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Chapter 21: Bug Evolution [Please read on! ]

"Haw!"

As if sensing Lu Nie's breath, a large green cricket pupa over one meter long crawled towards Lu Nie's direction.

"It seems that you were well taken care of while I was away from home." Lu Nie squatted down and touched Chong Chong's body.

Although it looks soft, the skin of the bug is actually a bit hard to the touch, similar to the feel of sandpaper. Lu Nie once did an experiment and found that when a normal kunai pierces it, it will encounter considerable resistance.

Moreover, the insect's body can be multiplied to form a large insect shield.

Chong Chong just used his head to slam into Lu Nie's palm.

"Come, try it." Lu Nie teased Chong Chong for a while, took out a scroll from his backpack, and after unsealing it, revealed the things stored inside.

Two pieces of flesh and blood tissue that look fresh.

Lu Nie placed one of the pieces of flesh and blood under the insect's mouthparts and fed it as usual.

At Lu Nie's command, Chong Chong opened its somewhat ferocious mouthparts, revealing its octopus-like mouth hidden under its wrinkled skin, and swallowed the piece of meat that Lu Nie handed over into its stomach bit by bit.

After eating one piece, Lu Nie did not rush to feed the second piece, but used medical ninjutsu to carefully examine the body of Chong Chong.

The pieces of meat are part of the body tissue that was cut off after Jūgo's transformation, and they also contain rich natural chakra. He obtained these two pieces after applying to Orochimaru.

Orochimaru was also very curious about whether the insect raised by Shikagawa could digest natural chakra.

Not long after, Lu Nie felt a familiar change in Chong Chong's body. He had seen this change too many times in the past few months.

Alienation caused by natural chakra.

Shadow binding.

Lu Nie's shadow instantly wrapped around the nearby Chong Chong. With one hand, he condensed a sharp chakra scalpel and forcefully cut a small wound on Chong Chong's tough skin. Then with the other hand, he took out the injection from his backpack and injected it into the small wound.

The function of this injection is to enable the body to better accept and adapt to natural energy and reduce rejection.

Soon, the violent natural energy in Chong Chong's body calmed down under the effect of the injection, but Lu Nie knew that this was only temporary!

According to the data left by the experimental subjects, the current potions can only keep natural energy stable for a period of time, but cannot truly tame natural energy.

Pfft!

Lu Nie instantly jumped back a distance.

At this moment, Chong Chong has begun to transform. Black thorns burst out from its wrinkles, and it now looks like a hedgehog covered with thorns all over its body.

"Have you lost your will?"

Lu Nie's call did not get a response from the bug, but instead attracted its attention. With its body tightly controlled by the shadow binding technique, the thorns on its body exploded in an instant like pear blossoms in a rainstorm.

Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!
A wall of water suddenly rose up in front of Lunie, spinning and deflecting the black needles that were shooting towards him to the other side.

However, what surprised Lu Nie was that after one wave of needles, there was another wave. Black needles kept coming out of the insect's body, and then these needles burst out again.

Back and forth.

Even the reinforced laboratory walls were covered with black needles.

A black rectangle like a coffin rose from the shadow below the insect, covering it, and then weapons condensed from the shadows outside the black rectangle pierced into the coffin.

Shadow coffin.

Lu Ji maintained the shadow coffin technique and came to Lu Nie's side.

"what happened?"

Lu Ji, who was startled by the chakra burst of Chong Chong before, looked at the upright black shadow coffin, turned his head and asked Lu Nidao beside him.

"A little accident during the experiment." Lu Nie saw Lu Ji's face darken, and added: "The risk is controllable."

Lu Ji ignored Lu Nie's words. His attention at the moment was completely focused on the direction of the dissipating shadow coffin.

The bloody and badly injured Chong Chong reappeared in the sight of the two people on the field as the shadow coffin faded away. The skin and flesh on his body were turned inside out and blood was oozing out.

Haw!

The insect's voice was full of pain. The next moment, under the surprised or shocked gazes of Lu Nie and Lu Ji, the insect's wounded body began to heal quickly.

"What is this!" Lu Ji opened his eyes wide when he saw this scene.

"The self-healing power brought by strong life." Lu Nie was thoughtful. The panel of the bug did say that it had strong vitality.

Is this healing power a representation of vigorous vitality?
This reminded Lu Nie of the S-level forbidden technique that Tsunade had once demonstrated to him - Creation Regeneration!
"Do you need me to use all my strength to activate the Shadow Coffin?" Lu Ji looked at Lu Nie and asked tentatively. He had previously controlled the strength of the Shadow Coffin, but now he was determined to solve this problem.

But he knew how much energy Lu Nie had spent on this insect, so he had to ask him what he was thinking.

"Just help me control it." Lu Nie began to make seals with his hands and at the same time dissipated his shadow binding technique.

Lu Ji immediately used his shadow binding technique to take control of Chong Chong's body.

Lu Ji was slightly surprised to see dense fan-shaped tadpole runes snaking out in front of Lu Nie's hands that were covering the ground after he had made the seal, covering the insect's entire body and then disappearing under the skin.

Sealing technique!
And the style is completely unrelated to the advanced sealing technique of the Nara clan. Looking at the alienated insects, he, who has never liked to control Lu Nie, can't help but become curious about his time outside the village.

The insect covered with seal runes finally calmed down, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep, lying on the ground motionless. However, the black needles on its body still did not dissipate, and its skin turned pitch black, looking as hard as steel.

This made Chongchong look a little ferocious and ugly. "Is it done?" Lu Ji felt the struggle coming from the shadow binding technique weaken quickly, and immediately realized that Lu Nie had successfully controlled Chongchong. To be sure, he asked one more question.

"It's OK." Lu Ni nodded, breathed a sigh of relief and stood up from the ground. The curse seal technique taught by Orochimaru could at least last for a long time, enough for the insect to digest the piece of flesh and blood.

"This is really troublesome." Lu Ji retracted his shadow binding technique, yawned, and rubbed his head lazily: "How am I going to explain this to your mother later?"

Lu Nie ignored his cheap father Lu Ji who started to mutter. He looked at his laboratory. The continuous wave of black needles destroyed a lot of things.

In the past, he might have felt sorry for his wallet, but when he returned to the village, he had obtained Orochimaru's recognition and permission to stay with Orochimaru and use his laboratory.

Compared to his own crude laboratory which relied entirely on manual labor, Orochimaru's laboratory equipment was luxurious.

Now that there are better ones available, I naturally don’t care about this one anymore.

The night passed.

When Lu Nie woke up and came to where Chong Chong was, he saw that it had returned to normal. Although its skin color was still a little dark, it was no longer the dark and shiny black. The black needles on its body had also shrunk back, and it had returned to its "white and plump" appearance, harmless to humans and animals.

As Lu Nie approached, he could feel the joy and intimacy of Mushi again. His chakra calmed down, no longer violent, and the fury and loss of control of the night faded away.

Without rushing to remove the restraint of the curse seal, Lu Ne first used medical ninjutsu to carefully explore the body of Chong Chong.

everything is normal.

Placing his hand on Chong Chong's body, Lu Nie summoned the panel that Chong Chong and he were tied to, wanting to see if there were any new changes on the panel.

【Name: Unknown larva
Quality: Blue (You have chosen an evolutionary path for it. When it is cultivated to perfection and advances to the next stage, it will cocoon and evolve +)

Characteristics: Nothing special. The only characteristic is that it has strong vitality, strong adaptability and excellent transformability.

Skills: Cricket Pupa (Crawling), Eat, Spin Silk, Double (Hidden), Needle Storm!

Evolutionary Path ①: Natural Force (can absorb the natural force wandering around and absorb it into itself for digestion. The natural force will cause its own life to evolve and leap).

Effect: Not visible yet.

Split: It has a natural appetite and can digest everything it swallows. If it cannot digest or is too full, it will split into its own body to bear all the burden.

Evaluation: How far it can grow depends on the cultivator's skills and feeding.

Conclusion: It is now just a bug with a slightly decent combat capability, although it is still not worth having high expectations. 】

Looking at the text on the panel, Lu Nie immediately noticed the difference. Compared with the previous Bugs panel, this time's panel, in addition to some of the original data additions, also had two more entries: evolutionary path and split.

The former proves that the insect is on a path of evolution of natural forces, and can make an evolutionary leap in its own life level by absorbing and accumulating natural forces.

This sounds a bit like the path taken by the high-level spirit beasts in the three major spirit beast holy lands.

The latter split completely solved the possibility of Chong Chong being too greedy or having a stomachache. The appearance of this entry would allow Lu Nie to be more unrestrained in feeding Chong Chong in the future.

At least you don't have to worry about feeding the insect something that it can't handle and causes it to collapse.

Is it the evolution brought about by the power of nature? Or is it the physique of the insect itself that has evolved because it sensed the danger?

Lu Nie couldn't distinguish these two points for the time being, but this didn't prevent him from handing the piece of flesh and blood that was left over from last night, which was filled with natural power after being mutated by Shigeo and preserved in a special way, to Chong Chong's mouth again.

The familiar smell of flesh and blood seemed to stimulate Chong Chong. It arched its body backwards with some resistance, as if it felt that this piece of meat had made it uncomfortable yesterday.

But under Lu Nie's comfort and insistence, after hesitating for a while, Chong Chong finally opened his mouth, revealing a mouthparts full of teeth, and bit the flesh and blood as if to vent, and drank it into his body voraciously.

Then, nothing happened.

The natural force flowing in the insect's body accumulated quietly, without the violent and uncontrollable explosion. In addition to the darker color of the insect's body, which tended to be black, there was no other abnormality.

Even under Lu Nie's gaze, Chong Chong's body was still slowly shrinking, becoming more slender, thinner, and shorter. From one night to now, Chong Chong's body had lost a quarter of its weight, as if it had lost weight.

When poking it with the kunai, I found that the insect's skin not only had its original toughness and hardness, but also became a little smoother, as if it was covered with a layer of oil.

Using a highly condensed chakra scalpel, cutting becomes much more difficult.

Combat form!
Lunie wanted to test the fighting power of Chong Chong now. After giving the order through the chakra mental connection, Chong Chong immediately stood up on the ground.

Like a small bare tree trunk.

Then, dark needles emerged from under the insect's skin. As the insect's body turned, the black needles shot out in all directions.

After just one wave, Lu Nie immediately used the shadow binding technique to control the insect and make it stop. Feeling that his body was controlled, the insect did not struggle, but retracted the needles that came out of his body and lay down limply. After the shadow binding technique dissipated, the cricket pupa came to Lu Nie's feet and rubbed his legs and feet in a flattering manner.

With his chakra-wrapped palm, Luna pulled a black needle from the nearby ground.

The needles carry toxins accumulated in the insects' bodies. If you get stabbed without protection, it will be extremely threatening to most ninjas in the absence of an antidote.

Furthermore, if the natural chakra in the body is used, even some famous ninjas will be caught off guard and suffer losses when facing the black needles strengthened by the power of nature if they do not dodge the confrontation head-on.

Lu Nie touched the bug's head and praised it. After raising it for several years, until today, this bug that was once afraid of being taken away and eaten by birds finally has some fighting power and can be called a ninja beast.

At the same time, Lu Nie began to have some fantasies in his mind. If the digestion and absorption ability of insects can really achieve an effect similar to phagocytosis and absorption, then can more genomes be matched to it?
For example, Wood Release?
Can the digestion and splitting abilities of Bugs withstand the devouring and assimilation of Wood Release?

Lu Nie thought about it and decided to temporarily suppress this idea that made him a little excited. With such a high intensity right from the start, Chong Chong might really get an upset stomach. What if he gets sick from eating too much?
Anyway, Orochimaru has a lot of bloodline limits and various materials for the future, so there is no need to rush. The situation is not so bad that he needs to go to the battlefield or face any dangerous situations that require him to increase his combat power.

At least he should gain a certain reputation and status first, and then think about how to realize those ideas that make him excited.

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