The already lazy Miwa Masayo suddenly thought of a question. Her spirits suddenly perked up and she turned around abruptly to look at Uchiha You.

Uchiha You asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

The tabby cat tilted its head and stared at its owner, asking in a strange tone, "Is the mark that can be felt from such a distance the mark of Flying Thunder God? When did you succeed in developing it, meow?"

Uchiha You replied: "It is only halfway done. This mark cannot respond to my technique yet. There are still many problems to be solved..."

"Meow! You can accomplish this level when you accompany me to eat and drink. What else can you not be satisfied with!"

Miwa Masayo was getting angrier and angrier as she spoke: "You, you can't be like this, meow. It's obviously rest time, but you're still working so hard. You're making me feel stupid and lazy, meow!"

Uchiha You explained helplessly: "You can't blame me for this. I suddenly got the inspiration and completed it to this extent. I didn't want to do this..."

"Just take a good rest from now on, just..."

Miwa Masayo looked around. The beach had become messy due to the battle and was filthy with the blue blood of the octopus. The sea water was intertwined with emulsified squid mucus and black octopus ink, and it was dirty everywhere.

Uchiha You saw her embarrassment and comforted her: "Don't worry, the squid's mucus, octopus's blood and ink are all easily degradable proteins. When the tide rises, the sea water will flood this place and the mess will be dissolved by the sea water."

"When the sun rises and the tide goes out, even the beach will return to its original state."

Miwa Masayo felt relieved. Just then she saw a clean reef, so she pointed there with her white claws and said, "Then you can accompany me there to watch the stars, and we will wait for the sunrise together."

"Do you want the octopus tentacles..."

"You can't even deal with those two octopus tentacles, meow!"

Miwa Masayo glared at Uchiha You lovingly, and said fiercely: "A piece of meat that big won't go bad even if it's soaked in sea water overnight, which is just right to remove the fishy smell of blood."

"Okay, okay, let's look at the stars together."

"That's right meow, this is rest meow, you are not allowed to work hard to improve yourself in secret meow!"

"well."

The ink spit out by the octopus was pushed by the rising waves and gradually spread out. The entire sea water turned into black ink, and the remaining bonfire on the beach was submerged by the tide and completely extinguished.

The surrounding environment was completely pitch dark, and the stars in the sky seemed even brighter.

Although there is no Milky Way across the sky in the Ninja World, the charm of the starry sky is not lost, and it still deeply attracts Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo who are lying on the rocks.

Uchiha You stretched out his right hand and grasped it towards the sky, as if he could catch the twinkling stars.

“I hope that one day, we can become saints in the flesh and step into the sea of ​​stars as true immortals.”

"Meow."

Miwa Masayo asked Uchiha You to accompany her to watch the stars, but she couldn't hold on and became sleepy. She only gave the simplest response to Uchiha You's words.

"Okay, go to sleep, I'll stay with you."

"You are not allowed to work hard secretly, meow?"

"No, I'll just sit here, listen to the waves, look at the stars, and watch the sunrise."

"I want to watch the sunrise too, meow."

"Okay, I'll call you."

After getting Uchiha Yu's promise, Miwa Masayo fell into a deep sleep.

Ever since they came to the Land of Hot Springs, Miwa Masayo has inexplicably fallen into a state of tension. She is always on edge and ready to fight.

Later, Uchiha You got a little confused because of Xiao Ke, and Miwa Masayo became even more nervous. Because in the past three years, Uchiha You had taken good care of her and protected her with his strong strength. Now that Uchiha You had a problem, the tabby cat consciously took on the responsibility of protecting the shit shoveling master.

This situation continued until yesterday, when Uchiha You initially subdued Xiao Ke and left the land of Hot Spring Country that made Miwa Masayo uneasy. The burden on her suddenly disappeared, and her psychological tension was swept away, which triggered a huge emotional outburst.

Not only did Miwa Masayo act like a spoiled brat to Uchiha Yuu like never before, he also took the initiative to provoke the octopus monster with the Tailed Beast Chakra, acting as a tank in the battle.

After venting for most of the night, Miwa Masayo was exhausted both mentally and physically.

The extremely tired tabby cat was in Uchiha You's arms. This was the safest place in her mind. Only when she relaxed could she not suppress her tiredness and drowsiness and fell into a sweet dream.

Uchiha You stroked the little tabby cat's fur, listened quietly to the waves of the sea, looked up at the twinkling starry sky, his heart was also peaceful, and he couldn't help but enter a wonderful state of mind.

This feeling was very familiar. Uchiha You recalled it after a little thought. It was the same feeling he had in the early summer a few months ago in his own courtyard, during those few tens of minutes before he completed the 100-day foundation-building.

This means that one's practice has reached perfection in the new stage and is in the best state of being wholeheartedly perfect and energetic.

At that time, I was able to enter the foundation building stage after completing the foundation building, but today I can only feel the activated natural energy, especially those lavender light spots, which are more active than ever before. It seems that as long as I am willing, I can absorb these thunder-attributed natural energies into my body and start the last step of the foundation building stage.

But somehow, he seemed to be able to feel that now was not the best opportunity to absorb the natural energy of thunder and start a new stage of the host. He still needed a short period of patience.

Uchiha You decided to trust his intuition.

Besides, he had just promised Sanlun Yashi to rest. If he completed the breakthrough while the tabby cat was sleeping, wouldn't the kitten be very angry?

By then, she would definitely ignore me for several days, run back to the Cat Castle and sulk, or sneak back to Konoha Village and destroy the bacon, ham, salted fish and other things I left at home.

Those things are certainly not worth anything, and it is very efficient to practice with all your heart alone. The feeling of concentrating on practicing is really great.

But on this uninhabited island, without the communication with fellow Taoist Sanlun Yashi as a diversion, the life of cultivation would be too boring.

Immortal cultivators are not heartless, desireless, and undemanding stone statues.

On the contrary, immortal cultivators have great aspirations, great wishes, and unimaginable desires. They want to be immortal! !

It’s just because the things that cultivators pursue are too big and too numerous. As a result, ordinary people see that cultivators don’t care about the wealth that they care about, and thus they have the illusion that they are out of touch with the world.

Uchiha You was very aware of this, and he positioned himself as a thief who stood in the sky and sucked the wealth and resources of the ninja world.

He wants a lot of things.

Therefore, Uchiha You will not break his promise, especially to his fellow Taoist.

Moreover, bathing in the sea breeze, completely emptying the mind, and immersing oneself wholeheartedly in experiencing the feeling of great fullness in the body is a novel and comfortable state.

It’s a bit like when you were in school and secretly got 100 points on an exam, hiding the paper and not showing it to anyone, feeling so happy all by yourself.

Until a glimmer of light appeared on the eastern coastline, Uchiha Yu woke up Miwa Masayo and invited her to watch the sunrise together.

When the boundary between the sky and the sea had turned blue and white, the island was still pitch black, and the color changes of the sky could be clearly observed.

As the sky gradually brightened, the white in the sky gradually turned into blue. When the last ray of white light disappeared, Uchiha You's eyes were occupied by a purple light. He subconsciously opened his mouth and took a breath.

Uchiha You smacked his lips in confusion. He had just taken a big breath of the slightly fishy sea breeze, but apart from that, it seemed that something else was absorbed into his body.

He took a few more deep puffs, but that feeling no longer existed. He looked up at the bright blue skyline, seeming to be thinking about something.

In just a moment, the purple light completely disappeared, and the bright red sun emerged from the sea. The orange-red sunlight shone on the faces of Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo, gradually turning into orange, and then quickly evolving into yellow.

When the sunlight turned golden and dazzling, the sun had already completely jumped out of the sea. The sky and the earth were filled with light, completely dispelling everything that happened last night.

For Miwa Masayo, this was her first time to watch the sunrise at sea, and she was quite moved.

For Uchiha You, he saw almost nothing.

When the first ray of sunlight shone on his face, he remembered the information about the breath just now. The purple light in the moment before the rising sun is the so-called morning sun purple air.

Uchiha You no longer cared whether the sun rose or not. He carefully checked his body and found nothing different. It was not until he checked his Dantian, which was between reality and illusion, that he discovered that a wisp of purple air was floating in the center of his Dantian, slowly radiating to the surroundings and upwards.

During this process, it seemed that the body had gained some benefits, but they could not be clearly compared. Perhaps the benefits were too weak to be clearly perceived by him.

Through his faint intuitive feeling, Uchiha You confirmed that this ray of purple energy was beneficial, but it would require long-term persistence to accumulate sufficient results.

It’s just a matter of persistence. After you have established your foundation, you should always start exercising before sunrise. You just need to master the timing so that you won’t miss the purple air before sunrise every day.

[I have a question. If I fly westward on a plane, can I absorb purple energy 24 hours a day? ]

[The speed requirement is not low, close to 1,666 kilometers per hour, which is 1.5 times the speed of sound. ]

[Where in the ninja world can I get a supersonic plane? If I can reach such a high speed... it's hard to imagine. ]

Abandoning this unrealistic fantasy, when Uchiha You came to his senses, the sunrise had completely ended.

Miwa Masaya patted Uchiha You's arm with his paw and said, "Thank you for waking me up. I'll give you a gift as a thank you, meow."

After saying that, the tabby cat stretched out its cute little paws. On its round paw pad, a round and shiny pearl was reflecting a soft luster under the sunlight.

Uchiha You asked in surprise: "What is this?"

Miwa Masayo is a generous cat fairy. Apart from delicious food, she has no concept of property and it is impossible for her to hide pearls on her body.

Miwa Masayo tilted his head and said, "I don't know, meow. I dug them out of the giant octopus last night. There were two of them in total."

As he spoke, the tabby cat raised his other paw, which also held a round pearl that also reflected the moist light.

She put the two beads under her nose and smelled them, praising them: "They smell so good, meow."

"The inside of that giant octopus stinks, but these two beads smell good, meow."

Uchiha You knew that pearls were not unique to clams. Conches, crabs, and squids could actually all produce pearls. Of course, clams were easier to produce and had huge yields.

Among them, the pearls produced by mollusks such as octopus, cuttlefish, and squid are not a collection of calcium carbonate and aragonite crystals, but a enamel composed of calcium phosphate and apatite crystals, which is very hard.

But the giant octopus we encountered last night exuded a very strong tailed beast chakra. The pearls in its body must be different from ordinary enamel pearls. Perhaps they contain some extraordinary properties.

Uchiha You curiously reached out to take the octopus pearl and asked casually: "Lihua-chan, where did you get these two pearls from?"

The tabby cat let the owner pick up the pearl. She tilted her head and thought for a while before answering, "I dug it out from the incision, meow."

"Now that I think about it, it seems like there are other pearly meows on the octopus's head."

Suddenly, Miwa Masayo found that Uchiha You's eyes were blank and he slowly put the pearl into his mouth. She was so scared that her hair stood up and she screamed, "Meow! You, how could you do this!?"

"How can you eat pearls meow? What if this thing is poisonous meow!!"

The tabby cat was not feeling sorry for its trophy, but was worried that its owner would get an upset stomach. After all, the octopus pearls were produced from the bodies of monsters related to the tailed beasts.

The tailed beasts are always associated with all kinds of negative words, such as hatred, hatred, killing, and madness. Who can guarantee that the tailed beasts are not poisonous?

She stood up in a panic and tried to slap her owner's cheek with her claws to stop him from eating the pearls, but the tabby cat's movements were stopped by a pair of big hands and she was held in the safest arms, unable to break free.

In the end, Miwa Masaya could only watch Uchiha You swallowing the two octopus pearls.

Uchiha You is not a fool, it's just that as a pioneer cultivator, he habitually relies on his body and intuitive feelings when it comes to supernatural matters.

When his fingers touched the octopus pearls, two tiny arcs of electricity burst out from the two pearls and accurately hit the closest fingers.

The needle-like stabbing pain started from the index finger, then went up to the wrist, elbow, and shoulder, until it reached the heart, where it was dissipated by the mobilized natural energy.

It was not that the intensity of the electric current was very strong, but that the speed of the electric current was too fast. Uchiha You was completely unable to react, and even his chakra and natural energy were unable to react.

If the heart meridian had not completely protected the heart, he would probably have experienced the feeling of being pricked by a needle this time.

But as this lightning was dissipated, the first ray of natural lightning energy also merged into Uchiha You's body.

Yes, the power contained in the octopus pearls dug out from the body of that octopus that exudes the chakra of the tailed beast is actually pure natural energy of the thunder attribute.

There are so many unexplainable contradictions here that Uchiha Yu's brain might as well be cooked just thinking about it.

Fortunately, he is not a theoretical cultivator of immortality, but a purely experiential cultivator of immortality.

The so-called theory of cultivating immortals was treated as toilet paper by Uchiha You when he proved that the five elements did not exist.

Uchiha Yu treats toilet paper as if it were a god.

When you need it, you'll be grateful for it and even want to kiss it, but when you don't need it, it's good enough if you don't even remember it at all. The more mainstream attitude is to dislike it for taking up space.

Since the theory doesn't make sense, let's not consider it.

Besides, there is no time for Uchiha You to think about the problem quietly.

Uchiha You absorbed the first ray of natural thunder energy, and the active natural thunder energy from the outside world swarmed in, happily merged into his body, and merged into the surging torrent in his meridians.

The fourth stage of promotion in the foundation-building period has begun.

The addition of natural thunder energy changed Uchiha You's internal environment. His muscles, bones, nerves, meridians, and even every cell changed accordingly. Vigorous vitality emerged from the most basic cells.

The thunder-attributed natural energy also disrupted the original balance of natural energy. At this time, Uchiha You had to take the initiative to intervene to ensure that the gradually chaotic natural energy would not destroy his meridians.

But soon, Uchiha You realized the problem. The natural lightning energy in the environment here was insufficient.

Although the natural energy of thunder is gathering and even boiling at an accelerated rate, he has determined that all the free natural energy of thunder within the perception range is not enough to restore the balance of fire, earth, wind and thunder.

Unable to reestablish balance in one fell swoop, his breakthrough will fail.

Uchiha You couldn't even be sure whether he could accumulate enough natural thunder energy over a long period of time to rebuild a new balance of the four elements.

It is very likely that if this breakthrough fails, one's path to immortality will be cut off and one will be stuck at this foundation-building stage, forcing a breakthrough to the next stage in a state of three or four natural energies.

And even if there is still a chance and I can eventually break through successfully, I don’t know how much extra time it will take. It’s such a waste of time.

Just when he was feeling uneasy, Uchiha You felt a unique natural energy of thunder, and this energy was in his hands, in the two octopus pearls.

At the same time, his body also developed a strong appetite for pearls, just like when he saw the metal wonder that looked like tree bark in River Country.

Anyway, following his body's feelings and intuition, Uchiha You has successfully reached this step. Anyway, he has eaten even more inedible things and gained huge benefits from them.

Then continue to trust your body’s feelings and eat the treasures you want.

In fact, without much thought, Uchiha You made up his mind. He reached out and stuffed the pearl into his mouth, swallowing it despite the panicked objections of the tabby cat.