Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 197 Searching for the Island: The Storm is Coming

During this period, no matter how much Yu Nu Zhicheng tried to communicate with it, it could only make the most basic responses: hungry, thirsty, sleepy, unhappy.

When communicating with it, you can only teach it simple commands such as sit down, turn around, and say thank you. It cannot understand any more complex language.

"Really..." Aburame Shisei looked at the moth that was burying its head in eating the giant flower petals and shook his head helplessly, "It's such a waste to be so big."

But he quickly figured out the reason.

From the moment it was born, this moth lived alone in that sea of ​​flowers, surrounded by no intelligent creatures of its kind.

It had no opportunity to learn, nor did it have anyone to communicate with. Its current size was entirely due to instinct and the natural energy emanating from that giant flower.

It is like a blank sheet of paper, with an intelligence roughly equivalent to that of a five-year-old human child. It cannot understand language and requires long-term guidance to gradually develop its intelligence.

He walked up to the giant moth again. The moth was happily eating, and when it saw him coming, it raised its head, still holding half a petal in its mouth, looking rather endearing.

Aburame Shisei pointed to the pile of bones and armor in the corner of the laboratory, then to the moths, and asked in as gentle a tone as possible, "When did these people arrive?"

The moth tilted its head and looked at him, remaining motionless.

Aburame Shisei repeated the movements again.

The moth remained unresponsive.

"..."

Aburame Shisei sighed, "Never mind."

He changed his approach, walking over to the skeleton, picking up a piece of Grell's Stone, and waving it at the moth: "Do you have any of these?"

The moth finally reacted.

It stretched its neck, sniffed the stone, and then sneezed.

The powerful airflow made Aburame Shisei's robes flutter loudly.

"Alright." Aburame Shisei put away the stone, completely giving up on his plan to get clues from the moth in the short term. "I'll ask you again when you've become intelligent."

He carefully cleaned and sorted the bones and armor fragments. A few days later, he returned to the moth's nest and expanded the search area in the surrounding area.

This time, he discovered some footprints. The footprints were scattered in the mud on the east side of the flower field, and their shape was similar to that of a human foot, but they were a size larger.

The footprints led deeper into a dense forest on the island. Beyond the forest lay a precipice, which must have been the spot where they had landed last time.

Aburame Shisei initially intended to continue exploring in this direction, but after careful consideration, he realized that there were still many unexplored areas on the island and the treasures had not been fully unearthed, so he decided to stay and continue exploring.

For the next fifteen days, Aburame Shisei did not conduct any experiments, but instead devoted all his energy to exploring the island, digging deep underground, and building the underground palace.

From the coastline to the depths of the forest, from the cliffs to the caves, he sampled, observed, and marked thousands of plants and animals, compiling them into a thick notebook.

In addition, he marked all insects with potential or those he had never seen before with a spiritual mark, or collected their genetic samples into a petri dish.

In reality, there weren't as many super giant insects with chakra on Giant Insect Island as he had imagined; there were only a little over a hundred in total, and only the few dozen he had captured before were worth cultivating.

As for strength, most of them are probably only at the level of Jonin. With proper training, they might be able to rampage across the battlefield, but that's about it.

At first, Shisei Aburame was somewhat interested, but after studying and seeing more and more insects, he lost interest in most of them.

During this time, the entire island has been infested with his insects. The underground palace has also expanded to more than 500 meters underground, nearly 50 stories high.

It's not that construction can't continue downwards, but he's worried that the island won't be able to withstand the pressure of the waves if it goes any further down.

He also found all the people from all the tribes on the island and brought them to the underground palace, totaling more than 10,000 people.

Yu Nu Zhicheng taught them how to grow edible fungi and vines, how to use tools, and how to allocate space reasonably in the multi-tiered underground palace.

The primitive people revered him as a god, worshipping him daily. But You Nu Zhicheng's heart had already drifted beyond the island.

However, the weather at sea can change in an instant.

These days, the weather has suddenly become abnormal, and even the giant insects that have always been active on the island have begun to fall silent.

It turns out it's a monsoon change; the typhoon season is just around the corner.

Even the primitive people living around the underground palace moved underground and reduced their outdoor activities.

Aburame Shisei knew that in such weather, it would be difficult for him to continue flying. Even with his wind-attribute natural abilities, he could only drift with the wind and ensure his own safety.

Sure enough, a few days later, a thunderstorm broke out in the sky.

Before long, a fierce wind, accompanied by thunderclouds tens of thousands of meters high and rolling waves, swept in.

The small plants growing around the island were instantly swept into the air by the wind and waves, and the beach was swallowed by the sea, as if the earth was shaking.

On that day, everyone sneaked into the underground palace. All the openings above the palace were sealed with mud and stones by the earthen insects to prevent rainwater from seeping in and flooding the insect nests.

However, You Nu Zhicheng did not enter the underground palace. Instead, he stood on the top of Hulu Mountain, letting the rain soak him to the bone, facing such a natural disaster for the first time.

The wind howled around him, but he managed to keep his balance only because of the wind-attribute natural energy surrounding him.

Even so, he still clearly felt that compared with heaven and earth, humanity was so insignificant.

At the same time, he realized just how terrifying a storm could be. All the wind-style ninjutsu he had ever seen seemed insignificant in the face of this massive typhoon.

Suddenly, he spread his arms, his body seemingly giving up all resistance, and was swept into the sky by the gale—he was actually soaring in the sky with the typhoon.

Immortal Technique: Wind Escape: Listening to the Wind, automatically activated at this moment.

Aburame Shisei closed his eyes, as if in deep thought.

Amidst the raging typhoon and tsunami, and the fierce winds, messages were still being sent out.

Surprisingly, those messages were not chaotic and disordered, but rather followed their own laws: they were the rise and fall of air currents, the ebb and flow of tides, and the natural principles of all things!

After a long while, he opened his eyes, watching himself drift further and further away from the island. Suddenly, he comprehended a magical technique in the wind—the Immortal Art: Ocean Current Monsoon!

He stopped forming hand seals, but the wind-attribute light emanating from his body slowly changed from green to light blue.

Finally, he broke through the layers of typhoon barriers and returned to the island.

By this time, the wind and rain had soaked him to the bone, and his strength and chakra were almost exhausted. He stopped trying to push himself, turned around and returned to his cave, diving into the underground palace to quietly wait for the natural storm to pass.