Three Body Techniques
Masumi was in the training field of the Ninja School, his hands changing four times to form a seal, and then with a "Peng" sound, his entire body transformed into the appearance of the teacher. After sensing the condition of his body, Masumi sighed in relief. This was the first time in his life that he fully used ninjutsu.
The four seals took a total of more than three seconds, with each seal taking nearly a second on average. This speed is far from adequate for real combat, but battlefield conditions are constantly changing. If you have companions to help and gain a few seconds, this speed will barely suffice.
However, just this ninjutsu basically exhausted Masumi's current chakra. Moreover, being the only ninjutsu Masumi has mastered at this stage, the transformation technique doesn't have much practical effect.
After more than a year of practice, Masumi was able to skillfully use chakra for Taijutsu. In other words, Masumi can achieve the blessing of chakra in every move. If you attack with fists and kicks, although your body is still flesh, with the blessing of chakra, the power is no longer the same. If you use weapons like kunai or swords in battle, it will be completely different from ordinary people.
Chakra is indeed a magical power that can transform mortals into immortals. Although Masumi is still a 7-year-old boy, with the existence of chakra, his physique has already surpassed that of a normal adult. If you have a weapon in hand and face someone without chakra, it can be said that one against ten is not a problem.
However, simply relying on chakra to bless taijutsu is actually the practice of samurai in the ninja world today. What distinguishes ninjas from samurai is their sophisticated ninjutsu.
A little more than half a month ago, the Sensing Ninja, who had been working at the Ninja School for a long time, confirmed that Masumi's chakra amount was sufficient to use the Three Body Technique. Of course, it's only enough for one.
From then on, Masumi began practicing the transformation art. The relevant knowledge of the Three Body Technique had already been explained by Mr. Ishikawa in the theoretical class. But at that time, the teacher had a clear requirement that the Sensing Ninja could not practice privately until the amount of chakra was confirmed as standard.
So Masumi has only been practicing the transformation technique for about half a month. Don't think it's easy to learn one of the three ninjutsu in half a month.
As someone who has experienced it personally, Masumi said that, in a word, it was uncomfortable.
This is how Masumi spends these days: refining chakra, then practicing ninjutsu according to the transformation technique method, and then failing, exhausting chakra, and the day ends.
That's right, because the amount of chakra is only enough to perform the transformation technique once, and Masumi doesn't dare to overburden his body, he can only try once a day.
Later, to not waste time, Masumi would first refine chakra during the day, then start practicing seals, physical skills, etc., and finally practice transformation skills.
Although after adjusting the order not much time was lost, the feeling of concentrating and trying once, only to have to wait for the next day, is very inconvenient. It's like playing the lottery. There is one lottery opportunity every day. You wait the whole day with full expectation. And thank you for your sponsorship.
Anyway, now Masumi has finally succeeded.
At this moment, Eri, Shinohara, and others beside Masumi cast envious glances. Don't think that Masumi took so long to learn the transformation technique because it was a sign of lack of talent. In fact, there are only three people in the class who successfully executed the Three Body Technique.
One of them is Igura, the only one in the class who can perform all three body techniques. The other is a girl with yellow hair named Misaki. Like Masumi, she is the daughter of an ordinary ninja family. Fortunately, compared to Masumi, her parents are healthy. They place great importance on this precious daughter and spend all the money earned from missions on her.
Misaki's chakra control ability is very strong, and her physique is much better than Masumi's. The combination of the two made her the second student in the class to perform the Three Body Technique.
Masumi is the third person and no one else can successfully execute the Three Body Technique. Most of the students in Masumi's class now have chakra levels that have not reached the standard. A small number of students whose families are preparing their children to become ninjas have already reached the standard. However, it is difficult to take shortcuts in chakra control. In most cases, you can only rely on your own talent and hard work.
For people like Eri, the amount of chakra has been within the standard for a long time, and the amount of chakra is several times that of Masumi, but they simply can't use it.
As the first ninjutsu that a ninja learns, the process of controlling chakra from scratch is really hard to describe. This is why there are so many ninjas who risk their lives for their own ninjas. They all grew up from scratch. They put in countless efforts in the process and their willpower is far beyond ordinary people.
However, although Masumi is the third student to perform the Three Body Technique, this does not mean that his combat effectiveness is among the top three in the class. So far, Masumi's physique is still at the bottom of the class. Although Masumi has increased his financial investment, the effect of improving his physical fitness has not been significant.
Masumi was originally at the bottom of the class, and with his physical conditioning, he was far from reaching the level to enter the upper class. Being able to slowly catch up over the past two years is inseparable from his persistence and dedication. Additionally, as an adult, his mature mind allows him to practice more. Often, he summarizes gains and losses and adjusts his training methods, which is also an advantage for him.
Therefore, even with a low ranking in physical fitness, he relied on the near-yin attribute chakra extraction method to barely have enough chakra to perform the Three Body Technique and reached the top tier of the class. But unfortunately, the Three Body Technique is not very useful in real combat training. Everyone still relies on physical skills to fight.
Although Masumi has more chakra than many of his classmates, this only means that he can persist for a long period using chakra to support his physical skills. Before his opponent's chakra runs out, they rely heavily on their physical advantage to defeat Masumi.
Over the past two years, Masumi lost more than he gained. The delay in physical conditioning means that using kunai, shuriken, etc., is much inferior to classmates with good physical conditioning.
Fortunately, Masumi also knows his deficiencies. His progress over the past two years is indeed very obvious; from the beginning until now, he has been able to make the most of his lasting advantages, learning to avoid the enemy's sharp edges, and has been ranked in the top middle level of the class.
I believe that as chakra increases in the future and ninjas are used in real combat, his advantages will gradually increase.
While Masumi's thoughts wandered, Shinohara's sour voice came from the side: "Hmph, isn't it just the Three Body Technique? There's nothing to be proud of, I can still knock you down with one punch."
Hearing this, Masumi glanced sideways at Shinohara with disdain, despite being beaten up several times by his opponent over the past two years. But if you can't win a fight, you can still lose an argument, right?
So, Masumi said in Mr. Ishikawa's tone, "Ahem, Shinohara-san, that's your fault. You obviously can't compare to others, so why don't you admit it?" Masumi said slowly while transformed into teacher Ishikawa.
Upon hearing this, Shinohara was out of breath. Shinohara is the type of person like Naruto who is good at practice but bad at theory. His kunai throwing scores were actually not bad, but his theoretical scores were very low. As the only person in the class who failed the basic theoretical kunai throwing test, he was publicly criticized by Mr. Ishikawa more than once or twice.
Hearing the laughter of the classmates around him, Shinohara shouted angrily, "Idiot, change back quickly."
Masumi smiled slightly, formed a seal with his hands, and with a "Peng" sound, turned back to himself. Just a bit of provocation, otherwise, you'd have to take a beating again.
At this moment, teacher Ishikawa came to praise Masumi and asked everyone to learn from Masumi, also promoting the will of stone. Teacher Ishikawa was not surprised that Masumi could learn to perform the transformation technique so quickly. He is the person who knows Masumi's talent best, besides Masumi himself.
Teacher Ishikawa asked Masumi if he wanted to learn the Substitution Technique or the Clone Technique as his next ninjutsu.
Masumi was well-prepared and said, "I want to learn the Clone Technique."
Teacher Ishikawa nodded, explained the key points and precautions of the clone technique, and then walked towards the other students. Although Masumi already knew the relevant theory, he still listened attentively to teacher Ishikawa's explanation. The execution of ninjutsu was not careless, and he didn't have extra chakra to waste.
After mentally reviewing the key points of the clone technique, Masumi stopped thinking too much and began physical exercise. There's not much chakra left in his body now, just enough for Masumi to barely perform some simple training.
After dinner, Masumi didn't go directly home but went to the barrier class in the village. He came here to work. Yes, he was a student of the Ninja School and only seven years old, not qualified to take on tasks. However, considering that the cost of becoming a ninja would increase in the future, Masumi took the initiative to find Onoki after confirming that his chakra had reached the level where he could perform the three-body technique.
He hoped that Onoki could find a job and increase his income. At that time, Onoki asked Masumi what his job requirements were. Masumi's answer was that a job where he could learn some knowledge would be the best. Onoki considered that due to the war, various positions in the village were lacking, so he didn't refuse and arranged for Masumi to join the barrier class as an intern.
As a genius whose mental talent is beyond ordinary people, the job Onoki arranged for Masumi is actually very suitable for him. In fact, perception is more used in the work here, and Masumi's mental power was almost the same as a normal adult two years ago, and now it's far beyond an ordinary person. Just in terms of mental strength, after two years of growth, he has surpassed many Chuunin.
It happens that Onoki has a requirement, which is that Masumi must successfully perform one of the three body techniques before he can officially start working. So today is the first time Masumi is practicing in the barrier class.
As arranged in advance, Masumi found the person in charge here and took out the mission certificate written by Onoki.
(End of chapter)