39: Chapter 39 An Incomprehensible ProdigyAt the foot of a waterfall during the journey, the roar of the water was deafening, and the spray refracted a faint rainbow in the sunlight.
Jiraiya held a water-filled balloon in his hand, his face bearing a smug expression befitting a teacher, the intent of which was undisguised.
"Kid, watch closely!" He tossed the water balloon to Naruto."Rasengan training has three stages.The first stage is to make the water inside the balloon spin at high speed, driven by your chakra, until that force bursts the balloon!This tests your explosive power!"
He cleared his throat and added with a hint of smugness, "Back in the day, it took Minato a whole week to accomplish this.Don't even think about achieving it overnight."
Naruto took the soft water ball; it felt cool to the touch.
He didn't start immediately.
He simply closed his eyes.
In Jiraiya's view, this kid was concentrating, preparing to meet the challenge.
But in reality, Naruto's consciousness had already sunk into another dimension.
[Mindset and Spiritual Perception]
The vast and active chakra within Jiraiya's body transformed into a crystal-clear diagram of its flow before him.He could "see" how the chakra was extracted from his dantian, how it circulated through his meridians, and how it was endowed with the attributes of "rotation" and "condensation."
complex.
Rough.
But it works.
This is the masterpiece left by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.A half-finished product that pushed chakra form transformation to its limit, but then abruptly stopped at the most crucial nature transformation.
Naruto's brain worked at high speed, replicating, analyzing, and optimizing the entire chakra flow pattern, along with every subtle change Jiraiya had just demonstrated.
The whole process took less than three seconds.
"Hey kid, are you asleep?" Jiraiya urged impatiently.
Naruto opened his azure eyes, which were like a calm lake.
He channeled his chakra into the water sphere in his hand.
Without the slightest hesitation, without any unnecessary probing.
The energy precisely formed a perfect vortex at the center of the water sphere, and the rotation speed reached the critical point within 0.1 seconds.
Bang!
A crisp popping sound.
The water balloon exploded, scattering countless water droplets that soaked Jiraiya's head and face.
Jiraiya froze on the spot, wiping the water from his face.His face, which always wore a smirk, was now filled with incomprehensible blankness.
"This.how is this possible?"
He stammered, his mind unable to process the facts unfolding before him.
One second.
It only took one second.
"Ah, that must be it!" he suddenly shouted, finding a reasonable explanation for himself."You brat's chakra reserves were already ridiculously high.You used brute force, absolute power to forcibly burst it!That's right!This isn't skill, it's luck and brute force!"
[Ding!You have received 2500 "Self-Comfort" from Jiraiya!]
Naruto did not refute.
He simply watched quietly as the legendary Sannin struggled to convince himself.
Jiraiya frantically pulled another black rubber ball from his ninja tool bag and threw it forcefully to Naruto.
"Try this one!Try this one too!" he shouted, as if the louder he shouted, the more he could prove his theory."This is the second stage of training!A rubber ball is a hundred times tougher than a water ball; you absolutely can't break it with brute force!You have to concentrate your strength at a very high level on one point to tear it apart!This tests the concentration of your strength!"
Naruto reached out and caught the bouncy rubber ball steadily.
He didn't even close his eyes again.
Almost the instant he caught the ball, he replicated the action he had just taken.
Chakra is infused.
This time, the rotating force was no longer evenly distributed, but was compressed into an invisible, high-speed rotating spike that pierced the inner wall of the rubber ball.
Sizzle!
It was accompanied by a teeth-grinding tearing sound.
The tough rubber ball was instantly torn apart from the inside by a violent force, exploding into countless black fragments that scattered all over the ground.
The whole world fell silent.
All that remained was the thunderous roar of the waterfall.
Jiraiya's expression froze.
That forced composure and smugness shattered inch by inch, replaced by a chill that shot straight from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.
This is not luck.
This is definitely not luck.
That precise control over chakra, that instantaneous understanding and application of power.
This kid isn't studying.
He is copying, he is devouring!
[Ding!You have received 8800 units of the ultimate [shock] from Jiraiya!]
"You…" Jiraiya's Adam's apple bobbed as he looked at Naruto's terrifyingly calm face and felt a sense of fear for the first time.
He took a deep breath and forcefully suppressed the turmoil in his heart.
no.
He was the master, one of the legendary Sannin, how could he be frightened by a little brat?
He extended his right hand, his expression becoming more serious than ever before.
"Look carefully, Naruto."
Buzz!
A surge of blue chakra gathered in his palm, spinning rapidly until it formed a stable and dazzling sphere, emitting a buzzing sound like a thousand birds singing in unison.
"This is the third stage, and also the most difficult step.Maintaining the highly concentrated rotating chakra in a stable form.A perfect balance between power and control.There are no shortcuts to this step; it requires weeks or even months of painstaking effort to feel, become familiar with, and master it."
He personally demonstrated the final form of this A-rank ninjutsu to Naruto, attempting to regain his dignity and authority as a "master" through this level of difficulty.
Naruto looked quietly at the energy ball that he saw as full of flaws, and simply nodded.
Then, he extended his right hand.
A ball of chakra appeared in his palm.
At first, the chakra was very unstable, flickering and seemingly about to dissipate at any moment.
When Jiraiya saw this, he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, the third step wasn't so simple.
However, the thought hadn't fully formed yet.
The chaotic chakra in Naruto's palm suddenly seemed to find some kind of pattern, and began to rotate and condense at high speed along a perfect trajectory.
A blinding blue light burst forth.
A buzzing sound rang out.
Less than ten minutes.
A standard-sized Rasengan, identical to the one Jiraiya held, and even surpassing it in terms of energy stability and purity, appeared in Naruto's palm.
Jiraiya was completely speechless.
He stared blankly at Naruto, then at the Rasengan in his hand, as if his soul had been ripped out.
genius?
No.
Minato is a genius, Kakashi is a genius.
But what's in front of me.
It's a monster.
A monster in human skin, incomprehensible by any common sense.
The Great Toad Sage's prophecy echoed in his mind once again.
The "prophetic child" who brought about tremendous changes.
He always believed that change should be gradual.
But now it seems that it may have been a complete and utterly upheaval.
And at the eye of the storm was this blond-haired, blue-eyed boy.
[Ding!You have received 12,000 of Jiraiya's ultimate [Disruptive] power!]
[Ding!You have received 9500 of Jiraiya's ultimate [Awe]!]
Naruto felt the surging emotional energy, but his heart remained completely calm.
An actor's self-cultivation is to deliver the most devastating blow when the audience is most engaged.
He dispersed the Rasengan in his hand, and the blue light dissipated into the air.
He raised his head, looked at the petrified white-haired man, and spoke softly in a calm, almost cold tone.
"You lecherous immortal, is your technique.not yet complete?"
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