Seeing the four pale gold ancient characters appear on the Heavenly Book, Aozora smiled in delight.
Though he had yet to receive the inheritance, the name alone told him that this Daoist magic and Divine Ability was surely meant to protect its practitioner.
Ever since his arrival in this world, Aozora's strength had steadily increased, yet he had never truly felt at ease.
The Shinobi World's combat system was somewhat distorted. There were countless offensive ninjutsu, but very few defensive ones.
Everyone possessed only flesh-and-blood bodies; a single kunai was enough to finish them off. That was why speed-type ninja like Hatake Sakumo and Namikaze Minato could kill their enemies into utter terror.
Abnormally fast ninja were practically harvesters of ninja at the same level. Thus, when those two ran rampant, the major ninja villages had no choice but to declare that missions could be abandoned upon encountering either of them.
If ninja all possessed defenses that matched their strength, then miracles like Namikaze Minato instantly killing fifty Jonin would have been difficult to achieve.
Thinking of this, Aozora could not help but mock Might Guy and Rock Lee.
With the speed unleashed by the Eight Inner Gates, it would have been a pity not to wield a sharp Executioner's Blade.
Reining in his wandering thoughts, Aozora focused and accepted the inheritance of the "Lightning Fire Golden Body."
Amid the chaos was nothingness, with only a gray stone standing within it. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning appeared out of nowhere and struck the gray stone. Blazing flames ignited beneath it, and lightning and fire intertwined, continuously tempering it.
At the same time, an ethereal voice sounded beside Aozora's ear, reciting the cultivation formulas for body tempering.
The Lightning Fire Golden Body was an orthodox Taoist body-tempering method. In its early