Nagato carrying rice in Konoha

"Isn't this difficult??" Nagato began to seriously consider Slug's request, "Can't others see that I learned the magic in Shigu Forest?"

After all, he has now transformed into a slug. The other two immortals in the Holy Land should be able to tell it at a glance, right?

"Ah, you are indeed a big trouble!!!"

Perhaps thinking of this, Slug let out a somewhat frantic exclamation.

At this time, another slug split, carrying a package, crawled over.

The smell of food emanated from the package, and there should be a lot of food inside.

Nagato, who was very hungry, suddenly felt that the little slug looked very cute.

He touched the slug's head, and the slug responded by puffing up its mouth, pretending to spray sour water on his face.

Haha, that's not cute at all. I take back what I just said!

Nagato took the package off of it, looked at the contents, and found that it contained a lot of bread, meat, and vegetables.

There are quite a variety of varieties, but they are all raw... How do you eat them? ?

"Can you cook?" Nagato asked the slug on his shoulder.

As for the slug that brought the food, when he took the food away, he got into the ground and disappeared.

"How do you want me to cook?!!!"

The slug reacted very strongly. It raised its tentacles, which were less than ten centimeters long. The soft body of the slug bounced up on Nagato's shoulder and jumped a little, indicating that it was just a slug.

"Sure enough, the only thing we can eat in the end is bread..."

Nagato, who was very hungry, reluctantly picked up the bread and stuffed it into his mouth.

Although with his current body, there shouldn't be any problem even if he eats raw meat and lettuce, he doesn't want to expand his diet to that extent yet.

"How can I reach the advanced stage of Immortal Mode?"

While chewing bread, Nagato asked vaguely.

At this time, he was sitting near the black pool, surrounded by human and animal bones faintly visible in the moonlight, but obviously, these things could not affect his appetite at all.

The experience of growing up during the war made Nagato extremely receptive to all kinds of corpses.

"Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to achieve."

Because his mouth was full of food, Nagato's voice sounded very vague, but for the slug, it seemed to be very easy to figure out the content of Nagato's words, "This world has reached a true immortal state. , there are only three immortals in the Holy Land."

Having said this, Slug paused for a while, then added in a low voice with a thoughtful tone: "In your words, it is not impossible..."

"What?" Nagato, who was concentrating on eating bread, didn't hear clearly for a moment.

"It's nothing, you will naturally know it by then." Slug explained.

It should be because of personality, right?This worm always speaks hesitantly?

Nagato tilted his head, glanced at the slug on his shoulder, and commented in his heart.

After eating a few pieces of bread, the hunger in his stomach eased. Nagato thought of another question and asked casually.

"Then are there any immortals more powerful than you?"

The immortals of the three holy places should be the top beings in the world in terms of natural energy, right?Nagato just wanted to confirm this idea.

"Have."

Unexpectedly, the little slug gave Nagato an unexpected answer.

"Who?"

Is there any hidden boss in this world?

"You've seen it before, right? After all, you have the Samsara Eye and have collected so many tailed beasts..."

For some reason, Slug's tone seemed to be a little sad, as if he was expressing something.

Nagato blinked silently.

Gradually, the slug began to convey contempt to him again.

Nagato understands this emotion very well, and it can be summed up in just five words - "stupid human beings".

"Oh—you mean it."

After recalling in his mind all the things he had seen related to natural energy, Nagato immediately found the answer, nodded, and agreed with Slug's words.

"Compared to that thing, you three are really just little ones."

"Hey..." the little slug sighed, not caring about Nagato's "Xiao Xie" comments, "Your human desires are really terrible."

It looked like a philosophical worm under the moonlight, Nagato couldn't help but said sarcastically.

"It's normal to have desires. If everyone is a homebody like you, then the world will really be over."

"Hmph~~!" The little slug snorted disdainfully and twisted its body proudly on Nagato's shoulder, as if to say, what's wrong with being like this?

"Speaking of which, I just had a dream, and it has something to do with that thing."

Nagato recalled the content of the dream and thought about what part he could tell the insect.

"Dream? What dream?"

The slug immediately asked curiously. To it, everything that happened to Nagato was a typical case of what would happen when humans learn its magical skills.

"I dreamed of the sacred tree."

Nagato said seriously.

Although I have considered whether to reveal the name of the sacred tree.But except for the word "sacred tree", he couldn't think of any words to describe the big tree.

With Slug's knowledge, when he described the tree, he would naturally know what kind of tree it was. He might as well be more open-minded.

"God, tree??" Slug repeated the word word by word.

"Yes, that's the tree that grew the Chakra Fruit."

Slug nodded: "I see... This is normal... right?"

The word "ba" is also dragged out long enough, giving the impression that it has no sincerity at all.

Nagato laughed a little annoyed.

"You only need to use natural energy to explore the underground of Shiggy Bone Forest. You can explore as deep and as far as possible. You should be able to do it now."

Slug ignored Nagato's attitude and spoke confidently, as if Nagato only needed to do this to fully understand.

Although Nagato's perception range is based on the country's chakra perception ability, there is no chakra underground for him to perceive.So if he wanted to explore the underground, he could only rely on his Byakugan and natural energy.

As for Byakugan's farsightedness, even if his insight is based on axioms, it is still a bit "insufficient" when used in the vast underground world of Shiggy Bone Forest.

Therefore, he must rely on natural energy.

Nagato put his hands on the ground, squatted down, and followed Slug's request to check the situation underground.

The first thing I saw was naturally the extremely eye-catching, huge and chubby body of Immortal Slug.

Perhaps sensing Nagato's gaze, the big bug's body made a rare twist, as if it was greeting him in this way...

After completely ignoring this house bug, Nagato began to do his best to explore deeper and further.

Gradually, the expression on his face became stunned.

"How's it going? Do you understand?" The little slug on his shoulder was a little proud.

"Could it be..." Nagato took a breath of air and compared the situation in this land with the tree roots in his dream.

"That's right!" The little slug announced loudly, "This is the place where the sacred tree first grew!"

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Just write the content that has nothing to do with the plot here, so it doesn’t take up the word count.

The reason why Nagato understood it was because he thought that Orochimaru gave the curse seal the same method used by the White Snake Sage to give natural energy.

They all stretched their necks and used their teeth to inject energy into the "practitioner".

And Orochimaru even said directly when Sasuke and Jugo used Senjutsu Susana that the power of the curse seal was the power of Senjutsu.

Therefore, the so-called immortal magic in Miaomu Mountain and Longdi Cave is just another form of "curse seal".

Because of this.

[-]: The natural energy that was originally "harmless" to Toad Immortal, White Snake Immortal, and Chongwu will have a fatal effect on the person who has been imprinted with the curse.

Two: Moreover, since "practitioners" absorb natural energy through curse seals instead of relying on their own abilities, this strange phenomenon occurs. Naruto cannot sense natural energy unless he enters sage mode. picture. ——In order for Naruto to sense the infinite natural energy of the Ten-Tails, he needs to enter Sage Mode first.

Jugo can talk to birds through natural energy, something that is impossible for Naruto.

Three: Precisely because they all rely on curse seals to enter the sage mode, the same natural energy will turn into completely different energy after entering Kabuto or Naruto's body.Just like Curse Seal One, Curse Seal Two.

Four: Since the immortal magic of Miaomu Mountain and Ryūchi Cave are similar to curse seals, practitioners must resist the phenomenon of "toad transformation" or "snake transformation", just like people who have been cursed by Orochimaru. , must resist the discrimination of the curse seal.

Not enough words, continue in the next chapter