Chapter 234 Ling: What bad luck!

Ling's side was going smoothly for the time being, but Youlu, who was leaving, encountered some minor troubles.

Youlu, who had transformed into the size of a leopard, was now stopping on a calm sea surface. His strange-colored cat eyes were staring at the sparkling sea surface, full of distress.

[I was here last time, right? Has this guy not moved in the past few decades? And I've been here for so long, but he still hasn't responded... This really makes the cat angry. ]

Youli swung his tail more and more impatiently, but his patience was not exhausted yet. He could wait for a while longer. Until the sky gradually darkened, he finally could not help but restore his original size and slapped the sea surface with one claw viciously.

As this claw wrapped in chakra slapped down, the originally calm sea suddenly raised waves dozens of meters high, surging around in layers, "You lazy turtle! Wake up!"

As if he felt unsatisfied, he slapped several more times in a row. Until he couldn't help but want to use the Tailed Beast Ball to perform a large wake-up service, a slow voice sounded in the Tailed Beast Space, "Wake up, wake up..."

Are you here to connect to the Tailed Beast Space again? Did you bring other Tailed Beasts with you... Eh? Why are you here alone? We can't connect to the Tailed Beast Space if there are two of us. Go back. 】

Yutaru on the sea was almost laughing with anger, and slapped the sea with another claw - if it really came to connect to the Tailed Beast Dimension, could it hear this?

The other party seemed to realize this belatedly, and the honest and lazy voice sounded again, "Ah, it's so hard to find such a comfortable position... I'll come right away, right away."

As if in response to the other party's words, the sea surface, which was already turbulent due to Youlu's venting behavior, suddenly rose nearly a hundred meters. The lifted sea water poured down to the surroundings like a waterfall, and when it hit the sea surface, it splashed water several meters high, which was very spectacular.

As the sea water fell, the appearance of the creature hidden underneath was revealed. The blue-gray shell was covered with spines of varying lengths. The three tails behind it, which were also wrapped in the shell, were swinging unconsciously, making a whistling sound, making it look extremely ferocious.

It looks green, but it's actually gray.

Yulu took a few steps back, shook off his wet hair and looked up, "Sanwei, how long have you been sleeping? Your body is already covered with coral and other things."

Hearing this, the ferocious-looking Three-Tailed Fox lowered his gaze, stared at Youlv with an oppressive gaze for a while, then sank silently, burying half of his body in the water until he was eye-level with Youlv. Then he spoke in a muffled voice, "A few decades, I'm not sure... Long time no see, Two-Tailed Fox."

Youlu circled Sanwei a few times before slowly approaching him, raising his claws to help him brush off the coral rocks that were growing wantonly on his body. "It's because you always sleep that you can't beat anyone - and you've grown so many useless things."

Just listening to Yataru's almost complaining voice, Sanwei slowly curved his eyes and said, "It's okay, I don't like fighting, it's good to be at the bottom, it's quiet."

Youlu was immediately furious, and raised his claws to quickly slap the shell on Sanwei's head, even making a series of banging sounds, "You are so useless! Did the old man give you such a great ability just to let you sleep for decades and mess up where you are?"

The Three-Tails did not resist, and just patiently let Yataru do it. He even sank down again for Yataru's convenience, and bubbles appeared when he spoke. "Come to think of it, why did you come to see me? I didn't see you at the bottom of the sea just now, but now I see that you are in the Tailed Beast Space, aren't you?"

"Of course I came to see if you fell asleep," Youlv snorted, squatting on the sea with dignity, and then seemed to remember something, lying down and looking at Sanwei, "Speaking of helping, there is indeed something I want to ask you to pay attention to."

"what?"

"There are a lot of mineral veins on the seabed, right? Are there any that produce exotic metals?"

Sanwei was silent for a long time before he answered, his voice becoming even more dull, "Finding a mineral vein is just a small matter, but we probably won't need the ore...Are you with humans again?

As far as I can remember, you died six times because of human betrayal. Even though the old man said that he hoped we could coexist peacefully with humans, he would never want to see such a situation."

Youlu also fell silent after hearing this, and spoke after a long time, "...This time is different."

"You said the same thing last time, but not long after that you came to me with the Five-Tails to reconnect the Tailed Beast Space."

Youlu immediately raised his body in dissatisfaction, and whipped Sanwei's back with his tail. "If you want to control me, you either refuse to move or run around the world. If you can take the old man's words to heart like I do, maybe the old man's vision has been realized now."

"People fear me when I maintain my original form, but when I gather my power they treat me as a rare animal and want to buy, sell or eat me... They always firmly believe that 'those who are not my kind must have different hearts', so I think it's best for them to be at peace with themselves."

Three-Tailed gurgled and blew bubbles, "The human you met might be deceiving you again. He may be fine now, but when he becomes powerful with your power and achieves his wish, he will abandon you like the previous person."

Youlu was silent for longer this time, but the words he spoke were still the same, "This time is different."

"Humans are no different," Sanwei said in a muffled voice, "They will always do whatever it takes to get what's in their favor. It's time for you to learn this lesson."

"It's not my turn to be taught a lesson by a lazy tortoise like you," Youlv snorted and turned his head away, "Besides, that kid is special. He is a human who will not show any malice."

The Three-Tails didn't say anything, but it clearly conveyed its distrust, and the tailed beasts have always been extremely sensitive to emotional changes, so the already irritable Two-Tails became even more anxious.

"Well, let's put it this way," Sanwei finally spoke slowly after Yutaka began to use his shell as a scratching post, "If that guy dares to come with you to this far sea to see me, and he really has no ill intentions as you said, I will show him a little trust for the time being..."

"Are you joking?"

"If he is really different from the previous humans, then at least he would trust you, entrust himself to you completely, and allow himself to be placed in unknown dangers, right?"

Yalu paused in sharpening his claws, "I see, I'll talk to that kid about it. If everything goes well, I'll come find you when I leave the Water Country... Don't forget to help me find the ore."

The three-tailed beast did not answer, but just shook its tail to show that it understood, then sank back down with bubbles bubbling out.

It was not until it could no longer see Sanwei's huge body through the sea that it started walking towards the coast, but its mood became increasingly depressed - because it had no idea how much it had suffered at the hands of humans, and it could not deny what Sanwei said.

[Could he be the person the old man said could make the tailed beasts and humans reach an understanding? I am a little tired of all this useless work...]

Looking at the coastline becoming clearer in his field of vision, Youlu slowly shrank his body. However, when he saw the devastated coast hit by the sea water, the whole cat froze in place. It took him a while to realize that his and Sanwei's actions just now might have caused a tsunami.

[Well, it looks like I have to wait a while before I go find that guy...] Feeling a little guilty, Yat-lü quickened his pace, [Next time when there is a Tailed Beast Space, I should honestly use the space to communicate.]

While Youlu tries to pay for the actions he caused, Ling is also facing trouble.

After he bought the information about the secret sword-forging of the Kizuna clan from Hichicho, he immediately set out to investigate, hoping to sabotage the sword-forging operation in the chaos and take away some ore for his own use.

Although this is a very immoral act, Ling feels no psychological pressure and is even eager to try it because he has no friendship with the Gui Lantern Clan, with whom he has even no relationship at all, and even has some conflicts due to occasional missions.

Ling knew that the Gui Lantern Clan attached great importance to the sword forging and would certainly deploy many experts in the clan at the sword forging site. The water transformation technique was also very difficult to deal with, but sword forging required high temperatures anyway, which could limit the combat effectiveness of the Gui Lantern Clan to a certain extent.

As long as he was cautious enough, conducted sufficient investigations and planned his route well, he would have more than a 60% chance of succeeding. If he also carefully concealed his own characteristics and did not expose his clan, he might even be able to use this to trigger another internal fight among the Water Country's ninjas.

However, he had just found a sword-forging site of the Ghost Lantern Clan, and before he had time to investigate whether it was true or not, he was washed away by the surging sea water, and his whereabouts were completely exposed to the Ghost Lantern Clan's sight.

As he said before, the Ghost Lantern Clan attached great importance to this sword forging, so the moment Ling was exposed, the Ghost Lantern Clan members in charge of this place immediately divided into several teams to chase him.

And being chased by these enemies who can transform into water in such an environment with abundant sea water... can only be said to be a very unpleasant thing. Here we have to mention the characteristics of the water transformation technique.

The Water Transformation Technique is a ninjutsu that can liquefy the flesh at will, rendering physical attacks ineffective - or it can be said to be a secret technique that is extremely difficult to practice.

Successfully learning this technique not only allows one to easily dodge melee attacks, but also allows one to sneak into buildings and attack in a liquefied state, etc., which gives one great flexibility.

This technique is greatly enhanced in this humid environment surrounded by water - not only does it increase the movement speed, it also hardly consumes the caster's chakra, which can be said to make the user invincible.

Ling barely climbed up a cliff, coughed up some sea water, and felt the chakra reaction that was rapidly approaching him. He laughed bitterly, "What bad luck!"