NOVEL NEXT Chapter 420: A Family of Three Under the Morning Sun_2
One could say that Sakura's mushrooms had become famous both inside and outside the Fire Nation.
"Sakura, you're back, how was class assignment?" Haruno Cho had retired from his ninja job and was now focused on growing mushrooms at home, which was more lucrative than being a ninja.
Ninjas, although under the management of the Hokage, could retire when they reached a certain age, as long as the Hokage approved.
Haruno Cho was now a retired ninja.
Although as a retired ninja, he didn't have a good reputation among other ninjas, he was quite humorous himself and did not care about that reputation.
However, if Konoha were to go to war with other ninja villages, these retired ninjas would volunteer to join the battlefield to protect their village's peace and fight the enemy.
"Assigned to a team with Naruto Uzumaki and Uchiha Sasuke, overseen by Kakashi." Sakura said, "Kakashi sensei, known as the Copy Ninja, is an experienced Jounin and should be able to provide me with many new experiences in true guidance."
"Kakashi, he is an excellent Jounin."
As a Chunin, Haruno Cho naturally heard of Kakashi's great reputation, but he felt a bit embarrassed that he had never spoken to Kakashi or even seen him more than a few times.
"Sakura, you must learn well from Kakashi."
"Do you understand?"
Up to now, Haruno Cho still hadn't realized how strong his daughter was, thinking she was just developing quickly and had a lot of chakra.
"Of course, I understand," Sakura replied casually, "I am going to the basement to do experiments."
Sakura headed to the basement. ThischapterispartofthecollectiononMV2LEMP2YR.
This place had also been expanded, and all sorts of experimental equipment had been prepared; inside, numerous replicates of Sakura were conducting experiments — these were her shadow clones.
Sakura walked up to a white chair, her clothes covered by a red shadow.
She stepped forward, turned around, and sat down.
The red shadow merged with the white chair, and Sakura's spirit connected to the mycelium underground.
The previous 300,000 "brains" had grown over the years to nearly a million, spreading beyond Konoha.
And with the research into the red shadow, the myconid's mycelium had undergone a transformation, becoming more sensitive to chakra and even capable of absorbing natural energy and converting it into chakra.
One could say that in addition to her own chakra, Sakura had a massive chakra storage site. As long as she could connect with her own red shadow, she would have a continuous supply of chakra.
Therefore, Sakura devised a plan — the Earth Coverage Plan!
As long as the number of her mycelium-brains' collective could cover the entire Earth's surface, then nothing on Earth could escape her mental detection.
All the secrets of the world would be within her grasp!
Of course, this was not Sakura's dream...
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Above the mycelium of the mycelium-brain collective, the bacteria, after three to four years of evolution, had developed humanoid forms and, fueled by the spiritual energy emanating from Sakura's clones, had developed their own civilizations.
These bacteria formed two major civilization types.
One type focused on excavating mycelium to use its internal energy in hopes of entering the mycelium to access infinite energy; the other type used the soil and minerals around the mycelium to build homes, establishing pastures on the mycelium to exchange nutrients they didn't need for energy.
When these two types of bacterial civilizations met, each thought the other was mad and, due to differing ideologies, sought to destroy each other to prove their correctness.
Thus, war broke out.
For the bacteria, it might have been countless ages, but for Sakura, it was only a matter of minutes, and in the end, neither civilization reaped the most benefit from the war; the mycelium did.
The mycelium could absorb the bodies of the bacterium people, breaking them down into the necessary nutrients and energy, even the spiritual energy released upon their deaths, which followed the mycelium back to Sakura's clone in the myconid brain, becoming even stronger.
"The souls of the bacterium people can provide me with a purer form of spiritual energy!"
Sakura had long known this, but she didn't instigate wars among the bacterium people after learning it.
Firstly, her mentor greatly respected life, and as a disciple, she naturally would not overstep.
Secondly, Sakura felt she couldn't do such a thing. Enhancing spiritual power was a minor matter, but if it caused her to become indifferent to life, particularly intelligent life, she feared she might become a devil, ruthless in her pursuit of spiritual energy.
"Master, to what level will these bacterium people eventually evolve?" Sakura asked.
"They might perish in the next moment, or they might rapidly evolve into a completely new form in the next moment; all is unknown," Sun Wukong's voice slowly said, "However, for you, observing their social forms will greatly benefit your understanding of real social forms."
"I certainly understand that," Sakura nodded.
Intelligent beings, though living in different environments, all have imagination; they can empathize. The issue is about desire, willingness, and conflicts of interest.