Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 241 Developing Ice Release: Dawn Goddess's Forgiveness

After passing through the Death Forest, the blue pheasant arrived near a secluded stream.

Even though he had been allowed to leave the Forest of Death and move freely, Aokiji still preferred to train in quieter places rather than going to training grounds.

Da da da……

Blue chakra clung to his feet as Aokiji stepped onto the water's surface. He was about to begin his training for the day. His hands swiftly formed hand seals, and as he bent his knees, he simultaneously pressed his right hand into the water.

"Ice Release: Ice Age"

In an instant, the creek was frozen into a solid surface of ice, which rose into mist under the sunlight and drifted away, giving it a unique flavor.

"call……"

Standing on the ice, Aokiji leisurely exhaled a wisp of white, cold air and smiled, "It seems that it will be difficult to improve in this area in the short term."

When Aokiji used Ice Release: Ice Age just now, it wasn't to show off, but rather to practice releasing chakra.

Enhanced ninjutsu is divided into two categories: chakra nature transformation and chakra form transformation.

Actually, this is a rather general statement.

In more detail, chakra attributes can be categorized into release speed, release range, release distance, concentration, burst, stability, form, control, advancement, and additional attributes.

The speed, range, and distance of chakra release are collectively referred to as chakra release.

These three groups of "nouns" are self-explanatory and very easy to understand.

Take Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique as an example. For instance, when Sasuke first learned this technique, the flame was only the size of a candle.

Moreover, its stability is extremely poor, requiring constant output of chakra through the mouth to maintain the initial form of the Great Fireball Technique, and its attack range is quite short, comparable to close combat.

When a skilled user uses the Great Fireball Technique, not only is its power astonishing, but its movement speed is also very fast. It can even detach from the mouth and be launched directly, making it a ranged attack ninjutsu.

Of course, this doesn't mean that as long as you master these three aspects, you can arbitrarily adjust the power, range, speed, etc. of all ninjutsu. This also involves the flexibility of different ninjutsu.

For example, the release speed of Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique is definitely much faster than that of Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique. With the same amount of chakra, the speed improvement is definitely much greater than that of the latter. Similarly, the attack range of Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique is much greater than that of Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique.

For example, why is "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation" so powerful in the hands of Madara Uchiha?

On one hand, the attack range of this ninjutsu is very flexible, and on the other hand, his mastery of chakra release has reached a state of perfection, which is why it is possible for a single person's Fire Release technique to require an entire squad of people to use Water Barrier to counteract its range.

Aokiji's Ice Age move was developed based on these three aspects.

Aokiji chose to develop Ice Release: Ice Age partly as a tribute to a certain Marine Admiral, and partly as a prelude to the later Ice Release Secret Technique: Aurora Goddess's Forgiveness.

Based on the dead penguin's approach to developing ninjutsu, if one wanted to unleash an attack using absolute zero cold air...

It requires many steps. When Aokiji was training Ice Release: Ice Age, it was essentially a form of training in chakra release. He has almost mastered this aspect now.

One side is unlikely to improve in a short period of time, while the other side has already reached the target.

Aokiji has already met the chakra release target; only the last two remain.

One is the condensation of chakra attributes, and the other is the advancement of chakra attributes.

The concentration of chakra is easy to understand: compressing an object while keeping its mass constant.

Advancing one's chakra nature is the most important and also the most difficult step.

Taking fire attribute as an example, during the advancement of chakra attributes, both the color and temperature of the chakra attribute change.

For example, Amaterasu's black flames are the ultimate transformation of fire-style chakra.

For example, Purple Lightning and Black Lightning are advanced forms of Lightning Release chakra attributes.

What Aokiji needs to do is to advance his own ice-style chakra to this level as well.

When the color of the Ice Release technique you use changes from white and transparent, it means that your chakra attribute has completed its advancement.

Aokiji couldn't reach that level in a short time; he spent a lot of time fusing Boil Release over the past three years.

However, there is a shortcut to reaching this level, which involves the "absorption" of chakra attributes.

The "absorption" attribute of chakra is related to the ninjutsu Ice Release: Ice Age.

The specific principle is somewhat similar to the Lightning Release: Kirin Secret Technique, requiring prerequisite skills.

The use of Lightning Release: Kirin requires environmental factors, and Aokiji's technique also requires environmental factors.

It is an S-rank ninjutsu that is performed by refining one's own ice-attribute chakra while absorbing the surrounding cold air.

But this raises another problem: under normal circumstances, where would Aokiji find such a cold environment to absorb freezing air and unleash Ice Release: Aurora's Forgiveness?

Unless it's in the Land of Snow or the Land of Iron, where else in a normal geographical environment would you find such cold weather, with snow and ice covering the ground year-round?

Those with bad luck might even end up fighting in the desert.

Moreover, his ninjutsu isn't like Lightning Release: Kirin. It can create an upward airflow with a single Great Fireball Technique, and it doesn't require much chakra afterward; a little chakra is enough to guide it.

However, Aokiji's Ice Release: Aurora Goddess's Forgiveness is different. He needs to absorb freezing air while also refining a large amount of ice-attribute chakra.

This is because relying solely on one's own refined ice-attribute chakra is insufficient to keep up with skill release.

Therefore, in order to change the environment, we need to use Ice Release: Ice Age.

But doing so raises two issues:

First: Aokiji doesn't even know how to absorb ordinary chakra, let alone chakra nature.

Secondly, after unleashing the wide-range Ice Release: Ice Age, the climate will change, putting Aokiji's chakra in a rather awkward situation, making it impossible for him to use the subsequent Ice Release: Aurora Athena's Forgiveness.

The sheer complexity of perfectly executing Ice Release: Aurora Goddess's Forgiveness is enough to make anyone envious.

Aokiji let out a deep sigh.

Overall, this is an ultimate ice-style ninjutsu that combines the Wind Release: Rasengan shuriken with the Lightning Release: Kirin.

If it were successfully used, its power would probably be greater than either of these two ultimate ninjutsu techniques, but it would also be much more complicated.

Aokiji shook his head. Haste makes waste. Let's put aside the issue of advancing our chakra attributes for now and focus on solving the problem of chakra concentration first.

Thinking of this, he stretched out his right hand, palm up, and slowly lifted it up. At the same time, a blue vortex was drawn a few centimeters from his palm, which gathered into an ice-blue sphere.

Ice Release: Rasengan is called Hyōrinmaru.

The next step in Aokiji's practice is to compress the ice ball.

(End of this chapter)