After thinking for a long while, Zou Hyuga recalled quite a few technological developments in the shinobi world.
The first was the Chakra Armor developed in the Land of Snow.
As he remembered it, ninja in the Land of Snow, north of the Land of Fire, had developed Chakra Armor. This armor could greatly increase chakra reserves and enhance the strength of chunin and even jonin.
It even offered considerable resistance to ninjutsu and genjutsu.
If it could be mass-produced, it might well influence the course of wars between the great nations.
The second was the Sky Ninja, who had been wiped out by the Third Hokage. Their technology had once been highly advanced, and they had even built a Flying Battleship. Their flying machines and chakra weapons had been too numerous to count.
As far as Zou Hyuga knew, the remnants of the Sky Ninja were still lying low somewhere in the shinobi world, waiting for a chance to take revenge on Konoha.
But finding their whereabouts was a major problem in itself.
After calming himself, Zou Hyuga continued his experiments and recorded the data.
The experiments soon concluded. Based on the results, Zou Hyuga estimated that only ninja who had reached chunin level could barely manage to use the chakra network he had created.
That clearly fell short of the plan he had in mind.
He was no philanthropist. His purpose in establishing the chakra network was merely to collect chakra from across the shinobi world, and he had gradually begun sharing chakra with his subordinates only because his own chakra could not be used for nature transformation techniques.
Apart from the Hyuga's Gentle Fist, the only technique he could perform with his own chakra was the "Tailed Beast Bomb."
At its core, it was merely a compressed