A year later.
"Wuye! Look at this! Look!"
Ninja Academy, Academic Affairs Office.
After more than a year, this place had long since become the private laboratory of Hyuga Wuye and Kazumiya Yukihime.
"It worked?!"
Seeing the faint layer of glowing green chakra on her hand, Wuye instantly analyzed it and understood the principles behind it.
They had discarded Yang Release chakra and replaced it with Water Release chakra, simplified the process of sustaining vitality while stimulating cell division, and abandoned the rapid healing effect. Thus, the Mystical Palm Technique before them had become a C-rank medical ninjutsu!
It had taken Minato Namikaze a full three years to develop the A-rank Rasengan. In theory, reducing an A-rank ninjutsu to C-rank difficulty should not have taken any less time.
But because Wuye could provide the fastest experimental feedback and instantly dissect every one of Kazumiya Yukihime's attempts, the two of them had spent their time on theoretical research and academic exploration. Actual practice had been comparatively infrequent.
"So that's how it works."
Hyuga Wuye extended his hand. The chakra within him transformed into a Water Release nature, underwent a simple conversion through his chakra pathways, and swiftly spread into a layer of glowing green light over his hand.
"You learned it that quickly?" Kazumiya Yukihime asked in surprise.
Wuye nodded. "This technique has been reduced to C-rank difficulty, and I know what the most crucial adjustment in your latest attempt was. Of course I learned it quickly."
"This one still isn't C-rank..."
Kazumiya Yukihime extinguished the Mystical Palm Technique chakra in her hand, then began forming hand seals. After eight seals, Mystical Palm chakra emerged from her hand once more.
"This Mystical Palm Technique, the one that requires hand seals, is the C-rank version. The one from before, which doesn't require