Chapter 100: Evolution
Chapter 100: Evolution
Kakashi glanced at the group, silent and motionless, including Tobito, before turning his gaze towards the distant tent. "If he weren't such a formidable ninja, Maple Night wouldn't have been forced to use a forbidden technique and suffer such severe side effects."
Silence enveloped the group.
No one spoke.
Even Shizune was unaware that Maple Night's severe injuries were a result of using a forbidden technique to slay Chiyo of the Sand Hidden Village, an elder well-known to the Leaf ninjas.
On this battlefield, the name Chiyo resonated with the Leaf ninjas, and they all knew she was the pillar of the Sand Hidden Village, a powerful ninja comparable to the Kazekage! And now, she had been defeated and killed by Maple Night!
This news was far more shocking than the previous reports of him killing dozens of ninjas, leaving Kurenai Yuhi and the others in a daze.
"Maple Night killed Chiyo..."
Shizune felt a sense of surrealness wash over her.
Maple Night was a student from their generation.
And Chiyo was a legendary, powerful ninja renowned in the ninja world! No matter how she looked at it, it felt incredibly distant and unreal, hard to believe that it had actually happened.
Maple Night...
Had he truly reached such a level?
...
Inside the tent, Tsunade continued her treatment of Maple Night's injuries.
Healing damaged meridians was entirely different from treating bone fractures or muscle tears. It was like performing surgery, requiring extreme precision in chakra manipulation to form chakra threads as thin as hair and heal at an extremely microscopic level.
Undoubtedly, when it came to the finest chakra control in the world, puppeteers and medical ninjas were at the top. One required extremely dexterous control of chakra threads, while the other needed to train their chakra to perform extremely delicate operations within a small range.
The treatment continued from noon until dusk.
Finally...
Tsunade exhaled and slowly raised her hand.
She had healed all the meridian injuries in Maple Night's body, including the muscle tears, and with some rest, he would make a full recovery.
Only after completing the treatment did she realize with surprise that she no longer had any fear of blood. During the entire process of treating Maple Night, her attention had been solely focused on healing his meridians, and she hadn't suffered any symptoms of hemophobia.
Otherwise, if she had been affected even a little, the process might not have gone so smoothly.
"You little rascal..."
Looking at Maple Night lying there, eyes closed, breathing evenly and peacefully in his slumber, Tsunade couldn't help but smile and shake her head. "You really cured my condition."
Gazing at him sleeping there, she briefly lost herself in thought, remembering her younger brother Nawaki, who had perished in the Second Ninja World War. After a moment, she snapped back to reality and gently closed Maple Night's clothes, covering him with a blanket.
"Shizune!"
Tsunade stood up and called out to the tent's exterior.
Shizune, who had been standing guard outside the tent the entire time, immediately entered, her eyes filled with concern as she looked at Tsunade. "Lady Tsunade, I'm here! How is Maple Night doing?"
"He's fine now."
Tsunade shook her head slightly, a hint of fatigue in her voice. "Go get me some food and water."
Hearing that Maple Night was alright, Shizune breathed a sigh of relief. She immediately nodded and replied, "Yes! I've already prepared everything for you!"
Outside the tent, Uchiha Obito had left early, and Kakashi had gone to get something to eat. Only Kurenai and Rin remained, standing guard.
Kurenai and Rin wanted to go in and see Feng Ye, but after hearing Shizune's words, they could only look at each other and, after a moment's hesitation, leave.
With the news that Feng Ye was safe and sound, they could finally rest easy.
...
In a daze, Feng Ye blinked his eyes open to see an ethereal clock appearing before him.
"This is..."
The golden ethereal clock didn't stay still but suddenly made a ticking sound as the hands spun backward, causing his body to rapidly regress from a teenager to a child and then an infant.
The hands stopped and then began to spin swiftly in a clockwise direction, and his body rapidly grew from an infant back into a teenager, then a young adult, and finally an elderly man.
Tick!
The hands suddenly ticked again, and everything came to a halt. The entire world seemed to freeze, except for his consciousness, which remained active.
The ethereal clock wobbled, and his vision became strange as he saw countless shadows of himself overlapping.
The shadows stretched from right before him to the horizon, with the closest one looking almost identical to him. As the distance grew, the shadows became smaller and smaller, and the farthest one appeared to be an infant.
Tick! The ethereal clock changed again, and the strange perspective vanished. He saw the clock hands moving in a normal clockwise direction but abruptly disappearing as they reached the middle, skipping a mark.
The whole world seemed to wobble as if a segment had been erased.
Everything became blurry.
Finally, darkness enveloped everything.
Feng Ye slowly opened his eyes, his consciousness gradually awakening. He realized that he hadn't changed at all.
"Was that a... dream?"
He glanced around and noticed that this wasn't the tent where he had been residing. Then he spotted Tsunade sleeping about half a meter away from him.
Further away, there seemed to be another person, and he guessed it was Shizune without needing to look. This must be Tsunade's tent.
"Looks like they didn't send me back to my tent," Feng Ye mused.
He tried to sit up, but as he moved slightly, he felt the soreness in his muscles, and his mouth twitched.
His gaze drifted to the edge of the tent, and he could vaguely see a few stars twinkling through the gaps in the fabric. It seemed to be midnight. He must have fallen asleep during the treatment and slept straight through to the middle of the night.
Speaking of which, that dream...
Feng Ye vaguely recalled a few scenes from his dream and could discern the manifestation of several abilities, including 'time acceleration,' 'time reversal,' and 'time stop.'
The rest were hazy and not very intuitive, and it was difficult to deduce anything concrete from just a few scenes. He could only make a few vague guesses.
Time clone?
Time jump?
Time deletion?
(End of Chapter)
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