The Five-Release Persona

Four Stone Ninja leaped down from the tree trunks.

Uchiha Ling flashed through six hand seals. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

When Sarutobi Miyagi saw a fireball as large as a two-story house, he was stunned.

Among the Sarutobi Clan members his age, no one could match Uchiha Ling's Fire Release.

No—even among Sarutobi Clan members three years older, no one could match him.

The Great Fireball was too large. It swallowed two Stone Ninja who failed to dodge in time.

The fireball struck a tree trunk and exploded, snapping the great tree in half and forcing the Stone Ninja in its branches to leap away on either side.

Burning branches fell one after another, the flames crackling as they consumed them.

A Stone Ninja Chunin standing in the branches saw a mere Genin wield Fire Release at such a level. He formed hand seals and unleashed Water Release.

Water surged down like a flash flood.

Sarutobi Miyagi watched Uchiha Ling form hand seals and slap the ground. A solid earthen wall rose instantly, shielding Mitaraishi Anko and Dule Jiong behind it.

No wonder Orochimaru-sensei chose Uchiha Ling, Sarutobi Miyagi thought. I never expected him to be proficient in two types of release.

A nine-year-old Genin with two chakra natures was formidable.

Miyagi had two natures himself and knew several Fire Release and Earth Release Ninjutsu.

But his goal was to develop all five natures and inherit Clan Head Hiruzen's forbidden technique: the Five-Style Great Combo.

Within the Sarutobi Clan's teachings, Fire Release Ninjutsu was available to everyone. But there were two supreme inheritances: the Summoning Contract with Enma's clan and the forbidden Five-Style Great Combo.

The Summoning Contract with Enma's clan was on par with those of the Three Great Sage Lands. Even Clan Head Hiruzen's two sons had