Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Mito noticed the expression on Kirito's face and asked him a question.

"I can understand it, but it will probably take me a week to learn it."

Kirito answered honestly.

"Since you understand it, I'll give you an assignment: develop a ninjutsu to summon souls based on this sealing technique. The deadline is before dinner."

Mito nodded in satisfaction, and then immediately assigned Kirito a long-awaited homework assignment.

"Yes."

Upon hearing Mito's words, Kirito immediately understood her intention and excitedly replied.

The Corpse Demon Seal contains the formulas for how to sacrifice souls. He only needs to take out these formulas and add some general formulas to quickly create a simple ninjutsu that can summon souls. This is not too difficult for him.

As for why Mito would do that to him, it's clear that Mito already knew the conditions for him to learn the art of spiritualization from the Third Hokage, and Mito did indeed have a method to test soul aptitude.

Kirito had no doubt about this.

After all, the Uzumaki clan has even developed an S-rank soul sealing technique like the Corpse Demon Sealing Technique, so it's impossible that they haven't conducted in-depth research on the soul.

All he needs to do now is complete this ninjutsu to summon a soul, and then he can have Mito test his soul aptitude on his own.

Without delay, he immediately took out a spirit card, used the Spirit Spell: Release Technique to retrieve a blank scroll and pen and ink from it, and then began to quickly write some spells on the paper.

Kushina, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but sneak a peek and discovered that Kirito was writing the formula on the paper without even looking at the formula on the scroll. She immediately thought to herself, "Let's see how capable you are. You only looked at the sealing technique on that scroll once. I don't believe you can create a new ninjutsu without looking at the formula again."

Sealing techniques are a very precise ninjutsu; if even one of the formulas is written incorrectly, it is impossible to activate them successfully.

"Clap~"

A scroll slammed into Kushina's head.

Kushina immediately covered her head, quickly averting her gaze from Kirito, and then continued to listen attentively to Mito's explanation of the sealing technique.

Kirito's presence was too strong. He was the only male in the room, and a sealing technique genius with far more talent than her. Kushina still couldn't help but secretly go to see Kirito to see if he had succeeded.

Only ten minutes later, she heard Kirito say, "It's finished, Mito-sensei. Please take a look."

Kushina immediately looked towards Kirito and saw him press his hand on the center of a jutsu array formed by many techniques on the paper. As chakra was injected, the entire jutsu array lit up instantly.

The next moment, she saw a pure white Kirito float out of Kirito's body.

"That's it?"

Kushina stared at the pure white Kirito, utterly shocked.

She wasn't mistaken; that pure white Kirito was undoubtedly Kirito's soul.

"Is this what it feels like to have an out-of-body experience? My vision is normal, and my senses are sharper than usual, but I feel a bit cold."

Kirito looked at the motionless body lying on the ground below, then looked at his own current state, closed his eyes, and carefully experienced the changes that were taking place in his current soul state.

At the same time, Mito carefully examined Kirito's soul.

Soon, a look of surprise appeared in her eyes, because she saw Kirito in his soul form walking around the room, and his soul showed no signs of dissipation, remaining perfectly solid.

"What astonishing soul power! My disciple is truly a prodigy."

Chapter 41: Lightning Flash

The Uzumaki clan has indeed made great strides in their study of the soul, because in ancient times, the world was filled with many demons and monsters.

Among them, the mysterious and unpredictable ghosts are extremely difficult to deal with and very hard to eliminate.

Later, people discovered that they could seal these ghosts with sealing techniques and then let time wear them down.

The art of sealing the soul was thus developed.

The Uzumaki clan's research on souls developed during that period, and their greatest masterpiece was the Reaper Death Seal, an S-rank soul sealing technique that could even take away the Nine-Tails sealed inside the Shinigami's belly.

As the princess of the Uzumaki clan and the strongest sealing ninja of her time, Mito Uzumaki naturally inherited the legacy of the Uzumaki clan and has a deep understanding of souls and even the Pure Land.

Therefore, she understood very well that the soul undergoing its first out-of-body experience was extremely fragile.

Let alone moving it, even a gust of wind could cause it to collapse.

And the soul of Kirito before her was so special. She never expected his soul to be so powerful and so solid. It could move as soon as it left her body. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she probably wouldn't have believed that all of this was real.

After moving around the room for a short while, Kirito felt a little tired and had a stinging sensation.

He realized something was wrong, and then, to the astonishment of Mito and Kushina, he smoothly returned to his own body.

A dozen seconds later, Kirito opened his eyes again and immediately felt as if his body had been hollowed out and he was extremely tired. He wished he could lie down on the ground and get a good night's sleep.

He tried to stand up and stretch his body, but almost fell. Luckily, Kushina was quick to catch him and pulled him back, preventing him from falling to the ground.

"Thank you, Kushina."

Kirito expressed his gratitude.

Upon hearing this, Kushina blushed slightly and quickly released her grip on Kirito's shoulder.

As soon as she let go, Kirito fell onto her kneeling legs.

"what!!!"

Kushina screamed and pushed Kirito away forcefully.

Although Kushina looks small and thin, she is surprisingly strong. Kirito was sent flying, his head slamming into the wall and embedding itself inside.

"Are you... are you alright?"

As soon as Kushina pushed Kirito away, she realized she had done something wrong and said somewhat fearfully.

Kirito was in decent physical condition. He struggled to stick his head out of the wall, blood streaming down his forehead, and looked at Kushina with a smile, saying, "I'm alright."

No sooner had he finished speaking than his eyes rolled back, he fainted, collapsed to the ground, and fell fast asleep.

Kushina thought Kirito was dead. She was so frightened that her face turned pale, her whole body trembled, and she looked pitifully at Mito.

Seeing this, Mito couldn't help but chuckle mischievously. When she saw that Kushina was almost crying, she comforted her, "Don't worry, this kid is tough and won't die. But remember to apologize when he wakes up. Now go and take him to the guest room to rest."

Kushina immediately nodded obediently, then picked up Kirito and quickly left the room.

After Kushina left, Mito quickly suppressed her smile and said, "Momoka."

"Lord Mito, please give your orders."

Momoka Senju instantly knelt down on one knee and appeared before Mito, speaking respectfully.

"Go and call that old bastard Third Hokage to bring me the Spirit Transformation Technique. Also, tell him and that brat Danzo to keep an eye on things. If anything happens to Kirito, I'll make them pay."

Mito said with a cold face.

"what."

Tao Hua accepted the order and used her Instantaneous Movement Technique to disappear from the room.

"That idiot Tobirama, how could he have handed the village over to that moron Hiruzen? And that brat Danzo, he's getting more and more outrageous in his pursuit of his goals. He's even turned the Will of Fire into dog food. We really shouldn't have made that guy an advisor in the first place..."

After Momoka left, Mito's face showed displeasure, and he said with a mixture of annoyance and worry.

She had, of course, learned from Momoka that the Third Hokage and Danzo were planning to use Kirito to lure out the spy hidden in the village.

When she found out, she was so angry that she almost caused a serious leak of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Two years ago, if the Third Hokage and Danzo had dared to do this, she would have immediately taught those two idiots a lesson.

Unfortunately, she doesn't have much time left. She's already struggling to suppress the Nine-Tails within her. If she were to force her way out, she probably wouldn't live to see Tsunade return from the battlefield.

Left with no other option, she had to issue a warning.

"Hashirama, the village you left behind, I understand it less and less now. I hope the new shoots of Konoha will continue to grow strong and then everything will return to normal..."

Mito closed her eyes, a deep weariness on her face, and sighed.

……

That evening, in the training grounds of Chizuru's backyard in the Uchiha clan compound.

At this moment, Chizuru was undergoing her daily combat training. Her opponents today were three elite Chunin from the Uchiha clan.

Chizuru's attire was no different from that during the day, except that she now carried a slender longsword.

Under the lamplight, the longsword gleamed coldly, giving off an aura of invincible sharpness.

This sword is called Lightning Strike, a famous sword made of chakra metal mixed with a special lightning attribute metal. It not only has excellent chakra conductivity, but also, as its name suggests, will automatically generate lightning once chakra is injected into it.

Under the watchful gaze of Uchiha Homura, the battle began.

Chizuru opened her eyes, activated her Sharingan, and instantly her limbs were covered with lightning-style chakra.

As he drew his sword, a sharp, hissing thunder suddenly erupted.

The next moment, more than a dozen Chizuru in different forms suddenly appeared on the training ground where lightning flashed.

As the lightning subsided, the three elite Chunin almost simultaneously let out a scream, swords piercing their chests, spurting out scalding blood, and kneeling on the ground in astonishment.

"Click~"

Chizuru appeared behind the three of them and sheathed her sword.

In the blink of an eye, he easily defeated three elite Chunin.

If this were a life-or-death duel, she would have already killed the three elite Chunin.

"Not bad, you've completely mastered the Thunder Strike Secret Technique. However, try not to use that move in the future. It's best to save it as a trump card for decisive victories. Was that move famous?"

Uchiha Homura watched as Chizuru instantly killed three elite Chunin of her clan, and nodded with satisfaction, praising her.

Defeating three elite Chunin at the same time is not actually difficult; any Konoha Jonin who has undergone rigorous testing can do it.

Even the elite Chunin of the Uchiha clan are no exception.

However, for an eight-year-old girl to be able to do this is nothing short of terrifying.

Now, his granddaughter, on whom he had placed high hopes, has achieved this.

"Lightning Flash".

Chizuru uttered two words expressionlessly.

After saying that, she turned and walked into the house without glancing at the three elite Chunin on the ground again.