A comic book journey to see the Eye of Antiquity

The Third Hokage couldn't help but sigh softly. Without hiding anything from Asuma, he said directly, "I have secretly observed him and found that this little guy has been undergoing considerable training and is very persistent. Now, among his peers, no one can rival him."

"Not only that, his comprehension is also too strong. He has already finished his studies, and there is nothing left to learn about the leadership skills of a Jonin."

"Such a genius, Asuma, I really have to be careful. If he is innocent, it would be great news for Konoha. But if he is from another country, our loss would be too great."

Do you understand my suffering?

The Third Hokage rambled on and on, partly to explain to Asuma and partly to excuse himself. It seems that the Third Hokage did feel some remorse for what he did to Yang Lei.

"I know."

Asuma understood the Third Hokage's meaning and the reason why he had to be cautious. If Yang Lei had grown up in Konoha, they could have nurtured him without any scruples. What a pity.

However.

Asma frowned and asked, "Shouldn't the test take time? How many years? We can't doubt him our whole lives, can we? Or, should we try to test him?"

"An experiment?"

The third generation's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again. He knew he couldn't reveal anything too important, or any loss would be too great. How could he possibly find out anything unimportant?

"As for the time limit."

In the end, the third generation could only choose to let time test people's hearts, saying, "Let's set a limit of twenty years. By then, I might be dead. You can decide then."

Hearing the Third Hokage mention the word "death" suddenly made Asuma feel a pang of sadness. After years of running away from home, his father had grown even older when he returned. Perhaps, as he himself had said, he was not more than twenty years away from home.

"call."

Taking a deep breath, Asma nodded and said, "I understand. I will keep a close eye on him and guide him onto the right path."

The third generation leader smiled and nodded, saying, "I believe you, go!"

0024 A few months later

Asma understands the difficulties faced by the Third Generation, and the Third Generation naturally trusts his son. However, Yang Lei is the only one who neither gains the trust of the Third Generation nor understands his difficulties.

Fortunately, Yang Lei was unaware of the Third Hokage's scheme; otherwise, he might have become a neutral or even anti-Konoha Village supporter.

It's important to understand that Yang Lei was an orphan not only after he transmigrated, but also before. Because of this, when he finally received family affection, he was deeply hurt when he discovered that it was untrustworthy and fake. This was because he desperately craved family affection.

. . . . . .

Time flies, and several months have passed in the blink of an eye. From this day forward, the Ninja Academy will be on holiday and will not reopen until next year.

By then, Yang Lei and his classmates will be in their second year, and their studies will finally be a little more decent. For example, they should start learning about chakra and throwing techniques.

Of course, they are only seven-year-old second-graders, so this is all they can learn. They'll have to wait a while to learn the clone technique and the transformation technique.

After several months of training, Yang Lei's attributes have once again improved significantly. His previous four attributes were: Constitution 15 points, Strength 15 points, Agility 11 points, and Spirit 10 points.

Currently, his four attributes are: Constitution 30 points, Strength 50 points, Agility 45 points, and Spirit 30 points.

The extent of his attribute improvement shows just how hard Yang Lei has been training. Since he no longer needs to go to the third generation's house for extra lessons, he has more time to train. The weight he bears has also been increased again and again. Now he is training while wearing an 80-pound weight, which is double what he was a few months ago.

Not only did I increase the weight, but I also increased the amount of training. In addition to attending classes with Hinata in the morning, I spent the rest of my time training.

Since the day Asuma returned, Naruto, who had previously developed a good relationship with Yang Lei, suddenly became somewhat distant from him. He didn't care, and without Naruto bothering him, he had more time to train himself.

"My current strength is not only among my peers, but I'm afraid I can even hold my own among the genin."

Yang Lei looked at his attribute panel and muttered to himself with great confidence.

Actually, he was being modest. With a strength of fifty points, he could exert the force of five hundred jin.

A speed of 45 points in Agility allows him to reach a speed of 45 meters per second.

The additional 30 points to his physique not only increased his resistance to blows to 300 jin, but also significantly improved the quantity and quality of his chakra due to the improvement in his physical qualities. With all of these combined, there are very few genin who can defeat him.

Here I need to clarify. This excludes those who are genin but have already reached the level of quasi-jonin. For example, if Gaara from a few years later came to us now, Yang Lei definitely wouldn't be able to fight him. This is because, apart from eating bodies, he doesn't have any other means of fighting without exposing his eyes. To be honest, he can only bully ordinary genin.

As for the increased mental strength, it is not very useful at present. Yang Lei knows that unless he uses his pupil techniques, such as the Byakugan he has already acquired, or other pupil techniques he has not yet obtained, or illusion techniques, it will be of no use at all.

Of course, saying that mental strength is a bit inappropriate is not very good. In fact, strong mental strength has many advantages. The most direct benefit is that Yang Lei's memory has improved a lot. Also, his attention is more easily focused, unlike before when he would often lose focus when he was cultivating.

"It's time to add more weight."

Chapter 25

Taking four weighted straps from under the bed, Yang Lei muttered, "It's already eighty pounds. Should I add ten pounds to each strap?"

When Yang Lei was training, he always wore the weighted straps on his limbs, unlike Xiao Li in the original work who only tied them on his feet.

Xiao Li's training will naturally lead to a significant improvement in speed.

Yang Lei wants to improve his physical condition in all aspects. Although his progress will definitely be slower due to the comprehensive nature of his efforts, it doesn't matter. He started early and has never slacked off, so he believes he can catch up.

Don't be fooled by those who say that being a specialist is worse than being a generalist. They're just saying things because they can't taste the fruit. The more versatile a person is, the more formidable they become once they reach a certain level. Why? Because being versatile means having no weaknesses.

With such an extraordinary bloodline as the Eye of Ancient Wisdom, how could Yang Lei possibly choose the path of an ordinary person? He has already set his goal: to leave behind a glorious legend. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for him to be an ordinary person.

"That's right."

After tying the straps up, Yang Lei had a sudden thought and muttered to himself, "Why not train like Goku in Dragon Ball? Not only should I wear weights on my limbs, but I should also carry one on my back. And once my body has fully grown, I'll try wearing the weights all day long. That way, my attributes will definitely grow rapidly."

Yang Lei still doesn't dare to wear the weights for too long. Although his training time has been extended, especially since school is on holiday starting today, he might train for a whole day and wear the weights all day. However, he will definitely take them off when he goes to sleep at night. He is afraid that the high-intensity training will eventually reduce his height to only about one meter, which would not be good.

While muttering to himself, Yang Lei walked out of the room, turned around and locked the door. He then started running slowly from the doorway to begin his workout for the day.

After nearly a year of persistence, Yang Lei has developed the habit of waking up before six o'clock every morning. Then he washes up as quickly as possible, gets dressed, and starts his morning run.

Because of the added weight, my morning run time has been reduced from about two hours to one hour. The rest of the time is spent on strength training, such as sit-ups, push-ups, and even frog jumps and weightlifting.

Weightlifting was something he added later, and it wasn't too difficult. He just had a blacksmith forge two dumbbell-shaped iron blocks, each weighing only fifteen pounds. Adding the two twenty-pound weights on his wrists, that's thirty-five pounds in total.

Ahem, of course, don't let my easy-going manner fool you, it's not actually that simple, at least I can't do it.

Actually, Yang Lei couldn't do many at first. Once, he almost twisted his wrist because of his stubbornness. It was only through long-term training that he gradually adapted and finally managed to do about a hundred in a set.

This is why his strength grows faster than other attributes. Of course, apart from morning and evening runs, all the training programs are strength training. Frog jumps, because they train leg strength, can barely increase agility.

"The blacksmith uncle."

After jogging a lap to finish his morning run, Yang Lei walked into a blacksmith shop that had just opened, munching on his breakfast, and called out, "Business is here!"

0025 Yang Lei's Cultivation

Arriving at a blacksmith shop that had just opened, Yang Lei quickly finished the breakfast in his hand. At this time, the blacksmith uncle he had greeted before just came out.

"Oh, it's Yang Lei."

The blacksmith yawned, apparently having just woken up and not fully awake yet.

"Uncle Blacksmith".

Yang Lei untied the straps from his limbs and said, "Give me four more ten-pound lead irons."

It turns out that Yang Lei bought all his heavy lead here.

"Oh?"

The blacksmith was stunned for a moment, looking at Yang Lei with some disbelief, and said, "Little Yang Lei, is your training volume going to increase again? Can you handle it?"

"It's okay."

Yang Lei smiled and shook his head, took the four pieces of lead from the blacksmith and stuffed them into the straps. He then re-tied them to his limbs and tested them. He found that he was indeed much heavier, but not unbearable.

"Uncle."

Yang Lei didn't leave immediately. While taking out his money, he said, "Could you find me two more pieces of lead that weigh five pounds each?"

"?"

The blacksmith uncle, looking puzzled, took out two pieces of lead and handed them over, wondering what Yang Lei was going to do.

Yang Lei didn't say much, paid the few yuan for the lead, and turned to leave.

After leaving the blacksmith's shop, Yang Lei jogged all the way home. He found that with the added weight, the intensity he had just gotten used to became difficult again. By the time he got home, he was almost exhausted.

However, he had no intention of giving up. He had experienced the same exhaustion when he first started carrying the weights, but when he finally persevered, his attributes improved at an incredible pace, and he could clearly feel the improvement in all aspects of his physical qualities. He was not about to stop.

Back home, Yang Lei sat on the ground to rest for a while, and then got to work. He found a few straps and tied them together, eventually getting two long straps. He crossed them and tied them around his body, stuffing the two five-pound lead weights inside as a weight for his upper body.

After setting up his load, Yang Lei left home again and jogged towards the back mountain of the village. Soon he arrived at a grove of trees.

Arriving under a large tree, Yang Lei fiddled with the ground for a while and found two lead-iron dumbbells buried in the soil. He then walked to a small open space to the side and began his training for the day.

Since he had not yet mastered any new ninjutsu, Yang Lei had nothing else to do besides training his body to increase his attributes.

Even if he had learned ninjutsu, he would not have stopped training in this area. He knew that no matter how powerful the ninjutsu was, it required a strong physique to support it, otherwise he would not be able to use it even if he learned it.

Putting aside other examples, such as the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Armor in the original work, and Naruto's Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, these two ninjutsu would be impossible to use without a highly strong body.

Furthermore, as his physique grew stronger, Yang Lei discovered that not only was his chakra reserves increasing, but the quality was also improving. In other words, every bit of his physical attributes made him stronger.

In that case, how could he possibly give up this kind of cultivation? It would probably accompany him for the rest of his life.

"Oh."

Without a moment's rest, Yang Lei immediately began strength training. He assumed a horse stance, holding a lead dumbbell in each hand and moving his wrists and forearms up and down. He did this for a set of one hundred repetitions until his arms felt completely numb, at which point he temporarily stopped.

Putting down the dumbbell, Yang Lei took a deep breath, walked to a large tree, gathered chakra under his feet, and slowly walked up it, feeling how much chakra he needed to hold onto the tree with his current weight. He slowly walked up and soon reached a thick branch.

This branch was much thicker than the others, and a rope was tied to it. Yang Lei tied his feet tightly, hooked his calves around the branch, and threw his upper body down, thus starting to do sit-ups.

Don't underestimate sit-ups; they can strengthen your lower back, which is crucial for any martial arts practitioner.

Because the weight had been increased today, Yang Lei wasted a lot of time and energy on sit-ups. By the time he came down from the tree, it was almost noon and he was completely exhausted.

Chapter 26

"Let's do another set of push-ups and frog jumps, then go have lunch."

Before his morning training was over, Yang Lei mentally tempted himself, set himself a goal, and started practicing again while lying on the ground.

The previous sit-ups were to train the waist strength, while the push-ups at this time are to train the arm strength. Although Yang Lei's waist was numb, his arms had almost recovered, so he could continue to train.

After a set of push-ups, another hour had passed. Just as he had said before, Yang Lei put his hands behind his back and began to do frog jumps, determined not to leave until he had finished the number he had set for himself.

Another hour or so passed. After Yang Lei finished his last jump, he suddenly went limp and fell to the ground, gasping for breath and unable to get up for a long time.

In fact, he had already reached his limit. Whether it was dumbbell weightlifting at the beginning, sit-ups, push-ups, or frog jumps, he reached his limit with each exercise. However, because these four exercises did not overlap, he was able to persevere.

Of these four exercises, dumbbell lifting strengthens the forearms and wrists, sit-ups strengthen the lower back, push-ups strengthen the biceps and chest muscles, and frog jumps strengthen the legs.

In addition, he separated dumbbell weightlifting and push-up training. Although he pushed each type of training to its limit, because they did not overlap, he was able to continue, except when his physical strength could not keep up. It was because of his firm belief that he was able to persevere.

"I'm a little tired."

As Yang Lei muttered to himself, he opened the Infinite System, looked up at his personal panel, and continued to mutter to himself, "But the effect is also pleasing."

It was observed that Yang Lei's four attributes had already increased significantly after just one morning of training.

Previously, his attributes were: Constitution 30 points, Strength 50 points, Agility 45 points, and Spirit 30 points.

Now, his four attributes have changed to: Constitution 33 points, Strength 54 points, Agility 47 points, and Spirit 32 points.

Because the load has been increased significantly, my physical fitness has improved almost as much as my strength.

The reason why the strength attribute has been increased so much is because Yang Lei's training includes three exercises that are directly related to strength: dumbbell weightlifting, push-ups, and frog jumps. In fact, even sit-ups and running have an indirect relationship with strength.

As for why agility suddenly increased so much, it's because the load suddenly increased too much. Also, the benefits of frog jumps are not just strength; a small portion of it also increases agility, since agility is also related to the legs.

As for the final point about spirit, there's no need to elaborate. As long as Yang Lei can persist in his training, he can actually improve his spiritual power a little bit every day.

And so, because he could see the growth of his attributes and the progress of his strength most directly, Yang Lei began to cultivate like crazy.

0026 You ignored me today

While Yang Lei was diligently cultivating, the other children his age were still acting spoiled with adults or running around playing all day, except for Uchiha Sasuke.

Sasuke is not bad, because he has an older brother who trains from time to time, but his strength is definitely not as good as Yang Lei's.

Actually, it's not just their peers; even if we include the children from a few years earlier, apart from Neji Hyuga and Rock Lee, none of the other children have ever specifically trained hard.

Even those kids who have already graduated either became new genin and started their mission journey under the guidance of jonin, or they were eliminated and probably will never have the chance to become ninjas again.

Some of them went on to study at another school for another year.

During Yang Lei's training, only the Third Hokage and Asuma paid attention to him. No one else cared because it was a time of peace and no one knew that the Fourth Shinobi World War was about to begin. They had no sense of danger.

The Third Hokage and Asuma highly praised Yang Lei's intense training and deepened their plans to cultivate him.

Of course, people's guard against him has also been greatly increased.

. . . . . .

And so, as Yang Lei diligently practiced every day, time flew by again, and several months passed in the blink of an eye. The second year of classes had already begun.