Chapter 27 Fleeting Year

  Can't help but say, Meng Ling is a girl in this world, but she's still a big foodie. Since the time Meng Ling asked Naruto to treat her to ramen, Naruto has developed a very good habit of not carrying much money on him. So these days, whenever Meng Ling suggests going to eat ramen with Naruto, his first sentence is always "I don't have any money", which makes Meng Ling extremely depressed.

  Meng Ling had a reason for going out to play with Naruto every day for the past month. Firstly, it was because of her training. Meng Ling had known this since a few days ago that although she wouldn't get physically tired from training in her spiritual world, her own spirit would still be exhausted from fighting. The first time Meng Ling felt extremely tired was also due to her extreme lack of spiritual energy which made her unable to control her body. Therefore, every night, Meng Ling would secretly enter her spiritual world to train and then sleep soundly. She would wake up around the afternoon and go find Naruto to play. As for the training of Rasengan, Jiraiya had said before that this training could be done anywhere at any time. Now that Meng Ling's first stage of exploding water balloons was completed a few days ago, she would always bring a big bag of balloons with her whenever she went out to relax with Naruto. She kept fiddling with them, which made Naruto very curious and asked Meng Ling what she was doing.

  But every time Meng Ling saw Naruto, he would think that at the beginning, Naruto completed the first stage of cultivation in less than two days. At this time, Meng Ling thoroughly understood that Naruto was not stupid at all, but a master who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger.

  One year later, at this time, Meng Ling was already a six-year-old little girl. The cultivation of the Spiral Pill had been completed nine months ago. In these nine months, Meng Ling was still studying the 'Great Jade Spiral Pill' and adding attributes to her own Spiral Pill through her elemental fruit ability. However, there was one extremely regrettable thing during this year - when Meng Ling asked for guidance from Akai-sensei again at that time, she discovered that her physical body was fundamentally unsuitable for the 'Eight Gates' of the Fire Shadow World. She herself estimated that it was because of some dragon god giving her a special body, so in order not to let the Hokage's elder group notice her, Meng Ling gave up cultivating the 'Eight Gates', resulting in her now having very little chakra...

  That night, Meng Ling entered his spiritual world as usual to cultivate. After arriving in his spiritual world, Meng Ling immediately came to the front of the Tower of Worship.

  "Oh, you're back again, Xiao Mengling. This time, be careful, or else you'll end up with egg on your face again." The speaker was still that mysterious female voice.

  "Sally, do you have to keep teasing me? Who doesn't know that the injuries I sustained inside the Offering Tower won't affect my normal body?" Meng Ling said with a hint of dissatisfaction.

  That mysterious female voice told Meng Leng her name over the past year, she called herself Sally, and also let Meng Leng call her sister. Although Meng Leng didn't want to call her that, but his body had become a girl's although his heart was still a boy's, Meng Leng couldn't win against Sally, so he reluctantly addressed her as such.

  "Hmm, not bad, you finally got my name right this time. I'll give you some credit for that. What are you going to do next? Are you still going to keep fighting yourself?" Sally asked Meng.

  "Of course, you've been asking me this question for a year now, but my answer won't change. In this world, if you don't have the power, you'll only be trampled underfoot. I've had enough of that 'treatment' in the previous world, so in this world, I must take control of my own destiny." Dreaming said with sparkling eyes.

  Sallye didn't say much, opening the grand door of the Offering Tower after taking a look at Meng Ling's determined face. After that, Meng Ling once again entered the first floor of the Offering Tower alone.

  "Alright, apparition with the same abilities and appearance as me, appear before me quickly!" Meng Ling said loudly.

  "Hmph... " A flash of light passed, and a red-haired girl appeared in front of Mengying, just like the scene with Mengying. However, there was no emotional fluctuation in this girl's eyes.

  "Hehe, so this is what I'm like now. It's really quite cute." Meng Leng said with a hint of nostalgia, habitually touching her nose.

  Think back to the first time I came here, when I was only fighting against my three-year-old self's strength level of imaginary opponents and was being abused by my own illusions due to lack of battle experience. It wasn't until nine months ago that Lingyun finally defeated his three-year-old self, and since then, he has been doing quite well, defeating his four-year-old self's illusionary enemy five months ago. And yesterday, Lingyun finally defeated his five-year-old self. Today, he is starting to fight against his six-year-old self, who is exactly the same as him now.

  "This is my first time fighting an illusionary enemy with the same abilities as myself, although I don't know how long I can last. But let's begin." Meng Ling said lightly, then clenched her fists and took up a fighting stance.

  "Magma physique - Great Eruption." As soon as Meng Ling said the word "start", Illusory Meng Ling had already made preparations for battle, and as soon as the sound of Meng Ling's single word "ba" fell, Illusory Meng Ling immediately launched an attack.

  "The essence of air - Air Isolation." When Meng Leng saw his own illusion start attacking himself, he immediately transformed his body. This move "Air Isolation" was a method Meng Leng used to deal with the lava system - Great Fire Blast when fighting against his three-year-old self's illusion. He drew away all the air around him, including oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and other flammable gases, so that fire couldn't find anything to burn. As a result, the Great Fire Blast of Meng Leng's illusion was reduced to just a pile of extremely fragile rocks.

  "Body of Fire - Flame Fist." Seeing his technique being broken, Huanxiang Mengying launched another wave of attacks. A huge fireball with a diameter of about 20 meters flew towards Mengying's location, instantly producing a series of "crackling" sounds.

  "It seems that my own abilities are quite troublesome, Fire Body — Flame Spiral Sphere." Looking at the attack in front of her, Meng Ling's small mouth slightly curved upwards, and she immediately changed her body shape. The chakra on her right hand also gradually became denser. When the spiral sphere formed on Meng Ling's hand, she began to control it to absorb the flames contained within the "Fire Fist" illusion. Although there were many steps involved, Meng Ling completed them in an instant. A dazzlingly bright crimson spiral sphere immediately appeared on her right hand. Meng Ling knew that the reason for this spiral sphere's eye-searing color was because she had compressed a massive fireball with a diameter of 20 meters into such a small size. It goes without saying that the power of this spiral sphere would not be inferior to the Super Large Jade Spiral Sphere during the Sage Mode period.

  "Take it, drink." Seeing the move on her right hand take shape, Meng Lianjiao shouted and rapidly charged towards her illusory enemy.

  "Disappear." Meng Ling flashed in front of her own illusion and swung her right hand heavily at the illusion.

  "Boom......" After a huge roar, Meng Ling stood still, and under her feet, the ground had been burned to crimson, and began to crack. Starting from Meng Ling, it gradually spread out.

  "Is it solved?... No, I'm in trouble." The originally somewhat excited Meng Leng knew he had been tricked when he saw that there was nothing in front of him.

  "Icy Constitution - Glacier Moment." Just as Meng Leng said it wasn't good, a voice devoid of emotion sounded in her ear. Before she could even react, she was frozen into a human-shaped ice sculpture.

  Next, as usual, when Meng Leng was defeated, Huanxiang Meng Leng would throw Meng Leng out of the worship tower to restore her original state, but this time...

  "Heh, my illusion, did you really think that after fighting with me for a year, I would actually use my true self to attack you? The Shadow Clone Technique and the Substitute Technique aren't just limited to you, you know." Just as Illusionary Dreaming was about to throw Dreaming out of the gate of the Offering Tower, Dreaming's soft voice began to echo around. At the same time, the air around Illusionary Dreaming started to gradually become murky, becoming so thick that one couldn't see their own fingers.

  "Let me show you my latest fighting style. Toxic Constitution - Death Poison Fog." Lingyun's voice came again, and the air around Phantom Lingyun suddenly turned purple. Apparently it was a toxic gas...

  (PS: Here, I'll explain that in the Tower of Worship, both Meng Ling and her illusory enemy have the ability to use elemental fruits. In theory, the abilities of the elemental fruits should not harm either Meng Ling or her illusion. However, there is a special rule in the Tower of Worship - priority of elemental control. This means that if Meng Ling uses her fire-based attack - Fire Fist, then the illusory Meng Ling cannot control Meng Ling's moves and will also be burned. Conversely, Meng Ling would also be affected in the same way. In this chapter, Meng Ling used 'Inferno Spiral Ball' because it originally had an absorbing ability, which allowed her to dissolve the illusory Meng Ling's move!)