Chapter 250: Change starts with having enough food.
As for why the versions that were circulated later all belonged to fairy chakra rather than fairy power that could prolong life.

In Li De's opinion, maybe what Gamamaru originally taught to Otsutsuki Hagoromo was a degraded version.

Of course, it is possible that even if Toad Pill wants to teach the authentic version, it won’t work.

After all, according to Suzuka's situation, only the chosen ones who are born with natural energy seeds and can absorb natural energy into their bodies are qualified to refine immortal power.

This is probably why there are only a few truly long-lived old men in the three holy places over the past thousands of years.

I won’t talk about the Slug Immortal in the Wet Bone Forest, after all, it was the only one from beginning to end.

But the toads of Myoboku Mountain and the snakes of Ryuchi Cave are definitely not a small number after thousands of years.

But the ones who can truly live for hundreds of years are only Gamamaru and the two immortals, Fukasaku and Shima, in Myōboku Mountain. And in Ryuchi Cave, besides the White Snake Immortal, there are only the Three Goddesses.

Among such two huge ethnic groups, only a few immortals with less than two hands were born. It is not difficult to imagine how many people are born with natural energy seeds.

There are actually some among the human race, such as the tribe that Shigeo belongs to.

It's a pity that the people of this ethnic group are limited by knowledge, and their great talents are regarded as curses, thus wasting these talents.

Then let’s talk about the fairy power. It was because of Suzuka’s accidental discovery that Miyano Shiho was surprised when she discovered the abnormality.

As a researcher, Shiho Miyano really believes that this unexpected result caused by the chakra extraction method is of sufficient value.

Don’t think that Li De and others now have long lifespans after their bloodlines were transformed.

But this lifespan is a racial advantage compared to humans, it is just a change from a short-lived race to a long-lived race.

In other words, even if Li De could live for 100,000 years, it would not mean that Li De had achieved immortality, because for the dragon clan, the lifespan was limited to that length.

Only if Li De lives for more than 100,000 years can he be considered to have true immortality.

How long can a toad or a snake live?
The longest life span is only about 30-40 years.

But Toad Pill and White Snake Immortal have lived for thousands of years, relying on their immortal power.

And this is the true value of immortal power.

This is also the reason why Li De called it immortal power.

After all, if one can extend his life span by dozens of times or even more without changing his race, if that is not immortal, then how can one be immortal?
Miyano Shiho was keenly aware of this and inadvertently gave Li De enough hints in her words.

This made Li De notice some details that he had not paid attention to before.

After Li De figured it out, he nodded to Miyano Shiho.

"Indeed, even if the mission fails in the end, this discovery alone makes the trip worthwhile."

Seeing that Li De nodded, the others naturally focused their attention on Suzuka's situation.

Some have even begun to extract spiritual power using the chakra extraction method.

After personally feeling the nourishment of the immortal power to the body, Li De finally understood why Miyano Shiho could easily conclude that the immortal power had the effect of immortality.

The nourishing effect is so obvious that even though it cannot reach every cell in the body, it seems to be cheering.

But this is because every cell in the bodies of Li De and others has a regeneration nucleus and inherently possesses strong vitality.

But even so, Li De felt that the vitality of his cells was slightly improved after being nourished by the immortal power.

This is really serious.

After converting the energy within cells throughout the body into immortal power, it is estimated that one's own regenerative ability may be elevated to a higher level.

After feeling it, Li Decai suddenly realized the origin of the Wood Release's power in this world.

Although Senjutsu Chakra does not have as strong an effect as Senku power in enhancing vitality, the effect of Senjutsu Chakra on other jutsu is indeed not as strong as its effect on Wood Release.

"This is such a pleasant surprise." After Claire extracted the immortal power and felt it, surprise appeared in her eyes.

After all, when your strength reaches a certain level, it is not easy to improve it even a little bit.

After the bloodline transformation, everyone's strength has strictly reached a bottleneck.

Or you can find a strong opponent, fight with it, and break the current bottleneck through upgrading.

Or they rely on other unconventional means to improve themselves.

But strictly speaking, immortal power is not included in the two.

Why do you say that?

Because strictly speaking, immortal power is actually the energy that Li De and others rely on to refine the free energy absorbed into their bodies from the outside world, namely demonic energy.

Before the immortal power was extracted, the demonic energy in Li De and others' bodies, strictly speaking, did not belong to their own power, after all, there was no refining step.

But now it is different. After completing the extraction of magic energy by fusing physical energy with spiritual energy, Li De can clearly feel the operation of immortal power, which is more at his fingertips than simple magic energy.

Therefore, after refining the demonic energy into immortal power, the actual combat effectiveness of Li De and others was indeed improved.

Apart from anything else, the continuous characteristic of immortal power damage that Miyano Shiho has not yet verified actually exists.

After all, immortal power is a fusion of spiritual energy, which can be regarded as a fusion of one's own will into immortal power.

If the attack of immortal power with this characteristic remains in the opponent's body, it will be like a thorn in the flesh.

There is no way you can recover from your injuries until you completely get rid of this magical power.

This is much more powerful and durable than previous attacks that were simply launched with magic energy.

In addition, the quality of the immortal power obtained after the demonic energy is refined is definitely better than the demonic energy, which is understandable, even if it is not much.

After confirming this, everyone couldn't wait to start refining it.

However, it is not easy to completely refine the energy in one's body into immortal power.

Take Li De himself for example, the demonic energy in his body can be replenished infinitely.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Li De's body can store it, he can continue to refine the demonic energy.

But in fact, even after Li De optimized his bloodline, his own reserves were limited.

Of course, dragons have a big advantage over humans at least in terms of size. Except for Claire, the amount of spiritual power that Reed can reserve is far greater than that of the other girls.

However, there is a limit. If you want to store more, you either have to compress the spiritual power in your body to make more space, or enlarge your body like the Slug Immortal or Toad Pill.

These are also the two directions in which Li De and others can improve their strength in the future without having to upgrade.

There is a clue about how to compress these two directions. Please refer to the skill of Life Return for details.

However, for dragons like Reed and Claire who are still in their infancy, physical growth is the priority.

Two days later, Beta brought the petrified Hinata Hyuga from Konoha to the forest.

"Beta, what's the situation?" Li De asked Beta who had returned.

"Just as the master expected, the Hyuga family has reduced its attention to this eldest lady to the minimum, and no one from the branch family is following her." Beta replied.

"Master, no one from the Hyuga family uses the Byakugan to monitor Hinata Hyuga's whereabouts." Zeta, who came back with them, also spoke up.

"Then let's get started!" Li De nodded and said. Beta then lifted the petrification on Hinata Hyuga.

Before Hyuga Hinata could react, she was sent away by Ipsilon beside her.

Then Li De took out a replacement card.

Soon, Yukihime replaced Hyuga Hinata.

Yukihime, who is almost 12 years old, disappeared, and was replaced by Hyuga Hinata, who is just over years old.

Xue Ji also abandoned her past quite thoroughly. Except for the memory of skills such as martial arts, she gave up everything else.

After completely taking over Hinata Hyuga's memories, what Yukihime left behind was probably only her natural powerful magic power.

However, this magic power cannot remain in her body for now, and it is temporarily withdrawn by Ipsilon through the contract.

After adapting to the side effects of receiving memories, Xue Ji looked at her new body, saluted to Li De and said: "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty. From today on, there will no longer be Xue Ji, but only the new Hyuga Hinata."

"Well, it depends on your performance from now on." Li De nodded with a smile.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty. Hinata will not let you down." Hyuga Hinata said.

"Then go ahead." Li De said immediately.

"Yes!" After saying that, Hyuga Hinata and Ipsilon disappeared in front of Li De.

Ten minutes later, at Hyuga's house in Konoha.

Hinata Hyuga came to the back door as she had done over the past two days.

After pushing open the door, Hyuga Hinata immediately sensed the gaze, but then looked away.

Pretending nothing had happened, Hyuga Hinata lowered her head and walked slowly towards the mansion.

Along the way, Hyuga Hinata didn't speak a word no matter who she met. When someone greeted her, she just nodded without saying anything, and then went straight to the kitchen.

"Miss Hinata, why are you here?" A member of the branch family dressed as a maid asked Hyuga Hinata in surprise.

"I'm hungry." Hinata Hyuga said to Hyuga Natsu who spoke.

"But Miss, it's not time to eat yet." Hinata Xia couldn't help but say.

"Has father announced Hanabi as the heir to the main family?" Hyuga Hinata asked in a weak voice.

"Miss Hinata, I'm sorry for being rude. I'll excuse myself first." Hinata Xia's face changed immediately after hearing this.

After all, she was Hinata Hanabi's personal maid, and she came to the kitchen to prepare snacks for Hanabi during her training break.

Although the resources of the Hyuga family are now tilted towards Hyuga Hanabi, as long as Hyuga Hiashi does not announce the abolition of Hyuga Hinata's status as the heir of the eldest lady, Hyuga Hinata will still be the eldest lady of the main family.

As for what the eldest daughter of the main family wants to do, it is not reasonable for the maid of the branch family to interfere.

Hyuga Natsu's face changed drastically because he understood what Hyuga Hinata said.

After all, the impoverished eldest daughter of the Zong family is also a member of the Zong family. If this matter gets out of hand, it won't be an exaggeration to say that it will turn against Tiangang.

Even though she was the maid who had taken care of Hinata Hanabi since she was a child, she would definitely not escape punishment.

If Hinata Xia doesn't experience the caged bird meal by then, where will the face of the main family be?

It was because he understood this that Hinata Xia quickly apologized and ran away.

But before leaving, Hyuga Natsu stole a glance at Hyuga Hinata who was nearby.

After all, in her impression, Hyuga Hinata would never say such a thing.

But at this moment, she was surprised to find that the atmosphere of Hyuga Hinata was obviously different from before, and a gloomy breath was overwhelming.

Are you irritated by the attitudes of others in the past two days?
This may not be a good thing for Huahuo.

Although he had a lot of thoughts in his mind, Hinata Xia didn't dare to show any emotions.

Just because she is from a branch family, it is not her turn to worry about the main family's affairs.

"Is there anything to eat?" Hyuga Hinata asked the branch family staff in the kitchen.

Seeing that Hinata Hyuga scared away Natsuko Hyuga with just a few words, the other staff in the kitchen dared not say anything else and quickly brought the ready-made snacks to Hinata Hyuga.

"It's not enough, I want more." Hyuga Hinata said lightly.

"Miss Hinata, I'll prepare it for you right away." The staff of the branch family said hurriedly.

"Don't be anxious, just listen to me first." Hyuga Hinata continued in a weak voice.

"Yes, please give your orders, Miss Hinata." The staff of the branch family said hurriedly.

"Send someone to the Akimichi family's barbecue restaurant to pack 20 servings of barbecue. Then prepare the ingredients in the kitchen. Don't be frugal." Hyuga Hinata said slowly, and then swallowed the snacks in front of her elegantly and quickly.

"Barbecue for 20 people and all the ingredients, Miss Hinata..." The staff of the branch family seemed very surprised after hearing this.

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Hyuga Hinata.

"No matter what you are thinking in your heart, just do as I tell you. I will take responsibility for anything that happens." Hyuga Hinata said.

"Yes!" After hearing this, the staff of the branch family immediately started to make arrangements.

Of course, it is inevitable that someone would secretly notify Hinata Hiashi.

After a while, Hinata Hiashi, who was training Hinata Hanabi, received a report from the kitchen staff.

After hearing this, Hinata Hiashi immediately frowned.

After all, he sensed a hint of mischief and nonsense in it.

Did you learn this from Uzumaki Naruto?
That’s right, the old father-in-law immediately thought of the prospective son-in-law in the original book and believed that he had led his daughter astray.

After all, Hyuga Hinata has been secretly paying attention to someone, so wouldn't Hyuga Hiashi not know?

As the eldest daughter of a thousand-year-old family, everyone is paying attention to her every word and action.

Moreover, the person being watched is always followed by the Anbu. Even if the Hyuga family didn't notice it, the Anbu would have already reported it to the Third Generation.

Given the sensitivity of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, it would be impossible for Sarutobi Hiruzen not to send someone to ask Hyuga Hiashi what he meant.

However, Hinata Hiashi's frown soon relaxed.

why?

Because in Hinata Hiashi's opinion, his daughter's tantrum was much better than silently enduring it for the past two days.

At least she started to learn how to fight for it.

Although it is not advisable to learn bad things, the Hyuga family really does not need to silently endure an heir who will not resist.

"Let's take a look first!" So Hinata Hiashi gave such an answer.

(End of this chapter)