I will use the ninja world to aid my cultivation of immortality.

“Yes, I’m looking forward to that day!” Naraku naturally noticed Xia Rixing’s unusual reaction, and his smile widened.

While longing is the emotion furthest from understanding, it is undoubtedly also the most powerful.

The next day, Naraku spent his time dealing with the 'star's' corruption for the Star Ninja.

In this process, although not everyone achieved the same outstanding results as Xia Rixing, they undoubtedly succeeded in winning people's hearts.

This also caused the Star Ninjas to begin to submit to Naraku.

"The spiritual energy in this world is indeed not very abundant. As cultivation progresses, the amount of spiritual energy required increases. In such an environment, the cultivation speed is simply too slow."

After conquering the Star Ninja Village, Naraku immediately created a shadow clone of true energy, which he used to breathe spiritual energy in the village's forest.

Inside the Star Shadow Tower, Naraku was refining the spiritual energy fed back by a true qi shadow clone.

However, during the refining process, Naraku felt somewhat helpless as he experienced a slow increase in his cultivation level.

He has been working on breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining for some time now, but let alone breaking through, he is still quite far from reaching the perfection of the third level of Qi Refining.

There's no way around it; the higher the cultivation level, the more spiritual energy is required.

Although Naraku is only at the third level of Qi Refining, his cultivation progress has inevitably slowed down compared to when he was at the second level of Qi Refining due to the scarcity of spiritual energy in the Naruto world.

This was with the help of the True Qi Shadow Clone; if Naraku were to breathe in spiritual energy alone, it would be even slower and more troublesome.

Naraku began to think about a breakthrough in his slow progress in cultivation.

Finally, he naturally thought of the elixir.

If he had enough spiritual herbs, his cultivation progress would undoubtedly be greatly accelerated.

However, the elixir was hard to find.

Even within a powerful force like Konoha, Naraku could only occasionally find some medicines by chance in a herbal medicine shop.

"I can start trying to learn weapon crafting now!" Naraku thought to himself.

Weapon crafting is one of the many arts of cultivating immortality.

The first level of the bronze tower contains the "Immortal Path Secrets," which records knowledge of various arts and skills for cultivating immortality.

Although it may be because it is only the first chapter, the knowledge of various cultivation arts recorded in "The Secret Canon of Immortal Cultivation" is relatively superficial, but it is obviously enough for beginners.

Naraku's motivation for learning weapon crafting wasn't to create any powerful magical artifacts, but rather to search for spiritual herbs.

The importance of elixirs to cultivators is beyond doubt.

Naturally, skilled cultivators will develop magical artifacts for finding spiritual herbs.

In his spare time, Naraku would often read the "Secret Manual of Immortal Cultivation" to broaden his knowledge of immortal cultivation.

Therefore, he had already read the knowledge about weapon crafting in the "Immortal Path Secret Manual".

In fact, if he hadn't been afraid of causing trouble and disrupting his peaceful development environment, Naraku would have already tried weapon forging while he was in Konoha.

Of course, although he didn't try it in Konoha, he had been secretly researching the crafting of magical artifacts for finding spiritual herbs for a long time, and now all that was left was to put it into practice.

Chapter 40 Rapid Development

To forge weapons, materials are naturally essential.

So, after deciding to try weapon crafting, Naraku immediately summoned the Third Hoshikage.

Subordinates are meant to be used; otherwise, he wouldn't need to go to the trouble of developing his power.

Therefore, Naraku did not intend to painstakingly collect the materials needed for refining the weapon himself, but instead entrusted the matter to the Third Hoshikage.

In terms of strength, the Third Hoshikage is at the Jonin level, which is enough to ensure safety.

In terms of finances, although Hoshigakure is just a small ninja village, the magical artifacts that Naraku is currently trying to refine are only the most basic kind.

Compared to the resources and prices in the ninja world, the required materials not only exist, but are also completely affordable.

Having received Naraku's instructions, the Third Hoshikage naturally dared not neglect them.

He took the list Naraku had compiled, packed his things quickly, and then led a few Star Ninjas to leave the village and head out to find materials for Naraku's weapon crafting.

a few days later.

Naraku did not wait for the Third Hokage, but instead waited for the return of Rain and Wolf.

"My lord, the matter has been taken care of!"

"We have already controlled the daimyo of the Bear Country with illusion magic. In addition to sending the eligible population to the village in batches, we have also brought back funds for development."

Inside the Star Shadow Pavilion, Rain and Wolf knelt on one knee, reporting their journey to Naraku, who was sitting cross-legged at the top.

The two men's operation to control the daimyo of the Land of Bears went very smoothly.

While daimyo from various countries would recruit additional ninjas as bodyguards out of fear of ninja villages, the quality of ninjas that a small country like the Land of Bears could recruit was obviously not very high.

After all, most daimyo wouldn't dare to provoke rogue ninjas; they would only recruit obedient wandering ninjas.

The guards recruited by the daimyo of the Land of Bears were mostly wandering ninjas and samurai whose strength was only at the level of chunin.

With guards of this caliber, it was of course no challenge for Yu and Lang.

The two, who were even skilled in assassination, had already silently taken control of the daimyo of the Bear Country without the guards noticing.

"Very good, thank you for your hard work this time. Now you can rest well. If you need anything, you can go to Nonou." Naraku said with a smile.

"Yes!"

Rain and the wolf both respectfully withdrew.

Watching Rain and Wolf depart, Naraku was quite satisfied with their ability to act.

As expected of an elite from a powerful organization, he was efficient in his work, proving that it was worthwhile for him to bring two people with him in the first place.

With the successful control of the Daimyo of the Land of Bears, the development of Hoshigakure will undoubtedly receive the full support of the entire Land of Bears.

Just as Rain and Wolf reported, in addition to mobilizing the entire country to send people to Star Ninja Village, they will also provide a continuous stream of funds for development.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye.

The first group of people arrived safely.

The number of people is 500, of which 300 are between the ages of 12 and 18 and can be trained as ninjas, while the other 200 are laborers for building the Star Ninja Village.

The best age to train a ninja is actually five or six years old.

One is that people in this world are generally precocious, both physically and mentally.

Another advantage is that it is easier to brainwash people.

However, in order to cultivate more usable combat power as soon as possible, Naraku chose to lower the requirements and raise the training age for ninjas to the twelve to eighteen years old.

People at this stage are also in the golden period of physical development.

They might be less promising than ninjas who start training at five or six years old, but they will grow faster.

Needless to say, the laborers were also affected.

With population growth, the village naturally needs to expand.

After the first batch of people arrived, Naraku immediately held a meeting.

"Wolf, the construction of the village is now in your hands."

"Xia Rixing, you should arrange for suitable personnel to be in charge of teaching the 'Peacock Wonderful Method'."

“Yu, you will be in charge of teaching ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu. Although the ‘Peacock Technique’ is good, it’s not enough on its own. We need to provide the new generation with more comprehensive training.”

"Nonou, you will continue to be in charge of the village's management!"

Naraku quickly made arrangements for everyone.

For example, wolves.

He was skilled in earth-based techniques, such as the "Effective Transformation," which made it easy for him to complete basic construction. Therefore, he put the other person in charge of the village's construction work.

The same is true of summer stars and rain.

The excellence of the "Peacock Technique" led Naraku to designate it as the mainstream development direction for the ninjas of Hoshigakure in the future.

However, considering that simply mastering the "Peacock Technique" would be too limited, he also had Yu assist him, adding the teaching of Ninja Body Illusion to his training.

As for the origin of the Ninja Body Illusion.

It's not enough for the rain to be under its own control.

But Naraku was prepared all along.

After conquering the Star Village, he had already compiled the numerous techniques he had recorded in the Root organization's database.

With such a rich heritage, teaching ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu is naturally no longer a problem.

Finally, there's Nonou.

Although Naraku intended to develop Hoshigakure, he did not plan to devote too much energy to it, so he entrusted the management of the village to Nonou, who was the person he trusted most.

Nonou and the others naturally agreed to Naraku's arrangements.

With all the arrangements and deployments made, Xingren Village immediately began to operate at high speed like a machine.

In the days that followed, houses continued to spring up in Xingren Village.