Being Too Talented is Also a Kind of Pain

Mika was becoming numb; in less than half a day, her son had completed all the ninjutsu required for the entire Ninja Academy stage. Although he was a bit lopsided—his taijutsu and shurikenjutsu mastery were still at zero—in terms of ninjutsu alone, he had already reached the level required to graduate from the Ninja Academy.

At this moment, she suddenly realized that she had no more ninjutsu to teach her son. After all, she was only a medical ninja, and she had spent years using nothing but medical ninjutsu.

Aside from medical ninjutsu, the only techniques she knew were the basic ones. And Uchiha Cheng had already mastered all of those.

If her son asked her to teach him new ninjutsu again and she couldn't deliver, wouldn't that be incredibly awkward?

Thinking of this, Mika instructed her son to practice on his own and then hurried away.

For some reason, as Uchiha Cheng watched Mika's retreating figure, he felt as if his mother were fleeing from something.

It was probably just his imagination.

Fortunately, he could complete the upcoming training on his own.

As a fan of the Naruto manga, how could he not know about the classic tree-climbing and water-walking training?

By concentrating chakra on the soles of one's feet, one could walk on trees and water surfaces. This was used to train chakra control—a classic training scene from the original Naruto series.

Furthermore, it was said to provide a massive boost to one's strength; as chakra control improved, the chakra consumed when using the same ninjutsu would also decrease.

Moreover, once one mastered tree-climbing and water-walking, they could ignore terrain during combat. Cliffs, dense forests, dangerous shoals, rivers, lakes, and seas—anywhere could become a battlefield.

Uchiha Cheng understood this very well, which was why he had specifically mastered the Shadow Clone Technique, a cheat code for training.

The Shadow Clone Technique allowed the memories and experiences of the clones to be transferred back to the original body. This was equivalent to the original and the clones training simultaneously, granting double the experience. Naturally, the speed of learning various knowledge and ninjutsu increased significantly.

However, this technique was useless for taijutsu training. Shadow clones were merely manifestations of chakra, not real physical bodies; they would vanish upon taking significant damage, making them completely unsuitable for physical conditioning.

But with the experience feedback from his shadow clones and his talent, which was no less than that of the protagonist in the original series, he was confident he could master tree-climbing and water-walking within half a day.

Thus, he began his tree-climbing and water-walking training step by step.

However, just a few seconds later, he began to doubt his own life.

Uchiha Cheng seemed to have underestimated his own talent.

In just a few seconds, he had mastered the ability to climb trees and walk on water.

He didn't need to learn it at all; it was as if he were born with it, like an instinct.

"This is way too simple! I went through all that trouble to learn the Shadow Clone Technique, and it has absolutely no place to be used!" Uchiha Cheng couldn't help but complain.

Even the difficulty of the Shadow Clone Technique was higher than this so-called tree-climbing and water-walking.

Uchiha Cheng suddenly felt a bit deflated; this situation completely failed to live up to his expectations.

His actions were a bit like a hero who, in order to kill a goblin at the edge of the village, went out of his way to defeat a Demon King and seize a magic sword, only to return and find that the goblin had been kicked to death by him, rendering the magic sword completely useless. Why go through all that effort?

But it was also his own fault; he had trusted the memories of the manga from his past life too much and ignored common sense. Although the Shadow Clone Technique was a common, dime-a-dozen technique in the manga, it was, after all, a B-rank ninjutsu—a technique that only jonin-level ninjas would train in.

As for the tree-climbing and water-walking training, although it was depicted in detail in the manga and the protagonist's efforts were very passionate, making it seem difficult, it was ultimately just part of the training for genin.

"I never expected that having too much talent could also be a source of pain."

Uchiha Cheng sighed with genuine emotion.