Chapter 874: Chapter 36: Bearing the Weight_2
Hakushi gave a rather vague explanation.
Using the heart’s strength?
For others, it might be quite troublesome.
But for Lin, who has completed the Perfect Jinchuriki training, utilizing the heart’s strength to sense things is not anything strange or difficult.
"Using the heart’s strength?"
Without much thought, Lin followed Hakushi’s words and picked up the black jug again.
This time, she decided not to use her own strength, nor the Tailed Beast’s Chakra Power.
Using the heart to sense the jug’s weight.
Then—
A force like thunder struck harshly on Lin.
Her expression suddenly changed dramatically, turning extremely pale in an instant.
She stood there, holding the jug, as if the heavens and earth were shaking, beginning to invert, with the surroundings twisting, Hakushi’s figure disappearing from sight, and seeing endless darkness.
This darkness stirred the various dark elements that had long been sealed in Lin’s heart.
It’s like it wanted to unleash the beastly part buried in Lin’s heart, dominating Lin’s body and mind.
Cold sweat immediately started pouring down Lin’s forehead, as she summoned all her mind and spirit to resist this sudden dark power, suppressing these beastly traits completely.
Confronting this darkness reminded Lin of the time she sensed the Tailed Beast’s grudges during the Perfect Jinchuriki training in the Spiritual Space, both things that cannot be overcome by mere strength.
This has nothing to do with the strength of power, the black jug tests a person’s willpower.
No matter the strength of a ninja, there will be gaps in the heart where darkness can take advantage.
Whether one can pass such a test is the key to holding the black jug.
Lin took a deep breath harshly, the surrounding scene returned to normal, looking at the black jug now in her hand, feeling a lingering fear.
For something that looks like just a regular jug, a strange fear inexplicably filled her heart.
It bears an existence stronger and darker than the Tailed Beast.
Lin could also confirm that this was not something that Chakra could create.
Chakra is merely a tool to carry ’things’; it doesn’t inherently produce any darkness.
This jug itself might be synonymous with darkness.
An abyssal domain that pure Chakra cannot reach.
Following Hakushi’s previous words, she poured a cup of water from this jug into a glass.
Lin took a sip from the glass and found that the black jug only contained ordinary drinking water, nothing special.
The special part was the black jug itself.
"Using this as one of the final graduation exam items for Ninja School students, what do you think?"
Hakushi asked this question.
"I think it’s not a problem, this thing really helps refine a person’s willpower."
Lin answered without hesitation.
This Ninja Realm is filled with various temptations, such as power, money, authority, beauty, and other temptations... A person’s life is a battle with these things.
These things cannot be removed from human nature, but if people can overcome them, then their will cannot easily be defeated in the future.
Failure is never frightening; what is frightening is having no courage to face life’s setbacks again after failing.
Making this jug one of the final exam items for Ninja School is indeed a good idea.
"By the way, what was used to create this thing, Teacher Hakushi?"
Lin was curious about this aspect.
Hakushi didn’t hide anything and answered: "Moryo’s darkness. When sealing Moryo, part of the darkness wasn’t recovered, and I thought about how to deal with this leftover darkness in the Ninja Realm. I ultimately came up with this method and solved the problem. The weight of this jug isn’t the simple weight we know, but the weight of human heart’s darkness. If one cannot overcome the darkness in their heart, no one can lift this jug. It tests whether, when encountering one’s inner darkness, we choose to have courage and fight against it to the end, or be dominated by cowardice and defeated by darkness."
"The weight of the heart’s darkness, huh? That’s quite a heavy thing."
Lin sighed.
She had already personally felt how heavy the so-called weight of the heart’s darkness was.
The suffocating feeling pressed by heaven and earth, how insignificant humans are when facing this power.
If they can cut through the wind and waves within it, singing high and advancing, it would surely benefit them for life.
"Speaking of which, how is the development of the Tailed Beast going? Has there been any progress?"
Hakushi asked.
When Moryo caused chaos, Hakushi did not deploy Lin to fight together.
She and Obito stayed in Shion City’s First Military Region, guarding the place in case anything went wrong.
The various military bases in the Land of Demons, Shion City’s First Military Region is the core of the core.
It holds most of the secrets of the Land of Demons, and these secrets are things that cannot be revealed before the Land of Demons officially steps onto the Ninja Realm stage.
Undoubtedly, setting aside him, Ruri, and Ayane, with the current military power of the Land of Demons, they can battle against any major nation.
Although the odds of defeat remain higher, they won’t be utterly crushed by the ice cold edge of a major nation’s ninjas, at least possessing the strength for direct confrontation.
After all, aside from the three of them, the Land of Demons also has high-end combat strength like Lin, Obito, and Kakuzu.
