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Chapter 152 Ryuji's Immortal Body (Please Subscribe)

Consciousness awakened from the depths, and Long Er slowly opened his eyes. A delicate face came into view, with a hint of tension in his wine-red eyes.

"Master, how are you feeling?"

Seeing that Long Er had woken up, Hong quickly asked.

"Feel……"

Long Er was initially confused, but then he recalled the events.

A week had passed since Danzo's solo visit that evening.

During this week, he created a celestial body for himself, and now it's time to test the new body.

Thinking of this, he propped himself up on the platform and sat up, the mirror opposite him reflecting his body.

His appearance hasn't changed; he still has short, choppy reddish-brown hair, and his face is still so handsome that even gay men would admire him. His physique is still well-proportioned and slender, with perfectly toned abs that would make any girl blush.

However, although her appearance has not changed, the feeling she gives off is completely different.

The color of his eyes became brighter, and the changes in his facial expressions became more vibrant, giving people a radiant feeling.

"This must be the change brought about by abundant vitality!"

Ryuji clenched his fist and felt his strength increase, but the change wasn't too obvious.

"The adjustment of physical fitness has also been very successful."

Although individual strength did not change much, speed, endurance, resilience, recovery ability, and body coordination all improved to varying degrees, making the body two to three times stronger than before.

It wasn't that Ryuji didn't want to improve his strength, but rather that the physical abilities of ninjas were generally similar.

Aside from young kids who haven't even reached adolescence, or special cases like Tsunade and Sakura who are born with superhuman strength, the physical abilities of the other ninjas, while varying, are not noticeably different.

Even guys like Might Guy, Dai, and Rock Lee, who specialize in hand-to-hand combat, aren't much stronger than the others.

The reason for the huge difference in speed and power is due to the individual's use of chakra.

Taijutsu (body techniques) does not rely solely on physical strength, but primarily on chakra amplification.

In the Chunin Exams in the original manga, Sasuke couldn't physically react to Rock Lee's speed while he was wearing weights, but after just one month of training, he was able to surpass Rock Lee's speed without the weights.

The reason is that he has made great strides in the use of chakra.

Otherwise, how could he surpass Lee in physical fitness after practicing Chidori for a whole month?

Kakashi trained to climb rocks with one hand every day when he was a child, but he still couldn't surpass Guy. Sasuke, on the other hand, was able to surpass Rock Lee in physical ability after just one month of ninjutsu training.

However, although taijutsu mainly relies on chakra, it does not mean that physical fitness is useless.

The human body has a limited capacity to withstand stress.

If one's physical condition is not strong enough, the amount of chakra amplification one can receive will be extremely limited.

Furthermore, forces act in pairs.

Without a sufficiently strong body, if you throw a punch, you might not kill your enemy, but instead your own arm could be burst from the force.

This can be seen from the side effects of the Eight Gates Formation.

Although Ryuji's physical attributes only increased by two or three times, the amount of chakra he could withstand increased by nearly ten times. In terms of speed and strength, this meant he completely overwhelmed ordinary Chunin.

"Specific data still needs to be tested, but judging from experience, the speed and strength I can currently demonstrate are no worse than those of elite Jonin. If I concentrate my chakra and unleash it, it will produce a level far exceeding the average." Ryuji mobilized the surging chakra within his body, feeling the powerful force emanating from his body, and couldn't help but make an estimate in his mind.

Without the aid of an exoskeleton armor, relying on his maxed-out taijutsu and various basic ninjutsu, along with his rich combat experience, he reached the Kage level.

However, lacking a decisive finishing move, he only barely reaches the Kage level. He might not even be able to defeat some Jonin with strong defensive skills.

but……

"This body has a high talent for chakra manipulation, so learning ninjutsu won't be as difficult as before." Ryuji tried to mobilize his chakra, and the smooth feeling of controlling his chakra gave him an unprecedented feeling... It seemed that he could easily use any kind of ninjutsu.

Influenced by this feeling, he gathered chakra in his palm, continuously compressing and rotating it. The surrounding airflow was drawn in and began to rotate erratically.

In the blink of an eye, a chakra dumpling the size of a tennis ball, spinning rapidly, came to rest in his hand.

"This body's ninjutsu talent is also at Kakashi's level."

Ryuji nodded slightly, then pointed the observation device at himself.

The beam of light shone through, projecting the Rasengan's model structure onto the top, and the corresponding data was displayed one by one.

The chakra attribute column shows that all seven attributes—wind, fire, lightning, earth, water, yin, and yang—are fully represented.

"There's no problem with the chakra attributes either, so..."

Ryuji deactivated the Rasengan, formed hand seals in front of his chest, and frantically extracted energy from his physical and mental cells, which then gathered in his lower abdomen and were refined into chakra.

Vast amounts of chakra erupted from his body, burning like flames.

Feeling the immense amount of chakra, Ryuji finally smiled with satisfaction. "The amount of chakra is more than three hundred times that of before, and probably twice that of Naruto at fifteen years old."

When Naruto was fifteen, his chakra was about a hundred times that of Kakashi, while Ryuji's chakra in his previous body was several times weaker than Kakashi's.

This is not shameful, because this is the average level in the ninja world.

On the contrary, Kakashi, who often runs out of chakra, actually has an upper-middle level of chakra in the ninja world.

It's important to know that using the Sharingan consumes a lot of chakra, and even the Uchiha clan finds it difficult to maintain the Sharingan for extended periods of combat.

However, Kakashi can not only use the Sharingan to complete high-intensity battles, but he also frequently uses the S-rank ninjutsu Lightning Blade and the chakra-consuming Shadow Clone Jutsu in battle, all of which demonstrate his chakra reserves.

The reason we mention Naruto at fifteen years old instead of Naruto is because Naruto's chakra is growing rapidly every moment.

The Bagua Seal within Naruto's body absorbs the Nine-Tails' chakra every moment, then refines it through sealing techniques and integrates it into Naruto's body, allowing him to grow rapidly without training.

His chakra reserves at age fifteen were a hundred times that of Kakashi, and during the Fourth Shinobi World War, they were many times greater.

"Kakashi's ninjutsu talent, his chakra stronger than Naruto's, plus the thousands of ninjutsu I've researched over the years... I'll soon be able to become a ninja like the Third Hokage," Ryuji thought to himself.

As for whether he is stronger or weaker than the Third Hokage, that depends on the strength of the Third Hokage at his peak.

Anyway, he's definitely stronger than the Third Hokage from the Chunin Exams.

The question is whether Danzo wanted to become Hokage.

In the original manga and novel, Danzo never considered becoming Hokage during the Third Hokage's reign.

Although he didn't agree with Sarutobi's philosophy and wouldn't admit it verbally, he secretly acknowledged that Sarutobi was stronger than him. He often used Sarutobi to intimidate others during negotiations (his exact words were roughly: "Although I'm not good enough, Sarutobi isn't someone you can easily deal with").

At the same time, he was very unwilling to accept defeat and always wanted to prove that he was better than Sarutobi, so he kept doing things in his own way, hoping to use this as proof.

However, the anime's original content portrayed Danzo as a complete idiot, even sending people to assassinate him.

Finally, the protagonist has developed to a point where he's ready to unleash his full potential and show off.

(End of this chapter)