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Chapter 670 - Chapter 670: Kaio-ken

Ninja are on about the same level as the martial artists of that Earth. The former employ fine control, divided into seven attributes, while the latter are more crude, mainly manifesting in the impact of the Kamehameha, the piercing power of the Special Beam Cannon, and the cutting ability of the Destructo Disc.

The reason for this difference, once again, is that the shinobi world is too broken and has too little energy available for use, forcing ninja to focus on refinement.

The energy on Earth's side, however, is incredibly abundant, so naturally, they go for whatever makes their techniques most powerful.

When Ino was fighting Kaguya Otsutsuki, she had the feeling that she still had plenty of "mana" in her body but couldn't use it all; her output per unit of time was insufficient.

King Kai was teaching her how to output her energy to the maximum extent in a short period.

After a day of hard training, feeling dizzy and exhausted, Ino used Wood Release, preparing to build a house for herself.

"Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique!... Hmm?" The plants had just begun to grow, and the frame for a three-bedroom, one-living-room house was barely erected when the beams started to warp. Ino knew it was because of the gravity and quickly increased her chakra output. In the end, the three-bedroom house never materialized. All she had was a short, squat little wooden hut with an internal area of less than three square meters.

"It seems another item has been added to your curriculum. You must adapt all your abilities to the high-gravity environment," King Kai said, walking out slowly while holding a cup of tea. The monkey, Bubbles, brought out a table and then a large spread of food, signaling that he was inviting her to eat.

Ino looked at the military ration pill in her hand and decisively gave up the idea of gnawing on it.

There weren't many dishes here, only a large bowl of rice. She was indeed a bit hungry, so she picked up the oversized bowl and began to eat.

"Huh? Teacher, the rice here is delicious! Such rich energy." She had been too tired to have an appetite, but after one bite of rice, she found the flavor lingered pleasantly and the texture was excellent. She couldn't help but take another big mouthful and felt her mouth fill with abundant natural energy. The rice was absorbed quickly as it entered her stomach, and the chakra she had consumed throughout the day began to slowly replenish, a wave of joy emanating from her cells.

King Kai placed his hands on his hips, looking very pleased. "If you like it, eat more. Look how thin you are."

Ino: "..."

I have no intention of eating my way into your paperweight-like physique.

Savoring the energy lingering between her lips and teeth, she noted it was very gentle, so much so that even an infant could absorb it without issue.

Ino pondered for a moment. If there was enough of this rice, feeding it to little Himawari should allow her to awaken her eyes automatically, and not the Sharingan, which carried a somewhat sinister connotation, but the Rinnegan.

As a parent, she certainly didn't want her child to go through life-or-death battles to awaken her eyes under extreme conditions. She had walked that path once and really didn't want her child to repeat it.

She couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, how much more of this rice do you have? Can I grow it on my planet?"

King Kai thought about it seriously and said with some regret, "I only have three bags here. This rice grows on my home planet, World Core Planet. I'm afraid it would be difficult to grow it elsewhere."

World Core Planet? What kind of place was that? Ino realized her knowledge was clearly insufficient.

Hearing it couldn't be cultivated elsewhere, she was a little disappointed, but she could understand. The energy contained within these grains of rice was indeed immense; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it spirit rice.

"Teacher, weren't you born a King Kai? Are you a race?"

King Kai made no attempt to hide anything. "We are the Core People, born on a great tree called the World Tree. The World Tree bears fruit, and the fruit is born in the form of Core People. We have schools there that teach all sorts of knowledge, and life is very peaceful. Whenever a King Kai's Planet becomes vacant, one of us is selected to become the new King Kai. Pretty amazing, right?"

Ino nodded vigorously. "Amazing, amazing!"

Core People? World Tree? She felt she truly had a strange affinity with all sorts of trees in this life!

Her Wood Release had only produced a three-square-meter hut that was then crushed into a large lump. It was definitely uninhabitable. Fortunately, ninja have very low requirements for their environment. Ino took out a sleeping bag directly; she would just have to make do for the night.

Adapting to ten times gravity, adapting to performing ninjutsu under high gravity—Ino's days were very fulfilling.

Her theoretical knowledge was vast, but she had always been a step behind in practical combat.

This was actually related to Master Six Paths. Perhaps because of his experiences in his youth, Master Six Paths detested combat his entire life and only taught Ino theory.

It's not that theory is bad, but converting theory into practical combat ability requires a process.

Most of Ino's current combat abilities were still things taught by the Ninja Academy, Asuma, and Tsunade. These skills clearly could no longer keep up with her own rate of growth.

Copying Uchiha Madara's taijutsu wasn't completely ineffective, but it was like when Sasuke copied Rock Lee's taijutsu during the Chunin Exam. He used it a couple of times and then never again. What suited Rock Lee didn't necessarily suit Sasuke, and the same was true for Ino. The fighting style that suited Uchiha Madara was not suitable for her.

King Kai... one look at King Kai's pudgy figure and you knew this guy wasn't skilled in combat either.

But King Kai had lived long enough. His kind, the Core People, were instilled with a vast amount of knowledge from birth, and then they went to school and worked. He had the experience.

Synthesizing Ino's abilities, he selected a technique suitable for her from the tens of thousands of combat styles in his memory. This wasn't Ino's own combat philosophy, but it would be fine as a transitional method.

"Dance of the Wind Flower!" Ino imagined herself as a flower. As the cold wind blew, she swayed with it, then her body twisted and turned in a whirlwind, her legs kicking out in a continuous chain, the final whip kick blocked by King Kai's raised arm.

"Dance of the Fragrant Flower!"

"Dance of the Drooping Flower!"

"Dance of the Falling Flower!"

She abandoned Uchiha Madara's powerful and heavy style of combat. That path didn't suit her. Lightness, unpredictability, and swiftness—that was her fighting style.

She also learned the Kaio-ken, but she didn't master it. Not only her; King Kai himself hadn't perfected the technique either, his physical constitution being insufficient.

As if to save face in front of Ino, King Kai practiced the Kaio-ken every day, his whole body glowing red, like someone opening the Eighth Gate of the Eight Inner Gates.

He trained hard for two days, and then... King Kai got sick!

A bad cold!

Can you believe that a cosmic deity of such high standing could actually catch a cold?

Perhaps he hadn't exercised in a long time, and training hard with the Kaio-ken directly made Lord King Kai fall ill.

"Good grief, Teacher King Kai, your constitution is so weak..." Ino watched as the monkey Bubbles used an ice pack to cool King Kai down, momentarily at a loss for words.

In all the time since she'd transmigrated, she had never seen anyone get sick. She had even thought that illnesses like the common cold didn't exist in this universe. And now? Heh...

King Kai was lying down, his voice weak, his whole body aching from practicing the Kaio-ken.

"I'm fine, I'm fine..."

He's like this, and he's still fine?

Ino clicked her tongue. Should I find some medicine for you? Does a magnificent King Kai take ibuprofen?

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