A few days later, everyone returned to Konohagakure and received another week-long break.
However, after returning from the battlefield, Genma cherished his time even more. He devoted every morning to Master Str, training Taijutsu as before by taking on a crowd of burly men alone.
In the afternoons, he used Shadow Clones to hone his swordsmanship while his main body practiced Earth Style Nature Transformation.
Earth Style Chakra Nature Transformation truly had countless possible directions.
Just listing the uses of Earth Style Chakra included changing an object's hardness, composition, mass, gravity, and more.
The "alteration" and "hardening" Yushi had mentioned before were a set of theories he had come up with himself.
To Yushi, the most practical applications of Earth Style were changing the hardness of earth and altering its weight.
Hardness was easy to understand; it referred to how solid something was. It was a broad term, since changing composition or mass might also make earth harder.
But that was how Yushi distinguished them. He believed hardness was more useful, so he focused specifically on developing it in that direction.
The other aspect, alteration, referred to weight. He did not care about composition or mass; all he wanted was weight.
If he needed to flee, he would lighten the armor on his body. If he needed to fight, he would make his fists heavier.
Although Genma had plenty of criticisms about Yushi's rough Earth Style development, there truly was no one more skilled than Yushi.
If he developed it himself, he might spend even more time, and his combat strength would take longer to form.
His current situation no longer allowed him to develop slowly. It might not be a case of long preparation before a sudden breakthrough, but he still needed to mature as soon as possible.
Thus,