I don't know how much time passed until a panting female voice came into my ears, waking Lei Luo up.
"Hey! Wake up!"
It was Yuko. The thought flashed through his mind. Lei Luo quickly opened his eyes, but he didn't know when he had exited the mental space.
What appeared in front of him was Yuko's flushed face.
Sweat wet her blond hair, causing the locks to condense into bunches and hang down. Her expression seemed very tired, and she felt even more powerless.
Wisps of orange-red light shone down from the sky, slightly dyeing Yuko's face black. At the end of her field of vision, there was the endless blue sky.
When did I... lie down?
Thinking of this, Lei Luo subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the sunlight streaking down from the sky, but he stopped suddenly when he reached halfway.
"Is it already dusk?"
"Yeah..." Seeing Lei Luo wake up, Yuzi pulled back his head, and at the same time stretched out a hand, grasped Lei Luo's hand that was hanging in the air, and gave it a strong push.
"How do you feel?" After pulling Lei Luo up from the ground, Yuko turned around and walked towards his residence, turning his head and asking.
Noticing the curiosity in Yuzi's eyes, Lei Luo suddenly had an inexplicable premonition, and subconsciously wanted to ask the other party: Is this the first time you have used this technique on others?
But after thinking about it, Lei Luo gave up the idea and focused on his brain.
Since he just woke up, he suddenly felt refreshed, just like a person who stayed up late all day and suddenly felt full from sleep. That feeling...
"It's quite refreshing." A smile bloomed unconsciously at the corner of his mouth, and Lei Luo closed his eyes slightly, seeming to enjoy this moment.
"Haha~" Seeing Lei Luo's lazy look, Yuzi curled up his lips and couldn't help but started to complain: "You are quite happy, I am almost exhausted."
As she spoke, Yuko continued walking forward without stopping. Judging from her pace, she seemed a little anxious.
Lei Luo judged that the other party must have consumed a lot of energy and wanted to rest quickly, so he immediately followed him.
"What is the principle of this technique?"
While walking, Lei Luo asked.
Without thinking too much, Yuko gave a short answer: "Temper your soul."
Lei Luo had a clear understanding in his heart, and then asked: "Can this help me eliminate the hidden danger of soul fusion?"
As if she thought Lei Luo's question was very low-level, Yuko put on an expression that she didn't want to say more: "What else?"
"Why?"
Perhaps Lei Luo's endless questions annoyed Yuko. The latter took a deep breath and explained patiently:
"When you are possessed by the Night Parade of Hundred Demons, the fusion of souls is more of a collision than a fusion."
"The power of the Hundred Ghosts has not completely disappeared, but has pierced into your soul like a thorn. Although you can borrow their power, that power actually does not belong to you."
"That's why your time-deletion often goes out of control. This is because of Hyakki...or maybe it's Kato Dan's residual consciousness that's causing trouble."
"And the shadow of my heart...I believe you have also experienced it. It heats your soul and melts your soul and the thorns at the same time, thus completely completing a certain degree of fusion of water and milk."
"Do you understand now?"
"That's it." Lei Luo nodded, and then thought of another question, but after looking at Yuzi's tired face, he still held back and didn't say anything.
Who knows, Lei Luo didn't ask, but Yuko still answered without looking back: "It will take at least two months."
Lei Luo opened his mouth, but when he said the words condensed in his heart, he finally turned into: "Thank you for your hard work, Yuko."
"It's nothing." Yuzi turned his back to Lei Luo, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously, "Mutual benefit and fair trade, isn't this your life creed?"
"I think this is good."
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Time flies by and five days pass by in the blink of an eye.
In addition to helping Lei Luo with "chemotherapy" every day, Yuko also needs to receive various training guidance from the latter in order to master the art of darkness as soon as possible.
It has to be said that after doing so much work, even if Yuko has multiple personalities to support her, she still inevitably feels what it means to "live like a year".
She understands Lei Luo's intentions, and it is necessary to enhance one's own strength. Because of this, Yuko can persevere and quickly become proficient in the art of darkness.
During this process, Lei Luo used time fluctuations to package some illusion knowledge to Yuko from time to time.
Therefore, the latter has recently been trying to use this newly acquired knowledge to improve some of the techniques of Darkness, in order to reduce its chakra consumption and enable this technique to form her combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.
This kind of pragmatism has always been the philosophy that Lei Luo pursued when learning ninjutsu. Now it seems that Yuko has grasped some of the essence.
"Illusion. Darkness!" Yuko formed seals with both hands, quickly mobilized the chakra in his body, then shouted loudly, and locked the target on Lei Luo not far ahead.
In just an instant, waves of invisible illusion chakra waves enveloped Lei Luo, and quickly attacked the latter's mind from all directions.
An early warning came from his intuition. Lei Luo glanced at Yuko who was two meters away with an expressionless face. His eyes flickered and he stepped back slightly. His body suddenly retreated ten meters, leaving only a few blurry afterimages in place.
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"Empty." After he had regained his footing, Lei Luo commented in a nonchalant manner. Seeing that Yuzi's expression did not change, he felt something in his heart and turned his head slightly behind him.
I saw another Yuko suddenly rushing out of the woods not far away. After smiling at Lei Luo, he suddenly opened his hands and was about to use the ninjutsu he had prepared before.
"Shadow clone? It's very hidden." He praised Yuko with a slight surprise. Lei Luo changed his body again and moved to the first Yuko like a phantom.
He raised his arm, and a head fell onto Yuko's forehead, directly beating the girl who was watching attentively until she was dizzy, and sat down on the ground.
"I guess this is true."
Words without any fluctuations came from Lei Luo's mouth. He first looked back at the other Yuko. Seeing that the other party turned into smoke and dissipated as he expected, he turned his head again and said coldly:
"Your intention is too obvious. With an offensive of this level, let alone forcing out my Shige, even if a jounin comes in, you won't be able to defeat him."
Finally, Lei Luo concluded: "The effective range of your current dark art is three meters. With such a short distance, you only have two options..."
"The first one is to use your mind control ability to control some weaker enemies to launch a siege on the strong ones you can't control, causing the opponent to throw a rat weapon, while you take the opportunity to close the distance and look for the opportunity to cast Darkness.
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"The second one, which is the current situation, is that you need to make reasonable use of your mind-reading ability to obtain information, bury the shadow clone in the opponent's unexpected location, and at the same time, be prepared to act in darkness at all times, and use the shadow clone to force the opponent to approach you."
"Releasing the Darkness first... I really don't know whether I should call you stupid or naive."
Yuko rubbed her forehead aggrievedly and got up from the ground. Perhaps Lei Luo's criticism was too harsh, so she retorted somewhat unconvinced:
"The casting speed of Darkness is very fast. I don't think there is any problem in using it first. Moreover, I also prepared a shadow clone just to deal with the second situation you mentioned!"
After saying that, Yuko complained in a depressed tone: "I successfully cast all my Darkness moves, but you can still dodge. This kind of speed is really too abnormal."
"The flight speed of the illusion can't keep up with your movement speed. Lei Luo, are you really a human?"