Ninja Ice House

Chapter 598 Tree

Once this pulling force exceeds the inward gravitational force and crosses the Roche limit, all objects will move towards the center of the planet.

However, this is still too slow. It must be said that Konoha Village in this era has already achieved a high level of expertise in barrier techniques.

"This... won't do!"

Looking at Kushina Uzumaki, who was still eager to try, Minato Namikaze, who was hiding in the shadows and preparing to launch a sneak attack, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been subdued after his chakra was drained.

It wasn't that they were powerless to fight back, but rather that they were too unfamiliar with the power of the Rinnegan. Meanwhile, Kosugi Shaodu was seriously targeting their weaknesses, and although he didn't kill them, he didn't hold back either.

As the planetary exploding star raged, most of the Konoha ninjas focused on countering the changes in the force field and did not notice that Kosugi Bosui was rising higher and higher. The originally bright sky had turned into night at some point, and the stars were barely visible, but a huge blood moon hung above Kosugi Bosui's head.

Immediately afterwards, the Rinne Sharingan in Kosugi Bokusui's eyes began to emit a huge light, reflecting off the blood moon and gradually merging into one in the sight of the people below.

The radiance of Infinite Tsukuyomi spread throughout the entire world.

"what?"

Only then did Gu Shanbu Shui have the leisure to observe what this illusory world created by the Great Dream Realm was all about.

This strange world is not "flat", but a spatial network structure.

The subspaces of the three sacred lands of spirit beasts exist, but they are merely symbolic. Everything within them does not flow with time, as if waiting for the "creator" to perfect them.

Even the channels for communicating with spirits in different dimensions are illusory.

The Land of Fire remained relatively intact, but the rest of the continent was shrouded in a pervasive fog, which seemed to be caused by Jiraiya's own cognitive impairment.

Aside from the interior of Konoha Village, the details about other parts of the Land of Fire are not so comprehensive.

In other words, Jiraiya's perfect dream was basically limited to a few key and memorable scenes within Konoha Village and the Land of Fire. Whether the rest were perfected by himself or completed with the help of the ninja world is still uncertain.

Of course, these are all trivial matters. It's not surprising that a newly created world is full of loopholes. If it were perfect, Gu Shan Shaodu would run away immediately. Who knows, there might be some catastrophic monsters hiding here, waiting to deliver "breakfast and dessert" to their doorstep.

After the young governor ate the fruit of the divine tree, he became incomparably powerful. He couldn't let other powerful guys swallow him as a "tonic pill".

After most of the Konoha ninjas were controlled by the Infinite Tsukuyomi and lost their ability to move, Kosugi Bokusui used the Advent of the Divine Tree to clear the field. Then he saw that through the illusory appearance of this world, its core was actually a seed that had already sprouted.

From the perspective of Kosugi Bokusui, in the spirit world, Jiraiya's deeper spiritual body is like a companion of a mild frog transformation, with tiny, tender sprouts emerging from his back and shoulders. The tips of these sprouts resemble slightly curved snake necks and heads flicking their tongues, which is quite unusual.

Bulbasaur?

This doesn't seem like it at all; it looks more like an unfortunate creature parasitized by plants.

"What Bulbasaur? This is a chimera of different spirits. When the Otsutsuki clan descended, it actively integrated into the native ecological cycle, reduced the chance of being rejected, quickly established its ecological niche, and then spread upstream and downstream to complete its control over the world."

Internal infiltration is far faster than direct, forceful invasion, especially on emerging life-bearing planets that have few weaknesses and are quite powerful.

The Otsutsuki clan is a twin-like entity deeply integrated and symbiotic with the Ten-Tails... or rather, the Divine Tree, but this does not mean that every member of the clan has the same form.

Kaguya Otsutsuki's complete form in the ninja world was the monstrous appearance of the Ten-Tails, a long-haired rabbit. When Furusugi Bokusui revealed his battle stance, he appeared in a completely different form.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Jiraiya is no longer human in terms of his spirit and soul. Rather, it means that this is his conceptual incarnation in this dream space that is forcibly nested, closely fixed, and locked.

Leaving aside the specific symbolic meaning, judging from this appearance, while Jiraiya was deeply bound to the giant toad of Mount Myōboku, he was also simultaneously seeking help from other beings of the same level to enrich his ninjutsu and combat methods, so as not to be completely controlled by those who were different.

Just like when Kosugi Bokusui thought that when Karin and Kurama Yakumo were carrying out the task of awakening Jiraiya, something unusual was very likely to happen, but the result... went so smoothly that it was almost unbelievable.

"Don't think that just because you give that technique a rustic name like 'Snake Shedding Technique,' it's actually something like a snake shedding its skin. I think 'Silkworm Shedding Technique' would be a more fitting name..."

"No, no, no, this is a biological concept. Complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis are not the same!"

The process of metamorphosis, which involves going through four stages—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—transforming from one form to a completely different form, is called complete metamorphosis. This process can be further divided into complex metamorphosis and standard complete metamorphosis. There are many types of incomplete metamorphosis, such as gradual metamorphosis, acrometamorphosis, hemimetamorphosis, and protometamorphosis. There is also a relatively special type of incomplete metamorphosis or epimetamorphosis, which is very rare.

Snakes are not metamorphic organisms, but rather organisms that develop directly. Shedding their skin is merely a way to remove old, dead skin and remove growth restrictions; it does not involve any fundamental change.

Therefore, Kaguya Otsutsuki said that the naming of Kosugi Bokusui was wrong and that she was deliberately misleading others.

This technique doesn't manifest itself very obviously in ordinary ninjas, or rather, the "abnormal" changes to their bodies and souls are extremely subtle and have almost no effect. But in Jiraiya's case, the effect was too exaggerated.

Of course, Jiraiya's current state is the result of distortion in the dream space, and it is not outwardly apparent. Most of the mutations will weaken or be hidden in the future, and it is even possible that after several generations of coordinated evolution, it will become a bloodline characteristic similar to a secret technique physique or a bloodline limit.

As the two were talking, Kosugi Bokusui raised his hand, and something emitting a strange glow emerged from Jiraiya's body and appeared in his palm.

"This... seems to be a tree species. What is it? A divine tree or something?"

“You can call it the ‘World Tree,’ but it’s not the same as the top-tier treasures you’re thinking of. It’s an infinite information-gathering entity, and it does have miraculous effects after it matures…”

Kaguya Otsutsuki looked at the tree seed she had obtained from Jiraiya's dream space in Furusugi Bokusui's hand with a complicated expression, and explained earnestly,

"The conditions for this thing to be born are quite complicated. It usually appears in worlds where the rules of life and death are incomplete and there are too many immortal beings..."