The Absurd Body Flicker Technique

The arduous training in ninjutsu had even shaken Su Bai's confidence in the Sharingan's ability to copy techniques.

But he refused to get discouraged. If he couldn't do it in one try, he'd train a second time. If a hundred tries weren't enough, he'd train two hundred times. Becoming strong required the right mindset!

Hand seals... chakra flowing... more hand seals... chakra flowing again...

All afternoon, Su Bai practiced the Hell Viewing Technique over and over. He knew he wasn't especially talented, so he had to be patient.

"Let's head back. That's enough for today."

Su Bai sighed. After an entire afternoon of training, the words "Hell Viewing Technique" still hadn't appeared on the System Panel.

He was different from everyone else. Other people had to train hard until they'd completely mastered a ninjutsu before they could use it, while Su Bai only needed to learn the basics and get the technique to appear on his System Panel.

Then all he had to do was add a single point, and he'd be able to use the technique right away.

For two days straight, Su Bai trained this way. Then, as he was wrapping up his practice on the evening of the second day, the words "Hell Viewing Technique" finally appeared on the panel!

"That was no easy feat. Time to add a point."

With a sigh, Su Bai spent one of the three Attribute Points that had become available over the past three days on the Hell Viewing Technique.

At once, a wealth of information flooded his mind. The ninjutsu that had seemed so obscure and difficult to understand gradually became clear.

"Let's see how it works!" Su Bai was a little excited. It was his first Genjutsu, and one he was casting himself.

He began looking around for a suitable target. Half an hour later, he found an innocent mouse in a crack between some bricks...

He held the mouse as it struggled frantically, as if it sensed that something bad was about to happen!

"Squeak! Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

"Heh. Just bear with it, little mouse. It won't hurt."

Smiling, Su Bai broke the mouse's legs. He set it on the ground and began forming hand seals.

Swish, swish!

In just three seconds, Su Bai finished forming the seals and cast the Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique on the mouse!

[Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique: Makes an enemy see a terrifying sight they do not wish to see.]

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

After Su Bai cast the ninjutsu, the mouse—which had already had its legs broken—suddenly sprang into the air!

Then it collapsed on the ground, its eyes vacant and its pupils dilated, looking half dead.

Who knew what the mouse had seen...

"Looks like it works..." Su Bai poked the mouse. It was clearly alive, but didn't react at all. Satisfied, he rubbed his chin.

"I wonder what would happen if I cast it with the Sharingan. Let's try again!" Su Bai waited for over half an hour before the mouse finally came to.

Now, the mouse saw Su Bai as if he were a ghost. It scrambled backward, ignoring the pain in its legs, as if he were a predator that ate mice!

"Heh. One more time, little mouse, and I'll let you go." Su Bai gently stroked the mouse's black fur as he spoke.

He was actually a kind person. He often helped stray cats and dogs, and cared a lot about animals.

Of course, mice and cockroaches were exceptions...

After making a few preparations, Su Bai activated his Sharingan.

A fierce aura surged straight into his mind, making him feel excited and leaving his emotions beyond his control!

"I'm still not used to this."

After experimenting for the past few days, Su Bai had figured something out.

If he used only the Sharingan's enhanced vision, he could keep it active for five minutes. Any longer, and the inexplicable fierce aura in his mind would start to affect his sanity.

"I'll put a point into Yin Attribute after I finish the mission."

Su Bai watched the mouse as he formed the hand seals. Once he'd finished, his Sharingan met the mouse's tiny, beadlike eyes.

"Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!"

"Squeak!"

"Hm? Why isn't it working?"

Su Bai stared at the mouse on the ground in confusion. It had squeaked once, then gone completely still.

"Wait. It's dead from fright..."

Feeling for its heartbeat and finding none, Su Bai mourned the mouse in silence.

The Genjutsu cast without the Sharingan could leave the mouse dazed for half an hour. Once it recovered, there seemed to be no lasting effects beyond being a little frightened.

But when the Hell Viewing Technique was cast through the Sharingan, its effect was astonishingly powerful. It had killed the mouse of fright in an instant. Su Bai figured it was at least several times more effective!

"Sure enough, Genjutsu suits me."

"But all I did just now was cast a single Genjutsu, and the Sharingan's side effects got several times worse. With my current mental strength, I don't think my brain could handle three Genjutsu."

Su Bai finally understood what Xia Xueqing and Chang Rui meant when they spoke of the Cursed Eye's fearsome nature.

He made up his mind: as long as his mental strength was limited, he absolutely couldn't overuse the Sharingan!

Afterward, he cast the Hell Viewing Technique again and again. Without using the Sharingan, he could cast Genjutsu seven times in a row when he had enough mental strength.

Having gotten a rough idea of how it worked, Su Bai picked up the innocent mouse and dug a hole to give it a proper burial...

After laying his "good buddy," who had helped him so much, to rest, Su Bai began practicing the Body Flicker Technique.

He'd been looking forward to learning this ninjutsu for a long time. Now he could finally train in it!

[Body Flicker Technique: Gathers chakra in the feet to move at high speed like a gust of wind.]

Su Bai knew that the Body Flicker Technique was essential for any ninja, whether for attacking or escaping. A ninja didn't just need to learn it; they needed to master it!

That was because a ninja's speed and the distance they could cover with the Body Flicker varied according to their level of proficiency.

Su Bai had looked up plenty of information online in recent days, and found that the Body Flicker Technique used in this world was the most basic kind.

He had yet to see a ninja use the Body Flicker like Shisui or Hanzo in the original story, making it look like spatial movement.

They could only move at such high speed that their enemies mistook it for teleportation.

The distance and speed depended on the ninja's proficiency with the Body Flicker Technique and how much chakra they used.

Proficiency mattered more than chakra output. That was why he'd come across this saying online:

"The Body Flicker may not be the most powerful ninjutsu, but it's the most important one for a ninja!"

Su Bai thought that made sense. After all, the Body Flicker Technique was currently the only ninjutsu that resembled spatial movement.

He hadn't seen top-tier techniques like the Flying Thunder God or Kamui online.

Maybe they didn't exist in this world. Or maybe his access level was too low to find information about them.

Regardless, the Body Flicker Technique was something he had to master before awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan!

Chapter 44: The Absurd Body Flicker Technique

An abandoned slaughterhouse in the suburbs.

A boy in a blue school uniform stood in an open lot, struggling to form hand seals at a painfully slow pace.

It was Su Bai, practicing the Body Flicker Technique!

Simply put, the Body Flicker Technique let a ninja move quickly from one place to another. Its speed and range both depended on chakra.

The more chakra a ninja used, the faster and farther they could move with the Body Flicker Technique. It was extremely useful in battle, and every ninja needed to learn and master it!

"This is hard. It's almost dark, and I still haven't made any progress." After practicing the hand seals for the Body Flicker Technique one more time, Su Bai stopped and frowned.

He hadn't found training in either the Double Suicide Decapitation Technique or the Hell Viewing Technique this difficult.

Su Bai felt that the Body Flicker Technique was about twice as difficult to learn as the Hell Viewing Technique. He'd been practicing here all afternoon, but still hadn't made any progress.

"I should head back for now."

It was getting darker by the minute. Before long, night had fallen. Su Bai shook his head and sighed, then turned to leave without having gained anything from the afternoon's training.

After dinner, he immediately went back to his bedroom and followed the school's usual method to refine chakra.

Vrrr, vrrr.

As he began refining chakra, the cells in his body consumed the energy they'd stored up that day and produced chakra.

"My chakra refinement speed has clearly increased."

In no time at all, his chakra had risen by 0.01 cards on the panel. Su Bai had never dared to imagine such a rate before.

But after just over an hour, he could clearly feel that his chakra was no longer increasing. His body was beginning to feel slightly tired, and his mental strength had also dropped considerably.

"Have I used up all the energy my body stored today?" Su Bai glanced at the panel. After refining chakra for just over an hour, his supply had increased by 0.03 cards—the same as when he'd first transmigrated.

Chakra was produced by combining mental and physical energy. During refinement, the cells had to bear a heavy load, and a great deal of mental strength was consumed as well.

For ninjas to refine large amounts of chakra, they needed strong bodies and powerful mental strength. That was what people called talent, though it could be improved after birth.

As far as Su Bai could tell, there didn't seem to be anything on Blue Star that could enhance mental strength. With his current status, he hadn't been able to find anything online.

But there were plenty of ways to strengthen the body. The simplest and most direct was to eat high-grade Magic Beast meat!

The higher a Magic Beast's rank and strength, the more energy its meat contained.

Eating it regularly could gradually change a ninja's body. It could also help their cells store large amounts of energy in a short time, allowing them to refine chakra more quickly.

Take Su Bai, for example.

The day he'd eaten Magic Beast meat at the Monster BBQ Restaurant with Chang Rui and Xia Xueqing, his chakra refinement that night had been astonishing. He'd refined a full 0.1 cards—three times what he'd gained today!

Though Su Bai knew about this method, he couldn't afford to use it for now.

Chang Rui had paid for that meal, but Su Bai—who'd never seen the world—had still felt bad for her. It had cost well over 200,000 Federal Coins.

But Chang Rui and Xia Xueqing hadn't seemed bothered at all. Su Bai still clearly remembered how unconcerned they'd looked.

He wondered if, to the two girls, eating that kind of food every day was no big deal.

That had to be it. Otherwise, how could their Chakra Levels be hundreds of times higher than those of other people their age?

"Fall behind once, and you fall behind in everything. That's just reality."

After finishing his training, Su Bai lay down to sleep.

For the past three days, he'd been training as hard as he could. He hadn't neglected a single thing: ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, or chakra refinement!

What had happened with Liang Youde had left him with a deep sense of crisis. This time, Chang Rui and Xia Xueqing had helped him get away.

But what about next time? And the time after that?

Would he have to go ask the two girls for help again?

He didn't know if they'd be willing to help. And asking them aside, he simply wasn't the kind of person who'd leave his fate in someone else's hands.

He didn't want to depend on other people all the time.

With his mindset back on track, Su Bai closed his eyes and went to sleep, more determined than ever to become stronger.

Three days later.

The outskirts of Yang City.

Inside the abandoned slaughterhouse, a boy formed hand seals over and over.

Night had fallen completely. The vast, silent slaughterhouse had been left unattended and grown over with weeds. Not a sound came from its surroundings. Anyone timid would probably have felt afraid.

But the boy was unfazed. His face was set with determination as he ignored everything around him and focused on training. It was Su Bai!

Suddenly.

After finishing another set of hand seals, Su Bai's face broke into a wide, delighted grin.