Within Bai Sui's Divine Sense Domain, he began gathering the loose chakra radiating from everyone present.
Everyone there, aside from Uzumaki Kyohei and his father, Uzumaki Kunio, could be considered an elite of the Uzumaki Clan.
Although they lacked dōjutsu like the Byakugan and Sharingan, which could directly see chakra, the Uzumaki Clan's powerful physiques also gave them an exceptional ability to sense it.
So they keenly noticed the chakra gathering around Bai Sui. They had never seen a technique that directly coalesced chakra outside the body like this. In the past, no matter what kind of ninjutsu they used, the chakra had always come from within.
They could clearly sense that Bai Sui wasn't releasing this chakra. It had gathered naturally, as if... as if they themselves had released it?
But how was that possible? Although... some of this chakra did feel a little like their own, it was only a little...
Everyone present was shrewd. They couldn't be certain, but they wouldn't deceive themselves, either. Since they had their suspicions, they assumed the other party really could do it. It was precisely this way of thinking that had allowed them to survive countless battles.
Naturally, Bai Sui wasn't simply gathering chakra. He had developed this technique while traveling through the Ninja World.
Although Bai Sui couldn't use his own True Qi to perform ninjutsu directly, he could use the chakra he had gathered.
Because the gathered chakra had a mix of different attributes, using it was more difficult than it was for ordinary ninja.
How much more difficult? Roughly as difficult as it was for Naruto when the Nine-Tails Chakra interfered. That was indeed far too difficult for a child.
But for Bai Sui, who had already cultivated Divine Sense, it was nothing much. He only needed to focus a little.
And so, under everyone's disbelieving gazes, the chakra that had been gathering and swirling around Bai Sui split into several parts. Each flowed in a different way, triggering a ninjutsu.
This was different from one person using a combination of techniques. Even with combination ninjutsu, the techniques had to be released one at a time. Only by using specific methods could their flight speeds be altered so that they would combine and interact.
Bai Sui, however, was releasing several techniques simultaneously. They weren't even the same technique—or the same nature transformation. He had Fire Release, Earth Release, Lightning Release, Wind Release, and Water Release.
The moment the techniques took shape, everyone present was still astonished by how Bai Sui had done it, but their training as ninja made them prepare at once, ready to intercept the techniques as soon as they were unleashed.
After all, this was the clan leader's residence. It wouldn't do to let Bai Sui destroy the place. As for whether the building could survive his ninjutsu...
No one present—not even Uzumaki Kyohei—thought it could. They could all sense the enormous amount of chakra contained in each technique.
Although they all looked like low-level ninjutsu, the vast amount of chakra behind them made their power far greater than anyone could imagine.
However, things didn't unfold as they had expected. Bai Sui only wanted to demonstrate his strength; he wasn't here to cause trouble. Who would tear down the leader of a group's house just before joining them?
All of the techniques were held in place around him under the control of Bai Sui's Divine Sense.
To anyone watching, more than a dozen ninjutsu were swirling around Bai Sui. There were basin-sized fireballs radiating terrifying heat, crackling balls of electricity, azure water spheres, and shields formed from clumps of earth. Several rapidly moving wind blades darted among them.
They looked like a chaotic mess, yet somehow they remained both disorderly and orderly. They crossed paths without interfering with one another. The sight left everyone utterly dumbfounded.
Feeling the power radiating from the techniques, no one could believe they were fake. Even the Uchiha Clan's genjutsu couldn't do something like this.
After displaying these techniques, Bai Sui dispersed them again, returning them to chakra. Some of it was lost in the process, but when everyone sensed the chakra gathering around Bai Sui once more, they fell completely silent.
The display also brought to mind some of the clan's records for Uzumaki Ashina: the legendary Rabbit Goddess and the Sage of Six Paths!
He had never seen them with his own eyes, and didn't even know whether they had truly been as powerful as the legends claimed. Still, if they had really existed, they probably couldn't have been much stronger than Bai Sui was now, could they?
Meeting everyone's curious and admiring gazes, Bai Sui dispersed the chakra as well, then repeated what he had said earlier.
"I have an inheritance that I don't want to take with me. I want future generations to study it. Clan Leader Ashina, would you be willing to allow that?"
After seeing the strength Bai Sui had just displayed, Ashina couldn't say how capable he was in actual combat, but based on his control over chakra alone, Bai Sui was undoubtedly among the very best he had ever known.
Naturally, Ashina readily agreed to let such a figure leave his inheritance with the Uzumaki Clan.
Not only Uzumaki Ashina, but several elders present also voiced their agreement. The elder who had earlier invited Bai Sui to stay with the Uzumaki Clan even proposed that Bai Sui become one of the clan's elders.
At those words, Bai Sui declined three times before accepting. After all, this had been one of his reasons for revealing his strength.
That very evening, the Uzumaki Clan held a clan meeting. The ongoing war had scattered their people, so they couldn't gather everyone at such short notice, but the message had been delivered: starting that day, Bai Sui was an elder of the Uzumaki Clan.
The Uzumaki Clan's elders were ranked by age. Bai Sui was now the Fourth Elder, and on his first day in the role, he brought the clan a new rule.
All children old enough to study would begin learning Chinese. He also took some teaching materials he had prepared earlier from his Storage Jade Pendant and handed them out to everyone.
The materials included, above all, the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, Zengguang Xianwen, Dedao Jing, Great Learning, Analects, Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, and Classic of Poetry. Bai Sui had selectively removed some of the content.
Even so, when these great works, organized into a comprehensive system, appeared before them, everyone was deeply shaken.
Although they couldn't understand the original texts written in Chinese, they could read Bai Sui's translations. Some of the phrasing kept the translations from being entirely polished, but they still found them astonishing.