Thinking it might be the Seven Ninja Swordsmen,
Uchiha Yuzhen didn't dare get cocky!
He knew very well that if he were alone, facing off against those seven wouldn't be much of a problem.
The tricky part was his three teammates—
they were just too weak...
Even if he was strong enough to handle things alone,
he couldn't protect all three of them while fighting the Seven Swordsmen.
Once Uchiha Yuzhen had sorted things out, he didn't waste any time.
He said to the three of them,
"The camp wants us to patrol the area... No problem! Let's get going after I take something out."
He immediately pulled a scroll from his ninja tool pouch.
He tossed it casually, and with a bang!
A stack of talismans appeared in the clearing.
"Big Brother Yuzhen, are these Explosive Tags?" Shiranui Genma asked, a little confused.
What was he preparing? Explosive Tags?
Before Uchiha Yuzhen could answer,
Ebisu, who was fairly knowledgeable about theory, pushed up his sunglasses and shook his head.
"They're not Explosive Tags. The symbols on those are different."
"All right... Stop guessing. These are my Flying Thunder God Talismans. Take one each."
Uchiha Yuzhen rolled his eyes at the two of them, pulled out three talismans, and handed one to each of the three.
He'd spent some time with them by now.
He knew them pretty well.
Shiranui Genma had always been a likable-looking kid, and had enjoyed drawing attention to himself ever since he was little.
Ebisu was just like in the original story: a reserved show-off.
No matter what they were discussing, he always had to flaunt his knowledge.
And then there was Might Guy...
He was a little different!
At this stage, he was cheerful.
But he wasn't yet as cheerful as he would be in the future.
The reason was simple.
He still felt a little inferior because his father was an eternal Genin.
Still, all three of them were good people.
After spending some time with them, Yuzhen didn't want anything to happen to any of them.
So he handed them the Flying Thunder God Talismans he'd made himself.
"Flying Thunder God Talismans... What do they do?" Might Guy took one, looking puzzled.
He could use ninjutsu too.
But because of his father's guidance and limited resources,
he could only focus on Taijutsu for now.
"You've been with me for half a year. You should know what the Flying Thunder God can do, right?"
"Yeah!" X3
"These talismans were inspired by the Explosive Tags. I came up with them by combining the two."
"Once you're carrying one, no matter how dangerous things get, if anything goes wrong, I can get you all out of there in a flash!"
Uchiha Yuzhen spoke to the three of them with a serious expression.
The Flying Thunder God Technique Formula...
He'd been researching it for a while.
He'd also figured out how to make something like the Sword of Shinobi Love: all you had to do was feed it chakra, and Namikaze Minato could sense it.
Then he could appear instantly.
But with his limited funds, he hadn't wanted to use that method.
He'd gotten his inspiration from the Explosive Tags.
Explosive Tags were powerful ninja tools.
All you had to do was put a little chakra into one to act as a trigger, then throw it.
And it would explode.
That raised a question!
If Explosive Tags used so little chakra, where did the energy for the explosion come from?
The person who made the tool stored chakra in the talisman using symbols.
Once Uchiha Yuzhen understood that, an idea flashed through his mind.
He didn't need to know
how the symbols that caused the explosion worked.
He just needed to understand how the symbols that stored chakra worked!
With that knowledge, he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique Formula as the foundation and make his own Flying Thunder God Talismans.
And once the idea occurred to him...
The [Genius (Gold)] Affix he'd extracted from Kakashi proved its worth once again.
A genius was a genius!
Just as Kakashi had developed the Chidori series with ease,
Yuzhen had smoothly developed these talismans too!
Their effect was simple. Just like the Sword of Shinobi Love, the person carrying one could feed it chakra to alert him.
Once he sensed it, he could teleport to them in a flash.
They also had another, even more important function.
As long as the person carrying a talisman was within his line of sight,
if that person's life was in danger,
he could activate the chakra he'd stored inside the talisman.
That chakra would envelop the person carrying it, allowing him to use the Flying Thunder God Technique.
He could teleport instantly, taking along anyone his chakra had touched!
At that moment,
the three of them listened to Uchiha Yuzhen's instructions and carefully put away their talismans.
They'd experienced the Flying Thunder God's effects plenty of times by now.
Big Brother Yuzhen had said he could get them out of any dangerous situation with these talismans.
And he wasn't exaggerating.
Once all three had taken their talismans, Uchiha Yuzhen didn't say another word.
He immediately gave a hand signal, and they headed toward the place where the intelligence report said a ninja had infiltrated.
The sun blazed overhead—
Uchiha Yuzhen and the others ran through a quiet forest.
"Big Brother Yuzhen... Something's not right!" Shiranui Genma narrowed his eyes and warned the Uchiha Yuzhen leading the group.
"Indeed... This forest is far too quiet!" Uchiha Yuzhen replied gravely. He formed a hand seal, and his chakra gathered slightly.
Then Yuzhen closed his eyes, as if sensing something.
That's right!
Now that he had the Senju of the Forest Kekkei Genkai,
he'd developed the corresponding sensory abilities over the past few months.
This showed just how incredible the Affixes were.
As long as the [Genius (Gold)] Affix was on his status panel,
whenever he wanted to learn something or develop something,
Kakashi's creativity would appear out of nowhere!
That left Uchiha Yuzhen astonished!
He couldn't help being astonished...
Even Kakashi himself couldn't keep his flashes of genius coming nonstop.
But the Entry Extraction System could!
As long as the Affix was on his panel, its effect would keep activating.
And so he'd successfully mastered this sensory ability based on a Kekkei Genkai.
Uchiha Yuzhen, eyes closed as he sensed his surroundings, seemed to have found something.
He quickly made a hand signal.
As soon as they saw it,
Katekai and the other two hurried to a stop.
"Big Brother Yuzhen, did you sense something?" Might Guy broke into a cold sweat.
Everyone knew Big Brother Yuzhen had a pretty good knack for sensing things!
Now that he'd made a signal for them to stop, he must have found something!
The situation was even worse than he'd imagined.
Uchiha Yuzhen turned around with a grave expression, his crimson eyes fixed on the three of them.
"You three, head back to camp... I'll hold off the enemy for a while!"
With that, he formed a hand seal.
Bang—!
Amid the swirling smoke,
another Uchiha Yuzhen emerged!
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