The correct way for the Uchiha to rise

Uchiha Kiyoshi also learned a lot of information from them.

For example, Minato Namikaze's teammate, the Jonin leading him wasn't Jiraiya. I just don't know what happened to that Jonin afterward; he probably died, right? After all, he never appeared again.

Although this information has no direct value, it is still useful to others. Combined with what Uchiha Kiyoshi knows, a lot of information can still be deduced.

First of all, Minato Namikaze was directly assigned to a veteran team. Even if Minato's strength was immense, the Hokage wouldn't have done that. Not to mention, even now, before he's mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, Minato's raw strength isn't actually that outstanding.

Being assigned to the veteran matchmaking team means there will be no prior adaptation training, unlike Uchiha Kiyoshi and his group who learned step by step how to complete the mission.

The only explanation is that someone provided Minato Namikaze with these extra instructions. Unsurprisingly, that person was Jiraiya. With Jiraiya's guidance, there's no need to worry about Minato falling behind.

Also, Tsunade will likely be in charge of guiding Kushina Uzumaki, even if she's not her teacher, she'll provide guidance in some other capacity.

"At this stage, the Sannin haven't truly matured yet. Their strength is in a period of explosive growth, and they should be in a period of consolidation. So all three of them have a lot of free time. Orochimaru is guiding us, Jiraiya has taken on Minato Namikaze as his student, and Tsunade will be responsible for guiding Kushina Uzumaki."

These are all just Uchiha Kiyoshi's deductions, and they may not be accurate. However, this is roughly the general process.

These inferences may seem useless, but they are actually quite useful.

Although the three legendary Sannin have not yet reached their peak, they are still veteran Jonin in strength. The fact that they are guiding the new generation in the village shows that the situation on the front lines is not actually that tense.

"The Second Shinobi World War will not happen for at least two years. Or rather, there will be some local conflicts at most, but a full-scale war will not break out. All parties are still in the probing stage."

Back home, Uchiha Kiyoshi did a simple analysis of what he had gained.

The outcome was relatively good; I still had two years of relatively stable development period—no, at least two years.

"Let's stop thinking about this and focus on something practical."

The development of body tempering techniques and the auxiliary gravity barrier are now basically on track. Next, we will rely on ink painting skills to gradually improve them.

It's time to move on to the next step.

Despite possessing a body-cultivation technique, Uchiha Kiyoshi's physical talent far surpassed that of ordinary people, and he had much more chakra than the average Uchiha, it was still not enough for his training.

Five hundred kilocalories of chakra would only be enough for half a day of training for Uchiha Kiyoshi. Even if he had more chakra in the future, the chakra required for training would also increase.

Therefore, Uchiha Kiyoshi was always looking for things to research, either things that didn't require chakra or things that required less chakra.

"I've already done enough research on some of the auxiliary tools, which are sufficient for current use."

Let's consider research on improving our strength instead.

Ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu are the most direct manifestations of a ninja's strength. As for taijutsu, with the Body Tempering Technique and Gravity Barrier, there's no need to worry about it for now. And without the Sharingan, training genjutsu wouldn't be of much help.

Therefore, we still have to resort to ninjutsu.

Uchiha Kiyoshi had a clear mind about cultivation. He needed time to hone his taijutsu, but genjutsu was not something he needed to learn right now. Although he was wary of the Sharingan, he would eventually awaken it. He could then cultivate genjutsu more efficiently, so he didn't need to consider it for the time being.

"How can I improve my ninjutsu?"

Uchiha Kiyoshi's eyes flickered as he pondered what he could do with ninjutsu.

"If I don't have enough chakra, I should probably give up on learning advanced ninjutsu. It might interfere with my other daily training."

Learning more C-rank ninjutsu would be good, but at least you should study the ones Orochimaru gave you. That should allow you to understand half of the function of the chakra micro-circulation involved in Earth Release. After all, the ninjutsu Orochimaru provided was quite comprehensive, including various special techniques.

Speaking of ninjutsu, Uchiha Kiyoshi thought of the ninjutsu scrolls Orochimaru had given him.

It has to be said that being assigned to Orochimaru's team was quite a blessing, especially since it was one of the early teams led by Orochimaru.

They just threw out a bunch of scrolls and told me to learn by myself!

No other ninja would have done something like this. Who doesn't value the inheritance of ninjutsu? Only Orochimaru, who is neither interested in these things nor lacking in ninjutsu, could do such a thing.

Of course, this is also related to Uchiha Kiyoshi's good talent in learning ninjutsu.

"Besides these, are there any other areas that can be studied?"

Simply studying C-rank ninjutsu wouldn't take much time; Uchiha Kiyoshi still had plenty of free time.

"Now that we have breadth, it's time to consider depth."

"With more ninjutsu techniques mastered, I can start training on the power and effects of each one. In that case, I should also seriously learn about nature transformation."

Although Uchiha Kiyoshi had mastered two types of chakra nature transformations, it was all thanks to the natural talent of his body that he had developed them incidentally.

Uchiha Kiyoshi himself did not focus on training in this area, so his mastery of nature transformation was not deep enough, and its enhancement to Uchiha Kiyoshi's ninjutsu was not that obvious.

Now that Uchiha Kiyoshi has roughly the combat strength of an elite Chunin, it's time for him to choose a nature transformation attribute and delve into it.

Moreover, the nature change involves many things, whether it's amplifying ninjutsu or facilitating the development of ninjutsu, it will be of great use to Uchiha Kiyoshi.

This is not the most important thing. For Uchiha Kiyoshi, what he values ​​most is that nature transformation and fusion can form bloodline limits. Two fusions form bloodline limits, three fusions form bloodline elimination, and even the fusion of seven attributes forms bloodline nets.

"None of that matters. What I'm more interested in is what the adaptation period is like after bloodline fusion."

Theoretically speaking, it is a process of the body adapting to a new ninjutsu, just like developing a new attribute. Only after the body adapts can it directly convert the corresponding attribute's chakra within its body without causing harm.

I've heard that this process strengthens the body, but I don't know if that's true.

I think it's true, and it's probably based on a similar principle to the rapid increase in strength after bloodline awakening.

Awakening a bloodline can bring benefits, let alone cultivating one's own bloodline.

Also, what exactly is this enhancement in?

Besides his chronic back pain, Onoki was still active on the battlefield in his sixties, possessing immense strength. Could this be related to the recent enhancement he underwent?

Not only Onoki, but many bloodline ninjas, as long as they don't have bloodline diseases, are in good health and rarely experience a decline in strength as they get older.

Furthermore, the ability to inherit bloodlines should be due to changes at the genetic level. Could it be that the body evolved during the adaptation period? Genetic evolution!

Uchiha Kiyotaka's desire for training in bloodline limits only intensified.

Kiyoshi Uchiha became increasingly interested in bloodline limits that could potentially strengthen the body, increase lifespan, and even promote genetic evolution, and wanted to train in them.

What's the awakening of a Sharingan? It's just one enhancement. If you cultivate a bloodline limit, you can undergo one, two, or even more enhancements.

"However, alas, these are not things I can study right now. I should just focus on my cultivation."

Thinking about his own strength, Uchiha Kiyoshi felt a wave of frustration again and could only suppress the restlessness in his heart and temporarily give up on this idea.

Chapter Fifty-Six Two Years

Uchiha Kiyoshi gave up the temptation to study bloodline limits and decided to focus on training in chakra nature transformation first.

Sharpening your axe is not as good as chopping wood. Bloodline limit is, after all, a fusion of nature transformations. As long as you can master the nature transformations of chakra, you can try to fuse them to form a bloodline limit. You might be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

And so, aside from practicing body tempering techniques, Uchiha Kiyoshi spent the rest of his time practicing nature transformation and chakra control.

When occasionally carrying out missions, Uchiha Kiyoshi would integrate the nature of his training into his own tactical system, adapting it to his own strength.

And so, two years passed. It was now Konoha year 35, and Uchiha Kiyoshi was 13 years old.

Three years after graduating from the Ninja Academy, Uchiha Kiyoshi has grown rapidly. Especially in the last year, Uchiha Kiyoshi's body has entered a period of rapid development, his physical abilities have increased at a rapid pace, and his strength has improved even faster. Even his teammates Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku have difficulty judging his true strength.

Name: Uchiha Kiyoshi

Chakra: 1850 calories/1850 calories

Nature Transformation: Fire Release (Burning, Basic); Earth Release (Hard, Intermediate; Heavy, Basic)

Ninjutsu: Earth Release (Earth Flow Wall, Earth Spear, Earth Lance, Heart Decapitation Technique), Body Flicker Technique, Shadow Clone Technique, Fire Release (Phoenix Flower Fire, Dragon Fire Technique, Fire Dragon Flame Bullet) (omitted)

Secret Techniques: Health Cultivation Technique, Instantaneous Body Substitution Technique, Body Tempering Technique, Mental Perception

Other: Sealing Techniques (Enhanced Gravity Barrier, Five Elements Sealing, Fire Sealing Seal)

This is Uchiha Kiyoshi's current stats.

You can see how fast Uchiha Kiyoshi has improved just by looking at his chakra. His chakra level is already among the top tier of elite Chunin, not far behind that of a Special Jonin.

Coupled with Uchiha Kiyoshi's outstanding taijutsu and superb ninjutsu skills, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was at the level of a special jonin.

Through two years of training, Uchiha Kiyoshi roughly categorized his progress in mastering the nature transformation of chakra into different levels.

Uchiha Kiyoshi's current specialty is the hardness of Earth Release, and he can clearly feel that this property can be further cultivated, as his understanding of it is not yet deep enough.

Then, based on the amplification of ninjutsu according to the changes in nature at different stages, Uchiha Sei divided the levels into beginner, elementary, intermediate, advanced, and even possibly top-level, which he himself had not yet reached.

In his previous life, Uchiha Kiyoshi was a huge novel enthusiast, having read countless novels of all kinds. Although many of the plots were absurd, he still managed to glean some insights. Especially when it came to things like Nature Transformation, which required intuitive understanding, Uchiha Kiyoshi's thinking was very clear, and he was constantly making various connections.

In just two years, Uchiha Kiyoshi mastered two basic-level and one intermediate-level nature transformations.

In Uchiha Kiyoshi's classification, "Beginner" signifies having some understanding of this aspect, being able to imbue chakra with this nature, slightly affecting the surroundings, such as causing small objects like leaves to shatter or burn. Its assistance in combat isn't significant, but it's not entirely without benefit. Having grasped this level of nature transformation, one becomes highly proficient in both releasing and using the corresponding ninjutsu, only with a smaller increase in power.

The initial nature change means that the power of ninjutsu can be significantly amplified, which is the stage that many elite Chunin-level ninjas have reached.

Intermediate-level nature transformation, compared to the basic level, does not involve a qualitative change, but it can still greatly amplify the ninjutsu. A C-rank ninjutsu, with this amplification, can be comparable to a B-rank ninjutsu.

Uchiha Kiyoshi also had extensive experience with novels, and with his broad thinking, he grasped these concepts relatively smoothly.

Furthermore, Uchiha Kiyoshi was not a stubborn person. In his eyes, every attribute has more than one variation, just like the same law in many novels has different aspects; fire has a high-temperature, scorching side, an explosive side, and a side that brings warmth...

Extensive training does have its benefits, since it involves the same attribute and shares many similarities. Uchiha Kiyoshi's hardness, reaching the intermediate level, also serves as a means of gaining insights and understanding when cultivating to a deeper level.

Two years passed, and Uchiha Kiyoshi didn't remain the same as before. As his strength increased, Uchiha Kiyoshi also began to change his tactics.

In his original defensive tactics, Uchiha Kiyoshi incorporated control and offensive techniques, no longer simply passively taking hits. However, to this day, Uchiha Kiyoshi remains best at defense.

Since the two-month training period, when the members of Team 3 had reached the initial standard, Orochimaru stopped giving them rest.

Try to avoid missions that take a long time. Most of the missions that Uchiha Kiyoshi and his group take on are assassination or intelligence gathering missions. They have at least two missions every month, and sometimes they even carry out four missions in a row without interruption.

In two years, Uchiha Kiyoshi's file contained fifty-two C-rank missions and thirteen B-rank missions.

Uchiha Kiyoshi used the merits he gained from these missions to exchange for the Five Elements Sealing Technique, an advanced sealing technique, and after three months, he had already begun to understand it.

He didn't neglect his training in body tempering techniques either. As Uchiha Kiyoshi's training progressed, the maximum gravity of 1.3 times that of the gravity barrier became insufficient, so he strengthened the gravity barrier.

By repeatedly combining and organically integrating several core elements of the gravity barrier, Uchiha Kiyoshi successfully developed an enhanced version. After two enhancements, the 3.0 version of the gravity barrier that Uchiha Kiyoshi currently uses can achieve a maximum of 3 times the normal gravity. Uchiha Kiyoshi is now able to move around normally under 2 times the normal gravity without being affected, and his usual body-strengthening techniques maintain a gravity of 2.6 times.

It can be said that Uchiha Kiyoshi's physical abilities are now developing in a way that is somewhat inhuman.

The physical attributes here do not include chakra enhancement.

Uchiha Kiyoshi possessed the fighting strength of a genin without using chakra, relying solely on his physical body, which was what excited him the most.

This means that he was indeed cultivating, and the effects of that cultivation were being reflected in him, rather than relying entirely on chakra for his combat power.

At least, Uchiha Kiyoshi could say that even without chakra, he still possessed considerable fighting power.

Even a genin is very strong compared to an ordinary person! And Uchiha Kiyoshi is capable of fighting against a genin who knows ninjutsu with just his physical body, which is already quite frightening.

Uchiha Kiyoshi did not reveal these things to others. Some things are better left unsaid and should be kept to oneself.