Rip—
The crisp sound of paper tearing, along with the crackling sparks, rang out across the balcony.
Gojo Yoru, dressed in a gray yukata, sat on a stool, tearing up his diary page by page and tossing the sheets covered in writing into the small brazier before him.
As he watched the Game Guide—written entirely in pinyin and Cantonese, revised again and again over the past six years—turn to ashes before his eyes, Gojo Yoru felt as though he were watching his former self burn away. He could not help but sigh with emotion.
The more confident he was now, the more powerless he had once been.
Just as Namikaze Minato had been Gojo Yoru's Inner Demon all these years.
This Game Guide also symbolized Gojo Yoru's darker side.
Other than Gojo Yoru, no one knew what crazed plans this diary contained, nor the truth of the world that would overturn the Ninja World's understanding.
If the plans within were ever realized, a terrifying and pitiful patchwork monster would be born into this Ninja World.
But now, that tragic future would never come. What awaited him instead was the exhilarating life of someone with cheats enabled.
After burning the entire Game Guide, Gojo Yoru rose and gazed at the winter moon, as though he were looking directly at Kaguya Otsutsuki, sealed within it.
"Phew..."
Suddenly, Gojo Yoru took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled the stagnant frustration accumulated over the years as an arrow-like breath shrouded in white mist.
At that moment, even Gojo Yoru could clearly feel that his body seemed to have undergone some kind of change.
It was an elevation of body, energy, and spirit!
What this elevation brought was not only a shift in mindset, but also an increase in Physical Energy and Mental Energy.
From this moment onward, Gojo Yoru had formally bid farewell to the past. He would integrate himself into this world and begin a brand-new life known as "Gojo Yoru."
After extinguishing the brazier, Gojo Yoru did not immediately return to his room to rest. Instead, he went back down to the basement carved with incantations.
After sorting and storing away the remaining diaries, Gojo Yoru resumed his usual Space-Time training.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
His hands rapidly formed seals, their movements not only skillful but so fast that they left afterimages.
With every precise hand seal, it was as though flashes of Gojo Yoru's daily practice from childhood to adulthood could be seen.
Bang, bang...
As Gojo Yoru's soft shout fell, two sounds like popping balloons exploded through the basement.
Two clouds of white smoke appeared out of thin air to Gojo Yoru's left and right.
When the smoke dispersed, two Shadow Clones emerged.
However, these two Shadow Clones were somewhat unusual.
Normal Shadow Clones were not only physical, but also possessed independent consciousness and could move freely.
Aside from being unable to take much of a beating and having unequal Chakra reserves, Shadow Clones were almost no different from the original body.
That was also the greatest difference between Shadow Clones and Phantom Clones.
At their core, Phantom Clones were merely illusionary decoys. They lacked the "spirit" unique to physical bodies.
But now, the condition of Gojo Yoru's two Shadow Clones seemed to have been reversed with that of Phantom Clones.
Their eyes were vacant, their expressions dull, as if they were two puppets.
Most crucially, their bodies flickered and distorted from time to time, like a glitching monitor.
Clearly, these two Shadow Clones had "malfunctioned."
"What exactly is going wrong here?"
Gojo Yoru examined the two failed Shadow Clones and thought, The ordinary Chakra clearly fused with the Space-Time Chakra, and this new Chakra successfully created physical bodies. Why don't the Shadow Clones have independent consciousness?
Could it be that the tyranny of Space-Time Chakra still remains, and without the original body's control, it immediately destroys the balance? If that were the case, then the Shadow Clones should automatically dispel, shouldn't they?
Or does this Space-Time Power, which can be extracted from the body, possess a [unique] characteristic? Only the original body can use it, not even a clone, so it crashes?
Unable to figure it out, Gojo Yoru could only sigh helplessly. "As expected of supreme-level power. Even with this degree of Chakra control, I can only grasp a tiny fraction of it."
After once again failing to create Shadow Clones containing Space-Time Chakra, Gojo Yoru practiced the Phantom Body Flicker Technique in the cramped basement.
Since receiving the Nature Transformation scroll gifted by Orochimaru in March, Gojo Yoru had gained a certain understanding of Yang Release over the past half year. Not only had he mastered basic Medical Ninjutsu, but he had also successfully fused ordinary Chakra with Space-Time Chakra and performed the Clone Technique from the Three Body Techniques.
This was a tremendous breakthrough!
Successfully performing the Clone Technique meant that Gojo Yoru's efforts had been headed in the right direction. Space-Time Chakra could be used to perform ninjutsu; it was merely extremely difficult.
Even with the Chakra control needed to master the Rasengan, he could only touch upon a tiny fraction of it.
However, Space-Time Power itself was supreme Power of Rules. Even many Kekkei Mōra possessed by pure-blooded Otsutsuki Clan members only touched upon a tiny fraction of it.
For Gojo Yoru, who had only completed his first evolution and possessed Space-Time Chakra reserves at merely Genin level, reaching this point was already remarkable.
Even if he had only touched the surface, Gojo Yoru had developed his own Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
The Phantom Body Flicker Technique could split off multiple Phantom Clones to attack in coordination with the original body, and the Phantom Clones would not disappear even after being struck.
This was the signature technique that earned Uchiha Shisui the title of "Body Flicker Shisui" in the Original Work!
However, Uchiha Shisui's Phantom Body Flicker Technique focused primarily on Sharingan genjutsu, with his powerful Body Flicker Technique as support.
Without powerful genjutsu that required no hand seals and a Body Flicker Talent, one could not train in Uchiha Shisui's Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
Even Uchiha Itachi, whose genjutsu was equally formidable, could not learn this move.
Gojo Yoru's Phantom Body Flicker Technique, on the other hand, primarily relied on Space-Time Chakra, with the Body Flicker Technique as support.
Phantom Clones containing Space-Time Chakra would not disperse when struck. Combined with the original body's silent Body Flicker Technique, they could switch positions with the original body without anyone noticing.
Moreover, Gojo Yoru discovered something extremely important.
That was... Space-Time Chakra was difficult to sense!
When drawn out of the body with a Chakra Blade, Space-Time Chakra could be seen.
When he tried infusing it into a Rasengan, the Black Space-Time Chakra could likewise be seen.
But when fused with ordinary Chakra, or when it remained inside Gojo Yoru's body, ordinary Sensing Techniques could not detect the existence of Space-Time Chakra at all.
Gojo Yoru had personally confirmed this with Shadow Clones.
Without question, this was the concealment of a higher dimension—the prestige of supreme Power of Rules.
However, based on the Ninja World's understanding, before Gojo Yoru actively revealed his Space-Time Ninjutsu, they could never imagine that the Black Chakra within his body actually contained Space-Time Power.
When that moment came, Gojo Yoru's Space-Time Bloodline would surely overturn everyone's understanding of the Ninja World.
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