Σ(°△°|||)︴ Uchiha Aozora sweated profusely, immediately dispelling the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
“Even a Shadow Clone wants to compete with me in showing off?” With the dispel of the Shadow Clone Jutsu, a brief memory returned to the main body.
He deeply felt the desire to show off gushing out from the Shadow Clone.
“Am I really this much of a chuunibyou?” Before he could think further, the heavenly book underwent a change.
On the wordless page, the gray ancient characters “Clone” first surfaced, then the characters deepened in color and radiated golden light, eventually transforming into gilded ancient characters.
What surprised Uchiha Aozora even more was that after the gilded ancient characters faded, four new ancient characters appeared on the heavenly book: “External Incarnation”.
The newly emerged four ancient characters were exceptionally dim, clearly indicating that the inheritance was incomplete.
After the four gray ancient characters also disappeared, Uchiha Aozora thought it would end like this.
Unexpectedly, the characters “Weapon Mastery” appeared on the heavenly book, and the originally dim ancient characters now emitted a faint golden light from their edges.
“A triple hit?
Who would have thought the Shadow Clone had such high technical content?” He wasn’t surprised that “Clone” underwent a change, and he could understand the appearance of “External Incarnation”, since this was also a Daoist divine ability in the clone lineage.
But what Uchiha Aozora hadn’t expected was that “Weapon Mastery” was actually perfected a bit because of this.
He hurriedly sensed “Weapon Mastery”.
After a while, Aozora opened his eyes thoughtfully.
“So the Shadow Clone doesn’t just separate chakra, but also splits a portion of the spirit.
No wonder the Shadow Clone has its own consciousness.” “And the key to ‘Weapon Mastery’ lies in the splitting and attachment of the spirit, so this wave also received some perfection.” Suddenly, Uchiha Aozora drew a sharp breath.
He thought of Crown Prince Naruto in the original work routinely creating hundreds or thousands of Shadow Clones.
“He didn’t get schizophrenia like that?” “Is the protagonist’s plot armor too strong?” “Or did the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu make optimizations in this aspect?” “Or does spirit not equal soul?” After pondering blindly for a while, Uchiha Aozora decisively snapped back to reality; he never wasted too much time on things he couldn’t figure out.
Thus, Aozora shifted his gaze to “Clone” and “External Incarnation” on the heavenly book.
Carefully comparing them once, Uchiha Aozora found that “Clone” was the optimized version of the Shadow Clone.
Furthermore, it didn’t optimize the ability itself, but just optimized the chakra circulation routes, making its consumption slightly lower.
As for “External Incarnation”, although it only revealed a little bit of knowledge, it also made Uchiha Aozora’s imagination run wild.
Compared to the Shadow Clone, the clone cultivated by the “External Incarnation” method has a physical body, won’t pop with a single poke, and can cultivate and grow independently.
Moreover, the External Incarnation usually has its own consciousness, but at crucial moments the main body can completely control it, and the main body can synchronize with the incarnation’s consciousness at any time.
After seeing the abilities of “External Incarnation”, Uchiha Aozora instantly felt the Shadow Clone Jutsu wasn’t so appealing anymore.
Unfortunately, the “External Incarnation” method showed as gray, completely lacking the cultivation method.
After drooling over “External Incarnation” for half a day, Uchiha Aozora finally began to practice the hand seals of the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
Although he didn’t need to form seals to cast ninjutsu, he didn’t want to expose this secret prematurely.
In the current Uchiha clan, having one Shisui of the Body Flicker was enough; if there were more, neither the Konoha higher-ups nor the Uchiha clan would be able to accept it.
The next day, early morning, just after daybreak, the three teammates of Squad Three had already arrived at the rice paddy.
Looking at the golden rice paddy, Uchiha Aozora was full of heroic spirit and said: “Let’s do our best, everyone.
Try to resolve the battle today.” Inuzuka Aya actively agreed, saying: “Do our best, ganbatte!” Watching the two energetic youngsters, Gekko Hayate coughed twice and said: “There’s no need to rush that much, right?
The mission time limit is four days, and today is only the second day.” “Moreover——” At this point he deliberately paused.
He pointed at the trio’s results from yesterday and said: “We only harvested a quarter of it yesterday.” “Even if our harvesting techniques are more skilled today, we still can’t possibly finish it.” Uchiha Aozora shook his head in denial, saying: “Yesterday I was just saving your face.” Inuzuka Aya also said: “Hmph, Aozora what big talk are you spewing, it was clearly me who hid my strength.” After saying that, she suddenly stretched out a fist towards Uchiha Aozora and said: “Uchiha Aozora, wanna race?
Let’s see who harvests more rice today!” Uchiha Aozora tried hard to suppress his urge to roll his eyes.
Saying you hid your strength first, and then declaring war?
With this IQ, it must have all been eaten by her pet dog.
Even so, Uchiha Aozora did not refuse.
He directly responded: “No problem!” After speaking, Aozora’s eyes darted around and said: “But just racing is boring.
How about we make a bet, let’s put some stakes on it!” Inuzuka Aya didn’t think at all and immediately agreed: “Sure, you’re going to lose anyway.
Say it, what are we betting?” Truly, the ignorant are fearless, Uchiha Aozora thought.
“A ninjutsu scroll, C-rank or above, how about it?” After saying that, Uchiha Aozora looked at Inuzuka Aya with a provocative gaze.
How could Inuzuka Aya admit defeat?
She immediately agreed, and asked Gekko Hayate to be the witness.
No matter how Gekko Hayate tried to dissuade them, it didn’t work, so he had to act as the adjudicator unwillingly.
He stood on the ridge, pointed at a line, and said: “Use this as the midline, one person on each side.
The deadline is sunset; let’s see who harvests the most rice.
If someone finishes their side first, that also counts as a win.” Hearing this, Uchiha Aozora felt something wasn’t quite right.
Before he could think carefully, Gekko Hayate had already waved his hand and said: “Start!” Before his voice even faded, Inuzuka Aya shouted at Uchiha Aozora: “Uchiha Aozora, you’re definitely gonna lose!” After saying that, she waved at the little white dog, and then the little white dog climbed onto her.
“Secret Technique!
Beast Human Clone!” After a burst of smoke, the little white dog transformed into another Inuzuka Aya.
“Let’s begin, Shiro!” She shouted once, and then immersed herself in harvesting rice together with Shiro.
Uchiha Aozora shook his head and smiled slightly: “Just this?” “Ninja Art!
Shadow Clone Jutsu!” With a “poof”, two Shadow Clones appeared beside him.
“Go, Shadow Clones!” The two clones felt offended, but still reluctantly went down into the field to harvest rice.
The Beast Human Clone transformed by Shiro wasn’t a real human after all, and wasn’t skilled at using tools.
Therefore, the rice-harvesting progress of Uchiha Aozora’s two Shadow Clones quickly overtook Inuzuka Aya’s.
Seeing victory in sight, Uchiha Aozora finally felt comfortable enough to prepare to chat with Gekko Hayate.
Looking at Gekko Hayate on the ridge with his hair blowing in the breeze, looking all peaceful and quiet.
Uchiha Aozora’s face turned dark, and he said: “Hayate, you are very sneaky!” Gekko Hayate laughed awkwardly and said: “Bad health!
Cough!
Bad health!” Seeing the other party’s frail body, Uchiha Aozora showed some understanding and said: “Don’t let it happen again.
Also, help out in the afternoon, strive to complete the mission today.” Gekko Hayate nodded and said: “Okay!” During the lunch break, Inuzuka Aya’s rice-harvesting progress had already fallen far behind Uchiha Aozora’s.
She ate crazily, then after a short rest, she went back to harvest rice under the blazing sun.
Hayate and Aozora felt bad just watching, so they had to get into the field too.
Finally, before sunset, Squad Three completed their first mission.