Chapter 19: The Miraculous Uses of Other Gods

Seeing the lifelike transparent water blade in Giyuu's hand, Uchiha Shisui was really amazed. He felt that this scene was even more bizarre than the cats under the cat lady's hands barking.

[How did this happen? ]

He only had this huge doubt in his mind.

The Uchiha's Sharingan certainly has the function of copying ninjutsu, but it is not so simple at first glance.

For example, Kakashi, who has the nickname of Copy Ninja, has copied nearly a thousand ninjutsu. But the premise for him to learn these techniques is that he can change the nature of the five chakras, and he has the experience of creating ninjutsu such as Raikiri. Therefore, he is proficient in all the principles of the five elements escape technique, so that he can use the basic function of the Sharingan's "copying" better than most Uchiha.

But the problem is Giyuu--

He just didn't use the Sharingan, and he didn't understand the basic principles of ninjutsu. He just watched Itachi do it once!

In just one time, he not only learned a B-level water escape ninjutsu, but also performed better than Itachi, even without making a seal!

Didn't you see the words written under the water blade?

[Is it because of the high affinity for water attribute? ]

As a jonin, Shisui's brain was spinning rapidly.

[No, it shouldn't be entirely. This can only explain the high degree of completion of his ninjutsu and the problem of taking water directly from the waterfall. ]

[But in order to perform the ninjutsu directly without forming a seal to guide the chakra, unless he has completed this ninjutsu thousands of times and is thoroughly familiar with the running rules and routes of chakra in the meridians in the body, but this is obviously impossible. ]

[Wait, chakra, running route? ]

These words reminded Shisui of something familiar.

Suddenly, a bold guess formed in Shisui's mind, so bold that even he, an Uchiha with a Mangekyō Sharingan, found it incredible.

[Think about it carefully first...]

When Itachi practiced this ninjutsu over and over in his head, Giyuu stared at Itachi's motionless expression, as if he wanted to penetrate his body directly with his eyes.

This reminded Shisui of something that happened more than two years ago.

He took Itachi to participate in the jonin training, during which they fought with the members of the Root organization who suddenly appeared.

Itachi had just opened the Sharingan at that time and was not familiar with the dynamic vision of the Sharingan, which caused him to sprain his ankle in the battle, and Shisui had to carry him home. That night, it was Giyuu who opened the door for them.

Shisui remembered that Giyuu stared at Itachi's ankle that time, and it was also a similar look.

Then, he raised his head again, and looked at Shisui with that empty, clear, bottomless deep pool-like gaze, as if he wanted to see deeply into his head.

That feeling was the same as when he was stared at by the Hyuga clan ninjas with white eyes on the battlefield during the Third World War.

So Shisui made a joke with Itachi at that time, and blurted it out just like this time.

"I suspect that Giyuu actually has white eyes."

But this time, he didn't mean to joke.

When Itachi heard this, he blinked speechlessly and didn't respond. Shisui also realized that he had said something wrong, and patted his head lightly, which dispelled this intuitive thought.

"Giyuu, give it a try."

At this time, Itachi said to Giyuu, who had a sword blade condensed on his finger, "See if the structure of this water blade can cut things."

Itachi had long been accustomed to the fact that Giyuu always surprised his family, and he was too lazy to think about these strange performances. Instead, he was worried about Giyuu's personality problems, which was the price of having such an outstanding talent.

"Okay."

Giyuu placed the water blade horizontally on the outside of his body, looked around, and aimed at a huge rock protruding from the reservoir.

After years of washing and soaking in the water, the stone has long been very smooth, but the shape reminds Giyuu of the giant baby-like appearance of Muzan Kibutsuji before his death.

Instead of destroying the few trees around, it is more appropriate to use this stone to cut.

Giyuu stepped lightly on the water surface, but did not cause even the slightest ripple, as if he himself was part of the water.

He raised two fingers of his right hand, and placed them diagonally in front of his chest along with the water blade. Then he slashed horizontally with his backhand. There was no action of charging power, but the chakra had already flowed to the fingertips along the meridians of his arm.

"Water Breathing·First Form·Water Surface Slash!"

The transparent water blade was pushed out by the suddenly emerging waves, and it looked like a beautiful glass product actively launched a suicide attack on the hard boulder, and it was about to be shattered.

However, the facts were completely opposite to what he imagined.

This transparent water blade was like a hot knife cutting into butter, easily splitting the boulder, but that was not all.

As the water blade was moving, the water flow at the blade edge was still flowing in a complex high-speed cycle like a track, so that the water blade was constantly cutting the stone while slashing.

Of course, Yiyong understood what this meant -

If someone dared to use a thin-bladed weapon like a ninja sword to fight the water ninja slash in close combat, he should be prepared to have his weapon directly destroyed.

As expected, after just half a second, the boulder more than two meters wide was cut in half.

Where the water blade passed, a wide, sharp, thin wave of water surged out, shooting towards a farther place, until it flew five meters before falling down as if losing its strength, merging with the coldness in the pool.

"It seems that each of Giyuu's sword styles, in addition to the slashing of physical skills, can also trigger something similar to ninjutsu."

Shisui could clearly see that the wave of water that had just been stimulated was very sharp. It was not much worse than the slash that Giyuu had made directly with the water blade. It was probably no less powerful than a C-level ninjutsu, like a smaller version of Water Release. Water breaks waves.

"Itachi, you said before that Giyuu's 'Water Breath' has a total of eleven sword types?"

"That's right." Itachi nodded.

"That means that Giyuu invented... eleven types of offensive water escape ninjutsu by himself?"

Shisui still can't forget the "water dragon bullet" he saw last time, and it was only one of the eleven types.

"You could say that."

Itachi responded with a smile, a bit of pride on his face, but it was soon replaced by a kind of contemplation.

"It seems like it was the right time for him to come here this time."

Shisui's expression became more and more excited. Itachi had already demonstrated the taijutsu version of water breathing to him.

But the ninjutsu version combined with chakra can only be used by Giyuu.

"Giyu, do you have much chakra left?"

Shisui asked loudly.

"It didn't consume much."

Yiyong walked back to the shore through the water and came to the two of them. The water blade at his fingertips disappeared directly, "Maybe it's because of the waterside."

"That's what water escape is like. Whether you can occupy the right location will have a great influence on water escape ninjas."

Then, Shisui changed the subject, "Now that the weapon issue has been resolved, it's time for us to fulfill our agreement."

He looked seriously and said to Yiyong: "Yiyong, next, fight me with all your strength and let me see what you can do. After you are done, I will lend you this place. I want to lend it to you." It doesn’t matter how long it takes.”

"Is it here?"

Yiyong looked around, seeming a little sorry for the beautiful scenery here.

The last time he used Shengsheng Flow to plow three feet of ground was still vivid in his mind, but Zhishui asked him to use all his strength.

Now it has been more than four months since the last time he took action. During this period, his body has been continuously strengthened by the breathing method. He has no idea what the full strength is.

But once a fight breaks out, it will definitely not be difficult to destroy this mountain stream.

"Of course not here anymore. Aren't you going to live here for a while?"

Shisui smiled handsomely, "Besides, we are doing this near a shrine, and the movement will easily attract the attention of the tribe. We need to find a place where no one can find it, so that we can safely conduct this competition."

What Giyu can do cannot be discovered by the clan, and neither can Konoha.

Although Shisui had great trust in his grandfather's old friend, the Third Hokage, he could never get along with those Hokage advisors.

"Shisui, do you want to leave the village?"

Itachi was a little worried. This place was already outside the barrier. If he went further and escaped from the range of the patrol squad, he would be leaving the village without permission.

He had already promised his father that he would find an opportunity to join the Anbu. This kind of mistake must not be made for the time being, otherwise he would probably fail in his efforts.

"I have better attention."

With that said, Shisui put away the Second Hokage's scroll and walked towards the hut by the waterfall, "Come in first."

Giyuu and Itachi followed in confused.

The inside of the house was as simple as the outside, with only a low table and a few straw mats. There were fishing tackle and pots in the corner, but they looked like they hadn't been used for a long time.

"You two sit over there and face me together."

Shisui sat down first, then pointed at his three magatama sharingan and said: "Look at me, don't resist, got it?"

Giyuu and Itachi nodded at the same time.

Shisui noticed their unreserved trust and smiled happily.

Before his smile subsided, the shape of his eyes changed - from three independent magatama, they gradually twisted and reorganized into the shape of a shuriken, but the four corners of the shuriken appeared slightly twisted.

"Other gods."

With a low groan, Giyuu and Itachi came to their senses, only to find that they were still sitting there, and Shisui was looking at them with a smile. It was as if nothing had happened just now.

"Shisui?"

Itachi's expression was a little surprised, "Before you..."

[You used the kaleidoscope eye technique on me and Yiyong? 】

He looked around and checked the chakra in his skull using the method of cracking illusions, but found nothing abnormal.

But in the next second, except for the three of them and the table in front of them, all the surrounding scenes suddenly changed.

The original dark brown wooden house suddenly melted into a pool of deformed yellow paint. The same thing happened under their feet and above their heads - that is to say, except for them and this table, everything around them... melted.

"Don't worry, this is just an application of my pupil technique. Your spiritual body is now in my illusion space."

Zhisui stood up, strong confidence emerging from his brows, "Everything here is under my control.

"For example, we can travel to the Kingdom of Wind..."

He clapped his hands gently, and the melted "dyes" in the background began to recombine. In just a few seconds, they arrived on a barren hill covered with yellow sand.

A dry and violent gust of wind swept away the sand and dust, brushing against Yiyong's skin like sandpaper.

The dim and dirty wind forced him to squint his eyes, and there was a subtle, grainy sensation in his mouth.

More importantly, the efficiency of the water breathing he was running had dropped significantly due to changes in the environment.

[Is this really an illusion? ]

Before he could react, Giyuu was enveloped by a bone-chilling cold.

The yellow sand in the sky turned into white snow, and the dark sky was endless, but the efficiency of water breathing suddenly increased.

"You can also come to the Snow Country to experience the avalanche yourself."

As soon as Shisui finished speaking, a terrible loud noise came from above Giyuu and Itachi's heads.

They raised their necks and looked at the mountain top behind them through the dense snow powder flying back and forth. A white torrent was rushing towards them along the mountain, and before the two could react, they were instantly submerged.

The next moment, they poked their heads out of the salty water, looking at the boundless sea with their bodies wet. A vast island was not far away, like a blue whale hanging on the water.

"It's also possible to go boating outside the Water Country."

Shisui's voice sounded again, and the three of them came to the Konoha Hokage Rock again, above the head of the second generation Hokage Senju Tobirama.

The sun passed through the sky at an incredible speed. Konoha, which was just noon, suddenly welcomed the night. The bright moon seemed to be pulled closer by someone with great force, getting closer and closer to the three of them...

At this point, Giyuu and Itachi finally understood what Shisui meant.

[Everything here is under my control. ]

"I'm done showing off."

Shisui sat back in his original position with a smug look, and with a wave of his hand, the table, which was empty just now, was filled with the three-color meatballs that Itachi loved to eat. The nine-tailed demon fox, which was more than one meter tall, suddenly appeared, holding a teapot in his hand to pour tea for the three people.

"How is it, is it very powerful?"

"You..."

Itachi looked at the nine-tailed demon fox holding the tea bowl in both hands and handed it to him, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You didn't use your technique just for this kind of thing, did you?"

Shisui's technique is called Kotoamatsukami.

According to him, this technique can control a person's mind, make the other party believe anything, and make it a puppet of the illusion. If Shisui implants the idea of ​​"you are dead" into the other party, the other party will die directly after the illusion ends.

As for the specific method, Itachi has now seen it.

Shisui pulled people's spirits directly into his illusion space, and these people could only let him do whatever he wanted, with no power to resist at all.

(This is a reference to the Shining Light in the game "Naruto: Ultimate Storm", which has little effect on Shisui's strength, but only adds some details to the operation of the illusion.)

But he remembered that Shisui said that once this technique is used, the pupil power cannot be restored for several years.

"Don't worry, Itachi, I just pulled people into this illusion space, which doesn't do much damage to the eyes. It will be fine after a few days of rest."

Shisui smiled and took a sip of tea, "Only when I want to modify the beliefs of foreign spirits, or directly eliminate them, will I really use that power."

Hearing him say this, Itachi was relieved.

"How about this? Here, Giyuu and I can fight boldly and confidently."

Shisui cast his eyes on Giyuu who was staring at the Nine-Tails fiercely. "Even if it's a fight of life and death, it's just an illusion here. As long as I don't make it come true, it won't have any real effect on him. After the illusion ends, it will all be like a dream."

"A fight of life and death?"

Itachi's heart, which had just been put down, was lifted up again. He stared at Shisui and said seriously: "There's no need for this."

Although this is an illusory area, Giyuu is so young. Once he experiences the feeling of death or the pain of being injured, it is hard to guarantee that it will affect his spirit.

"We agreed to let him fight with all his strength without any scruples. How can we go back on our word?"

Shisui waved his hand gently, and what they saw changed again.

The table came to the two huge statues standing opposite each other, and a waterfall larger than the Nanga River fell directly between the two.

This is the Valley of the End.

The place where Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama fought.

"Besides, at Giyu's age, you have seen what war and death are like, and have personally experienced the sense of crisis at the critical moment of life and death. You should know how dangerous this world is."

"Although Giyu is very strong, he is very soft-hearted. Leaving him here alone, but not knowing what kind of trouble he can deal with, can you really rest assured?

"In addition, I think it is good for him to have some sense of crisis. At least it can make him understand how much of a threat an ordinary jonin can bring to him."

"..."

He was too lazy to refute the ordinary jonin.

Itachi lowered his head and was silent for a while, and finally looked at his brother beside him, "Giyu, if you are afraid..."

"Then come on."

Giyu stood up, and water beams flowed out from his fingertips, eventually forming a half-meter-long blade.

He looked at the bright white moon in the sky and whispered something that only he could understand: "I also want to know what kind of dangers they will face after appearing in this world. "