Space-Time Power, Space-Time Chakra, Space-Time Nature Transformation...
With just one look, Gojo Yoru understood the special effect of the Black Chakra.
As everyone knew, a ninja's Chakra had seven natures: wind, fire, water, earth, lightning, yin, and yang—the Yin-Yang Five Elements of this world.
Yin and yang were hidden natures. They could only be possessed innately and could not be acquired through training, unless a powerful external force altered one's body.
Even the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama, as well as Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar from the Original Work, could not cultivate yin and yang natures after birth.
Uchiha Madara possessed the Yin-Yang Five Elements because he had transplanted Senju Hashirama's cells. Otherwise, his limit would have been the same as Second Pillar's: at most, he could possess six natures, yin and the five elements.
The fusion of Nature Transformations from two natures was a Kekkei Genkai.
The fusion of Nature Transformations from three natures was known as a Kekkei Tōta.
That was the limit of the Ninja World's understanding.
Yet Gojo Yoru knew that the fusion of all seven natures created a Kekkei Mōra.
In the eyes of pure-blooded Otsutsuki Clan members, those were their own kind!
Without a Kekkei Mōra, an Otsutsuki Clan member without all natures was mixed blood among mixed blood, no different from those lower life-forms.
That Chakra possessed only seven natures was common knowledge in the Ninja World.
Only a select few knew that the Ninja World had an eighth, hidden special nature.
It stood above the seven natures, with an absurdly high floor and ceiling. Some were no weaker than Kekkei Mōra, some were themselves a type of Kekkei Mōra, and some were even more powerful than Kekkei Mōra!
That was Space-Time Power!
Space-Time Ninjutsu was actually quite common in the Ninja World.
Storage Scrolls involved the principles of Space-Time.
The Summoning Technique likewise involved Space-Time Power.
However, all of those relied on contracts and seals to barely touch the surface, and they could not be used on oneself.
Thus, when the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, developed the Flying Thunder God Technique and showed the entire Ninja World the terror of Space-Time Power, it immediately became one of the Ninja World's strongest S-Rank ultimate techniques.
To this day, aside from Senju Tobirama, its creator, no second person in Konoha had mastered that S-Rank ultimate technique.
Moreover, the Flying Thunder God Technique was only an auxiliary Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Over the thousand-year history of the Warring States Era, the Ninja World had never seen an offensive Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Because no one could truly master Space-Time Power, much less transform their Chakra Nature Transformation into Space-Time Chakra. Not even the universe's pure-blooded Otsutsuki Clan members could do it!
Their Space-Time Ninjutsu, like the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kamui, merely consumed Chakra or Yin Release Chakra to manipulate a small amount of Space-Time Power.
Amenominaka, Yomotsu Hirasaka, Daikokuten... these Kekkei Mōra and divine techniques were all auxiliary Space-Time Ninjutsu.
By contrast, Kamui, which was neither a Kekkei Mōra nor a divine technique, was a rare offensive Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Even so, offensive Kamui had a startup delay, consumed enormous amounts of Dojutsu Power, and had fixed applications. It likewise did not transform Chakra into a Space-Time Nature Transformation.
And now, the first being to possess Space-Time Chakra... had been born!
No wonder Gojo Yoru was so excited. The fact that he had not burst into maniacal laughter was already the greatest restraint he could muster as someone who had lived two lives and crossed over.
Over these six years, no one knew how much pressure Gojo Yoru had endured.
If he had been born around the time the story began and had been the same age as Naruto and Sasuke, then even without a Kekkei Genkai or a Golden Finger, Gojo Yoru would have accepted his fate and coasted through this life.
With his familiarity with the plot, he could easily avoid every great calamity except the Infinite Tsukuyomi. And the Infinite Tsukuyomi was not even much of a calamity—it was practically a beautiful dream.
But unfortunately, Gojo Yoru had crossed over into the era of Namikaze Minato.
The Second Shinobi World War could erupt at any moment, and the Original Work revealed pitifully little information. Gojo Yoru had no idea whether Namikaze Minato's class had been sent to the battlefield.
If they were sent to war, then even if they were only assigned logistics duties, enemy ninja could invade at any time. Ninja capable enough to do that, especially those who came with missions, would be at least Special Jonin.
Without protagonist plot armor, encountering them meant certain death.
The more a transmigrator knew, the more there was to worry about. Especially in an era where he possessed no plot advantage at all, the pressure in Gojo Yoru's heart grew by the day.
Therefore, his Game Guide had already accounted for using any means necessary to grow stronger.
To survive, he was even willing to become an experiment, a patchwork monster like Kakuzu or Hiruko.
To lay the groundwork for his plan, he, an "adult" who understood the importance of connections and social networks, had crafted the persona of a cold, antisocial school tyrant from the moment he enrolled. Every day was an act.
In truth, Gojo Yoru often woke from nightmares in the middle of the night.
He dreamed that his plan failed before it even began, that his thoughts were read and his identity as someone from another world exposed, after which he became an even more miserable experiment.
He dreamed that after painstakingly gaining great power, he was slapped to death by an even higher-dimensional force, all his efforts amounting to nothing.
These were the invisible shackles binding Gojo Yoru.
But now, with the emergence of the Black Space-Time Chakra, all those shackles shattered!
What had once been the ceiling of becoming an all-round Jonin—even if the Game Guide were perfectly fulfilled, only a pseudo-Six Paths Level—had now become utterly vague.
That was the special nature of Space-Time.
Its lower limit was very low. Even ordinary ninja could use Space-Time Power to create Storage Scrolls.
Its upper limit was extremely high. Hatake Kakashi, merely an Elite Jonin, could injure the Mother of Chakra because he had mastered offensive Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Gojo Yoru, who possessed Space-Time Chakra, now had equally uncertain strength. Whether he was strong or weak depended entirely on the amount and uses of his Black Chakra.
If he could develop offensive methods, then despite still being a First-Year Apprentice Ninja, he would possess means to threaten a Kage, just like those Elite Jonin who had mastered S-Rank ultimate techniques.
Even a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki with Ninjutsu Immunity would have its defenses broken if he hit it.
If the Black Chakra could not be used to attack, then Gojo Yoru's strength would not change at all. Like those Ninja Clans that possessed Secret Techniques and Kekkei Genkai, he would merely have a special ability.
Even in the latter case, Gojo Yoru was already satisfied.
Because his feet had just phased.
Phasing—this was Uchiha Obito's bug-level ability that made him invincible throughout Naruto!
As long as Gojo Yoru could phase his entire body, no one in this era could kill him through any means other than assassination, including the Shinobi World's Asura, who was still alive!
Right now, he was a cut above the ninja!
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