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The third question: Eight Gates.

For the Eight Gates, Hyuga Kazuya's main focus was reducing the damage caused by opening the gates, or helping the human body adapt more quickly to "opening the gates," thereby speeding up the learning of the Eight Gates.

First, he organized his thoughts.

One second later.

Everyone's body had "Eight Gates" that restrained their own Chakra, yet very few people knew how to use the Eight Gates.

Why were the inner gates that everyone possessed not utilized by others?

The key reason was that using the Eight Gates required unconventional, overloaded, limit-breaking long-term training.

Only then could the various parts and organs of the body adapt to the burden borne after opening the gates, minimizing the damage caused by the enormous energy released. Forcing them open would not work.

Therefore, the body needed to adapt to the effects of the Eight Gates' "gate opening."

Then, then.

Simplification was undoubtedly a good choice.

What he needed to do was simplify the Eight Gates—simplify it, simplify it, then simplify it even further.

If "opening the gates" was like forcing something a small hole could not bear into it—

Then he could simplify the Eight Gates, treating the opening of the First Gate as level one.

He could create a level 0.1 first, slowly insert it into the small hole, then gradually increase it until the gate could be fully opened. That would work.

The advantage was that it would cause less damage to the body during practice, making it easier to adapt to opening the Eight Gates.

One approach was forcing one's way through; the other was taking it slowly. Naturally, they were completely different.

However, there were also shortcomings that needed to be addressed. If the Eight Gates were eight massive floodgates standing before a dam—

Even if he opened only a tiny part of one, how could he ensure that opening would not be blasted apart by the dam's pressure?

So certain aspects still needed optimization, such as the structure, hardness, and method of the "gate key" used to open the gates.

Once he had clarified his train of thought, Hyuga Kazuya began.

With his current "godlike" state, coupled with a clear direction—

It took only six seconds for the simplified versions of the first three gates of the Eight Gates to be completed.

He redesigned the "key" for opening the gates, ensuring it would be safe and would not be forced open by the "dam."

The simplified Eight Gates no longer used the First Gate and Second Gate as dividing lines between levels.

Instead, the dividing lines became 0.1 gates, 0.2 gates, 1.1 gates, 1.2 gates, and so on.

Because the third question did not involve deducing the future path of the Eight Gates, but merely simplifying the existing three gates, it did not take much time.

Only six seconds had passed.

A vague sense told Hyuga Kazuya that there was one final second remaining.

For this final second, Hyuga Kazuya did not want to think about ninjutsu, Taijutsu, or anything of that sort.

He wanted to combine the sensation he experienced when he fell into enlightenment with his own conjectures and produce a certain interpretation of "enlightenment."

Why did he possess such a miraculous ability?

What was the reason?

Although he had very few clues, Hyuga Kazuya was confident that, relying on his current "godlike" state, he could still produce a report that might explain the existence of enlightenment.

First, he had definitely not possessed "enlightenment" in his previous life.

Then it must have been something that happened after he came to the Shinobi World, or during his arrival in the Shinobi World.

Second, "enlightenment" should not have been caused by the body, but by the soul.

As for why he thought so, it was because enlightenment was a very strange sensation.

It felt as if his consciousness was gradually separating from his flesh, then, in a state beyond description, inch by inch moving away from the Shinobi World, sliding—or falling—toward somewhere.

This awareness could not be explained clearly, yet it truly existed.

That meant the body was not the foundation of "enlightenment." The soul was.

Furthermore, based on the sensation of leaving the Shinobi World during enlightenment, could he infer that "enlightenment" was not something inherent to himself, but something bestowed by something else?

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why, during enlightenment, his soul would leave his body and slide toward the unknown depths of space—or beyond the world itself.

It was like an ordinary home computer suddenly connecting, at a certain moment, to the Divine Might series of supercomputers at a national supercomputing center.

Naturally, its computing power would surge, producing the effect of "enlightenment."

The same applied to a human being.

"So, could that be the answer?"

"Then... what would that computer, or that great existence, be?"

Hyuga Kazuya had never considered whether "it" bore him any ill will, because if that were the case, he would not have survived his first enlightenment—when he was five years old.

While connected through enlightenment, he was so rational, so cold, without any negative emotions whatsoever.

As if...

At that thought, Hyuga Kazuya's heart jolted. He had thought of something.

Like the 'Heavenly Dao' and the 'World Consciousness,' there was no distinction between good and evil—only coldness, indifference, and the like.

Though it was merely speculation, within that brief second, Hyuga Kazuya had already drawn up a chart.

Suspected Epiphany Report.

Possibility of connecting to a Great Existence (Heavenly Dao) (World Consciousness) (Outer God): 33%

Possibility of the soul's innate ability: 12%

Possibility of the body's innate ability: 2%

Other possibilities: 53%

Although the other possibilities made up the majority, in Hyuga Kazuya's subjective judgment, connecting to a Great Existence was still the most likely outcome.

"Time's up."

That was Hyuga Kazuya's final thought before exiting Overclocking. There had been a gradual process when the sensation first came.

But when he returned, nothing happened at all.

Everything was calm. There was no discomfort, no sensation whatsoever.

The next second, when he opened his eyes, the green flowers and grass in his backyard appeared before Hyuga Kazuya.

Hyuga Kazuya woke without any discomfort, save for the sense of separation that came from leaving Overclocking and returning to an ordinary mortal body.

He had gone from a god to a mortal.

The feeling lasted only an instant, because this was not his first time.

He was already familiar with the feeling of falling from godhood into humanity.

He quickly adjusted himself, then took the blank notebook that had already been in his hand before entering Overclocking and rapidly recorded all the knowledge in his mind.

Vacuum Arrow, the Longevity Breathing Technique, the medicinal ingredients needed for the Lightning Style Training Relief Potion, the Simplified Version of the First Three Gates, and everything else had to be written down.

Naturally, Hyuga Kazuya would not record any of his speculations regarding his own epiphany.

Before long, Hyuga Kazuya had written down everything that needed to be recorded in the notebook.

Looking at the densely packed handwriting and all the various knowledge in the notebook, Hyuga Kazuya could not help but smile. The smile grew wider and more uninhibited!

He calmed his racing heart, but when he saw the gains from this time, a smile once again curled at the corners of Hyuga Kazuya's lips.

"This time, the gains are enormous. Sure enough, as I grow older and learn more, the rewards brought by epiphany become richer as well."

"This time, I'm really going to soar!"

Right now, Hyuga Kazuya felt that he had a bright future ahead of him.

The future was so close.

His ideals and ambitions were within reach.