"So that's how it is."
After a moment's thought, Qian had Snow Wind stop directly converting Ice Release Chakra. Instead, he had him condense a mass of Water Release Chakra and Ice Release Chakra in each palm.
Then he had him bring the two together and fuse them into Ice Release.
And yet Snow Wind, who had clearly been able to condense Ice Release before, failed this time.
Snow Wind himself was surprised by that.
He knew very well that the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai his family possessed was unlike the Kaguya Clan's Shikotsumyaku, and unlike the Uchiha clan's Sharingan or the Hyuga clan's Byakugan, which required the corresponding Bloodline in order to awaken.
His family's Ice Release could be awakened by fusing Wind Style and Water Release.
But he actually could not do it.
That left him a little stunned.
Qian, however, was not surprised.
It was simple. The night before last, while Snow Wind had been unconscious, Qian had used the Mind Reading Technique to read his memories and learned that he was a genius who had awakened the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai on his own at a very young age.
As a result, he had never gone through the process of fusing Wind Style and Water Release at all.
And so it had formed the current blind spot in his thinking.
To him, fusing Wind Style and Water Release to obtain Ice Release was far less convenient than relying on his Bloodline instinct to directly mobilize Chakra and convert it into Ice Release.
It was like someone used to using a lighter not knowing how to make fire by rubbing sticks together. He clearly knew that method existed, but that did not mean he could necessarily do it.
And what Qian needed right now was precisely the