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At night, a cool breeze blows gently.
Two figures, one big and one small, are
sitting opposite each other on the lawn by the river.
"The so-called Genjutsu, its essence is
a kind of Yin Release technique, which is a technique that uses Chakra to
interfere with the other party's five senses by mobilizing spiritual energy to
make them fall into hallucinations!"
Although it was still unpleasant for him to
see Sōseki, Shinku does not hide his own secrets and he still explained as much
as he could when teaching Sōseki about Genjutsu.
"In other words, Genjutsu can be roughly
divided into vision, sense of hearing, sense of smell, taste, sense of
touch?" Sōseki asked while holding his chin in his small hand.
‘Huh? Is there such a thing?’ Shinku’s eyes
lit up when he heard this.
Shinobi’s basic knowledge level is not high, almost
all of them stay at the elementary school level, so that few people do even the
simplest addition and division.
‘Indeed, Genjutsu used to be said to disturb
the five senses, but it was more based on vision, sense of hearing and sense of
touch. Relatively speaking, there are almost no Genjutsu for taste and sense of
smell. If it can be developed for these
two, maybe it can be used in the next war. And then the other villages...’
"Shinku-senpai, Shinku-senpai!" Seeing
Shinku plunged into endless fantasy, Sōseki had no choice but to call him back.
"Huh?" Shinku woke up and felt a
little embarrassed when he saw Sōseki looking at him strangely. In order to
maintain his dignity, he had to forcefully explain, "Did you see? The
truly powerful Genjutsu-user Shinobi needs to be able to fantasize like me."
Sōseki didn't expose it, but rather nodded in
recognition.
Genjutsu is something that doesn't work
without imagination.
"Before I formally instruct you in
Genjutsu’s training, I will teach you how to crack Genjutsu." Shinku showed
serious expression, "Only by understanding Genjutsu's weaknesses can you
not be targeted by the enemy on the battlefield."
"There are two ways to crack Genjutsu,
one is to disrupt the flow of chakra in your body by yourself, and the other one
is to let others disrupt the flow of chakra in your body. It should be noted
that for Genjutsu using Dojutsu, only the second method works. Therefore, when
the enemy is an expert who uses Dojutsu to cast Genjutsu, you must not face the
enemy alone."
Shinku said in a desolate tone. Although he
is known as Konoha’s strongest Genjutsu-user Shinobi, he couldn't reach the
height of those Dojutsu experts in history throughout his life.
Because of this, he was so ecstatic after
discovering the Kurenai’s talent in Genjutsu. He wanted to prove that people's
talent and hard work can beat those cheating Bloodline's ability.
Sōseki didn’t care about Shinku’s expression,
but asked thoughtfully, “Disrupting the flow of chakra in the body? Isn't that
essentially controlling the body? If you can perfectly control the flow of
chakra in your own body, doesn’t that mean that you will be immune to the first
type of Genjutsu?"
Hearing this, Shinku was stunned for a
moment, then shook his head with a smile, "You are not wrong in
understanding it that way, but this kind of thing may only can be done by God
of Shinobi like Shōdaime-Sama."
Sōseki was noncommittal, but he secretly thought
in his heart, "Perfectly control the flow of chakra in the body, isn’t it
Eight Gates Technique?"
Sōseki is not as enthusiastic in Eight Gates
Technique as some "senior". He is very clear about his own strengths,
talent, thinking, and learning ability - and these are not very useful for Eight
Gates Technique, who depends on time to improve.
It took twenty years to obtain a moment of
brilliance, which is not worthwhile for a genius. At least in Sōseki's view, he
has more ways to gain this level of power.
However, this does not mean that Sōseki does
not value Eight Gates Technique.
What he wanted to get was actually the
lower-level route of Eight Gates Technique.
For example, constantly opening two to three
gates in the body and use Medical Ninjutsu to repair the damage caused by opening
those gates, and then, the excess chakra overflows after opening those gates can
be stored in the Yin Seal, and even in a critical moment, he can open more gates
with the help of Creation Rebirth.
The difficulty in realizing this perpetual
motion fantasy is that he has to heal his body at all times. This requires not
only extremely high chakra control, but also able to do two things at the same
time.
Apart from this, physical training is also a
very important point. The stronger the body, the smaller the damage caused by opening
the gate, and the less chakra used to heal his body, otherwise, the chakra he
got from opening the gate may not be enough to heal his body.
Shinku didn’t know that Sōseki was actually
thinking about Taijutsu in his Genjutsu class. After calming himself, Shinku then
said, “The strength of Genjutsu lies mainly in two aspects, one is the strength
of our spiritual strength, and the other is the authenticity of the illusion."
"Do you know why those Dojutsu experts
is better than ordinary person in Genjutsu?"
Sōseki retracted his divergent thinking and
replied without hesitation, "Dojutsu doesn’t need hand seal, so it is more
convenient and concealed than ordinary Genjutsu."
Shinku nodded
in approval and asked again, "What else?"
Sōseki pondered for a while, and then asked
tentatively, "Is it the Dojutsu can be used as an amplifier to enhance
Genjutsu's spiritual strength?"
"Amplifier? This statement is
interesting." Shinku sighed as he said, "Us Genjutsu-user Shinobi are
struggling to create real illusion one by one, but in the end, it may not be as
good as the illusion casually made by the Dojutsu experts. The reason is that
their spiritual strength is much stronger than us. "
Sōseki nodded lightly. ‘Indeed, their spiritual
strength is so unreasonable.’
It's like Uchiha Itachi's Tsukuyomi. It
clearly builds a completely unreasonable world. It's obvious that the enemy
knows that he has been in an illusion right away, but he can't break free.
According to Sōseki’s understanding in his
previous life, this is like the common saying in those xianxia novels “one
force can defeat all methods, no matter how shoddy my fantasy is, if your spiritual
strength is not up to the standard, you will not be able to break free.”
But to say that the importance of the
authenticity of the illusion is very low, it is not necessarily true. The best
proof is the Infinite Tsukuyomi - a construct of the real-like illusion. The
ultimate Genjutsu that can pull the whole world into a fantasy world and
indulge in it!
Thinking of this, Sōseki asked,
"Shinku-senpai, is there no way to improve our spiritual strength?"
"Improve spiritual strength? I have
never heard of it, but..." Shinku first shook his head, and then said
hesitantly, "It is said that the spiritual strength of legendary Shōdaime-sama
is so strong that he can interfere with reality, but at the beginning, he
didn't seem to have this kind of ability. Shōdaime-sama is someone who has calmed
the Warring States Period. Perhaps the way is to improve your spiritual
strength is getting the baptism of war or life and death, understand the faith
and strengthen your own power."
Sōseki nodded thoughtfully, it is precisely
because he knows more than Shinku that he valued spiritual strength improvement
more. Just like Asura and Indra’s spiritual strength that can make their chakra
reincarnate for several generation, and the Sage of Six Paths who lives in between
life and death in a state of soul, and even be able pull the souls of the previous
Kage from the Pure Land back to this world all by himself.
That kind of mental strength is simply
powerful to the unimaginable realm.
‘Chakra, spirit, soul...Perhaps, I need a
technique that can touch the essence of the soul!’
Seeing that Sōseki was silence, Shinku
thought that Sōseki was frustrated because of the limitations of Genjutsu
"Cough cough, actually, you don’t need to be too frustrated. Just like your
personal talent, you must rely on yourself to truly tap on your own potential. Otherwise, how can the title of
Konoha’s strongest Genjutsu-user Shinobi doesn’t fall into those Dojutsu clan's
hands?"
Although he didn't believed in those lies
given by Shinku, Sōseki still pretended to be inspired, "I understand,
Shinku-senpai."
"Well, the next step is training the
entry-level Genjutsu, D-Rank Genjutsu - Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing
Technique. The hand seal is Snake-Rat. Come and feel the horror of
Genjutsu..."
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