Ninja Ice House

Chapter 566 Use it or lose it

Logically speaking, the types of people and things that appear in a normal person's dream are determined by the person "dreaming".

Humans cannot imagine things they do not know or understand.

Take, for example, Jiraiya's "Icha Icha Paradise" series. It contains many fallacies and is filled with a lot of self-righteous plots, which can only attract people like Kakashi Hatake to watch it, or young people who are curious but do not have much experience.

Those who have actually been through it all, upon seeing the ambiguous and exaggerated descriptions, will naturally realize that the author actually has little experience, and thus will not pay much attention to this book.

Based on the feedback from our initial contact, this doesn't seem to be a particularly large dream space, but the amount of information it contains is astonishing.

The information provided by Jiraiya alone is absolutely insufficient to cover the costs.

"The performance of Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Itachi just now was too agile. Judging this dream space by the difficulty of a dream alone will definitely cause big problems."

The people and events in the dream space are basically built on Jiraiya's memories and wishes, forming a logically consistent and normally functioning virtual world. Information alone is not enough; there must also be its own logic and rules for existence.

And these should have been built according to Jiraiya's common sense.

For example, apples fall from trees, water flows downhill, oil is lighter than water and floats on the surface, fish swim in the water, birds fly in the sky, and horses run on the ground—these cannot be confused.

According to a normal person's understanding, even a powerful figure like Jiraiya could not possibly create a virtual world that is indistinguishable from reality entirely through his own imagination.

When Yakumo Kurama cast his terrifying illusions in his early days, most of the area was pitch black; Obito Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan's Kamui dimension was just a dark forest of stone pillars with nothing else; Kaguya Otsutsuki's Rinne Sharingan at its peak possessed the special ability of Amenominaka, which allowed her to create six dimensions, including the Origin Sphere dimension, such as lava, ice, supergravity, sand, and acid.

Such a simple spatial environment suggests that Kaguya Otsutsuki was unable to construct a complete world.

Yes and no!

Simply saying she lacks ability is incorrect; the "Goddess of the Rabbit" has virtually unlimited chakra, so there's no question of her having an inability to reach a certain level of power. The reason she doesn't is because her level of understanding is insufficient to fully simulate and create a realistic, well-regulated, and living world.

Even the legendary "Goddess of the Rabbit" couldn't do it, so the heavily injured Jiraiya was even less capable of doing it.

After learning the details and specific plans, Nara Shikamaru had anticipated and prepared for the potential difficulties, but reality proved to be more complicated than he had imagined.

This is like originally intending to play a large-scale online Bomberman game with a dozen or so players, but unexpectedly it turned into a hyper-realistic simulation of PUBG with a total of 999 participants. It's completely different from the other game.

Just then, as everyone was whispering and discussing their opinions remotely, Nara Shikamaru suddenly spoke up:

"The command headquarters has given orders to continue the operation, but not to act rashly. First, gather intelligence carefully and avoid attracting too much attention."

In the original plan, the omnipresent covert reconnaissance and security forces were supposed to be merely background figures, without any real interference.

Now, it's hard to say.

The actions of a large number of "virtual humans" are unpredictable and they do not necessarily act according to their real-world roles and personalities.

Just now, Nara Shikamaru saw his teacher, Sarutobi Asuma. Apart from being excessively young and having a less thick beard, he looked almost exactly the same as he would have been more than ten years later.

However, Sarutobi Asuma in the dream world has a very different temperament compared to him in reality. He looks more energetic and clean on the surface, but he hides a frivolousness that makes him look like the Third Hokage, or perhaps he has been influenced by Jiraiya or Ebisu.

It is obvious that the things and people here are "modified" based on real-world models. The root cause of these distortions lies mainly in Jiraiya's personal perception. In other words, Jiraiya felt that Sarutobi Asuma's child, despite his young age, was precocious and rebellious, which was only a facade. He believed that he must have "inherited" his father Sarutobi Hiruzen's temperament.

These "prejudices" stemming from Jiraiya's own heart are the key to how unique this world is. As for whether other factors are at play, it remains to be seen.

It's hard to say whether it's a characteristic of Jiraiya's own dreams, a mutation caused by combining with Yakumo Kurama's genjutsu-type bloodline limit, or both.

While those who had entered the dream space were still cautiously gathering information, Kurama Yakumo, whose chakra consumption had greatly increased, was discussing something with Karin, who was in charge of the overall situation, with a slightly worried but not particularly concerned expression. Suddenly, Usami, a girl who was standing to the side with her arms crossed, leaning against the steps, carrying two swords on her back, opened her eyes. Her previously tired and sleepy eyes brightened, and she said:

"Caused by excessive healing on a spiritual level..."

"Sure?"

"Nine times out of ten!"

Having received accurate information from Izumi Uchiha, Usami answered with absolute certainty.

The special auxiliary Mangekyou Sharingan technique, Tenyu Tsumei, is indeed quite powerful in terms of perception. In this respect, Karin can only get a little bit of vague hints from her father, Kosugi Bokusui.

Kurama Yakumo, seemingly resting with her eyes closed, yet also appearing to be confirming something, frowned slightly, then sighed softly and said:

"That's true. We're still too unfamiliar with manipulating the mental and spiritual levels. Even with my use of terrifying illusions and illusionary life control to steer, accidents still happen. To put it bluntly, we didn't take any coercive measures or aggressive tactics. First, Lady Tsunade wouldn't agree, and second, it might cause more problems and make it difficult to turn back."

In contrast, conservative "therapies" are more suitable for those who do not have any fatal injuries but have a severe spiritual deficiency and need to be restored from the level of the soul.

The three discussed the matter for a while, roughly confirmed the situation, and then reported their conclusions to Tsunade, awaiting further orders.

Excessive healing on human skin manifests as scarring. When a wound becomes severe enough, this "filler," which is tougher than the original tissue, can be very difficult to restore to its original state.

Another more obvious and common phenomenon is that the skin on the hands and feet will thicken, form calluses, or even keratinize in areas that are rubbed for a long time. After hardening, the skin becomes particularly resistant, which is the same principle as the "over-recovery" and compensatory strengthening of scars. It has a sense of "use it or lose it" under special conditions.