Wok Shadow Ninja

Chapter 52: The First Cooperative Battle of the Ino-Shika-Cho Formation

Mizuki's punch was packed with power. If Ino or Shikamaru had taken that hit, they would have definitely been injured and fallen. However, Choji's Meat Tank Roll had extremely strong defense. His thick fat and Yang Release chakra resisted seventy to eighty percent of the force from the punch, and the remaining portion was not enough to cause significant damage.

Choji's eyes were spinning, his hands propped on the ground as he dizzily lifted his head.

The damage wasn't much, just very dizzying...

Not counting practicing on wooden stakes at home, this was actually only the second time he had properly used the Meat Tank Roll, once against the wild boar in the wilderness before, and now this time.

He carefully sized up Mizuki, feeling apprehensive. He was worried that he had used too much force and might have killed Mizuki-sensei, who had invited him to dinner, and then he worried that he had missed and would be scolded by Ino.

Mizuki's situation was actually quite bad. The bones in one of his legs were completely shattered, he was staggering, and many blood vessels under his skin had ruptured, but the high recovery ability brought by the cursed seal was quickly repairing the damage.

"Choji! Hit him again! Hurry up, after this, we'll go eat barbecue!"

"Really?!" Hearing this, the chubby Choji was immediately filled with fighting spirit. He moved his body, comically shuffling into a little run, pulling back to gain distance, and then performed another "Meat Tank Roll".

"Choji, one more time! The last time, we'll go to Yakiniku Q for the deluxe set! Hurry up, if you don't do it now, I'll shout that word!"

"Ahhhh---!! Don't shout it, I'm not fat at all, just a little plump!" Choji's eyes were burning. He endured the dizziness and weakness brought by the high-speed rotation and crashed into Mizuki for the third time.

Mizuki was sent flying on the spot, smashing into the wall of the cave like a cannonball. The wall behind him was covered in spiderweb-like cracks. More than half of the bones in his body were broken, and even with the cursed seal's support, his aura suddenly weakened.

Ino dragged Choji to the side. The chubby boy lay sprawled on the ground, weakly saying, "I can't do it anymore, I'm really out of strength, I'll leave it to you guys."

Ino snapped her fingers towards the other side.

"Tch, what a drag!" Shikamaru walked out from the shadows, and a shadow that seemed to be alive shot out from under his feet, turning into a thin line. After merging and connecting with Mizuki's shadow, Shikamaru firmly held the "Rat" hand seal. Mizuki had no idea what was happening. He just felt his body instantly lose control, ignoring the pain and quickly standing up, making the exact same movements as Shikamaru on the other side.

He was stunned: "Damn it! What kind of jutsu is this?"

Shikamaru smiled smugly: "Shadow Imitation Technique, success!"

Shikamaru needed to maintain the Shadow Imitation Technique. This jutsu would continuously consume his chakra, and in less than fifteen seconds, a layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead.

He couldn't help shouting: "Hurry up and do it! Ino! What are you spacing out for? Hurry up, I can't hold on much longer!"

"You really don't have much chakra, I thought you could hold on a little longer... Watch mine, Ninjutsu - Mind Body Switch Technique!"

Ino could have exposed Mizuki's conspiracy long ago. The reason she accompanied him for most of the night was that she wanted to use this opportunity of the Mind Body Switch Technique to see what the cursed seal researched by Orochimaru was all about and personally experience the reaction after natural energy was absorbed into the human body.

She cherished this opportunity.

Orochimaru could only observe, calculate, and compare through a large number of human experiments. No matter how skilled he was, there was still a barrier. The human body was too complex, and a lot of data simply could not be collected with existing methods, so he could only use his imagination. Ino believed that the Mind Body Switch Technique allowed her to observe from within another person's body, undoubtedly making it easier to feel the relationship between natural energy and the human body.

She used the Mind Body Switch Technique with great proficiency. Her consciousness, enveloped in chakra, rushed into Mizuki's spiritual world like an arrow and instantly took over his body.

So this is the natural energy brought by the cursed seal?

After being hit by Choji three times, Mizuki's body was very weak, but the continuous natural energy from the outside world was being absorbed by the body, and Ino could still feel that sense of energy abundance.

The power was strong, but also very tragic.

Violent, fierce, and ferocious, the previous potion had transformed Mizuki into a human-shaped vessel. Natural energy, after being harmonized by chakra, became much tamer than when it was in the wild, but this was still not an energy that ordinary people could control.

Driven by the potion, Mizuki's body was extracting energy from 130 trillion cells in a crazy way, and then relying on this physical and mental energy to harmonize an equal amount of natural energy.

It wasn't just a matter of potential, but also a matter of lifespan. Even without Ino and the others interfering tonight, the result of Mizuki drinking the potion would have been death within a month or two.

The energy within the cells was about to be exhausted; this person was completely beyond saving.

Ino controlled the body, raised her right arm, and carefully examined it. There was a dark, tattoo-like thing there, which was the cursed seal that Orochimaru had developed from Jugo's cells.

Mizuki's cursed seal was far inferior to the Heaven and Earth Cursed Seals. At best, it was just a trial version that could only be activated once and could not be closed. The cursed seal had turned Mizuki into a disposable consumable.

Pathetic.

"Mizuki-sensei, you can't hear me anymore, can you?" Ino asked in the spiritual world, but the only response was beast-like roars.

He looked normal on the outside, but in reality, Mizuki's mental energy had been mostly eroded in the process of harmonizing natural energy.

Ino had always been looking forward to Sage Mode. In battles at the Six Paths level, only senjutsu and taijutsu could cause damage to those powerful enemies.

She knew she couldn't compare to Rock Lee and Might Guy in terms of willpower, so she wasn't planning to train hard in taijutsu. Perhaps she still had a chance with senjutsu.

Ino didn't have the Byakugan's ability to see through things, but having entered this body, she could still sense the natural energy within it by relying on Mizuki's chakra pathways.

The injuries Mizuki had suffered before didn't matter, but if he were to be injured now, it would also affect Ino's main body, so she couldn't recklessly absorb natural energy.

Ino observed carefully and found that the cursed seal on Mizuki was somewhat similar to the process described in traditional martial arts novels, where one opens up the Ren and Du meridians, connects the bridge between heaven and earth, and returns to the prenatal state from the postnatal state.

The Ren and Du meridians were all made up, she knew that very well, but some of those things could be used as a reference.

There was no doubt that natural energy could be harnessed by intelligent beings and transformed into senjutsu, but it required some special methods.

Ino had almost zero knowledge of sealing techniques and senjutsu. After memorizing all the data she could, she knocked out the remnants of Mizuki's consciousness in the spiritual world, then released the Mind Body Switch Technique and returned to her own body.

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