Chapter 237: About the Show of Power [Combined Chapter]

"In order to avoid endless trouble in the future, let's get rid of this kid right now before he goes crazy."

After Sanwei finished speaking, his gaze turned to Ling, who was sitting cross-legged on Youlu's back, observing his reaction, but Ling's attitude was still as casual as before, and just as Youlu said, he didn't show any vigilance or hostility. Instead, he was holding his chin, looking like he was lost in thought.

But before it could observe further, Youlv slapped it with his claws, "Why are you so nosy? Where is the mineral vein?"

Sanwei blew a few bubbles in grievance, "There are so many veins of exotic metals on the seabed, and you didn't say which vein you wanted."

Youlu raised his tail and rubbed the stunned Ling, "Boy, what mineral vein are you looking for?"

Ling didn't say anything, but just fell on Youlu's back and buried his face in the soft hair. "Ah...what should I do? You're so good to me, I will really be spoiled by you - an Uchiha who is greedy is very scary."

"Haven't you been pushing your luck enough?"

Sanwei looked at the sticky appearance of Ling and Youlu, and felt that this human was unusually cunning, but he also knew that with the current relationship between the two sides, at least in the short term, Ling would not do anything to betray Youlu, so he couldn't help but relax a little, "So, what kind of mineral vein do you want?"

"It's a strange metal that is said to be able to absorb iron in the blood to grow. I'm not sure what it's called." Ling turned his head and said with some regret, "I had a chance to get it directly, but I happened to encounter a tsunami... Hmm? It seems that the time is about the same as when Xiaoyou came to see you?"

[Tsunami? Did Yata-ryū cause a tsunami when he called me that day?] Sanwei blinked, but after hearing Yata-ryū's frantic voice trying to stop him in the Tailed Beast Space, he swallowed his words and silently took the blame, "Oh, I was a little grumpy when I woke up that day, and the metal you mentioned is not here... Let's go, I'll lead the way."

"Then please," Ling laughed softly and brought up another topic, "By the way, I was a little concerned at the beginning. Although your chakra reaction is much higher than Komata's, it is much calmer than Komata's."

The three-tailed beast swimming slowly on the surface of the water couldn't help but glance at Ling when he heard this, "Maybe it's because I've died far less times than the two-tailed beast, so my chakra hasn't been contaminated by the malice bred by humans."

"This guy has only died less than five times so far," Youlu shook his fur unceremoniously, jumped onto Sanwei's back and lay down again, "It's even less than that stinky fox."

"As for the fox... is it the Kyuubi? But isn't he the strongest?"

"Being strong doesn't mean being invincible. That stinky fox is too conceited—" Yulu licked his hair that was wet by the sea water, "and he has a terrible temper, especially when he gets together with Yiwei, it's like seeing an enemy."

"I think Nine-Tail is to blame for that," Three-Tail gurgled and floated a little higher on the water, "It was always saying that One-Tail had the fewest tails and wasn't strong enough, so the old man didn't like it and was the first one to be thrown into a desolate place like the desert..."

"Yeah, obviously the old man loves us all equally - but when distributing chakra he did give too much to that stinky fox."

"Although he has the most chakra, when it comes to usage and distribution, the Eight-Tails is more powerful, right?"

He laughed again, "Yeah, he looks rough, but he's surprisingly meticulous."

Ling had been listening quietly until he felt the sea breeze slowing down, then he spoke slowly, "Come to think of it, even if we find a vein, it will still be difficult, right? I don't have any way to dive to the bottom of the sea to mine ore."

Sanwei looked up and spoke slowly after a while, "I do have a way to get you to the bottom of the sea, but I don't know if you dare to--"

"Thank you very much - I wonder if there is a way to make the sealing scroll work underwater? It would be a bit troublesome to go back and forth again and again."

The Three-Tails was stunned when his speech was interrupted, and his confused emotions were conveyed to the Tailed Beast Space without any concealment.

"I've already told you, this kid is different," Youli snorted and laughed, "He's really bold."

"...Indeed." Sanwei finally stopped completely, "You should come to the surface of the sea first."

Ling slid down from Youlu's back and landed on Sanwei's back. After a brief sense, he fell back to the sea surface. "What should I do next?"

"Did the Two-Tails ever give you chakra?"

"Yes, I have received a lot of help from Xiaomata, both in my daily training and in battle...Would you like to lend me your chakra?"

Sanwei nodded slightly, and the scarlet chakra spread out and wrapped around Ling's body, "Disperse the chakra under your feet, my chakra will guide you to the place where the mineral vein is."

“Oh, is this how we sink to the bottom of the sea…” Ling’s face twitched slightly, and he raised his hand to his chest. After a long while, he let out a long breath, “I see. I’ll leave it to you, Sanwei—please don’t get my sealing scroll wet, I’m relying on it to pack my luggage.”

After saying this, Ling dispersed the chakra under his feet and disappeared on the sea in an instant.

Sanwei looked at the small splash of water, and after a while, his voice finally had some smile, "Your vision this time is much better than before."

Youlu was still lying on Sanwei's back. Hearing this, he couldn't help but flick his tail. "Do you really have to bring up my past?"

"Because the person you brought before was really bad," Sanwei raised his head, "Who was that one? He actually said that he wanted to subdue the tailed beasts and rule the world, and that we should submit to noble people like him... What did you value about that guy at that time?"

"Well, since the old man is also the leader, I want to try everyone. Although he said such terrible things, he is the first monarch of the Kingdom of Soup. The prosperity of the Kingdom of Soup today is inseparable from the foundation laid by him."

Youlu snorted and laughed, "And strictly speaking, the conflict between him and me didn't develop to the point of life and death in the end. We parted peacefully."

“That’s why you always die.”

Youlu immediately swung his tail and lashed it hard on Sanwei's shell, "I want you to talk too much - just a few words of probing, keep an eye on the people I brought with me, if anything goes wrong I won't forgive you."

"I know. Last time you scratched my shell because I killed someone..." Three-Tails lowered his body slightly. "Even Six-Tails could see that the man had bad intentions and was full of empty words, but you insisted on believing him. It's okay to treat the old man's words as a dream, but don't take it too seriously - you were crazy when the old man just left."

Youlv slapped him with his tail again, "Enough, shut up, I got out of that state a long time ago - how is that kid, let me see too."

The Three-Tails began to bubble again, but it said nothing, obviously not believing it. However, it still focused its energy on the part of chakra it had divided out, and shared everything it saw with Yataru in the Tailed Beast Dimension.

……

When dissipating the chakra, Ling was prepared to be drowned. After all, if his younger brother brought some strange friends with him one day, he would definitely find a way to give that person a warning.

However, to his surprise, the moment he sank into the sea, he was not surrounded by the unique coldness of the sea water. The chakra transmitted by the three-tails effectively separated him from the sea water and provided him with enough air to breathe.

Although the cold sea water did not deprive the body of warmth and the air it depended on for survival, the feeling of weightlessness while sinking did not ease at all. As the depth gradually increased, the surrounding silence and the feeling of emptiness that made it impossible to stand on the ground became an invisible oppression that completely surrounded people.

Ling let out a long breath and maintained a relatively steady rhythm to prevent himself from over-breathing and causing his limbs to stiffen. He carefully planned in his mind what to do after reaching the bottom of the sea. [Chakra steel is heavier than ordinary steel, and with the length I'm used to, the weight of the knife is about nine pounds.

There will be losses in the ore refining process. If I want to make it entirely with exotic metals, I will have to prepare at least two to three times more original ore.

I don’t know how hard the ore is. If it’s too hard, I’ll have to be more careful with the knife. Oh, if I had known I had to mine, I would have bought a pickaxe...】

Just when Ling was using thinking to relieve the uneasiness brought about by having no power and extreme silence, he suddenly felt a dragging sensation in his calf, followed by a chill.

Ling was shocked and almost immediately drew his sword and swung it. After a sound of metal clashing, a strange cry that was somewhat harsh was heard.

After forcing the opponent back, Ling immediately released his own chakra for perception, but before he could detect the opponent's location, he felt that part of the chakra he released disappeared silently.

Ling frowned, and gathered his own chakra to focus on the direction where the chakra disappeared. Finally, he managed to get information about the enemy's appearance - a fish covered with spikes?

A question mark slowly emerged in Ling's mind. He tried hard to recall the illustrated encyclopedia of Water Kingdom creatures he had read, but still couldn't find any species that was even slightly similar to it.

Just in the brief time that Ling was lost in thought, the strange fish rushed up again, and after swallowing all the chakra that Ling used to perceive, it bit off a large piece of Three-tailed Chakra from Ling's body, leaving Ling's two calves completely exposed in the sea water.

Feeling the freezing cold sea water, Ling's expression gradually became solemn - he relied on the tailed beast chakra resistance accumulated through practice to adapt to the chakra of the three-tailed beast, and used the chakra of the three-tailed beast to breathe and maintain body temperature in the sea water, while the strange fish opposite could devour the chakra of the tailed beast without any hindrance.

Ling gathered his chakra at the bottom of his feet to build a temporary foothold for himself, then he slowly exhaled and clenched the staff sword in his hand, [If this is also a show of power, I have to learn from it. ]