"Large-scale ninjutsu that can change the terrain can restrict my movement."
"Just like this time, the combined jutsu of the Cloud ninja forces' Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique and Lightning Release: Earth Walk left me with no place to stand."
"Some Earth Release techniques could also confine me to a certain area…"
"It seems that after returning to Konoha, I need to pay a visit to the Hyuga clan and see if I can obtain the training method for 'Revolving Heaven' from them to enhance my own defense."
The "Revolving Heaven" Li Anshi had created himself was a "pseudo-Revolving Heaven" based on the Rasengan. It was not like the Hyuga clan's, which released chakra from all the tenketsu points on the body. Instead, it released chakra from the palms of his hands to rotate outside his body.
Therefore, when using "Revolving Heaven" for defense, Li Anshi had no offensive capability.
If he could obtain the Hyuga clan's training method for Revolving Heaven, Li Anshi could release chakra from his entire body to form it. Then, he could free up his hands to attack while defending.
At the same time, the amount of chakra released from all the tenketsu points in a unit of time was greater than that released from the palms of his hands. The speed of forming the defensive shield would be faster, and its defensive power would also be stronger.
"In addition, I lack a more efficient movement ability."
In fact, Li Anshi's Body Flicker Technique was by no means inferior to that of an average Jonin.
However, compared to the defense of his Revolving Heaven and the attack of his daggers, this was his shortcoming.
"The most suitable movement ability for me should be the Flying Thunder God Technique created by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju."
"I just don't know if I, who cannot learn elemental ninjutsu, can learn space-time ninjutsu."
"If I could learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, the human wave tactic would be completely ineffective against me."
Li Anshi's mind began to imagine the scene if he learned the Flying Thunder God Technique.
With his daggers cooperating with the Flying Thunder God Technique, unless the Ten-Tails absorbed the nine Tailed Beasts and returned to its complete form, there would be almost no existence in the entire ninja world that could pose a threat to him.
"When I return to the village, I will apply to the Third to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique and see if I can get permission."
"If the Third refuses, I will accelerate Tsunade's training and have her take over the position of Hokage sooner."
"With the relationship between me and Tsunade, I imagine she wouldn't refuse to let me see the Flying Thunder God Technique."
"However, I also need to be prepared for the possibility that I can't learn space-time ninjutsu."
Although he had created ninjutsu like the Rasengan and Revolving Heaven.
But these two ninjutsu were just simple shape transformations of chakra, not involving nature transformations.
Elemental ninjutsu involved the nature transformation of chakra, which was why Li Anshi couldn't use it.
If space-time ninjutsu also required chakra nature transformation to use, then Li Anshi might really have no affinity with the Flying Thunder God.
"My backup movement ability is the ability to fly."
"If I had the ability to fly, many ninjutsu that can change the terrain would also lose their effect on me."
"Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique, a ninjutsu that can control gravity, is not for me."
"I remember, when Guy opened the Eight Gates, he could run in the air by kicking it…"
"In the neighboring sea, that's the Navy's 'Moon Walk'."
"When my body has been enhanced by chakra to a certain extent, I can try to develop the ninja world's 'Six Powers'."
"Although the physical strength of most ninjas has a large gap with those in the neighboring sea, with the help of chakra, it may not be impossible to replicate the 'Six Powers'."
A hundred thoughts turned in Li Anshi's mind. He also had a preliminary training plan for how to cultivate "Moon Walk."
Before his physical strength and chakra quality had reached the standard, Li Anshi could also do some targeted training first.
When his physical strength or chakra quality reached the standard for use, "Moon Walk" would be a piece of cake for Li Anshi.
"Thinking of Guy, the Eight Gates technique also seems very suitable for me."
Li Anshi remembered that decades later, Rock Lee also couldn't use elemental ninjutsu, only taijutsu.
But he had still learned the Eight Gates.
"Speaking of which, could the Rock Lee of a few decades from now be my descendant?"
It wasn't strange for Li Anshi to think this way.
In the ninja world, ninjas who couldn't use elemental ninjutsu were very rare.
At the very least, besides himself and Rock Lee, Li Anshi had never heard of anyone who was a pure taijutsu ninja unable to use elemental ninjutsu.
Even Might Duy and Might Guy, two powerhouses who specialized in taijutsu, could use elemental ninjutsu.
It was just that for them, learning ninjutsu did not improve them as much as specializing in taijutsu.
Might Duy could train in taijutsu for decades without changing his will, even if he was called a "perennial Genin." In Li Anshi's view, the tenacity of his heart was by no means inferior to Naruto Uzumaki's.
In fact, it was even greater.
After all, Naruto Uzumaki was mainly influenced by Asura's chakra, while Might Duy relied on his own will.
If Naruto Uzumaki had Might Duy's strength, it would probably have been known to everyone long ago.
But Might Duy, before he encountered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, no one knew he possessed such strong power.
A powerhouse whose strength surpassed "Kage," yet he adhered to his principles and was a Genin for more than a decade…
In any case, Li Anshi admitted that he could never do that.
Thinking about it carefully, if he hadn't obtained the Little Li Flying Dagger, he might have randomly found a girl to marry this year and become Rock Lee's grandfather…
"I wonder if Rock Lee will still be born in this life…"
Li Anshi was a little conflicted.
Among the Konoha 12, the one he liked the most was Rock Lee.
If Rock Lee disappeared because of him, Li Anshi would also feel it was a pity.
However, it was impossible for Li Anshi to just find someone to marry and have children with.
"Forget it, let nature take its course."
Shaking his head, Li Anshi finally gave up on thinking about the future.
…
"Lord Hokage."
When Li Anshi returned to the Land of Fire's camp, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had already been there for a few days.
Li Anshi was not surprised by this.
After all, when the Cloud surrendered, the Third Hokage had sent a secret letter asking him to go to the Cloud Village.
And the Third Hokage and the head of the Sarutobi clan, Sasuke Sarutobi, would come to this battlefield to hold the fort.
It had taken Li Anshi five days to leave and return.
And the Third Hokage and the others had arrived here three days ago to prevent the Cloud from using troops here.
At that time, Li Anshi hadn't even met with the Cloud yet.
"Hahahaha, our great hero has arrived."
Seeing Li Anshi, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, laughed loudly.
"Anshi, the whole ninja world is now filled with legends about you."
"To defeat a great ninja village's several thousand ninjas with one's own strength—in the ninja world, besides the First Hokage, you are the first, Anshi."
In these three days, the Cloud Village could be said to have spread the fame of Li Anshi's "Little Li Flying Dagger" throughout the ninja world, even at the cost of slapping their own faces, reporting their losses as double what they actually were.
Li Anshi had killed about seven hundred Cloud ninjas in that battle, but the losses reported by the Cloud were as high as over one thousand five hundred.
It couldn't be helped; the Cloud Village had been defeated in the battle with Li Anshi.
Under these circumstances, the more famous Li Anshi was, the more it didn't seem like the Cloud was incompetent for being defeated by him, but that the Cloud Village would rather die than submit.
Just like the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. Anyone who survived a fight with the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was not regarded as a celestial being by many ninjas?
Look at Kakuzu. Every time Kakuzu said he had fought with the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, his enemies would be shocked, and their estimation of Kakuzu's strength would be infinitely raised…
Of course, Li Anshi didn't take Hiruzen Sarutobi's praise seriously.
What a joke. He had become the first person under the First Hokage?
Were they not counting Madara Uchiha as a person?
"Lord Hokage, you praise me too much."
Li Anshi shook his head and said, "The information spread by the Cloud is already greatly exaggerated."
"If not for the deep bond between the Third Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, I'm afraid I would have been left on the battlefield."
"If others take it seriously, it can give our Konoha a bit more deterrence against them."
"But if we ourselves take it seriously, it would not be good if there are problems with our judgment of the battle situation in the future."
"Oh?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi let out a light sound of surprise. "It seems the Cloud is not simple either, to be able to put you in danger."
Unlike a civilian ninja like Li Anshi, Hiruzen Sarutobi, before becoming the Third Hokage, was also the future head of the Sarutobi clan.
Therefore, he knew that the ninjas in the ninja clans had always been studying how to gather the power of many ordinary ninjas to exert greater power.
It couldn't be helped; the pressure that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha put on the entire ninja world was simply too great.
If one's individual ability could not rival theirs, then one could only think of other ways.
Gathering the power of the crowd to cooperate in using ninjutsu, so that the power of the ninjutsu greatly increased, was one of the methods some Sarutobi clan members used to fight against super powerhouses.
And by drawing experience from these combined ninjutsu, one could use combined ninjutsu with one's own strength and shadow clones, which could also greatly enhance one's own strength.
This was the path of the Sarutobi clan.
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, believed in Li Anshi's ability.
If Li Anshi had assassinated the Cloud ninjas, perhaps no more than five hundred of those three thousand-plus Cloud ninjas would have returned to the Cloud Village.
Of course, Hiruzen Sarutobi also couldn't have imagined that Li Anshi would be so bold as to directly charge the Cloud's formation openly.
When a ninja village was prepared, it could make targeted arrangements based on a great deal of intelligence about other ninjas, magnifying the enemy's weaknesses, letting the enemy step into the trap step by step, and finally completing the fatal blow.