Chapter 70: Preparing to Return to the Village

Withdrawing his thoughts, Seimei looked at the other skills.

First were the two newly added skills - Genjutsu: Sharingan and Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu.

The former was learned from the scroll when he was studying the usage techniques of the Sharingan. It was more like an advanced version of the Sharingan's hypnotic ability than genjutsu.

According to the scroll, if this genjutsu was practiced to perfection, it could even be cast without hand seals, and just a glance could pull the target into the genjutsu.

Moreover, the genjutsu scene could be constructed by the caster himself, which was very useful whether it was for frontal combat or interrogation for intelligence.

Therefore, Seimei spent some effort and raised it to lv1 (150/200).

At this time, it took him less than half a second to cast this technique at the fastest.

However, the effect was much worse, only slightly stronger than the Sharingan's own hypnotic ability.

Basically, as long as one had a certain understanding of genjutsu and knew how to dispel it, or had a stronger mental power, they could break free.

But similarly, he could also spend more time preparing to construct a more realistic genjutsu scene to enhance the genjutsu effect.

In this case, it was not easy to break free.

In other words, 'Genjutsu: Sharingan' had two usage methods. The former was simple and fast, but the effect was poor. The latter was complex and slow, but the effect was good.

Seimei could use them according to the situation.

However, Seimei estimated that he wouldn't be able to use the second casting method in a short time.

There was no other reason than that he might as well use the 'Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique' if he had the time!

The effect of this was much stronger than the lv1 'Genjutsu: Sharingan'.

The first usage method, however, could play a role in interfering with the enemy in battle. When combined with the 'Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu', it could completely achieve an effect greater than the sum of its parts.

Speaking of 'Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu', Seimei glanced at the panel.

Perhaps because he had the foundation laid by the 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu', his progress in practicing the 'Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu' was very fast.

In just two months, its level had already reached lv3 (510/1000), almost catching up to the level of the 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu' two months ago.

This speed seemed to be similar to when he was learning the 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu' in the previous few months?

But don't forget...

In these two months, he wasn't just practicing the 'Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu'.

A large part of his time and energy was spent on in-depth learning of the 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu' and 'Ninja Tool Throwing'.

And being able to gain almost the same proficiency with less time and energy could naturally be considered fast.

In addition, also because of his efforts.

Nowadays, his 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu' had improved from lv3 (615/1000) two months ago to lv4 (315/2000) now.

Now, if he had another close combat fight with Kohara Shuji, Seimei was confident that he wouldn't be at a disadvantage.

As for why he wasn't confident in defeating the opponent, it was simple. He didn't lack skills, but his combat experience was far inferior to the opponent's.

And close combat relied heavily on combat experience, so Seimei could only guarantee not to lose.

However, once he raised the 'Uchiha-Style Kenjutsu' to lv4, Seimei was confident that he could surpass the opponent in close combat.

As for long-range...

For physical attacks, with 'Ninja Tool Throwing', even two months ago, he wasn't afraid of the opponent.

What's more, after two months of practice, the proficiency of his 'Ninja Tool Throwing' had increased again, from lv4 (50/2000) to lv4 (350/2000).

In this way, Seimei was even less afraid.

As for ninjutsu...

He only knew Fire Release ninjutsu, and the 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique' with the highest proficiency had only increased from lv3 (226/1000) to lv3 (612/1000), still unable to break through to lv4 and reach a qualitative change.

As a Jonin, Kohara Shuji would know at least two or more attributes of ninjutsu. When combined, the effect was far from what his single Fire Release ninjutsu could compare to.

In addition, the opponent would definitely know some auxiliary ninjutsu such as the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

In this way, he was even less of an opponent.

Perhaps only in genjutsu could he compete with the opponent by relying on the Sharingan, but to surpass the opponent, his Sharingan probably had to be upgraded to double tomoe.

With this in mind, Seimei hurriedly glanced at the other skills that hadn't changed much and closed the panel, starting to test the effect of the Lv5 'Mind Reflection Technique'.

Skillfully completing the hand seals, Seimei used the 'Mind Reflection Technique' on himself.

As soon as he used it, he noticed the difference.

In the past, although his brain would also generate special chakra due to the stimulation of this technique, the amount was very small.

Now it was different. Seimei only felt that the special chakra was like a trickle, continuous. The amount per unit time might not be much, but it couldn't withstand the long duration.

Therefore, after all this chakra flowed into his eyes, the effect was even more obvious.

Seimei had a feeling that his Sharingan's evolution progress could increase by one point after about two uses.

Delighted, Seimei hurriedly started the second casting.

Two minutes later, Seimei opened his eyes again, glanced at the panel, and sure enough, the Sharingan's evolution progress had increased by one point.

And using the 'Mind Reflection Technique' twice only required 340 chakra points, which was almost catching up to the 300 chakra points needed to keep the Sharingan activated by spending time.

If the training plan remained unchanged and he continued to maintain the previous chakra allocation plan, he would be able to gain 13 Sharingan evolution points every day in the future.

In this way, it would only take a little over twenty days for his Sharingan's evolution progress to increase from (715/1000) to (1000/1000).

This was much faster than expected.

'As expected of Lv5, which requires 2,000 proficiency points to upgrade. The effect is amazing!'

Thinking about it, Seimei thought of the 5,000 proficiency points needed to upgrade to Lv6, and he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. He felt that he couldn't complete it in a short time.

But...

'I wonder what the effect of the Lv6 'Mind Reflection Technique' is like?'

Seimei couldn't help but lick his lips.

After a long time, he finally looked away and closed the panel.

Then, he did some calculations. Twenty days later seemed to be the exact time of the Chunin Exams.

But this wasn't important.

With his current strength, the Chunin Exams were not difficult for him at all.

Therefore, it didn't matter whether the Sharingan evolved at that time or not.

So, Seimei only paid a little attention to it and then ignored it, turning to start a new round of training.

...

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.

As Seimei expected, Iwagakure Village slowed down the frequency of their actions because their logistics base was destroyed.

Thanks to this, the missions Seimei performed were not very difficult.

Therefore, the training plan also progressed quite smoothly.

One afternoon.

Seimei completed his last patrol mission and returned to the base camp.

According to the instructions from above, tomorrow he would return to the village with some Genin to prepare for the Chunin Exams half a month later.

That night.

In the tent.

Seimei packed his luggage, finished his routine training, and opened the panel before going to bed.

It could be seen that after a week of hard training, the evolution progress of his Sharingan had already reached (807/1000), one step closer to evolving into double tomoe.

In addition, the 'Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique' and 'Genjutsu: Sharingan' were also on the verge of upgrading.

The former had increased from lv2 (371/500) to lv2 (412/500), and the latter had increased from lv1 (150/200) to lv1 (191/200).

It was these tangible progress that allowed Seimei to maintain his current ascetic-like life.

Otherwise, even with the firmest will, if one couldn't see the rewards after hard work, they would inevitably become slack.

He was different.