Chapter 256: The Door
Konan was almost 1.70 meters tall, slightly taller than Ino. However, for a spirit body, being tall or short was just a thought.
Ino leaned closer and glanced inside the black cloak with red clouds. Hmm, she had a prominent mole on her chest. It should be Konan herself.
"Yes, it is, it's Sister Konan".
"How did she become like this? Konan has a very gentle personality".
Ino explained, "Sister Konan here seems to be very conflicted inside. She wants to return to this wooden house, which means she has thoughts of death. However, she didn't completely block the gap, allowing me to see a flaw and enter first. I think she herself is very hesitant, trapped in a state of being unable to advance or retreat".
As she spoke, she seized control of the dark vines on the walls and used them to reinforce the wooden door that Konan had punched a hole through.
Jiraiya was a little shocked, and even more so, he didn't understand why she had become like this.
Ino, however, was quite calm. This was nothing; she had seen things much stranger than this.
"This Sister Konan's inner malice has completely erupted. Hokage-sama, don't worry, this is a normal phenomenon. Everyone has malice in their hearts, and the more you usually suppress it, the more malice there is... Ouch, that hurts! It's okay, it's not a big problem!".
Jiraiya was dumbfounded, watching Ino land an elbow squarely on Konan's chest. Looking at it from any angle, it didn't look like "not a big problem"; it looked like a "very big problem"!.
Before Ino was a black-transformed Konan, completely different from her previous calm and composed self. Innumerable black tentacles shot out from her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and even from every opening on her body, seemingly wanting to entangle her and drag her out of the wooden house.
Ino indeed felt it wasn't a big problem; she had seen even more bizarre things. Her body was entangled by numerous black energy tentacles, lifted off the ground. Her golden ponytail was also firmly gripped by the black-transformed Konan. She wasn't afraid in the slightest. She raised one leg high and used her foot to press against the black-transformed Konan's chin to prevent her from biting. With her other foot, she fiercely kicked her in the chest, while simultaneously using both hands to control the surrounding vines to reinforce the wooden house.
This wooden house was extremely important to Konan. Whether the door was broken or not didn't matter, but the house absolutely could not be destroyed by this black-transformed Konan.
Jiraiya really wanted to help, but seeing them fight so intensely, he didn't know how to step in for a while. He felt he should consult a professional: "What should I do now? How can I help you?".
Ino, relying on her rich experience, suppressed the black-transformed Konan. At this moment, she had tied the opponent up with several layers of vines and was forcefully pushing her out. Her words were simple and direct: "Find some wood, reinforce the wooden door, and then block the door to keep her out".
As soon as she finished speaking, the black-transformed Konan let out a shriek, like fingernails scratching on glass. The sound was sharp and irritating. Ino felt a moment of dizziness from the shriek, and three of the five vines were broken by her.
"You dare to resist? Think I can't handle you? Shiba!". She kneed the black-transformed Konan in the back, putting the weight of her spirit body on her. With one hand, she grabbed her hair, and with the other, she started punching.
A girl's heart is only filled with poetry and distant dreams. A mature woman is different!. Konan was clearly a mature woman. She had seen a lot over the years, and a lot of darkness had accumulated in her heart.
Ino pressed her down firmly and rained punches on her head and face.
Jiraiya tried to help, but found that his body here was completely illusory and couldn't touch "solid objects". With a little force, he would drift out of the house. Seeing Ino struggling but unable to help, he felt quite awkward for a while.
The cause and effect of this matter had nothing to do with Ino; she was purely an outsider. Konan's resistance towards her grew stronger. You're an outsider, what are you meddling for! Who the hell are you?.
The knot must be untied by the one who tied it. This matter had to be resolved with Jiraiya's help. Ino could only temporarily teach him some tricks.
"Hokage-sama, actually, the rules in the Mind World are like this. We are not physical entities; we are just thoughts. Abandon your fixed concepts and imagine yourself as a pure individual, a unique individual".
Jiraiya: "???".
He never considered himself a genius. Ino's words were completely incomprehensible to him. Thoughts? Individual? He was already an individual, wasn't he? Was he something else?.
Ino kept increasing the pressure. Half of the black-transformed Konan's body had already been pushed out by her, but it wouldn't work without a door. Jiraiya had to help her construct the concept of a "door".
"...Let me think. Ah, let me give you an analogy. Well... actually, our bodies in the external world are not simply individuals, but a collective entity". Knowing Jiraiya didn't understand, Ino explained in simple terms: "When we eat, is it our soul that wants to eat, or our body? Actually, it's the body. Our soul doesn't need to eat. To be more specific, it's the cells in our body that want to eat. For their own survival, they produce things like dopamine and hormones. They transmit signals to the brain, urging us to eat, sleep, drink, and so on. In fact, at these times, it's not our subjective consciousness controlling the body, but body consciousness. We appear to be individual life forms, but we are actually an ecosystem. Our ninja Chakra is much higher level than these cells. Chakra can free our consciousness from the constraints of the body, getting rid of those low-level survival needs, making us purer. Now that we are in the Mind World, Hokage-sama, you need to strengthen your resolve, abandon fixed ways of thinking from your consciousness, abandon those low-level needs, and pursue the most fundamental thoughts in your heart. That is your essence".
Jiraiya was half-skeptical. It sounded somewhat reasonable. He closed his eyes, strengthened his resolve, and tried to make his spiritual energy purer. He could use Sage Mode and had trained in communicating with physical energy, spiritual energy, and natural energy. Ino's words weren't a sudden enlightenment, but they showed him more about the mysteries of spiritual energy. These were things he hadn't thought about or realized before.
It was indeed as Inoichi Yamanaka had said. Physical energy and natural energy aside, his daughter had gone very far on the path of spiritual energy.
He grasped the key and quickly gathered materials from the wooden house to create a "door" that leaned towards a conceptual nature. Ino pushed the black-transformed Konan out of the wooden house, then yielded her position. "Alright, Boss, you take care of blocking the door".
Jiraiya was the protagonist of this wooden house, or at least one of them. His influence on Konan was definitely higher than that of a pure passerby like Ino. Jiraiya said with a heavy expression, "Konan, I know you three hate me. I don't blame you, but I hope you listen carefully to what I have to say...".
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