Through testing, it was confirmed that Seven Night's chakra is wind-natured.
So, lately, Seven Night would pick up a leaf whenever he had nothing to do. He was practicing chakra nature transformation.
It wasn't that he gave up on taijutsu training, but his taijutsu had reached a certain stage.
Learning about the body's acupoints and training the [Eight Trigrams - Thirty-Two Palms] wasn't difficult for him. In fact, even if he focused solely on the Gentle Fist, Seven Night was confident that he could train to the [Eight Trigrams - Sixty-Four Palms] within a year.
But what would be the point?
It would only mean that he could strike the enemy's acupoints, not just one or two, but sixty-four of them.
In a real fight, what's the need for all that fancy stuff?
With the characteristics of the Gentle Fist, as long as the enemy takes a single hit, they'll be incapacitated.
Look at those in the Hyuga branch family, some of them only know the [Eight Trigrams - Thirty-Two Palms], and they still have Jōnin-level strength!
So, it doesn't make much sense to just keep pursuing how many palms you can strike. In the original timeline, Neji Hyuga even managed to consecutively use the [Eight Trigrams - Sixty-Four Palms] twice, creating the [Eight Trigrams - One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms]. That was just a waste of energy and chakra.
Of course, Seven Night guessed that this was also related to Neji not having guidance from Hyuga elders.
Hyuga Zōgen told Seven Night: “The training of the Gentle Fist's Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms is more about understanding the secrets of the various acupoints and meridian systems. Knowing what effect sealing a certain acupoint will have.”
Therefore, Seven Night was not in a hurry to train his Gentle Fist.
Besides, his Gentle Fist was different from others. He needed to upgrade the [Body Flicker Technique] as well, so it could be used in conjunction with his fists, making his body movements, footwork, and punches a single entity.
“Seven Night, you're not carving anymore?”
Minato came over. He noticed that Seven Night had a new trick up his sleeve.
Was it a new training method?
“It’s just temporary, I will continue later.”
With his exceptional control over his chakra, Seven Night didn't take long to go from being clumsy to proficient in carving.
But he wasn't satisfied with that. He planned to abandon the carving knife and use chakra directly to sculpt.
This wasn't easy!
He could unleash chakra in an instant to strike his enemies, but carving was a continuous, intricate process. He couldn't rely on instantaneous striking power.
Furthermore, it was more difficult to control chakra outside the body than inside.
Not to mention, for chakra to replace the carving knife, Seven Night first had to complete the wind-natured transformation, making his own chakra sharp.
And all of this would start with using chakra to cut through this leaf.
“So you've been carrying a leaf around, is this a new training method?”
Confused, Minato asked directly.
He had been classmates for over two years, and he knew Seven Night's personality. If it wasn't some kind of secret technique, Seven Night wouldn't mind teaching him.
Then, Seven Night explained the knowledge related to chakra nature transformation and shape transformation.
Minato's eyes widened.
“Amazing~~!”
What Minato didn't know was that even though the knowledge Seven Night shared wasn’t a secret, it wasn’t taught in the Ninja Academy. Only after being assigned to a team leader would they learn about it.
“I wonder what my nature is?” Minato scratched his head.
“Just go buy a chakra test paper and find out.”
…………
More than half of the second year had passed, but Seven Night's wind-natured transformation training was not going smoothly.
Who would have known that he only had one Shadow Clone!
He couldn't just split himself into hundreds or thousands of Shadow Clones to train at once.
Moreover, there was very little documented information about nature transformation. It was all about individual realization, something you just had to understand by yourself.
Therefore, his [Deduction System] couldn’t help much.
Seven Night found Hyuga Zōgen: “Uncle, I want to learn some wind-natured jutsu.”
Zōgen squinted and sipped his tea, blowing on it lightly: “Reason.”
Seven Night said: “I want to complete wind-natured chakra transformation, and I need some wind-natured jutsu as reference.”
Seeing Zōgen frown, as if preparing to lecture him.
Seven Night quickly explained: “I was thinking, if I could perform chakra nature transformation, then when I use the Gentle Fist, wouldn’t the power be even stronger?”
Zōgen’s lecture got stuck in his throat.
He originally wanted to educate Seven Night that the Hyuga should focus on training the Gentle Fist, not be tempted by all sorts of fancy jutsu. But hearing Seven Night’s explanation, he knew that this child had ideas of his own.
“What kind of wind-natured jutsu do you need? C-rank? Or B-rank?”
Hyuga Zōgen was just awesome, directly giving Seven Night the choice.
As a family with a long history, the Hyuga had collected and preserved quite a lot of jutsu, and with Zōgen’s status, fulfilling Seven Night’s request was quite simple.
“Uncle, D-rank and C-rank are enough for me.”
“Uh… the power doesn’t have to be super strong, but it's best if it can showcase the characteristics of wind-natured jutsu.”
Seven Night wasn’t sure what wind-natured jutsu were available, so he just stated his needs.
Zōgen agreed: “Okay, I’ll choose some and have them delivered to you.”
Hyuga Zōgen was very efficient. He agreed in the morning and sent them over in the afternoon.
Seven Night opened the ten scrolls.
They were: D-rank [Airflow Dance], [Wind Return Technique], [Wind Wall Technique], [Whirlwind Fist], [Wind Killing Formation];
C-rank [Gale Palm], [Great Breakthrough], [Peacock Whirlwind Cut], [Vacuum Blade], [Wind Cut Technique].
Seven Night inwardly clicked his tongue.
What was it like to be a prestigious clan?
This was what it was like!
Even though the Hyuga clan was renowned for their Gentle Fist taijutsu in the ninja world, it didn’t stop them from collecting various jutsu materials.
Although they were just D-rank and C-rank jutsu, their quantity was enough to make some smaller clans envious.
If he hadn’t been born into the Hyuga clan, how could he have had such convenience?
For example, Minato Namikaze, with his exceptional ninja talent, all he knew was a Transformation Technique and a Body Flicker Technique.
Seven Night calmed his mind and began to practice these wind-natured jutsu.
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