Tsunade is already preparing to promote her to Special Jonin. Because of Kakashi and Yuhi Kurenai, she is definitely an elite Jonin of the future Hokage faction.
It can be said that without the Sharingan, the upper limit of Genjutsu is certainly not high, but the lower limit is terrifyingly high, and Genjutsu has far fewer things to learn than Medical Ninjutsu. With talent, you can completely achieve quick success.
Moreover, with Sakura's talent, she may be able to find a new path in the future. It is hard to say whether Genjutsu Sakura or Ninja War Sakura will be stronger in the future.
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