About one hundred kilometers south of Konohagakure, there was an unnamed mountain peak nearly two thousand meters high, surrounded by dense forest…
This was an undeveloped, uninhabited area.
The location was neither too far nor too close to Konoha. If something happened, it wouldn't endanger the village, yet Konoha ninja could reach it quickly.
After a night's travel, by the morning of the second day, the "Three-Tails Capture Squad," led by Kushina, arrived at this location. Kushina immediately felt that the feng shui here was excellent, particularly suitable for burying a Tailed Beast.
It was a good thing they'd brought two Sealing Teams. Thanks to their restraining techniques, the squad was able to move quickly with the Tailed Beast; otherwise, things would have been troublesome. However, to be able to use high-level specialists like the Sealing Team as manual labor, there was probably no one else in all of Konoha who could do it.
After reaching the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, Kushina signaled everyone to put down the Tailed Beast and rest for a while.
Throughout the journey, the Three-Tails had been like a dead dog, showing no reaction whatsoever.
At this point, the members of this squad hadn't rested for a full day and night. So, after replenishing their food and water, Kushina arranged for everyone to rest in shifts.
By noon, after everyone had recovered most of their energy, Kushina ordered them to start working again.
"Excavate the mountain."
The ninja with Earth Release began their work.
At this point, Kakashi should have thanked Habara for the training. With his prior experience in earthworks, Kakashi's efficiency was exceptionally high.
The Konoha group's excavation was very restrained. They created a tunnel only wide enough for one person to pass through. After extending more than three hundred meters into the mountain, they finally began to widen the area.
It has to be said that in the Shinobi world, ninja were the primary productive force. After a day, the ninja, using only their "bare hands," had carved out a cylindrical cavity eighty meters in diameter and sixty meters high in the middle of the mountain.
If the narrow tunnel was considered the plane, then half of this cylindrical space was below the plane, and half was above it. The question then became, how were they going to get the Three-Tails in there?
Kushina Uzumaki stood in the cavity and signaled for everyone to step back. Then, while calmly forming hand seals, she said, "Although I don't have any means to forcibly control a Tailed Beast on a spiritual level, with prior preparations and at this short distance, I can still summon an unconscious Tailed Beast using a contract seal combined with forced summoning."
As her voice fell, she slapped a single hand on the ground, and the Three-Tails, which was outside in the forest, was summoned inside.
Although Kushina Uzumaki made it sound simple, one could imagine that this forced summoning must have consumed an enormous amount of chakra… After all, the Summoning Technique was a space-time ninjutsu. The difficulty of forcibly opening a space-time tunnel was imaginable; it had to consume a massive amount of energy.
This feeling of "I'll crush you with my chakra" was something Habara greatly envied. It was just unexpected that while he was still so "underdeveloped," Daigo had already become a chakra nouveau riche… although the price she paid was very high.
The Sealing Team began to set up the seal for the Three-Tails, while Kushina drew the jutsu formula for extracting the Three-Tails' chakra.
Tenzo, after dealing with the traces left by transporting the Three-Tails, also came to the center of the mountain and began to use Wood Release to reinforce the internal cavity structure.
After finishing the sealing, Tenzo continued to use Wood Release to create a layer of wooden flooring, completely covering the Three-Tails beneath it… It looked like a "pot lid." This scene reminded Habara of a famous dish called "Steamed Turtle."
After laying the floor, Kushina drew a new jutsu formula on it, and then she had Tenzo raise a pedestal in the center. Seeing this pedestal, Habara instantly understood what it was for… It was a place to put the Crimson Gourd, essentially a high-powered "wireless charging dock."
Overall, they had undertaken a major project. After finishing the sealing inside, Kushina set up some barriers on the outside. She directly used the extracted Three-Tails chakra to set up a jutsu to conceal the Three-Tails, truly taking from the people and using it for the people.
By the time they had completely finished this work, ten days had passed.
The Three-Tails couldn't be left unattended. After arranging for Shibi Aburame, Genma Shiranui, Raido Namiashi, and Iwashi Tatami to take turns on guard duty, the group finally returned to Konoha.
Kushina Uzumaki needed to report the mission to the Third Hokage, while Habara took the Crimson Gourd home.
At this point, Habara finally had the opportunity to talk to Daigo in detail about what had happened to her.
After explaining how Daigo had died and how she had been revived, Habara continued, "My original plan was to find a suitable body for you to be revived in. But unexpectedly, this accident happened. And unfortunately, the changes that have occurred in you are, in a sense, an irreversible evolution. Therefore… I'm sorry, but it's probably very difficult for you to become a normal human again."
"So, I'm now a…chakra creature?"
Daigo was a little sad, or rather, this incomplete revival left her with a slight sense of regret. But overall, she wasn't dissatisfied. Being able to wake up again was much better than fading away quietly.
"Habara, thank you for saving me." Therefore, Daigo's gratitude was genuine.
Habara nodded. He hadn't saved Daigo for her gratitude.
He continued, "How do you feel now? Are there any changes compared to before?"
"I feel like my mind is working faster… I should say that my ability to process and store information is completely different from when I was human. After all, I'm kind of a higher-dimensional being now," Daigo said, half-jokingly.
"But the way I acquire information is also completely different from before," she added.
Habara didn't react immediately. He asked, "Different?"
"It's just that I can't 'see' anymore."
Hearing her say this, Habara finally understood. Normal people primarily rely on vision to receive various information, but now Daigo was a chakra energy entity. She could only obtain information through chakra sensing. For example, you couldn't expect her to be able to read books now, could you?
"It seems we really need to prepare a…um, human user interface for you."
Habara thought for a moment, then brought up another important matter. "Right, there's another important thing we need to confirm. You can't condense chakra on your own now, and Konoha can't hold onto the Three-Tails for long. So, whether you can accept chakra from others will be the key to whether you can maintain your existence."
"That seems to be the case," Daigo immediately understood.
"Let's try my chakra first," Habara said.
Kushina had set up complex jutsu formulas on the Crimson Gourd. She had left a suitable "charging port." Habara placed his hand on the surface of the Crimson Gourd and began to transfer chakra.
His chakra was immediately absorbed by Daigo.
After sensing for a while, Daigo spoke, "Your chakra can be absorbed and accommodated by me, but I feel that its quality and density aren't very high."
"That's normal. My chakra can't possibly compare to a Tailed Beast's."
Daigo was silent for a while, then continued, "And there's another issue. What's going on with the 'rope' wrapped around…me? I sense a very complex jutsu formula on it."
"A very complex jutsu formula? The Water Erosion Binding Seal Array? No, it shouldn't be… You're talking about the jutsu formula left by the Sage of Six Paths, right? That's a super-advanced jutsu that materializes concepts into reality. It was originally used to guide and seal. Its principles are unknown. All I can say is, it's truly a divine artifact left behind by the Sage." After thinking for a while, Habara made this guess.
"Yes. I can accommodate your chakra, but I feel like the newly accommodated chakra of yours…seems to be able to pass through that mysterious jutsu. How about we give it a try?"
"Pass through? What's going on?" Habara thought for a while but couldn't figure it out. The Kōkinjō was a mysterious thing, and he was worried it might affect Daigo.
Since he felt this experiment shouldn't pose any danger to himself, Habara said, "Let's try it, but be careful."
"Okay."
Daigo began her attempt.
"How is it?"
Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, Habara asked.
"It's…magical. I seem to have 'produced' something."
As she spoke, a thin, needle-like, light blue crystal floated out of the gourd's mouth.
"Uh…"
Habara blankly caught the thing. After examining it closely for a while, he suddenly realized what it was.
"Could this be…"
An idea popped into his mind, and without another word, he swallowed the thing. The crystal melted instantly in his mouth and had no taste… Okay, that wasn't the point. The point was that after eating this crystal, Habara's recently depleted chakra increased.
"It's a blue potion!"
Daigo seemed to have done something incredible. She had produced a "blue potion."
Habara was so shocked that he stood up and quickly paced back and forth in his room. After going around in circles several times, he finally grasped the fleeting thought in his mind.
So he abruptly sat down, quickly took out paper and pen, and began to write:
"Information Integration Thought Entity…"
"Infinite Chakra Library…"
He paused, thought for a while, and then wrote again:
"And…
Flying Thunder God Style Network." How "Akakammuri", this organization should be constructed, how to enhance the combat power of the civilian ninjas. Habara finally had a solid strategy in his mind. He needed to thank Diago for this.
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