Chapter 496: Madara: It's okay. Although it looks a little scary, my brother is quite happy now

After asking that question, Ling felt the natural energy around him surging over with extra excitement, eagerly expressing joy and approval to him.

[You really hate chakra?] Ling's expression gradually became strange, [If I remember correctly, someone seemed to have mentioned to me that Otsutsuki is a surname full of sins... So, this sin is chakra?

Combined with the information revealed by the living slug, I can make a bold guess - the Otsutsuki clan is probably not human, or in other words, not the human beings of this land? 】

Thinking of this, Ling's heart began to beat even more violently. He couldn't believe that his guess would be true, but his own intuition and the natural energy around him that kept expressing urgency to him seemed to tell him that this was the fact.

[If it is chakra that natural energy hates, then it makes sense that no one has been able to practice ancient immortal arts since the time of the Six Paths Sage.

Although the ancient immortal arts do not deliberately pursue qualifications, there is the more convenient and easier to learn chakra in front of them. Naturally, no one would pursue the ancient immortal arts that are difficult to practice and are said to be almost lost - not to mention that as long as chakra is practiced, it will naturally attract the disgust of natural energy, further increasing the difficulty of practice.

If you want to choose one side, you have to completely abandon the other side to reach the ultimate power——】

Ling raised his hand to cover the lower half of his face, but the corner of his mouth that was raised high could not be completely concealed, "Hahaha... So that's how it is, so that's how it is! Interesting, really interesting! Everything makes sense now!"

Ling's extremely neurotic smile also caught the eye of Hashirama who had just landed. He paused and poked Madara's arm with a finger, "Is your brother... okay?"

"It's okay. Although it looks a little scary, brother is quite happy now." Madara crossed his arms and frowned. "It's just that there seems to be something stirring around here - is it that natural energy?"

"Well, the natural energy here is quite active and eager..." Hashirama's eyes kept wandering, and he was amazed in his heart, "Brother Yi is not exaggerating."

"What's the exaggeration?"

"That's about your brother's talent," Hashirama turned his gaze to Madara, "He said your brother's talent is so good that most people can hardly even feel jealous - because he always praises your brother, so I thought he just had too thick a filter.

You don't even know that I was forced to end my Sage Mode just now because of your brother's actions. Even now, the natural energy around me still ignores me."

Madara looked at Hashirama with disdain, "Tsk - you have the nerve to compete with my brother with your skills?"

Hashirama:……

At this moment, the live slug on Ling's shoulder was wagging its antennae with great enjoyment. "It's really amazing. Although it's not as good as the Wet Bone Forest, it's comparable to that nameless little deserted village. This is the first time I've felt such a strong natural energy in the outside world!"

This somewhat brisk remark failed to bring back Ling, who was still trying to sort out the various events due to the excitement of his discoveries. Instead, it attracted Hashirama, who was thinking about how to complain about Madara's severe brother complex but would not be beaten. "The small deserted village? Is it the one in the country of rivers that Yi Ge and his friends go to every year?"

"Yes, it's the one that Master Yi and his men always go to. It's really rare. I rarely feel that natural energy is so eager to show goodwill to living things. I just don't know what Master Ling did. It's really curious~ I wonder if Master Ling can tell me something after he comes back to his senses!"

Madara finally gave Hashirama a straight look, "What is the small deserted village?"

"It's just a village controlled by the Uzumaki clan, with a population of less than a hundred." Hashirama took off his blood-soaked coat and pulled his collar, which had started to become sticky, with some disdain. "If you must say there's something special about it, everyone in it knows fairy arts, and they know it from birth."

"Is that the same weird power you used when you sparred with me?"

"Hey! Immortal arts are serious, okay? What's so weird about it!"

Madara still had his arms folded across his chest, and tilted his head slightly when he heard that. "Anyway, it's very strange - there were several times when I was clearly in your blind spot, but you seemed to see my attacks."

"Eh? Doesn't Madara know? Sage Techniques are very powerful in enhancing perception, and Madara's attack purpose is very obvious, and it is easy to detect in Sage Mode."

At this point, Hashirama paused slightly, his expression looking a little depressed, "But your brother is a very tricky thing. When your brother threatened me that time, I didn't feel any sense of danger at all - or rather, only my intuition gave me a sense of danger, and everything else told me that I was not in danger."

"Tsk—you deserve it."

Hashirama:……

After Hashirama was silenced by Madara again, Ling was finally brought back to his senses by the constant chatter of the living slug, "Sorry, I'm being rude because I know something very important - can you tell me more about that village? I'm very interested."

Hashirama looked at Ling and paused, "I don't know more. I have never been to that place. In other words, except for some Jedi or dangerous objects that cannot be hidden, the Uzumaki clan will not let outsiders know the specific location of the dangerous objects in their records. Even if we are allies and help them seal, we usually do so through summoning."

Madara looked a little surprised, "Is he so cautious about you all?"

"Well, every time the Uzumaki clan asks us for help, they will emphasize this point, saying that we should not send people who mind this kind of thing to help. They can give us all the rewards, or let us send people to train, but unless they exterminate the clan, they will not allow the location of these sealed places to be leaked out at all."

Hashirama paused for a moment, and said, "Brother Yi said that human greed knows no bounds, and any of the things sealed by the Uzumaki clan that see the light of day are enough to drive human desires wildly.

He also said that the actions of those sealed objects, even if they were only on paper, were enough to make him feel cold all over, so no matter what, as long as he was alive and as long as the Uzumaki clan still existed, he would not allow those dangerous things to run rampant and destroy the current delicate balance. "

[No wonder he worked so hard this time. It turned out that the blood pool that controlled the Uzumaki clan members last time and released the seal touched their clan's bottom line... Ha, I got to be a free thug.]

Ling raised the corner of his lips slightly, "So, Lord Huoxiao knows something? About that special village."

"I'm not too sure. I just know that the people there are born in a land with rich natural energy. They are born with the ability to master immortal arts. However, they are always unable to control the immortal arts, which causes them to lose control and thus affect the surrounding environment.

Oh, now that I think about it, the Uzumaki clan occasionally brings me humanoid corpses that have been eroded by natural energy and asks me to help deal with them. It's really delicious~ Lord Ling, don't you really consider giving me the corpse after death?"

Ling reacted quickly and held down his brother who was about to explode, then shook his head slightly, smiled bitterly and said, "I don't have that idea, and my family won't allow it - please don't ask me this kind of question in front of my family again."