"Isn't this... a little too much?"
Liu Yun hadn't expected the "few ninjutsu scrolls" Hiruzen Sarutobi had promised to prepare to mean over a hundred different jutsu...
The scrolls covered the entire table, and there still wasn't enough room.
He roughly sorted them into categories. Each of the Five Basic Nature Transformations had twenty to thirty jutsu on average.
He opened a few scrolls at random and took a look.
"Earth Release: Earth Substitution? Hiruzen Sarutobi's jutsu?"
Liu Yun skimmed through it. Unlike the ordinary Substitution Technique, Earth Substitution used the earth itself as its medium. The caster controlled soil or rock to form a substitute, using it to evade an attack the instant it struck.
In other words, the materials were everywhere. There was no need to prepare extra objects for substitution, and it was more discreet on the battlefield.
"This might come in handy. I'll have to learn it."
Liu Yun set the scroll aside.
"Next is... Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves? If I remember right, this is Danzo's jutsu, isn't it? Didn't it even cut through Sasuke's Susanoo?"
According to the scroll, Vacuum Serial Waves was an enhanced version of Vacuum Wave, using rapidly spinning wind blades to deliver powerful cutting attacks.
Time slipped by unnoticed, and the sky gradually darkened.
Liu Yun stood up and stretched.
Most of these were C-rank and B-Rank jutsu, though there were a few A-Rank ones, such as Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique and Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique.
He was quite pleased with them.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had been fairly generous. After all, ninjutsu resources were still precious.
The Ninja Academy only taught the Three Basic Jutsu, nothing else.
Children from shinobi clans had it easier, with their families' inherited jutsu. Children from civilian families could only pray they were