When Kizaru was practicing celestial arts at Mt. Myouki, all the affairs he had arranged before leaving Konoha were being carried out in an orderly manner.
Shintaro, who was assigned by Kizaru to be responsible for the business affairs of Bandai Toy Store, devoted himself to the operation of Bandai Toy Store without sleep or food in order not to disappoint his elder brother.
With the help of the family's resources and connections, Shintaro quickly recruited 57 skilled carpenters and cooperated with Xia's parents to upgrade the production line.
At the same time, Shintaro also completed the business negotiations very well. Not only did he sign an exclusive agreement with the businessman for the Bandai brand, but he also obtained 100% of the gross profit he promised during the price negotiation.
After calculation, excluding the cost of character copyright and technical design, the current three grades of toy products in Bandai Toy Store cost 285 taels (store price 1,000 taels), 784 taels (3,000 taels), and 1,203 taels respectively. Liang (5000 Liang).
After calculating the cost, Shintaro negotiated with the merchant for wholesale prices of 600 taels, 1,800 taels, and 3,200 taels.
Both parties are very satisfied with this price, which can be regarded as laying a good foundation for future cooperation.
The third elder, who had been secretly supervising and observing, also praised Shintaro's performance after the negotiation.
Shintaro was very happy to be praised, but he was not satisfied yet. He wanted to be praised and recognized by Brother Kizaru.
Therefore, after the negotiation, Shintaro continued to stay at the Bandai Toy Store, assisting Scorpio's parents in managing the recruited carpenters and taking charge of external sales.
Knowing the future potential of Bandai toys, the third elder was also happy to see this situation. Instead of calling Shintaro back, he acquiesced to Shintaro staying in the Bandai toy store.
As for Scorpio's parents, they don't have any objections to this, or they hope so.
Having already died once for Sunagakure, the two people were once puppet masters, and now they like the research and development and manufacturing of toys.
Whenever they see the toys they designed and manufactured being loved and sought after by children, they feel filled with a sense of accomplishment.
In addition, Scorpio likes and is proud of his parents' new job, which makes the couple fall in love with their current toy research and development work.
In addition, the two of them are not very good at or interested in sales and management work.
Therefore, after knowing that Shintaro was willing to stay and help, they were naturally very happy.
Compared to Shintaro's progress, Kizaru's other partner Orochimaru has been feeling uncomfortable recently.
With the arrival of the new year, he cooperated with Tsunade to develop Hashirama cells for his disciple Naoki. The risk of rejection continued to decrease. Kizaru brought what Orochimaru had always wanted, about the location of Ryūchi Cave.
With the arrival of two good things, it stands to reason that Orochimaru should have gained double happiness.
But unfortunately, this kind of thing will disappear.
After knowing the location of Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru, who was eager for celestial magic, took the root ninja and went there immediately.
After going through the arduous tests of the three Snake Himeshin Princess, Ichikishima Hime, and Tsunjin Hime in Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru successfully met the White Snake Sennin and obtained the qualification to practice immortal arts.
Then, Orochimaru was dumbfounded.
Compared with the step-by-step and safer method of practicing senjutsu in Mount Myoki, the practice of senjutsu in Ryūchi Cave, the holy land contracted by Orochimaru, is quite simple and crude.
Unlike Mt. Myoboku, which uses toad oil to help contractors gradually perceive and absorb natural energy, the way of practicing celestial arts in Ryūjidō is for the White Snake Sage to use his fangs to inject natural energy into contractors who have passed the test, and then teach it to Ryujidō Sage. model.
It sounds simple, but the problem is that this simple and crude method is extremely dangerous.
Once a practitioner fails to maintain the balance of natural energy, his body turns into a snake and will be eaten!
As a mad scientist, Orochimaru is very radical and crazy, but this is all for the experimental subjects.
Now I have to become a "guinea pig" and be directly injected with natural energy by the White Snake Immortal. The rest is left to talent and luck.
Orochimaru was a little unable to accept such an unstable, risky, and unknown way of practicing immortality.
More importantly, White Snake Sage also told Orochimaru that his chakra amount was not too much (Energy 7), and the success rate of practicing the Sage Mode of Ryūchi Cave would not be too high.
Faced with this situation, Orochimaru did not choose to practice immortality rashly, but left Ryūchi Cave.
Of course, Orochimaru's trip to Ryūchi Cave was not completely fruitless.
Outside the entrance of Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru discovered a village. Because the villagers lived close to Ryūchi Cave, their bodies instinctively absorbed some natural energy.
Adhering to the concept of sustainable development, and also in order to observe the long-term impact of natural energy on these villagers, Orochimaru did not directly pack up all these villagers, but secretly collected many blood and human tissue samples.
At the same time, Orochimaru also used becoming a ninja and gaining strength as bait, and took away several teenagers from this village who were unwilling to be ordinary and eager to get ahead.
With these gains, Orochimaru and the root ninjas returned to Konoha.
After returning to Konoha, before Orochimaru began to retreat to study natural energy, he and Tsunade transplanted improved Hashirama cells to his disciple Naoki.
Orochimaru has high hopes for his disciples and this Hashirama cell transplant.
According to Orochimaru's calculations, the Senju Rouki, who has the direct bloodline of the Senju, should have a great chance of awakening the wood to escape the blood inheritance limit under the stimulation of Hashirama's cells.
The disciple Naoki did not disappoint his teacher Orochimaru. On the third day after transplanting Hashirama cells, he awakened the Wood Release Blood Succession Limit.
This was originally something that made both Orochimaru and Tsunade happy.
However, as expected, an unexpected surprise came. There was a slight deviation in the wooden escape blood succession limit of Naoshu's awakening.
Perhaps because the awakening was not thorough enough, or perhaps because the qualifications were insufficient, the wood escape blood inheritance limit of the awakened rope tree could not change into wood, but could only change into grass.
Yes, when the chakra properties of Earth Release and Water Release were changed at the same time, the first Hokage Senju Hashirama transformed into wood, while the Rope Tree transformed into grass.
"Wood Release: The Technique of the Great Forest!"
In the training ground No. 37, under the watchful eyes of his teacher and sister, Rooshu practiced using the secret wood escape technique passed down from his family.
Following the rope tree's seals and shouts, his right hand turned into dozens of relatively thick green grass.
These tough and thick green grasses are like steel cables, spirally intertwined and spreading forward.
Seeing this scene, Orochimaru's expression was calm, but he still felt a little uncomfortable inside.
You and Tsunade worked hard to develop improved Hashirama cells. After the successful transplantation, you awakened me to a grass escape?
This child is hopeless, forget it, I’m tired!
Beside Orochimaru, Tsunade slapped her forehead with a strange expression. Apparently she was also a little confused by her brother's awakened grass escape.
However, as a qualified sister, Tsunade knew that what her brother needed at this time was encouragement, not accusations and ridicule.
She smiled and took the initiative to walk up to Shengshu, who looked disappointed.
Raising her hand and pressing it on the head of the rope tree, Tsunade smiled and praised loudly: "You did a good job. You can successfully perform it in the first practice. You are worthy of being my younger brother!"
"But, sister, the one I used is not the Wood Release." Looking at Tsunade's smile, Naoki said in despair.
"There are no useless ninjutsu, only useless ninjas! Rope Tree, the grass escape you just used, I think it has great potential for development." Tsunade looked at Rope Tree seriously, guiding and educating.
"Really?" Shen Shu asked unconfidently.
"Compared to my grandfather's Wood Release, although your Grass Release is a little weaker in attack, it is more flexible in other aspects and has great potential for development." Tsunade said encouragingly.
"I understand, sister, I will study the Kusanagi Ninjutsu!" Naoki said firmly, raising his right hand and clenching it into a fist.
Have a late night snack and another update!
(End of chapter)
