Konoha seems to have not changed much, but only Konoha's senior management knows. Today, Konoha has entered a state of high tension and alert.
On the training ground, Aoba is personally training Neji Hyuga and Hinata.
Since Hashirama Senju disappeared, Aoba seemed to have done nothing special on the surface. But only those closest to him knew about it. From that day on, his attention to Neji and Hinata increased by more than one level.
"Perception is an extremely important ability for ninjas. Strictly speaking, our sense of smell, hearing, vision, touch, and even taste are all types of perception.
At the same time, sensing chakra through blood stains and secret techniques is also an advanced way of perception.
So far, Konoha Sensory Division ninjas have counted a total of forty different ways of perception. And what I teach you today is the forty-first."
Hyuga, as Konoha's strongest sentient ninja lineage, is currently taking a sentient class. It sounds weird, but Neji and Hinata have no complaints at all.
One is that before they came, they were told that they must respect their teacher, the current top master of Shinobi World.
Another is that in less than a month of training, they have already truly felt their combat effectiveness improve.
Therefore, Aoba's words are like an imperial edict to them.
"All Shinobi World's current perception methods have a flaw. This flaw will not be realized in most battles. But if you want to go further, you need to make up for this weakness. You need to sense yourself."
"Perceive yourself?"
At this time, Neji and Hinata were really confused. Perception is to determine the location of the enemy so that they can respond in advance. What does it mean to perceive oneself?
"Perceiving oneself here refers to perceiving one's own inner self. That is, the details of one's own body.
Let's take a simple example. If your body is injured, you can easily feel where the wound is. But if it is an internal injury, most people can only tell a rough location.
At a deeper level, if there is a hidden danger in your body that has not yet erupted, most people will not be able to sense it in advance. And this time, my goal in training you is to let you learn to sense every detail of your body, so that you can completely control your body."
Hyuga's perception of the body is actually far beyond that of ordinary ninjas. After all, the principle of operation of Gentle Fist is the flow and injection of chakra in the meridians of the body.
But this is only the perception at the chakra level. Aoba requires a precise and unified perception ability from chakra to the physical body.
This requirement comes from a term in martial arts novels I read in my previous life, Inner Vision.
A master of martial arts, after reaching a certain level of skill, can penetrate his spirit into his body, thereby understanding every detail of his physical body and Qi.
Aoba At the beginning of time travel, Mental Power was different from ordinary people. This made him naturally able to do Inner Vision.
He was able to analyze the Ocular Power of Sharingan and develop various ninjutsu. In fact, they were all completed under this powerful Mental Power Inner Vision.
After all, only by fully controlling your own body can you create the Ninjutsu that best suits you.
Neji and Hinata are not as strong as Mental Power. But with the foundation of Gentle Fist, plus some preliminary applications of Mental Power developed by Aoba, they can barely achieve similar effects.
The reason why Aoba asked them to conduct this training is because he needs to understand the details of Hyuga's body in depth. This is an important step to deal with the future crisis.
Seeing Hinata and Neji enter a state of trance, they began to try to sense their bodies. Aoba also got up and came to Hokage's Office.
Tsunade's complexion is not good. She has been like this since Hashirama left. Because she does not believe that a person like Hashirama Senju would betray Konoha. Even though Aoba explained it, she still couldn't accept it.
"Is there no trace of his whereabouts yet?"
"Can't find it, not a trace. After all, he is the great grandfather. If he doesn't want to be found, how can Anbu people track him down."
"I still say what I said, give up, Tsunade. You..."
"It's impossible for me to get him back. What do you want to say? I've heard it before. But I don't believe that a person as powerful as my great grandfather would be bewitched by a legendary guy."
In Aoba's inference, Hashirama Senju's departure was influenced by Sage of Six Paths. But Tsunade didn't believe it.
After all, Sage of Six Paths is too far away from them. And the power of Hashirama Senju is imprinted in her heart.
But Aoba knew that his guess was most likely correct. Since the other party interfered in the duel between Itachi and Sasuke, it ruined the possibility of Eternal Eye appearing.
Aoba guessed that the other party would most likely make the next move.
And from Aoba's point of view, Sage of Six Paths's influence on Hashirama Senju is much higher than imagined.
When watching the plot of Hokage in his previous life, he noticed that Sage of Six Paths was obviously biased towards Ashura.
Now that I think about it carefully, maybe that is not a bias, but that Ashura is closer to him.
Whether it is Ashura or Indra, he is nominally the son of Sage of Six Paths. But in essence, he is the reincarnation of his chakra with two different attributes.
In other words, the basic source of the power of Ashura and Indra comes from Sage of Six Paths.
The fact that Naruto and Sasuke can easily accept the inheritance of Sage of Six Paths illustrates this point. Their powers are originally from the same origin.
Based on this inference, Aoba concluded that Sage of Six Paths can definitely control the power in Hashirama Senju's body at any time. It can even affect his soul in a deeper way, and then affect Hashirama Senju itself.
It sounds helpless, but this is the fact. As the reincarnations of Ashura and Indra, they are never free. They are chess pieces in the hands of Sage of Six Paths.
As for why it doesn't directly interfere with Naruto and Sasuke. Aoba guesses that the power of Ashura and Indra in Naruto Sasuke's body is still too weak.
Or maybe he has interfered with Naruto, but has not been noticed for the time being.
Sasuke is the same as Madara Uchiha, but is much weaker than Sage of Six Paths.
Of course, why Sage of Six Paths has a strong ability to interfere with Ashura and a weak ability to interfere with Indra. Aoba has no answer yet.
He had a hunch that knowing this answer might reveal the biggest secret of Shinobi World.
Instead of continuing to dissuade Tsunade, Aoba helped Tsunade deal with some backlogged official documents, and then left Hokage's Office alone and went to Konoha Research Institute.
There, Tobirama Senju is already waiting for him.