"Let's start the morning routine, shall we?"
As soon as he spoke those words, he vanished from the spot. He didn't use the Body Flicker Technique this time.
He simply reinforced his body with chakra to amplify his strength, agility, reflexes, perception, and dexterity, and made a run for it.
He accelerated so fast that he had already covered 100 meters in less than 3 seconds. And yet his control over his body and chakra was so fine that his sudden burst of speed didn't crack the pavement or stir a storm of wind.
If he had done the same two years ago, trying to accelerate physically without using proper movement-type Ninjutsu, such as the Body Flicker Technique, would have surely damaged the spot where he put his feet to push forward and accelerate.
But things had changed.
His chakra control had reached LV7, giving him finer control over his chakra output and flow. And the moment his physique crossed the 30-point threshold, his control over his body had transcended what normal ninjas were capable of.
His burst of power was no longer wild but controlled and refined.
No unnecessary destruction or waste of power. Now, he could channel every single drop of his power more efficiently, making them flow in the exact way he wanted, in the exact direction he wanted.
Now, Seimei was fully experiencing the wonders of human capabilities.
He ran for a few moments before suddenly jumping to the roof of one of the houses.
The moment his foot touched the surface of the roof, he had already angled and coiled his body for the next jump, all while locking onto his next target.
And then, Seimei jumped again within a few milliseconds of touching the roof of the house with his feet. His figure soared through the air as he crossed tens of meters with that jump.
Yet he barely made any sound when his feet touched the roof, and when he jumped toward his next target a few milliseconds later.
The entire process looked fluid, seamless, and without any awkwardness or break in the movement sequences.
He kept jumping from one roof to another for a few minutes until he arrived near the perimeter of Konoha.
In front of him was the Hokage Rock, which hid a lush forest behind it.
His destination was that forest.
He had set up a lot of target practice, traps, and a natural training ground in that forest. It was like a natural sanctuary for him, where he could train and experiment with his Ninjutsu without worrying about blowing up a neighborhood.
He even had a main training ground in the forest, which he hid from other people's sight using several advanced concealment seals.
Unless some Fuinjutsu Grandmaster accidentally stumbled upon that place, probably no one could enter that area.
No Fuinjutsu Grandmaster was bored enough to spend hours trying to decipher his seals, right?
Well, even if they did, Seimei wouldn't worry.
It was just a training ground in the open forest. He had nothing forbidden to hide there.
As for anything that he needed to hide, those things were locked up in his father's forbidden labs.
No one but he and Tobirama, his father, knew about them—not even his uncle Hashirama.
Not even the Hyuga clan's Byakugan could peer through that place or find any trace of it.
Seimei had personally confirmed it with his Tenseigan.
His father, the half-century-old Fuinjutsu Grandmaster and forbidden Jutsu enthusiast, slapped so many seals there that even Seimei felt his head buzzing trying to identify them all.
And that was when Tobirama openly showed the seals.
What? You want to find that hidden lab while Tobirama's concealment and illusion seals are active?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Seimei could only laugh and applaud them for being so dedicated to wasting their own time.
Just as his mind was about to drift away, thinking about more unrelated things, he arrived at the entrance of the forest.
Seeing this, Seimei's mind sharpened again.
"The real morning exercise begins now."
He whispered and dived straight into the forest.
He stepped on a tree while condensing a precise amount of chakra on his feet, allowing him to stick his feet to the tree's bark.
Then, he ran vertically on the stem before jumping into one of its thick branches.
He stopped and looked ahead, where he found a rope hidden behind leaves.
"There it is," Seimei said and stretched his left hand toward it.
Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Seimei used a minimal amount of chakra to create a one-meter-wide crescent wind blade in front of his outstretched hand.
And in the blink of an eye, the sharp wind blade rocketed ahead, cut through all the leaves, and sliced through the rope.
Snap!
By the time the wind blade cut the rope, Seimei had also landed on the forest ground by jumping off the tree.
At first, nothing seemed to happen.
But a couple of seconds later, something heavy seemed to move toward Seimei with a whistling sound.
A ninja's perception could pick up many clues from the sound alone. And the whistling sound was coming from a thing that was undoubtedly heavy, fast, and coming with a momentum to crush anything in its path.
Without even bothering to activate his Tenseigan, Seimei briefly glanced toward his left.
There, he saw a large and heavy log of ironwood that was bound by a thick rope at the middle of its length.
It was several meters long and had a diameter of nearly two and a half meters. And it was moving toward him like a pendulum, with the momentum of a speeding bus.
Just when the wooden log was about to slam him, Seimei moved, accelerating instantly to get away from his current position and ran ahead.
However, his path was filled with obstacles.
Ahead, multiple heavy logs swung like a pendulum, blocking his path. Each wooden log was swinging roughly five meters away from the others.
Meanwhile, several circular target boards rested on the trees around him.
He set a target for himself: to cross the three hundred meters-long, trap-filled space, all while destroying the circular targets within the next twenty seconds.
So, he ran ahead, dodging one swinging wooden log after another.
Chakra Threading Technique
Thin, light blue chakra threads emerged from Seimei's fingers. With a single thought, he channeled wind chakra through them, turning them exceptionally sharp while giving them a faint translucent hue.
As he swept his hands, the chakra threads traveled through the air like invisible whips and cut the circular targets in half.
However, thanks to Seimei's excellent chakra control, the moment the chakra threads sliced past the circular targets, he was able to retract the wind chakra from the threads, leaving the stems and branches of the trees that the targets were attached to completely unharmed.
Next, he channeled fire chakra through the threads, making them searing hot.
Seimei stepped on the top of one of the incoming wooden logs, jumped high in the air, and waved both of his outstretched hands in a circular motion.
The searing hot chakra threads swept past the ropes that held the nearby wooden logs within a radius of thirty meters.
The scorching hot chakra threads cut the ropes like a hot knife through a block of butter before hitting ten different circular targets attached to the nearby trees.
The fate of the wooden targets was also the same as the ropes.
Seimei smiled and rushed forward again.
This time, two basketball-sized spheres of water condensed around him.
Water Release: Water Bullet Barrage Technique
Suddenly, multiple water drops were separated from the spheres of water and shot at the circular targets like bullets.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
All of them struck at the center of the targets, leaving one-centimeter-wide bullet holes.
A total of forty targets were hit at once.
Then he continued to run forward.
Next, another swinging wooden log suddenly appeared one meter ahead of him. But instead of stopping, he clenched his fist and struck the wooden log hard.
Chakra Enhanced Strength
Chakra gathered in Seimei's fist and detonated outward.
Boooom!
A deafening explosion erupted as the exploding chakra destroyed the large wooden log into splinters.
Crackle! Crackle! Ziiiii!
At the next second, Seimei gathered a large concentration of purple lightning in his right hand. Countless tendrils of destructive lightning bolts radiated from Seimei's hand, ready to electrocute and annihilate anything in their paths.
Lightning Release: Chidori Senbon
Seimei swept his right hand from left to right, releasing numerous half-a-meter-long, thin needles made of purple lightning.
Crack! Crackle! Boom!
The long needles made of lightning pierced through the center of the remaining circular targets before exploding with a violent burst of lightning.
The targets were reduced to ashes, and the branches and tree stems holding them were also scorched and charred. Their wooden bodies were cracked, and purple lightning entered those cracks, damaging the internal structure of the trees to a varying degree.
Finally, he exited the pendulum trap area of the forest, and his eyes landed on a huge boulder that was at least six meters tall and nine meters wide.
Seimei grinned and opened his palm.
And in less than a tenth of a second, a tennis ball-sized, blue sphere of spiraling chakra appeared in his open palm.
Rasengan!!
He arrived in front of the boulder and smashed the Rasengan into it.
Crack! Crack!
Huge, spiraling cracks appeared on the boulder that stretched outward, centering the location where Seimei slammed the Rasengan.
The Rasengan seemed to vanish inside the boulder as the heavy rock slid backward, as if something unseen pushed it back.
At the next moment, cracks appeared all over it, releasing wisps of chakra from them.
A storm of chakra tore through the boulder, grinding it into dust.
Boom!
Then, the entire boulder exploded into fine fragments of rock.
Seimei looked at the aftermath of his attack for a moment and fell into deep thought.
I formed the Rasengan with half of the usual amount of chakra I normally use. But the Rasengan's power didn't diminish at all. If anything, it has increased.
No wonder. My chakra quality, density, and shaping capabilities have increased a lot in the last few months.
I can compress the Rasengan further without destabilizing its internal structure.
As a result, the power of my Rasengan had increased drastically, even though I had used a smaller amount of chakra.
Hmm…
Seimei thought inwardly.
Then, he looked in another direction in the forest.
Anyway, let's go to my secret training ground.
With that, he dashed toward his destination, but not before leaving ten shadow clones to clean up the mess he caused behind him, much to the dismay of his shadow clones.
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