Chapter 465: Ino's Guidance
Ino had nothing in common with a well-bred young lady. She wiped the sweat from her forehead. To treat Hinata's injury, she had been carefully controlling the infusion of Yang-attribute chakra, afraid of causing damage with too strong a burst. This task was actually not much easier than rock climbing.
Now, she let out a long sigh of relief and asked, "What's up? Are you here to buy a blind box?"
Sasuke: "...No."
He coughed once and said with great solemnity, "I want to fight you!"
"Hmph, fine."
Ten seconds later.
Sasuke was on the ground.
Ino didn't use Wood Release or Sage Mode. After Sasuke enveloped himself in the initial form of his Susanoo, she glanced at it a couple of times, then aimed her chakra staff at a gap and poked. Sasuke clutched his left rib and collapsed on the ground in pain.
She hadn't paid much attention in the Land of Demons, but this was the first time Ino had really seen the Susanoo. It was a far cry from the perfect Susanoo. In her eyes, Sasuke's Susanoo was full of openings, and she didn't need to put in any effort to break through it.
Seeing Sasuke's puzzled look, she explained a little.
"This is your Uchiha clan's dōjutsu, right? Actually, the defensive performance of this thing looks no different from the Water Formation Wall. Chakra is fluid. The Water Formation Wall's flow is slow, while yours is fast. That's all there is to it. Your dōjutsu is basically just ocular power flowing out of your eyes and then covering your whole body, right? Ocular power flows from a dense area to a weaker one. In this process of transmission and shaping, a large number of openings will appear. For a fast ninja, this is very fatal. You should work on improving it."
In Ino's view, the defensive power of a pure energy body like the Susanoo was really not as good as the Wood Golem. It seemed to be a single entity, but in reality, the flow of ocular power created a lot of openings.
Of course, there were pros and cons. If the ocular power was strong enough, to the point of Madara's two-hundred-meter Susanoo, the Wood Golem couldn't hold up.
The Wood Golem was a physical entity and was subject to the laws of physics. If a Wood Golem grew to two hundred meters, its body would be too heavy. It would be a solid block of wood and couldn't move at all. A pure energy body like the Susanoo, however, would have no problem.
Ino's "Three Lives, Three Worlds Buddha" and Hashirama's "True Several Thousand Hands" were both stationary turrets with extremely slow movement speed.
It could be said that below a height of forty meters, the Wood Golem had the advantage. Between forty and one hundred meters, the two were actually about the same. Above one hundred meters, the pure energy body of the Susanoo had the advantage.
Jigen was able to break through Rinnegan Sasuke's perfect Susanoo with his bare hands. Ino's piercing of his initial form with a single staff strike used the same principle.
Energy is not constant. Where there is thickness, there is weakness. Find the weak point, and you can break through the Susanoo with a single strike.
This move was all show and no substance. It overloaded the eye cells and wasted a large amount of ocular power. At this stage, its practical effect was not good.
To have his own Mangekyō Sharingan's strongest move evaluated as worthless by Ino, Sasuke was furious.
"You wait! I have another move!" he said through gritted teeth, hesitating whether to immediately activate Amaterasu. But as soon as he looked up, he found that there was no one in front of him.
Ino tapped him on the back of the neck with her staff. "This move of yours is even worse. First, you track with your gaze, then you lock on, and then you use the dōjutsu? The skill is so obvious. Who would be stupid enough to stand still and get hit? Even Naruto isn't that stupid, is he?"
There were too many tricks to dodge Amaterasu, like taking off your clothes, repelling it with Almighty Push, or sealing it with a sealing jutsu.
Amaterasu, the strongest flame dōjutsu, had become a joke. Its wind-up was too long, second only to Danzo's Reverse Four Symbols Seal. However, Ino saw the hesitation in Sasuke before he used Amaterasu and knew that he still had a bottom line, so she couldn't help but say a few more words.
"You're not using your Mangekyō Sharingan correctly."
You understand it again? Sasuke was very annoyed, but he knew the gap between them was obvious. He asked stubbornly, "If it were you, how would you use it?"
"I don't think those flashy skills are practical. If it were me... I would simply use the Mangekyō to increase my speed. Your nin-taijutsu has always been good. You should let your eyes become your tool, not be led around by them. You have to remember, speed is power."
Ino felt that Sasuke's luck was average. The two skills he got from his Mangekyō Sharingan "lottery" were not very practical. The left eye's Amaterasu couldn't be said to be weak, but this kind of flame skill that appeared out of thin air from spiritual energy, creating something from nothing, caused too much damage to the eyes. The right eye's Kagutsuchi seemed to just be a shape transformation of Amaterasu. If Amaterasu's consumption wasn't so great, Sasuke could probably have figured it out himself. It was a waste of an eye's "slot."
Compared to Obito's dual Kamui and Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, Sasuke's Mangekyō abilities were really not that great.
Sasuke's original strength was actually quite good. His taijutsu, sword skills, Chidori, and Chidori Stream all pursued ultimate speed and killing power, and he himself was very talented in this aspect. But after awakening the Mangekyō, he immediately abandoned his own advantages and became a stationary turret. This was very strange.
Ino signaled for Hinata to follow, and the two floated away.
Sasuke sat on the ground, not moving.
He had been hit hard. He had originally thought he could force out Ino's Wood Release and Sage Mode, but he hadn't seen anything. He was knocked down with one staff strike. It was a big, capital-letter TRAGIC.
He was able to listen to the words of the strong. After thinking for a long time, he took out his sword and practiced hard again.
Although "Hokage Hanzode" was a fan-made setting, it certainly affirmed the strength of Sakumo Hatake to some extent.
As the signature skill of the White Fang of the Leaf, the sword style that Kakashi had taught Sasuke actually had a very high ceiling. It was just that Kakashi himself was a jack of all trades. Because of his experiences as a youth and his desire to walk on with Obito's eye, he hadn't spent much energy on sword skills. Now, with Sasuke focusing on practicing his sword skills with his Mangekyō Sharingan, he soon had a new and different understanding.
At the beginning of November, the priestess of the Land of Demons, Shion, led over a hundred followers to visit Konoha Village.
Except for Naruto, everyone from Jiraiya down to Tonton knew her intentions.
After arriving in Konoha, Shion found that everyone knew about her and Naruto. The rice-carriers had not yet come, and Naruto had not yet performed any great feat to save the village, or at least had not proven himself to be a great fighter. Many villagers and ninjas were still hostile to him. But Shion was also often looked at with hostility in the Land of Demons, so that didn't matter. As long as everyone approved of this marriage, it was fine.
Knowing that Iruka was the elder Naruto respected the most, Shion personally cooked a meal for Iruka, wanting this elder to see her virtuous and gentle nature.
Iruka... as a single man, was quite triggered to see that even Naruto now had a girlfriend. However, he was still happy for Naruto and solemnly offered his blessings, hoping the two would support each other in the future and live a happy, peaceful, and joyful life.
Shion treated him like an elder, performing a deep bow. Naruto had a head full of question marks, not knowing what they were being so formal about.
After the three finished their meal, Naruto, as if nothing had happened, said goodbye to Shion and went to find Kakashi to train.
Having seen Ino's "Super Great Spiraling Ring," he also had some new ideas for his own Rasengan.
Coincidentally, the three great ninja villages were now at a truce, and Kakashi had been resting in the village recently. So, he went to ask Kakashi some questions about ninjutsu.
Unlike in the original timeline where he was taught by Jiraiya for three years, he had now grown up eating from a "hundred families' pots."
Jiraiya, Kakashi, Ino, the "blond big brother," and even Asuma had all taught him some things. It was very scattered, but based on his first impressions, he still felt that Kakashi taught the best.
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