Konoha’s White Fang Shines

Chapter 9: Training Chakra Control

Stimulated by Makoto Yūhi, Genma trained even harder.

The days of eating together and going to and from school as a group were no longer.

However, after understanding the reason behind this, Obito expressed unwavering support and even insisted on gifting Genma the Great Fireball Technique.

Naturally, Genma declined such generosity. In reality, he possessed numerous ninja technique resources. Although they weren't high-level, they were all C-class techniques.

For example, he had fire attribute techniques like the Great Fireball Technique and the Phoenix Fire Technique. For earth attributes, he possessed techniques such as the Earth Submerge Technique and the Earth Flow Wall Technique.

Originally, he couldn't have access to these, but his family was rather special. More precisely, their entire clan had become quite exceptional.

Due to transmigration, Genma had developed a super-advanced technological perspective and possessed scientific theories that surpassed the current standards.

Having vision and theory without practical ability naturally meant nothing. However, Genma used to be quite studious and had created numerous self-made gadgets, granting him considerable practical skills.

Thus, the hottest product in the family business today was telescopes.

Whether single-tube or binocular, Genma had dismantled them before. After sharing his ideas with his father and creating an optical model, the family began manufacturing telescopes.

Of course, Genma wouldn't keep such a genius-level idea to himself, so his father, Shiranui Hideyoshi, became the honorary beneficiary.

As Genma's understanding of the ninja world deepened, he delved into many unsolved scientific theories of this realm, greatly advancing the family business.

However, the honorary beneficiary remained his father, Shiranui Hideyoshi.

To date, the Shiranui Clan had developed advanced agricultural strategies, sophisticated mathematical methods, conceptual computer principles, and optical principles and applications.

Although many of these ideas hadn't been realized, they were all astonishing in their conception.

This meant that the family hadn't achieved anything notable in the ninja profession but had instead established a high status in basic sciences.

When Genma was young, science had only developed to roughly a high school level, but mathematics was limited to middle school standards.

Devoting so much effort to these areas was unavoidable. Without the luck of having an external advantage, he had to diligently exploit the transmigrator's benefits.

However, he was extremely cautious. For instance, although he had documented biological knowledge, he hadn't shared it with anyone. This was because there was a deranged science fanatic in the village, and attracting his attention would be disastrous.

Currently, Orochimaru was still present in Konoha. If a minor profit attracted the cold-hearted Orochimaru, it would be truly problematic.

But this extreme caution inadvertently attracted Orochimaru.

That day was the day the telescopes caught fire in Konoha. Both Orochimaru and Jiraiya arrived.

Based on Jiraiya's nature, Genma could already deduce why he was there.

Orochimaru came to meet Genma's father.

This terrified Genma, while Hideyoshi cheerfully welcomed Orochimaru, almost bowing down and becoming his subordinate.

Fortunately, Hideyoshi had self-awareness. As the honorary beneficiary, he wasn't a true expert.

Orochimaru's visit didn't result in Hideyoshi becoming his subordinate but rather sought to have Hideyoshi find even smaller things for him.

Hideyoshi straightforwardly conveyed Orochimaru's message to Genma. After pondering for a long time, Genma decided to attempt creating a microscope.

Although he hadn't dismantled one before, he had made and observed them. Moreover, his impression of optical microscopes was very deep.

After warning Hideyoshi not to get too close to Orochimaru, Genma diligently drew diagrams of the microscope, labeled each part's function, and assigned the task to the family.

He remembered that Konoha's microscopes only appeared after Naruto became a Genin. Now, being two decades earlier, it should be considered a groundbreaking invention.

With Genma's drawings and the family's extensive research on optical components, the microscope was manufactured swiftly.

However, as it was a precision instrument, it took several years of adjustments before it became one of the family's best-selling products.

Like telescopes, items that could influence wars were strictly monitored by Konoha.

Nonetheless, Konoha was also generous, allowing Hideyoshi to select numerous ninja techniques as compensation.

These ninja technique resources were what Genma obtained through his transmigration advantage. Whether Hideyoshi suspected that Genma wasn't his biological child remained uncertain.

Shiranui Hideyoshi, with his thick skin, wasn't worried at all and instead took all the credit.

Regarding these ninja technique resources, Genma wasn't in a hurry to practice them. He had only mastered two E-class techniques: the Great Fireball Technique and the Earth Cone Technique.

Though these were E-class, they had significant origins, reportedly serving as prototypes for many ninja techniques.

For example, the Great Fireball Technique was an enhanced version of the original Great Fireball Technique, incorporating fire attribute chakra output, compressing chakra, and increasing the temperature of the fire attribute chakra.

This meant augmenting the amount of chakra, shape transformations, and nature changes.

As for the Phoenix Fire Technique, it was even more similar to the Great Fireball Technique.

Each Phoenix Fire's fireball was almost as large as a Great Fireball's, with the only difference being that Phoenix Fire produced more fireballs.

Therefore, Genma placed great importance on these two E-class techniques, hoping to develop his own unique path in developing ninja techniques and to better learn C-class techniques.

However, it now seemed that Shiranui Genma didn't need to use C-class techniques for the time being.

Because in his plan, the basics were always the top priority.

He decided to first focus on chakra control, planning to train his control to the utmost level.

On a night when the moonlight was still relatively bright, Genma stood facing a tree, preparing to complete his tree-climbing training in one go.

Although he usually used chakra, without training chakra control, he couldn't demonstrate his true level.

Since that night when Makoto Yūhi stimulated him, he realized he didn't have a natural talent for chakra control. Until tonight, he was about to reach the treetop.

For an entire month, he had been practicing diligently every night. Today was the day to conclude it.

After calming his nearly excited heart, he took a deep breath and stepped onto the tree.

He didn't know whether it was because he had stepped many times or because he was about to break through himself, but his heart was beating fast yet steadily.

Over these days, after countless failures and near-success moments, he had gradually become more steady.

Continuously moving, his footstep rhythm gradually stabilized.

This was a highly deceptive stability, as trees have curves. The higher up he went, the thinner the tree would become, and the curvature would change accordingly.

But this was also an extremely advantageous stability. Moving upward required maintaining consistent friction, and a stable speed allowed him to observe the stability of the friction.

This process also required using chakra to increase or decrease pressure on the tree. Because the contact surface was curved and constantly changing, maintaining constant friction necessitated adjusting the pressure.

However, speed was still crucial. Speed ensured that he could "observe" the condition of the friction. Moreover, Genma understood he wasn't a fool like Naruto and needed such detailed training.

Seeing that the treetop was almost reached, summarizing his previous mistakes, Genma knew the treetop branches were relatively thinner. He slowly began adjusting the pressure applied by his chakra.

Ten meters, five meters, two meters—constantly keeping his eyes on the treetop, even when he was about to reach one meter, he didn't relax his vigilance.

Finally, a few steps up, moving as casually as strolling on a rooftop, Genma successfully climbed to the treetop.

This project was completed. After an entire month of nightly practice, he had finally achieved it.

Unlike Naruto and Sasuke, who could practice all day with almost continuous training, Genma had to do it day by day, taking a month.

However, his training was relatively safer, with rest and guaranteed chakra. Thus, the risky training that Kakashi had mentioned, considering the risk of slipping and falling due to insufficient chakra, was avoided.

Feeling relieved, he also clenched his fist.

He knew very well that this was just the beginning, and achieving tree-climbing with chakra control wasn't enough to satisfy him. He wanted more, more arduous training.

Just like the consolidation training arranged by his former teacher, Roxfort, for swordsmanship and boxing, including posture correction, heavy load, and practical use.

This tree-climbing training also included heavy load practice.

Having climbed once, the heavy load training naturally couldn't be completed in one go.

He set a goal to increase his load five times, adding one-fifth of his body weight each time.

After deciding, he leaped down the tree.

After returning home and discussing with Hideyoshi, after washing up, Genma went to sleep.

Compared to before, what he had to train was increasingly practical.

This didn't make him relaxed; instead, he had even less time.

Deciding to train chakra control wasn't due to arrogance but because he wanted to verify his own conjecture.

According to the original work, Shiranui Genma should only have an earth attribute, but now he also had a fire attribute.

Chakra is a fusion of physical energy and mental energy. Whether the fire attribute was his spirit, meaning his soul's change brought about the change, he was very concerned.

If it was indeed because his soul had changed, giving him both fire and earth attributes, then he might have absorbed and fused Shiranui Genma's original soul.

Thinking that he could remember everything, his calculation ability was extraordinary, and he could recall events from long ago. Sometimes he even suspected that his brain had undergone further development.

Transmigration could indeed affect brain development, making it highly possible.

High-intensity soul and a higher level of brain development allowed him to receive more information.

If it was as he imagined, he would have more training time, or rather, his training time would be at least double that of others.

What gave him this advantage was the Shadow Clone Technique, frequently used by transmigrators.

Using clones to increase training and learning time, although only the original protagonist had done it, trying such an overlord-like cheat to accelerate training was something he couldn't be satisfied with otherwise.

Therefore, he decided to attempt it.

End of Chapter 9