Chapter 202

"Do you guys feel that the fog here has become a bit thicker?"

Hozuki Mangetsu looked toward the forest behind him; the trees whose outlines could faintly be seen before now could not be seen clearly at all.

"The fog has become thicker, but it has nothing to do with us anymore."

"Let's hurry up and head toward the mountain."

Ameyuri Ringo spread her hands, looking like it was none of her business.

Hearing this, Hozuki Mangetsu didn't say much more, but turned his head and walked toward the foot of the mountain.

In the mist space.

The big orange cat had just prepared to start from kidnapping Takeda Yoichi when he was coldly glared at by Mizunuki Ryosuke.

"Don't talk nonsense, say something useful!"

The cold killing intent made Meitaro tremble all over, and he hurriedly nodded his head wildly.

Thus, Meitaro no longer "told from the beginning," but began to pick content related to the fog to tell.

The current space, the cats of the cat clan call it the "Mist Area."

Even the cat clan, the local snakes here, rarely know the origin of the Mist Area.

Most cats only know that this troublesome mist is produced in this space, and as for how it is produced, they know nothing at all.

Meitaro was also one of this "majority."

This area can also be considered one of the forbidden areas of the cat clan, but because the cat clan members are extremely loose, they never take the so-called "forbidden area" seriously.

"and never took it seriously either.

Plus, the Mist Area hadn't had any trouble for many years, so the cat clan's high-level officials let the cats play around.

After countless years of exploration of the Mist Area, the cat clan divided the degree of the fog into five levels according to the concentration of the fog.

They are: Shallow Fog, Thick Fog, Deep Fog, Mist, and the highest level, "Mist Nightmare."

With different concentrations, these mists will also present different states.

Shallow Fog, basically no different from ordinary fog.

Thick Fog, the fog becomes impossible to disperse.

Deep Fog, when in the fog, perception will be disrupted, and there is a certain probability that monsters called "Mirage" will form in the fog.

Mist, when in the fog, a large number of hallucinations will appear, and a huge number of monsters called "Mirage" will appear in the fog.

Mist Nightmare, even Meitaro himself had never seen such a situation; he had only heard the Great Clan Chief of the cat clan say that once one steps into this degree, the entire "mist" will thoroughly come alive, and at that time, it will trigger a disaster.

Since troublesome mist is constantly being produced in this space, accumulating bit by bit will turn into disaster and trouble.

So in order to avoid accidents, the cat clan built a special passage from the mist space to the canyon.

The role of this passage is to timely discharge the mist in the mist space to avoid problems caused by too high concentration.

In this way, not only was the trouble of the mist space eliminated, but it also formed a defense against foreign enemies at the foot of the mountain where the cat clan lived.

The fog Mizunuki Ryosuke encountered as soon as he entered the forest was exactly the fog discharged from the mist space.

And precisely because of this, it caused Meitaro to make a misjudgment.

He thought that on the premise of having released the fog once, the concentration of the fog within the mist space would not be deep enough to produce monsters called "Mirage."

But after he entered the mist space, he discovered that the concentration of the fog here was already about to surpass the Deep Fog level and move toward the fourth-level "Mist" level.

That was why Meitaro was so panicked; once a monster called "Mirage" appeared in the fog, even if it was just one.

Trapped in the thick fog, with perception trapped, one could only become the prey of the "Mirage."

This monster called "Mirage" has no wisdom, but only possesses an instinct.

"You led us here, didn't you think about how you would get out?"

Mizunuki Ryosuke questioned again, his eyes staring tightly at Meitaro.

"I thought about it, I thought about it!"

"Before I came in, I had arranged with my companions to open the mist discharge port of the Mist Area after two hours!"

"That will be the only chance to get out!"

Meitaro said hurriedly, his eyes full of the desire to survive.

Seeing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes narrowed slightly; the previous grudges would be settled after getting out of here; the most urgent task was to handle the situation here.

"Then what is the situation here now?"

Ryosuke asked again, pointing to the fog outside the ice ball that was rising rapidly in concentration and asking Meitaro.

"Human, human big brother..."

"I seem to have heard..."

"The Mist Area has something like a 'seal'..."

"Just now, big brother, you showed your divine power, it should have been you who destroyed the seal."

Meitaro said cautiously, while carefully weighing his words, trying not to provoke this terrifying human before him.

At this moment, Meitaro's heart was already full of regret.

He had originally valued Takeda Yoichi as a "soft persimmon" to pinch, but he didn't expect that such a great demon god was standing behind Takeda Yoichi.

If he had known now, he wouldn't have dared to lay a hand on Ryosuke's team even if he had ten guts.

Now, things had already exceeded the limit that Meitaro could bear.

Hearing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke rubbed his temples.

He had unleashed a map-wide attack, really just destroying a small fry, but it ended up causing the current result.

Since things had already happened, annoyance would not play any role.

At this moment, Ryosuke could only think as quickly as possible about how to handle the current situation.

Countless pieces of information flashed back in Ryosuke's mind, eventually outlining a picture.

The appearance of the big orange cat completed the last piece of the puzzle, allowing Ryosuke to insight the whole truth.

Ryosuke had long heard that, legend has it, the summoning beast race of the First Mizukage was very strange, actually being the cats that could be seen everywhere in the Ninja World.

But it was precisely with the support of the ninja cat summoning beasts that the First Mizukage laid down the great foundation of the Hidden Mist Village.

Clearly, these ninja cats were worlds apart from ordinary cats.

The appearance of the orange cat undoubtedly explained the relationship between the cat clan and the Hidden Mist Village.

That's right, the cat clan currently entrenched on the peak of the mysterious mountain valley should be the ninja cats that established a contract relationship with the First Mizukage.

This time, the so-called "S-rank" mission was very likely a trial created by the village and the cat clan in cooperation, and the purpose was to select the new Mizukage.

And the so-called "Mizukage Secret Scroll," it is estimated, should be a completely non-existent thing.

If Ryosuke hadn't guessed wrong, the Hidden Mist high-level officials far away in the village should be able to insight everything in the mission process through a special method.

The "S-rank" mission actually didn't exist; it was itself the Mizukage assessment.

And combined with the murals seen in the mist space and the rock cave.

Mizunuki Ryosuke could basically conclude that the cat clan living here might have some connection with the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hagoromo.

It was mentioned in the original work.

After the Sage of Six Paths sealed Kaguya, he had wandered alone in the Ninja World, and after seeing the Ninja World full of starving people, he created the "Ninja Sect," trying to change the status quo of the world.

The seven-attribute jutsu were spread by the Sage of Six Paths at this time.

According to the content of the mural, Ryosuke could basically determine that before the Sage of Six Paths created the Ninja Sect, he should have accidentally come to this mountain valley and entered this rock cave during his travels in the Ninja World.

After seeing the "Yin-Yang Spring" in the rock cave, inspired by this, the Sage of Six Paths realized and created something containing "Yin-Yang Power" here.

According to Mizunuki Ryosuke's guess, the Yin-Yang stone disk in the mural was just an abstract way of expression, and its true meaning represented was Yin-Yang Release.

That is to say, this rock cave was the place where the Sage of Six Paths created Yin-Yang Release!

According to the content of the mural, the Sage of Six Paths took away the Yang Release symbolizing the "Yang attribute."

He left behind the Yin Release symbolizing the "Yin" attribute and sealed it.

This mist filled with Yin Release attributes was the best evidence and explanation.

And, Mizunuki Ryosuke couldn't imagine, besides the Sage of Six Paths, who else in the Ninja World could release such large-scale Yin-Yang Release?

At the same time, in the previous rock cave, the brief exchange with the big orange cat made Ryosuke discover.

Although this cat looked cowardly and useless at the moment, it was indeed a bona fide Yin-Yang Release master.

And according to the previous mural, one could naturally associate that it was precisely because the ancestors of the cat clan had contact with the Sage of Six Paths that they obtained the secret technique of Yin-Yang Release from the Sage of Six Paths.

After thinking everything through, Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes were completely different.

The current situation seemed like a crisis, but in reality, it was Mizunuki Ryosuke's opportunity.

Yin-Yang Release was originally Ryosuke's shortcoming.

Unlike the five elemental attributes that were everywhere, Yin-Yang Release secret techniques were extremely rare in the Ninja World. ===== CHAPTER 204 =====