Ninjutsu training ground, cleanup complete!
It was time to test his new ability.
Josen had been coveting the Shadow Clone Technique, one of Naruto's famous workhorse cheats, for far too long.
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Back in the day, the crown prince had relied on its upgraded version, the A-Class forbidden Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, his naturally immense chakra reserves, and his ball-spinning to sweep through the Shinobi World, fighting his way all the way to the Sage of Six Paths' level!
Although the powerful buffs from his protagonist halo certainly played a part, it still showed just how much potential this technique had.
The names "Shadow Clone Technique" and "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique" differed by only two Chinese characters, and their principles and formulas were essentially the same. All it took was crossing both hands to form the ram seal; some powerful practitioners could even complete the hand seals one-handed.
The real difference lay in the latter's enormous numbers, which severely tested the caster's capacity for splitting his mind and his total chakra reserves.
It sounded simple, but there was a misconception here.
Some ninjutsu could not be learned out of thin air simply by watching them once, no matter how simple their hand seals were.
The Shadow Clone Technique was one of them.
In other words, if Tobirama Senju had not invented this technique, Hashirama Senju could have clapped his hands raw and still never cast it.
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The Shadow Clone Technique was second only to Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique in how widely it circulated throughout the Shinobi World. The reason Konoha used it most frequently in the Naruto World was that all the protagonists came from Konoha... no!
It was because the other villages had modeled techniques on it, incorporating various Chakra Nature Transformations to develop