Power

Upon arriving at the outskirts of the Forest of Death, Hyuga Kazuya looked at the two-meter-high wall and casually leaped over it.

The Forest of Death was a forest deliberately enclosed in Konoha's outer district. It contained many wild animals and was normally used as a site for Ninja Academy students' wilderness survival trials and the Chunin Exams.

That was why there were usually very few people here. In truth, Hyuga Kazuya did not want to test the power of his bow and arrows in this place.

However, while Hyuga Kazuya could freely enter and leave Konoha's main district, he could not leave Konoha's outer district.

Registered ninja of Konoha were not allowed to leave Konoha unless they had a mission.

After all, ninja could be regarded as active-duty soldiers in some respects. How could ordinary soldiers freely enter and leave their camp?

After considering it over and over, Hyuga Kazuya could only think of the Forest of Death, a place considered sparsely populated within Konoha.

The trees in the Forest of Death blocked out the sky and sun, and even sunlight was tightly obscured by the layers upon layers of leaves.

Once inside the Forest of Death, Hyuga Kazuya activated his Byakugan, carefully surveyed the surroundings, and then found a secluded spot.

Relying on his Byakugan once more, he carefully examined the area and repeatedly confirmed that there was no one nearby and no surveillance equipment. Only then did Hyuga Kazuya take out the Storage Scroll from the ninja tool pouch at his waist.

Opening the Storage Scroll, Hyuga Kazuya immediately formed several hand seals. With a faint poof, a cloud of White Smoke rose. He waved his hand, and as the smoke slowly dispersed, a bronze longbow and one hundred arrows appeared before him.

Picking up the longbow without any unnecessary movements, Hyuga Kazuya nocked an arrow, activated his Byakugan, and stared at a tree a hundred meters away that was so thick it would take five people linking arms to encircle it.

Feeling Chakra flow through his body, he used the Byakugan and Gentle Fist's precise control over Chakra to continuously enhance his strength.

This was a Nintaijutsu Hyuga Kazuya had developed himself, one based on precise Chakra control.

Hyuga Kazuya had named this Nintaijutsu "Power Buff," a simple, plain, and unadorned name.

Simply put, based on a memory he had recalled by chance from his previous life, Hyuga Kazuya knew that according to medical research, if all the potential of the human body's muscles could be unleashed, the force those muscles could bear could reach twenty-five tons.

Although Tyson's heavy punch could only reach four hundred and fifty kilograms of force, that was because the human body instinctively protected itself.

The humans of this world had as many as 1.3 million billion cells, whereas humans in his previous life had only forty to sixty trillion cells.

Therefore, the limits of humans in the shinobi world were far higher than those of humans on Earth in his previous life. Based on this knowledge, Hyuga Kazuya relied on the Byakugan and Gentle Fist's extremely fine control over Chakra.

He used Chakra to briefly strengthen his muscles, attached Chakra to the insides and outsides of his bones to reinforce their strength, and protected soft tissues such as his arm joints and blood vessels.

All to raise his own upper limit of strength.

It was somewhat similar to Tsunade's Monster Strength Punch. However, Hyuga Kazuya did not know how to train in Monster Strength Punch; he merely found that its displayed effects in the original work were broadly similar to the Nintaijutsu he had developed.

However, the technique Hyuga Kazuya had developed also had a flaw: he could not cast it instantly yet and needed time to prepare. But as his proficiency improved, the preparation time required would decrease accordingly.

Moreover, the successful development of this technique made Hyuga Kazuya think that if it could be applied to internal organs and the brain—for example, accelerating blood circulation, increasing metabolism, resisting toxins and healing injuries, or improving the digestive functions of the stomach and intestines—would that not indirectly increase Chakra extraction?

Not to mention that if it could be applied to the brain, whether to strengthen the optic nerves or motor nerves, it would be an extraordinarily terrifying advancement. There were countless other possibilities as well.

However, limited by knowledge and safety concerns, these were not experiments Hyuga Kazuya could currently explore. For now, he could only apply it to his limbs and increase his strength.

If he had not possessed his ability, then the precise control over Chakra he had gained through the Byakugan and Gentle Fist would have been his greatest Golden Finger in terms of strength in this world.

After all, in a shinobi world that generally pursued destructive power, refined control over the human body was instead an unexplored field.

Even if there were institutions or organizations researching the human body, their focus would still continuously drift toward Kekkei Genkai. Or rather, the purpose of those institutions was to study Kekkei Genkai, and they often overlooked the basic principles of the human body.

There was nothing to be done about it. The tremendous power and strength brought by "ninja" had also created an enormous barrier to understanding.

Given the hardness of this bow, Hyuga Kazuya could originally only barely draw it open with his own strength. But with the enhancement of "Power Buff," he could now pull it into a full moon with relative ease.

With the bow drawn to a full moon, Hyuga Kazuya did not wrap the bow and arrow in Chakra for his first test shot. He simply wanted to test the bow's power without Chakra.

Whoosh.

With a whoosh, the arrow instantly crossed a hundred meters, and the entire shaft sank into the tree.

Using the Byakugan's penetrating vision to observe it, Hyuga Kazuya saw that an ordinary arrow without Chakra had crossed a hundred meters and buried its entire shaft in the tree. Against ordinary Genin and Chunin without cover, it should possess considerable killing power.

"Not bad. Next, I'll test infusing Chakra into the arrow." After saying that, Hyuga Kazuya immediately picked up another arrow, aimed, and fired.

Then, when the bow was drawn to a full moon, Hyuga Kazuya channeled his own Chakra around the arrow shaft in the form of Wind Release nature transformation, using its nature transformation to enhance its piercing power.

With an almost imperceptible whoosh, the arrow shot forth at a speed far beyond what the naked eye could track.

Bang!

The arrow instantly crossed a hundred meters and directly pierced through the tree that required five people to encircle it, leaving behind a Big Hole as thick as a child's arm. Yet its momentum did not diminish, and it buried itself deeply in the heart of another tree ten meters away.

From afar, Hyuga Kazuya used his Byakugan to observe the bow and arrow's destructive power.

"With this power, it's probably comparable to an anti-materiel sniper rifle from my previous life. And this is just an ordinary arrow. What if it were an arrow made of Chakra Metal?" Without lingering, Hyuga Kazuya picked up a Chakra Metal arrow from beside him.

He nocked another arrow, repeated his previous movements, and poured Chakra into its shaft. He could feel that the Chakra flowed through it with an entirely different smoothness than when he had infused an ordinary arrow.

He pulled the bow to a full moon and released it in an instant.

With a whoosh, it flew even faster than before, accompanied by successive sonic booms as it instantly crossed a hundred meters.

Then came—

Pfft!

Pfft!

Pfft!

Three sounds in succession. It directly pierced through three trees before finally stopping at the fourth.

"Tsk, tsk."

"What terrifying power. Even a Kage-level expert would probably die if they were hit in a surprise attack."

Hyuga Kazuya clicked his tongue at the power of the Chakra Metal arrow. Based on his careful observation just now, the arrow's initial speed had likely reached a terrifying three times the speed of sound. From several hundred meters away, it had consecutively pierced through three massive trees that would take several people to encircle.

If it hit a person, they would likely be torn apart on the spot.

Three times the speed of sound might seem incredibly powerful, but its initial velocity was actually only around 1,020 meters per second, only somewhat faster than that of an ordinary machine gun.

Using the Type 99 Tank from his previous life as a reference, its armor-piercing rounds could reach an initial velocity of 1,940 meters per second—roughly 5.7 times the speed of sound—and penetrate 850 to 960 millimeters of homogeneous armor from a distance of two thousand meters.

In other words, the Chakra Metal arrow's power was still far from that of a tank cannon from his previous life. It could only achieve such penetration by relying on the piercing effect of Wind Release Chakra.

Don't ask. The answer was simply the miraculous energy known as Chakra.

However, Hyuga Kazuya also discovered some shortcomings. For example, the intense Chakra fluctuations of a Chakra Metal arrow would likely allow even some Elite Jonin to immediately react once they sensed it.

For now, it could only be used for surprise attacks: use the Clone Technique to harass the enemy from the front while the real body launched a killing strike from the shadows.

Hyuga Kazuya only knew the Clone Technique among the basic Three Body Techniques. It was fine for fooling people, but it could not fight, and he did not know the B-rank ninjutsu Shadow Clone either.

Alternatively, he needed a teammate to draw enemy fire from the front while he dealt damage.

There was another method: try to reduce the fluctuations by improving his Wind Release Chakra.

Although Hyuga Kazuya did not yet know how to do that, he would probably be able to undergo his fifth Overclocking in a month. By then, the intelligence boost brought by Overclocking should provide a way to solve it.

His original plan for the fifth Overclocking had been to prioritize mastering the absolute defense of "Revolving Heaven," while secondarily solving how to apply Wind Release more perfectly to his bow and arrows.

Now, as events progressed, problems were piling up one after another.

Fortunately, he had already mastered "Revolving Heaven" through Uncle.

Now he could move the problem of "how to apply Wind Release more perfectly to bow and arrows" forward in priority.

"It seems the fifth Overclocking needs to prioritize finding a better solution for how to apply Wind Release more perfectly to bow and arrows."

Holding the bow and arrows, Hyuga Kazuya walked while pondering the problems his fifth Overclocking needed to solve.

As for techniques he had developed himself, such as "Wind Spirit" and "Power Buff," since they were techniques he had created himself—

Although he knew they had tremendous potential, Hyuga Kazuya did not know how far the road to success truly was.

Before his own combat strength was enough to gain a foothold in the coming Third Shinobi World War, Hyuga Kazuya did not want to waste precious Overclocking opportunities on something with no visible path forward.

Instead, it was better to rely on things he had acquired from watching anime in his previous life—the Rasengan training method, the Wind Release nature transformation training method, or Taijutsu like Gentle Fist, whose subsequent stages could be completely deduced—to use Overclocking to accelerate his learning. That was the safest choice.

That way, at least there was a guaranteed baseline. After all, life only came once. If possible, he should not be reckless.

Overclocking lasted far too briefly. Its cooldown was measured in years, yet each use only lasted seconds, so he could only prioritize the issues most crucial to himself.