Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Kirito said with a rather troubled expression.

Izanagi is the ultimate eye technique of the Uchiha clan. Even though he had a good relationship with Uchiha Homura and Chizuru, he would never have had the opportunity to come into contact with it.

In the original storyline, Danzo obtained this ultimate eye technique after massacring the Uchiha clan.

Now that Uchiha Homura has died unexpectedly due to Uchiha Madara, without having the chance to reveal the many secrets of the Uchiha clan to the next clan head, only heaven knows where this eye technique is currently hidden within the Uchiha clan.

To be honest, if the opportunity arose, Kirito would really like to use the Impure World Reincarnation technique to summon Uchiha Homura and ask her about the whereabouts of the Izanagi eye technique.

Of course, there's also Izanami, the eye technique that corrects personality traits.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Homura's body had already been burned to ashes by Uchiha Madara, and the only remaining part of Uchiha Homura's body in this world was the Mangekyou Sharingan on Uchiha Madara's body.

Kirito racked his brains trying to figure out how to defeat Uchiha Madara, until a handsome figure with a憨厚 (honest and simple) laugh flashed through his mind. He immediately laughed and said, "How stupid of me! Didn't my senior already give me the answer to this old guy? I still have to rely on Wood Release."

That's right, the method to defeat Madara Uchiha was Wood Release.

This is the power that has successfully defeated Madara Uchiha in the current ninja world. Although Madara Uchiha stole this power by transplanting Hashirama's cells, it is still undeniably a powerful force.

However, his true form did not possess a Wood Release bloodline limit, which caused him to frown.

Although he possessed the power of Wood Release, it was through the unique nature of his White Zetsu clones; his true body did not have the Wood Release bloodline limit.

"The power of Wood Release is extremely rare in the ninja world, but it's not nonexistent. Besides Hashirama Senju, Moegi from later generations also possessed this bloodline limit. In other words, it doesn't require Ashura's chakra to be born. Ashura's chakra probably played a facilitating role, allowing those with insufficient Water Release and Earth Release levels to obtain the power of Wood Release in a cheating way."

Therefore, as long as my Water Release or Earth Release level reaches 5, even without Ashura's chakra, I have a chance to obtain the power of Wood Release.

As Kirito thought this, his tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

People today only know that Wood Release is the power of the God of Shinobi, but they don't know that Wood Release is not unique to the God of Shinobi.

Today, Kirito Tohsaka will try to obtain the Wood Release bloodline limit through his own power.

Without hesitation, he immediately used 3 enhancement points on Earth Escape, raising its level to 5.

Yes, he did not choose to upgrade his Water Release skill by 4 levels.

Because the power of Water Release is ultimately diminished when it leaves a place with water, even if the level reaches 5.

Earth Release is different. As long as you don't reach the sea, Earth Release can be used anywhere. It can play a significant role in defense, escape, and restraining enemies.

More importantly, he has mastered two powerful and highly practical S-rank Earth Release ninjutsu: Earth Release: Super Heavy Rock Technique and Earth Release: Super Light Heavy Rock Technique.

After his Earth Release is upgraded to level 5, he will definitely be able to better utilize these two S-rank Earth Release ninjutsu, which will play a significant role in his subsequent battle against Madara Uchiha.

After reaching Earth Release level 5, a mysterious feeling began to form in Kirito's heart, causing him to subconsciously close his eyes and immerse himself in it.

The next second, Kirito's entire body emitted a powerful earth-style chakra, and his body was quickly covered by a layer of yellow stone skin. In just a few seconds, he turned into a yellow stone statue.

At the same time, Kirito's consciousness began to immerse itself in a strange dream, where he found himself transformed into a giant rock, falling into a bottomless sea.

Over the long years, he came from the ocean to the land, then from being exposed to the sun and rain, and then buried by the sand. He shrank as the weathering progressed, while his consciousness expanded.

Eventually, after an unknown amount of time, he completely merged with the earth, becoming a part of it, and thus understood what the power of the earth was.

In the real world, more than an hour after Kirito turned into a stone statue, a series of "crackling" sounds came from the statue, and a large number of cracks appeared on the surface of the statue, and then a large amount of stone skin peeled off from it.

A moment later, the stone skin on Kirito's body completely fell off, restoring him to his original appearance. He reopened his eyes, which revealed a sense of vicissitude, and sighed, "Great virtue carries all things, this is Earth Release."

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of yellow light appeared on his body, and he disappeared into the ground.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared in the forest outside the orphanage.

Chapter 297: Wood Release Power Different from Hashirama Senju

"The speed is not bad. It's about two hundred meters from here to the orphanage. To be able to cross such a long distance underground in an instant is quite a good technique of teleportation."

Kirito looked at the orphanage not far away, estimated the distance between here and the orphanage, and smiled slightly.

Shrinking the earth is the special ability he gains after reaching level 5 in Earth Escape.

This special ability allows him to travel underground effortlessly and at great speed.

For example, just now, he took only one second to go from the orphanage basement to the forest outside, instantly traversing a distance of nearly two hundred meters.

While this kind of rapid movement can also be achieved through various body-shrinking techniques, the advantage of shrinking the ground is that it can be done without consuming any chakra, and once inside the ground, one's aura will blend into the earth, making it difficult for enemies to detect.

The most amazing thing is that he can breathe underground, which allows him to stay underground for extended periods of time.

Based on this alone, Kirito came up with a shameless tactic that would give Madara Uchiha a major headache: his real body would hide underground and secretly remotely control the flesh puppet with black rods inserted into it to fight Madara Uchiha.

In short, shrinking the earth has become a passive innate ability for him. As long as he is on the ground, he can move and hide underground at any time.

With this passive ability, he is practically impossible to kill.

Next, Kirito continued to try using the Shrinking Earth ability to further familiarize himself with its application.

Before long, Kirito left Konoha silently and arrived at a waterfall in the vast forest outside Konoha.

At this point, relying on his powerful mental calculation ability, he had completely mastered the ability of shrinking the earth, so he stopped spending time on shrinking the earth and began to really try to master the powerful force that could defeat Uchiha Madara.

After reaching level 5 in Earth Release, Kirito clearly noticed that his Earth Release chakra became unusually active, just like when he reached level 5 in Lightning Release. His chakra repulsion against other jutsu decreased significantly.

Among them, the repulsion between his Earth Release and Lightning Release chakra almost completely disappeared.

What kind of bloodline limit would be formed by fusing Earth Release and Lightning Release, two chakra natures that are mutually exclusive?

Kirito couldn't help but feel a little curious.

However, he ultimately suppressed his curiosity, because once the chakra of the two esoteric techniques merged to create a new bloodline limit, his body would not be able to develop another bloodline limit for a short period of time.

This is because his body needs time to use the bloodline limit to modify his genes. If another bloodline limit is developed at this time, it may cause his genes to collapse and cause irreversible damage.

So he sat cross-legged on a large rock under the waterfall, and simultaneously produced both Earth Release and Water Release chakra in his hands. Then, using a multitasking technique, he manipulated the two chakras into chakra threads, which intertwined around his chest, initiating a preliminary fusion.

Having learned from his previous experience of fusing Lightning Release and Water Release, Kirito made rapid progress in fusing Earth Release and Water Release this time, successfully mixing the two chakras that still carried considerable repulsion.

"Bang~"

A short while later, a slight chakra explosion appeared in front of Kirito.

Unsurprisingly, the first fusion attempt ended in failure.

Despite this, Kirito, who was immune to the explosion damage thanks to his Lightning Transformation Technique, was not discouraged and continued to try again and again.

Soon, thousands of attempts had passed, and Kirito still hadn't been able to successfully develop Wood Release.

However, after thousands of attempts, the two chakras merged again, giving birth to a brand new chakra. However, this chakra, which was also a fusion of earth and water chakra, was clearly not wood chakra, because it lacked the vibrant energy of wood chakra.

Kirito wanted Wood Release, a bloodline limit, but of course he couldn't allow it to be born inside his own body. That's why he fused two types of chakra outside his body, which prevented him from accidentally creating a strange bloodline limit.

"Vitality, yes, this is due to the lack of Yang Release chakra. As expected, Wood Release is not simply a fusion of Earth Release and Water Release chakra. It is very likely that it is the Blood Elimination born from the combination of Earth Release, Water Release and Yang Release chakra."

Kirito continued to try to combine Earth Release and Water Release thousands of times, but still failed to produce a Wood Release bloodline limit, which made him suspicious of the life force.

His suspicions were not entirely unfounded. The most important evidence was the Wood Release of his White Zetsu clone. It was the Ashura chakra in Hashirama's cells that allowed him to successfully fuse Water Release and Wood Release chakra. Moreover, at that time, his Earth Release level was very low, only level 3.

Even so, the two types of chakra succeeded with the help of Ashura's chakra.

Ashura chakra is pure Yang Release chakra. As Kirito's strength increased, his vision also improved by leaps and bounds. He could no longer see through Ashura chakra, which he could not see through before. Now he can see some of its secrets.

Ashura Chakra is clearly a high-level Yang Release Chakra, at least level 5 or higher.

It is precisely because of this link that the Earth Release and Water Release chakra can be successfully fused together.

With this thought in mind, Kirito decisively began to multitask, shooting out a chakra thread formed from Yang Release chakra from his chest, which became entangled with chakra threads formed from Earth Release and Water Release chakra.

三种查克拉进行混合融合，那难度可不是1＋1＋1=3那么小，比3要大出许多。

The three types of chakra had just mixed together when the two relatively stable chakras, Earth Release and Water Release, were suddenly like a large stone falling into a calm lake, creating huge waves.

"Bang~"

A burst of chakra erupted instantly.

Despite failing once again, Kirito was not discouraged. Instead, a hint of smugness appeared in his eyes, because just now, he had sensed a trace of Wood Release in the chakra explosion.

Although it was very faint, his senses were absolutely correct.

Thanks to his understanding of the Wood Release from the White Zetsu clones, he was already extremely familiar with the aura of Wood Release chakra.

"The idea is correct, but unfortunately my Yang Release level is not as high as Ashura's, so I can't successfully fuse Earth Release and Water Release chakra. It was a miscalculation. Now that I think about it, I should have upgraded my Yang Release."

Kirito said with some annoyance.

However, Kirito quickly put these hindsight thoughts aside, because as long as the idea was correct, the rest of the work would be simple. As long as he found the right direction and worked hard, he would definitely be able to achieve something.

Kirito then closed his eyes, and while restoring his chakra, he quickly cleared his mind of all distractions, bringing his mental state to its peak before reopening his eyes to continue his attempts to develop Wood Release.

Failure is the mother of success. With his terrifying mental calculation ability, Kirito can learn from each failure and get closer to success. He is also so engrossed in the experience that he is unaware of the passage of time.

In the blink of an eye, day turned into night.

Suddenly, a burst of ecstatic laughter rang out in the tranquil forest outside Konoha. It was Kirito's laughter. He was dancing and laughing, and on his right hand was a ball of vibrant green chakra.

After 10,351 failures, Kirito finally managed to perfectly fuse Earth Release, Water Release, and Yang Release chakra together for the first time, forming the stable Wood Release chakra in his hand.

"We finally succeeded! It wasn't easy at all."

Kirito looked at the Wood Release chakra in his hand and sighed.

However, after the initial excitement subsided, he quickly calmed down and frowned as he looked at the ball of Wood Release chakra in his hand.

The reason he frowned was because he realized that the Wood Release chakra he had created was somewhat different from the Wood Release chakra he remembered in the White Zetsu clones.

He couldn't quite put his finger on what the difference was, but something was missing that caused the two types of Wood Release chakra to differ.

"So what exactly is the difference?"

Kirito began to ponder deeply.

Soon, a name flashed through his mind: the Otsutsuki clan.

That's right. If there is a fundamental difference between him and Hashirama Senju in that respect, it is that he is not a descendant of the Otsutsuki clan. His body is that of a human born and raised in the ninja world, and he does not have alien blood.

Perhaps it is this difference that causes the Wood Release chakra he creates to differ from the Wood Release chakra on the White Zetsu clone.

Ultimately, whether it's the Wood Release bloodline limit or the Bloodline Elimination, it's essentially related to bloodlines. Even if it modifies the genes of the human body after its creation, there are still differences in how it modifies the bloodlines of aliens and natives.

"However, in any case, I have successfully developed my Wood Release, but this is my Wood Release, not Hashirama Senju's."

Kirito thought to himself, and then without hesitation, he began to form Wood Release chakra inside his body, thus allowing the Wood Release bloodline elimination to be born within him.

Having gained experience through tens of thousands of failures, he skillfully fused the three different chakra natures together within his body, and Wood Release chakra was born in Kirito's body for the first time.

In an instant, a powerful life force was born within him, and a large amount of Earth Release, Water Release, and Yang Release chakra spontaneously merged together to form a large amount of Wood Release chakra.