Chapter 324: 324. Chapter 319: Wanting to Eat a Full Meal Counts as a Wish, Right?

324. Chapter 319: Wanting to Eat a Full Meal Counts as a Wish, Right?

"Shen-kun!"

Zhenzi's pear-blossom-rain-like appearance instantly ignited the long-suppressed anger in Shenhuo's heart. The door on the Box of Bliss that radiated an ominous aura was definitely a place of no return. He immediately lit up his palms with pale blue light and slapped toward the guard who was escorting the girl.

"Blast Palm!"

A strike from Shenhuo in anger, even a captain-level ninja, would have to avoid its edge, but the strength of these guards clearly hadn't reached the captain level.

"Boom!"

"Thud~"

And so, before they could even scream, their hearts were exploded by the ghostly Shenhuo. After a while, only three living people remained in the whole venue.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Protecting the panicked Zhenzi behind him, Shenhuo faced the elder with a cold face. As time passed, this familiar scene made the three people present feel a mix of flavors.

"Shenhuo, you shouldn't have come."

The elder looked at Shenhuo's stubborn eyes and sighed slightly. He had always cultivated this young man as his disciple, not only taking him out of the chakra training camp that only entered and never exited, but also teaching him many secret techniques of the Grass Hidden Style.

"Elder, I'm sorry, Zhenzi is a person more important than my life."

Slowly reaching his hand toward his sword, even though the two were now standing on opposite sides, Shenhuo still respected the elder quite a bit. If it weren't for this old man, he and Zhenzi would have starved to death on the street long ago, becoming food in the mouths of other refugees. So when he drew his sword, his face carried deep apologies.

"Boom~"

"Sigh~ you just cut off your last chance of survival."

The elder had lived for so many years, what kind of life and death, love and hate had he not seen? So he was not moved by the bond between Shenhuo and Zhenzi. His expression remained indifferent. After hearing the eager craving sound of the Box of Bliss, he shook his head with some regret and said words that made the two inexplicable.

"Elder, you are old, you might not be my opponent."

Shenhuo, who had just been promoted to an elite captain not long ago, had strong confidence in his strength. In his eyes, the elder, who was already like a candle in the wind, was not an opponent for a young man like him.

"Move aside, Elder, I don't want to hurt you."

Waving the sword in his hand and twirling a beautiful sword flower, Shenhuo's tone carried a faint threat. He had just used thunderous momentum to kill several fully armed guards in seconds, just to deter the elder and make him retreat in the face of difficulties.

"If you hadn't killed them just now, maybe there would still be a way to survive."

The elder was unmoved by Shenhuo's threat, instead looking at the guards who fell to the ground and lost their lives with some sigh. If these people were still alive, they could completely replace the woman named Zhenzi. But because of the young man's impulse, there must be one person in the field to become a sacrifice for the Box of Bliss.

"Don't think about having someone come to support. I have already knocked out all the combatants outside. No one will come again in a short time."

To ensure the safety of his actions, Shenhuo used his status to knock out and tie up several colleagues who came to guard, thinking that if Zhenzi really encountered any danger, he would forcibly take people and run away.

"You young people are still too impatient."

Shenhuo's rebellious behavior made the elder very disappointed. His turbid eyeballs carried an inexplicable look, staring at the two until they felt hairy in their hearts.

"Clang~"

Knowing that if he delayed for a while, his chance of escaping would be less, Shenhuo couldn't care about the uneasiness in his heart. He waved the sword in his hand and killed toward the elder who was standing blankly in place.

"Shen-kun!"

Seeing Shenhuo's sharp blade about to cut the old man, Zhenzi's childhood memories surged in her heart. This old man, like a kind father, had truly saved her and Shen-kun who were on the verge of death. No matter what, they couldn't turn their swords against the old man who had the grace of saving their lives.

"Don't worry, I won't kill him, at most let him faint for a while."

Shenhuo, who used the back of the blade to attack, didn't really have the intention to hurt the old man, at most knock him out, so they could take the opportunity to escape.

"Shenhuo, I'll give you one last lesson..."

Facing the sharp sword wind, the elder didn't dodge. Instead, he slowly raised a large hand covered with wrinkles. As the red light like fire lit up, he said in a very cold voice.

"Don't be soft-hearted to anyone who blocks in front of you."

The next moment, Shenhuo, who was swinging his sword, felt his whole body in pain as if being roasted by fire. The chakra he had just refined disappeared instantly, and the dried meridians didn't have a trace of vitality. Unable to bear the heart-piercing pain, he fell to the ground in embarrassment, making bursts of painful wails.

"Ah~ ah~ ah!"

"Shen-kun!"

The sudden change made Zhenzi, who was already concerned, scream in surprise. She stumbled to Shenhuo's side, looked at the young man's painful appearance, and the girl hurriedly checked his situation, only to find that rows of red patterns like tracks appeared out of thin air on the other's skin, radiating a scorching aura.

"This is..."

Shenhuo, who felt that even breathing was a bit difficult, endured the pain and propped up his head, looking at the old man whose red light in his hands had dissipated. The doubt in his eyes couldn't dissipate for a long time.

"Shenhuo, if you had endured for a few more years, maybe you would have been qualified to learn this move."

【Fire Style: Heavenly Prison】

This move was a secret technique unique to the elder's lineage, hitting chains that bound chakra into the enemy's body, restricting their refining of chakra, and at the same time making them lose their combat effectiveness.

"Umm..."

Shenhuo, who didn't expect the old man to have a hidden hand, was full of unwillingness. He wanted to say something, but couldn't open his mouth no matter what. But at this moment, the two had already torn their faces, and the master-disciple friendship of the past had already vanished when the conflict just started.

"Elder! Please let Shen-kun go, I am willing to go in!"

Unable to bear seeing Shenhuo suffer torture, Zhenzi wiped the tears on her face, stood up, and gave a miserable smile.

"Don't! Zhenzi..."

Shenhuo heard this and struggled to climb up, but the flame-like chains on his body tortured his expression to ferocity.

"Elder, as long as you can let Zhenzi go, I am willing to do anything!"

It was another familiar scene. After hearing this, the elder's brain suddenly popped up a dirty butt, and his mood was immediately not beautiful.

"Shenhuo, if you want her to live, go in."

An ungrateful white-eyed wolf, leaving him behind is also a disaster, it's better to let him exert his remaining heat and contribute to the rise of the Land of Grass.

"..."

Shenhuo paused when he heard this, turned his head to look at the pitch-black door on the Box of Bliss, nodded without any hesitation.

"Elder, please keep your promise and don't hurt Zhenzi."

"Hmph! As long as the Box of Bliss is successfully opened, I have no intention of arguing with a little girl."

The elder snorted coldly, showing thick disdain. Once the Box of Bliss is opened, their Land of Grass will lead the ninja world again, and then there will be no intention to manage these stinky fish and rotten shrimp.

"Good!"

Hearing the elder's words, Shenhuo felt a relief in his heart, lowered his head to look at the girl full of tears, and gently stroked her head.

"Zhenzi, you must take good care of yourself when I'm not here, don't be hungry."

"Shen-kun, don't!"

The girl who felt the young man's determination hugged the other's waist, and the tears flowed down drop by drop like they didn't need money.

"Ah ah ah ah~ gently, it's going to break!"

Being hugged by the girl's slender arms and almost breaking his waist, Shenhuo screamed and patted the girl's back, signaling the other to let go of himself.

"Ah! Sorry, Shen-kun."

Seeing Shenhuo's look of breathing more and exhaling less, the girl hurriedly let go, and her little face couldn't help but blush slightly.

"Hoo~ why is your strength getting bigger and bigger? But I'm relieved like this. In the future, if someone bullies you, you give him a 'cannon'."

Shenhuo, who was panting, looked like he had survived a disaster, sighed, and patted the girl's shoulder, saying.

"Shen-kun..."

Looking at Shenhuo who was taken down by her own move, a bold thought suddenly popped into Zhenzi's mind.

Glancing at the Box of Bliss radiating a cold aura, Zhenzi started at zero frames, raised her leg violently, and gave a 'cannon' to Shenhuo who was about to say some last words.

Crack!

Note: The sound of an egg breaking~

"Ah!!!"

Suddenly struck by a heavy blow, Shenhuo instantly turned red, covered his 'below', and began to roll on the ground. The elder, who was also male, saw this scene, even if his own 'eggs' had been in disrepair for a long time, he couldn't help but turn pale and subconsciously covered his crotch.

"Shen-kun, sorry, who told you to be an idiot."

The girl gave a calm smile to Shenhuo who fell to the ground unable to get up.

"Zhenzi, what do you want to do?"

"Gulu~"

"Sigh~ Shen-kun, you said if you die hungry, will you become a hungry ghost?"

Gently stroking Shenhuo's head, the girl stood up, touched her hungry belly with regret, then turned her back to the door of the Box of Bliss and leaped, fixing her last face in Shenhuo's gray eyes.

"No!!!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With the offering of the last sacrifice, the Box of Bliss made a satisfied groan, and a black gas containing a destructive aura rose suddenly, as if the end of the world was about to come.

"It's done! It's done!"

Seeing this scene, the elder's iceberg-like old face showed an excited expression for the first time, trembling all over, looking at the Box of Bliss that was full, waiting for the moment to make a wish.

"Zhenzi!"

Shenhuo, who fell to the side, screamed miserably, his heart already swallowed by regret, barking incompetently.

"Stop screaming, becoming a sacrifice is her honor. In the future, when the Land of Grass unifies the ninja world, I will engrave her name on the monument."

Compared to unifying the ninja world, Shenhuo, this guy, seemed irrelevant. Anyway, he had already been controlled by the Heavenly Prison and couldn't make any waves. Let him witness the rise of the Land of Grass before he died!

"Boom~ boom~"

The elder waited quietly for the opening of the Box of Bliss. Accompanied by a rumbling sound, the Box of Bliss slowly retracted the black gas that had escaped. That pitch-black door still radiated a cold aura, as if it was waiting for something.

"Finally let me wait!"

The elder, who had a feeling in his heart, raised his hands excitedly, shouted at the pitch-black door in front of him.

"Box of Bliss! Please let our Land of Grass become the... of this world again!"

"Gulu~"

"The... of the world..."

"Gulu~ gulu~"

"Umm... whose belly is rumbling?!"

The process of making a wish was interrupted several times by the strange rumbling sound. The frustrated elder turned his head, scanned the whole scene, trying to find the guy who spoiled the scenery.

"Not me."

As one of the only two living people in the field, Shenhuo shook his head subconsciously, his heart also very puzzled.

This sound of the belly rumbling, why is it so familiar?

"Bada~ bada~"

Seeing the rumbling sound disappear, the elder, who knew which was light and which was heavy, prepared to continue making a wish, when a harsh sound of footsteps suddenly rang in his ears.

The elder, who had a feeling in his heart, immediately moved his gaze to the source of the sound, only to see a scene that left him dumbfounded.

"Zhenzi?!"

Shenhuo also moved his gaze over, only to hear him scream, his tone full of joy.

"Bada~ bada~"

Only to see a pretty figure slowly walking out of that door of the Box of Bliss, her clean white little feet stepping on the cold ground, making a 'bada bada' sound.

After the girl walked out, the Box of Bliss, which had been active just now, instantly fell into dead silence. No matter how the elder called, there was no response.

"How is it possible? What did you do?"

The elder extended his trembling hands, his usually indifferent face carrying deep astonishment.

"Zhenzi!"

Shenhuo didn't know the horror of the Box of Bliss. In his eyes, there was only the girl who had been lost and found. Overjoyed, he struggled to stand up and ran toward the silent girl.

"Don't go over!"

However, the elder's roar stopped Shenhuo's steps abruptly.

"It's not her!"

With a gloomy look on his face, the elder looked at the quiet girl for a while, and said coldly.

"Huh?"

Clearly a big living person standing in front of him, how could he be mistaken? Shenhuo ignored the elder's warning and continued to take steps, but a hoarse gibberish made his extended foot stop in mid-air.

"Eat, eat..."

The girl who returned from the door, after being quiet for a while, suddenly cracked her mouth, revealing a strange smile, and then in the shocked eyes of the two, flashed to the side of the guard's corpse who had been killed by Shenhuo in seconds, the red light in her cold eyes flourishing.

"Zhenzi, what do you want to do?"

The girl named Zhenzi was unmoved by Shenhuo's call. Facing the bloody corpse on the ground, a black mist escaped from it, instantly wrapping the guard who had lost his breath on the ground.

Shenhuo and the elder, whose faces were livid, felt a chill in their hearts at the same time.

"Umm..."

It was just a blink of an eye, the naive appearance didn't make the two people present feel pleasing to the eye, but instead had a kind of deep fear.

"Elder! What is going on?"

Shenhuo bit his teeth and questioned the elder.

"Impossible, the ancestors never recorded such a thing..."

The elder was too lazy to answer Shenhuo's question. With his brows locked, he only cared about why the Box of Bliss failed.

"Forget it, take you down first!"

The girl who walked out of the Box of Bliss was the only clue now. The elder didn't hesitate anymore, raised his red-glowing palms, released the Heavenly Prison Technique toward Zhenzi, and awakened the restraint that had long been planted in her body.

"Sizzle~ sizzle~"

But the result made the elder's glasses fall off. Only to see chains-like patterns appearing on the girl's body first, but they were soon swallowed by the black mist escaping from her skin. No matter how he urged, the Heavenly Prison Technique had no movement.

"What kind of monster are you?"

Since the girl came out, the elder had never regarded her as a normal human being. That kind of behavior just now, as well as ignoring his Heavenly Prison Technique, directly made the elder expel her from human status and classify her to the monster side.

"Eat, eat..."

As if hearing the elder's scolding, the girl who was narrowing her eyes slowly turned her head, and her scarlet eyes instantly locked onto him.

"What do you want to do?"

Although Zhenzi's eyes were very terrifying now, the elder, who had absolute confidence in his strength, didn't retreat, but glared back.

"Whoosh~"

The hungry Zhenzi didn't indulge the elder's bad temper. This food in front of her actually dared to glare at her. She decided to try it first, and her pretty figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

"Ah!"

The elder saw Zhenzi disappear, immediately pinched seals with one hand, and put on a posture of being ready to go. As a result, he only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then a heart-piercing pain came from his arm. Looking down, the hand he was using to pinch seals had actually disappeared. The severe pain made him unable to help screaming.

"Eat."

Zhenzi, who flashed to not far away, was holding the bloody arm in her hand, and the black mist she spat out again swallowed it.

"Monster..."

Enduring the pain to stop the bleeding for himself, a flash of dread flashed in the elder's eyes. He really wanted to figure out what the background of this monster wearing a human skin was.

"Eat, eat..."

As if she only knew how to say the word 'eat', the girl, after tasting the elder's arm, locked her gaze on him again, her pink tongue licking her full lips, her eyes full of craving for food.

"Not good!"

The elder's heart tightened, and he couldn't care about hiding his clumsiness. With his only remaining hand raised, red light flashed, and the combatants on duty outside suddenly felt a burst of dryness in their bodies.

"Ah? What's going on?"

The lower-level combatants were panicked, thinking they had been hit by the enemy's secret calculation.

"Not good, go to the elder's side quickly!"

A few old-timers who knew the Heavenly Prison Technique, seeing the chains appearing on their bodies, immediately felt a chill in their hearts. This was the signal left by the elder; he was in danger.

"Boom! Boom! ~"

Accompanied by a noisy sound of footsteps, the combatants on duty all arrived. Among them, several combatants with bad faces pointed at Shenhuo in the field and said loudly.

"Shenhuo, why did you sneak attack us?"

"That's right, that's right~"

"You guy, don't you want to be a defector?"

"Shut up! Take her down for me first!"

The elder, who had only one hand left, shouted coldly to stop the chattering combatants, pointed to Zhenzi on the side, and ordered.

"Ah? Elder, how did you get such a serious injury?"

Only then did the combatants discover that the elder, who had always been as stable as Mount Tai, had actually lost an arm.

"Yes!"

Everyone didn't dare to delay, took out their weapons one after another, and surrounded the silent Zhenzi.

"Do it!"

Everyone looked at each other tacitly and rushed up all at once.

"Don't!"

Shenhuo, who was restrained by the Heavenly Prison Technique, could only bark incompetently on the side, his hateful gaze as if he wanted to swallow the elder.

"What is this?"

"Ah!"

However, facing the menacing combatants, Zhenzi grinned happily instead. The black mist in her mouth instantly filled the whole scene. After a brief confusion, everyone was entangled by the black mist, followed by fearful screams.

The elder on the side witnessed all this, his face black as water. This monster born from the Box of Bliss must have its unique features. Regarding the rise of the Land of Grass, he must study it clearly.

"What are you afraid of, continue!"

The first wave of combatants who went up didn't leave any traces except for screams. The people behind were so scared that they stood on the ground looking at each other, not daring to continue forward. Seeing this, the elder slowly raised his hand, and the scorching aura made the remaining combatants subconsciously swallow their saliva.

"Zhenzi!"

Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, Shenhuo, who had been offline for a long time, stumbled toward Zhenzi. Seeing this scene, the combatants turned their gaze to the elder, waiting for his order.

"Don't worry about it, let him go."

So the combatants gave way to a path. Shenhuo, with a look of sadness on his face, walked slowly to Zhenzi's side.

"Eat, eat..."

Facing the food delivered to his door, Zhenzi tilted her head and slowly opened her mouth, preparing to enjoy a delicious meal.

"Zhenzi, sorry..."

Sensing that he was locked by a terrifying aura, Shenhuo revealed a bitter smile, raised his hand with effort, and gently stroked the girl's hair in front of him.

"Eat, eat... Shen... kun."

The familiar caress made the girl with scarlet eyes produce a trace of wavering. The elder was also attracted by this scene, his turbid eyeballs rolling between the two.

"Zhenzi..."

"Eat... Shen-kun..."

Only to see the girl's body begin to tremble violently, the black gas in her mouth faintly carried a bit of dark red. After looking deeply at the young man who was at a loss, Zhenzi's body softened, and the whole person collapsed into his arms.

"Elder, what should we do now?"

The cannibal girl suddenly fainted, and the remaining combatants had to ask for the elder's order.

"Send them to the prison and lock them up separately."

After pondering for a while, the elder said coldly.

"Yes!"

After locking Zhenzi in the prison, the elder first made a pair of shackles with the strongest materials in the Land of Grass, and then applied several seals on the girl, which barely controlled the girl's riot.

After all the preparations were done, the elder dragged his seriously injured body to conduct detailed research, only to find that the girl must eat a large amount of fresh flesh and blood every day, otherwise the black mist escaping would crazily erode the seals he had placed.

After the seal was lifted, the girl dragged her shackles and began to destroy wantonly, attacking the researchers on the scene. Every time this happened, Shenhuo, who was locked on the side, became very useful. As long as he was brought in front of the rioting girl, this cannibal monster would fall into a brief silence, and the elder could take the opportunity to re-apply the seal.

This use indirectly saved Shenhuo's life, but it also became a kind of torture to his soul.

Just when Shenhuo thought such days would have no end, a huge coup occurred in the high-level of the Grass Ninja clan. The one-armed elder was defeated by the latecomers, and was fiercely slapped on the beach by the back waves. He died without solving the mystery of the Box of Bliss, and went to the Pure Land with regret.

At the moment the elder died, Shenhuo, who was numb in the prison, felt his body lighten. The restraint of the Heavenly Prison Technique disappeared, but because of his years of prison life, he had long become a useless person and couldn't escape the cage at all.

But Zhenzi was different. As soon as the elder died, the seal on her body was soon worn away by the black mist. Without restraint, she swallowed everyone in the prison except Shenhuo, and then disappeared into the darkness.

Not long after, the new Grass ninja leader relaxed the guard on Shenhuo, giving him a chance to secretly rehabilitate. On a dark and windy night, he successfully killed the jailer and escaped from the prison.

Shenhuo, who was thinking about the girl, looked at the road ahead with a dazed look, picked up a broken old sword on the side of the road, and started his journey of finding his wife.

Walking from the west end of the Land of Grass to the east end, the young man turned from a handsome guy into a bearded, embarrassed uncle, until he wandered all the way to a town in the Land of Fire and heard rumors about cannibal ghosts circulating in the town, which reignited his hope.

Looking at the anxious old mayor in front of him, the thin Shenhuo gently stroked the broken old sword at his waist and spoke slowly.

"My name is Fire God! I am a ninja from the Land of Grass. I heard you have a mission to entrust?"

Ps: Finally finished writing this little side story. Some people say I'm padding the text. How could I, who is diligent and conscientious, pad the text?

n(｀^)n

Every character I write must have his meaning of existence~ (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 325 =====