Name: Xia Yan Senju Sex: Male Birthday: March 24, Year 34 of the Konoha calendar Rank: Jonin (Chunin) Bloodline development: Basic (Senju secret technique) Seeds: Jonin chakra capacity seed (60% maturity), intermediate Senjutsu seed (82% maturity), advanced Earth Release seed (70% maturity), advanced Water Release seed (70% maturity) Fruits: None Mission: Become the Shinobi World's true big boss (unique)
"Only the intermediate senjutsu chakra seed's growth improved a little, while everything else stayed the same?"
Looking at his stats, Xia Yan could only sigh softly. Even though he had been mentally prepared, he still felt somewhat helpless.
Although he was glad the senjutsu chakra seed had improved, what he wanted more was for the Jonin chakra capacity seed to mature sooner.
His chakra reserves were too low-or rather, the amount of chakra he could use was far too low.
Even he no longer really knew how much chakra he actually had.
That was because the four seeds inside him, all either intermediate or advanced, consumed far too much chakra.
Xia Yan remembered that he could only plant two at first. Gradually, he became able to plant four, and then eight.
That planting capacity had made him happy for a while, until he noticed a huge problem and no longer dared to continue.
Aside from how long it took, he had little chakra as a child, so the amount he could distribute among so many seeds was also small.
The result was that cultivation progressed far too slowly, leaving him without even a single advanced fruit to this day.
Moreover, with his previous planting method, he felt those seeds could completely drain all his chakra!
I don't want to end up like Might Guy, though my basic attributes would let me follow his example.
Although Xia Yan greatly admired Might Guy, whether for his character, personality, or strength, his look was really rather hard to agree with.
Besides, Xia Yan had no intention of focusing primarily on taijutsu. He had the foundation for well-rounded development, so how could he restrict himself to a single area?
Still, judging by the time, I should be able to get these fruits within six months to a year.
At the thought of harvesting them all at once, Xia Yan could not help feeling a little happy. After all, this harvest could be considered a qualitative transformation!
His chakra reserves would reach Jonin level, which was extremely important to him.
And the intermediate Senjutsu fruit would give him more ability to protect himself. After all, this was not Naruto's future era, when Kage-level fighters would be everywhere and Jonin would be worth less than dogs.
Even if the signs were already appearing, with a rule-breaking fellow like Obito around, along with those several pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan that would emerge in the coming years.
Still, with intermediate Sage Mode, he believed he could face all of it with relative ease.
As for the advanced Earth Release and Water Release fruits, those excited Xia Yan even more.
Once he obtained those fruits, it would mean he had a deeper understanding and greater control over chakra of a particular nature.
His current Water Release and Earth Release had both been built through intermediate fruits, yet the power of the jutsu he performed was terrifying.
That was because, at this point, he could already be considered to have a reasonably good preliminary grasp of both shape and nature transformation for these two chakra natures.
With advanced fruits, he would probably master both abilities completely, and might even be able to truly simplify the execution of these jutsu.
Probably like Hashirama Senju-clap my hands together, and whatever jutsu I want comes out?
Hand seals?
Those were something only low-level ninja did!
Truly powerful ninja could complete every step with just one seal.
Besides, forming hand seals in actual combat made it far too easy to give the enemy an opening. Unless he could grab someone else's hand to help form his seals, or perform five seals a second, standing still to form seals made him a sitting duck.
Xia Yan never wanted to become a sitting duck, and he also believed that day was not far off.
For the next stretch, Xia Yan and Kakashi spent their time traveling, with little conversation along the way.
Kakashi pondered Xia Yan's words, seemingly fighting an internal battle as well.
Meanwhile, Xia Yan thought about his future development, while also turning over some matters concerning sealing jutsu in his mind.
Only when night fell did the two find a cave, intending to rest for the night and continue traveling the next day.
The target area for Xia Yan's team lay around the Land of Rivers and the Land of Rain. Honestly, he really did not want to go anywhere near that place.
The reason was simple: the Land of Rain was the Akatsuki's base!
Unless something unexpected had happened, Obito had already lured Nagato over by now, and Nagato was developing the Akatsuki. One only needed to look at Kakuzu to see that.
Xia Yan remembered very clearly that, for certain special reasons, Danzo had accepted Hanzo of the Salamander's invitation to act against the Akatsuki together.
And they had acted with an extremely high profile that time. Hanzō had even openly stated Danzo's affiliation!
As for the final result, it had been a tragedy.
The Root forces Danzo led had been almost completely wiped out, and it seemed he alone had escaped back to Konoha.
It was also because of this incident that he had gone from an ambitious man dreaming of becoming Hokage to throwing his full support behind Orochimaru.
But the final result had been utterly unacceptable to him. Orochimaru had failed, which meant yet another of his bets had failed.
Worst of all, there was little he could do to resist, because the most important piece in his hands had been all but crippled and was still being reorganized.
Danzo's actions could be said to have royally screwed himself over, and he had screwed Konoha over as well!
He already hated Konoha for killing his parents. Jiraiya had finally managed to ease that hatred, but with Danzo's interference, the old hatred and the new grudge were now piled together.
In truth, Danzo had not only screwed over himself and Konoha. Hanzo of the Salamander had also suffered terribly because of him.
Danzo was not the only one who had suffered; the subordinates Hanzō had taken out with him had also been almost completely wiped out.
Besides, Danzo was, after all, a Konoha ninja, and a high-ranking one at that.
With the village's protection, and with Nagato and the others needing to gather their strength, they naturally could not strike so soon.
But Hanzo of the Salamander was different. They were all in Amegakure, constantly crossing paths, so it went without saying whom Nagato would deal with first.
He probably had not acted yet, because Nagato's forces still needed to grow, and Hanzō's strength was also extremely terrifying.
Yet while Nagato needed to be somewhat cautious against Hanzō, Xia Yan was only an ordinary Konoha ninja. If he ran into him, there was no telling what would happen.
He had to admit that Shimura Danzō's power really was no joke.
And sometimes, that fellow really was not just taking the blame. The things he did harmed both others and himself...
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