The next day, in the courtyard of Uchiha Aozora’s house.
Although Uchiha Aozora had already become a genin, he didn’t have to participate in missions immediately.
According to Konoha’s tradition, during peacetime, genin would be uniformly divided into teams before executing missions, and then they would grow into independent ninjas under the instruction of a Jonin sensei.
The genin team assignments required the Hokage’s approval, so for a short time, he could stay at home and rest for a few days.
However, he didn’t plan to rest.
Instead, he intended to take advantage of these one or two days to learn two ninjutsu.
“Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar!” “Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar!” Uchiha Aozora articulated every word clearly, chanting while forming hand seals, slowly reviewing the hand seal gestures.
In fact, at the beginning of his transmigration, he had practiced hand seals diligently.
By the time he was five, he had already achieved a speed of three seals per second.
After all, in the Naruto manga, performing ninjutsu required hand seals.
However, after he learned the chakra refining technique, he realized that wasn’t the case.
Hand seals were not just finger movements; they also needed to coordinate with the circulation of chakra inside the body.
In fact, hand seals were just a suggestion.
Different hand seal techniques represented different magnitudes, different flows, and different transformations of chakra.
These pieces of knowledge might be understood by adults, but they were too complex for ignorant young children.
Therefore, powerful ninjas classified chakra transformations into twelve categories, with each category corresponding to a hand seal gesture.
Then, they let young children start learning hand seals.
Each hand seal gesture corresponded to a chakra transformation, and while forming the seal, they mobilized the chakra within their bodies to undergo the transformation.
When the twelve transformations were learned, one could combine the twelve transformations to perform ninjutsu.
At the time, he recalled an interesting post from his previous life.
It talked about the hand seal issue for the Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
When Zabuza Momochi first appeared, he formed forty-four seals, but later when the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama appeared and used it again, he only formed three seals.
Most of the replies below the post said things like “The Second Hokage is cheating” or “Kishimoto was too lazy to draw.” However, after understanding the principle of hand seals, Uchiha Aozora easily comprehended why there were simplified hand seals, one-handed seals, and even hand-seal-less ninjutsu.
From then on, Uchiha Aozora wasn’t very enthusiastic about improving his hand seal speed, and even rarely practiced hand seals.
Because what hand seal practice trained wasn’t the flexibility of the fingers, but the speed of chakra circulation and transformation within the body.
In this aspect, the “Guiding” method provided by the heavenly book was much more useful.
The reason he reviewed hand seal techniques again today wasn’t because he realized he was wrong, but because the execution method of the ninjutsu recorded on the scroll didn’t clearly explain how the chakra inside the body flowed and transformed; instead, it used hand seals as a substitute.
To understand and learn the ninjutsu, he had no choice but to pick up the hand seals he had previously discarded.
Uchiha Shisui, dressed neatly after eating breakfast, walked into the courtyard.
Seeing his younger brother’s clumsy hand seal gestures, he couldn’t help but shake his head.
Crossing his arms, Uchiha Shisui watched Uchiha Aozora practice from the sidelines, growing more disappointed the more he watched.
“With just this, he still wants to learn all the ninjutsu in the ninja world?” “I gave him so many ninjutsu scrolls yesterday.
Was that decision wrong?” Uchiha Shisui’s attention didn’t distract Uchiha Aozora.
After practicing for a while, he found the rhythm.
His “Guided Qi Cultivation” method was practiced well, and the mobilization of chakra within his body was very fast.
As long as he matched the hand seal technique with the chakra transformation, it would be fine.
Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger.
Uchiha Aozora slowly formed the seals, simultaneously circulating the chakra in his body according to the hand seal references.
Phew!
Uchiha Aozora’s eyes lit up.
He had finally matched the hand seal technique with the chakra transformations, and he smiled happily: “Haha, I finally learned it!” Hearing this, Uchiha Shisui frowned, feeling disappointed in his younger brother.
Although the Great Fireball Technique was a basic ninjutsu for the Uchiha to learn Fire Style, its difficulty ranked high among C-rank ninjutsu.
Yet Uchiha Aozora simply made a few hand seals and claimed he had learned it.
He hadn’t harbored much hope for Uchiha Aozora’s talent.
Gifting the scrolls was just to encourage his younger brother.
He increasingly regretted his action of giving the scrolls yesterday.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Aozora began his first practice of casting the Great Fireball Technique.
Snake – Ram – Monkey—— Before the seals were even finished, Uchiha Shisui saw through the ninjutsu his brother was about to perform, and his frown deepened.
“This is forcing it too much.
Trying to run before learning how to walk.” “It seems those scrolls should be taken back.
I hope my brother won’t resent me when the time comes.” He didn’t harbor any hope of success for Uchiha Aozora casting the Great Fireball Technique, nor did he step in to stop it.
In his view, with such hand seal speed, the chakra wouldn’t flow and transform in time.
The chakra would completely dissipate before it even surged up to the throat.
Unlike what Uchiha Shisui thought, inside Uchiha Aozora’s body, after the chakra flowed to the specific locations, it didn’t run wild everywhere due to losing mobilization.
Instead, it stayed in place, waiting for the next instruction.
After a while, Uchiha Aozora finally finished the hand seals.
The chakra in his body went through several transformations and seemed to turn into a scorching airflow, gathering in his throat cavity.
Uchiha Aozora’s face turned red.
He only felt as if there was a tiny stream of magma in his throat, the intense heat seemingly about to burn through his throat.
Facing such a situation, Uchiha Aozora didn’t panic, but continued to slowly complete the final chakra transformation of the hand seal.
A surge of chakra rose from his abdomen, providing powerful momentum for the heat flow in his throat.
Uchiha Aozora knew he had to open his mouth.
“Phew——” A tiny red airflow instantly spewed out from his mouth.
The airflow ignited upon encountering the wind, then expanded against the wind, instantly turning into a huge fireball half the height of a person.
About three seconds later, the red airflow shrank and disappeared, and the huge fireball also lost its energy and dissipated in the courtyard.
Uchiha Aozora panted heavily, stroking his throat, feeling lingering fear.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui widened his eyes, looking at his younger brother in astonishment, and murmured: “He actually succeeded!
How could he succeed?” Although he didn’t care enough about his younger brother due to being busy with missions, he still knew his brother’s talent was average, otherwise he wouldn’t have graduated from the Ninja Academy at twelve.
He also heard that his brother only refined chakra at the beginning of the year.
He wasn’t proficient in any of ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu, and only retained the fine tradition of the Uchiha family in ninja tool throwing.
Looking at his brother’s unfamiliar hand seal technique just now, logically speaking, there shouldn’t have been a shred of possibility for a successful cast!
But the scorched lawn in front of him and the hot air his brother kept exhaling told him that it was all real.
His “trash” brother succeeded in casting the Great Fireball Technique on the first try.
Not a success of spitting out sparks, but a true success of spitting out a huge fireball.
Even he, who was called a genius, only successfully cast it on his third try when learning the Great Fireball Technique, and he was only able to truly spit out such a huge fireball after half a month of practice.
Regarding this, Uchiha Shisui was very perplexed.
He hurriedly grabbed Uchiha Aozora and asked: “Aozora, how did you cast the Great Fireball just now?
Why did you succeed on your first try?” Uchiha Aozora shook off Uchiha Shisui’s hand and asked in confusion: “I just cast it normally, is this hard?” (END CHAPTER)