Chapter 491: Land of Snow
Although Haruno Sakura accepted the mission to visit Cloud Ninja Village, that would be more than half a month later.
Before that, the accompanying ninja and Tsunade still needed to make some preparations: training in basic etiquette, political discourse, negotiation crash courses, etc.
Even prepared plans and drills for encounters with ambushes or Cloud Ninja suddenly turning hostile.
However, the latter didn't have much meaning—if Cloud Ninja really harbored malicious intentions, no matter how the accompanying ninja resisted, they wouldn't be opponents of the prepared Cloud Ninja.
Their only chance of survival was to rush to Haruno Sakura's side as fast as possible, or hide and wait for Sakura's support.
Looking at it this way, the Konoha delegation team felt somewhat like a suicide squad.
Of course, the danger of this trip was actually not high. At least according to the analysis of Tsunade and others, the Raikage was not crazy enough to kill envoys. Although that man looked rough and reckless, with muscles in his brain, how simple could a man who sat firmly as the Kage of a village be?
Tsunade believed he wouldn't do such a stupid thing.
With a great enemy in front, playing clumsy tricks of internal strife to seek death, Tsunade didn't think the Raikage's capacity was so small.
In short, these trivial matters wouldn't waste Haruno Sakura's time.
She still had enough time to complete Kakashi's training and her own ninjutsu development.
The next morning, Sasuke, who had completed the second review of Sai, also ushered in his vacation and joined the training of the Konoha Mangekyo Group.
Sasuke's Mangekyo ability was slowly excavated during this period of cultivation.
The first ability excavated was a basic type ability, which could greatly enhance his Lightning Release power and control.
Lightning Release basic type ability was the first time in Uchiha history, because almost all the strong men in the Uchiha clan who could awaken the Mangekyo were masters of Fire Release. Someone like Sasuke taking Lightning Release as a ninja path was unprecedented.
So this move was solemnly named "Takemikazuchi" by Sasuke.
In ancient mythology, this is another name for the Thunder God.
Then he was teased by Haruno Sakura face to face: "Naming a passive skill too... Sasuke, your Pretence Release power is overflowing again, right?"
Then she received a pair of rolled eyes from Sasuke.
The second ability was the Mangekyo advanced version secret technique of Chidori Demon Mode. With the power of the Mangekyo, Sasuke could simultaneously perform high nature transformation and shape transformation on a massive amount of chakra, forming a lightning armor further than the Chidori Demon Mode, greatly enhancing Sasuke's attack power, speed, and defense ability.
Sasuke in this form not only had greatly increased taijutsu power. When performing Lightning Release ninjutsu, he would become more proficient, including the lengthy preparation time for Lightning Release: Railgun being greatly shortened.
Extremely practical, consumption also extremely large.
This secret technique could be considered the second stage of Lightning Release: Chidori Demon Mode, but with Sasuke's character, he naturally re-named it another mighty name—
Takemikazuchi-no-Kami.
It is said that the Thunder God Takemikazuchi is the son of Izanagi.
But unfortunately, although the name borrowed the god's name from mythology and sounded loud and mighty, after all, it was still the second stage of Chidori Demon Mode. The lightning armor on the body certainly became more powerful...
But the soft and cute cat ears on top of the head were equally eye-catching.
Haruno Sakura didn't pay much attention to the development status of this jutsu.
When Sasuke was practicing this secret technique, the girl had already fulfilled the agreement with Kakashi, left Konoha, and went to the Land of Snow.
Rewind a few days, before Haruno Sakura's main body arrived.
Land of Snow.
Due to the extensive use of geothermal energy, the climate of this country had greatly improved from perpetual snow, and the core agricultural area even gradually turned into a climate with distinct four seasons.
This also made this once impoverished country slowly become rich.
Of course, in this process, Team 7, especially Haruno Sakura, made many contributions to this transformation.
Especially the "Daimyo built on the detachment" action initiated by Haruno Sakura for a period of time, using a large number of Ice Clones to transmit orders up and down, handle administrative work, communicate between the top and bottom administrative units, once constructing a pseudo-utopia relying on ninja...
Koyuki Kazahana also subsidized the finances of the Land of Snow by accepting movie roles and getting paid two years ago.
Now, as the Land of Snow gradually recovered its vitality and affairs became numerous, she no longer had time to go out to film movies. Just handling government affairs every day was enough to tire her out.
Even so, knowing the arrival of Haruno Sakura (clone), Koyuki still walked out of the door pleasantly surprised and personally welcomed the two girls.
The last time Haruno Sakura visited the Land of Snow was this time last year.
Not seen for a year, there were countless topics to chat about between the two, but the primary topic was still the purpose of Haruno Sakura's trip—
"According to your request, over the past two years, I have ordered engineers and workers to build some of the machines. You can go and inspect them later!" Koyuki nodded and said.
The Land of Snow originally had its own industrial foundation. When Sosetsu Kazahana was in power, the Land of Snow could still produce geothermal generators independently—of course, the industrial level here was not the same concept as Haruno Sakura's previous life.
Strictly speaking, this kind of industry relying on chakra cheating had a very shallow foundation, like duckweed without roots, at most counting as pseudo-industry.
The total population of the Land of Snow was not even as large as a larger prefecture-level city in country C in her previous life, and the industrial population among them was even fewer. Being able to support an industrial chain of this level was merely because this world possessed magical chakra, able to easily solve various problems.
Sosetsu Kazahana selected and trained a group of workers who mastered chakra back then.
Because of chakra, the workers' abilities expanded almost without limit, which allowed them to complete many miracles.
After Doto Kazahana's coup, most of these workers were converted into Snow Ninja, doing fighting and killing jobs; later, with the fall of Doto Kazahana, they also gained freedom after screening, and most began to resume their old professions.
Koyuki Kazahana hired these people and commissioned them to build more geothermal generators that could cover the Land of Snow.
After the mission was completed, Haruno Sakura strongly advised Koyuki Kazahana to keep this group of people.
The Land of Snow was small and the people were poor. Developing Snow Ninja desperately like Doto Kazahana had no future. None of the Five Great Nations would allow a sixth great nation to rise beside them. Instead, developing industry, other ninja villages wouldn't care, only treating it as strange tricks and harmless petty skills.
Until now, Haruno Sakura's suggestions gradually played a role; for example, the geothermal generators developed and widely used in the Land of Snow allowed the whole country to gradually afford electricity, and electrical equipment also saw great development.
And most importantly, with their help, some of Haruno Sakura's ninjutsu concepts were also realized.
Deep inland of the Land of Snow.
In a rare place with few people, there was an industrial zone.
"What are these things, Sakura?"
Hinata walked on a small path surrounded by strange machines and columnar steel cylinders. Noisy and loud sounds came from the tall and dense steel forest all the time, making people feel extremely irritable and depressed; she ran a few steps quickly, drilled out of the mechanical forest, and shouted loudly at the top of her lungs.
"Centrifuges."
Haruno Sakura (clone) stood aside, wearing a white coat and transparent goggles, recording something with a pen while speaking lightly.
She paused, thought for a moment, pulled Hinata to a high place, circled her hand, including all these machines, and said: "This whole area is."
Then pointed to a warehouse extremely far away, tightly covered.
"Don't approach there without my accompaniment."
She said seriously.
"That is a graphite reactor."
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