Chapter 248: Storm Release
Ishiro's mastery of both water and lightning attributes had far exceeded the minimum requirements for training in a Kekkei Genkai. Ōnoki, who had been closely monitoring Ishiro's training progress, was actually prepared for this day.
When Ikura mentioned the matter, Ōnoki directly had Ikura take over Ishiro's position as commander, allowing Ishiro to return to the village to complete the final step.
A month and a half later, Ikura arrived at the southern front camp. Ishiro, on the other hand, returned to Iwagakure and began his second bodily evolution under Ōnoki's personal protection.
This time, the physical transformation lasted even longer than the first, but the level of discomfort was far less. After about two months, Ishiro finally completed the final step.
With this, the development of the Storm Release Kekkei Genkai was complete.
At the same time, Ishiro also became a ninja possessing two different Kekkei Genkai. At this point in time, the Mist's Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi, had probably not yet completed the development of her dual Kekkei Genkai. In that case, Ishiro should be the only ninja in the ninja world right now with two Kekkei Genkai.
After developing Storm Release, Ishiro didn't plan to spend too much time on Storm Release ninjutsu. To improve his combat power, Porcelain Release was enough. Porcelain Release combined with sealing jutsu was the main tactical direction Ishiro was developing.
However, Storm Release also had its advantages. Ishiro planned to develop Madara Uchiha's ninjutsu from the original story: Storm Release: Light Fang. This move was very similar to the Water Release: Water Cutting Technique that he had developed himself, so it probably wouldn't take too much time.
But these were all long-term plans. Right now, Ishiro was still entangled with many other matters.
The six disciples of Squad Three and Squad Four still needed Ishiro's proper guidance. Because of his training and development of Storm Release, the time Ishiro had spent on these six disciples was far less than on the previous two batches.
Then there was the war. It had been three and a half months since the Mist officially started the Fourth War. During this period, the various nations of the ninja world were mainly in a standoff and had not broken out into overly intense conflicts. But as time went on, the war preparations of all countries were basically complete, and no one knew where this delicate balance would be broken next.
Ikura had done a good job taking over from Ishiro as the southern front commander, and there was no need for Ishiro to switch back. So, for a while, Ōnoki couldn't find a suitable position for Ishiro and could only let him be idle, much to his chagrin.
Ishiro, free from the drag of war for a short time, made a trip to the southern front camp and brought his six disciples back.
Having not seen them for two months, the changes in the six disciples were quite obvious. Clearly, in these two months, Ikura had given them special care, and all six had participated in many war-related missions. Ishiro was very satisfied with the mental state of all six. It was time to go all out to help the six of them find their own paths.
Although he said six, Takuhiro Uchiyama couldn't really be included. His talent was the best, and he had gone the furthest. Now, Takuhiro's strength was far beyond what the other five could compare to. Ishiro estimated that Takuhiro's current strength was not weak even among Chunin.
Previously, Ishiro hadn't given Takuhiro much guidance. Now, after a series of missions, Ishiro finally had a reason to give him special tutoring.
After getting permission from Ōnoki, Ishiro finally began to teach Takuhiro his first gravity-related ninjutsu: the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu.
Takuhiro's talent was very unique, with a focus on gravity. This kind of talent would be of little use in other hidden villages, even Konoha. But in Iwagakure, it was different. Iwagakure had many gravity-related ninjutsu: the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu, the Weighted Rock Jutsu, and their upgraded versions. In addition, there were the S-rank ninjutsu Shinra Tensei and Bansho Ten'in.
However, the lowest rank of these ninjutsu was A-rank, and there were only two A-rank gravity ninjutsu. Before, Takuhiro had made no contributions to the village. Even as Ishiro's disciple, he couldn't be taught the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu as an exception.
However, although Ishiro hadn't formally taught Takuhiro A-rank ninjutsu before, he had not slacked off in training Takuhiro's sensitivity to gravity. For example, the daily flight adaptation was something Ishiro rarely interrupted.
So, this A-rank ninjutsu training was not too difficult for Takuhiro. It only took him about half a month to master his first A-rank ninjutsu.
Although the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu was not a combat-type ninjutsu, Takuhiro was still very excited. Although his talent was good and he had learned many ninjutsu under Ishiro's guidance before, the highest level had only been two B-rank ninjutsu, and his proficiency wasn't high.
But the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu was an A-rank ninjutsu, consumed little chakra, and Takuhiro believed it was the ninjutsu that suited him best. As soon as he learned this jutsu, he spent all day hovering in mid-air, unwilling to come down. Even for his usual activities on the ground, the guy would float.
To this, Ishiro naturally would not object. This was a good thing for a ninja. If Ishiro had been this dedicated to the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu, after so many years, he might have learned the Super Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu on his own by now.
Takuhiro's training, as always, did not require too much of Ishiro's concern. Ishiro didn't care at all how he used the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu to change his tactics.
After Ishiro taught the training method for the Light/Heavy Rock Jutsu to Takuhiro, he only needed to create an Earth Clone each day to watch over him, and he didn't need to manage much else.
Next, the first person Ishiro guided was Yuran Kawazoe. The little girl's sealing jutsu was the most compatible with Ishiro's, and her progress was also the fastest among the six. The only regret was that ninjas who were proficient in sealing jutsu were often not good at combat.
But it didn't matter; this wasn't a big problem for Yuran Kawazoe. Although her own combat power was terrible, when she cooperated with Kanako's Paper Release, the effect was surprisingly good.
Yuran, with insufficient talent and chakra, could now cast several B-rank sealing jutsu. As for C-rank sealing jutsu, she had learned almost all that she had access to.
Ishiro felt that if he disregarded the cheat of his past life's memories, his own progress in sealing jutsu would probably be far inferior to Yuran's.
For this training camp, Ishiro planned to teach Yuran an A-rank sealing jutsu: the Five Elements Seal. Because the Five Elements Seal was mainly developed by Ishiro himself, after reporting to the village, Ishiro received permission to teach it to his disciple.
For a high-IQ student like Yuran, she didn't actually need Ishiro to spend too much effort on theoretical learning. Ishiro simply explained the thought process of his development of this A-rank sealing jutsu and the various problems encountered during the research process, and then let the little girl ponder it on her own.
Kanako, who was in the same Squad Six as Takuhiro and Yuran, was a bigger headache for Ishiro. For no other reason than that Ishiro had no idea how to guide her. All of Kanako's training was carried out according to the manual Konan had written.
However, Kanako had already learned everything in the manual over the past year or so. The next step should be to research how to develop Paper Release into a Kekkei Genkai. For the old Ishiro, this would have been easy: just take Kanako on a trip to the Land of Rivers to learn from Konan. Whether Kanako could successfully develop the Kekkei Genkai under Konan's guidance was not Ishiro's concern; he just had to fulfill his duty as a teacher.
But now, Ishiro was no longer sure if Konan would still guide his disciple. Since Jiraiya's death, the connection between Ishiro and the three Akatsuki members had been severed. Ishiro didn't know what the three Akatsuki members' attitude towards him was now. In addition, the war had already broken out, and Ōnoki would not dare to let Ishiro risk going to the Land of Rivers.
Ōnoki was quite wary of the Akatsuki. As Iwagakure's and the Land of Earth's status in the ninja world slowly rose, the ideological conflict between the Akatsuki and Iwagakure was also gradually increasing. The Akatsuki's philosophy was unfriendly to any ninja world hegemon.
The current Iwagakure, under Ōnoki's leadership, was constantly advancing towards the goal of becoming the new hegemon of the ninja world. And this goal no longer seemed so unattainable.
At this time, when Ōnoki looked at the Akatsuki's philosophy again, the more he looked, the more unacceptable he found it. If not for Konoha still being at the forefront at this stage, Ōnoki would have wanted to launch an underhanded attack on the Akatsuki.
So Ōnoki was against Ishiro's desire to go to the Land of Rivers to see the Akatsuki's leader.
Helpless, Ishiro could only write a letter each to Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan with a "let's see what happens" attitude. In the letter to Konan, Ishiro wrote about Kanako's recent training progress and asked how to train next.
Kanako's future achievements could only wait for Konan's reply.
But even without Konan's reply, Kanako's strength was quite good. Although Kanako's Paper Release was not a Kekkei Genkai, at most a secret jutsu, considering the special attack methods of Paper Release, Kanako's combat power was actually not low.
Because Paper Release had a huge advantage: it could be prepared in advance. Using paper to attack with Paper Release was, naturally, Paper Release. But if she used exploding tags to attack, then it would be no less than a Kekkei Genkai like Explosion Release.
If Kanako prepared a large number of exploding tags in advance, her combat power ceiling would be very high. It should be known that even Kage-level individuals were not immune to the damage of exploding tags. Well, oddballs like the Fourth Raikage were an exception.
Someone as strong as the Second Hokage had also developed a forbidden jutsu like the Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags, which was classified as S-rank.
And at the Elite Jonin level, among the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, there was the Blastsword Shibuki, which used exploding tags as its main attack method.
This showed the power of exploding tags.
And Kanako, when on missions a few days ago, had used exploding tags in battle. Several dangerous missions were resolved by Kanako relying on exploding tags.
So although the current Kanako's strength was not high, her potential was still great.
Next was Himeki Suda of Squad Three. The little girl had a lively personality, and her physical constitution was much better than the other two girls, Kanako and Yuran. So the little girl's main combat style was still taijutsu. Of course, this was also due to the little girl's poor talent in ninjutsu.
However, over the past year or so, the little girl had made progress in learning ninjutsu. She could now cast C-rank Fire Release ninjutsu. The only C-rank Fire Release she had learned was the Great Fireball Technique that Ishiro had taught her.
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