Naruto: The villain template of me is regarded as the savior.

"You want the boss to have a baby with you?!"

Yahiko opened his mouth, unable to believe his ears.

What does it mean to nurture the next generation?

Even Yahiko, who knew nothing about gender, knew the meaning of the five words "giving birth to the next generation."

Doesn't that mean mating... ahem, having children?

But the eldest brother only looks to be in his teens, right?

This elder sister shrine maiden whom I just met, although she has a delicate appearance and elegant temperament, she must be at least in her twenties, right?

Isn't this some...

"Unruly meow!"

Yahiko, who was hesitant to speak, deflated like a balloon that had been punctured, and then his face twitched slightly as he looked in the direction where the sound came from.

Is the word "unruly" a bit too much?

He just wanted to say "shameless".

Jiyun, who was originally dozing off in Yunchuan's arms, suddenly stood up, staring at the woman in the red and white shrine maiden costume with her heterochromatic eyes.

The silky black hair was slightly puffed up, and the habit of speaking that was suppressed in front of outsiders could no longer be suppressed.

Being stared at with astonishment by Yahiko, Jiyun also realized his own gaffe, but his ears were still pressed back, and his cat pupils were wide open and full of hostility as he asked, "Is this how all 'shrine maidens' court a mate?"

Even Yunchuan was stunned when he heard Maitreya's words. He only came to his senses when he heard Jiyun's angry breathing.

"Cough cough."

Knowing that this was the cat's natural "territorial consciousness", or "possessiveness" and "food protection" instinct, Yunchuan touched the black cat's tail that was wagging in dissatisfaction and coughed lightly, "Mister Miko, that shouldn't be what you meant, right?"

Miroku's smile was still gentle, but his delicate face was rarely flushed. He explained, "It's not what you think. In fact, priestesses don't need to give birth."

"Or in other words, every generation of witches is fatherless."

Upon hearing this, Yahiko with a weird look in his eyes and Jiyun with angry face were both stunned.

Yunchuan wasn't too surprised, but asked curiously, "So what do you mean by asking me to help you 'give birth to offspring'?"

Maitreya did not rush to answer his question. He stretched out his hands from his wide sleeves and raised them in front of him with his palms facing up.

The next moment, the bright light around her became dim, and a dark purple aura gradually emerged.

The originally solemn and cold Hall of Heroes was tinged with a faint gloomy feeling, and even Yahiko shuddered subconsciously.

"This is……"

Looking at the misty black and purple energy on Maitreya's left hand, Yunchuan felt something familiar, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Zero Tail? 'Dark Chakra'?

No, it's purer and more manic than Zero Tail's 'Dark Chakra'.

If you look closely, it looks like a spooky ghostly aura, forming a vague ghost face.

It was as if one could hear the roar of a monster, filled with greed, evil, resentment, and anger...

The longer you stare at the strange purple mist, the more obvious the roar will become, causing you to have evil thoughts of killing and destruction.

Obviously, this strange purple mist can affect human will and induce evil thoughts and malice in people's hearts.

However, for Yunchuan, it was not enough to affect his mind.

"This is part of the monster 'Wangliang'."

I don’t know if it was the influence of that strange aura, but Miroku’s gentle smile faded a little: “You don’t seem surprised, I guess you know something about ‘monsters’.”

"In that case, can you see the nature of this power?"

Hearing this, Yunchuan narrowed his eyes, the light flickered, and he said thoughtfully: "I have indeed studied things similar to the monsters you mentioned... However, the 'evil thoughts' of your monster seem to be too pure."

"Zero Tail" is a chakra creation similar to the tailed beasts, composed purely of "dark chakra", and "dark chakra" is a combination of "chakra", "vitality" and "negative emotions".

Shennong has now become the Jinchūriki of "Zero Tail". With the almost infinite vitality after becoming a "demon", he no longer needs to restore the power of "Zero Tail" by draining the lives of thousands of people as he did before.

However, the so-called "negative emotions", or in other words, the so-called "evil thoughts" and "desires", still need to be slowly absorbed and stored.

However, there are now two thousand "ghosts", and there are hundreds of "ghosts" subordinate to Shennong.

"Ghosts" undoubtedly have the most negative emotions, and they can all be connected to Shennong through "blood".

They can all provide "negative emotions" to Zero Tail, and the person being absorbed will not suffer any adverse effects. Instead, it will be beneficial to the stability of his own mental state.

The monster "Wangliang" should be similar to "Zero Tail", and their power comes from the "evil thoughts" in the human heart.

Be it "Yintun Chakra" or "negative emotions", human emotions are very complicated things, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of people gathered together.

Compared with the chaotic aura of "Zero Tail", the power of "Wangliang" seems too pure.

"It's just like..." Yunchuan touched his chin and said with interest, "The 'evil' cut out from a person."

Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed across Maitreya's eyes, and then he looked deeply at Yunchuan and stretched out his other right hand.

The next moment, pink and white mist rose from the palm of his hand, dispelling the cold chill around him.

One hand is filled with pink and white mist, the other hand is filled with black and purple mist, a perfect balance...

"Is this the power of the witch?" Yunchuan said with a surprised expression, "It's as pure as the aura of the monsters, but..."

The essences displayed by the two are completely opposite.

If the power of monsters is like all the dark and filthy parts of human heart.

The power of the witch is to give people a feeling of supremacy, purity and inviolability.

Comfort, tranquility, nature, stability...

"You are right." Miroku sighed softly, "The witch and the demon are opposites, because we are two sides of the same coin."

"In other words, the ghosts are the dark side that has been stripped away by successive generations of witches."

Hearing this, Yunchuan couldn't help but narrow his eyes, remembering Shennong's extremely horrified expression when he first saw his "evil thoughts".

If Shennong knew that the "dark side" of the witch was strong enough to create a "monster", I wonder what expression he would have.

"But is it really okay to forcibly remove your dark side?" Yunchuan asked curiously.

The dark side is a weird thing that actually exists in everyone, and he knows about it.

In the original work, in order to learn how to control the power of the tailed beasts, Naruto, Might Guy, and Yamashiro Aoba went to Turtle Island to practice.

There is a temple on Turtle Island. Inside the temple is a special waterfall called the "Real Waterfall". That waterfall can reflect a person's dark side.

When Naruto stood in front of the waterfall, his dark side emerged, reflecting Naruto's inner inferiority and his past experience of being bullied and excluded by villagers because of his status as a Jinchūriki.

However, Yunchuan did not expect that the priestess could actually peel off her "dark side", and it was a "dark side" that was enough to become a "monster".

"We have no choice."

Maitreya shook his head and said calmly: "This is the inheritance of the 'Wu' and also the fate of the 'Wu'. Just like the three holy places, if you want to gain power, you have to pay a price."

"In the distant ancient times, when chakra did not exist, people lacked the mastery and understanding of nature and could not understand natural disasters and phenomena such as lightning, thunder, solar and lunar eclipses, landslides and floods."

“So, we attributed it all to the manipulation of gods, and began to revere nature and believe that all things have spirits.”

“From this, the worship of nature and primitive witchcraft were derived, hoping to master the power to control nature through certain rituals and methods.”

"Later, due to its extremely harsh training conditions and the spread of chakra to a more popular level, this power that humans called witchcraft gradually disappeared."

Yunchuan had heard of the existence of "witches" in his previous life, and they were somewhat similar to the "witches" mentioned by Maitreya.

A witch is a sorcerer, a woman who can do things without form and summon spirits by dancing. She looks like a dancing person with two legs apart, just like a craftsman. In ancient times, Wu Xian was the first to become a witch, and all those who were related to witches followed her.

However, the "witches" in previous lives were merely natural leaders respected by the ancients, whose power was based on their knowledge of nature, creative contributions to production technology, and noble character that benefited the entire people.

The actual ability is to master astronomy and calendar, knowledge of meteorological laws, geographical knowledge, tool measurement, construction technology, medicine, divination, etc. to guide the production and life of the ethnic group.

And in this world where there is a force called "natural energy"...

The power of witches is really able to connect heaven and earth, master the laws of the movement of the sun, moon and stars, mobilize the "power of ghosts and gods" to eliminate disasters and bring blessings to people, summon gods, interpret dreams, predict, pray for rain, heal diseases, and read astrology...

The so-called "power of ghosts and gods" is the power of this world, which is also called "natural energy."

"In other words, the power inherited by the witch is the 'immortal art' that belongs to humans?"

After hearing Miroku's explanation, Yunchuan's eyes sparkled brightly.

It is also a way of utilizing natural energy. Like the Sage Mode of the three holy places, it is undoubtedly also a kind of "Sage Art".

"..." Maitreya was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Whether it's magic or witchcraft, do you think that humans who have lost their 'evil thoughts' are still human beings?"

In mythology, there are legends about the power of wishes of all living beings.

It is a kind of power generated by the emotional fluctuations of sentient beings who yearn for a better life, and it contains the purest blessings.

A witch, through the human's belief in himself, gathers the "willpower" of all living beings into himself, thereby mobilizing the power of heaven and earth.

"But if you want to gain power, you have to pay a price."

Maitreya spoke slowly, his tone complicated: "To use the power of witches, you need to accept people's faith and respect, and use the witch's inherited ability to absorb the 'will power' of all living beings."

"But if one does not have enough determination to maintain one's self while accepting worship, one will be assimilated into the way the believers want one to be, or even have one's mind polluted by the believers' evil thoughts."

"In order to avoid such consequences to the greatest extent possible, the ghosts were separated by successive generations of witches to bear the evil thoughts of the alien body, and the remaining sentient beings' will is the pure spiritual power that can be absorbed and digested."

This is a method of using "natural energy" that is unique to "witches".

However, after the Six Paths Sage founded the "Ninja Sect" and sowed the seeds of chakra, the "witches" with harsh training conditions gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Today, only the lineage of the witches from the Land of Demons remains.

"Interesting." Yunchuan said to himself, "But it seems that the flaws of the 'Witch' magic are obvious. The evil thoughts in the will must be eliminated, and there must be a sufficient 'quantity', so it can't be popularized at all."

Despite this, the witch tradition is still worth learning from.

Thinking of this, Yunchuan looked at Miroku again and smiled slightly, "Mister Miko, what do you want?"

As if he could see what Yunchuan was thinking, Miroku smiled gently again: "I believe you also understand that forcibly removing your dark side is a failed and undesirable approach."

"It was because of the witch's first attempt that the subsequent witches caused endless troubles."

"Because the ghost and the witch are two sides of the same coin, the witch can only choose to seal the ghost, but there is no permanent seal in this world."

Yunchuan nodded in agreement.

Even the powerful sealing technique of "Six Paths Chibaku Tensei" cast by the brothers Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Hamura will gradually dissipate with the passage of time, not to mention the seal cast by the miko.

As time goes on, the seal will inevitably have various flaws, and every time a flaw appears, it is a test of life and death for the witch.

Because the strength of "魍魉" and the shrine maiden is similar, and "魍魉" obviously has no such thing as a moral bottom line, the shrine maiden is often at a disadvantage in the confrontation.

Therefore, removing and sealing the dark side from one's body is nothing but a temporary solution and will only cause endless harm.

"That is why it is the responsibility of every generation of witches to burn their own lives and souls when the monsters escape, break them up again, seal them, and pass on power and hope to the next generation."

"This is the fate and curse of a witch. It is also the responsibility that a witch must bear. It has been like this for thousands of years."

There was no so-called sadness in her tone, and she seemed to be unconcerned about her own death: "If I am gone, my daughter will become a witch and die at the hands of monsters... That's what I thought."

At this point, Miroku paused, looked up at Kumokawa, and smiled slightly, "However, I have lost the ability or curse to foresee death, and I also see hope in you as a 'defier of fate'."

"As a witch, I can die as a matter of course, but as a mother, I cannot watch my child die as a matter of course."

"To change my daughter's fate, even if it means she can become an ordinary person, grow up ordinary, and live an ordinary life."

"To achieve all this, we must end the war completely in my generation and make sure that the monsters lose all hope of recovery!"

Compared to the indifference that seems to see through everything in the world, Maitreya seems to have seen too many facts that cannot be changed, and finally accepted his future and death calmly.

Because of the power passed down from generation to generation by the witches, they can see the fate of human death and should have lost their negative emotions.

But such a person shows the "selfishness" of a mother.

For the sake of her own children, she was willing to bring the neutral country of Demon Country to submit, and was willing to help Yunchuan who was "starting a war for peace."

Thinking of this, Yunchuan couldn't help but smile with interest: "You should know a lot of inside information, the Goddess of Mao, the Six Paths Sage, the three holy places... Why do you believe so much that only I can do it?"

Miroku shook his head, and the smile on his lips seemed to have a little more sarcasm and self-mockery: "If even the 'defiers' can't do it, this unchanging world is really hopeless."

Hearing this, Yunchuan's smile deepened, he stretched out his left hand and smiled slightly, "Then, welcome to join us, Maitreya Priest."

Maitreya was stunned for a moment, but soon reacted and also stretched out his left hand to gently shake hands with it.

"Please take good care of me in the future, Master Yunchuan."