Wind God Body Flicker · Addicted to Learning

At the Konoha Ninja Academy, during class.

Uchiha Hara rested his chin on his elbow, looking half-asleep. In truth, he had opened the Demon Refining Pot's interface and was reviewing the results of his recent training.

[Uchiha Hara]

Essence: 2.281 (Life origin, physical strength. His foundation was solid, far surpassing his peers and comparable to an experienced Chunin.)

Qi: 2.281 (Energy capacity and recovery. Total chakra/true qi reserves and recovery speed had increased significantly.)

Spirit: 2.281 (Mental origin, soul strength. His mind was clear, his senses sharp, and his control astonishing.)

(Note: Due to cultivating the Primordial Scripture, the Essence, Qi, and Spirit attributes had initially formed an interconnected cycle, with immense growth potential. Daily Blood Essence, Soul Essence, and natural growth provided steady gains.)

[Chakra/Energy System]

Regular Chakra: Possessed nine attributes—Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Water, Metal, Wood, Yang, and Yin. (The five elements were complete, while Yin and Yang had taken initial form.)

Primordial True Qi: A milky-white source energy unique to himself, stored in the Dantian. It could circulate and grow, nourishing both body and spirit. (It had begun cleansing the imprint of Kaguya's Will.)

Energy Control: Ultimate level (Thanks to the stacking of multiple talents, complete five elements, and cultivation of the Primordial Scripture, B-Rank and lower ninjutsu required no hand seals and could be cast instantly with a thought.)

[Nature Transformation]

Wind: Levitation

[Talent List]

Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart (Red): Multitasking (current number of tasks that could be handled simultaneously: 9), greatly enhanced memory, comprehension, insight, and calculation ability (roughly 100%). The number of Shadow Clones or Avatars that could be maintained simultaneously equaled the multitasking count (current: 9).

Enhanced Perception (Blue): Greatly enhanced sensory abilities such as sight, hearing, and smell (50%). His normal dynamic vision rivaled a One-Tomoe Sharingan.

Enhanced Stamina (Red): Greatly enhanced physical endurance and recovery.

Steel Bones and Iron Muscles (Blue): Significantly enhanced physical defense and bone strength.

Precision (Blue): Increased the accuracy of projectiles such as arrows, kunai, and shuriken.

Elemental Affinity (Blue): Enhanced the ability to communicate with and control the basic elements of nature.

Cat's Coordination (Green): Enhanced physical flexibility, balance, and landing impact absorption.

Skin Color Change (Green): Could actively adjust skin color, tending toward pallor.

Infrared Vision (Green): Could sense the thermal radiation of living creatures, aiding night vision.

Spirit Illusion (Green): Enhanced Genjutsu talent and learning ability, improving fine chakra control. (Mainly used for shape transformation.)

Memory Enhancement (Green): Moderately enhanced memory.

Low-Light Vision (Green): Extremely powerful night vision, enhancing spatial distance judgment.

Three-Dimensional Balance (Green): Extremely powerful balance. Combined with Cat's Coordination, he was difficult to knock down.

[Skill List]

Taijutsu/Swordsmanship:

Tai Chi (Mastered, currently refining and integrating into a self-created style)

Uchiha Style Swordsmanship (Mastered, currently refining and integrating into a self-created style)

Leaf Style Taijutsu (Mastered)

Kunai Throwing (Master, boosted by the [Precision] talent)

Shuriken Throwing (Master, boosted by the [Precision] talent)

Archery:

Archery (Master, could use the compound bow [Setting Sun] and recurve bow [Starlight], boosted by the [Precision] talent)

Ninjutsu:

Fire Release: Fireball Jutsu

Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall, Earth and Stone House Technique, Linked Pillar House Technique

Water Release: Water Surge Wave, Water Needles (could be converted into ice needles)

Wind Release: Wind Blade

Lightning Release: Lightning Ball

Genjutsu: Narakumi Technique

Body Flicker Technique: Uchiha Body Flicker (basic), Wind Body Flicker (newly developed, required further refinement)

Sealing Jutsu/Barrier Jutsu: Basic theory (initially mastered), Uchiha barriers/seals (all Barrier Jutsu and Sealing Jutsu stored by Uchiha Jiang had been mastered)

Secret Technique: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique

Self-Created/Special:

Primordial Scripture, First Layer (Self-created cultivation method. Could circulate through the Twelve Main Meridians, refine chakra into Primordial True Qi, and store it in the Dantian.)

Chakra Storage Method: Could condense disembodied chakra/Primordial True Qi into Chakra Pearls for storage within the Demon Refining Pot's space.

Xiao Flute: Beginner

[Possessions/Equipment]

Weapons:

Famous Blade · Autumn Rain (Chakra blade, Tang saber style)

Longsword · Winter's Endurance (Chakra sword, self-forged)

Long Spear · White Dragon (Chakra spear, self-forged)

Compound Bow · Setting Sun (Self-forged, high lethality, needed to be used discreetly)

Recurve Bow · Starlight (Self-forged, for regular use)

Space:

Demon Refining Pot:

Internal Minor Plane: Area of 3 square kilometers (including a central mountain, river, lake, training ground, farmland, library, warehouse, residences, and more).

Functions: [Refinement · Extraction] (life essence, soul essence), [Refinement · Will Overwrite] (refine Avatars, limit 9, boosted by the [Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart] talent).

Storage: Vast quantities of supplies (see previous chapters), Chakra Pearls.

Funds: Roughly 2.5 billion ryo in cash (planned to exchange it for gold to counter inflation).

Resources: Vast quantities of ninjutsu scrolls (1,469 types, including 3 S-Rank), books, Explosive Tags, ninja tools, metal materials, medicinal herbs, and more.

[Avatar/Clone List]

Total currently available clones/Avatars: 9 (boosted by Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart)

Occupied:

Crow Avatar (reconnaissance, daytime)

Rat Avatar—Senju Jerry (reconnaissance, nighttime/underground)

(Seven slots remained for Shadow Clones or other Avatars)

(Note: Avatars and Shadow Clones shared slots.)

At present, he had two red talents. One of them was Enhanced Stamina, which he had obtained from eating fish.

Ever since gaining that talent, he seemed never to have felt tired. His recovery speed was so fast that Uchiha Hara's current training intensity could no longer exhaust him.

Only while cultivating the Primordial Scripture could he sense the upper limit of his meridians' endurance, but even then, he recovered quickly.

This Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart was also an excellent talent.

After acquiring it, he felt as though his mind had been connected to a high-speed network. Knowledge that once required repeated deliberation now became clear with barely a thought.

Talents provided percentage-based boosts, so the higher one's foundation, the greater the benefits.

His intelligence, insight, and talent all surpassed Amemiya Aki's, so this talent's effects were even more pronounced in Uchiha Hara.

Since his learning efficiency had skyrocketed recently, and no new top-tier talent that he particularly wanted had appeared among the gangs for the time being, Uchiha Hara decided to suspend his hunting and shift his focus toward turning his talent advantages into actual combat strength.

Taking a break was also meant to calm his mind.

The main reason was that hunting people brought growth too quickly. He feared he might fail to restrain his desires and become a bloodthirsty maniac who devoured people.

In terms of cultivation, he first turned his attention to chakra nature transformation.

His terrifying increase in insight brought his perception and control of Wind Release chakra to an unprecedented level of precision.

After only a few days of study, he successfully developed the "levitation" nature transformation of Wind Release chakra. When transformed within his body, it effectively reduced his own weight. If attached to an object, it could also reduce that object's weight.

If infused into a chakra sword or chakra spear, it could lighten the weapon, making it faster and naturally increasing its lethality.

With this nature transformation, he might even be able to develop a ninjutsu that allowed flight in the future.

Afterward, he read and absorbed every scroll in Uchiha Jiang's collection concerning ninja taijutsu and Body Flicker Techniques.

Combining his deep understanding of meridians—the result of cultivating the Primordial Scripture—with the newly mastered "levitation" property, he began attempting new combinations.

With ordinary Body Flicker Techniques, chakra only flowed through one or two major meridians in the legs for explosive propulsion.

Uchiha Hara, however, used his minute chakra control to activate three leg meridians simultaneously, constructing a more efficient energy circulation route.

At the same time, he evenly covered his body with Wind Release chakra transformed into the "levitation" property, greatly reducing his body weight.

The final result was exhilarating!

He had successfully developed a Wind Release ninja taijutsu unique to himself!

This new Wind Release ninja taijutsu could also be called the Wind Release: Body Flicker Technique, and its effects vastly exceeded those of conventional Body Flicker Techniques:

Its speed boost was nearly three times greater than that of a conventional Body Flicker Technique!

Because chakra could form a more efficient cycle within his meridians, the consumption had instead decreased by roughly 80%!

Furthermore, thanks to that same energy circulation, the duration of the Body Flicker Technique's continuous movement had greatly increased, reaching roughly five times that of an ordinary Body Flicker Technique!

This was only the initial stage of development! Whether it was the deeper application of the "levitation" property or activating even more meridians, this movement technique still had enormous room for improvement.

Moreover, Wind's properties were not limited to levitation. It also possessed sharpness.

If he developed the sharpness property as well, then used levitation within his body and sharpness outside it, he could reshape this ninja taijutsu into something light within and deadly without, naturally multiplying its lethality.

Uchiha Hara also knew that chakra's use extended far beyond the meridians. At a deeper level, it could be infused into cells themselves, like Tsunade's Monster Strength.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Jiang's collection contained no related secret techniques. Otherwise, his speed could improve even further.

This technique, which fused the Body Flicker Technique and ninja taijutsu, had already taken the initial shape of the "Wind God Leg." It merely lacked an accompanying fierce leg style and sufficient killing power.

Uchiha Hara did not call this ninjutsu Wind God Leg. Instead, following local convention, he named it—Wind God Body Flicker!

Aside from the Body Flicker Technique, his cultivation in other areas also progressed rapidly.

Through his various talents and ultimate chakra control, Uchiha Hara had trained the Transformation Technique to the point where there was nowhere left to improve. It was roughly like upgrading from standard definition to 1080p.

Uchiha Hara had used the Transformation Technique when he killed Amemiya Aki. Even Amemiya Aki, who possessed the Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart, had failed to see through his transformation.

However, Amemiya Aki had merely been an ordinary person, so her judgment held little reference value.

After gaining the Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart, Uchiha Hara discovered flaws in the Transformation Technique that had once seemed perfect to him. He optimized it again, further increasing its realism, roughly like upgrading from 1080p to Blu-ray high definition.

He felt that ordinary ninja could no longer see through his Transformation Technique. As for Kage-level experts or those with ocular techniques, he did not know whether they could see through it, since he had not tested it.

As for his Sealing Jutsu and Barrier Jutsu training, his terrifying learning ability allowed him to thoroughly digest the theories contained in every related scroll from Uchiha Jiang's collection. Combined with the scientific way of thinking from his previous life, he deeply considered their underlying principles and felt that he had gained enormously.

However, lacking practical verification, he still could not be certain whether he could silently breach the Hidden Leaf Village's large-scale barrier.

Besides that, Uchiha Hara decided to abandon cultivation of the Governance Divine Art.

After personally trying it, Uchiha Hara found that this method of training the body and spirit through moderate daily chakra expenditure was not useless, but it was far too inefficient for him.

The effects of ten days of cultivation were not as obvious as the improvement brought by consuming a single Fish Blood Essence.

He finally understood that this method might suit ordinary people like Uchiha Chiri or Shisui, but for someone like him, who possessed cultivation cheats such as the Demon Refining Pot and the Primordial Scripture, it was somewhat useless.

Rather than wasting chakra every day, he might as well invest it in the more efficient cultivation of the Primordial Scripture.

To cultivate his temperament and calm his killing intent, he began studying music in addition to training.

Uchiha Jiang's book collection contained a large number of music scores and instrument guides, as well as several sets of instruments. They were all Japanese instruments, however, without a single Chinese one.

Uchiha Hara gathered materials himself and used chakra metal to make a metal xiao flute. It could be played as a flute or used as a weapon.

The talent boost from the Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart could also be applied to music, so he learned instruments quickly. In only two weeks, he could already play Kangding Love Song.

During this period, Uchiha Hara could truly be said to have become addicted to learning, unable to extricate himself.

He was beginning to understand why those top students in his previous life who loved studying had enjoyed it so much.

When one possessed unparalleled learning talent, studying was no longer painful. It became a kind of enjoyment.

Watching difficult problems be solved one by one, watching his skills improve day by day—if he went out to play at a time like this, he would truly feel that he was wasting time.

Fortunately, Uchiha Hara had only become a top student halfway through his life, so he was not quite that insane. Even so, he still developed the feeling that every inch of time was worth an inch of gold.

He couldn't stop learning!