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Chapter 61: Wind Breath
After devouring the huge fish, Shirotaka, the white hawk, suddenly spread its wings. Its cry, loud and clear, echoed in the void, and the sound was heard for miles.
"Hmm?" Sasuke frowned slightly, feeling an invisible fluctuation of chakra.
Shirotaka continued flapping its wings, raising whirlwinds that caused changes in the environment. Its body was full of blood and qi, and its breathing rate became particularly fast. It maintained a special rhythmic frequency with the outer whirlwind, an inexplicable connection. Soon, a trace of light blue Wind-attribute chakra condensed at the position of its heart.
"Shirotaka has extracted chakra!" Sasuke exclaimed, euphoric. Although it was a high-level summoning beast chick with the Giant Desert Hawk lineage, there was still a risk of premature death. Now, with its own chakra, its survival ability and combat power had greatly increased, far surpassing the water bat he had contracted before.
After refining chakra for a while, Shirotaka ran out of energy. It flew towards Sasuke and affectionately rubbed its head against his arm, its eyes full of anticipation. It was hungry again.
"Haha!" Sasuke smiled and stroked its head. He pointed to the river surface. "Shock!"
He released an infrasonic discharge, and within seconds, a large number of freshwater fish floated to the surface. Shirotaka cried happily and pounced on its feast.
While the hawk ate, Sasuke continued his own training.
"The six-seal version of the Water Dragon Bullet is practically mastered. It's time to focus on the Shadow Shuriken Clone Technique."
He thought this A-rank ninjutsu would be the hardest to learn, but he found it quite simple for him, much less complex than the Water Dragon Bullet. He met all the conditions for practicing it—chakra amount, seal speed, transformation ability, and clone experience.
Whoosh!
Sasuke took out a shuriken and threw it. His hands became blurs, and at a speed of five seals per second, he completed the eight-seal sequence.
"Shadow Shuriken Clone Technique!"
In an instant, the unassuming shuriken multiplied into almost a hundred identical replicas. They fell like a cascade, and a tree trunk thirty paces away received a critical hit, sending splinters flying.
"Hiss..." Sasuke took a deep breath. The power of A-rank ninjutsu was truly terrifying.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Before he recovered from the shock, he discovered that his chakra had been completely depleted. Since he learned the Akimichi Digestion Technique, his chakra hadn't been scarce for a long time.
'It's worthy of an A-rank ninjutsu. The consumption is considerable,' he thought. His digestion technique could quickly restore chakra, like a rechargeable battery, but it couldn't change the total capacity of the battery. With his current chakra, between 0.25 and 0.5 cards (using Kakashi as a reference), he was at the level of a special jonin, but after using an A-rank jutsu, he could only await death.
"The problem of severe chakra scarcity must be resolved as soon as possible."
He stopped practicing the costly technique and took out the scroll on Wind-attribute chakra development to read it. As Torifune had told him, he found that developing a second attribute did not break the chains of chakra quantity. 'No wonder Kakashi, with his five attributes, still lacked blue. It wasn't just because of the Sharingan.'
He was a little discouraged, but he didn't become pessimistic. He braced himself and continued practicing with his nine clones. After consuming a clone's chakra, he would release a new one, eat a few kilograms of food, and assimilate the practice experience.
After half a day, upon absorbing another memory of transformation practice, he suddenly discovered a very strange phenomenon. He quickly presented himself in front of Shirotaka. In just half a day, the hawk had consumed almost a hundred kilograms of fish, and its size had more than doubled. The Wind chakra in its body had multiplied.
He quickly activated his infrasonic radar for a more thorough observation.
'Seven-Day Breathing Technique? Akimichi Digestion Technique? Or the Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound?' he wondered, comparing what he saw with his knowledge.
Shirotaka's current situation was similar to the technique of a Suna ninja named Shira, who used breathing to activate cells. But Shirotaka didn't just absorb oxygen, but other components of the air. After its cells were activated, its intestines digested food at an astonishing speed. And while its cells "breathed" with a special frequency, similar to the "Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound" from the novels of his previous life, a mysterious factor present in the air was absorbed along with the food energy.
After studying for a long time, he still didn't understand the mystery. So he activated the radar again, followed Shirotaka's example, and imitated its breathing frequency.
"Huh?" As soon as he began to imitate, he discovered that the food energy in his body was consumed faster than usual. Although the difference was subtle, it was irrefutable proof that the practice was effective. The energy didn't just disappear; it must have a function or be stored somewhere.
"Hiss..." After only half an hour, he felt a generalized numbness, as if countless ants had bitten him. He realized that in the process of cell activation, the absorption of those mysterious factors and food energy generated a considerable burden on the body.