I'm in Konoha, and I have ten skill slots.

Six refining techniques and one clone technique!

quantity!

The difference lies in the quantity; could it be that the clone technique wasn't fully activated?

Shi Yu frowned.

Let's try installing another one!

Passive Skill: Clone Technique

[Running]

[Passive Skill: Complete one run]

Shigure was just about to try releasing the clone technique again when she suddenly felt like there was something extra.

But it's as if I can't quite put my finger on it.

What is the use of completing one cycle of the clone technique?

Shi Yu shook her head and decided to try releasing the clone technique first.

However, when Shigure released the clone technique this time, he was stunned for a moment. His hand seals seemed to be exceptionally smooth, and he didn't even need to think about what hand seals to form.

It seems that my body has developed some kind of muscle memory!

And the speed of forming hand seals has also increased.

boom!

Accompanied by a burst of blue chakra, a clone appeared.

Looking closely at the clone in front of him this time, Shigure felt that the clone seemed even more perfect.

But what surprised Shigure the most right now was...

Chakra hasn't decreased!

"It really is because of the number of passive skills on the equipment!"

Equipping one clone skill will not cost any resources, but equipping two clone skills will cost no resources.

No wonder I didn't consume any chakra when I refined it.

"This... is it considered a hidden feature?"

It doesn't seem quite right!

It looks more like I messed up a bug in the system!

If the system isn't corrupted, it shouldn't allow me to equip two identical passive skills!

Now that the system is corrupted, I can decide which skills to install. Having two identical passive skills allows me to exploit a bug!

Release the equipment's passive skill without consuming any resources!

Of course, the prerequisite is that one skill must be installed in both skill slots.

I have a total of seven passive skill slots, which means I can simultaneously use three passive skills without any cost.

Suddenly, Shiyu's eyes lit up. Who said it could only be three skills with no cost!

Why not just put the skill you need into both skill slots when you need to use it?

Thinking of this, Shigure summoned the system again, preparing to replace the clone technique with the transformation technique.

[Note: You need to wait a few seconds before switching passive skills.]

[Current remaining wait time: 4 seconds]

Ugh!

Upon seeing this notification, Shi Yu sighed.

It seems my idea has failed.

The waiting time to switch passive skills is one minute, which is not a long time.

However, it seems unlikely that you can maintain a no-cost state by constantly switching skills during combat.

In a real battle, every second counts. Even Nagato's Shinra Tensei, with its five-second cooldown, couldn't withstand a minute, let alone his own one minute.

But it doesn't matter. If you really face a fierce battle, you can preemptively use three free skills and leave one skill slot for Chakra Refinement.

Chakra refinement can not only increase chakra, but also restore chakra.

If you are in a state of full chakra, increasing your chakra level and refining it once might only yield a trace of chakra.

However, if chakra has already been depleted, refining chakra once can restore more than half of it.

By reserving a skill slot for Chakra Refinement, which completes one refinement every five minutes, one essentially gains a passive chakra regeneration skill.

Moreover, it recovers more than half of its contents in five minutes.

For Shigure at this stage, being a mid-genin with a large portion of his chakra isn't much, but as he progresses and his chakra increases, so too will his chakra levels rise.

The amount of chakra restored would be enormous.

Furthermore, if one could learn Sage Mode, then by refining it into Sage Mode, one could absorb natural energy at any time to condense Sage Chakra.

This is equivalent to realizing the technique that Naruto wanted to develop for refining Sage Chakra in battle.

Even without a monstrous Sage Body like Hashirama's that can automatically absorb Sage Chakra for recovery, one can achieve the same effect by relying on passive skills.

Moreover, regardless of the circumstances, Hashirama's automatic absorption of natural energy was certainly not as much as his active extraction of Sage Chakra.

My passive skill slot can turn the active effect of absorbing natural energy into a passive effect!

When you compare them like this, your own skill set is definitely more powerful!

Shi Yu looked up at the window.

The open hand slowly clenched into a fist.

"mediocre??"

"No, no, no... From now on, the entire ninja world will be shaken because of me!"

Chapter 5: The Effects of Different Skills

This will shake the entire ninja world!

That's for the future; for now, I should continue working on my skill set.

Just now, Shigure felt that after running the clone technique once, his hand seals seemed to become smoother, and his body even seemed to have muscle memory.

Furthermore, the released clones also appear to be even more perfect.

The clone is not a shadow clone; it's just a deceptive technique used to assist ninjas in their attacks.

At the same time, clones are also easy to spot.

Even ninjas without eye techniques can easily see through the clone technique.

The specific reason is to find the differences!

The clone is not a shadow clone, nor is it formed by chakra based on the original body; rather, it is created by the user's imagination.

In other words, if you are injured and you use the clone technique but do not incorporate the element of your injury into the process, the clone you create will still be an unharmed version of you.

This makes it easy for the enemy to discover the flaw and thus see through the clone technique.

Looking at the perfectly formed clone before him, Shigure now seemed to understand the effects of ninjutsu like the Clone Technique.

That is, it indirectly increases one's ninjutsu experience, allowing one to upgrade their ninjutsu.

In addition! There are other additional effects.

For example, the speed of hand seals. The transformation technique requires hand seals. Although not all the seals are used, the hand seals for the clone technique will be formed much faster by oneself.

"So it seems that the Chakra Refining Technique can continuously increase one's chakra reserves!"

The importance of chakra reserves for ninjas is undeniable, but ninjas can't just have a large amount of chakra!

Otherwise, he would be like Naruto in the early stages, possessing terrifying chakra but only able to intimidate people with thousands of shadow clones.

When facing a true master, these thousands of shadow clones won't scare them away.

As for auxiliary ninjutsu like the Shadow Clone Technique, putting it in the skill bar not only allows the ninjutsu to be continuously upgraded, but also...

It can also increase the speed of hand seal formation.

The activation of passive skills is equivalent to one's own body cultivating, and each time it is cultivated in the most perfect state.

It's normal that the clone technique becomes stronger.

Similarly, ninjutsu with direct attack capabilities can also be added to the skill bar, and the system will continuously enhance the power of this ninjutsu.

The skill bar is also useful in terms of attack methods, which makes me feel much more at ease.

The three essential elements of a ninja are chakra, ninjutsu, and taijutsu!

Having a huge amount of chakra and powerful ninjutsu, but being weak in taijutsu and getting instantly killed in close combat, wouldn't that make you a fragile mage?