Disappointment × Things Go Contrary to Wishes

Nara Dan only now began to take Hyuga Nana, who stood before him, seriously.

"I have seen the sincerity of the Hyuga Clan."

"I accept you as my disciple."

Having said that, Nara Dan waved his hand to dismiss her, ignoring the look of pure joy on Hyuga Nana's face.

Women only slow down the speed of my punches. With the transaction complete, Nara Dan naturally needed to properly study the Eight Inner Gates.

Watching Nara Dan pick up the scroll and become completely oblivious to the outside world, Hyuga Nana felt the good mood of being accepted as his disciple dampen significantly, and she secretly grumbled to herself.

This guy. Is there anything in his life besides training?

He doesn't care at all that he just took on a beautiful disciple.

Could it be that he only likes the type like Kurenai Yuhi?

Walking out of the room, Hyuga Nana lowered her head, feeling somewhat frustrated.

Although she was confident in her own assets, she was still young, and it would take quite a long time to fully mature.

I'll just have to ask the elders in the clan if they have any methods.

Meanwhile, Nara Dan was immersed in the world of the Eight Inner Gates, unaware that his female disciple was harboring strange little thoughts.

Long after Hyuga Nana left, Nara Dan let out a long breath, no longer hiding the joy on his face; he had finally obtained it—the Eight Inner Gates.

The blockade of knowledge in the Ninja World was far more terrifying than most people imagined.

Civilian ninjas could not learn any offensive ninjutsu other than the Three Body Technique at the Ninja Academy. There were only two ways to obtain formal C-rank or higher ninjutsu.

Gain the appreciation of a Jonin instructor and be taught, or accumulate enough merit to exchange for it from the Hokage.

Undoubtedly, for civilian ninjas with average talent, these two paths were better than nothing.

Without sufficient aptitude and talent, how could one possibly gain appreciation or earn merit?

Clan ninjas with secret techniques or bloodline inheritances naturally had it much better.

But for Nara Dan, he did not focus his training on the Nara Clan's Shadow Secret Technique.

Instead, he pursued Taijutsu, which the Nara Clan rarely touched, and the difficulty of doing so was no less than that of a civilian ninja trying to get ahead.

Fortunately, Nara Dan had a Cheat System. With its assistance, as long as he practiced diligently, talent traits would manifest and solidify his best state.

That was why he could easily surpass the efforts of several generations of the Might Clan and reach the level that Might Guy would reach in the future so early on.

Moreover, the Cheat System gave Nara Dan a digestive capacity that ordinary ninjas lacked.

It allowed him to digest even potent medicinal herbs and metals, enabling his physique to surpass the limits of ordinary ninjas.

By now, at his current stage, Nara Dan could easily master any Taijutsu in Konoha, with only one exception.

That was—the Eight Inner Gates.

As for why Nara Dan was only now able to get his hands on it, even though he had reached the limits of ninja Taijutsu long ago.

After all, Might Duy, Might Guy, and Rock Lee had all been practicing the Eight Inner Gates since they were children.

"Naturally, it's because they are afraid that I will grow too fast and become uncontrollable."

Nara Dan gave a cold smile. Indeed, if he had broken through to the Kage level early on, there would be almost no one in Konoha who could keep him in check.

By then, whether he defected or led the Nara Clan to power, those were things the old fogies did not want to see.

"If it weren't for the Hyuga Clan's overtures, I might have had to wait until after the Third Great Ninja War or even longer to get a glimpse of the Eight Inner Gates."

"But it's not too late now."

"There will be even more I can do during the Third Great Ninja War."

Thinking this, Nara Dan threw himself back into the study of the Eight Inner Gates. The text, which might seem obscure to others, was something he navigated with ease.

"As early as the Warring States period, or even earlier, when Chakra was first popularized."

"Someone discovered the secret of the meridian system and the Eight Inner Gates."

"Everyone has eight gates in their body. Theoretically, as long as one trains their body to withstand the side effects, anyone can open the Eight Inner Gates."

"In the original story, Kakashi, who is not known for Taijutsu, could also open the first one or two gates of the Eight Inner Gates."

"However, the side effects of the Eight Inner Gates are directly proportional to their strength. The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, also studied the Eight Inner Gates in depth."

"He even refined it further, but Tobirama Senju often glossed over the final gate."

"Because he realized that the price of the final gate was far greater than imagined, and it was not even cost-effective."

Reading this, the expression on Nara Dan's face slowly calmed from its initial excitement and joy.

"Not cost-effective, huh?"

"Perhaps Tobirama Senju was right."

At this point, Nara Dan had finished reading through the Eight Inner Gates.

In fact, this Eight Inner Gates was incomplete; the last two gates did not have detailed data records and were truly just glossed over.

"But I can't blame the Hyuga for that. Right now and in the future, the strongest practitioner of the Eight Inner Gates in Konoha is still out there running laps."

"It is estimated that almost no one can open the last two gates, except for the Might Clan."

"No one can even meet the conditions to open the seventh gate, let alone the Formation of the Eight Inner Gates known as Fleeting Radiance."

After his initial excitement, Nara Dan felt a bit dejected, not because of the missing last two gates, but because the Eight Inner Gates were not as useful to him as he had imagined; they were merely a way to squeeze out bodily potential in exchange for surpassing human limits.

"In essence, it is no different from my 'Liberation'."

The so-called Liberation was a forbidden taijutsu technique developed by Nara Dan, which differed from the Eight Inner Gates, which opened chakra meridians to exchange for a powerful burst of chakra.

'Liberation' relied on powerful control over the body to accelerate blood circulation and trigger adrenaline, thereby reaching a state that surpassed the body's limits in terms of physical operation.

It was a product of Nara Dan combining the martial arts and medical knowledge from his past life.

When Liberation was activated, Nara Dan's heart rate could reach five to ten times that of an ordinary person, and in this state, Nara Dan's comprehensive physical attributes would be fully enhanced, completely transcending the category of the human body to reach the realm of a Kage.

This forbidden technique, which he had developed and perfected over many years, was also the foundation of Nara Dan's confidence in competing against the strong in the Ninja World.

"If it is limited to this, it cannot help me break through my current bottleneck."

"At most, I would just be a second Might Guy."

Nara Dan looked at the Taijutsu Mastery on his Cheat System, which was still glowing with a blue-purple luster.

After being supplemented by the Eight Inner Gates and the secret techniques of the Gentle Fist, his Taijutsu Mastery was no longer a distinct blue and purple, but a fused blue-purple glow; clearly, it was still a hair's breadth away from becoming a pure purple entry.

It was precisely this hair's breadth that made Nara Dan's expression uncertain, unable to even maintain his calm state of mind.

A ninja at his level should not have faulty intuition.

Back when the Nara House rewarded him with the taijutsu insight scroll, he had intuited that the Eight Inner Gates would be the qualitative change he needed.

That was why he had been so focused on this secret technique, but now, things had gone against his wishes.

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