Preparing to Depart

After Might Guy finished speaking to Haku, he went to find Might Duy, saying he was going to teach Duy that "the final youth should be sublimated in burning, not perish in silence."

Watching Might Guy's retreating back, Haku began to ponder the techniques Might Guy had just taught him, or rather, the secret technique concerning the Eight Inner Gates Formation Technique, a secret technique unique to the Might Family.

Under normal circumstances, opening one gate requires sufficient physical strength to support it. Each additional gate requires 1.5 times the physical strength of the previous one. Ultimately, the stronger the physical quality, the stronger the power that can be unleashed.

However, the Might Family has stood and developed in the ninja world for so many years with the Eight Inner Gates Formation Technique. They have a way to bypass the requirement for physical strength and forcibly open gates, but the burden on the body increases exponentially.

After opening one gate, the next gate can be opened within a specific timeframe, borrowing the chakra from the previously opened gate to forcibly open the next, all the way to the final Gate of Death. However, this method increases the burden on the body, and even after opening all Eight Gates, one might only have the power for a single strike.

This secret technique is indeed powerful for desperate situations and can save your life at critical moments. I should practice it when I have time. Next, there are the Might Family's conjectures and experimental records regarding chakra control after opening the Eight Inner Gates.

According to the Might Family's experiments with this ninjutsu, after opening the Eight Inner Gates, the increased amount of chakra causes its flow rate in the meridians to increase. The ninja cannot control such a large amount of chakra, so they cannot unleash ninjutsu. The unconsumed chakra will dissipate from the body, manifesting as differently colored chakra smoke around the body.

If one could control this berserk chakra and unleash ninjutsu, the power of the ninjutsu would increase exponentially, and the total amount of chakra would also increase.

However, no one in the Might Family has ever been able to achieve this. The ancestors of the Might Family speculated that this requires powerful chakra control ability, meaning strong ninjutsu talent. But the Might Family only has taijutsu talent; no one has ever excelled in ninjutsu talent, so these experiments have never yielded any results.

Upon reading this, Haku instantly felt that this seemed somewhat similar to the Saiyan's Super Saiyan transformation! This should be interesting later.

In the following days, Haku also set aside time each day to practice chakra control.

Time passed day by day, and the ninja troops organized by the village to support the front lines had also been assembled.

Watching the unit, composed of 50 Jonin and 200 Chunin, depart from the gates of Konoha under the leadership of the current head of the Nara clan, Haku knew that the time for him to head to the front lines was not far off.

Sigh! War! I should go back and prepare! Our mission should be coming down soon!

Turning to look at Hyuga Riko and Uchiha Yu, Haku said with some emotion.

I wonder how many of these ninjas will return. Many of those Chunin have only recently been promoted.

Yeah, most of our peers chose to graduate early. I wonder if they'll be sent to the battlefield.

Uchiha Yu's voice sounded a bit low.

There's nothing we can do! We can't change anything right now! Let's just cultivate diligently! As long as we are strong enough, there will always be a way.

Haku wasn't very good at comforting people, but Uchiha Yu understood his meaning and showed a smile.

Yes, there will always be a way in the future.

Hyuga Riko quietly listened to their conversation, said nothing, clenched his fist, and then left in a hurry, saying he needed to go back to cultivate.

Haku's guess was correct. Seven days after the ninja unit departed, their team received a mission from the village. The mission required them to team up with another small team to transport supplies to the front lines.

Have you all seen the missions?

At Training Ground 83, Haku said to Uchiha Yu and Hyuga Riko.

Yes, we've seen them.

Yes, I'm also ready!

Uchiha Yu and Hyuga Riko said one after another.

We're heading out on a mission tomorrow, so let's first understand each other's strength growth over the past three months, and then we'll go prepare supplies in the afternoon.

Hyuga Riko had undergone special training in his clan for the past three months. He could now perform sixteen palms of the Hyuga clan's taijutsu, the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, and had also initially mastered the defensive secret technique, Revolving Heaven. Additionally, his Byakugan could see up to 1000 meters and be used continuously for one and a half hours. Overall, his current strength was comparable to that of a Special Jonin.

With the support of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Yu's Sharingan had reached the perfected Two Tomoe level in the past few months. She felt that her pupil power was about to push her Sharingan to the Three Tomoe level at any moment.

In addition, in terms of ninjutsu, she had mastered several of the clan's fire-style ninjutsu and also possessed the strength of a Special Jonin.

Moreover, Haku noticed that when Hyuga Riko mentioned his Byakugan could see 1000 meters away, Uchiha Yu showed no surprised expression. It seemed that the pupil power level of her Byakugan was likely not much different.