The quiet days of training passed quickly. Chiba Shun had not gone out for an entire year, staying at the Ninja Academy and focusing on ninjutsu training.
He raised the proficiency of his primary Earth Release attribute by another level, while Illusion Techniques, sensory ninjutsu, and Fire Release had also improved somewhat.
Because of Hayata, Chiba Shun had already begun trying to develop Lightning Release as his third attribute.
However, he had yet to successfully cultivate Lightning Release nature transformation.
Still, Chiba Shun was not in a very good mood tonight.
After an entire year of training, Sakai Yushi had finally mastered swordsmanship. His strength had steadily reached the level of an Elite Jonin, once again pulling ahead of him.
While Chiba Shun was happy for his companion, he also felt a trace of confusion about his own future.
All these years, he had been training ninjutsu, but the ninjutsu he trained had always been developed by others.
His ninjutsu proficiency had continued to rise, the number of hand seals he needed had continued to decrease, and he had learned more and more techniques, but that could not change the fact that he lacked his own distinctive style.
Put another way, Chiba Shun felt that he had reached a bottleneck.
Moreover, this bottleneck felt different from the one before becoming a Jonin.
He had a feeling that Jonin might be the limit of his potential!
That feeling was awful, leaving him with the stifling frustration of having strength but nowhere to use it.
He was already seventeen. In truth, his period of rapid growth had already passed.
It was very likely that his strength would be unable to improve for the next several decades.
Perhaps as he grew older, his combat experience, fighting skills, and tactics would improve, but his