Land of Fire, Cat House.
Shin'yu closed his eyes tightly, taking a deep breath of the air inside the house. A mixture of mint and a faint fishy smell entered his nostrils, and he finally opened his eyes, his gaze full of joy.
"This daddy... is finally back!"
"Slurp~"
A large tongue covered in barbs suddenly licked his cheek.
Shin'yu shuddered on the spot. Although his body reacted instinctively and activated the water molecule barrier immediately, the feeling was still disgusting.
He quickly turned his head and met Bochi's ghostly blue cat face.
"Hmm~ you seem different." Bochi spoke first.
Shin'yu looked disgusted, the goosebumps on his body hadn't subsided, "Indeed, I'm different, but I don't really like your way of confirming it."
Bochi turned a deaf ear, sniffing around Shin'yu, reaching out his paw to fiddle with the "Frost Descent One Heart" hanging on his waist, his cat face full of interested expression.
"Where did you go?"
"Shouldn't I be the one asking that question?" Shin'yu thought of something, "A few days ago, Tetsusuke said you didn't return to the Cat House. I remember, you should have been fighting Sarutobi Sasuke?"
Bochi yawned lazily, "A very interesting Monkey King Enma, it amazed me. Taking advantage of the fact that the time for the Summoning Technique hadn't ended, I pestered it for another fight."
"Speaking of which, you're quite peculiar too."
Shin'yu propped his chin, thoughtfully said: "Freely changing your body shape, gathering to form, scattering to become gas, and also being able to evolve a barrier from yourself, drawing the ground as a prison..."
"Finally interested?" Bochi's head floated over, his bronze eyes lit up, "This is all the clever use of natural energy, ten billion ryo, and I'll pass on the Sage Art I cultivated to you, how about it?"
"Just say you don't want to teach me, do you know what ten billion is?" Shin'yu waved his hand, and Bochi's cat head immediately scattered into mist, and then regrouped on the other side.
"Besides, if you learn the Sage Art of Mount Myoboku, you'll turn into a toad, if you learn the Sage Art of Ryuchi Cave, you'll turn into a snake, if you learn yours... wouldn't I grow cat hair..." Shin'yu waved his hand, "I always feel that the human body is an innate immortal body, there is always a Sage Art more suitable for humans, and you guys... are all considered demon clans."
"Meow~ where did all these words come from, they're quite fresh... eh? What's this?"
The fluorescent blue mist swept past Shin'yu's pocket, wrapped a golden object, and floated in front of Bochi.
The blue mist condensed into a cat's paw, holding the "Helm Master Token" on its paw pad.
Bochi opened his mouth and bit it, his eyes immediately became pleasantly surprised, "It's gold, pure gold!"
"Give it back." Shin'yu reached out, "This thing is useless to you."
"No, this will be the fee for this time."
Shin'yu had expected its temperament, took out a bag from another waist bag, and threw it over, it was a thick stack of banknotes.
"Here is one million ryo."
Bochi smiled and took the money bag, no longer nostalgic for the "Helm Master Token", letting Shin'yu withdraw it.
It licked its cat's paw, "Speaking of which, after seeing that Monkey King Enma, I had a whim, can I also become a weapon, always by your side."
Shin'yu was slightly startled, "For example?"
"Like this..." Bochi turned his body into a blue light mist, rotating around Shin'yu, the dreamlike color, as if being in a sea of stars.
As the light converged, it eventually transformed into a ghostly blue longsword, suspended next to Frost Descent One Heart.
Shin'yu clicked his tongue in wonder, grasped the hilt, and lightly flicked the blade with his finger. This was standard practice, allowing him to judge the sharpness by the metallic echo.
Clear and resonant, like a dragon's roar.
"It can be big or small, you know," a lazy voice came from the hilt.
"I know," Shin'yu said, suddenly looking bored, and tossed the radiant, ornate longsword aside with a "thwack."
"It's definitely too expensive, can't afford it."
"Three million ryo per day rental, think about it. I can even conjure a cage to trap enemies and inflict damage..."
Shin'yu ignored it and pushed open the door.
Blinding sunlight flooded his eyes, and the air, carrying a faint scent of flowers and grass, was refreshing. His eyes instantly adjusted to the light, and he was met with the sight of towering mountains and endless greenery.
Having grown accustomed to the icy world these past few days, he felt a sense of detachment as he basked in the warm sunlight.
The Cat House was still the Cat House. Despite sounding like a building, it was actually a city exclusively for cats, built upon ruins.
Among these cats were ordinary felines, as well as talking ninja cats skilled in crafting ninja tools. Combined with their shrewd minds, they had long established a self-sufficient economic chain.
The specific situation could be summed up in four words:
A land of abundance.
Here, one could see countless cats of all sizes scurrying through the streets and alleys. Only the Uchiha clan had a way to enter the Cat House.
"Hmm... I should go back and find Lord Madara. Light once took me along the road back to the base a few times... I remember it's... hmm..."
Shin'yu lowered his head in thought, his brow furrowing tighter and tighter.
"Was I always this... directionally challenged?"
He finally realized something was wrong.
Although the original him couldn't distinguish east from west, his memory of the roads he had traveled was not vague. The dynamic vision of the Uchiha, and the memory brought by his ultra-high soul strength, would allow him to remember every road he had taken.
It was one thing in the Land of Iron, since it was his first time there, it was normal not to know the way.
But now...
He had traveled the road from the Cat House to Kannabi Bridge quite a few times, there was no reason he couldn't remember it!
A sense of direction is innate in humans. Unlike animals, humans do not have specialized organs to sense the Earth's magnetic field.
In other words, human magnetic sense is too weak, because human's own five senses and vision are enough to ensure survival, magnetic sense is too redundant. Over the long river of time, human's redundant magnetic induction will degenerate and even disappear.
As a result, people rely more on visual memory to locate themselves in space.
If you want to go to a place, your brain will often imagine the general appearance of the destination in the first instance, then the surrounding environment, and then, according to past memories, follow the clues based on your current position, and gradually conceive a general route.
But now, Shin'yu's memory of this route had split!
His intuition told him that the straight line to his destination was to the south, but suddenly he felt that east, west, and north were the correct directions.
Each split memory was aligned with a location in his mind, and this elusive feeling made it seem like any direction he chose would be wrong.
"Mahoraga!"
Whenever he was indecisive, he decisively activated his Mangekyo Sharingan, and "Mahoraga" slowly rotated amidst a burst of red light.
With the blessing of infinite adaptability, he examined his body inch by inch, while constantly recalling the routes in his memory.
"Something's not right! There's a problem with my body."
"Under the interference of some kind of power, the route memories that once existed in my mind have become chaotic."
Could this be... magnetic sense?
Could it be that in a certain adaptation, my brain evolved the ability to sense magnetic fields?
He suddenly raised his head, instantly grasping the key point of the problem.
"It's... the Flying Thunder God Technique!" He clenched his fist silently.
The essence of the Flying Thunder God Technique, in the final analysis, is still using Chakra imprints to perform space jumps, an indisputable space-time Ninjutsu.
And in space, there exists a uniformly distributed physical field, a vector field composed of countless moving tiny particles that transmit magnetic force between objects, and this is the magnetic field.
It refers to what exists in the space of the universe, an important environmental factor in space, which can be the magnetic field generated by the current inside the universe and celestial bodies in space, or the magnetic field generated by the current system in space.
The disturbance and change of the spatial magnetic field affect the distribution and change of charged particles in space, that is to say, if space produces fluctuations, the magnetic field will change.
Shin'yu frowned. The reason why he was so embarrassed in the previous battle with Tobirama was because he put the fully powered "Mahoraga" on adapting to the "Flying Thunder God Technique", but the power of space is so vast that he failed to complete the adaptation even when Tobirama transferred him to the deep sea.
After that, he even wanted to use "Mahoraga" to adapt to his own "Ame no Tokotachi", but unfortunately, simultaneously urging the power of the origin is tantamount to self-contradiction.
Moreover, the essence of "Ame no Tokotachi" is to change the state of space from the state of time, which will not cause spatial fluctuations. Therefore, the adaptation to space has been in a stagnant state.
This also made him understand that it is difficult for the current "Mahoraga" to adapt to the essence of all things in the world through Ninjutsu, and even if it can be done, it will take an immeasurable amount of time.
But for the "Flying Thunder God Technique", the solution given by "Mahoraga" is to evolve the ability to sense magnetic fields, and to detect subtle changes in space in time, so that he can react in the instant of spatial fluctuations and directly predict the spatial landing point of the target!
But... because the evolution was incomplete, he did not successfully adapt to the Flying Thunder God. Therefore, the incompletely evolved magnetic sense cannot synchronize with the original visual memory, so they interfere with each other!
"If I can't fully adapt to the Flying Thunder God, the original sense of direction and the newly born magnetic induction will continue to interfere with each other, causing me to become a road idiot!"
No wonder... why am I going around in circles in the Land of Iron...
If the adaptation of "Mahoraga" is incomplete, it may cause me to have some strange problems. I have to pay attention to this in the future.
He took a long breath and looked at the sky.
Tobirama Senju... I will find you.
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