Departure

Ninjutsu that directly manipulates brain cells is naturally even more suicidal than the Yin Seal.

Although the Yin Seal is located on the forehead, only millimeters away from the brain, at least it didn't cause any trouble inside the fragile brain. If the former still had a slim chance of survival, the latter would be a death sentence!

Unlike stage two, which only requires manipulating a small number of nerve cells, stage three involves billions of brain cells! Naturally, it is much more difficult than stage two.

Even the slightest flaw will be magnified by this enormous number and become a serious problem.

Sakura Haruno had considered some less efficient but much safer methods.

For example, increasing the temperature.

The activity rate of nerve cells doubles for every 10-degree Celsius increase in temperature. Therefore, slightly raising the brain's temperature using Ninjutsu, causing a localized "fever," can indeed improve the brain's response speed. However, unfortunately, this method has a very low ceiling. After the temperature rises to 4 degrees Celsius, proteins begin to hydrolyze, causing damage to brain tissue; and after rising above 50 degrees Celsius, proteins begin to denature on a large scale, causing permanent damage to the brain.

Therefore, this "Brain Overclocking" method is only slightly better than nothing; it's more of a technique and can be called stage three (pseudo).

The effect of this technique is too weak to make a fundamental difference in high-level combat; even if the temperature is risked to be raised to around 46 degrees Celsius, doubling the speed of nerve transmission, it would only shorten the reaction time by a couple hundred milliseconds, which is still not fast enough.

While the Cherry Blossom Impact - Stage Three was safe, it was inefficient and was quickly developed; the short-term high fever wouldn't "damage the brain."

The real Phase Three is fraught with difficulties in its development.

However, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and keep going.

In her initial vision, once the Cherry Blossom Impact - Stage Two was fully developed, it should have given her a much faster reaction speed in battle, allowing her to gain the upper hand in every situation.

But the result was different.

Judging from the results of previous battles, none of the Kage Level ninjas are slow to react.

The only battle truly won through superior reaction speed was the one where he instantly defeated Deidara. However, Deidara was a type of player with strong offense but weak defense, making this example less convincing.

Last time.

Sakura traveled through time to the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre, where she fought a masked monster who called himself Madara. His Space-Time Ninjutsu nearly killed her instantly. Sakura Haruno only realized later, in retrospect, that if her opponent had gone all out and activated his technique faster, she might not have just lost a skin, but an arm, or even her life.

After returning home, she felt a chill run down her spine when she thought about it.

The thought of possibly fighting such elusive enemies sent chills down Sakura's spine. Without lightning-fast reflexes, she feared she'd be instantly killed in a single encounter!

Therefore, developing a higher-level Cherry Blossom Impact stage is now an urgent matter.

Sakura Haruno gazed at the Kazahana Koyuki, and recounted these events in detail.

Sakura has recently taken a liking to doing these kinds of deciphering exercises. She's found that deciphering an exercise is essentially summarizing and generalizing her thoughts, making her ideas much clearer. Especially since her current conversation partner is an ordinary person who doesn't understand Ninjutsu, when she's demonstrating her Ninjutsu, Sakura has to concentrate, carefully consider the logic, and explain it in a simple and easy-to-understand way. This approach is extremely beneficial to her; if even Yuki can understand it, then it means Sakura has truly mastered the Ninjutsu.

Moreover, sometimes others will raise questions or suggestions from unexpected angles, and these questions and suggestions can sometimes bring her great inspiration.

Communication is always better than working alone.

On the way back.

"Cherry Blossom Impact - Stage Three) is such a long name. But, Rising Ninjas are really amazing, they can even modify their brains and nerves!" Kazahana Koyuki said with a smile.

"No, those who can do that are extremely rare, just like you, Xue, have already reached the pinnacle of acting," Sakura Haruno said calmly. "Theoretically, everyone can act, but there are only a handful of people in the whole world who can act as well as you."

"I'm still so envious! I wish I were a ninja..." Yuki shook her head, looking at Sakura with envy.

"At your age, it's too late to learn and master Chakra..." the girl curled her lip and said disdainfully, "Besides, what's so good about being a ninja? It's all fighting and killing, you have to put your head on your belt, and you might just die without a burial place."

Aside from a few exceptions, who would enjoy such an uncertain life?

To be honest, Sakura sometimes envies the quiet and peaceful lives of ordinary people. However, she ultimately knows that without power, such peaceful days in the ninja world are just a beautiful Utakata, which could be shattered at any time in the event of war or disaster.

"But ninjas can use Chakra to maintain their skin!" The Daimyo didn't understand the danger of these sword fights, instead saying wistfully, "The Fifth Hokage, your teacher, is over fifty years old, but she still looks like a beautiful woman in her twenties! Ah, and she hardly wears any makeup! If I had known that being a ninja could keep you young forever, I would have gone to Konoha to study long ago..."

Sakura Haruno chuckled dryly... Women really do only care about this.

"Give up, we generally don't accept foreign commoners as students," she said. "Besides, being a ninja isn't as easy and enjoyable as being a daimyo here in the Land of Snow... So, how's the Land of Snow doing now?"

"It's alright. Unlike your Land of Fire, our Land of Snow is a remote, mountainous country," Snow said with a self-deprecating laugh, waving her hand. "Nothing particularly noteworthy. I've been away from the Land of Snow for six months, and the number of documents on my desk that I need to handle is less than the amount of work I had to do on Asama Asama's film crew!"

She sighed, "As long as I don't cause trouble, the Land of Snow will be peaceful. Next, we'll slowly promote and improve the geothermal system, and the geothermal power plant is also under construction. We're still short of money! My savings, and the funds you gave me before, are almost used up. Let's see if this movie can be a big hit this year. Once the actors' salaries and the return on investment come in, it'll be another source of income."

In a poor country like the Land of Snow, the income from snow can be very significant. This is also a tragedy.

When this topic came up, Sakura didn't offer much of an opinion.

When it comes to politics, neither she nor Xue really know much. Xue has her own ideas, so she doesn't interfere anymore.

Sakura Haruno spent a lot of time working at the grassroots level in the Land of Snow, but she simply copied the actions from her history books from her previous life without fully understanding what her actions meant for the Land of Snow. Of course, it wasn't a complete imitation; the Land of Snow had its own unique circumstances. The country was already struggling to support the Snow Ninja who followed Kazahana Dōtō and his civil servants. The rest of the population was severely exploited. After eliminating Kazahana Dōtō's faction, the Land of Snow was completely liberated.

In short, seeing everyone's faces gradually turn pale, and even their shouts becoming more forceful; seeing the Land of Snow developing in a positive direction, Sakura Haruno felt gratified, but also completely bewildered—what exactly had she done to make it work?

After sending Yuki back to the Daimyo's residence and casting Genjutsu to block her memories, Sakura took her leave.

In the Land of Snow, there is no distinction between summer and winter.

The only difference between July and January is that one is very cold, and the other is even colder.

After the harshest December of the coldest months passed, Sakura Haruno had quietly spent half a year in the Land of Snow.

Four months had passed, but not much had changed Sakura Haruno; her hair had simply grown a little longer. As for her demeanor, when she first arrived, there was a hint of fierceness hidden deep in her eyes; four months of peaceful life had worn that sharpness away, leaving only the desolation brought about by four months of seclusion.

If it were her past life, staying indoors for more than four months like this would probably have left her with a scraggly beard and looking like a wild woman. But in this life, she's better off; she's changed her bad habit of being unkempt. Plus, when she encounters difficulties in her cultivation, she goes out for a walk to clear her mind or chats with the Kazahana Koyuki, which helps her alleviate some of her loneliness.

Thinking back on it, the protagonists in the stories I read in my past life would often go into seclusion for months, years, or even decades—it was simply amazing.

She secluded herself in the base, training behind closed doors. After several weeks without speaking to anyone, she felt incredibly bored and couldn't continue her training. She needed to go out and get some human interaction. This was the first time in her life that Sakura Haruno had tried such secluded training, and she felt incredibly foolish. Living alone was too lonely.

The experiment did not proceed as quickly as expected.

Cherry Blossom Impact - Stage Three) was developed, but the effect was weak; then, Stage Two of Yin Seal was completed.

She died hundreds of times, piling up corpses to reach the Yin Seal Stage Two. When she finally completed it, she was practically in tears. She had never heard of any transmigrator who had suffered as much as she had. Dying during her transmigration was bad enough, but after arriving here, she had to keep dying...

The Cherry Blossom Impact Stage Three she wanted to develop was only put on the list after the Yin Seal was completed—on the list of corpses. But by then it was already the end of January, and the date to return to the village was fast approaching, with very little time left.

Let's just give up on that.

The difficulty of the second stage of the Yin Seal exceeded her expectations, and it also exposed the weakness of her Sealing Jutsu. However, now that Konoha has severed the inheritance of Sealing Jutsu, she has no way to make up for this shortcoming.

What about developing Phase Three - Yang God Mode? No, she had to go "to" Naruto's mother Kushina, for advice again.

Should she Impure World Reincarnation, or should she visit the ruins of Rōran? She was still hesitating.

Snow's new film is a huge hit, and its novel concept has also sparked a craze among ordinary people in the Hokage world. The daimyo who brought his own investment to the production made a fortune. With ample funding, the geothermal power plant was fully completed before Sakura left the Land of Snow.

Its first user was Sakura Haruno, who came to use the electricity.

Sakura shamelessly used the public funds for her own gain, hoarding electricity for several years—she had contributed part of the money to build the factory, so it could also be considered Sakura's property—and kept pushing the energy up to the upper limit of the Lightning Sealing Seal.

The development of the Yin Seal was completed in mid-January.

Next came the charging of public property, and in her spare time she practiced other techniques, such as the fusion of Ice Release and Yin Release, as well as Genjutsu. Sakura Haruno, this Genjutsu prodigy whose potential has been delayed, has only used Genjutsu on ordinary people so far.

Time flies.

Another page was torn from the calendar, and the two large red characters for February appeared on the calendar page.

"It's time to go back," she murmured to herself.

In the secluded and spacious base, Sakura had already packed up and sealed the things she needed to take into a scroll.

The girl stretched out her hand, and the Chakra at her fingertips quickly transformed into coldness. Ice blocks spread with the misty chill, filling the entire base in just a few seconds.

Then they blocked the door with huge rocks.

The February wind was still cold, but no longer biting. In the gentle breeze, the girl took one last look at the base before disappearing in Body Flicker Technique.

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