Joining

Within the range of Bai Sui's divine sense, he began to gather the stray chakra dissipating from the people present.

Aside from Uzumaki Kyohei and his father, Uzumaki Kunio, everyone else present could be considered experts of the Uzumaki Clan.

Although they lacked ocular jutsu like the Byakugan or Sharingan to perceive chakra directly, the Uzumaki Clan's powerful physical constitutions granted them exceptional chakra sensory abilities.

Thus, they keenly detected the chakra condensing around Bai Sui. They had truly never seen a technique that condensed chakra directly outside the body; in the past, no matter the ninjutsu, chakra had always originated from within the user.

They could clearly perceive that this chakra was not released by Bai Sui, but rather gathered naturally, as if... as if it were their own?

But how could that be? Although... some of this chakra did indeed resemble their own, but... it was only a resemblance.

Everyone present was shrewd; while they couldn't be certain, they weren't about to deceive themselves. Since they were suspicious, they chose to assume the other party was truly capable of it—it was precisely this mindset that had allowed them to survive countless battles.

Bai Sui naturally wasn't just doing something as simple as gathering chakra; he did this because it was a technique he had explored while traveling the Ninja World.

Although Bai Sui's own internal energy could not directly release ninjutsu, the collected chakra could.

Because the attributes of the gathered chakra were complex, the difficulty of releasing it was higher compared to that of standard ninjas.

How much higher? It was roughly equivalent to the difficulty Naruto faced when hindered by the Nine-Tails' chakra—a level of difficulty that was indeed too much for a child.

But for Bai Sui, who had already cultivated divine sense, it was nothing; he only needed to focus his mind slightly.

And so, to the incredulous gazes of the crowd, the chakra that had been merely swirling around Bai Sui was divided into several parts, each flowing in its own way to trigger ninjutsu.

This was different from a combination ninjutsu performed by one person, as even those required releasing one technique after another, using specific methods to alter the flight speeds so that the various techniques would combine and interact.

What Bai Sui was doing was releasing multiple ninjutsu simultaneously, and they weren't even the same technique, nor were they of the same nature—Fire, Earth, Lightning, Wind, and Water releases were all present.

The moment these ninjutsu formed, although the crowd remained astonished by how Bai Sui had achieved this, their ninja instincts caused them to prepare immediately, waiting for the techniques to trigger so they could intercept them.

After all, this was the clan leader's residence; it would be improper to let Bai Sui destroy it. As for whether the building could survive Bai Sui's ninjutsu, no one present, not even Uzumaki Kyohei, thought so, as they could all perceive the sheer, massive amount of chakra contained within each technique.

Although these appeared to be low-level ninjutsu, under the reinforcement of such vast chakra, their power was beyond imagination.

However, things did not unfold as they had expected. After all, Bai Sui only wanted to demonstrate his strength, not to pick a fight; there was no reason to tear down the leader's house just before joining the faction.

Under the control of Bai Sui's divine sense, all these ninjutsu were restrained around him.

Externally, this manifested as a dozen ninjutsu rotating around Bai Sui: fireballs the size of basins radiating terrifying heat, crackling electric orbs, azure water spheres, and shields condensed from earth, with several high-speed wind blades darting between them.

Though it looked chaotic, they existed in a state that was both disorderly and orderly, interacting without interfering with one another. It truly caused everyone's jaws to drop.

Feeling the might radiated by these techniques, no one believed this was a fake; even the genjutsu of the Uchiha Clan could not achieve such a feat.

After displaying these techniques, Bai Sui dispersed them, returning them to their state as chakra. Although there was some loss, when the crowd felt that chakra re-condensing around Bai Sui, they collectively fell silent.

Such a display reminded Uzumaki Ashina of certain records within the clan—the legendary Goddess of Rabbit and the Sage of Six Paths!

Although he had never seen them with his own eyes and didn't even know if those two were as powerful as the legends suggested, he figured that if they truly existed, they couldn't be much stronger than Bai Sui was right now.

Meeting the inquisitive and admiring gazes of the crowd, Bai Sui dissipated the chakra entirely and repeated his previous statement.

"I possess a heritage that I do not wish to see vanish with me. I desire for future generations to learn it. I wonder if Clan Leader Ashina would grant this?"

Having witnessed the muscles Bai Sui had flexed, and regardless of his actual combat capability, based solely on the control over chakra just demonstrated, Bai Sui was undoubtedly the most elite expert he had ever known.

For such a figure to want to leave his heritage within the Uzumaki, there was naturally no reason to refuse, so he readily agreed.

It wasn't just Uzumaki Ashina; the elders present also chimed in one after another. The elder who had previously invited Bai Sui to stay in the Uzumaki even proposed that Bai Sui become an elder of the clan.

Once these words were spoken, Bai Sui accepted after the customary three refusals and three concessions; after all, this was one of his goals in revealing his strength.

And so, that very evening, the Uzumaki Clan held a clan meeting. Although the war meant their numbers were scattered and they couldn't gather everyone, the message was conveyed: from this day forward, Bai Sui was an elder of the Uzumaki Clan.

The elders of the Uzumaki Clan were ranked by age, and he was currently listed as the Fourth Elder. On his very first day in the position, he introduced a new regulation to the clan.

All children of appropriate age were to begin learning Chinese, and he took out several textbooks he had prepared in advance from his Storage Jade Pendant to distribute to everyone.

These were primarily the Three Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames, the Zengguang Xianwen, the Dedao Jing, the Great Learning, the Analects, the Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, the Classic of Poetry, and so on. Although Bai Sui had selectively edited some of the content, the sight of these systematic masterpieces appearing before the world still left them feeling shaken.

While they could not understand the original Chinese text, they could read the translations Bai Sui had written. Although the translations were not perfectly polished due to linguistic differences, they were already enough to make them view him as a god among men.