"Thrust!"
Another storm of blows had ended. Xue Ge washed himself by the lake, while Iris Moon was as drunk as ever.
A jar of wine sat beside Xue Ge, too. He had now moved beyond having wine forced on him. Iris Moon set it out for him, and he drank whenever he wanted.
"In a couple of days, I'll teach you some ninjutsu."
Xue Ge was washing his hair when he suddenly heard Iris Moon speak.
He turned his head. "But this stage isn't finished yet."
"Looking at how you're doing, getting you to dodge my attacks with your eyes closed probably isn't happening anytime soon." Iris Moon waved a hand. "But we can't just keep dragging this out. There's a limit to how much your body can improve each day. Use the extra time to learn something else."
"I remember your chakra was-wind and lightning, right? Shame. I specialize in Water Release. But I can teach you a few things in Wind Release, too. What do you want to learn?"
"What do you know?" Xue Ge asked, wringing out his hair and shaking it.
"Plenty. Vacuum Wave, Wind Blade-some you probably haven't even heard of." Iris Moon knocked her wine gourd against a rock on the bank. "Just tell me what kind you want to learn. I can teach you!"
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, Xue Ge thought for a moment, then asked, "Do you have anything that can be launched over long distances?"
His strongest impressions from the battle in Rōran were, first, that he lacked methods of large-scale destruction, and second, that he lacked extremely long-range attacks.
Large-scale destruction was manageable. He knew Great Breakthrough, so if necessary, he could spend more chakra to create the effect of a typhoon sweeping through. Extremely long-range attacks were trickier. Most Wind