Naruto: Set a goal, conquer the universe.

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The reason why Xiangling is so well-behaved in Sasuke's house is entirely because of Naruto. Sasuke, Hinata, and the other two are all her saviors!

Her sharp eyes, hidden behind her glasses, swept over the two of them. She stood up defiantly, meeting their gaze head-on.

"Huh? 'Your Sasuke'? How arrogant! What business is it of yours who I take care of! I'm the one who rescued him from the battlefield!" Karin pointed a finger at her nose, her tone aggressive. "Sasuke-kun didn't object, and you're all making a scene here like two cats whose tails have been stepped on! Want to fight?"

"What did you say?!" Sakura and Ino's anger was completely ignited by the phrase "the cat whose tail was stepped on."

Sakura clenched her fists, and the veins on her forehead bulged; Ino was even more furious, her face turning red, and her golden ponytail seemed about to stand upside down.

Karin's eyes behind her glasses gleamed with a fighting spirit; instead of retreating, she took another step forward.

She pushed up her glasses, a smug, infuriating smile on her face: "I say, the way you two are jumping around here is really unsightly. What Sasuke-kun needs isn't just noisy birds, but someone who can actually help!"

"You!" Sakura trembled with rage, almost unable to control herself from throwing a punch. "What do you mean you can't help? We're helping to evacuate the villagers, and we've been working hard to become stronger! But you, who are you? What gives you the right to be here?"

Ino glared at Karin: "That's right! We're his classmates, childhood friends! What gives you the right to tell us what to do?"

Karin's lips curled into a victorious smile; this was her true trump card: "Hmph, 'classmate'? 'Friend'? So what?" She paused deliberately, then declared loudly in a clear, boastful tone, "I live with Sasuke-kun, you know!"

“I see him every day, and I’m the one taking care of him! What about you? You don’t even know which way his door opens, do you?”

These words exploded like a bomb in the hospital ward.

"Wh...what?!" Sakura and Ino exclaimed in unison, their eyes wide with disbelief.

Their minds went blank for a moment; Karin's declaration of "living together" was simply too impactful.

What does living together mean? It means spending every day together, and it means a level of intimacy that far exceeds that of "friends"!

Their long-held fantasies and efforts appear utterly pale and powerless in the face of this fact.

The immense blow and jealousy consumed the two of them like flames.

Sakura's eyes instantly reddened, she bit her lip, and her body swayed precariously; Ino also completely lost her previous momentum, her face full of shock and hurt.

Karin astutely seized upon their momentary lapse in concentration and immediately pressed her advantage, fighting the two single-handedly with unstoppable momentum.

"Hey, stop making that face!" Karin said, hands on her hips, adding fuel to the fire. "What Sasuke needs right now isn't noise, it's peace and quiet! If you really care about him, you should leave quietly instead of disturbing his rest!"

She pointed to Sasuke's tightly closed eyes: "Look, Sasuke-kun doesn't want to open his eyes because of all the noise you've been making! Is this how you 'friends' show concern? You're such a nuisance!"

"I...we..." Sakura opened her mouth, but was choked by the huge blow and couldn't utter a complete sentence. Tears welled up in her eyes.

Ino calmed down slightly, but her voice still trembled noticeably, filled with doubt: "Living...living together? Where? Isn't Naruto at Sasuke's house...?"

Xiangling interrupted her train of thought and continued her offensive: "We live under the same roof, and I take care of Sasuke's training and meals the moment he arrives! No one knows his physical condition better than me! You guys can forget about this occasional 'concern' that comes to the hospital!"

In reality, she is the one who needs to be taken care of!

But she didn't say anything, and Sakura and Ino didn't know either.

These words completely shattered Sakura and Ino's mental defenses.

"Living together," "Under the same roof," "No one knows Sasuke's physical condition better than me."

Every word felt like a needle piercing their hearts, driving them to the brink of madness with jealousy, yet leaving them powerless to refute the truth.

Karin looked at the two of them, their expressions of utter disorientation and speechlessness, and pushed up her glasses with satisfaction.

In this "one-woman battle," she relied on her trump card—the absolute advantage of "living with Sasuke"—to firmly gain the upper hand and completely suppress the arrogance of her two rivals.

Sasuke, lying on the hospital bed, frowned almost imperceptibly.

He didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, and simply said in a cold and weary voice, with intense impatience:

"It's so noisy, everyone get out."

These cold words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly poured over the heads of the three arguing people.

Although their anger had not subsided, seeing Sasuke's aloof and indifferent demeanor, as well as his still-healing injuries, the three girls felt as if they had been choked, and their argument abruptly stopped.

They glared at each other, their eyes clashing fiercely in the air, conveying silent threats like "Just you wait" and "You'll see."

Chapter 94 Establishing the Dao Palace, Cultivation Methods in Dreams

Naruto was naturally unaware of what was happening in Konoha.

At this moment, he was practicing Sage Mode with his eyes closed, while that bastard Jiraiya had gone to a brothel again.

According to him, he was gathering information about Tsunade.

This lecherous sage, Tsunade is a woman, would a woman go to brothels to seek pleasure with other women?

Don’t lie and don’t draft.

If Jiraiya hadn't told him about his parents' past, Naruto would have left Jiraiya behind and gone to find Tsunade on his own.

A touch of orange-red eyeshadow was fully formed. Naruto opened his eyes and entered Sage Mode once again, this time taking a little faster.

He nodded with satisfaction.

If he continues to cultivate like this, sooner or later he will be able to instantly enter immortal mode without having to spend so much time.

Only at this point does Sage Mode have no weaknesses.

Naruto stroked his chin, pondering which direction to take in his next training session.

In terms of physical skills, he can only improve his physical fitness through intensified training. As for physical techniques, his entire body can become a deadly weapon, and he can only continue to advance through persistent and meticulous training.

In terms of ninjutsu, he has completely mastered the five major attributes, and he is also constantly developing and practicing Yin-Yang Release. He can continue at this pace. After mastering all seven major attributes, he will consider the matter of attribute fusion.

He firmly believes that as long as the foundation is solid, many things will fall into place naturally.

For example, when he is practicing Rasengan and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, he doesn't feel much difficulty.

That's actually why his foundation is so solid.

He had mastered chakra control, the nature and form of elemental attributes to the extreme, and ninjutsu was nothing more than these things.

As for illusion magic, he doesn't really have much talent in it. He can only enhance his mental energy and rely on his vast mental energy to avoid being controlled by illusion magic.

Furthermore, Sasuke has now awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, which grants him the abilities of the Mangekyou Sharingan as well, further enhancing his genjutsu capabilities, so there's no need to consider that anymore.

"So, right now, I need a trump card—a powerful burst ninjutsu—that I can even use as a regular ninjutsu!" Naruto muttered to himself.

His first thought was the Eight Gates Formation.

This secret technique can multiply one's strength.

Moreover, the stronger the caster's body, the greater the power that can be enhanced.

Because its essence is to liberate the human body from limitations, allowing power to be released in greater quantities.

Both Naruto and Sasuke opened the Eight Gates, but Naruto's power increase was definitely greater.

Because his physical abilities are stronger than Sasuke's.

However, the Eight Gates Formation has strong side effects.

Although training can help one adapt to the aftereffects of the Eight Gates, it only applies to the first few gates where the backlash is relatively minor.

Even for him or Kai, the pressure on their bodies was still immense when opening the sixth gate, the View Gate, and the seventh gate, the Shock Gate.

Not to mention the eighth gate, which means certain death if opened.

That was the ultimate secret technique for a desperate last stand.

The reason why opening the Eight Gates has such serious side effects is that one's muscles, bones, and internal organs cannot adapt to the sudden impact of such a large energy.

"Muscles and bones can be strengthened through training, but the effects of ordinary training are difficult for me to achieve the corresponding intensity."

"So I need...gravity training!" Naruto's eyes lit up. Through his vague memory, he remembered that someone could make gravity equipment, and that someone trained in a gravity chamber with pretty good results!

Yes, we can ask the logistics personnel in Konoha to help with this when we get back.

However, the internal organs are too fragile. Is there any way to resist the pressure exerted on the internal organs by the Eight Gates Formation?

Naruto's eyes were vacant, clearly deep in thought.

Konoha didn't have any relevant methods; the only method he could find was that vague memory from his dream.

After a long while, he murmured to himself, "The Dao Palace, the Dao Palace built within the five internal organs to protect them, the Dao Palace spirits?"

He grabbed his hair with both hands, looking utterly devastated: "But what is a Dao Palace? How do you build a Dao Palace? And what are the deities of a Dao Palace?"

Naruto was a little annoyed. The memory was too blurry. He could occasionally recall a few scattered fragments, but he couldn't remember anything more.

"Never mind, since it's called Dao Palace, it must be a palace, right?"

"Build a palace for the five internal organs? To protect the five internal organs, yes, that's it!"

"Then the Dao Palace deities, hmm, I have no clue about that. Let's try establishing a Dao Palace first!" Naruto scratched the back of his head helplessly. His memory was too vague, so he could only try it slowly on his own.

Naruto immediately created two shadow clones and had them begin training according to his instructions.

Because he didn't know whether this method was dangerous or not, he needed to gain a lot of cultivation experience before his main body would start cultivating.

Even if the shadow clone makes a mistake during the cultivation process, it will not affect the safety of the main body.

It must be said that the Shadow Clone Technique is truly amazing, unparalleled in its ability to accumulate cultivation experience.

Under Naruto's observation, the two shadow clones sat cross-legged and began to establish a Dao Palace at the heart position.

Time ticked by, and Naruto nervously swallowed. This was the first time he had trained according to fragments of memories from his dream.

"This kind of training method must really exist, right? It can't be fake or just made up," Naruto muttered to himself to ease his tension.

But the next moment, the two shadow clones turned into smoke and disappeared.

What followed was their cultivation experience.

Naruto quickly absorbed the training experience from just two shadow clones.

“Hmm, with my control over chakra, it’s not difficult to build the pattern of a palace with chakra, but it’s very difficult to actually take shape. Once I lose control, the chakra model will collapse and then shatter the heart.” Naruto stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"Therefore, the first step I need to take is to establish a stable Dao Palace structure!"

Because he didn't know what the Dao Palace in his memory was or what its form looked like, Naruto could only start exploring from the very basics.

We need to figure out the nodes that can stabilize the Dao Palace model step by step.

This will take a lot of time.

However, Naruto has his own methods.

"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!" Naruto confidently summoned two hundred shadow clones.

"Everyone, let's start training and build up our Heart Palace as soon as possible!" Naruto encouraged his shadow clones.

"Okay, leave it to me!"

"Get lost, you real body, don't disturb my cultivation!"

"Get something delicious ready!"

The shadow clones responded to Naruto, each possessing its own independent thoughts.

However, as soon as they sat down and entered a meditative state, they instantly turned into wisps of smoke and disappeared.

Naruto's eyes widened in disbelief. What was going on?

Wasn't it fine just now?

The memory of the shadow clone disappearing was instantly transmitted to Naruto.

After he had absorbed all the memories, Naruto's face showed bitterness. "Ordinary chakra is not enough to build a Dao Palace. Only Sage Chakra is of sufficient quality."

Yes, his Sage Mode has disappeared, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to create two hundred shadow clones using Sage Chakra.

Although he had enough chakra, the sage chakra he absorbed and fused with natural energy was still insufficient.

Sage Mode chakra must maintain a 1:1 balance between natural energy and chakra.

In Sage Mode, he can only create a maximum of two shadow clones to maintain enough Sage Chakra for training.

Adding any more won't have any effect.

Chapter 95 Tsunade

"This is troublesome." Naruto scratched his head in frustration, as his method to save training time was eliminated.

"So it still takes a lot of hard work and perseverance." He sighed heavily. This was the first time he had ever done such a time-consuming form of training.

In the past, he was always assisted by Naruto's army.