Chapter 305: The True Meaning of the Elementary Sage Body
Akiyama Makoto first looked at the system prompt and found that it didn't explain what exactly the Elementary Sage Body was.
It seemed he needed to test it himself.
In Makoto's original concept, bloodlines with powerful chakra and life force could be called Sage Bodies, but they should be more accurately called Sage Body inheritance.
Currently, Makoto's Elementary Sage Body talent was obviously not that simple.
Makoto felt that his recovery ability and chakra amount were not far from the First Hokage.
If there was a gap, it was also because the other party had absorbed senjutsu energy and thus obtained partial evolution.
So the difference lay in the utilization and application of senjutsu energy?
Or did it mean Makoto could try to use Yin-Yang Release?
Makoto temporarily suppressed the curiosity in his heart because the system had already given an explanation for the remaining parts.
Previously, when Makoto's Stamina and Genjutsu attributes reached 10, two new mechanisms were unlocked respectively.
One was that Makoto could inherit ninjutsu and combat experience through genjutsu, and the other was to seal ninjutsu directly into crystals for others to use.
The former had a wide range of applications, while the latter looked somewhat similar to the Transcription Seal.
However, Makoto's version had no talent restrictions for either himself or the user of the crystal, and there were no restrictions on the scope of ninjutsu and abilities.
And now, after Stamina and Genjutsu, Makoto's Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Intelligence, and Strength all reached 10. What functions did the system unlock accordingly?
Makoto calmed down and checked the string of prompts, and then a look of enlightenment appeared on his face.
First was Ninjutsu, which was somewhat similar to Genjutsu.
If Genjutsu was about passing on experience, then Ninjutsu was about directly guiding the other party's chakra, letting the other party remember ninjutsu in the form of physical memory.
Then Makoto realized that he was actually biased in the use of the ability brought by Genjutsu.
Compared to the instillation of combat experience, Genjutsu was more about sharing life experience in simulation.
As for combat experience, even if Makoto passed it on to the girls around him, they had to explore and practice in reality to turn this experience into actual combat power.
This process was like reading a book, just reading a book via virtual projection.
And when it came to the new mechanism of Ninjutsu, it was more like direct empowerment, which could directly allow the girls to learn the ninjutsu Makoto wanted them to learn.
Of course, Makoto also clearly realized that this method actually had pros and cons.
Because what Makoto instilled was his own experience, which might not be completely applicable to the people around him.
The girls could have explored a combat style suitable for themselves based on their own talents. If they were forced by Makoto, it might affect their upper limit instead.
For example, in the Chūnin Exams, the girls' performances almost all exceeded Makoto's expectations.
This also represented that they were living people, not puppets waiting for Makoto to pull.
Then Makoto thought that if this jutsu wasn't used to force the growth of the girls around him, it would be a good way to cultivate some subordinates.
For these subordinates, Makoto could directly impart some combat ninjutsu suitable for them to allow them to grow quickly.
Otherwise, if Makoto started cultivating his own forces from scratch, he wouldn't be able to catch up with the ninja war three years later no matter what.
Next was Taijutsu, which was very similar to the mechanism of Ninjutsu. Makoto could directly improve the other party's physical fitness.
This didn't conflict with improving the other party's talent. Talent determined the upper limit, and hard work determined development.
Makoto could use life force infusion to speed up this process, whereas originally Makoto could only achieve this process slowly through the True Spirit Seal.
Sure enough, the system's mechanism was still stronger than Makoto's own ninjutsu—but the True Spirit Seal researched by Makoto himself could keep people young forever. At least in this point, the system couldn't surpass him.
Intelligence was directly instilling knowledge. Unlike Genjutsu using projection to transmit experience, the knowledge instilled by Intelligence would be written directly into the other party's brain.
Therefore, Makoto felt that compared to instillation, this was more like brainwashing or a sealing jutsu. fortunately, the basis for using these abilities required Makoto's favorability with the other party to be greater than or equal to 3, so there was no need to worry about ethical issues.
In Makoto's view, this ability could be used more to instill some modern knowledge or understanding different from the pattern of this world.
In this way, Makoto saved the trouble of changing their thinking one by one. But this brought another trouble, that is, did Makoto have to increase his favorability with each of them?
Even if Makoto had the energy, he didn't have the heart.
But this didn't mean Makoto wouldn't do it. He had an idea: favorability didn't necessarily have to be limited to love, right?
Respect and loyalty, wanting to reach level 3 favorability didn't seem very difficult?
This matter could be done slowly, not in a hurry.
Finally, Strength was directly imparting taijutsu combat skills, which corresponded to Ninjutsu and had nothing special.
After reading these special mechanisms, Makoto stroked his chin. Not too many surprises, but reasonable.
From the previous Genjutsu and Stamina, it could be seen that this system was prepared for Makoto to quickly improve the strength of the people around him.
The purpose was not to let Makoto fight alone.
Simulation improved the other party's talent, and inheritance improved the other party's strength.
Favorability greater than 3 limited these people to be close to Makoto.
It could only be said that everything was calculated by the system. It wasn't easy to steal a little benefit from the system.
But Makoto was generally very satisfied.
Relying on these inheritance means, he could also let the people around him reach the strength of Super Kage peak one by one.
As for reaching Six Paths—now Makoto himself didn't have a clear path to reach Six Paths.
After checking all the gains, Makoto took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
He happened to see Karin's curious and concerned eyes. She seemed to have noticed the fluctuations in Makoto's emotions.
Seeing Makoto open his eyes, Karin quickly avoided eye contact like a frightened little rabbit, but it was too late.
Makoto reached out and hugged her.
Karin didn't struggle either, but lay softly on Makoto's chest, slowly closed her eyes, and raised her chin.
Obviously, Karin thought she knew Makoto's character very well. Now that the two were alone, whatever absurd things Makoto wanted to do, she would let him.
Who told her she was a member of the Akiyama family?
But Karin waited for half a minute, and Makoto didn't make any move.
This made Karin open her eyes cautiously, and saw Makoto's half-smile, as if mocking Karin's submissive appearance.
Karin's face turned red immediately. She covered her face and wanted to escape, but this time Makoto held her tight.
"Alright, I know you want a reward. But before getting the reward, do a test with me first."
"O-Okay."
Karin nodded quickly and agreed. "Then what should I do?"
"This—we can try slowly."
Makoto's hand held Karin's wrist—soon, a morning passed.
Throughout the morning, Makoto tried to impart Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Intelligence, and Strength to Karin once, consuming a total of 4 simulation attempts.
The cost was not small, but the results were also amazing.
In just one morning, Karin not only learned more than a dozen Earth and Water Style ninjutsu, but also learned many medical ninjutsu, and even successfully condensed the Yin Seal under Makoto's guidance.
As for combat intelligence and actual combat skills, although Makoto hadn't tested them yet.
But looking at the Yin Seal on Karin's forehead, Makoto knew that the system didn't falsely report the inheritance effect at all.
And Karin's current strength had definitely reached the Jōnin level.
This was without calculating the Yin Seal, because for Karin, the effect of the Yin Seal wasn't actually that big. Her own chakra and physical healing were enough for Karin to survive most attacks.
Later, when Karin mastered these abilities and practiced the sealing jutsu of the Uzumaki clan she was good at, she would definitely be at the peak of Jōnin combat power.
At that time, opening the Yin Seal again, Karin would undoubtedly step into Kage-level.
Karin obviously also felt her own strength, widened her eyes, and looked at Makoto as if her eyes were shining.
Makoto smiled slightly and said, "Do whatever you want—"
As soon as Makoto's voice fell, Karin pounced on him, wrapped her arms around Makoto's neck, and kissed Makoto's lips.
Holding Karin, who was trembling with excitement, after their lips parted, Makoto said directly, "In a few more years, go avenge your mother."
"You know best who hurt your mother."
Karin looked at Makoto in disbelief, then her eyes turned red, and she opened her mouth and cried.
She had never mentioned this matter, but it didn't mean she had forgotten it.
It was just that she didn't dare to trouble Makoto, so she never said it.
But now, she already had the strength of a Jōnin.
In a few more years, probably even the Kage of the Grass Village wouldn't be her opponent.
Then at that time, it would indeed be time for her to avenge her mother.
Makoto held Karin. After Karin calmed down, he took Karin to the street, ate a bowl of Ichiraku Ramen, and then took Karin outside the village for drills.
Sure enough, Karin's ninjutsu and taijutsu combat skills had reached a quite high level.
It was just limited by her original talent upper limit, and couldn't reach Makoto's level.
This meant that raising the upper limit for the girls around him had become something he had to do.
Because this also concerned Makoto's upper limit. Only by letting the girls also have a panel of all 10s would their children have a higher possibility of breaking through to 11 points and higher upper limits.
Karin practiced enthusiastically, and Makoto was also exploring what talents his so-called Sage Body had.
After his own perception and investigation, he found that he had no obvious progress in chakra recovery and physical healing.
Either this meant he had reached some limit in these two aspects, or it meant that the Elementary Sage Body strengthened his abilities in other aspects.
Then Makoto simply created a shadow clone to stand guard, and continued to try to use Sage Mode.
Because it was the first time using Sage Mode in reality, Makoto was very cautious.
If there were any mistakes, his shadow clone would directly cut off the petrified parts and then help treat Makoto's body.
The result surprised Makoto. He succeeded in one go again, and even smoother than in the simulation.
Then his figure moved. Without using the Body Flicker Technique, he arrived on the river surface like teleportation.
Standing on the water surface without causing a ripple, looking at the golden eyeshadow in his reflection, a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Then Makoto released his spiritual power. After superimposing the Mind's Eye of Kagura, instantly everything within a hundred miles was within Makoto's perception range.
Even White Zetsu, who had hidden so well that even Makoto couldn't find him before, was discovered by Makoto this time.
It was just that Makoto didn't discover White Zetsu itself, but perceived the flow of chakra and natural energy in such a huge range around him, discovering the abnormality of White Zetsu's existence.
Even if White Zetsu could completely integrate himself into plants, he wasn't a plant himself after all.
Especially since plants could use natural energy, but White Zetsu couldn't, which created a subtle natural energy void where White Zetsu was.
This void was so small that if relying solely on Sage Mode perception, it probably wouldn't be discovered.
But Makoto also superimposed the Mind's Eye of Kagura. Under Sage Mode, the Mind's Eye of Kagura was further strengthened, and only then did he successfully discover them.
This discovery, plus successfully controlling White Zetsu with Shisui's Sharingan in the simulation, allowed Makoto to completely relax and no longer worry about White Zetsu's threat.
Of course, words couldn't be said so absolutely.
At least Makoto couldn't maintain Sage Mode for 24 hours yet, at most he could check White Zetsu's position a few times a day.
But at least this way he didn't have to worry about White Zetsu discovering his secrets.
After that, Makoto released Sage Mode. He didn't come here to test Sage Mode, but to test the Elementary Sage Body.
What exactly is this Elementary Sage Body— While thinking, Makoto suddenly had a thought.
He raised his palm, and a chakra ball appeared in his hand. It was the Rasengan.
Then, Makoto held his breath and concentrated, trying to merge Wind Style chakra into it.
Wind Style: Rasenshuriken. This jutsu plus Sage Mode was one of the iconic abilities for Naruto to step into Super Kage.
The past Makoto couldn't use this jutsu either, because using Wind Style and Rasengan at the same time, this difficulty was no longer covered by general talent, and required diligent practice.
But now, Makoto just did it on a whim, and the Wind Style chakra actually slowly merged with the Rasengan.
Seeing the windmill-like ninjutsu about to form, Makoto clenched his fist, making the ninjutsu disappear.
Now he understood what exactly the Elementary Sage Body referred to.
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