Ninja Ice House

Chapter 561 Preoperative

In a world where supernatural powers are manifested, the value between people is different to "gods".

In some fantasy novels from my past life, there were always some apostles, followers, ascetics, fanatics, believers, shallow believers, and no believers.

The ninja world isn't that complicated. The so-called "gods" created by the combination of the Otsutsuki clan's power and the natural energy of the ninja world don't have a strong need for faith in intelligent life. However, the value comparison between the soul of a super-strong person and the soul of an ordinary person is as immeasurable as heaven and earth.

This is similar to banks attracting deposits. By winning over a high-net-worth client or persuading a large enterprise with thousands of employees to transfer its payroll services, a local branch can basically guarantee that it will meet its annual performance targets.

Managing small clients with deposits of a few thousand or tens of thousands is not only costly, but also doesn't generate much profit. Serving large clients well is the most important task.

The same principle applies to acquiring the soul power of the ninja world. The soul of one of the "Five Kage" or a similarly powerful figure, if properly collected and fully utilized, is more valuable than the souls of countless ordinary people.

The "Snake Shedding Technique" is actually a precise means of distinguishing ninjas who have reached a certain threshold. Being able to master it means that one's aptitude, potential, and strength have all reached a certain level, making it worthwhile to treat it with care and to do proper "pre-processing" in advance. This is obviously more efficient.

However, whether it is necessary to further lower the threshold for the "snake shedding technique" is another matter, but such a expenditure would be somewhat counterproductive.

Just like a commercial bank providing premium VIP services to every ordinary customer, regardless of whether it's too busy or not, it's completely unnecessary and would greatly reduce efficiency.

This "snake molting technique" combines the functions of thresholding and classification preprocessing, which is quite good.

"Snake Shedding Technique" is just a facade. While it can provide some deep healing effects for ordinary ninjas, it is not a medical ninjutsu based on Yang Release, but rather a genuine Yin-Yang Release technique.

As for the powerful auxiliary ninjutsu, the Illusionary Body Technique, without the Sharingan to adjust it, neither Kurama Yakumo nor Karin could maintain the "Great Dream Realm," a theoretically forbidden technique that is practically impossible, and they also had to take into account the materialization of other people's chakra thought conversion bodies.

When the feasibility of ninjutsu rises to the level of a system engineering project, even the Rinnegan cannot complete it independently. It requires many, many ninjas to form separate modular systems, which are then combined into the desired form.

In theory, Kurama Yakumo's genjutsu-type bloodline limit is omnipotent and can handle everything, but her strength is completely insufficient. She can only barely maintain the "framework" by borrowing the power of others to fill it in and implanting various secret techniques with specific functions. This allows her to pull Jiraiya's dream from the illusory space into the real world and project it out, making it a semi-physical entity so that ninjas from the outside world can enter it and make real interference.

Such is often the case in the ninja world: there is a great gap between expectations and reality. For example, the theoretically strongest bloodline limit, Wood Release, can only be brought to its full potential in the hands of Hashirama Senju; others are always far behind.

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Because of the tight schedule, the higher-ups in Konoha Village have been particularly busy lately, especially Tsunade. She hasn't even had time to sneak in a few drinks now and then, which makes Shizune, who always tries to persuade her boss to focus more on work, feel a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, my work efficiency was extremely high during this period. Even though the workload increased significantly, I was still able to finish my work ahead of schedule and then have the rare opportunity to go out and chat with a few women of my age.

Mitarashi Anko and Yuhi Kurenai are old friends of many years, which goes without saying. Shizune is also quite familiar with the two of them because of her status. They used to keep in touch frequently in the early years. Later, they had their own things to do, and Shizune followed Tsunade away from the village to travel, so they had fewer interactions for a few years, but they still wrote letters frequently.

After a few sips of sake, the three of them started chatting, just like always, about everything under the sun.

"Hey, Shizune, do you think the Fifth Hokage has feelings for Jiraiya-sama? Or is he still hung up on his deceased lover? Jiraiya-sama has made it pretty clear, so why is there still no result?"

"You're being too direct, Red Bean..."

Shizune smiled wryly, feeling helpless and embarrassed. Even behind Tsunade's back, she didn't dare to say anything bad about her.

As for the two people in front of her, Hongdou seemed carefree and unkempt, but when it came to dirty jokes, she got really into it, and no one knew where she heard those raunchy words.

Despite being a stunningly beautiful female ninja with striking features, Kurenai Yuhi doesn't talk much about these things and seems quite indifferent to topics related to men and women.

After hesitating for a moment, Jingyin lowered her voice and, unusually, revealed a hint of gossip in her expression, saying:

"From my observation and speculation, Lady Tsunade probably hasn't forgotten her ex-boyfriend, but it's unlikely she's rejecting other opportunities because of it. The problem lies with Jiraiya; his pursuit is too obvious, scaring everyone else away. Lady Tsunade is helpless; it's good to have fewer people bothering her, but..."

"But what?"

"By the standards of a partner, Jiraiya-sama is really disgusting..."

As she spoke, Shizune secretly revealed an expression of unbearable discomfort, then quietly glanced around. Seeing that no one was watching, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Let alone my uncle Kato Dan, he doesn't even meet the normal standards of a good ninja. Every time he goes to the village, he's either spying on the bathroom or drinking with prostitutes. How can anyone bring themselves to do that?"

"It's true!"

Mitarashi Anko and Yuhi Kurenai exchanged a glance, then nodded in agreement.

"Especially, there are other obvious comparisons, such as that one from the Gushan family, who is truly a refined and elegant young nobleman..."

"Hmm? Could it be... that Lady Tsunade also thinks Furusugi Tokusui is very good?"

"Eh?"

Kurenai Yuhi, who was usually not particularly sensitive to the topic and would only occasionally chime in while leisurely drinking, suddenly asked this question, which startled Shizune.

"You... what do you want to ask about? No way, how could that be? He's already married with several children. No one would have designs on a married man, right?"

Kurenai Yuhi didn't answer the uncertain question. She gently shook her head, swirled her wine glass, and drank it all in one gulp.

Mitarashi Anko, standing nearby, chuckled.

"There's no rule that says you can't like someone who has a wife, right? Take the Inuzuka family, for example. As long as our young master Furusugi nods his head, he'd be eager to offer himself up immediately, and his family would be eager to get involved."