Talent

After bidding farewell to the past and returning to Kirigakure, Qi Shuang, whose household registration had been changed, began a new life.

Although his current body belonged to an orphan and he had nothing else, he wasn't left with absolutely nothing.

At the very least, he was left with a Kekkei Genkai, Ice Release.

This was also one of the reasons he was able to be trained by Kirigakure and enroll in the Ninja Academy.

As long as he grew up, he would be a proper Kekkei Genkai ninja, and with this talent, he could easily surpass the vast majority of ordinary ninjas.

Unlike ordinary ninjas with limited resources and talent, Chunin was not his limit.

He was fully qualified to grow into a Jonin and become an elite backbone of Kirigakure.

In the ninja world, Genin were merely cannon fodder on the battlefield, Chunin were the elite of a village, and Jonin were the regular top-tier combat power of a village.

As for existences above Jonin, Kage-level powerhouses, they were like strategic weapons.

Each of them could directly change the tide of battle, so they were rarely deployed.

After all, every major village had powerhouses of this level; if you used them, I would use them too, and it would only escalate the scale of the war.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, villages would not deploy them.

However, powerhouses of this level could not be mass-produced through education; it was far more random.

Thus, the major villages could only train talent up to the Jonin level.

And as the ninja profession had developed for hundreds of years, everyone understood the promotion path of ninjas clearly.

Besides the fixed and mature inheritances of clans, it was the holders of Kekkei Genkai who could more easily get promoted.

This was the so-called foundation and talent.

It was also something that many ordinary ninjas could not achieve; this was destiny!

It was not difficult to understand why Kirigakure would look after orphans like him who possessed talent.

Starting his new life, Qi Shuang began to study with extraordinary seriousness, which greatly surprised the teachers who had taught him before.

They even thought that he was spurred to study hard by Zabuza's massacre of all the examinees.

However, this was just a beautiful misunderstanding.

With the foundation of his current body, Qi Shuang quickly mastered the basic use of Chakra, and then he set his sights on his Ice Release Kekkei Genkai for further advancement.

That was his talent; as long as he could master the power of Ice Release, he could use Kekkei Genkai Ninjutsu.

Compared to Genin who had to slowly learn Ninjutsu under the guidance of their Jonin sensei after graduation, he was undoubtedly much luckier.

Mastering a Ninjutsu in advance could greatly increase his survival rate on the battlefield.

Unfortunately, none of the teachers at the Ninja Academy knew Ice Release.

This meant that he would have to figure out how to use Ice Release on his own; no one would teach him.

Fortunately, Ice Release was, after all, his innate ability, a natural instinct possessed by his body.

He didn't need to slowly comprehend the nature transformation of Chakra like others learning basic Ninjutsu to master a Ninjutsu.

He only needed to follow that faint feeling in his heart, controlling Chakra to transform, and he could create ice.

Although it was somewhat inexplicable, talent was talent, and others could not envy it.

When others learned Ninjutsu, they first understood, then mastered; but with this innate Kekkei Genkai, it was first used, and then gradually mastered through understanding.

Compared to learning a Ninjutsu out of thin air, this innate Kekkei Genkai was undoubtedly much more convenient!

Or rather, this was the legacy of his ancestors!

However, to enjoy this legacy of his ancestors, a harsh condition had to be met.

That was the awakening of the bloodline!

People who had not awakened their Kekkei Genkai were actually no different from ordinary people, but once they awakened their Kekkei Genkai, they could soar with the legacy of their ancestors, leaving most ordinary people far behind.

This was also the reason why Kekkei Genkai ninjas were always so envied.

Qi Shuang was a very lucky fellow.

His current body had awakened its Kekkei Genkai three years ago, and it was only after awakening his Kekkei Genkai that Kirigakure sent him to the Ninja Academy.

It was just that the original owner of this body was, after all, a child less than ten years old.

Children were more prone to playing, so during these three years at the Ninja Academy, apart from completing the basic teaching courses of his teachers, he had not developed his own potential much.

By the time Qi Shuang arrived, the original owner of this body could only simply condense one or two lumps of ice for fun.

If he wanted to perform specific Ice Release Ninjutsu, it would be too difficult for him.

Standing by the pool on the training ground, Qi Shuang snapped his fingers. Chakra, which had undergone nature transformation, was injected into the pool from his feet, and a layer of ice quickly formed on the water's surface.

The area of the ice was not large, only about two meters square, with one end connected to the edge of the pool and the other disappearing into the center of the pool. In the misty weather, it even looked somewhat dim, not like ice at all.

This was the result of Qi Shuang's month-long dedicated training in Ice Release.

As of now, he could quickly turn water into ice.

However, he was only a little over nine years old, and his body had not fully developed, so his Chakra reserves were not high. It was impossible for him to create large amounts of ice out of thin air using his own Chakra.

Only by borrowing water could a considerable amount of ice be produced.

Therefore, when he usually practiced, he would find a place with water to do so.

Immediately, he lifted his leg and stepped forward. With a crack, a huge fissure appeared on the ice.

Following that, centered on his foot, web-like cracks spread out in all directions, instantly covering the entire ice surface.

"The strength is too poor?"

As the ice shattered and his body suddenly sank, Qi Shuang sighed softly.

Fortunately, the moment he discovered the ice breaking, he had circulated chakra to the soles of his feet. The instant his feet touched the water, he immediately stabilized his body, thus avoiding sinking into the pool.

He bent down and picked up a piece of ice floating on the water's surface. He found that its overall thickness was not very great, about one centimeter. With a slight effort, he broke it in half again.

"It seems I still need to work on the hardness of the ice!" Discarding the ice in his hand, he sighed with emotion.

Due to his chakra reserves, he planned to condense ice into cones and transform them into the Ice Spike Technique as his current long-range attack method.

As for other large-scale Ice Release ninjutsu, it wasn't that he hadn't thought about developing them, but his own chakra reserves were limited. Even if he had ideas, he couldn't execute them.

He could only temporarily use this simple Ice Release technique for self-defense.

However, with the hardness of the ice at its current level, it was simply impossible to inflict any effective damage on an enemy.

He feared that even if it hit an enemy, it wouldn't hurt at all.

He had to further strengthen the hardness of the ice!