Perception Genjutsu: Body Flicker Technique

"It's only ten-thirty in the morning?"

Uchiha Hara had been busy in the Demon Refining Pot's minor dimension for a long time—planning construction, practicing ninjutsu, and studying texts. It had felt like more than half a day had passed, but when his consciousness returned to reality, he found that only a small part of the weekend morning had gone by.

That level of time efficiency left him clicking his tongue in amazement.

His rapidly rising strength made him begin to understand those novel protagonists who became Kage level at six and unified the Ninja World at eight.

As long as the cheat was powerful enough and used properly, the road to invincibility did not seem far away.

"But I can't do that..." He quickly calmed down.

Knowing the "plot" was one of his greatest advantages, though he was not afraid of changing it.

The main concern was that if he stirred up trouble too early and triggered a butterfly effect, causing people who were supposed to be born—such as his future wives?—to never be born, that would be a real disaster.

"History's inertia may be strong, but I can't gamble on it." He settled on a strategy. "At the very least, before Naruto is born, I have to keep a low profile and avoid causing major deviations in history."

After eating something simple, he consumed another set of Blood Essence and Soul Essence.

He could clearly feel that after his base attributes broke through 2.0, his digestion efficiency had improved again. Now, a single Blood Essence or Soul Essence only took a little over four hours to fully absorb.

"The higher my attributes, the faster the digestion. It's becoming a positive cycle."

Since he had plenty of time, he decided to continue making up for his weaknesses.

At present, his offensive, defensive, and crowd-control abilities had begun to take shape, but he still lacked perception, Genjutsu, and mobility.

In terms of perception, he possessed the [Enhanced Perception (Blue)] talent, and [Elemental Affinity (Blue)] also came with enhanced elemental perception. Yet he did not know any active sensory ninjutsu and relied entirely on passive talents and his naked eyes.

As for Genjutsu, he was an Uchiha who could not use Genjutsu. Wouldn't that make him a second Sasuke?

It would also waste his impressive 2.0 "Spirit" attribute.

And when it came to mobility and lightness skills, how could a qualified schemer lack superb movement techniques?

There were no lightness skills in the Ninja World, but there were Body Flicker Techniques.

He once again immersed his mind and searched through the ninjutsu scrolls in the library.

He had not expected sensory ninjutsu to be so scarce. Among over a thousand ninjutsu scrolls, there were only three sensory techniques, and one of them was even an auxiliary sensory ninjutsu.

The three techniques were:

1. Chakra Sensing Technique: Created by Senju Tobirama. By touching the ground—or another medium—with one's fingers, the user could sense chakra fluctuations within range. The stronger the chakra, the broader the sensory range. Its theoretical upper limit was extremely high.

However, the scroll stated that the farthest distance this sensory ninjutsu could detect was only several dozen kilometers, while Senju Tobirama had been able to sense chakra fluctuations from the Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield over a thousand kilometers away.

If the scroll was correct, then Uchiha Hara guessed that Tobirama's ability to sense such an extreme distance was due not only to his formidable strength and the massive chakra fluctuations of the Fourth Shinobi World War, but perhaps also to prearranged devices resembling signal beacons or relays that could transmit chakra fluctuations.

2. Chakra Sensing Barrier Technique: An auxiliary ninjutsu that could set up a barrier to amplify the range and precision of the Chakra Sensing Technique, like fitting a radar with an antenna array.

3. Water Sensing Technique: A sensory technique developed by the Hagoromo Clan. It could sense "water" within a certain range. Since the human body contained water, it could indirectly detect people, though it could not distinguish whether they were ninja.

The Hagoromo Clan was born with high-quality chakra, and even their ordinary ninjutsu could rival other clans' Kekkei Genkai. As a result, this technique required an extremely profound understanding of Water Release chakra, making it impossible for ordinary people to learn.

But Uchiha Hara possessed the origin of "Water of the Five Elements," so perhaps this technique would not be difficult for him.

"[Chakra Sensing] and [Water Perception] can be used together. The latter finds people, while the former finds ninja. Precise location and tracking—perfect!" Uchiha Hara chose his targets.

In truth, there was not much to choose from. He had to learn all three techniques.

For Genjutsu, he chose the Narakumi Technique.

This technique was not particularly lethal, but it could make someone instantly see the thing they feared most in their heart, leaving them severely stiffened.

For someone like him, who possessed long-range attacks and could kill in a single strike, even making an opponent freeze for a fraction of a second was enough for him to fire a fatal arrow or close in for the kill.

This technique was easy to learn, its control effect worked even on experts, and its cost-effectiveness was extremely high.

Lastly came the Body Flicker Technique. He had initially thought it was merely a simple speed-boosting skill, but after consulting every related scroll, he discovered that it was an enormous system!

Any technique that could significantly increase movement speed or produce spatial displacement could be classified as a Body Flicker Technique!

From this, it followed that:

* The basic Substitution Technique was a Body Flicker Technique.

* The chakra burst acceleration commonly used by ANBU was a Body Flicker Technique.

* Release techniques that merged with elements such as water and sand were Body Flicker Techniques—Water Body Flicker, Sand Body Flicker.

* Even Amenotejikara, Flying Thunder God, and Lightning Release Armor belonged to different branches of Body Flicker Techniques!

Among Uchiha Jiang's collection were six representative Body Flicker Techniques:

1. Uchiha Body Flicker: The basic version. Chakra was infused into the leg meridians to accelerate movement.

2. Illusion Body Flicker: An advanced technique combining Genjutsu and the Substitution Technique. It placed extremely high demands on every aspect of one's abilities, including ninjutsu, taijutsu, Genjutsu, and Substitution Techniques. Uchiha Itachi's crow clone substitution was one such technique.

3. Water Body Flicker: Moving by merging into water currents. It was Hanzo's signature technique.

4. Lightning Body Flicker: Lightning Release stimulated cells into activation to accelerate movement. It was a basic application of Lightning Release chakra and had given rise to offensive techniques such as Lightning Release Armor, Chidori, and Lightning Cutter.

5. Wind Body Flicker: Wind Release chakra wrapped around the entire body, increasing speed, reducing resistance, and lowering noise. When Wind Release nature transformation was cultivated to a high level, it could also gain kinetic cutting power. Minato Namikaze had once used this technique to sever one of the Eight-Tails' tentacles.

6. Sword Body Flicker: A charging technique combined with swordsmanship and quick-draw slashes. It could be considered an enhanced form of dash.

In summary, Body Flicker Techniques could be divided into three major categories:

Body-Style Release: Chakra strengthened the body—mainly the legs—to achieve high-speed movement, similar to "lightness skills."

Elemental Release: It used natural elements such as water, lightning, and wind to move or merge into the environment, similar to "Five-Elements Great Release."

Fusion Release: Composite Body Flicker Techniques formed by combining the first two with Genjutsu, the Substitution Technique, swordsmanship, and so on.

"My physique is powerful—Spirit 2.0 and muscles of steel and bones of iron—so cultivating basic Body-Style Release techniques similar to lightness skills will yield twice the result with half the effort."

"My elemental affinity is high—talents plus all five elements—so I have equally enormous advantages in cultivating Elemental Release techniques."

"My role is that of a stealth assassin. I need a method of movement that is silent, fast, and difficult to track."

Having analyzed this far, the answer was obvious:

The technique best suited to him was a composite Body Flicker Technique that fused the acceleration, resistance-reduction, and noise-suppression properties of Wind Body Flicker with the chakra burst techniques of the Body-Style Release school!

Wind Release was naturally suited to speed and stealth.

"Hmm... I happen to know a supreme technique that combines wind and lightness-skill characteristics—Wind God Leg."

A concept from a classic martial arts story in his previous life surfaced in Uchiha Hara's mind.

"Perhaps I can develop it in that direction."

Countless possible development paths nearly instantly flooded into his mind.

For developing Wind Body Flicker, he could draw on Minato Namikaze's approach, or even directly ask Minato Namikaze himself.

As for Body-Style Release, he could delve deeper into chakra's development of the meridians.

He noticed that the leg meridians activated by the basic Body Flicker Technique were very limited, only a handful.

This was understandable. Ninja generally lacked strong chakra control. They even needed hand seals to cast ninjutsu, so how would they dare send chakra into tiny meridians?

But Uchiha Hara was different. His chakra control was powerful. He could manipulate chakra flow without hand seals.

"If I use my powerful chakra control to stimulate more complex and smaller meridian nodes beyond the main meridians, will my speed undergo a qualitative transformation?"

With the ability to finely control chakra without hand seals and the confidence that Blood Essence could repair any injuries at any time, he could fully afford to experiment boldly and develop his own high-speed movement technique!

"It's decided." The light of research and creation gleamed in Uchiha Hara's eyes. "I'll use Wind Release chakra as the core, combine it with meridian burst techniques, and develop my own—Wind God Leg!"

He sank his consciousness into his body and began carefully guiding Wind Release chakra, exploring the hidden meridians that traditional Body Flicker Techniques had not fully utilized.