Chapter 455: The Theoretical Ideology of Ninshū
The content Six-sensei was teaching was too profound for Ino. The path of change in Yin-Yang Release was especially ethereal and very difficult to grasp its essence.
A thousand years ago, he was like a high school student teaching a middle schooler, and Ino could understand. Now, he had become a professor, and Ino, still at a middle school level, couldn't understand at all.
Six-sensei believed that the key difference between the strong and the weak was knowledge, not bloodline.
The Ōtsutsuki clan was indeed strong, but was it really their bloodline that made them strong? Yes and no. The knowledge they accumulated over their millennia-long lifespans and their mastery over chakra were the foundations of their power.
Ino agreed on the importance of knowledge.
How talented was Madara? He only comprehended the Truth-Seeking Orbs after becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki. And Toneri Ōtsutsuki? Just a little brat, born blind. In terms of talent, could he even compare to Madara? But he knew how to use Truth-Seeking Orbs. This was the effect of the rich knowledge passed down through Hamura's lineage.
While Ino was still a small-town top student in Konoha, he had long been exposed to knowledge of the Truth-Seeking Orbs and the power of Yin, Yang, and the five elements. From this perspective, the saying "knowledge is power" was indeed correct.
"Master believes that Yin Release and Yang Release can be combined into one, but I..." Ino asked bluntly, "My Spiraling Ring can only make these two types of chakra create a larger-scale opposition and explosion. The more chakra and senjutsu chakra I input, the more obvious the opposition becomes. Can these two types of chakra really be fused together?"
Six-sensei's tone was calm. "You have not understood the essence of chakra. What is chakra? In my view, chakra is a power that combines the internal and the external. When I founded Ninshū back then, I distributed chakra to those willing to follow its path. This was a form of sharing. The natural world shares its energy with intelligent life, selflessly and grandly. In my view, chakra should not be monopolized either. Sharing chakra is a noble virtue..."
To Ino, what the Sage was saying sounded particularly idealistic. What the hell did chakra have to do with sharing? Shouldn't it be that the more chakra you have, the stronger you are?
At the end of the lesson, Six-sensei said pointedly, "My mother's path was wrong, and her end was an inevitable result. To some extent, I also inherited a part of my mother's will and walked some wrong paths. Fortunately, I finally came to my senses, separated the Ten-Tails, and dispersed more chakra. But the world misunderstood my original intention, treating the Tailed Beasts as weapons. This is a wrong path. Chakra is the most powerful weapon, and everyone can obtain this weapon. It all depends on the user's mindset in mastering this power."
Ino felt that she and Six-sensei were not on the same wavelength at all. Judging by the principle of "might makes right," Six-sensei was definitely correct, and many of her own concepts were wrong... She listened more and spoke less, memorizing everything Six-sensei said to ponder over word by word when she returned to the world of the living.
At the end of the lesson, the old man also opened a transport portal and moved a lot of books from the Ninshū era for Ino.
According to the old man's view, all students of Ninshū had studied these books. Since you have become my disciple, the process naturally cannot be vague. You must also study these books seriously. If you don't read them well, hehe, you don't have to come next time! Ino returned to her shadow clone's side. Team 7 was heading back at a leisurely pace, as if on a scenic tour. Except for Sasuke, whose face was somewhat gloomy, Naruto and Sakura were both very happy.
Ino held the ancient-looking, thread-bound book and flipped through it.
It was all theoretical knowledge of Ninshū.
In the current ninja world, scrolls were used. In Boruto's era, there were even USB-drive-style scrolls. In this day and age, thread-bound books were already very ancient.
In Ino's view, this was the ancient version of the Will of Fire. Not study it? Not studying was impossible. Not only did she have to study it, but she also had to know it by heart!
She had gotten a perfect score on her Will of Fire test back then. This was just a repeat of that!
She held the ancient book, reading it word by word, taking notes at the same time: what examples were used, what phenomena were shown, what ideology was revealed, what principle was profoundly explained, and ultimately proving the correctness, rationality, and comprehensiveness of the Ninshū ideology, and so on... The three members of Team 7 were used to Ino reading while walking. Kakashi read his smutty books while running. This was nothing strange; it was all basic stuff.
Only Sakura, who prided herself on being a good student, took a couple of extra glances at Ino's book. After reading, she also frowned. The characters in the book were all ancient script, which was not only difficult to read, but many of the sentences did not conform to the values of modern ninjas. The whole thing was just a bunch of empty, grandiose talk.
"Why are you reading these books?" she asked Ino.
Ino, of course, wouldn't tell the truth. "Just casually looking. I'm too strong! I need to stop for a moment to give you guys some time to catch up."
Sakura: "..."
Just as she was reading about sharing in the book, Ino thought of Hashirama distributing the Tailed Beasts and Naruto sharing his chakra with the Allied Shinobi Forces. From an ordinary person's point of view, these actions were indeed a bit foolish. But in a world where you could awaken superpower-granting eyes through love, the definition of foolish and not foolish was really hard to determine. You might think it's foolish, but for all you know, they were incredibly happy. Helping others is the source of happiness. Maybe being happy increases your chakra? Ino's thoughts ran wild. She felt that her distributing the blame to everyone also counted as a form of sharing, right? That's right, she had finally found the reason why she was so strong! She posed this question to Sakura. "Forehead, are you willing to share your things with others? For example, with me?"
"Am I an idiot?" Sakura subconsciously clutched her wallet, looking at her with a wary expression.
Ino pouted. Am I after your measly bit of money? See, this is the wisdom of mortals.
Six-sensei, your level is too high for ordinary people to understand.
As she delved deeper into the theories of Ninshū, Ino finally gained a general understanding of many of Six-sensei's viewpoints.
Six-sensei believed that what he had distributed were chakra seeds. All ninjas who could use chakra could actually obtain great power, because the power was within their hearts, within their bloodlines.
The seeds could sprout, grow into towering trees, and after reaching their limit, could even be comparable to the God Tree. Humans didn't need the Ten-Tails or the Nine-Tails, because their own chakra seeds could completely grow into great trees.
In short, Six-sensei had "stolen the fire" from his god-like mother and then distributed the "fire" to the masses, spreading the ideas of Ninshū and teaching everyone how to use chakra. He hoped to create a world where "every man is a dragon."
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