"This Qin Yu seems a little too confident. A-Rank ninjutsu isn't easy to learn. Even Uzuki, with all his experience, took over a month to master it. How could Qin Yu possibly succeed in just three days?" Inubou couldn't help saying.
"Enough. Young people are like that. They need to hit a wall once or twice." Uzuki Cangwu patted Inubou on the shoulder. "Hopefully, Qin Yu will understand that some things can't be forced."
Outside the cave, in a secluded basin.
Qin Yu unrolled the Lightning Release scroll and immediately activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.
The Sharingan had fallen into Kakashi's hands, earning him the name Copy Ninja Kakashi.
For a ninja, there were two crucial hurdles to learning ninjutsu.
The first was grasping the basics; the second was achieving mastery.
But Qin Yu had the Mangekyō Sharingan now, so he could grasp the basics in an instant. As for mastery, one click would take any technique straight to max level.
It was fair to say Qin Yu now had both the Original Work's physical cheat and an overpowered leveling cheat.
This was ridiculously overpowered!
"Ding! Hand Seal speed detected. Max out with one click?"
"Max it out now."
Qin Feng's hands moved rapidly through the seals as the chakra in his body underwent precise nature transformation.
"Lightning Style: Falling Thunder!"
The instant he completed the final hand seal, a deep rumble sounded in the sky.
Nine bolts of lightning, like dragons emerging from the depths, struck a cluster of rocks seven or eight meters away with fierce force.
Boom!
The massive rocks exploded.
Lightning crackled and stones flew everywhere, blasting a crater more than ten meters wide into the ground.
Smoke billowed, leaving a shocking sight behind.
Watching this, Qin Yu was stunned.
According to the scroll's description of the A-Rank Lightning Style: Falling Thunder, once someone mastered the technique, they could connect with the lightning elements drifting through the air and call down a single bolt.
But what he was seeing went well beyond that.
"Could it be because of the One-Click Max Level System?" Qin Yu raised an eyebrow.
He remembered Uchiha Madara saying in the Original Work that there were no weak ninjutsu, only weak people.
It was like turning a simple Fire Style: Great Fireball into a devastating attack.
Only Uchiha Madara could pull that off.
Qin Yu's current situation was probably the result of maxing out his ninjutsu.
Even so, that attack had consumed a tenth of the chakra in his body.
"Ding! Lightning Release Chakra maxed out with one click."
"Ding! Lightning Style: Falling Thunder maxed out with one click."
"Ding! Natural energy sensing for lightning maxed out with one click."
The system notifications in his mind instantly confirmed Qin Yu's guess.
Looking at the crater left by the lightning nearby, he suddenly remembered one of the Lightning Release techniques, the outrageously powerful ninjutsu used by Uchiha Sasuke.
S-Rank: Lightning Style: Kirin!
If the technique hadn't required the right conditions to be used, its destructive power alone would have rivaled Uzumaki Naruto's Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.
Unfortunately, Lightning Style: Kirin had made a spectacular entrance in the Original Work, only to become a one-use wonder later on.
It never appeared a second time!
That had been a disappointment for many Naruto fans.
More than a hundred Cloud Ninjas were bearing down on them, including the AB Duo. This was bound to be a tough battle.
If it became a drawn-out fight, Qin Feng's current chakra reserves would get him worn down to death, even with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
So the S-Rank Lightning Style: Kirin might be the key to turning the tide.
It could draw on the power of lightning in the sky, greatly reduce chakra consumption, and strike at one-thousandth of the speed of light. As a large-scale killing move, it could catch their enemies completely off guard.
Besides, Qin Yu still had the One-Click Max Level System.
There was a good chance he could reproduce Lightning Style: Kirin. It would make a fine trump card to keep in reserve.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
"Ding! Lightning Style: Kirin maxed out with one click."
Hearing that familiar notification, Qin Yu let out a sigh of relief.
The connection he'd formed with the storm clouds gathering overhead was instantly severed.
The thunderclouds accumulated in the sky dispersed, and the immense pressure that had loomed over everything vanished like a fleeting blossom.
"Good thing I have the One-Click Max Level System. Even my ability to sense the natural energy of lightning reached max level. Otherwise, I wouldn't have managed to test Lightning Style: Kirin so smoothly." Qin Yu let the chakra in his body settle.
His training over the past few days had made the Uchiha Clan's weakness crystal clear to him: they ran out of chakra.
No wonder people with the Sage Eye and Sage Body were eventually worn down in every prolonged battle.
Even Uchiha Madara from the Original Work had gone to the trouble of transplanting and absorbing the First's cells.
Once things here were settled, Qin Yu would have to find a way to obtain a Sage Body.
When Qin Yu emerged from the secluded basin, the twenty-seven Konoha Ninjas who had stayed behind had already assembled.
Every face was solemn. They were all prepared to fight, with a hint of grim determination in their eyes.
They believed this was a battle they couldn't retreat from. Facing over a hundred Cloud Ninjas and the AB Duo, their chances looked grim.
But beyond the pass lay the open plains of the Land of Fire.
If this place fell, not only Konoha Hidden Leaf Village but their families would also be plunged into ruin. They couldn't retreat.
"Qin Yu, don't be discouraged if you haven't mastered the A-Rank technique. Even that bastard Uzuki took over a month," Inubou said, trying to reassure him.
"Still, those rain clouds that suddenly appeared just now were strange. It felt like something was hiding in them, pressing down on our spirits. We thought the Cloud Ninjas were launching a surprise attack."
"Inubou, why bring that up again? Can't you talk a little less?" Uzuki Cangwu glared at him.
"Kid, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Like I said, if you can't hold out, take Shizune and run. A ninjutsu can't be learned in just two or three days."
When Qin Yu appeared, the tension eased on many faces.
After all, they had witnessed the powerful genjutsu Qin Yu used with their own eyes. That gave them a measure of faith in this boy who had once been unknown.
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