The instant the thunderous roar exploded, the air currents across the training field turned violent, whipping up fine sand and dust all over the ground.
Uchiha Shisui, sent flying by Genshin’s punch, hung in midair with nothing to push off of, yet he did not fall into a passive, out-of-control state.
Having survived countless life-or-death battles, Shisui’s combat experience was carved into his very bones; even against a heavy blow that caught him off guard, he could respond in the most perfect way.
In midair, Shisui suddenly channeled force through his waist, spinning his whole body around by borrowing the momentum of the impact, precisely avoiding the core explosive force of the punch.
While dodging the head-on impact, in Genshin’s perception, Shisui used extremely masterful Chakra control to form a flowing membrane of Chakra over the surface of his body, breaking down and dispersing the remaining force layer by layer, channeling it out through his limbs and every part of his frame to minimize the damage as much as possible.
Reacting in a single instant, and even managing the most perfect response?
Genshin thought Shisui’s combat skill was absurdly strong.
Twisting his body around in the air, Shisui landed on the ground, his feet plowing two shallow furrows into the dirt.
Shaking out his slightly numb arm, he was quite astonished.
“That was Lady Tsunade’s Chakra Enhanced Strength?
You learned it this fast?” If he remembered correctly, this kid had only just taken her as his master, hadn’t he?
“The principle’s about the same, but this is something I came up with on my own by imitating Teacher Tsunade’s way of channeling force.”
Inventing his own Ninjutsu at six years old!?
Shisui, who had always been called a genius, felt that he was probably a fake genius.
Indeed, this move was not the original Chakra Enhanced Strength.
It stemmed from his earlier bout with Tsunade, when Genshin sensed that every one of Tsunade’s punches used an extremely refined method of Chakra control to concentrate Chakra into a single point and unleash it.
And to receive and deflect Chakra Enhanced Strength, Genshin too had to concentrate his Chakra into a single point.
It was in the very process of getting beaten that Genshin gradually understood and learned the way Chakra Enhanced Strength channeled its force.
As for truly reaching the point where he could use it—that came only after Shizune corrected the problems in Genshin’s Chakra usage, which was why he had finally been able to pull it off during the afternoon spar.
Looking at it this way, Tsunade had deliberately slowed the flow of her Chakra during their bout so that he could learn—otherwise, at his current level, how could he possibly have made out the way Chakra Enhanced Strength channeled its force?
He was piling up more and more debts of gratitude to them.
Maybe he should pay them back a little more tomorrow morning…
As he thought this, Genshin lunged forward with a twisting spin kick, his ankle sweeping toward Shisui’s side with a whoosh of wind.
Shisui stepped back and narrowly dodged the blow, shook out his no-longer-numb hand, and a smile spread across his face.
“Looks like I’ll have to get serious too.”
The instant the words fell, Shisui’s figure abruptly blurred.
There was no earth-shaking aura, no exaggerated Chakra fluctuations—only extreme speed tearing through the air, raising bursts of whistling sound.
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
Several afterimages formed one after another in an instant, real and fake figures overlapping and interweaving.
These were afterimages Shisui derived by weaving together fast and slow speeds—without activating his Sharingan, using pure Taijutsu skill alone, he created an illusion of afterimages in which truth and falsehood were impossible to tell apart.
Not only that, he had also sneakily used the Shadow Clone Technique.
His real body, afterimages, and shadow clones all worked in concert, the offensive sealing in from every direction, cutting off Genshin’s every avenue of escape.
The Phantom Body Flicker Technique?
No—this was just plain Taijutsu plus the Clone Technique!
Genshin’s expression tightened, and he instantly threw his perception wide open under Hamon Chakra mode.
The Hamon Chakra flowing through his entire body amplified his perception to the extreme, letting him clearly distinguish the real body with the most solid, condensed Chakra and see through the disguise of every clone.
But…
Shisui’s speed was simply too fast, far beyond the limit of Genshin’s reactions at this stage.
Generally speaking, after an image vanishes the photosensitive pigments in a person’s retina don’t fade immediately, and the picture lingers for 0.1 to 0.4 seconds—but Shisui’s speed…
was far above that.
As the real and fake figures kept switching, Genshin’s brain was continually deceived by his eyes’ persistence of vision, and his processing of information grew more and more chaotic.
Unable to determine whether his opponent was the real body or a fake, Genshin could only treat them all as the real body, running his Hamon Breathing at full power, his feet never ceasing to dodge and block, throwing out his knockoff Chakra Enhanced Strength again and again—yet missing every single time.
His Taijutsu foundation, his Chakra bursts, his predictive perception were already the ceiling for his age, but before Shisui’s top-tier speed and combat skill—honed over years of slaughter—he still came off as green.
Ten seconds.
In just ten short seconds, Genshin was forced into a steady retreat, openings springing up all over his body one after another.
Finally, just as Genshin scattered an afterimage before him with a punch and was about to move on to the next target, he froze—because as the afterimage dissipated and his deceived vision gradually recovered, Shisui’s knife-hand was already pointed at his throat.
This time, when the afterimage was scattered by Genshin, and as Genshin pulled back his fist, Shisui’s real body used Body Flicker to take over the afterimage’s former position.
But at that moment Genshin’s brain believed the afterimage in that spot had already been destroyed, so that spot was safe—he never reacted to the possibility that Shisui would launch a surprise attack from the very place where the afterimage had dispersed.
“I lose.”
Realizing this, Genshin gave a French military salute and decisively conceded.
He knew perfectly well that Shisui had not used his Sharingan the entire time, nor had he deployed the Phantom Body Flicker Technique that had made his name resound throughout the Shinobi World—with nothing but Basic Taijutsu and speed, he had already crushed the Genshin of this moment.
This gap was the accumulation of years upon years of real combat—something that talent and short-term bitter training could never make up for.
But weren’t you being a little too serious, damn it?
It was just a knockoff Chakra Enhanced Strength that pulled a fast one on you—who’d have thought a bushy-browed, big-eyed, dumpling-nosed guy like you could hold such a grudge!
Shisui pulled back and steadied himself, a gentle smile on his face, his eyes brimming with admiration.
“I had the advantage of age and experience.” Shisui shook his head lightly, his tone sincere.
“Honestly, little Genshin, sparring with you, I gained a great deal myself.”
In the spar just now, Genshin’s powerful perception and extreme single-point Chakra bursts had put no small pressure on him—several times Genshin had come within a hair of striking his real body.
The wind swept across the training field, blowing away the drifting sand and dust, and the taut combat atmosphere eased.
Not far away, little Hinata, who had been quietly watching all along, stared without blinking at the red-haired boy on the field.
Still so young, Hinata couldn’t quite grasp what this match meant, but that didn’t stop her from thinking Genshin was amazing.
Shisui gazed at the red-haired boy before him, the appreciation in his eyes growing ever deeper.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally voiced the true purpose for which he had come specifically to spar today.
“Genshin-kun, I’m curious—in your eyes…
what exactly is the Uchiha Clan to the village?”
?
Do you even hear yourself?
You’re asking a six-year-old brat a question like that?
If I dared to answer, would you dare to believe it?
Probably reading Genshin’s expression, Shisui explained, “You’re one of the few people I’ve met who doesn’t reject the Uchiha Clan.
Even though you’re very young, over these few exchanges I’ve been able to tell that when you think about a problem, you often start from the angle of ‘whether this is beneficial to the village.'”
“So I want to know what your current view of the Uchiha Clan is, to use as a reference.”
Fine, this simple-minded kid really did dare to believe it.
So how should he answer?
Genshin sank into thought.
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