Starting from Hokage

The dark night is shrouded, and in the forest of Konoha Village, there are two short black and gray figures jumping and moving forward.

"Yuhi Kurenai, Chunin, a beautiful female ninja with black curly hair and red eyes. She has a well-behaved personality and outstanding strength among the female ninjas, so she will not die easily. But she doesn't seem to like people like Uncle Kai. The broad stroke type, even if I create opportunities for them...

What's more, Kurenai Yuhi and Jounin Sarutobi Asuma were childhood sweethearts. The third generation was nice to me, and Asuma was also gentle to me.The difficulty of success is not small, and the negative impact is too great, forget it, cross her out. "

"Anko Mitarashi, a chuunin, a beautiful female ninja with short hair and liveliness. She has a bold personality, loves to play, and is impulsive. She loves to eat glutinous rice balls and red bean paste, and is addicted to desserts. If she does not control her diet in the future, she may develop into a fat woman, but she and Uncle Kai is very attractive, and because of his background, although he is very beautiful, there have been few reliable suitors around him.

If Uncle Kai is with her, even though he may be troubled occasionally, he should get along very well, right? "

"Momotani Rie, a chuunin, has a pretty face, likes cooking, and admires strong men. Although she has dated several boyfriends, she is very beautiful and has a gentle personality, and she is materially vain and values ​​social status. If I were to be the matchmaker, It is not difficult for Uncle Kai to marry her, and it is easy for him to live a harmonious and happy life after marriage...Uncle Kai has such a good physique and is one of the strongest men in Konoha. It is only a matter of time before he will be promoted to an elite Jonin in the future, which is enough to satisfy her. The vanity of a commoner little ninja.

I'm just afraid that this woman's vanity will grow with each passing day, and in that case I will get Uncle Kai into big trouble. "

In the forest shrouded in darkness at night, Naruto and Rock Lee were leaping on the trees together, heading towards home. However, Naruto kept writing and drawing with notes and pens while leaping among the branches.

Locke Lee on the side saw this and accelerated several times, but found that even if he went all out, Naruto could still keep up in a distracted state. There was obviously a gap in the strength of the two sides.

Seeing this scene, even Xiao Li couldn't help but let out a breath, then slowed down and followed Naruto.

"Naruto, are you still thinking about finding a girlfriend for Uncle Kai? Isn't Uncle Kai living a good life now? We take care of him in life, and his time is fully scheduled every day."

Hearing this, Naruto raised his head and glanced at Rock Lee, then lowered his head and continued writing in his notebook.

"What do you know? A strong man like Uncle Kai needs a young and beautiful woman to reconcile him. Yin and yang are called Tao, which is followed by goodness, and what is achieved is nature. Although we are taking care of him now Uncle Kai, but...don't you hope that Uncle Kai can live a happy life?"

"Of course I hope so, but I just don't think women are that important."

"If a person can't live his own life well, there is really no need to find a partner, because the two pains add up to become double pain. But if you are a happy person, you can find yourself The other half of the other half, because the two happinesses are superimposed and become double happiness. Xiao Li, we are ninjas. Maybe one day suddenly, we will die in our dreams. At that time, if someone can be around to take care of Uncle Kai , won't we feel more at ease when we die?" Naruto said softly while staring at the bright white silver moon in the sky.

"Maybe, right." Feeling the somewhat heavy atmosphere, Rock Li murmured in response.He has never thought about these things. He is still a young man in the true sense. Of course, he cannot think as much as Naruto does.

Of course, compared to Rock Lee's real age, the young man's mind is already very precocious.This is a common phenomenon in the ninja world.

"Kato Shizune, a disciple of the legendary Sannin Tsunade. She graduated from the ninja school at the age of nine and was promoted to chunin at the age of 13. Although she followed Tsunade and left Konoha, she should have returned to Konoha. Her current strength is estimated to be particularly high. From Shinobu to Jounin, he is outstanding among female ninjas. He is also a medical ninja and is a perfect match for Uncle Kai.

The most important thing is that if she combines with Uncle Kai, both parties will easily have a common topic: studying Uncle Kai. "Through all aspects of intelligence information, he scored each female ninja he knew and calculated the compatibility between the two parties. It was not until he returned home that Naruto combined his notes, washed and slept with Rock Lee.

I don't know whether it was because of his own growing strength, or because that guy gave a vague hint. After a year, Naruto could vaguely feel that a new round of fighting was coming soon.

.....................

Here is a cold world wrapped in white mist. It is so silent that it is as if there has never been a single word from the living in all eternity.

In the mist, faces of men and women condensed from time to time, sometimes young people, sometimes girls, sometimes old people, sometimes young children. Finally, these faces suddenly collapsed, as if there were endless souls contained in the mist.

Waterfall, clear pool, black stone, bamboo house, and next to the bamboo house there is a chess table made of stone.

This place is: the gap between life and death.

"Master, I don't understand, why don't you kill him now? Although you don't care, I still feel in danger. Why would you do such a thing if you give the enemy a chance?"

On both sides of the chess table, there was a man and a woman sitting respectively.

The woman is in gorgeous Taoist attire, with long purple-black hair spread out. Her skin is as delicate and crystal clear as jade, her charming eyes, and her beautiful face. However, her lips and eyebrows are all light purple, making her whole person look very enchanting and seductive. , Unrivaled in splendor but extremely dangerous!

At this moment, she was holding the black chess piece and asked at the same time.

The chessboard in front of me is already filled with densely packed black and white chess pieces. Judging from the situation, it seems that it is almost coming to an end.

"Crisis crisis means that danger always comes with opportunities."

"Is there ever peace and stability on the road to seeking immortality? Since every step is a calamity, then just live it one calamity at a time. Don't be anxious."

The man in Taoist attire who was fighting in front of the enchanting beauty had dry white hair, but his eyes were clear and black and filled with brilliance.

In fact, his appearance is very ordinary, but when he holds the chess piece with two fingers on one hand, his whole person looks strangely handsome because of his extremely focused temperament.

"You always like to give people too many opportunities. Just like this game of chess, you were already sure to win, but when I acted coquettishly, you let me go once or twice. As a result, after I regretted the game several times, your I have killed all the big dragons. Now the defeat is determined and the road is at the end. The game can still be like this...but in the life-and-death fight, I must not hold back." She said this pointedly, and the woman held her hand and fell. , slaughtered the big dragon on the opposite master's chessboard. At this moment, in her opinion, her victory was certain.

"If the Tao is poor, it will change, and if the material is poor, it will be reversed. If you want to achieve the Great Dao, you need to break through Yin and Yang, and reverse life and death. Only in this way can you finally transcend the boundaries of life and death. Poison Girl, you really care too much about the victory or defeat at the moment, Do you think if I kill Dunyi now, I will really win?"

"Isn't it? Devouring his soul can greatly benefit your cultivation and restore your vitality. I don't understand what you have been hesitating about?" At this moment, Du Ji's attention was no longer on the chessboard. He spoke with some anxiety.

"What are you hesitating for? It's not hesitation, it's actually... fear." After a smile, Taiyin master held the piece with two fingers, and then with a crisp "snap", the piece landed on the chessboard in front of him.

"Fear? Master, I don't understand. Swallow his soul and seize his body. With your cultivation strength, you can control the world. Even if there are one or two opponents who are difficult to deal with in a moment, our self-protection will not be a problem. , spend a little time, and inherit the legacy of the ancient immortal civilization, you can dominate this world and be the best just like you did on Earth."

"Du Ji, you have also seen Dunyi's memory. What do you think of this world?" Without answering the other party's words, the man in Taoist clothing stared at the chessboard in front of him and asked.

"A world that is nothing more than this. Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru pose some threats to us, but it is not difficult for us to get rid of them. As for some scattered information that follows, we can just avoid the hidden powerful ones. , the world is huge, and after a hundred years, none of them will be your opponent, they are just some scattered gravel on your way to the top." Poison Girl is more confident in her master than in herself.

She believed that her master was the most powerful, and that one day he would reach the top of the mountain, prove his Tao, ascend to the throne of immortality, transcend all things, and be eternally at ease.

However, after hearing this, Master Taiyin smiled bitterly and sighed softly: "The law of life and death is the most basic law of the world. When this law is shaken, Du Ji, what do you think this means?"

"...I don't understand it very well. You know, I have never been interested in studying those ancient Taoist books."

"So I tell you to read more and don't keep practicing stupidly. Knowledge is power, whether it is in a world where science is prosperous or a world where immortality is prosperous."

"When a world, even the law of life and death, is shaken, it means that the life of this world has come to an end, and the world we live in is collapsing... Poison Girl, I thought I was the winner before. But in fact, I lost. I will take you and fall into hell!" As he said that, Master Taiyin gently pointed at the chessboard in front of the two of them, and saw a black and white energy flying and entangled, evolving into a large area similar to the one made of It's made up of mist, something similar to a three-dimensional image.

"According to classical records, the entire world is divided into three planes: upper, middle, and lower. The upper plane is the fairy world, the spiritual realm, the spiritual world, etc., and the middle plane is the earth, where many laws are stable and materials are prosperous. The world is a multiverse, and the earth is one of them." When he said this, Taiyin paused for a moment, and then continued:

"About 600 years ago, Zhang Sanfeng, Liu Bowen and others, in order to prosper humanity, cut off the path between heaven and man, and sealed off the entire earth and surrounding space with a barrier between heaven and earth. From then on, the world of immortality gradually degenerated into the world of aliens, until 600 years later, I challenge you again."

"You won. Even Zhang Sanfeng and Liu Bowen joined forces, but they couldn't prevent you from successfully building a foundation and leaving the realm of death." At this time, Du Ji, who was opposite Master Taiyin, said this, her eyes full of pride and admiration. .

"...At the beginning, I thought so too, but look again." As he said that, the Taoist took another look at the chessboard.

I saw that under the evolution of the black and white yin and yang qi, the original three-layer space of upper, middle and lower space expanded rapidly, and the crimson blood-colored light spread, covering an existence like a soap bubble air mass, and gradually swallowed it up.

"This is?"

"You can think of the lower plane as the stomach of the universe. After countless middle plane worlds collapse, they will fall to the lower plane world, and then during the slow digestion and collapse, they will turn into nutrients to nourish the heavens and the world. We are now, It's in the lower plane, in hell, in the abyss, in the maw of the universe. Although this world is still protecting us, that's just because the world's death rate is slow."

"Hahahahahaha... Master Sanfeng and Mr. Liu Bowen are worthy of being the two great sages from 600 years ago. Even if it is a blow from another world 600 years ago, I still can't completely defeat it, although I did use the escape of life to survive it. I suffered a thunder tribulation, but I was also knocked down a plane... But it is still very satisfying. The methods of the sages really make the younger students better, I am sincerely amazed!"

"You mean... the world of Naruto is constantly collapsing? We have not succeeded in escaping from the realm of the dead spirit at all, but have been knocked down to the lower world and come to hell?"

"So, why do you think I should devour Dunyi? If I do that, I might be able to live happily for dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of years, but what's the point? I'm dead in a game of chess, and I can barely eat it. What's the use of trying to hold on by losing a few chess pieces?"

For ordinary people, ruling the world for tens, hundreds, or even hundreds of years is certainly something they can only dream of. However, Poison Girl understands her master. If she doesn't have a great heart, if she only wants to have the pleasure of ruling the world for a lifetime, she will never get it. That Taiyin master didn't need to force himself through the thunder tribulation at all, he didn't need to do so many things at all.

Seeing Du Ji in front of her, she felt a little depressed. The man in Taoist attire smiled and stood up, walked up to her and patted her on the head.

"It's still the same saying, 'When the Tao is poor, it will change, and when the material is poor, it will be reversed.' Even if the Tao is fifty and the Tianyan is forty-nine, there must be a glimmer of hope. Otherwise, who can still cultivate and become an immortal? Do it all. Forget it, the obedient people under the law of heaven, because they have no choice."

"Any variables?"

"Of course there are variables. When a chess game has become a dead end, we can continue to expand the chessboard to add variables. Although life is like chess, there are nineteen lines and 360 points. In fact, there are How can we exhaust all the changes in life? This human life cannot be exhausted by a game of chess."

As the Taoist man waved his sleeves, the nineteen horizontal and vertical lines on the chessboard in front of the two people suddenly became larger, more numerous, and endlessly vast, enveloping Taiyin and Poison Queen like a world, with only the chessboard in the distance visible. It is constantly extending and expanding, just like this long life. Is there any dead end?

Even if it means death, isn't it a great adventure?Who dares to say that death is not the true beginning of life?

Of course, for a person who does not live well while alive, even if death is just the beginning, it will not mean anything to him.

(I don’t care about anything else, Master. Wherever you go, I will go. I will live when you live, and I will die when you die. Whether it is hell, the lower plane, heaven, or the spiritual world, I will always be with you. I will always be by your side.) A red-eyed monster snake with scaly horns wrapped around the body of Master Taiyin at this moment and came to rub his cheek gently.

"You and I can be said to be willful people. You are born with the evil spirit of heaven and earth, and your mind is easy to go to extremes. Since I was four years old, I was bought into the Tianshi Mansion and became a Taoist boy. Since I started school, I have known The first word is the word "Tao". What is the Great Way? It is transcendent from all things, ineffable and indescribable. It is all living things and not just all living things. It is supreme, supreme, great and strong. I admire it deeply. ah."

"From that time on, when my companions practiced Taoism, they all practiced the Tao of Heaven, hoping to obtain magical powers to control the world, hoping to gain immortality, and hoping to extend their lifespan. Only I pursued the Tao, and from the age of four, I rebelled against the Tao of Heaven in order to transcend. Endless reincarnation.”

"At that time, because I said these words, I was beaten so badly by my master. In the future, even when I dominated the world, no one thought that I could really succeed... Sometimes I just think about cultivating Taoism. If we don’t seek to challenge the way of heaven, and don’t seek to defy heaven and reach immortality, then what kind of way are we supposed to practice? Just return to secular life and go down the mountain, but no one understands me. For so many years, I have been alone, but fortunately I have you with me. .”

Is it ridiculous to challenge the way of heaven during the Qi refining period?

It's ridiculous, of course it's ridiculous. An ant shaking a tree or a mantis using its arm as a cart are not enough to describe the situation.But if those who practice Taoism and seek immortality don’t have this intention, then wouldn’t it be better to enjoy the prosperity of the mortal world in the human world?What do you want in this line of work?

"As big as the heart is, the world is as big as it is." This sentence seems to be idealistic.But if you don’t even dare to think about it, if you can’t even dream about it, then you can’t even imagine that you can do it.

And for people like Taiyin, he will only hold on to his dreams until his soul dies, and he will not give up!