Ti flew by like a fleeting horse.
In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.
During these ten days, the E11 district under the responsibility of Seii's team was quite peaceful, or rather, the entire western defense zone was very quiet.
The reason was simple: everyone's attention was not here.
Currently, whether it was Sunagakure, Konohagakure, or spies from other forces stationed nearby, all eyes were focused on the two strongholds on the front line.
The fighting there was intense, with the strongholds changing hands several tis. Both Sunagakure and Konohagakure were frantically sending reinforcents.
As far as Seii knew, Konoha had already sent three waves of support.
Now this was the fourth wave.
That's right, just a mont ago, Seii had escorted the fourth wave of Konoha's reinforcents out of the defense zone.
Watching their departing figures, Seii thought to himself, "I wonder how many of these people will survive?"
Clearly, those two strongholds had beco so kind of symbol. Whether they could be recaptured would determine Konoha's choices when facing Suna's attacks for a long ti to co.
If they could be recaptured, it would show that Konoha still had the strength to fight.
In the future, when encountering similar situations, they would also respond proactively.
But if they couldn't be recaptured, it would an that Konoha was no longer capable of maintaining the current battle line.
In that case, they would have to gradually abandon the outer strongholds and shrink the entire defense line.
During this process, the resistance wouldn't be too strong.
Precisely because of this, the fighting there was so fierce.
After pondering for a while, Seii withdrew his gaze, shook his head, and stopped thinking about it further. These matters were not his concern.
What he needed to focus on was whether he would be transferred there, and if he were, how to ensure his survival.
These matters concerning his own life were what he should be considering.
Fortunately, Seii had not received any transfer orders.
...
Another two days passed in a flash.
It was now early October.
This afternoon.
After finishing his patrol, Seii routinely started practicing the 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique'. Once, twice, thrice...
Finally, after casting this technique for the twenty-seventh ti, Seii suddenly stopped, closed his eyes, and stood still for a long ti.
Ti passed by, and after a full fifteen minutes, Seii finally ca to his senses. The mont he opened his eyes, a flash of realization crossed them.
With a swift motion, Seii drew his short sword from his waist.
Then, without any visible movent, the short sword changed from snow-white to dark red.
Obviously, he had infused Fire Release chakra into it, but unlike before, there were no flickering flas on the blade.
This didn't an his Fire Release had weakened.
On the contrary, it had beco stronger.
The reason those flas appeared before was that he didn't have enough control over the Fire Release chakra.
But now, that problem no longer existed.
As for the reason...
It was simple. He had completely mastered the Shape and Nature Transformations of Fire Release chakra, so naturally, there would be no more leakage of power.
How did he achieve this?
The answer was also simple. His 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique' had leveled up, from lv4 to lv5, reaching perfection.
Through this, he successfully mastered the Shape and Nature Transformations of Fire Release chakra, and his understanding and control of Fire Release chakra directly reached a new level.
At this mont, Seii had a premonition that when he practiced other Fire Release ninjutsu, he should be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort.
With this thought, Seii imdiately raised his hands, swiftly forming the six hand seals 'Snake - Ram - Monkey - Boar - Horse - Tiger'. He opened his mouth and spat out a fireball with a diater of about one ter.
The fireball flew straight out, hitting a large tree not far away, igniting a blazing fire.
However, Seii didn't even look at the effects of this technique. He focused his mind, opened the panel, and directly checked the proficiency behind 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique'.
Without any surprise, just from casting it once, its proficiency increased by five points.
This made Seii very excited. He thought to himself that his strategy of prioritizing the improvent of one ninjutsu was correct.
Afterward, he tried a few more tis. Although the increase in proficiency fluctuated slightly, it basically remained between four and five points, which was undeniably fast.
Additionally, he also tested the 'Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique', and the effect was the sa as the 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique', with proficiency increasing rapidly.
In light of this, Seii made a decision on the spot - he would divide the thirteen hundred chakra points originally allocated to the 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique', which he himself provided, equally between the 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique' and the 'Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique'.
This way, their proficiency could increase by about forty points per day.
In this way, it would only take about ten days for these two ninjutsu to level up from lv2 to lv3, and their practicality would definitely increase significantly.
The only regret was that even though his 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique' had reached lv5 (0/0), he still couldn't perform single-handed seals or cast it without seals.
Seii estimated that to achieve this, he might need to raise his 'Chakra Control' by another level.
After all, the essence of hand seals was to assist ninjas in mobilizing the chakra within their bodies. If a ninja could do this on their own, they could completely simplify or even omit this step.
With this thought, Seii opened the panel and looked at 'Chakra Control'.
After practicing these days, its proficiency had increased by over a hundred points, and it was now at lv3 (810/1000)!
However, at this point, the boost from the two-tomoe Sharingan was almost gone. If there were no new thods, he could only rely on gradual progress.
"New thods..."
Seii murmured, thinking of the two puppeteers imprisoned in the depths of the cave.
Wasn't one of the reasons he initially captured Chiya to borrow the puppet secrets he mastered and accelerate his 'Chakra Control' training?
It was just that Chiya had been unwilling to hand them over.
'It's been so long now, I wonder if he has changed his mind?'
Seii pondered and went to a deserted corner. He raised his hand and perford the 'Shadow Clone Technique', creating a shadow clone.
After nodding at the clone, Seii quietly left the area and headed towards the entrance of the underground cave.
This ti, even if Chiya was unwilling, Seii was confident he could get his hands on the puppet secrets.
The reason was simple. After these days of observation, he was certain that Chiya was the weakness of Safo's puppeteer subordinate.
Using this as a breakthrough point, it shouldn't be difficult to obtain the puppet secrets.
Moreover, he didn't want everything, just the thods for condensing, dividing, and controlling chakra threads.
As for the puppet creation and control techniques that Chiya valued, he wasn't very interested.
In this way, there should be a way to find a breakthrough.
Thinking this, Seii had already arrived at the entrance of the underground cave. He looked around, confird no one was there, and imdiately went in.
(End of Chapter)
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