Early the next morning, Tsunade brought Minato to a small lake in a corner of the village.
The two stood on the shore, looking at the azure lake surface in front of them. Tsunade nodded with satisfaction. "Let's do it here."
Minato's Light Style was too powerful. The attacks came with high-temperature explosions, and the noise was too loud. It wasn't suitable for training in crowded places.
Normally, when ninjas in the village practiced ninjutsu that caused a lot of commotion, they would go to open areas outside the village.
But in Tsunade's view, leaving the village still posed a risk of encountering danger for the current Minato, even if the probability was infinitely close to zero.
Safety that isn't absolute is absolutely unsafe!
With the talent Minato had shown, she couldn't be too careful.
So Tsunade chose this training ground in the corner of the village.
The training ground was very large, with a forest environment and a small lake in the center, which was very suitable for practicing Water Style and Fire Style ninjutsu.
"Although I said I'm taking you to train, I don't know anything about your Light Style yet."
Tsunade leaned forward slightly, her hands behind her back, looking at Minato charmingly, with a hint of inquiry in her tone.
"Is it convenient to tell Sensei about it?"
"There's nothing inconvenient."
Feeling Tsunade's respect for the privacy of his abilities, Minato felt warm in his heart and whispered, "The power of Light Style is somewhat special; it is activated directly through physical stamina."
"The so-called stamina of ninjas can be directly refined into chakra, containing both physical and spiritual energy. But the stamina used by Light Style is just pure physical strength, unrelated to spiritual energy."
"So strictly speaking, it cannot be considered part of the ninja system."
"Is that so..."
Tsunade pinched her chin. "That's really convenient."
For ninjas, to extract chakra, neither physical energy nor spiritual energy can be lacking.
If spiritual energy is consumed too much, even if physical energy is abundant, chakra cannot be extracted.
But Light Style didn't have this concern.
"So how do you plan to train?"
"Two directions!"
Minato held up two fingers. "The first direction is to deeply develop its own power. The second direction is to integrate it with the chakra system. I plan to start from the first direction."
Although the purpose of this training wasn't for the training itself, since he was out, Minato wouldn't slack off.
"Judging from your previous performance, this ability seems to enhance your speed and can also directly release energy attacks."
Tsunade pondered. "It feels already very comprehensive. Can it be developed in other directions?"
"Yes, Sensei, yes."
Minato chuckled. "Didn't I say before? The essence of this ability is light, not limited to sunlight, firelight, or lamplight that we can observe with the naked eye, but refers to the concept of light!"
"For example, lasers, auroras, and some light invisible to the naked eye can all be counted!"
"..."
Tsunade looked surprised. "If you put it that way, the value of this ability doesn't seem to be below Wood Style."
"Yes. Not only that, Light Style has strong direct combat capabilities. There isn't much room for development in terms of combat anymore."
Minato was somewhat helpless. "So I plan to develop it towards functionality."
"Aren't you speaking a bit too confidently?"
Tsunade raised an eyebrow slightly. "Why don't you show me your abilities first? Strength, speed, power, range—show me everything."
"Alright."
Minato nodded. Although Tsunade didn't understand Devil Fruits, she was a Jonin after all, so maybe she could give some suggestions from other aspects.
"I won't show strength. Light Style has no bonus in strength; it can only enhance the power of attacks through speed. As for speed, do you want to race me, Sensei?"
"Oh?"
Tsunade suddenly became interested. "How do we race?"
Minato pointed to a tree on the other side of the lake several hundred meters away. "Using the lake water as the track, let's see who reaches the other side first?"
"Interesting!"
Tsunade agreed without hesitation, then casually picked up a pebble and tossed it lightly. "Let's use this as the starting gun. The moment it touches the water surface, the race begins."
Minato nodded. "Okay."
Receiving the answer, Tsunade assumed a starting posture. "Then let's begin!"
Saying that, she casually threw the pebble towards the lake!
Under the gaze of the two, the pebble drew a parabola in the air and fell into the water with a plop.
And at the moment the pebble touched the water surface, the ground on the shore suddenly exploded with a boom!
A large amount of soil and rocks rolled into the river. Tsunade stomped the entire riverbank into collapse with one step!
At the same time, her figure shot towards the other side of the lake like a cannonball, kicking up two sprays of water behind her on the lake surface.
There is a saying that speed is power.
But in Tsunade's view, this sentence may not necessarily be irreversible!
Under the powerful Strange Strength and meticulous chakra control, every step Tsunade took on the lake surface felt like stepping on solid ground.
Borrowing the reaction force of Strange Strength, she pushed her speed to the limit.
In the blink of an eye, she appeared on the other side of the lake!
Then, she stepped onto the grass on the other side of the lake.
Before she could cheer, a little blondie appeared beside her.
"This..."
Tsunade's mouth twitched. She turned to look at the direction she came from. The shore where the two were previously standing had completely collapsed, and the lake surface looked like it had been ravaged by a hurricane, with chaotic ripples.
"The speed bonus of Light Style is still quite high..."
Minato scratched his head and grinned.
Tsunade was speechless for a while.
Although she wasn't specialized in speed, with the blessing of Strange Strength, she wouldn't be slower than those Jonin who specialized in speed.
Looking at his face, not red or panting, Tsunade chuckled inwardly.
This kid really knows how to take care of my feelings.
"Not bad. With this speed, at least I don't need to worry about you not having time to escape when you encounter danger."
Tsunade nodded with satisfaction. "Next, let's see the power of your Light Style. What you showed before shouldn't be your limit, right?"
Minato nodded. He was also a little curious about how much power he could generate under full exertion with his current stamina.
Thinking of this, he raised his palm towards the center of the lake, his palm emitting a dazzling light.
Although there was no massive pre-motion, the continuously accumulating energy still made Tsunade feel a creeping sense of threat.
Suddenly, a ball of light shot out from Minato's hand and submerged into the lake surface.
BOOM—
In the next instant, the lake water shot up into the sky!
The terrifying explosion set off a huge wave nearly a hundred meters high, like a red hemisphere buckled on the lake surface. The explosion range almost covered the entire small lake!
The commotion was so great that it was clearly visible even from several kilometers away.
Ignoring the shock, almost at the moment the huge wave surged up, Tsunade grabbed Minato and ran into the distance, unable to suppress the excitement in her heart.
This power... must be Super S-Rank, right?