Wordless Heavenly Scripture

Compared with Marxism-Leninism and scientific socialist thought, the Will of Fire was far too shallow.

At its core, the Will of Fire was merely a spirit of sacrifice and collectivism. Did dressing it up with rhetoric somehow make it more profound? To a university student who had received higher education, it was far too low-level. Thus, he could not understand his brother's way of thinking.

He liked Konoha's ramen, liked Konoha's scenery, and was willing to contribute to Konoha. But if he was expected to give more, Uchiha Aozora could only say sorry.

His brother's "incorrigibility" left Uchiha feeling helpless.

As a transmigrator, although Uchiha Aozora did not know every major and minor event in Hokage, he was familiar with the deeds of the "two Uchiha."

In the anime, his elder brother, Uchiha Shisui, would be plotted against by his superior Danzo, losing one Mangekyō Sharingan. In despair, he gave his remaining Mangekyō Sharingan to Uchiha Itachi before leaping from a cliff to his death.

He was Uchiha Shisui's only younger brother. If Uchiha Shisui were reduced to pieces, his own fate would likely not be much better.

To help his brother escape this vortex, he had made many attempts over the years.

Yet whether he presented facts and reasoned with him, or mocked and ridiculed him as he had today, nothing could extinguish his brother's fiercely burning "Will of Fire."

The Nine-Tails' Rampage had already occurred, and the rift between the Uchiha and Konoha was growing ever wider. His brother's "day of death" was drawing near, and Uchiha Aozora felt a trace of urgency.

The manga had never specified exactly when Uchiha Shisui died. The only clue was that Uchiha Itachi had already entered the ANBU by then.

Uchiha Itachi had to have been at least a Chunin when he entered the ANBU. In other words, he had been at least ten years old.

Uchiha Itachi was only six now and was about to enter the academy.

After a simple calculation, Uchiha Aozora realized he had roughly four to five years left.

"Can I attain Kage-level strength in four years?"

During the Uchiha Clan Downfall, even Jonin were cannon fodder. Only those at Kage-level had the ability to intervene.

In truth, even Kage-level strength was not a guarantee. It should be known that there were many Masterminds behind the Uchiha Clan Downfall. Besides Danzo, the king of scapegoats, Uchiha Obito had also taken part, while the role played by the Third Hokage remained open to question. To truly hold the field, Super Kage strength was indispensable.

But he only wanted to preserve the lives of himself and his brother. Kage-level strength would probably be enough.

"Besides, reaching Kage-level in four years is a little difficult."

Thinking of this, he sighed softly.

Though he was a pure-blooded Uchiha Clan Member, he was already twelve and had yet to awaken the Sharingan. Taking the path of advancing to Kage-level through the Mangekyō Sharingan was basically impossible.

Moreover, evolving the Sharingan required undergoing immense negative emotions to produce the special Chakra needed to awaken the Mangekyō. In the manga, most Sharingan evolutions came after the death of a close relative. By that logic, for him to awaken it, Uchiha Shisui would have to die.

The problem was that his purpose in awakening the Mangekyō was to save Uchiha Shisui.

Awakening the Mangekyō to save his brother was a paradox. This path would not work.

"Fortunately, I brought a Cheat System with me when I transmigrated!"

At that thought, Uchiha Aozora felt a weight lift from his body.

Like most transmigrators, Uchiha Aozora also had a golden finger.

His golden finger was a page of a book. The page bore no words and had somehow entered his sea of consciousness.

When he first successfully refined Chakra, he sensed the page within his sea of consciousness. Like a black hole, it instantly absorbed the Chakra he had refined.

Just as he thought the page hid an old grandfather who needed to absorb energy to recover, it returned all of his Chakra. At the same time, four ancient Pale Gold characters appeared on the page—Guidance and Qi Cultivation.

As he concentrated and visualized the four characters, a mysterious sensation welled up in his heart.

It was as though enlightenment had been poured directly into his mind. He seemed to hear an old Taoist beside him explaining the Taoist method of Guidance and Qi Cultivation.

After a while, he came back to his senses.

He practiced the Qi cultivation method once and discovered that it was eighty or ninety percent similar to the Chakra Refining Technique he had learned, differing only in a few minor details. Unlike the Chakra Refining Technique, the Guidance and Qi Cultivation method included an additional step before cultivating Qi: guidance.

The Qi cultivation method and the Chakra Refining Technique were fundamentally the same. Both drew upon the body's spiritual and physical energy, transforming it into controllable energy.

The method of guidance, however, differed from both Qi cultivation and the Chakra Refining Technique. Through breathing and breath regulation, it controlled the energy within the body to temper the physical form.

After briefly comparing the Guidance and Qi Cultivation method with the Chakra Refining Technique, Uchiha Aozora somewhat understood why shinobi possessed world-destroying power, yet so few could achieve longevity.

The Guidance and Qi Cultivation method was not much more profound than the Chakra Refining Technique, but unlike the Chakra Refining Technique, it added the Foundation Establishment step of "guidance."

Whether it was "Qi" or "Chakra," both were perfect fusions of a person's spiritual and physical energy. There was not much difference in essence.

No matter how perfect a cultivation method was, it could never be completely foolproof. And once something went wrong, one's mind and body would inevitably be harmed.

In the early stages of the guidance method, the focus was on breathing, breath regulation, and guidance to temper the physical form. Through breath regulation, the body's energy was circulated throughout the entire body, reducing excess and replenishing deficiency, thereby forging the foundation of the Great Dao—the body. Only after one grew older, their body fully developed, and their mind and spirit matured, with the Dao foundation initially formed, would Taoists begin drawing upon physical and spiritual energy to cultivate Qi.

The Chakra Refining Technique was different. Because the Shinobi World was too chaotic and dangerous, shinobi could not afford to worry about long-term consequences. They could only choose a rapid, short-sighted cultivation method. This allowed gifted youths to possess world-destroying energy at an early age, but it also caused many geniuses to overdraw their lives and ruin their Dao foundations.

After understanding this principle, Uchiha Aozora concealed the fact that he had long been able to refine Chakra. Starting at age five, he used the guidance method to circulate the energy dissipating from his body throughout his entire body, nourishing it.

This made his development far surpass that of his peers. His skin grew better and better, and he looked exceptionally handsome. Of course, that was only the surface. Beneath his fair skin, his meridians and bones were also becoming increasingly resilient.

He simply did not want to be a genius, so he rarely displayed his powerful physical qualities.

As for why he did not want to be a genius, it was because the Uchiha clan did not need another Uchiha Shisui, nor did Konoha need another Uchiha genius.

At the beginning of this year, Uchiha Aozora finally felt that his "Dao foundation had formed." His spirit had always been his strength. Though his body had not fully developed, mistakes in Qi cultivation would not easily harm it. Only then did he begin cultivating Qi—or rather, refining Chakra.

Although he had only begun refining Chakra at the start of the year, he felt that his Chakra reserves were already no worse than those of the other students in his class. In the future, his Chakra reserves would rapidly pull far ahead of his peers.

"In four years, my Chakra should reach Kage-level. Then all I lack are skills? It's time to learn some ninjutsu and see what surprises the Heavenly Book will give me then."

As he visualized it, "Guidance and Qi Cultivation," "Henge," "Clone," and "Weapon Control" appeared upon the Heavenly Book. Uchiha Aozora could not help looking forward to his future life as a shinobi.

Though the Heavenly Book did not give him new knowledge, it would reorganize and optimize the knowledge he had learned, then provide him with a new skill.