Uchiha Ling was undoubtedly the biggest winner of this trip to Roran; no one gained more than she did, whether it was hundreds of kilograms of chakra metal or An Lushan's Forbidden Technique, both were enough to make others envious.
An Lushan was dead, the Dragon Veins were sealed, and the benefits had been reaped, so it was time to return, and Minato Namikaze led everyone to Uchiha Ling.
It seemed Naruto and Yamato had returned to their world. In fact, when Uchiha Ling met the Six Paths Sage, she wanted to ask about the Dragon Veins' time-space travel.
But after thinking about it, the Six Paths Sage probably didn't know why; after all, there was also a Six Paths Sage in the parallel world, so why didn't the two Six Paths Sages communicate?
"Uchiha Ling, we're going back. We'll have to trouble you to use the Super Beast Imitating Drawing to take us back. The Third Hokage sent word that Sunagakure is preparing to deploy a Jinchuriki, so we need to hurry back."
Uchiha Ling had already prepared ten Super Beast Imitating Drawing birds. After everyone boarded, she bid farewell to Sara. Without the Dragon Veins' energy support, Roran probably wouldn't be able to sustain itself.
"Queen Sara, if you can't find a place to go, then go to the Land of Rice Fields. There's no war there, and there's a force maintaining stability."
Uchiha Ling thought about it; Sara was a queen after all, so she should have some political ability, which is why she invited her to the Ling's sphere of influence.
Then, ten flying birds soared into the sky, disappearing before Sara, who pondered Uchiha Ling's words. She indeed needed to find a place to resettle her people.
After all, half of Roran was now in ruins, and without the Dragon Veins' energy, living there had lost its meaning. It was better not to stay and eat sand.
Pakura, beside Uchiha Ling, looked a bit dejected. She was wondering if what An Lushan said about her future was true, and it seemed she couldn't return to Sunagakure.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Ling hummed a cheerful tune, her cowlick constantly swaying, forming a stark contrast in their expressions.
Uchiha Ling studied the unsealed Adamantine Bracelet and found that both its Chakra absorption speed and repulsive force strength had greatly increased.
Moreover, it could change size, and when placed on an enemy, it was like the restraint of Sage Art: Gracious Deity Gates, making it incredibly effective against Tailed Beasts, like putting a collar on them.
What Uchiha Ling liked most was that this Adamantine Bracelet connected to an Different Space, similar to the Kamui Dimension; many Different Space existed in the Ninja World.
Uchiha Ling couldn't enter the Adamantine Bracelet's Different Space; she could only retrieve items through Chakra, but living things also seemed to be able to be stored inside.
The interior was a dark space, with nothing present. Uchiha Ling originally wanted to look for any treasures the Six Paths Sage might have stored there previously.
But there was nothing, which made Uchiha Ling greatly complain that the old Six Paths Sage was stingy. She would at most just look and admire; she would never claim them for herself.
The function of retrieving ninja tools was quite useless to Uchiha Ling, as it could only absorb ninja tools not held by the enemy, but it was very useful for dealing with Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique.
Taking out a few scrolls snatched from An Lushan's hands, Uchiha Ling unrolled one and began to read, completely disregarding Pakura, who looked as if her mother had died, beside her.
The first scroll was on puppet manufacturing techniques, containing designs for many powerful puppets and some puppet control skills, which were better than nothing for Uchiha Ling.
For Uchiha Ling, no puppet could withstand one of her punches; if it could, she would punch it twice, and it would definitely be easily smashed.
The second scroll was on the manufacturing method of Human Puppets, analyzing how to store Human Puppet's Chakra and Bloodline Limit, and also researching the principle of Bloodline Limit storage.
It must be said that this Human Puppet technique was indeed very inhumane, and the manufacturing method was extremely bloody and cruel, which could be summarized as the art of "being human."
In any case, Uchiha Ling didn't like this technique, but perhaps she could sell it to the current Sasori of the Red Sand, as this was the complete version from twenty years later, while the current Sasori of the Red Sand's Human Puppet technique was at most a youth version.
The third document was the Rebirth Core Technique, also Sasori of the Red Sand's core technique, a ruthless technique of transforming oneself into a puppet core.
Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension; it certainly had that vibe. The Rebirth Core binds the soul and Chakra, which can be considered an alternative method of achieving longevity. Orochimaru should be very interested.
"Hmm, good idea. I'll sell it to Orochimaru if I get the chance, and have him help me research and perfect Edo Tensei."
Uchiha Ling satisfactorily put away the Rebirth Core Technique, then opened another scroll on Chakra absorption sealing runes. Based on the description, Uchiha Ling found that its Chakra absorption rate was too low.
It wasn't as effective as Wood Release, but Wood Release could also be combined with this Chakra absorption sealing rune, which should further enhance its Chakra absorption ability.
The last one was the technique for manufacturing and controlling millimeter-level puppet particle components, which Uchiha Ling thought was nanotechnology.
However, the size of these basic particle components was much larger than nanoscale. Although called particles, their actual structure was a regular triangular pyramid.
However, two of its four faces had mortise and tenon joints, respectively concave and convex, which, when assembled, would be extremely stable. Coupled with a massive Chakra flow, they could deform arbitrarily.
The material used to manufacture these basic components also greatly affected the defense of the resulting puppets. Although An Lushan had abundant resources, he still used ordinary metal mixed with less than one-thousandth of chakra metal.
This ratio could not adequately guarantee its metallic properties; it was too fragile, but Uchiha Ling also did not have a better alloy formula.
Currently, Uchiha Ling had no time to research and tinker with these things; she would hand them all over to the Ling to research, although the Ling was already very busy researching Wood Release ripening techniques.
Speaking of spoils of war, Uchiha Ling hadn't yet looked at the scrolls borrowed from the Grass Ninja Village, mainly because Uchiha Ling was too busy, and she subconsciously felt that the Grass Ninja Village didn't have anything good.
However, when Uchiha Ling opened the various secret Ninjutsu of the Grass Ninja Village, she still gained some insights. Among them, the more useful ones were the Grass Ninja Village's series of Fire Release Ninjutsu similar to Sealing Technique: Fire Release: Heavenly Prison.
Among them, Great Fire Heavenly Prison and Heavenly Prison Fire Sword were both good Fire Release Ninjutsu, one for sealing enemy Chakra and the other for attacking enemies.
There were also various other Ninjutsu like Grass Shadow Style: Explosive Palm and Fire Release: Hozuki Lantern, whose power was just mediocre.
The most valuable was probably a research document on the four emotional energies—joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure—of the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which greatly helped Uchiha Ling in her research into the essence of Chakra.
Uchiha Ling had now collected Eight-Tails' cells and Chakra, some diluted Chakra of the Nine-Tailed, and parts of the Ten-Tails' shell, the Gedo Statue's cellular tissue. If nothing unexpected happened, she would soon obtain Ichibi's Chakra and cells.
If Uchiha Ling used Shinno's technique to create the Zero-Tails, combined with the cells and Chakra of the Nine Tailed Beasts, plus God Tree tissue and Six Paths Power, she might even be able to create a Ten-Tails herself.
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