Chapter 133 Three Paths to Becoming Stronger, the Conception of the Fourth Path (Monthly Ticket Request!!)

Under everyone's gaze, Yahiko disappeared.

Although the lights above illuminated everything in the room, few children could see how Yahiko moved. Only a few children could see a shadow in their peripheral vision.

Until Yahiko appeared in front of Yoshitaka, the bamboo sword in his hand actually surged with scorching flames.

It seemed that there was still a trace of reason in his mind. The bamboo sword, which was as thick as his wrist but had no edge, fell and chopped in front of Yoshitaka with a sharp scream.

Bang! !

A dull sound rang out in the gym, and dozens of children exclaimed.

Seeing Yoshitaka was like a rag doll filled with sand, he was directly knocked out and hit the wall of the classroom before stopping.

The "Tao" character hanging on the wall was shaken off and covered Yoshitaka who slid from the wall to the ground. The only thing exposed from the character was his arm and the broken bamboo sword in his hand.

Three meters away, Yahiko kept his sword, and only half of the bamboo sword in his hand remained. The broken end was covered with burrs, and the burnt black marks and white smoke were clearly visible.

There was no doubt that Yoshitaka was cut off.

Although he was able to block the bamboo sword directly in front of him at the last moment, if Yahiko was holding a real sword, the previous blow would only cut off his torso and arm.

"Huh!"

Yahiko put away the bamboo sword in his hand, slowly exhaled a white mist, and a trace of fatigue flashed in his eyes: "Thank you."

The classroom was silent, and everyone was still immersed in the previous blow. No one had reacted to what happened.

What was the burning crimson blade just now?

Some kind of fire escape ninjutsu?

Impossible, Yahiko did not cast a seal.

Clap!

Applause sounded in the dead silence of the classroom.

Everyone who came to their senses subconsciously looked over, and after seeing Kumokawa smiling and clapping gently, applause also sounded one after another.

The children looked at Yahiko holding a sword in the field with shining eyes. They had known each other for a long time, but it was like they were meeting him for the first time.

And Nono quietly walked to the scroll on the ground, opened it with two fingers, checked Yoshitaka's breath and condition, and finally relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked down at Yoshitaka's clothes. The clothes on his chest had burst open, leaving a strip of slight burn wound.

Yahiko's sword hit his chest, and the huge external force caused him to suddenly have palpitations, which caused cardiac syncope.

"Huh?" Nono frowned slightly, and a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.

Logically speaking, with the physical fitness of Yoshitaka, he should wake up soon even if he fainted with this kind of injury.

Could it be that he was interrupted by Yahiko and fainted without a breath of anger?

Thinking of this, Nono suddenly smiled inexplicably.

But the problem is not big, he should just be knocked unconscious, that's all.

"Come here, send Mr. Yoshitaka to the infirmary."

Kumukawa also came over at this time. After seeing Nono nod to him, he picked up a few strong children and said with a smile: "Although it is only a temporary fainting, it still needs to be checked carefully. If there is any problem, it will be bad."

After that, he glanced down slightly and happened to meet a pair of depressed eyes.

"..." As if he realized that he was discovered, Yoshitaka, who was lying dead, closed his eyes instantly.

There is no way, he really can't afford to lose this person.

"Breathing of the Sun?" Yoshitaka thought with a complicated mood, "Is this the real skill?"

It goes without saying that the moves used by the kid just now must have been taught by Yunkawa.

It seems to be a skill used to strengthen the heart and lung function, so as to absorb a large amount of oxygen in a short period of time, greatly increase the physical ability in an instant, and then temporarily have super physical strength.

In other words, when killing Musashi, Yunkawa did not try his best at all.

The opponent only relied on the simple kendo concept, like a pure samurai and swordsman, to defeat the former "Sword Saint".

Just like what Kumokawa said to Yoshitaka in the Hidden Rain Village.

‘For a swordsman, it doesn’t matter what he did. Whose head he cut off, how many legs he cut off, these things have no meaning. What gives them meaning is the person swinging the sword. ’

‘If you swing the sword for justice, then you cut off the head for justice. If you swing the sword for hatred, then you cut off the head for revenge. The more you swing the sword for justice, the more determined you will be to cut off the head. The more you swing the sword for revenge, the sharper you will be. ’

‘That old man was once called the strongest swordsman, just because he drew the sword for victory. In order to maintain his title as the first, he could not retreat, but could only cut people, faster and faster, unstoppable, and do everything he could. ’

‘I am the same. In order to kill my enemies, I used to set traps by all means, using the bodies of their companions as bait, and then cut through the rain curtain with a sword, chopped off their heads heartily, fed their bodies to wild dogs, and made their teachers helpless and furious. ’

‘Swinging a sword without purpose and belief is a terrible thing. Only with belief can you be more pure and go further. ’

‘And Musashi is old. Maybe he can still swing the sword, but he has lost the desire and belief to swing the sword. A sword without desire and belief is like an eagle without wings. That kind of thing can't do anything. ’

‘You should have realized it, right? Following such a guy, your belief will decay and your sword will become dull. ’

‘So, follow me, the world will change, but I will remain the same. ’

The gentle and self-conceited voice of Kumokawa seemed to still echo in Yoshitaka’s ears.

Beliefs and desires?

Consistent?

As if thinking of something, Yoshitaka smiled in his heart.

To be honest, I can’t see what Kumokawa desires.

Women? Kumokawa doesn’t raise slaves and concubines at home like the daimyo.

Wealth? Building such a city might cost all the inheritance left by his father.

Status? After killing Musashi, the other party did not try to seize power, but only took away some of the rain ninjas who were willing to follow.

But it was this performance that made Yoshitaka more certain that Kumokawa’s request was far beyond imagination.

Not seeking small profits, there must be big plans!

“Then let’s try it for the time being.” Yoshitaka was inexplicably excited, “How far can you go like this?”

But the next moment, his thoughts were interrupted, and he couldn’t help but groan.

Four students, including Ah She, trotted to his side, not caring at all about Yoshitaka's identity as an injured person. They each lifted one of their other arms and arms, muttering the "hey, hey, hey" sound of the boatmen pulling the boat, and ran out of the classroom with Yoshitaka on their shoulders.

After the few people left, Xiaonan hung the calligraphy and painting with the elegant word "Tao" on the wall again, and stood quietly behind Yunchuan.

"Sorry, old... teacher, I was too heavy-handed." Yahiko said apologetically.

"It's okay." Yunchuan picked up the broken bamboo sword from the ground, slid his fingers over the stubble on it, and smiled, "Teacher Yoshitaka is tolerant and generous, and he won't care about these."

In comparison, what people care more about is another thing.

The raw materials of this batch of bamboo swords are bamboos that are more than three years old. They are baked for dozens of days, selected, weighted, and corrected to get bamboo pieces, and finally wrapped with fine nylon ropes and cowhide.

Normally, the bamboo sword is used as a weapon for sparring because it is extremely resilient, causing less damage when struck. It will bend and crack when subjected to strong external force, but it will never break easily.

However, Yahiko broke it abruptly.

"Tell everyone." Kumokawa turned around and smiled at Yahiko, asking the question that the children were most curious about, "How did you do it?"

"Ah, it's... the breathing method you taught me." Yahiko scratched his head and explained, "To make it stronger and faster?"

Breathing method?

"Yes, this is the breathing method." Kumokawa, who was standing in front of the crowd, turned around and looked at the children with bright eyes, and smiled, "Do you want to learn it?"

"You don't have to learn the most difficult Sun Breathing. You can also choose a breathing style that suits you, such as the five basic styles of water, thunder, fire, rock, and wind. You can also try to develop a style that suits you. It's better to say that this is better."

Sun Breathing is the ancestor and foundation of all breathing methods. It was created and used by the founder of the breathing method, "Tsugokuni Yoriichi", and shared with his brother "Tsugokuni Iwakatsu", that is, [Kokushibo] before he became a demon.

That's why Kumokawa knew the moves of Sun Breathing and was able to teach the breathing method and sword moves to Yahiko.

However, it was a bit surprising for Kumokawa that Yahiko could learn Sun Breathing.

In the world of [Demon Slayer], Sun Breathing was once taught by Tsugokuni Yoriichi to the members of the Demon Slayer Corps at that time, but that person could not withstand the power of the sun and could not learn Sun Breathing.

Obviously, there are certain requirements and conditions to learn Sun Breathing.

So later, based on the Sun Breathing, Tsugakuin Yoriichi guided them to develop other schools of breathing.

Including the five basic schools and the derived breathing methods.

Kumokawa didn't know whether the children other than Yahiko could meet the conditions for learning the Sun Breathing, but at least he could try to develop a new school.

After hearing what Kumokawa said, the eyes of dozens of children present lit up instantly.

"Is it really possible?"

"Wow! It sounds so cool!"

"Teacher, I want to learn this too!"

"Can I become stronger if I learn this?"

Kumokawa was not so pedantic and extreme as to not allow them to practice ninjutsu, so he had already used chakra paper to test the chakra attributes of these children.

The so-called "attribute" is actually "the change of chakra's nature".

In other words, chakra itself is actually "attributeless" and needs to rely on acquired practice to add attributes, that is, to make chakra have "attributes".

There are seven properties of chakra, namely fire, water, wind, thunder, earth, yin, and yang, among which fire, water, wind, thunder, and earth are the five major properties.

Ninjas must rely on their personal qualifications to practice chakra. Generally speaking, everyone has a nature that is easier to learn, and ninjas at the level of a great country ninja have generally learned more than two.

However, in addition to the practice of changing the nature after birth, some people are born with chakra attributes, which are completely determined by their own talents.

The more chakra attributes you are born with, the higher the starting point of practicing ninjutsu.

Therefore, before starting to practice, every ninja must first know which "nature" is suitable for his chakra. Generally, chakra is injected into chakra sensing paper and the changes in the paper are checked to confirm.

Chakra with fire attributes will burn the paper, wind attributes will split the paper in half, thunder attributes will wrinkle the paper, earth attributes will break the paper, and water attributes will wet the paper.

For example, Orochimaru, a genius who is born with five attributes of chakra, fire, wind, thunder, earth, and water, can learn any attribute of ninjutsu he wants to learn without practicing the change of attributes.

However, on the contrary, some people have chakra but no specific attributes.

If you want to learn to use a certain attribute of ninjutsu, you have to practice the corresponding chakra change of attributes.

In Yunchuan's impression, Rock Lee, one of the "Twelve Little Strongmen" of Konoha in the future, is like this.

Although he can use chakra and use chakra to stand on the water, he has no chakra attribute, so he can't do ninjutsu and illusion, so he chose to practice physical skills.

Most of the children picked up by Yunchuan also have this situation,

For example, Yahiko has only a single water attribute chakra.

And this is already very good. Most of them don't even have natural attributes. They need to spend time and energy to practice before they can use those attribute ninjutsu, otherwise they can only use non-attribute ninjutsu, similar to Rasengan.

For these children who have already despaired of their own talents, the breathing methods of the five major schools of water, thunder, fire, rock, and wind can be said to be like a life-saving straw.

"In that case, I and these kids are actually in the same boat?"

After being tested, it was found that he was born without any attributes and had no talent for ninjutsu practice, Yunchuan narrowed his eyes.

The reason why he has never tried to learn ninjutsu is that in addition to not trusting things like chakra, it also takes too long to change the nature of practice.

In view of this, Yunchuan has currently summarized three feasible directions for these children who have no talent for ninjutsu practice to become stronger.

One is to become a "ghost" like Nagato and then try to learn and awaken the "blood ghost technique", and the other is to learn breathing like Yahiko and then combine it with fairy techniques to raise the upper limit.

The last one is to develop and use ninja tools that do not require nature changes like those air ninjas, and in the future, ninja tools that can transform attributeless chakra into five escape ninjutsu can be developed.

Of course, there are two more special properties, yin and yang, which are the so-called physical abilities and spiritual energy. Palm fairy techniques are the use of yang attribute chakra, while illusion techniques are the use of yin attribute chakra.

Both of these techniques are very crude ways of using Yin and Yang Chakra. A slightly more advanced one is similar to the Akimichi clan and the Nara clan's multiplication and shadow secrets.

Although it is difficult to develop, it is not impossible.

At least Nono's unreliable mother combined the psychology theory given to her by Kumokawa to develop a five-sense illusion that suits her.

Unlike the crude, effective but short-lived visual illusions of the Uchiha clan, that woman changed her mind little by little through various means.

It is somewhat similar to the effect of "Kotoamatsukami", but the effect is not so rapid and obvious.

"So," Kumokawa pondered, and said in his heart, "Maybe I can try to teach her the ability of the template [Ichimaru Gin]."