Similar to Guy's way of using power to overcome everything, Naruto's path was also very extreme.
Even after becoming a pseudo Six Paths level powerful person, he still mainly used three moves, with creating spinning balls as his main attack method.
Compared to Naruto, ordinary ninja don't have that much Chakra to waste. They are not suitable for the 'Shadow Clone + Rasengan + Harem Jutsu' fighting style. Instead, they use body techniques, throwing techniques, and one of the five elemental Ninjutsu to fight.
Leaving the first two aside for now, to use Ninjutsu, the shape transformation and nature transformation of Chakra are essential basics that must be mastered.
There's not much to say about shape transformation. Whether it's condensed into a ball or some other shape doesn't matter. As long as a Genin can release it stably, that's enough.
Nature transformation, simply put, is using your mind to control Chakra, transforming the originally attribute-less Chakra into the power of earth, fire, wind, water, and lightning.
Leaving aside special cases like bloodline limits for now, in the Genin stage, unless you have a family inheritance, you will use Chakra paper to test your attribute preference and then practice the corresponding elemental techniques.
And when a single elemental Ninjutsu limits your combat power growth, you will start learning new elemental techniques to improve your fighting style. The more excellent ones will even develop their own unique Ninjutsu.
For example, Kakashi, who created 'Chidori' and 'Raikiri'.
But among the ninja present, only a few can do this.
Like Sarutobi Asuma, who also has good talent, is not good at developing Ninjutsu. Like the Third Hokage, who is known as the 'Ninja Professor,' he focuses more on learning existing techniques to save time and energy.
Orochimaru doesn't have any issues with this process itself, but the specific details can be improved.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Hundreds of white cylindrical objects were taken out of the scroll and distributed by Orochimaru to the ninja present.
"You should all have used Chakra paper to test your preferred attributes."
Orochimaru said to the ninja present,
"This thing is similar to the effect of Chakra paper, but it adds a ability: it can test your aptitude in the five elemental techniques."
Everyone looked at each other, all somewhat surprised.
Everyone is familiar with Chakra paper, which is made of a special tree that can absorb Chakra. It burns when it encounters fire, splits in the middle when it encounters wind, becomes damp when it encounters water, becomes wrinkled when it encounters lightning, and breaks directly when it encounters earth.
It sounds very magical, but that's all it is. It only has some use when choosing an initial technique in the Genin stage.
But if it can really represent attribute aptitude, then the meaning is completely different.
The weakest ninja present are also Chunin. They don't lack effort, but they are afraid of working twice as hard for half the result, choosing the wrong direction.
Orochimaru took out another stack of paper and pens from the scroll and handed them to Red Bean to distribute to each ninja.
"You can start testing. There are scales on the soft stick. Fill in your information. There are still several tests to do."
Saying that, his gaze turned to the 'Yin-Yang Release' area and said,
"You can also try it. Often, family secret techniques are not the most suitable for you."
The Nara, Yamanaka, and other family ninja looked at each other and started testing with the other ninja. For a time, the forest was flashing with five colors: 'red, yellow, blue, cyan, purple.'
Orochimaru sat on the stone chair on the high platform, resting his chin on his hand.
Chakra paper or aptitude soft sticks, look magical, but in reality, they are just so-so.
In the original ninja world, there are no so-called trees that absorb Chakra.
This thing grew out of the First Hokage cells. Later, it was accidentally made into paper, and it was discovered that it could be used as a test for Chakra attributes.
After confirming this, using First Hokage cells and more stable White Zetsu cells to create this soft stick was easy to do.
Among them, controlling the concentration and making different aptitudes for techniques produce corresponding reactions are just small problems.
The difficulty lies in determining the standard.
What is top aptitude? What is inferior aptitude? There are one hundred scales on the soft stick. Seventy-nine suggests a B-level difficulty Ninjutsu, and eighty can suggest an A-level difficulty Ninjutsu. Is there really that much of a difference?
These are the real difficulties, things that need to be determined by collecting data and repeatedly verifying.
Fortunately, there is a genie providing data panels as a reference. Otherwise, Orochimaru would have to consider whether or not to do this troublesome thing based on the time cost.
"..."
"My Fire Release aptitude is only seventy-five?"
Asuma glanced at the soft stick in Kakashi's hand and found that his Lightning Release aptitude was as high as eighty-six. He was a little unconvinced and immediately switched to wind release, "Eighty-two, that's not bad."
Kakashi didn't compete with Asuma. He just studied his own attributes. Soon, he had tested all five elements.
Among them, Lightning Release was the highest, Earth Release and Water Release were second, and Fire Release and Wind Release were the worst, but the lowest was also seventy-one.
"As expected of Kakashi."
Yuhi Kurenai had been paying attention to her companions' situation. Seeing this, she clicked her tongue in wonder.
She herself is not good at five elemental Ninjutsu. In theory, the highest aptitude does not exceed sixty. Her advantage lies in genjutsu, or in other words, Yin Release Chakra nature, but Orochimaru-sama did not test this.
The same situation also happened to the Nara, Yamanaka, and other ninja clans. Among the ten or so people, only one showed good aptitude in Wind Release.
Red Bean was also not very satisfied with her data. Fire Release was only in the early seventies, which was only equivalent to Kakashi's worst.
For a time, there was much discussion in the training ground. Some were excited, some were unconvinced, some were calm, and some were repeatedly testing because they thought there were errors... it was all kinds of things.
But no matter what, this testing soft stick was like a key, opening the door to a new world, and it was very new.
Seeing this, Orochimaru suppressed the noise and said slowly, "These test data are just preliminary versions, and the accuracy needs to be improved. You don't need to worry too much."
"The weakest among you are also Chunin level. You should know Akatsuki. So-called aptitude is just Infinity. To bring it into play, you need persistent training."
"Aptitude testing is just to let you understand yourself and use it as a reference. Those who put the cart before the horse are just complete idiots."
With a few words, the excitement that had just been ignited was like being hit by two gusts of cold wind, and they regained their senses.
As Orochimaru said, the worst person present was also a Chunin, and they had experienced battlefield killings. They still had this quality.
Orochimaru nodded slightly and then began the next test—Chakra control.
Because he couldn't directly detect it with instruments, he chose to use the ninja's most basic ability, 'tree climbing,' to represent it.
The ninja present had completely mastered their bodies, so Orochimaru used inorganic reanimation to change their weight, sometimes big and sometimes small, to explore their Chakra control capabilities in this sudden change in weight.
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