A new day dawned, and the sun rose.
Uchiha Makoto opened his eyes and looked at the sun just peeking over the horizon. "Time to train!"
Over the past few days, Uchiha Makoto and Kakashi had stopped at every town they came across.
Cheng had no intention of sleeping out in the wilderness.
He left the hotel, found an empty clearing outside, and began stretching.
The physical enhancement from Life Return 7.0 had made his body far stronger than those of his peers.
No, far stronger than those of most Chunin.
But the problem was that Life Return leaned toward being a "training" ability.
In a fight, it couldn't give him an instant power spike or multiply his strength several times over like the Eight Gates.
And explosive power was what Uchiha Makoto lacked most right now.
The kind that let him kill in one strike, clear the battlefield in an instant, and run as soon as he was done.
"The Eight Gates Formation does offer plenty of explosive power..." Uchiha Makoto muttered as he stretched his legs. "But the aftereffects are too severe. Open the Gate of Death, and you just drop dead."
He remembered watching Naruto in his previous life. The Eight Gates Formation really had been cool.
One kick that nearly brought the whole story to its finale-anyone watching would get fired up.
But cool was cool. Staying alive mattered more.
Although the lie system could weaken the Eight Gates' aftereffects, Cheng felt he might as well create a new ninjutsu instead.
"I need to make my own," Uchiha Makoto concluded. "Stronger than the Eight Gates, with fewer aftereffects, and suited to me."
How would he create it?
He began sifting through memories of his previous life.
In One Piece, there were Luffy's Second Gear, Third Gear,