Chapter 333: Shinya Matsutani's Discovery
When Ishiro arrived before the Rainbow Ice Wall, he only saw Shinya Matsutani resting his head on his fat orange cat. The human and cat were both fast asleep, snoring. What shocked Ishiro even more was that there was a complete Anbu squad near the Rainbow Ice Wall.
In other words, Shinya coming here to sleep was approved by Ōnoki, and Ōnoki had even arranged for people to protect him.
Ishiro, who had just come from the branch base, knew that Ōnoki was severely short on manpower over there. Under these circumstances, not only did Ōnoki allow Shinya to sleep here, but he also specially dispatched personnel for protection. What was going on?
Driven by curiosity, Ishiro made a series of hand signs to summon one of the Anbu over for questioning.
"What's going on with Shinya Matsutani?"
"Lord Tsuchikage, Lord Shinya is training in Sage Jutsu. We are under orders to guard his safety," the Anbu said to Ishiro.
Hearing this, Ishiro nodded, then signaled for him to continue his work. He himself then used the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu and slowly flew towards where Shinya was.
As Ishiro got closer and closer to Shinya and his ninja cat, Kohana, the perception of his Mind's Eye gradually became clearer.
In Ishiro's senses, with every breath Shinya and Kohana took, a continuous stream of natural energy surged out from the ground and was absorbed by them.
Of course, this absorption efficiency was not high. With their exhalation, most of that natural energy would leave their bodies and be discharged into the air. Then this natural energy would immediately dissipate completely, without causing any change.
Ishiro blinked. "This fellow, Shinya... I asked him to research a method to slowly release the underground energy, but instead, he's turned himself into a living filter."
The Anbu just now had said Shinya was training in Sage Jutsu. Looking at it now, it wasn't exactly wrong; absorbing natural energy was naturally related to Sage Mode.
It was just that with such low efficiency, perhaps only Shinya and Kohana, who had been led astray by him since she was young, could persist.
Ishiro moved a little closer, stopping only when he was a few meters away from the human and cat.
"They're really slacking off. They didn't even notice someone approaching?" Ishiro's brows furrowed slightly.
But after thinking about the difference in strength between them, he was relieved. Facing a Kage-level powerhouse, it didn't make much difference whether they noticed or not.
Being closer, Ishiro's perception was also clearer.
Ishiro discovered that the special natural energy they absorbed would spread to every corner of their bodies. Without guessing, he knew that this could subtly change the body, making it stronger and more suitable for practicing Sage Jutsu.
Shinya was originally relatively close to nature, and now he was slowly improving his physique like this every day. Ishiro believed that his affinity with natural energy would definitely become higher and higher.
When his strength reached the Elite Jonin level, he could probably start training in Sage Jutsu.
Ishiro was somewhat envious. He estimated that the toads of Mount Myoboku probably trained in the same way, perhaps with even more advanced methods. By slowly absorbing natural energy, they continuously improved their physique, ultimately achieving the goal of increasing their lifespan.
The longer one lived, the more benefits one obtained. The more benefits one obtained, the longer one lived.
That was why Gamamaru of Mount Myoboku had lived for a thousand years and had also acquired the ability to predict the future.
Ishiro watched for a while longer. After confirming that he couldn't see anything else, he slightly released a trace of killing intent.
Then, the human and cat immediately jumped up. Kohana, with a speed completely inconsistent with its size, turned towards Ishiro's side, ready to attack at any moment.
Shinya was a little slower. Ishiro could clearly see that after he got up, his judgment of the direction of the danger was not very accurate. It was only through his special connection with Kohana that he confirmed Ishiro's direction and then turned around.
Seeing that the person who came was Ishiro, both human and cat were stunned for a moment.
Shinya reacted quickly. He said, "Teacher Ishiro, why are you here?"
Ishiro said, "I didn't see you at the construction site. I heard from the Anbu that you were here, so I came to have a look."
"Are you absorbing the special natural energy from underground? I feel the efficiency is a bit low."
Shinya said with a bitter smile, "Teacher Ishiro, this efficiency is already very high. When we were in the village, our absorption efficiency wasn't even half as high as it is here."
Ishiro nodded and said, "Why don't you set up a natural energy barrier? If the dissipated natural energy is collected, your efficiency should be able to increase a lot more."
Shinya sighed and said, "It doesn't work. After setting up the natural energy barrier, for some reason, the energy from underground won't come out."
Ishiro nodded.
"Hehe, Teacher Ishiro, I have a guess. It's related to what I said last time about the relationship between natural energy and Kekkei Genkai," Shinya said mysteriously.
"I speculate that this natural energy underground is very likely something similar to Sage Chakra that has been fused with Yang Release."
"Yang Release Sage Art?" Ishiro was shocked. Then he immediately thought of Obito, thought of the Mangekyō Sharingan! Obito's Mangekyō could be used continuously without the risk of blindness precisely because it was enhanced by Hashirama's Yang Release power.
The Mangekyō Sharingan had the restriction of going blind the more it was used. Previously, Ishiro thought this was a good thing, a great thing.
If the Mangekyō had no restrictions, then the Uchiha clan would be too terrifying.
But now that Fugaku had planted seeds in Iwagakure, Ishiro already saw the Uchiha clan as a vassal of his village.
At this time, how to solve the problem of Mangekyō blindness had naturally also become his responsibility as the Tsuchikage.
"If one day, an Uchiha in the village awakens the Mangekyō, we can have them come here to try. It would be great if it could help them restore their ocular power."
Seeing Ishiro so surprised, Shinya was very happy. He continued, "Teacher Ishiro, I know the reason why you and Lord Third, despite having learned Sage Mode, are unable to use Sage Chakra to enhance your Kekkei Genkai."
"The process of you fusing Sage Chakra is to directly combine physical energy, spiritual energy, and natural energy into one."
"You can make the synthesized Sage Chakra cast ninjutsu in a way similar to nature transformation. But this is actually different from how we cast ninjutsu in our normal state."
"In our normal state, when we cast ninjutsu, we are actually performing a nature transformation while casting it. For example, Water Release: Water Shockwave; this is us using the water attribute nature transformation when casting the ninjutsu."
"But in Sage Mode, you are actually not performing a nature transformation, but are manifesting a certain property of the Sage Chakra."
"Sage Chakra originally has the properties of the five attributes: wind, earth, lightning, water, and fire. For us who are accustomed to chakra nature transformation, it is not difficult to manifest these characteristics of Sage Art; we only need to practice a little to learn it."
"For example, Sage Art: Water Release - Water Shockwave. I guess when you cast it, you don't need a water attribute transformation; you just need to manifest the water attribute within the Sage Chakra."
"It's all our misunderstanding. We mistakenly thought that Sage Chakra was the same as normal chakra, that Sage Art was also cast only after undergoing a nature transformation."
Ishiro's brows furrowed. He had never thought of this idea before. He had never taken his own practical combat seriously. Knowing the power of Kekkei Mōra, he didn't want to spend too much time on improving his combat power.
Even though he knew combat power was also very important—Kaguya had been sealed by Naruto and Sasuke precisely because she was lacking in this aspect—his energy and talent were limited, and he couldn't afford to take too many detours.
However, Shinya's theory did seem to have some truth to it.
And Ishiro thought even further than Shinya.
The development of his first Kekkei Genkai, Porcelain Release, had been very troublesome. But the development of his second, Storm Release, had been much easier.
This was actually very unreasonable. Porcelain Release was dual water and earth attributes; these were Ishiro's primary attributes. But the lightning attribute in Storm Release was his fourth attribute.
The speed at which he mastered his fourth attribute was indeed much faster than he had expected. For this, he had even given up on the fire attribute. At that time, he had always thought it was because his strength level had risen, and it had become easier to master new attributes.
Now, after hearing what Shinya said, Ishiro suddenly felt that the reason his Lightning Release training had been so smooth was perhaps related to Sage Jutsu.
Perhaps it was precisely because Sage Chakra could inherently contain all five attributes that he was able to learn Lightning Release so quickly with the help of Sage Mode.
That's right. There were actually many Kage-level individuals in the ninja world, and ninjutsu-type Kage were not just one or two. Why was only Hiruzen able to use ninjutsu of all five attributes so smoothly?
Thinking of Ikura, he had also long been proficient in all five attributes, but the improvement of his new attributes was very slow.
After thinking for a moment, Ishiro asked again, "Is there any way to verify this?"
Shinya said, "There is a way. I just thought of it. Teacher Ishiro, you are proficient in all five attributes, so you don't have reference value. But Lord Third is not proficient in all five attributes."
"If Lord Third can cast a ninjutsu of an attribute he has never mastered while in Sage Mode, it will prove that what I said is correct."
Ishiro nodded. This was indeed the most direct method, but it was not urgent.
Ishiro asked again, "Have you found a way to use Sage Chakra to cast a Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu?"
Shinya scratched his head and said, "Not yet."
Hearing this, Ishiro was not disappointed. For a lazy person like Shinya to be able to think so much was already not easy. How could he ask for too much?
Since Shinya was indeed training in Sage Jutsu, Ishiro didn't say anything more. He said to him, "You can continue your sleep. The Scorch Release user from the Sand, Pakura, has come to the Land of Snow. I have to go and meet her."
"Yes." Shinya's reply was very straightforward. He called out to Kohana, who was still standing, and then went back to sleep.
Ishiro returned to the branch base that was under construction, then found Ōnoki and told him about the experiment with Sage Jutsu.
Hearing this, Ōnoki was also very expectant of what Shinya had said. He had never thought before that he could use ninjutsu of all five attributes.
After getting Ōnoki's consent, Ishiro found an empty space near the branch base and began to set up a natural energy seal.
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