Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

(Mondstadt, on the way to the Knights' headquarters)

After Anastasia left with an arrogant attitude as if she was a winner of some kind, Captain Qin stared at her back, the anger in her eyes almost turning into reality.

But in the end, she still suppressed it all and didn't get angry. After a long sigh, she loosened her fists that had been clenched from the beginning, and continued to walk towards the Knights' headquarters with a tired and melancholy look in her eyes.

But at this moment, two figures, one big and one small, appeared from the corner of the street and walked straight towards Qin. They were Kong and Paimon.

Although Amber had found a hotel for them, they had just arrived and had just experienced a battle with the Knights and did not want to just go to bed. So they walked around the city, looking for anything they could do while visiting.

As soon as they arrived at this place, they saw Jean and Anastasia confronting each other from a distance. As they were not sure whether they could go over to eavesdrop on their conversation, the two of them hid at the corner of the street and observed until Anastasia left before finally showing up.

"Ah, Traveler, Paimon, you are here."

Seeing Sora and Paimon, Jean forced a smile and greeted them, but the tiredness and loneliness on her face could not be concealed.

Then, Qin said, "Traveler, thank you very much for your assistance. The elemental cycle around the city has finally stabilized. The aftermath of the Wind Dragon's last attack has come to an end for the time being.

However, the pressure exerted by the mission has become so great that it is difficult to ignore..."

"A delegation?" Paimeng was a little confused when he heard this. "Is it a diplomatic delegation...from Liyue Port? Or Inazuma City?"

Qin shook her head and explained, "It's the Kingdom of Winter, a country among the Seven Gods that worships the God of Ice. Their messengers have a special name: Fatui - have you heard of it?"

"Ah, so it's the Fatui." Paimon understood immediately after hearing the name, "I have indeed heard of it! But it's not a very good reputation."

"I don't think it's right to kill the Wind Dragon directly." Qin's tone was extremely serious, even to the point of being heavy. "Besides, the Fatui led by the Ice God covet the power of the Wind God's followers... This matter itself is already very suspicious."

"Speaking of 'power'..." At this time, Sora thought for a moment and said.

"What's the matter, traveler?"

"Remember the crystal I took out earlier? I have some thoughts to share with you about this."

"Hmm? Okay, let's go back to the Knights' headquarters." Qin subconsciously stopped Kong from continuing to speak, quickly looked around to confirm if there was anyone eavesdropping, and then said very seriously, "Don't discuss important matters in... a place like this."

Afterwards, Jean took Sora and Paimon to the Knights' headquarters, planning to continue the discussion after arriving at the leader's office...

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"what happened?"

After holding his hands together and waiting for a long time, Hashirama found that he did not enter the Sage Mode as expected. He opened his eyes in confusion and met Menma's equally confused gaze.

"You... didn't use the Sage Mode?" Seeing Hashirama's expression, how could Menma not know what was going on.

"Yeah, there shouldn't be anything wrong with the method..."

Hashirama suddenly felt a little panicked. He had clearly followed the correct method to activate the Sage Mode, but not only was it successfully activated, but the chakra in his body didn't even show any sign of transforming into Sage Chakra.

He tried several more times, but failed every time. The chakra in his body remained calm, with no sign of transforming into fairy chakra.

Since there is nothing wrong with the method, there is only one explanation: I cannot use the Sage Mode in this world like I can in the Ninja World.

[This...what should I do? ]

The more Hashirama thought about it, the more panicked he became. After all, for him, this was not just a simple loss of a buff, but a blow to his aorta.

If the Sage Mode cannot be used, then many of his original abilities, such as the maximum increase in the Sage Body, the sealing technique Sage Technique·Myojinmon which is very powerful both in the ninja world and in mobile games, and his strongest move which is also his biggest trump card - Sage Technique·Wood Release·True Thousand Hands·Top Buddha... all of them cannot be used!

Menma was also confused about this: "Sage Mode can no longer be used... That's really bad news."

However, he did not panic like Hashirama (after all, Sage Mode was not his ability), but carefully recalled the parts related to Sage Mode in the original work, just like the last time he recalled how to eliminate the side effects of the Mangekyo, and ended up remembering Hashirama's cells.

Obviously, when you encounter a problem, just refer to the original work, and then find the differences from the original work according to your current environment, you can quickly draw conclusions and make corresponding changes.

"Natural energy..."

As Menma whispered a term, the most critical problem of Hashirama's inability to use Sage Mode was pointed out.

"Natural energy?" After hearing Menma's words, Hashirama, who was frantic, suddenly calmed down. Thinking carefully, he seemed to have not felt any natural energy entering his body, and because this world was not the ninja world, there was no natural energy that could combine with chakra to form fairy chakra.

Then... Hashirama collapsed even more:

“Then what should I do…” The 1.80-meter-tall man immediately acted like a child who had been wronged, “If I don’t have Sage Mode, I’ll be half useless when facing a strong enemy…”

"Don't be so pessimistic. Aren't you already very strong normally?" Menma hurriedly comforted Hashirama, although he also felt that if Hashirama lost his Sage Mode, it would be difficult for him to deal with beings whose level and realm were above God.

"That's totally different!" Hashirama shouted in a state of despair, "The Myojinmon Gate and the Great Buddha are gone... Is the only strongest move I can use the wooden man..."

Looking at Hashirama who seemed to be almost emo in front of him, Menma felt a little embarrassed. After all, the strongest and most useful ability was suddenly gone, no matter who it was, they would probably collapse.

Therefore, Menma had no choice but to rethink this issue——

[Sage Mode... Sage Chakra... A mixture of natural energy and physical and mental energy... Natural energy...]

There are no places like Myoboku Mountain, Ryuchi Cave, and Wet Bone Forest in Teyvat, nor the natural energy of the Ninja World. It is impossible to absorb them from the outside world and mix them with one's own chakra to form Senjutsu Chakra. It seems that Hashirama's Sage Mode is really hopeless...

[Hmm? Wait…]

Just as Menma was about to draw a conclusion, he was startled because he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He quickly rethought the key points in this regard -

[The natural energy of the ninja world...

The kind in the ninja world...

Why does it have to be "the kind from the ninja world"? 】

An idea suddenly appeared in Menma's mind, and as soon as this idea appeared, it could not stop and continued to diverge and expand, and finally formed a conjecture of Menma...

"I thought of it!"

After exiting the "Third Tail" Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and retracting the tailed beast chakra that was no longer needed, Menma suddenly spoke up, immediately awakening Hashirama beside him from his own thoughts:

"What did you think of?"

"I think I have a way to make you use the Sage Mode again, although... it may be quite different from the original Sage Mode." Menma said excitedly. He was obviously trying to restore Hashirama's Sage Mode, but he seemed to be more excited than Hashirama.

"What? Tell me, what should I do?!"

Seeing Hashirama's expectant look, Menma smiled mysteriously: "Just now, we both fell into a misunderstanding..."

"Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding?" Hashirama felt a little confused because he didn't understand what Menma meant at all.

"What do you think 'natural energy' is?"

Menma did not answer directly, but asked Hashirama this question first.

"Uh... what is 'natural energy'? Isn't it natural energy? It exists in the three holy places of the ninja world... oh no, it should be a kind of energy that exists in the entire ninja world. The three holy places just have the highest concentration of natural energy, and it has developed into a system of three fairy arts."

"Alas, your understanding of 'natural energy' is too superficial." Hearing Hashirama's answer that made him feel very dissatisfied, Menma shook his head and said, "Think about it carefully, why is it called this name?"

"Just tell me the answer directly. After all, you know I'm not good at thinking about these things." Unexpectedly, Hashirama did not play by the rules and chose to give up directly, which stunned Menma for a moment.

Hashirama knew that since Menma chose to "ask" him this way, it meant that he already had the answer in his heart. Instead of using his brain, which was not good at thinking about complex things, to force himself to think about these complex things whose answers were likely to be wrong, he might as well just lie down and ask Menma what his conclusion was.

Seeing this, Menma didn't say much. After all, he was his good brother, so he just spoiled him:

"The so-called natural energy is actually the energy system that the ninja world already had before the emergence of the foreign energy system of 'chakra'... Oh no, the ninja world at that time could not be called the 'ninja world', after all, even ninjas had not appeared at that time. Although, we actually have no other name to use..."

After a brief pause, Menma continued, "Like the name of the world, the name 'natural energy' is also quite general and abstract, but it can also be taken as referring to its literal meaning.

If this is the case, then if converted to Teyvat, isn't this so-called 'natural energy' the elemental force of this world?"

"Ah? Is... is that so?"

At this time, Hashirama was almost dumbfounded. He didn't expect that these things could be explained in this way?

"Since the mainstream energy system in the ninja world is chakra, it is very easy for us to fall into such a misunderstanding. But don't forget that chakra was introduced into the ninja world from outside the ninja world, which is equivalent to the power of the abyss and forbidden knowledge in Teyvat. The elemental power there is actually something like 'natural energy'.

In this world, the 'natural energy' you want is naturally the elemental force of the local energy system."

"Then... then what should I do?" Although Hashirama barely understood what Menma said, he still had no idea what to do next.

"In that case, you can only try it yourself. After all, despite all I have said, these are still essentially just my 'conjectures'. Only after trying them in practice can you know if they are correct." Menma said, "The previous way of absorbing natural energy should be abandoned. Now you need to try a new way to absorb the elemental force of this world to replace the so-called 'natural energy', and then find the most suitable ratio to mix with your own body and spiritual energy, so as to create a new fairy chakra suitable for this world.

Don't worry, I have tried to control the elemental power with the help of the evil eye before, and it is much simpler than I thought. And with our physique and level, the error tolerance rate is also very high, and you have a lot of opportunities to find the right ratio. "

"Is that so..." Hashirama lowered his head in thought for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Menma, "Thank you Menma, I know what to do next."

"That's good, and don't thank me, we don't need this between us." Menma nodded, "Go and try, I look forward to your good news."