Free Web NovelChapter 280: Four Conditions
The boy was merely fulfilling the promise he had once made himself, trying to create for Konoha, and even for the Hokage, a combat system centered around fire, with a sufficiently distinct and intense style, one capable of carrying a certain spirit.
"This sentiment and trust, the village will treasure it well. Later, I’ll also study it carefully myself. However, don’t expect me to give you any useful advice. In Fire Style, perhaps no one in the Shinobi World today can surpass you anymore." freewebnovёl.ƈom
He solemnly placed Shinichi’s scroll, which carried Konoha’s present strength, together with the other scrolls in the room that carried Konoha’s past strength.
After saying this, the smile on the third Hokage’s face deepened somewhat as he spoke warmly, "Shinichi, once you finish dealing with the things on your hands, come to the house for a simple meal. Biwako has been talking for a long time about wanting to see you."
Hearing this, Shinichi was slightly stunned before replying, "Yes, then I’ll trouble the third Hokage-sama and Lady Biwako when the time comes."
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That noon, at Shinichi Higashino’s home.
Shinichi sat alone in his room. The indoor lighting was soft, and only the sound of his calm breathing and the rustling of the gradually unfolding scroll could be heard.
A long time later, he expressionlessly put down the Flying Thunder God Technique scroll in his hand.
He could learn it, but probably only a little.
Although more than a month ago, he had already asked Minato Namikaze about the general outline of the Flying Thunder God Technique, and had learned from him some of the basic requirements and characteristics of this space-time Ninjutsu, giving him some expectations beforehand, only now, after personally coming into contact with the Flying Thunder God Technique, did he realize just how harsh its requirements were.
Learning the Flying Thunder God Technique required satisfying four core conditions: First, profound Sealing Jutsu attainments.
The Flying Thunder God Technique’s formula itself was an extremely precise space-time-sealing formula. The user needed to understand, construct, and stably maintain this complex sealing structure before it could be engraved onto mediums such as kunai.
Whether it was Tobirama Senju or Minato Namikaze, the reason they could form seals with a wave of the hand and lay formations in empty space was inseparable from the solid foundation of deep Sealing Jutsu knowledge supporting them.
Second, powerful sensory ability.
The Flying Thunder God Technique was not true limitless teleportation.
The range of one’s sensory ability was the natural boundary of its effective teleportation range.
The technique’s activation required two prerequisites.
One, the target location had to possess the user’s formula mark.
Two: the user had to be able to sense the spatial point represented by that coordinate.
If the location where a Flying Thunder God Kunai or other mark was placed exceeded the maximum range covered by the user’s own sensory abilities, then the user would be unable to lock onto that coordinate, and naturally would be unable to activate the technique to teleport.
This was also why, during the Third Shinobi World War, Minato Namikaze still needed to personally travel when reinforcing the front lines multiple times, rather than demonstrating true global instant support by handing Flying Thunder God Kunai to frontline forces in advance.
Or why the second Hokage back then did not simply teleport directly back to Konoha and then lead the army to slaughter Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
In addition, one of Shinichi’s previous guesses had also been confirmed.
The chakra consumption of the Flying Thunder God Technique mainly did not depend on teleportation distance.
Because for the Flying Thunder God Technique, once a coordinate was successfully sensed and locked onto, and the technique was activated to perform a spatial jump, the actual physical distance between two points in the real world lost meaning. Teleporting one meter and teleporting ten kilometers were fundamentally no different.
The true additional consumption lay in the chakra required to expand one’s senses, search for, and lock onto distant coordinates.
Third, extraordinary neural reaction speed.
This determined whether the user could precisely control the landing point and respond to sudden interference amidst the ever-changing instant spatial transfers.
Fourth, and also the most fundamental and important point, space-time talent.
This was the foundation of all foundations. Without this talent, everything afterward was impossible. No matter how excellent the first three conditions were, one could only sigh helplessly at the ocean, unable even to enter the doorway.
The third Hokage and Orochimaru had undoubtedly reached excellent levels in the first three aspects, yet because they lacked this most crucial space-time talent, they could not even cross the threshold.
In contrast, Genma Shiranui, Raido Namiashi, and Iwashi Tatami, even though their attainments in the first three conditions were far inferior to those of the former two, were still able to spend more than a decade barely entering the entry level because they possessed space-time talent, jointly casting the simplified Flying Thunder Formation Technique.
As for the current Shinichi, he could be considered to satisfy the sensory ability and neural reaction aspects. However, he had not yet systematically come into contact with Sealing Jutsu.
As for the most important space-time talent, under the enhancement of the all-domain improvement talent, Genius, Shinichi could also be considered to possess a little.
But not much.
Shinichi closed his eyes. Under the enhancement of the Seeing Through Things as Clearly as Observing a Flame talent, with the speed of his brain’s thought process nearly comparable to a supercomputer’s calculation speed, he rapidly constructed models in his mind, combining them with the snowball effect brought by the Perseverance talent for deduction.
The conclusion made him shake his head slightly.
Even if he immediately began desperately studying Sealing Jutsu, under the most ideal progress, coupled with that pitiful trace of space-time talent, he would still need to invest at least five years of continuous hard work before he could barely enter the introductory level of the Flying Thunder God Technique.
And this was only for preliminary mastery of basic teleportation. As for reaching the level of Minato Namikaze or Tobirama Senju, where it could be used freely and effortlessly, the required time was even more immeasurable.
For Shinichi, who was currently in the golden period of rapidly increasing strength and who already possessed a clear path of his own, this was a completely cost-inefficient investment, even one that could be described as wasting his life.
"To do a good job, one must first sharpen one’s tools!" Shinichi silently recited it in his heart, then he carefully stored away the Flying Thunder God Technique scroll and kept it close to his body.
The value of this divine technique was unquestionable, and the space-time concepts contained within it were priceless treasures. It could serve as a long-term auxiliary research project, something to occasionally study and draw inspiration from, but it absolutely should not become the main direction of his current training.
Unless he could reverse-engineer derivative applications similar to the Reverse Summoning Technique, ones possessing strategic-rank importance for his own safety and combat.
Otherwise, investing massive amounts of energy into gnawing on this hard bone at the current stage was truly unwise.
"It’s more practical to continue improving my own system."
However, how should talents related to space-time be generated?
This was different from strength, speed, or even intelligence. It was difficult to make the outside world form a universal recognition of it through deliberate displays or manufactured deeds.
This required more exquisite planning. Perhaps it would require a truly shocking performance involving spatial phenomena, or finding an event that could prompt people to instinctively associate him with spatial abilities.
And then there were talents related to Sealing Jutsu...
Could the ninja profession system really generate related specialized talents?
