Chapter 4: The First Encounter with the Nine-Tails

  "What kind of Devil Fruit is this?! If I had known it would be like this, I should have taken a good look at the Devil Fruit encyclopedia from the start. Is it a Flame-Flame Fruit like Ace's?!" Miren thought to herself.

  Ace, who had just finished talking to Boa Hancock in Impel Down, let out a loud sneeze.

  Shichibukai Jinbe: Ace brother, are you alright?

  Ace: It's nothing, maybe Luffy is thinking of me. That guy always makes people worry about him.

  ...Screen Switching...

  "A colorful, unknown fruit with unclear functions. Although I can tell it's a natural system fruit from its appearance, I hope it won't have any side effects like the Magellan fruit. Should I eat it or not?" Meng Ling held the devil fruit, still unable to make up her mind.

  "What's wrong?" Looking at Meng Ling's face which was turning pale and then flushed, Hong Xiu pushed her gently and asked with concern.

  "Nothing, ah……" Meng Ling was already somewhat listless, and now being lightly pushed by Hong Xiu, her small bare foot just happened to trip on the stone bench's leg, immediately falling backwards. Due to the suddenness of the situation, Meng Ling's eyes widened in surprise, and she inadvertently took a bite of the Devil Fruit in her hand.

  "Gulp gulp, huh? This is... Hehe, so this is the ability!" In One Piece, as soon as you take a bite of a Devil Fruit, you'll know what its power is. Mēng Yīng mistakenly took a small bite and immediately knew the power that the Devil Fruit granted her. She then started eating it with all her might.

  "Zong Xuan, we've had this relic of the Dragon God for so long, how come we never thought that it was edible?" asked Jiucui, a middle-aged woman, looking at Meng Ling who was wolfing down his food.

  "I don't know if it's expired." The red sleeve muttered beside him.

  ...... Hearing this sentence, Meng had almost spat out all the Devil Fruits in his mouth.

  After a few minutes, Xiaomeng patted her swollen belly and sat on the ground with a small burp.

  "Is this the relic left behind by Lord Longshen?" Even the normally composed Elder was shocked into speechlessness by the bizarre scene before him.

  "It's really just like what was described in the Pirate King, this is indeed a great ability." At this time, Meng Ling's small face was filled with excitement.

  "This... uh, Xiao Mengling, can you tell me what just happened?" Lei Huo Zhenren couldn't help but ask.

  "Uh, the thing just now is called the Devil Fruit, a strange fruit that can enhance human strength. ...... At this time, Meng Ling simply explained the effect of the Devil Fruit, but did not say what kind of ability his own Devil Fruit had brought to himself."

  "According to what you said, this item called 'Devil Fruit' and the elixir have the same effect?" asked the Great Elder.

  "Immortal pill? About right." Up until now, Meng Ling really had some doubts whether the various magical beasts in front of her and that Dragon God were not actually people who had transmigrated from a certain cultivation world.

  "Alright, now that you've obtained Lord Dragon God's artifact, Little Dreaming Cloud, you can leave in three days." The Great Elder said with a smile.

  "Why?" Meng Ling was somewhat perplexed, thinking that this old man had just been so kind and affable, but suddenly gave himself the order to leave?

  "The words of the Dragon God indicate that you are at a turning point in the outside world, and the Dragon God has ordered us to help you with all our might. Therefore, you cannot stay here. In three days, Elder Zongxuan will use 'Shrink the Earth to an Inch' to send you to the place you desire. At that time, we will begin our journey to fulfill our promise to the Dragon God."

  "Oh, so that's how it is." Meng Ling suddenly realized that these strange beasts weren't issuing a banishment order against him, but were instead forced to do so in order to recite the will of the great dragon god.

  Three days later, at the foot of Holy Spirit Mountain...

  "Xiao Mengling, where do you want to go now? I can take you there immediately." asked Zong Xuan elder kindly.

  "Oh, I'm going..." After these few days of contemplation, Meng Ling had already set her own goal. "The Hidden Leaf Village of the Fire Country."

  "That's a ninja village, are you thinking of becoming a ninja?" asked Zong Xuan.

  "Uh, probably, I'm not really sure, but at least let's go take a look." Although that's what she said out loud, Meng Ling's heart was actually filled with waves of excitement. She had long dreamed of going to the Konoha Village in the anime world, and now there was an opportunity right in front of her, so naturally she wouldn't let it slip away.

  "Alright, since it's like this, Xiaomeng Ling come over to my side." Zong Xuan said with a smile.

  "Oh." Meng Ling responded with a sound, and immediately came to Zong Xuan's front.

  "Alright, destination - Fire Country Konohagakure Village, let's go." Zhong Xuan disregarded Meng Ling's resistance, picked her up with his left hand and formed a one-handed seal with his right hand. In an instant, the two of them vanished from their original location.

  About three minutes later, in the woods of Konohagakure village.

  "We're here." Zong Xuan's voice echoed through the forest.

  "Thank you, Elder Zongxuan." Meng Ling was now very polite.

  "Alright, just head east from here and you'll reach Konohagakure. (He pointed to the eastern direction.) I must return immediately, after all it's not suitable for us to appear in human society. Looking forward to our next meeting, Mei Ling." Zong Xuan smiled and patted Mei Ling's head, although she still felt a bit resistant to this action, but she gritted her teeth and tolerated it.

  "Goodbye, Master Zongxuan!" As she watched Master Zongxuan's figure disappear before her eyes, Meng Leng only then discovered that she had a hint of feeling lost. At this moment, she was still wearing a white bathrobe-style hanfu with a white waistband, the only difference from when she transmigrated being that she wore a pair of small black ninja shoes on her feet.

  "East, huh? It seems to be a big mountain, looks like I'll have to climb the mountains of the Ninja World again." Meng Ling self-deprecatingly smiled and still gritted her teeth as she began to soar through the forest.

  In the three days on Mount Shengling, Meng Ling had already mastered some D-level and E-level ninjutsu such as Instant Body Technique, Substitute Technique, and Transformation Technique under the careful guidance of the elder. Of course, under Meng Ling's persistence, she also got some ninja tools and low-grade elixir recipes from the elders. Having read about cultivation, she naturally knew that this stuff was a heaven-defying thing in this world, unlike the military ration pills in the hands of ninjas, the effect of elixirs also included healing injuries, having some of these things was equivalent to having a high-level medical ninja by her side at all times. Double insurance for life and chakra.

  "Although I've been in this state for about three days, I still feel extremely carefree." Dreaming Ling thought to herself as she quickly darted through the mountains and forests.

  "Boom..."

  Just as Meng Leng was rejoicing, a huge explosion suddenly occurred right above her. The power of this massive explosion was extremely frightening. Originally, Meng Leng was only about one kilometer directly below the location of the explosion, but the aftershocks still shook her off the tree.

  "What, what's going on?" Meng Ling struggled to get up from the ground, it was clear that she had been knocked down quite hard. Although Meng Ling's body was different from ordinary people, after all, her physical age was only three years old now, which made her resistance to fighting still at a level of just entering a ninja school as a child.

  "Boom......" Before Xiaomeng Ling could steady himself, another massive explosion sounded above him. Instantly, Meng Ling was knocked down again.

  "What's going on now? Is it possible that there are foreign ninjas attacking Konoha Village at this time?" Meng Ling remembered that Konoha Village had been attacked several times, but this idea was denied by himself in less than three seconds. Because in the world of Naruto, there were only a few ninjas who could launch such a large attack, and Meng Ling knew from Zhang Wei's elder a few days ago that the Nine-Tails Fox, which symbolized the beginning of the Naruto storyline, had not appeared, and this world had already experienced three Ninja Wars, so Meng Ling knew that he had arrived before the start of the Naruto storyline.

  "If the Nine-Tails hadn't appeared before and had already started three Great Ninja Wars, then there's only one explanation for this big commotion in Konohagakure." Yumei speculated.

  At this time, there was already a guess in Meng's heart, but cautious she still rushed to the top of the mountain to verify her idea.

  In the process of advancing towards the summit, Meng Ling heard 23 explosions, 15 of which she was attacked by the residual waves generated by the explosion. When she successfully climbed to the top, her whole body felt like it was about to fall apart.

  Arriving at the top of the mountain, uh, it can no longer be called the top of the mountain, because the original top of the mountain was shattered by the explosion that had just arrived, and on the other side of this big mountain, it has become a steep cliff with thousands of holes. However, this is not what surprised Meng Ling the most, what surprised her the most was that in the direction of Muyevillage, Meng Ling vaguely saw a huge, fiery red, nine-tailed silhouette.

  That's right, it is one of the nine great tails, known as the Nine-Tailed Fox, a heavenly calamity.

  "As expected, if the development of this world is written like a manga, it would prove that the storyline of Naruto will begin eleven years from now. And now, the Fourth Hokage should be competing with Uchiha Madara in a space-time ninjutsu contest. Meng Ling continued to search for the location of the battle in the forest on top of the mountain, according to the Naruto side story, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze was competing with Uchiha Madara in the woods outside Konohagakure during the Nine-Tails' attack on the village for the future's Will of Fire - The Whirlpool Rasengan."

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