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"A new day, starting with the crescent moon high in the sky."
It was around six in the morning... to be honest, Kenshi couldn't tell the time. The day and night in the Arctic Circle were different from the day and night around the equator.
But it didn't matter. Kenshi didn't look at the time.
After taking a leak and waking up, Kenshi felt full of energy. He considered this the start of a new day.
"Let's start this new day with training in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode."
Kenshi sat on a protruding boulder in the middle of the valley, his eyes closed, his legs crossed in a five-heart-to-the-sky posture. Blue-white electric arcs flickered around him from time to time.
Deep within his body, Kenshi continuously controlled the Lightning Release Chakra and the weak lightning condensed from the Lightning Release Chakra to stimulate his cells, keeping them in an excited and active state. It was like electrotherapy, only the duration was a bit longer.
Zzzzt... Not long after, maybe a minute or so, the cells couldn't take it anymore and started to get damaged.
At this time, Kenshi thought, and Wood Release Chakra condensed, healing the cells. Then, he continued the electrotherapy.
Training in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode was like this. There were no shortcuts. It all depended on time accumulation and the adaptability of one's own body.
After his entanglement with the Third Raikage and his final close-range battle with the Third Raikage, he had sensed the secrets of the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
The Lightning Release Chakra Mode wasn't a simple taijutsu that involved covering the body with Lightning Release Chakra to strengthen the body's activity and increase nerve reaction speed.
In the battle in the nameless valley in the Land of Earth, the Third Raikage had almost touched Kenshi's main body, so he perceived it very clearly.
Under the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode, his body seemed to have merged with the Lightning Release Chakra, becoming a special life form that was half Lightning Release Chakra energy and half flesh and blood.
In that special semi-energy state, the Third Raikage's reaction speed was so fast that even Kenshi, whose nerve reaction speed had increased several times after opening the Death Gate acupoint space, couldn't use the Black Iron Chains to effectively control the Third Raikage's speed in that state.
It was evident that the Third Raikage's reaction speed in that state was incredibly fast.
Being able to train one's body's reaction speed to this level couldn't be achieved simply by covering the body with a Lightning Release Chakra armor.
The key was that almost energy-like life state of the body.
That state of almost merging with the Lightning Release Chakra, which had strengthened the Third Raikage's body to the limit, allowed him to have incredible reaction speed and physical strength.
To achieve the Third Raikage's level of physical strength.
The idea was the same as what Kenshi had perceived. Once his cells adapted to the point of almost merging with the Lightning Release Chakra, his physical strength would naturally increase to the corresponding level.
That's what Kenshi was doing now. He was constantly refining Lightning Release Chakra in his body and stimulating his cells with lightning, accelerating his cells' adaptation to Lightning Release Chakra and lightning.
Once his cells adapted to the Lightning Release Chakra to a certain extent, Kenshi could activate the Lightning Release Chakra Mode and use this taijutsu.
So far, counting all of Kenshi's abilities.
In terms of jutsu and taijutsu, only his taijutsu was weak. His other jutsu, like genjutsu and sealing jutsu, were all pretty good.
What restricted his strength development was his Chakra amount.
And Chakra amount required a powerful body.
After opening the Death Gate acupoint, Kenshi's body was like it had unlocked all of its limiters.
He could feel it clearly during this time. Even without training, just walking, breathing, and sleeping, his body was getting stronger day by day. His dantian space had even expanded a little.
Kenshi even suspected that he might become like Saitama, the Great Demon King in One Punch Man. If he persisted in training for three years, he could part the Earth's hair.
Because of this, Kenshi chose to train in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode to accelerate his body's strengthening.
Taijutsu might seem insignificant, but when it truly breaks its limits, it can also be a powerful force that can kick out a grand finale.
Imagine, three years later, a casual punch would be a Evening Elephant, and a serious kick would be a Night Gai.
If Six Paths Madara came, Kenshi wouldn't just dance, he would rave.
He wouldn't even have to wait for Naruto and Sasuke to be born. Three years later, he could directly start the grand finale and destroy the entire ninja world.
He just didn't know if there was a limit to this body's improvement.
Kenshi focused on refining Lightning Release Chakra and stimulating his cells with lightning, secretly looking forward to his future self four years from now.
One hour later.
His Chakra was almost depleted, so Kenshi stopped training in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode. He got up, jumped down, and went to the frozen sea. He activated his high-speed running training mode.
Running, one of the most basic forms of exercise.
First, he ran at full speed for ten minutes, then rested for ten minutes. Then, he did push-ups at full speed for ten minutes, then rested for ten minutes. Then, he did sit-ups at full speed for ten minutes, then ran at full speed for ten minutes again, completing one hour of the training set.
Then, he stopped and trained in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode for one hour, then got up and exercised for another hour.
This cycle was repeated three times, accumulating six hours of training. The morning training was over. Next, Kenshi had to eat.
"Let's have fish today!"
Kenshi thought, stretched out his hand, and condensed a blazing fireball. Then, he jumped into the air and smashed the condensed fireball onto the ice surface.
Boom!
After a burst of heat and explosion, a two-meter-diameter ice hole appeared on the ice surface, revealing the dark seawater below.
Step!
Kenshi landed beside the ice hole. With a thought, he held a condensed ink fishing rod in his hand. The fishing line, hook, and even the small fish used as bait were all condensed using the Ink Mimicry Technique.
Kenshi put the bait into the deep seawater below the ice hole and controlled the small fish used as bait to swim continuously.
This place, although uninhabited, was freezing cold, but there were many large animals. It was clear that the resources were not bad. There should be a lot of fish under the ice.
As expected, without Kenshi waiting long, a big fish swallowed the condensed ink small fish.
Because his consciousness was fused with his Chakra, he could perceive it very clearly. He didn't need a bobber to know that a big fish had taken the bait.
Kenshi thought, and the ink small fish swallowed by the big fish instantly shot out eight ink threads, piercing the big fish's body and firmly binding it.
Kenshi pulled the fishing rod upwards with force.
Although the big fish was very strong, under Kenshi's Chakra-enhanced physical strength, it was no different from fishing for small fish. He didn't need to reel it in. He directly pulled the big fish out of the hole.
"Tuna?"
The big fish looked like a bluefin tuna on Earth. It was also very large. Kenshi estimated that it weighed seven or eight hundred pounds.
The big fish was still jumping around.
"Should I bleed it?"
"Go ahead."
Thinking about some of the practices he had seen on Douyin about catching tuna, Kenshi killed the suspected tuna and made a cut on its tail to bleed it.
When he returned to the wooden house in the valley, Kenshi had already processed the big fish into over fifty pieces. He only took a piece of meat and bones to eat. The rest was put into the black water space.
In the kitchen of the wooden house, there was a stove condensed from Earth Release, a large pot condensed from Ink Mimicry, wood provided by Wood Release, fire ignited by Fire Release, water in the pot condensed from Water Release, and fish meat... oh, the fish meat was naturally pure.
Someone on the internet had once said that if the Hidden Sand Village could use Earth Release for infrastructure, they wouldn't be so poor. They would have to rely on the Kage himself to pan for gold to barely make ends meet.
It was clear that jutsu, this magical power, had great potential in infrastructure.
At least Kenshi had experienced the benefits of various Release Techniques for survival in the wild.
Of course, the premise here was that you had to know many Release Techniques.
Things like a large pot couldn't be created by ordinary people using jutsu.
Thanks to Kenshi's development of the Ink Mimicry Technique, he could give the Ink Mimicry objects the relevant attributes, making the ink pot truly like a pot, with good heat transfer and no leaks.
Ten minutes later.
Kenshi used a super-large bowl condensed from Ink Mimicry to scoop up a large bowl of fish soup and fish meat. He returned to the dining room and sat down, sitting on a chair made from Wood Release. He ate the fish meat while sipping the fish soup.
After eating and drinking his fill, Kenshi returned to his bedroom to take a nap.
While Kenshi was sleeping, under the wooden house, in front of a boiler, Kenshi's shadow clone was adding fuel and boiling water.
Kenshi had set up a heating system for the wooden house.
By continuously boiling water to create hot steam, which circulated through the pipes condensed from Ink Mimicry, the temperature inside the wooden house was kept at around twenty degrees Celsius.
So, although the average temperature here was below minus ten degrees Celsius, Kenshi didn't need to cover himself with a blanket when he slept in the wooden house. It was very comfortable.
This brings us back to Kenshi's innate abilities.
Because his consciousness was merged with his Chakra.
The ink pipes and boiler he condensed were always under his absolute control. They could exist almost permanently.
As long as he didn't actively let this part of his Chakra dissipate, the ink pipes would continue to exist.
It was also because of this ability that Kenshi could afford to set up a heating system for his small wooden house.
After sleeping for two hours, Kenshi woke up.
After washing up, Kenshi returned to the valley.
"Fire Release - Fireball Technique!"
Kenshi unleashed a fireball, clearing a large area of snow and revealing the rocky ground beneath. He squatted down, picked up a stone, and weighed it in his hand. Then, he wrapped it in Chakra and sensed it.
Then, Kenshi thought.
"Transformation Technique."
He combined the Transformation Technique Chakra he had copied from Enma with the Transformation Technique Chakra.
Boom!
A cloud of white smoke dissipated. Kenshi's figure disappeared, replaced by a strange, greenish-brown stone with Kenshi's head growing out of it.
"What a strange feeling!"
Kenshi felt that part of his body had turned into stone. No, his entire body was now stone. Only his head remained in a flesh and blood state.
The Transformation Technique Chakra copied from Enma was truly perverted. When combined with the Transformation Technique Chakra, it could transform a flesh and blood life form into a non-living material state like stone, but it still retained human self-awareness.
Boom!
Kenshi dispelled the Transformation Technique and transformed back into a human.
He still couldn't fully grasp the essence of combining the Transformation Technique Chakra with the Transformation Technique Chakra. He needed to practice for a long time.
Next, Kenshi found a snow rabbit. He first used Chakra perception to collect the snow rabbit's flesh and blood information, then used the Transformation Technique Chakra to transform into a snow rabbit.
Although he couldn't fully transform, the part that had transformed was indeed the same flesh and blood as the snow rabbit.
"Good. I chose the right direction."
In a sense, the Transformation Technique was already very close to the Perfect Transformation Technique.
Except for the inability to hide Chakra, it was almost identical to the Perfect Transformation Technique in Kenshi's mind.
Because the Transformation Technique could perfectly transform into the flesh and blood of another creature, the genes and cells were exactly the same.
It could be said that if Kenshi transformed into the Third Hokage, his body would also be exactly the same as the current Third Hokage, even the cells and genes would be exactly the same.
"Unfortunately, I can't hide Chakra, and I can't make it exactly the same."
Kenshi sighed secretly. If the Transformation Technique could perfectly copy the other party's Chakra, then he could perfectly transform into someone else. Even someone with a special Chakra perception ability like Minato wouldn't be able to tell the difference through Chakra.
"How can I solve the problem of Chakra copying?"
Kenshi practiced the Transformation Technique while secretly pondering.
But he couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time.
Transforming and copying flesh and blood was fine, but Chakra was a combination of physical energy and mental energy, and the mind involved the soul.
Kenshi couldn't even perceive other people's souls, so how could he possibly copy other people's souls?
This was a dead end. For now, Kenshi had no solution.
But it wasn't urgent. First, he would refine the Transformation Technique to the point where he could perfectly transform and copy flesh and blood.
Then, when he became stronger, he would find secret techniques related to the soul.
"Didn't the Third Hokage always want to get that improved Spiritualization Technique from me? Does that mean he has the unimproved Spiritualization Technique?"
"Yes, there's a high possibility."
Kenshi nodded, then suddenly chuckled in his heart. Wasn't this a coincidence? The Third Hokage had tortured him for the Spiritualization Technique. Four years later, it was time for him to torture the Third Hokage and make him hand over the Spiritualization Technique.
As long as he got the Spiritualization Technique and researched the Perfect Transformation Technique.
Heh!
Third Hokage, Konoha, we have plenty of time to play.
After four hours of practicing the Transformation Technique, it was evening. Well, it was probably evening. After all, the sun was still making an arc.
Kenshi returned to the wooden house. After eating and resting for a while, he started researching how to strengthen the Black Iron Chains.
The Black Iron Chains couldn't block the Third Raikage's One-Inch Punch, which had almost caused Kenshi a great loss. Kenshi hadn't forgotten that.
While Kenshi was researching the Black Iron Chains, his shadow clone was adding fuel and boiling water, while also refining Wood Release Chakra.
Chakra's nature transformation wasn't something that was fixed once you mastered it.
The same Wood Release, some people could only use it for landscaping, while Hashirama Senju's Wood Release could grab a Tailed Beast Ball with its hands.
This was because the different strengths of the Wood Release were caused by the different strengths of the Wood Release Chakra's nature transformation.
Just like how steel is the same, but the strength of forged steel and hundred-forged or thousand-forged steel is completely different.
Kenshi's current Wood Release Chakra nature transformation strength was still a long way from the God of Shinobi.
In the battle in the valley in the Land of Earth, Kenshi's Wood Release Tree World Descent seemed to have a bit of Hashirama Senju's Wood Release style, but it was still far from it.
The trees he created could be cut by Kumogakure jōnin's Wind Release. They were far from the Wood Release that could grab a Tailed Beast Ball.
It was also because his Wood Release was too brittle that he couldn't defeat the Third Raikage.
Otherwise, the Third Raikage, who couldn't cut through the trees or couldn't cut through them so easily, would have already become Kenshi's victim.
Kenshi had his shadow clone continuously refine and enhance the strength of his Wood Release Chakra nature transformation. He hoped to improve the strength of his Wood Release as quickly as possible.
Four hours later.
Kenshi stopped researching the Black Iron Chains. He retracted his shadow clone and created another one to watch over the boiler. He then returned to bed to sleep.
This time, he slept for a longer time, like he was sleeping at night. Then, the next day, he started the same training plan as today.
This was Kenshi's daily training routine while he was in seclusion.
Although it was a bit boring, his six years in the lab had made Kenshi feel nothing about this boredom. He actually enjoyed it.
After all, it was too cool to feel his body getting stronger day by day.
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