Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

A week later, Haruno Sakura, Naruto Uzumaki, and Uchiha Sasuke, under Kakashi's leadership, arrived at the eastern coast of the Land of Fire.

Sunlight, beaches, and seagulls, along with the azure sea, eased everyone's spirits considerably.

"This is the sea!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly as he jumped up. "It's fantastic, but why aren't there any people?"

Kakashi responded with a speechless expression, "Naruto, please don't tell me you thought people come here to vacation every day?"

Please!

The Ninja world is hardly peaceful!

Although ninjas generally don't harm civilians, the Ninja world has many rogue ninjas and samurais who live by "robbing the rich to help the poor." Common tourists, if not protected by a ninja, wouldn't even dare to travel far.

Because, no matter which ninja village, the most common missions are summed up in two words — "escort."

In some sense, ninjas are more like security personnel.

"Kakashi-sensei, do you know if there's a boat nearby?" Sakura asked. "Although Naruto and I can fly, carrying both you and Sasuke with us is no problem, but adding Yamamoto Ichiro to the mix gets a bit troublesome."

"There should be a village nearby, we can go ask there," Kakashi suggested. "By the way, Sakura, how did you hypnotize this guy? I didn't sense any chakra fluctuations."

Along the way, Kakashi had been very curious, and now he really couldn't hold back any longer.

Hypnosis without using chakra is even more terrifying!

"Kakashi-sensei, have you heard of witchcraft?" Sakura asked.

"I've heard of it. Some villages deep in the mountains have witch doctors who use so-called witchcraft to treat diseases, and I've heard they can even curse people," Kakashi confessed, not understanding why Sakura asked such a question, but he answered truthfully, "In some towns, there are also performances of witchcraft, but those are all frauds, not to be taken seriously."

"Witchcraft does actually exist," Sakura said calmly. "In it, language is the greatest witchcraft."

"Language?" Kakashi frowned slightly, "I'm all ears."

"Witchcraft means using various mediums to exhibit extraordinary powers. In a sense, ninjas using chakra to perform various ninjutsu can also be considered witchcraft," Sakura expressed her view. "And language can also possess powerful forces."

"The most direct manifestation is insults."

"For example, Sasuke, Naruto, if someone insulted you without any reason, how would you react?"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, "I would punch them."

Naruto thought for a moment and said, "I might be stunned at first, ponder why the person insulted me, then realizing I'm not at fault, and after that, I probably would insult them back."

The two had different reactions.

Sasuke, being from the Uchiha clan, was innately proud and wouldn't tolerate someone prancing around unprovoked in front of him; Naruto, however, was much more even-tempered and often thought things through with his brain, mainly because he was frequently with Sakura and others.

"You see, Kakashi, this is the power of language. Insults can make people angry, even cause them to lose judgment; whereas encouragement can warm people," Sakura cheerfully said. "Compared to chakra, an extraordinary power that physically destroys a person's body, language, however, strikes directly at the spirit."

Kakashi fell silent, reminded of his own father's suicide, caused by gossip and rumors in the village.

"We cannot change others, but we can foster a strong inner spirit within ourselves, not to be shaken by external spirits," Sakura said. "And my method of hypnosis involved using body language, which sent certain messages to Yamamoto Ichiro's brain, inducing a hypnotic state in him."

"After all, I have also interned as a nurse at the Konoha hospital and have some understanding of the human brain."

Kakashi nodded, not asking further.

Because he feared that if he continued asking, he might retreat into himself, unable to even realize when he was being hypnotized. This copy was generated from content at MV|LEMPYR.

This method of hypnosis, more dangerous than those performed with chakra.

Illusion Techniques merely use chakra to disrupt an opponent's nerves, causing them to experience hallucinations, but this kind of body language-type hypnosis subtly changes another's thoughts.

Chakra is the fusion of one's own bodily energy and mental energy; if one's own thoughts change at their origin, chakra won't give any hint.

Language, this is the true Illusion Technique!

The group arrived at a nearby village, inquiring whether there were boats available for sea travel. A villager in a short-sleeved shirt said, "If you're going to the Land of Lightning, the Miya fleet just came here to buy our sea salt, you can join them."

"Miya?"

Kakashi confirmed that he had never heard of this surname, but he still thanked the villager, then followed the directions given to find the merchant ship.

There was a fifty-meter ship docked by the sea, bustling with people dressed in gray, all business and no smiles.

"Hello, we are Ninja from Konoha," Kakashi stepped forward and approached a middle-aged man overseeing the transportation of sea salt. "We would like to go to the Land of Lightning. Could you take us along?"

"Ninja from Konoha?" The middle-aged man looked cautious and thought for a moment, then said, "You can come, but please don't wander around."

"Thank you, we will pay," Kakashi keenly sensed that there was something unusual about this fleet, but he didn't want to meddle, only wishing to quickly find the Ninja Combat Arena.

After several people boarded, a girl with light yellow hair and purple eyes came over and curiously asked, "Are you Ninja from Konoha?"

"Chino's guard," the middle-aged man replied with some respect.

"You may leave. I will talk to them," Chino said casually, waving the middle-aged man off. She then approached Uchiha Sasuke and spoke, "The fan symbol on your back, that's from the Uchiha clan, right? I heard that it possesses the strongest Pupil Skill in the Ninja world, the Sharingan?"

"So what if it is?" Sasuke said coldly.

"It really is just like the rumors, the Uchiha clan is very arrogant," Chino said with a big smile. "I also possess a powerful Pupil Skill."

"Is that so? It must not be as formidable as the Sharingan," Sasuke replied arrogantly, crossing his arms. He regarded Chino as just a little girl with some unknown Pupil Skill trying to compete against the Uchiha's Sharingan.

Hmph!

Naive!

However, Naruto Uzumaki interrupted Sasuke's cool act: "Sasuke, cut the crap. You haven't even activated a single tomoe."

"Jerk!" Sasuke gritted his teeth and saw Chino's struggle not to laugh, which made him clench his fists and say, "I am still young. It's normal that I haven't activated the Sharingan yet."

"Hehe," Chino nodded earnestly, "Hmm, I can understand that. After all, even within the powerful Uchiha clan, there are different levels of genius."

Sasuke: This girl really has a smart mouth! I want to punch her so badly!

But considering she was a girl and about the same height and age as him, he could only snort coldly, turn his head away, and ignore her.

"Little Sasuke, so cute," Chino said familiarly, patting Sasuke's head and chuckling.

"Jerk, do we know you? Why come up and talk to us like this? It's weird!" Sasuke slapped Chino's hand away. "And what right do you have to call me Little Sasuke? You're the same age as me!"

"Maybe because I'm pretty outgoing," Chino responded breezily, "Besides, I'm already eighteen years old."

"Eighteen..." Sasuke's pupils shrank in disbelief. The girl in front of him was about his height, yet had a baby face, and yet she was eighteen years old!

Naruto suddenly exclaimed, "I know! It's dwarfism!"

Bang!

Kakashi knocked Naruto's head and said helplessly, "Be polite, Naruto. We are on someone else's ship... Sorry, my student is impulsive. Please forgive him this once; he is only twelve years old and still a child."

"???"

Looking at Naruto's height of one meter seventy, Chino was full of question marks, echoing Sasuke's earlier reaction: "Twelve... They grow up so fast."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Haruno Sakura, also twelve years old." Sakura reached up to touch Chino's head, giving her a sense of warmth as if experiencing a mother's care which she had never felt before.

"Hello," Chino turned her head away from Haruno Sakura's large hand, after all, she was an eighteen-year-old adult and couldn't be treated like a little girl by a twelve-year-old.

"I am a guard from Miya Yokoenma, and this time I am leading the merchant ship here to the Land of Fire to purchase sea salt, as it's the purest here with the fewest impurities," Chino briefly explained about the fleet, "You boarded; are you heading to the Land of Lightning?"

"That's right," Kakashi nodded. "Have you heard about the Ninja Combat Arena by any chance?"

Chino's expression unchanged, asked quietly, "Why do you want to go there? Is Konoha planning to destroy that place?"

"No," Kakashi pointed to a bound Yamamoto Ichiro and said, "We have a mission to eliminate a group of bandits, and a certain noble tied to them went there. We need to find him and bring him to justice."

"Although the existence of the arena doesn't align with the rules of the Ninja world, it contains too many nobles and rich merchants, and we Ninja don't wish to stir trouble."

Those words were half true, half false.

Kakashi knew that once they reached the Ninja Combat Arena, not to mention Haruno Sakura, Naruto would definitely not stand seeing Ninja being used as gambling tools by the nobles and merchants, and Sasuke would get involved as well.

Being an elite Jonin, he naturally couldn't remain uninvolved.

Moreover, he had also received a secret letter from the Third Hokage, the gist of it was, to bring back as many bloodline Ninja as possible to enhance Konoha's strength.

Kakashi was not opposed to it.

"I see," Chino's mood seemed a bit downcast, then she smiled and said, "Our merchant fleet's final destination is actually the Ninja Combat Arena."