"I'm back..."
Ryun left his daughter Nanaise at Mount Myoboku to learn skills, while he himself returned to the Shadow Mansion first.
As soon as he got home, he was fiercely scolded by the irritable redhead... After all, it was normal for a wife to be somewhat dissatisfied when her husband disappears with their daughter for ten days right after she gave birth.
Ryun distributed the three spirit fruits to his daughter, wife, and mother, and gave the purifying spirit flower that could detoxify and beautify to the redhead. Only then did he finally quell her anger.
After comforting his family, he once again took on the role of full-time dad, carrying the divine purple-eyed infant in swaddling clothes wherever he went.
"Ah, how could I forget about them..." A day after arriving home, Ryun suddenly remembered the Three Great Snake Maidens inside the Kamui dimension.
The next moment, he carried his son and entered it directly.
"Where have you been, you jerk? Did you forget all about us? We've been so bored staying here!"
The Three Great Snake Maidens all looked displeased, questioning him repeatedly.
"Nothing like that. I was just busy in the Shikkotsu Forest for too long. I just got home..."
Ryun explained without blushing or his heart racing. After glancing at the well-planted spirit flowers and herbs, he brought the Three Great Snake Maidens to the Sound Tower within Otogakure.
"Lord Shadow!!!"
Everyone was extremely surprised by the Shadow's sudden appearance in the view of the ninjas. Their Shadow Lord hadn't set foot in the Shadow Tower for a long time!
"Assign two kunoichi to take these three sisters on a good tour of the Village of Heaven. They can also visit other prosperous cities. All expenses will be reimbursed by me. Just make sure they are well taken care of..."
Ryun directly gave this order to Nagato, the Second Heaven Shadow.
"These three sisters are..." Nagato looked at the three beautiful Snake Maidens with curiosity, as people valued by Ryun were very rare.
"They come from the sacred land Ryuchi Cave. This time, they just want to have fun..."
As soon as Ryun said this, Nagato instantly understood how to arrange things!
"Ryun, aren't you coming to play with us???"
The three beautiful Snake Maidens were quite dissatisfied with their stinky little brother finding kunoichi to act as tour guides. However, seeing the constantly crying baby in Ryun's swaddling clothes, the Three Great Snake Maidens ultimately let him off.
After all, going out to play with an infant would be really inconvenient. They rarely got out and didn't want to spoil their fun because of it.
"Have a good meal, have fun, sisters. When you're tired from playing and want to go home, come find me here..."
Ryun waved goodbye to the three beautiful Snake Maidens with a smile, finally free from their pestering.
"Shouldn't they go to the Shadow Mansion to find you?" Nagato joked with a smile.
"If Kushina saw them, she would kill me."
Ryun said this lightly, almost making Nagato burst out laughing.
"I've proposed to Konan. She agreed. Our wedding will probably be held in about a month. Your family must come to support me then!"
Nagato smiled and told Ryun this happy news.
"You're getting married?"
Hearing this news, Ryun was somewhat surprised. But upon second thought, it also seemed reasonable. After all, both were in their thirties. If they did not settle their lifelong matters soon, they might not be able to have children later.
Now, Nagato no longer had the burdensome Rinnegan. He had clearly returned to a normal state, no longer having that sickly, skin and bones appearance from before.
Moreover, his legs had been healed by Ryun. After becoming the Second Heaven Shadow and gaining almost absolute power, Nagato as a whole began to glow. As two people who had suffered together, there was no reason Konan and Nagato would not end up together.
"Congratulations. I will definitely go drink at your wedding then. Also, you are already the Heaven Shadow. The whole world has to watch your expression. Why would you need a transparent person like me to support the occasion?" Ryun joked with a smile.
"Haha! I have today thanks to the leader and Lord Orochimaru. My wedding cannot be without you!"
"Relax. I will have my mom and Kushina help you organize the wedding then." Ryun patted his shoulder and laughed.
"By the way, both Kushina and you have Uzumaki clan blood. Have you two talked?" He suddenly remembered this.
"We have talked. We are among the few remaining Uzumaki descendants in this world. How could we not communicate? If I have children in the future, the Uzumaki surname will continue through them." Nagato replied with a smile.
"Great!"
Ryun nodded, then went home and returned to the Shadow Tower with a huge scroll.
"This is a powerful sealing technique that only those with Uzumaki clan blood can learn. I was entrusted by the Uzumaki Princess, Mito Uzumaki, to pass it back to the Uzumaki clansmen. You have red hair and are willing to pass on this surname, so accept this inheritance."
Ryun had not forgotten Grandma Mito's dying words and intended to pass on this precious gift.
"Uzumaki Sealing Technique…"
Under Ryun's insistence, Nagato ultimately accepted this large scroll.
The Uzumaki sealing techniques had already been fully mastered by Ryun's family. Ryun had also continuously innovated and improved upon them. His sealing technique level had completely surpassed the cognitive limits of the Uzumaki clan.
"How is the task I gave you to gather techniques from various countries going?" Ryun casually asked about another matter.
Previously scattered among the Five Great Nations, ninjutsu, forbidden techniques, and even cultivation methods were all targets that the Land of Heaven needed to collect.
Anywhere in the Ninja World, as long as they were willing to hand over powerful forbidden techniques or cultivation methods that the Village of Heaven deemed valuable, the Village of Heaven was willing to give the contributors a considerable amount of wealth and even open channels for village settlement.
Take the Konoha Village of the Land of Fire as an example. Since Ryun removed the chakra seeds from the vast majority of ninjas, many ninja clans were already existing in name only. For example, the Ino Shika Cho, Hyuga, Aburame, Sarutobi, and other ninja clans.
Their only way out was to hand over their clan secret techniques in exchange for the opportunity to join the Village of Heaven.
The Hyuga clan proactively handed over the Gentle Fist Internal Strength Palm Technique and the Caged Bird secret technique to the Village of Heaven in exchange for twenty village entry slots.
The Ino Shika Cho three clans used their clan secret techniques to exchange for a total of thirty village entry slots.
The Aburame had insect control secret techniques, the Inuzuka had dog training secret techniques.
Many people, having lost their chakra overnight, became crippled. Guarding clan secret techniques held no meaning anymore.
So many simply handed over their secret techniques. As long as the clan elites joined the Village of Heaven, first, there was the possibility of rising again, and second, they could protect clan members outside the Village of Heaven from being bullied by outsiders.
These Konoha ninja clans were not special. The original four great ninja villages of the Ninja World were all making similar decisions. For example, the old man Onoki left a dying message allowing Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi to find Deidara of the Village of Heaven. If necessary, they could even use Iwagakure secret techniques and Kekkei Tota to exchange for village entry slots.
Now, there was only one ninja village in the whole world, the Village of Heaven. Those old era ninjas unwilling to be ordinary, who wanted to regain their lost chakra and status, could only join the Village of Heaven.
Under Ryun's direction, the Village of Heaven had been gathering the world's techniques for a year now.
"Now, we have gathered a very large number of techniques. But some ninja families are still immersed in past glory. They would rather hide those useless secret techniques and forbidden techniques than turn them from trash into treasure."
"Of course, it is also possible those people still hate the Village of Heaven."
Nagato answered Ryun's question with a serious expression.
Ryun used the God Tree to take away the chakra from the vast majority of ninjas, even cutting off the possibility for many to become ninjas. It was normal for those people to hate him and to hate the Village of Heaven.
Many would rather let forbidden techniques and secret techniques rot with them than hand them over to the Village of Heaven in exchange for wealth and prospects. They would rather be ordinary people for life, preferring that their descendants also be ordinary people, than join the Village of Heaven.
Of course, such stubborn people ultimately belonged to a minority group. Many in the Ninja World were quite discerning. They knew they could not change the overall trend. Rather than hiding among ordinary people and slowly rotting away, it was better to swallow their pride and join the Village of Heaven.
Most who chose to join the Village of Heaven had their own considerations of benefit. Among them, those wanting to become ninjas again constituted the vast majority. Village entry benefits and protection issues were secondary.
"Within ten days, summarize, categorize, and uniformly store all forbidden techniques and secret techniques. I want to review them." A year later, Ryun issued another major task. All the elite ninjas of the Village of Heaven would probably be busy.
"As for ninjutsu like the Five Elements Release techniques, the summarization speed can be slower. First, categorize those practical S rank ninjutsu."
Hearing this, Nagato immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Because Five Elements Release type ninjutsu were the most numerous. The ninjutsu collected by the Village of Heaven, if piled together, would probably fill a ten story building. Moreover, these ninjutsu were all non repetitive. In just ten days, it would truly not be possible to summarize and categorize them all.
Simply picking out S rank ninjutsu was much simpler, because there were not many such powerful ninjutsu, and most were classified in the forbidden technique domain.
Take Lightning Release Chidori and Wind Release Rasenshuriken for example. Both are S rank ninjutsu, but Chidori belongs to normal S rank ninjutsu, while Wind Release Rasenshuriken is classified as a dangerous S rank forbidden technique.
Although ninjutsu rank does not equal ninjutsu power, powerful ninjutsu and forbidden techniques are often high rank.
Ordinary Five Elements Release ninjutsu were completely useless to Ryun. Those high power forbidden techniques were worth him taking a closer look at.
What Ryun needed most now were actually cultivation methods. Because he wanted to create sage arts, he needed to observe a large number of methods. As long as they were internal training secret techniques, he felt it necessary to examine them.
The human body was very complex and profound. To this day, Ryun still could not completely grasp the mysteries of the human body. Suitable cultivation methods for humans to cultivate immortality naturally could not be created casually.
"Many forbidden techniques and secret techniques are still in the verification stage. Those techniques are extremely difficult to master, but according to intelligence reports there have indeed been successful cases. Should we also include them in the summary list?" Nagato asked after pondering for a moment.
"Yes."
Ryun nodded, giving a clear reply.
"All right, I will prioritize this matter. Within ten days, I will organize what you need."
Upon receiving the task, Nagato immediately took action. Ryun, meanwhile, took his son directly into the Kamui dimension.
At this time, the Kamui small world, having absorbed two waves of sacred land spirit energy, had become very rich in natural energy distributed throughout the air.
Every time Ryun breathed, he could absorb large amounts of natural energy. The massive amount of chakra brought by the supreme grade chakra divine fruit had also been deliberately converted by him into the more advanced senjutsu chakra.
After he entered the Kamui small world, little Junlin in swaddling clothes, who had been babbling, instantly quieted down. This environment was not only very suitable for cultivation, but also very suitable for infants to sleep.
Moreover, as little Junlin breathed naturally, the energy permeating the air also naturally entered his body. Staying here for a long time would make his body more spiritual, and his physique would also be enhanced to a certain degree.
Ryun gently placed the sleeping little Junlin on the bed. Just as he was about to withdraw his hand and leave, his sharp eyes immediately saw a long, thin strand of a woman's hair on the bed.
"This is…" Ryun pinched the long hair, his pupils involuntarily constricting.
If his wife saw this thing, he would not be able to clear himself even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
The key point was that there was not just one strand of hair on the bed, and even the colors were not the same. Obviously, the three beautiful Snake Maidens had all slept on the bed during those ten days.
Ryun originally wanted to call his red haired wife into the Kamui dimension to see the spirit herbs and flowers. If she saw that other women had entered the Kamui dimension and slept in her bed, and not just one, would Ryun have any way to survive?
"No, this bed cannot stay."
Ryun decisively picked up the sleeping little Junlin, then directly destroyed the entire bed set. Because it still retained the scent of the Snake Maidens, it could not stay.
"Fortunately, I discovered it in time."
Ryun, having narrowly escaped a disaster, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Afterwards, he went to the village market and bought a brand new, complete set of comfortable bedding and many furniture items.
After placing little Junlin on the bed again, Ryun fished out the remaining red core of the Yin Fruit he had eaten earlier from the Dragon Vein spirit liquid pit.
The core, after soaking in the spirit liquid, had clearly sprouted many roots. Seeing this, Ryun was quite satisfied. He quickly walked to the lakeside and planted the rooted core directly into the soil.
After packing the soil a bit, he took a gourd and poured a little spirit spring water onto the core.
As soon as the spirit spring water seeped into the soil, the core's roots absorbed it, and within moments directly shot out a verdant green sprout.
This immediate effect scene made Ryun marvel. In order to eat the spirit fruit sooner, he did not skimp on the spirit spring water, pouring another few dozen milliliters onto the sprout.
The spirit fruit tree seedling immediately began to grow crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye. In no time, it shot up to half a person's height. Its growth speed was even faster than if it had been injected with adrenaline.
Ryun carefully sensed the seedling's growth and guided the surrounding Tenseigan energy and natural energy mist to help it grow strong.
Seeing that the tree body had begun to independently absorb and release energy, Ryun stopped with satisfaction.
Estimating the time outside, it should be about lunchtime now. Ryun returned to the spirit liquid pit, fished out the spirit stone given to him by Ryuchi Cave, took a gourd of spirit spring water, and returned home.
He placed the spirit stone directly in the central area of the house. A large amount of pure, easily absorbable natural energy instantly spread out, enveloping the entire house.
Sensing a powerful surge of natural energy, the mother in law and daughter in law who were busy in the kitchen were immediately startled.
"This is…"
When they saw the spirit stone, they were equally surprised. They did not expect such a magical spiritual object to exist in the world. The energy contained in one stone could probably rival a tailed beast.
With Ryun placing this thing at home, the natural energy at home would be many times denser than in the sacred lands for a period of time.
"Hmph, let's see which bastard still dares to say my house has thin energy."
Looking at the spirit stone continuously emitting energy, Ryun felt immensely pleased. That beast Black Dragon had said his house was too poor, that breathing there felt uncomfortable. He still remembered that.
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