Ninjutsu Concepts and Practice, the Masked Man Who Came for the Akatsuki Organization

Additionally, there was one aspect of Lightning Release that Minamoto Takuya wanted to research and learn.

That was Lightning Release's ability to strengthen the body. This could be called a Secret Technique, one generally mastered only by Cloud Ninja. The fact that no one from other ninja villages had managed to develop this Secret Technique showed just how difficult it was.

However, Kakashi Hatake's Chidori actually included a degree of physical enhancement. Lightning Release: Chidori greatly stimulated and increased the user's physical vitality, boosting their speed to the point where even the user found it difficult to react.

This also meant that using Chidori required sufficiently high reaction speed, or the ability to see through the enemy's movements in advance and respond beforehand—in other words, the support of the Sharingan.

Without the Sharingan, perhaps only someone with reaction speed like Minato Namikaze, who could freely use the Flying Thunder God Technique, could perfectly control Chidori.

Minamoto Takuya did not believe he possessed Minato Namikaze's reaction speed, but he had his cheat. Reaction speed, when all was said and done, was simply the speed of neural reflexes, which basically depended on the transmission speed of electrical signals.

So... if he could control Lightning Release with enough precision to reach the level of electrical signals, then he could physically accelerate his own reaction speed!

With his ability to control chakra, he still had a chance if he continued improving!

As Minamoto Takuya considered all the things he needed to do, he could not help sighing. None of them would be easy to accomplish.

And beyond that, he also needed to find an opportunity to study the specific method for using the Chimera Technique to fuse a second bloodline.

Although he could not use the Sharingan even if it awakened, it could still serve as a trump card.

There really was too much to do. He truly wanted to split his time into several parts.

Even with an Uzumaki Physique, using Shadow Clones to train was still nowhere near enough. He could not possibly be like Naruto Uzumaki when he trained Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and create hundreds of clones at once.

Without the Nine-Tails inside him, doing that would kill him even with an Uzumaki Physique!

He would take it slowly. For now, the things he needed to do did not demand excessively high combat strength.

Minamoto Takuya helplessly rolled his shoulders, then began training Wind Release: Rasengan. After all, this was a ninjutsu with an explicitly described training process in the Original Work. Although it was not as detailed as the ordinary Rasengan, it could still save him some research time.

However, Wind Release: Rasengan had an extremely low presence. Its form already closely resembled Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, faintly taking on the shape of a shuriken.

But once Naruto Uzumaki learned the more advanced Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, he naturally stopped using Wind Release: Rasengan.

After all, that guy truly did not lack the chakra needed to use Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

As for Wind Release: Rasengan, the only time he remembered seeing it used was when Naruto Uzumaki and Wood Release Yamato used a combination ninjutsu to save the day.

He had originally thought Naruto Uzumaki had misspoken and called an ordinary Rasengan Wind Release: Rasengan, but it had actually been the prototype of a Rasenshuriken infused with Wind Release.

At that moment, Minamoto Takuya formed a hand seal with one hand.

"Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Technique!"

In an instant, four figures appeared around Minamoto Takuya. Although he could create more than four Shadow Clones, without Naruto Uzumaki's recovery ability, he had better not use too many Shadow Clones for training.

After the five of them exchanged glances, they each began learning. First came the nature transformation training for Wind Release: using chakra to cut through a leaf counted as mastering it.

This was not actually difficult, but Minamoto Takuya had only acquired Wind Release recently, so naturally, he had yet to learn it.

Minamoto Takuya's choice was for both himself and his Shadow Clones to train Wind Release: Rasengan, then advance it into Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

In truth, he knew that this was inefficient.

Shadow Clones only passed all their memories and experience back to the original body when they were dispelled, which meant they would most likely learn the same techniques repeatedly.

Logically, it would be most efficient for Minamoto Takuya and his Shadow Clones to research different ninjutsu separately.

But while that would increase efficiency, it would also delay the time needed to master any one ninjutsu.

A fortune at home was no match for a skill in hand.

Therefore, Minamoto Takuya would first learn Wind Release: Rasenshuriken as a life-saving trump card before adopting the more efficient method of advancing on all fronts at once!

At that moment, he could not help sighing. He had wasted far too much time in the past.

The Rasengan itself had no attribute. It was purely composed of chakra, so theoretically, different attributes could be incorporated into it with the Rasengan as a foundation.

Although he had not possessed Wind Release before, he had possessed Earth Release and Water Release.

Logically, he could have tried incorporating the nature transformations of those two attributes into the Rasengan.

But on one hand, Minamoto Takuya's chakra reserves had been too low at the time. Judging from the chakra consumption of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, even if it did not consume as much chakra as the Rasenshuriken, it certainly would not consume little. It was more than he could bear.

Second, Minamoto Takuya had considered how to incorporate Earth Release and Water Release into the Rasengan, but his final ideas had all been rather muddled.

For Earth Release, he had initially thought of an Earth Ball, but what use would a literal ball of earth be? After thinking of Sunagakure, he suddenly understood—it should be sand. Yet even so, its power could not possibly be great.

Water Release needed even less discussion. While it could increase pressure and form an attack like a Water Blade, compared to Wind Release, which inherently possessed cutting properties, its power would definitely be far inferior.

Therefore, after thinking it over, Minamoto Takuya still decided to first learn Wind Release: Rasenshuriken after using the Chimera Technique to fuse Wind Release.

As for Earth Release and Water Release, he actually had some other ideas in mind, but he would slowly test their feasibility after finishing the Rasenshuriken.

Minamoto Takuya looked at the other four Shadow Clones, who were already working hard to grasp the cutting nature of Wind Release, and smiled faintly.

Although his efficiency was not as high as Naruto Uzumaki's, he could at least use Shadow Clones to learn now. Compared to his former self, he was definitely several times faster!

While Minamoto Takuya was learning ninjutsu, inside a hidden base in the Land of Rain—

A masked Black-Clad Man appeared before a group of Akatsuki Organization members wearing Black with Red Clouds.

Judging by their tense expressions, the Masked Man's arrival had clearly far exceeded their expectations.

The three people leading them were none other than Jiraiya's three Disciples, one of whom was Nagato, the one who had discovered Minamoto Takuya's Crow.

The three of them were just as shocked as the other members by the Masked Man's arrival.

Konan and Yahiko could not help glancing at Nagato, while Nagato subtly shook his head at them, indicating that even his Rinnegan had not detected the other man before this.

Both of them were shaken. They knew Nagato's Rinnegan better than anyone; even Nagato had failed to notice him...

Their expressions grew increasingly grave.