Konoha, Training Ground 7.
The place where Team 3 trained.
Uchiha Kiyoshi was performing one strange pose after another. Anyone unfamiliar with it would naturally laugh at how clumsy his movements looked if they did not watch closely.
But if they looked carefully, they could vaguely sense a certain bearing from him. Sometimes he was as steady as an ox, sometimes as ferocious as a wolf, and sometimes as fierce as a bear.
As Uchiha Kiyoshi performed each movement, the Chakra within his body circulated to the corresponding areas, then restored Physical Energy and nourished his body.
Uchiha Kiyoshi had not kept the cultivation of this Secret Jutsu hidden. From its initial development to his current training, he had practiced it openly. After all, the core of this Secret Jutsu was not these movements, but the Body Nourishment Technique. Even if ninjas without the Body Nourishment Technique imitated Uchiha Kiyoshi's movements, they could still gain some training benefits, but they would never grasp its essence. Their results would be far inferior to Uchiha Kiyoshi's.
He had only dared to reveal it after gaining Orochimaru as his backer. Before that, he would have wanted nothing more than to keep it hidden away.
No matter how effective this Secret Jutsu was, the village higher-ups would at least not openly force Uchiha Kiyoshi to hand it over out of respect for Orochimaru.
Although Orochimaru had yet to reach his peak, he was still a Jonin—and a twenty-two-year-old Jonin at that. Together with his status as the Hokage's disciple, no one would provoke him without tremendous benefit at stake.
By the time this Secret Jutsu truly showed its effects, several years would have passed. Orochimaru would definitely have grown stronger by then. Even with huge benefits involved, the village higher-ups might not dare provoke