Chapter 39 Treasure House

"Oh, really?" Iruka raised his eyebrows, but Kakashi deliberately avoided his gaze. Seeing this, Iruka sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, I won't ask anymore."

A few minutes later, Iruka suddenly seemed to remember something, looked at the time, put down the bowl of ramen in his hand, and hurried into the bathroom.

Seeing this, Kakashi couldn't help laughing. He quickly ate a few bites while it was hot. At this time, Iruka's voice came from the bathroom.

"Xuanjian, if you don't come out, I'll make you write a report for a month!"

After a period of chaos, Xuanjian finally walked out of the bathroom. He had a red mark on his head and was only wrapped in a bath towel tied loosely around his waist, looking a little funny.

Kakashi followed him to the living room, Iruka following behind with a dark look on his face.

Kakashi sat down on the couch, Ibiki sitting across from him and Iruka leaning against the door frame tiredly.

"Anko, it's your turn. Don't forget your conditioner. It's under the sink."

Hongdou stood up and pointed at Qingye, admonishing:

"Two and a half minutes, no more, no less, got it?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Aoba said with a grin and saluted her.

He formed seals with his hands, and an orange light appeared in his palms. Then, the light slowly moved to his fingertips, first his nails, then his fingertips, and soon, his nails were all painted with bright nail polish.

"Hey, Lei Tong, where are my pants?" Xuanjian suddenly asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, his pants fell from the sky and covered his head squarely.

Xuanjian looked up angrily and found Lei Tong sitting on the sofa, eating rice cakes and looking at him innocently.

Xuanjian raised his middle finger at him, then put on his pants and picked up a towel to wipe his hair.

He sat down where Hong had sat before, looked at the nail polish on the table, and asked curiously, "Are there any purple ones?"

"Of course, what purple do you want?" Qingye said, picking up a bottle of purple nail polish and asked, "Do you want light purple, calamus, lilac, or balsam purple?

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When Naruto opened his eyes, the first thing he felt was nothingness.

He knew he was awake because he had never had such a painful dream.

He could feel his eyelids blinking and the touch of eyelashes brushing against his cheeks, but he could see nothing. There was only endless darkness before his eyes.

He supported himself on the ground with his hands and tried to sit up, but his palm touched an unusually smooth stone and he almost fell.

With great effort, he finally sat up straight and crossed his legs. He still couldn't see anything, but this didn't scare him.

He felt pain all over his body, from the skin of his arms to the back of his neck and deep in his muscles, there was no place that didn't hurt.

But strangely, this pain made him feel comfortable, as if all the filth in his body had been cleared away, and he felt as if he had been reborn.

The Nine-Tails' chakra in his body disappeared, and even his own chakra was almost gone.

He felt that he was different from before, although the feeling was subtle, he could still feel it clearly.

He became stronger, and all of this was due to those painful experiences.

Naruto sat cross-legged and placed his hand on the seal.

He could feel that the evil force that had been burning him had disappeared. If the chakra had really been cleared away, then did it mean...

He closed his eyes and began to meditate, sinking his consciousness into his own spiritual world.

He hadn't been here for a long time, and everything in front of him felt both familiar and strange.

This is still a world where water and sky meet, but it is full of vitality. The originally bare cage is now covered with green vines and aquatic plants, and blue lotus flowers are floating on the water, just like the one in the pond at my grandfather's house.

The Nine-Tailed Fox was still curled up on the hill, as if it was asleep.

It hasn't woken up yet.

Although Naruto was mentally prepared, his heart sank the moment he saw the Nine-Tails.

Although the Nine-Tailed Fox looked more energetic than before and its fur was shinier, its body was still extremely thin, almost skin and bones, with its ribs clearly visible and its cheeks deeply sunken.

Naruto sat down next to the Nine-Tails, trying to calm the sadness and self-blame in his heart.

The corrosive chakra in the Nine-Tails has been cleared, but its body has become very weak. Now, he must find a way to help the Nine-Tails restore its chakra, as he owes it that.

He exited the spiritual world and opened his eyes, but there was still endless darkness before him.

This time, instead of relying on external forces, he decided to create the light himself.

He gathered the last bit of fire-attribute chakra in his body into his hands, and then quickly formed seals - rat, tiger, and sheep.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

With a low roar, a huge ball of fire burned in his hand, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

He stood up, holding the fireball, and moved closer to the rock wall, carefully observing the surrounding environment.

When the fireball approached the rock wall, the flame suddenly became weak and made a crackling sound, as if it would go out at any time. Naruto hurriedly took the fireball away, and the flame returned to normal.

For some reason, he suddenly recalled a long-forgotten memory, which was a record in a construction log he found from the ruins of the Whirlpool Country.

Void Stone, which absorbs chakra and is used to defend against sensory ninjas and chakra tunnels.

He turned around and walked back the way he came, using fireballs to light the road ahead as he walked.

The cave gradually became narrower and turned into a long and narrow passage. On the rock walls on both sides, there was a groove at regular intervals, about three feet above the ground.

He walked forward curiously and took a look, and found that the groove was inlaid with another stone of a lighter color, which contained some translucent yellow crystals about the size of his fingertips.

He picked one up and looked at it carefully. He could feel a faint chakra emanating from the crystal, mixed with a faint scent of tree sap.

"Chakra resin." A voice sounded in his mind. "It is flammable."

He put the crystal back into the groove, then moved the fireball in his hand closer, and the flames instantly shot up, illuminating the entire passage.

He lit up the crystal in another groove, and the flame spread forward, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the road ahead. He followed the flame and walked forward. After walking for an unknown amount of time, the view in front of him suddenly became clear.

It was a huge cave, ten times larger than his apartment, and flames spiraled up along the dome, illuminating the entire cave.

In the center of the cave is a huge circular platform surrounded by a canal, and on the water surface is a huge spiral pattern.

Thirteen huge stone doors are evenly distributed on the edge of the platform. Each door is engraved with the emblem of a different family in the Whirlpool Kingdom, leading to another room.

The door facing Naruto was the largest of all the doors. On the lintel, there was a spiral pattern surrounded by curved sharp corners. It was the family emblem of the main family of the Whirlpool Country.

The Treasure House of the Whirlpool Country, where all the treasures, knowledge and artifacts of the Whirlpool Country are stored.

Naruto believed that if there really existed a method in this world that could change his seal, then he would definitely be able to find the answer here.