That page-game style, those cheap golden special effects-just looking at them made you shake your head!
The system wasn't even trying to hide it anymore!
He selected the floating potion, and an information panel popped up!
[Wood Release Kekkei Genkai Potion] [Method: Injection] [Description: Please ensure your surroundings are safe. The first injection will cause you to fall asleep for 4 hours!]
Four hours?
After checking the time, Uka tidied up his things and immediately selected Confirm!
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Watching the countdown before him, Uka wondered how the system was going to inject him.
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A sudden, intense pain shot through his kidney, as if a little knife had been plunged into the poor thing and given a couple of twists.
"+...+"
Before he could cry out in pain, Uka passed out!
"Ugh... ugh...!"
In the stillness of the night, surrounded by darkness!
Suddenly, a sound of labored breathing rang out. Air squeezed from the lungs resonated in the throat.
Anyone could tell that the owner of the voice must be in great pain!
Three thirty in the morning.
After the potion injection, Uka Senju slowly woke up.
Looking at the dark room before him, he instinctively gasped and reached for his aching kidney.
Unfortunately, this system had no intelligence.
He had no one to complain to. Otherwise, he would have definitely picked a fight with the system!
Although this was his first time getting a gene potion injected, he had gotten plenty of shots in his previous life.
The only place he'd ever seen that went straight for the kidneys was Myanmar's Kokang region!
How could they stick a needle into such an important place so casually? What if they hit something!
As his thoughts raced, Uka Senju carefully sensed the changes in his body.
Apart from the Chakra he had gained out of nowhere, he couldn't feel any other differences!
Uka guessed the additional Chakra was brought about by his increased Sage Body. Then, with a thought, he opened the system.
[Name: Uka Senju] [Age: 9] [Identity: Konoha · Senju Clan] [Strength: Genin] [Affinities: Wood, Earth, Water] [Skills] Chakra Extraction Technique: Proficient (89/100) Seals: Proficient (69/100) Senju Style Nintaijutsu: Proficient (85/100) Senju Style Kenjutsu: Proficient (78/100) Three Basic Techniques: Proficient (51/100) Temporary Paralysis Technique: Proficient (25/100) Hiding Technique: Proficient (31/100) Rope Escape Technique: Proficient (23/100) Wood Release: Beginner (1/100) Water Release: Beginner (32/100) Earth Release: Beginner (38/100) [Energy: 0]
Uka Senju was very satisfied with the potion's effects, as shown on the panel before him.
The increase to his Sage Body hadn't just given him more Chakra; it had also raised the proficiency of his mastered skills by 20 points.
And that newly gained Wood affinity would be the foundation of his survival in the Shinobi World!
Four years of hard work!
He had finally earned enough to make the exchange!
Uka Senju let out a long breath. Now he finally had some confidence!
Although it was only an elemental Kekkei Genkai, it had plenty of advantages.
No need for Hand Seals and difficult to counter-those two things alone put Uka ahead of most people. His time as a low- and mid-level ninja wouldn't be too hard!
All he needed was some time to develop and perfect his Wood Release Ninjutsu!
As he grew older, his Chakra and body would improve too!
But he still had to build a solid foundation. To become Kage Level, he needed to max out all his basic skills.
At the very least, he couldn't be bad at Taijutsu. After all, this was a world where attack was high and defense was low.
If he didn't train his Taijutsu, someone could get close and stab him once, and even a Super Kage would die!
But Uka had the Senju body's natural talent. He was born with the makings of a Taijutsu expert!
The Senju had kept the Uchiha in check for over a thousand years thanks to their powerful bodies!
Their bodies not only granted them huge amounts of Chakra and the ability to heal, but also gave them strong resistance to Genjutsu (which was why his aunt was so strong, since even the Senju found her Genjutsu hard to defend against)!
According to the Shinobi World's conventional wisdom, if you ran into Uchiha with Sharingan during a mission, you had to flee if you were outnumbered two to one; you could only fight head-on if you outnumbered them three to one. After all, the Sharingan's three great abilities-copying Ninjutsu, enhancing Genjutsu, and dynamic vision-were far too difficult for ordinary ninja to deal with!
But against the Senju, copying and Genjutsu were nothing but jokes!
In a fight, dynamic vision was all the Uchiha could rely on to dodge the Senju's attacks more effectively.
He glanced at the alarm clock beside his bed. It was only three thirty.
But he wasn't sleepy anymore. After thinking it over, Uka got up and started studying how to use Wood Release.
He moved the small table over to the window. By the moonlight outside, he listed the key points of his training in a notebook.
First of all, Hashirama's Wood Release came from his genes. It was a basic power of the Ōtsutsuki-the God Tree. It plundered all kinds of energy from planets and converted it into power suited to the Ōtsutsuki. That was why Hashirama's Wood Release could take Chakra, which manifested outwardly as its ability to suppress Tailed Beasts!
After all, Tailed Beasts were made up of Chakra!
But his Wood Release Kekkei Genkai came from combining Earth and Water affinities. It naturally possessed Earth's hardness nature transformation and Water's shape transformation!
Although it lacked the God Tree's powerful ability to plunder and convert, trees themselves hadn't lost their ability to absorb all things and grow stronger.
Compared with the God Tree's specialized plundering and suppression of Tailed Beasts, the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai had lost that powerful ability to suppress.
So he could only give up Hashirama's method of binding and suppressing opponents in battle, and instead use Earth and Water transformations to boost his Wood Release Kekkei Genkai's lethal offensive power, making suppression and absorption secondary!
Recalling all the anime and films from his previous life, Uka Senju imagined that Wood Release Ninjutsu should have a very flexible and varied range of attack methods.
To achieve that, he needed to make good use of Earth's hardness nature transformation and Water's shape transformation. Only by combining the two could he realize his ideas!
Looking at the key points he had written in his notebook, Uka Senju thought for a moment and decided to focus his development on close-combat techniques first.
He had a Senju body and Senju Nintaijutsu, so he was already strong in close combat.
If he developed close-combat techniques using Wood Release as well, the two would work together to give him an absolute advantage in close combat!
As for developing close-combat techniques using Wood Release, Uka Senju planned to imitate Shikotsumyaku.
In the anime, Shikotsumyaku was an ability that let its user freely control all the bones in their body. They could control the hardness of their bones, making them the strongest spear when attacking and the hardest shield when defending.
Uka Senju could also freely control the hardness of his Wood Release.
First, he would replace the bones with wood, then alter the wood's hardness until it was on the level of a weapon, and continue strengthening it from there.
As for freely controlling the bones in his body to attack, Uka Senju planned to use Senju Nintaijutsu to achieve that!
The core of Senju Nintaijutsu was Chakra bursts. Relying on the vast amount of Chakra produced by a powerful body and his natural control over Chakra, he could draw the Chakra inside him out of his body and channel it along fixed paths to form a thin film covering his entire body.
This film would enhance the Senju in every way.
Tsunade's Superhuman Strength Technique in his previous life had been developed on this basis. She had simply changed the Chakra's coverage from her whole body to a single point.
Uka also planned to imitate this, turning the non-elemental Chakra covering his whole body into Wood-style Chakra. While retaining its basic enhancement, the Wood-style Chakra could become countless wooden spikes to attack, achieving the effect of Shikotsumyaku.