Returning to the empty courtyard mansion, Uchiha Aozora went back to his room to prepare to cultivate “Samadhi True Fire”.
Within the “Samadhi True Fire”, Uchiha Aozora only possessed the inheritance of the “Qi Fire”.
“Qi Fire” was the fire of true qi, the standard equipment for those who had achieved success in building their foundation in fire-attribute qi cultivation.
Last time he received the sudden enlightenment from the heavenly book, he only focused on experiencing the functions of “Samadhi True Fire”, and hadn’t yet looked at the specific cultivation methods.
Sitting cross-legged and focusing his mind to enter tranquility, he saw the four pale golden ancient characters “Samadhi True Fire” appear in the center of the heavenly book in his sea of consciousness.
He contemplated the four characters, and paragraphs of text surfaced in his heart.
Having obtained the cultivation method, Uchiha Aozora didn’t feel any joy; instead, he was somewhat disappointed.
The heavenly book provided two methods for cultivating the fire of true qi.
The first was the grand, orthodox path.
As long as one cultivated fire-attribute true qi, constantly purifying and tempering it, when the true qi became pure enough, it would self-ignite and become true fire.
This path had no danger whatsoever, and the operation was simple, but the time required for purification and tempering was long.
Even a genius would need at least three to five years.
The second was a small side path: finding heavenly and earthly strange fires, and using the strange fire to temper the true qi.
This method was the opposite of the previous one.
Whether it was finding the strange fire or using it to temper the true qi, both were extremely difficult and extremely dangerous.
It also had advantages: the progress was extremely rapid, and one could condense the true fire in at most a month.
Fortunately, the two methods didn’t conflict.
Uchiha Aozora could purify his true qi while searching for strange fires.
“It seems I won’t be able to cultivate ‘Qi Fire’ in a short time!” “Although the heavenly book is good, it cannot create something out of nothing.
It would be great if there were other methods to perfect magical spells and abilities.” Sighing, Uchiha Aozora gave up on his boring blind thoughts.
Adjusting his mood, he prepared to try converting chakra into fire-attribute chakra first.
There are various training methods for chakra nature transformation, the most common being casting ninjutsu.
Uchiha Aozora slowly formed hand seals, while simultaneously devoting his entire mind to sensing the changes in chakra, thereby investigating how non-attribute chakra converted into fire-attribute chakra.
“Snake——” He felt trickles of small streams surging out of the chakra in his dantian.
“Ram——” Some of the small chakra streams merged into little rivers, while others remained independent, flowing upstream along different meridians.
“Monkey——Boar——” The small chakra rivers passed through acupoint after acupoint, surging towards his chest.
“Horse——” The larger chakra streams began to boil and turn scorching hot.
“Tiger——” The scorching chakra streams met another stream, like dry wood meeting a fierce fire.
Uchiha Aozora hurriedly opened the window.
The scorching aura burst out of his mouth, and a huge fireball rushed towards the sky.
Releasing the ninjutsu, Uchiha Aozora carefully recalled and confirmed that the “Horse” seal was the key to the fire-attribute transformation.
This was easy to understand.
The hand seals were named after the twelve earthly branches, among which both Snake and Horse belong to fire, so using them to represent fire-attribute transformations was very fitting.
Although his mind was roughly certain, Uchiha Aozora still ran a few more experiments before fully confirming that the chakra circulation corresponding to the “Horse” seal was indeed related to the fire-attribute transformation.
After finishing the experiments, it was getting late.
Uchiha Aozora practiced the “Guided Qi Cultivation” method for a while, and then fell deeply asleep.
Cultivating to become an immortal was good, but he was still a child and needed to grow taller.
Early the next morning, before six-thirty, Uchiha Aozora woke up.
The whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring, and the whole day’s work depends on a good start in the morning!
Uchiha Aozora knew this principle in his past life, but work and life were mixed up, and his daily routine was frequently disrupted.
In this life, without a boss’s harassment, nor the temptation of a cell phone, he cultivated the habit of going to bed early and getting up early very well.
After getting up, Uchiha Aozora first did an hour of morning exercises in the courtyard.
After the morning exercises, Uchiha Aozora went to the bathroom to wash up, and conveniently admired his peerless beauty and perfect figure.
Finding a set of rough, dirt-resistant clothes to change into and putting on his ninja tools, Uchiha Aozora put on his ninja forehead protector and went out.
“The gears of fate are slowly turning; starting today, Uchiha Aozora begins his magnificent ninja career.
He knows the future is bright, but the road is tortuous, so he can face any difficulty head-on.” Providing himself with a voice-over narration, Uchiha Aozora injected himself with a dose of motivation.
To ensure he wouldn’t be too resistant during his upcoming missions, Uchiha Aozora prepared himself mentally first.
—— On the first floor of the Hokage Building, people were coming and going.
Having experienced the Nine-Tails Rebellion, Konoha ninjas were extremely scarce, with many missions but few hands.
However, Konoha couldn’t choose to give up too many missions.
Because they weren’t the only ones in the ninja world; if Konoha gave up too many missions, those clients might be lost for good.
So, the current ninjas in Konoha were practically using women as men, and using men as beasts of burden.
Uchiha Aozora was the first to arrive, followed successively by Gekko Hayate and Inuzuka Aya.
It wasn’t until 7:50 that Aburame Shibi stepped into the Hokage Building.
Nodding at the three, Aburame Shibi led them to the mission hall.
The mission hall was on the left side, occupying nearly half of the first floor’s area in the Hokage Building.
There were many ninjas inside, and an equal number of civilians wearing various clothes.
Aburame Shibi looked at the lines for receiving missions and lined up behind the longest one.
Watching the slowly crawling line, Inuzuka Aya was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Pointing to a sparse line on the side, she asked her two teammates: “Why is sensei lining up in the long queue?
There is clearly no one over there.” Hearing this, Uchiha Aozora couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
She didn’t even know this bit of common sense, yet she had the nerve to call herself the dead last.
Gekko Hayate, good-tempered as he was, explained to her: “That side is distributing A-rank missions, which are not something our squad can accept.” “A-rank?” Inuzuka Aya asked doubtfully.
“No way, you don’t even know this?
That’s ridiculous!” Clicking his tongue, Uchiha Aozora said to Inuzuka Aya: “Slacker, listen carefully.” Inuzuka Aya grunted twice, but obediently stood aside to listen to the lecture.
“The ninja world categorizes missions by difficulty level into five grades: S, A, B, C, and D.
The different queues in the hall correspond to different grades of missions.” Inuzuka Aya looked at the four queues and still didn’t understand, continuing to ask: “Five grades, then why are there only four queues?” “Because S-rank missions aren’t distributed in the hall,” Uchiha Aozora replied.
“S-rank missions are the highest difficulty missions, involving national-level confidential matters.
The secrecy level is too high, and they are too dangerous, so they are generally assigned directly by the Hokage.” Inuzuka Aya then nodded, but she quickly had another question: “D-rank missions are the lowest grade of missions.
We are so strong, let’s go accept A-rank missions!” Uchiha Aozora stopped talking this time, directly letting out a “Hehe”.
Although Inuzuka Aya didn’t know the exact meaning of “Hehe”, she still caught the meaning of “contempt” in Uchiha Aozora’s eyes.
Just as she was about to get angry, Gekko Hayate timely resolved her confusion: “We are just newly graduated genin; according to the rules, we can only accept D-rank missions.
To accept B-rank or C-rank missions, we need to execute multiple D-rank missions and perform well.” “As for A-rank missions, only Jonin are qualified to accept them.” (END CHAPTER) Thank you for the support, friends.