Chapter 21: Self-Study, Shadow Clone Technique

  It's been three days since I returned to Konohagakure, and although the disappearance of Fuuka Koyuki has come as a surprise to Mugen, she still knows that Fuuka is absolutely fine. After all, if something were to happen to her now, the later "Snow Princess Ninja Scroll" would not exist. In these few days, Mugen hasn't done anything else in Konohagakure.

  Apart from cultivation, it was studying the massive scroll in his hand - "The Book of Lin".

  Although it's not too difficult for Meng Ling to understand this book with her current intelligence, the only thing that surprised her was that this book is entirely written in Chinese characters, without a single trace of Japanese.

  Why is this? Meng Ling was very puzzled, could it be that there were people who had crossed over to the Naruto world before herself? Could it be that she had been brought to this world with ulterior motives? Meng Ling couldn't understand no matter how much she thought about it.

  But then, wouldn't Meng Lin just stop reading that volume of "Lin's Book"?

  The answer was definitely yes, and in these three days, Meng Ling finally discovered a huge secret in the "Lin's Book". When she first got this volume of "Lin's Book", her initial reaction was that it was a Buddhist or Taoist cultivation method. However, after reading the contents inside the scroll, Meng Ling became even more convinced of her own thoughts, because inside that volume of "Lin's Book" was indeed a set of cultivation methods, but it seemed to have no ending. Upon seeing this, Meng Ling knew that this volume of "Lin's Book" must be one of the so-called "Nine Volumes". In Meng Ling's original world, there was a legend that said if one completed the cultivation of all nine volumes, they would attain the Great Way, transcending the three realms and not being bound by the five elements. What kind of realm would that be? Meng Ling thought about it and couldn't help but feel her eyes shining with excitement. However, Meng Ling didn't know whether cultivating this "Lin's Book" would have any side effects on herself, so she was hesitant for a moment.

  But after she had gone through N times of ideological struggle, she still decided to learn a little bit. After all, although she and the Third Hokage had said that she would enter the Ninja Academy in two years, what she would do for those two years she really hadn't thought about. So, Meng Ling decided that after she learned that jutsu, she would start cultivating the methods in "The Book of臨".

  The next day, Meng Ling arrived at Kakashi's residence early in the morning. Why? Of course, there was a reason for this. Because Meng Ling had thought of a very practical cultivation method he saw in his original world - Shadow Clone Jutsu.

  In her previous world, Meng Ling knew that Minato's cultivation speed was a thousand miles a day because he had opened this thing similar to 'cheat', although it would be very tiring in the end. However, Meng Ling now doesn't care about these things at all. After all, the hardships she suffered in her childhood were astronomical figures. Compared to what she suffered in her previous world, these things are simply trivial.

  "Bang bang bang......"

  "Mr. Kakaxi, are you there?" Meng Ling asked extremely politely.

  "Ah? Who is it, come in." After knocking on the door, Meng Ling heard a rustling sound inside the room, apparently Kakashi-senpai had another sleepless night. That book called "Intimate Paradise" really has that much power? Meng Ling felt a chill run down his back.

  Five minutes later, the door opened and Kakaxi dragged out his head with a pair of black eye circles and a sly look. He looked around in both directions and finally saw Meng Ling, who was still only about 1.3 meters tall, in front of him.

  "Oh, it's you. Do you have something to say? I'm busy with a mission today and can't teach you anything. Besides, I don't think there's much I can teach you anyway." Kakashi said slowly.

  "No, not at all, Kakashi-sensei. I'm not beating around the bush this time either. I've come to ask for your guidance on the training method of the 'Shadow Clone Jutsu'." said Mugen directly.

  "Why? How come you suddenly want to learn this jutsu?" Kakashi asked with some puzzlement.

  "There's nothing, it's just that Kakashi-sensei always has missions, and training alone is inefficient and extremely boring, so I thought of finding some opponents for myself." Miren said with a hint of resentment, pointing at Kakashi's face.

  "Ah, I know, just wait a minute, I'll go write it for you now." After finishing speaking, Kakashi shrunk his head back into the house, and immediately a rustling sound came from inside the room. Before long, the door opened again, and Kakashi walked to Meng's front with a small scroll in hand. At this time, Kakashi had also changed into his traveling clothes, as if preparing to go out.

  "Ah, that's it. I've already written down the amount of chakra needed, the way to mobilize it, and the hand seals required for the Shadow Clone Jutsu in there. You can study it yourself, it shouldn't be a problem for you." Kakashi said calmly.

  "Thank you then, Kakashi-sensei." Menma took the scroll from Kakashi's hand and thanked him before quickly running downstairs.

  "Oh, right..." As she ran to the stairs, Meng Leng suddenly stopped and turned around to look at Kakashi with a smile: "Actually, Teacher Kakashi, you don't need to cover your handsome face with a mask at all. Hehe." After that, Meng Leng quickly escaped.

  "Mask? Hehe..." Kakaxi smiled lightly and also left his residence...

  A week later, in the mountains outside Konoha Village...

  At this time, Meng Leng, who had just dispelled his own shadow clone, was lying on the grass, panting heavily with his mouth open, and his small chest kept heaving up and down. It could be seen that she was extremely tired at the moment.

  "I really didn't think that after the Shadow Clone Jutsu was undone, I would be so tired. These past few days, I've already practiced it over a hundred times, but why can I only split into nine at most?" Meng Ling said with some discontent.

  Thinking back to when Naruto, that big fool, first used the Shadow Clone Jutsu and instantly created a huge swarm of clones, maybe it was an extraordinary performance, but it was also thanks to his abundant chakra. So these past few days, Meng Ling has been thinking about how to increase her own chakra.

  To be honest, most of Meng Ling's current strength comes from the Elemental Fruit, and her chakra is not very much, roughly around Kakashi's level. Although she can still barely use Summoning Jutsu, Shadow Clone requires using one's own chakra to create actual bodies, which has a difficulty level of A-rank.

  Usually, with just one Summoning Jutsu, Meng Ling would consume about a third of her chakra, and it's not even summoning those powerful beasts, at most it's just like summoning fast creatures like Night Hawk - Feng Xuan. So now, Meng Ling can be said to be extremely depressed.

  "I really don't know, what kind of place Konohagakure is. In the past, when I was in that world, I saw Hoshimaru say that Konohagakure was a place where people were extremely scheming and fighting each other, but now it seems so peaceful. Maybe the time hasn't come yet. This Konoha is really quite boring." Looking at the azure sky with many white clouds floating by, Meng Ling couldn't help but think.

  "Ah, I'll just head back and take a look. Who knows what Konohagakure is like now?" As soon as he said that, Meng Ling immediately flipped over, stood up, patted the dirt off his body, smoothed out his fluttering red hair, and with a somewhat helpless smile, headed straight for Konohagakure.

  After arriving at Konohagakure, Meng Ling immediately came to the "Yī Lè Lā Miàn Diàn" in the village. For some reason, perhaps because she felt that her fate was similar to Naruto's, every time Meng Ling passed by here and hadn't eaten yet, she would unconsciously walk in and order a large bowl of special ramen, becoming a regular customer. However, there is one thing that Meng Ling finds strange: since the last time she sealed the Nine-Tails, when she held Naruto as an infant, she hasn't seen him again. Maybe it's because she didn't recognize two-year-old Naruto (the manga doesn't depict Naruto before he was five years old). It's also strange that she hasn't even seen Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto's mother, who should have just given birth at the time. Meng Ling thought about investigating further, but then reconsidered: if she did so now, it would likely mess up the plot later on, and with her current abilities, it was uncertain whether she could gather any useful information. Moreover, if Meng Ling didn't focus on training herself, she would definitely become a minor character in future events.

  After arriving at the Yī Lè Lā Miàn store, Mèng Líng immediately greeted the Lā Miàn uncle and Huángpǔ sister with courtesy, and as usual ordered a large bowl of special Lā Miàn. In fact, in recent years, Mèng Líng had only received "salary" once during the Snow Country mission, and all the rest was earned by doing part-time delivery work at Yī Lè Lā Miàn store. The Lā Miàn uncle was still very kind, every time Mèng Líng did a delivery, he could get half a bowl of Lā Miàn's money, so apart from practicing, Mèng Líng also had a small part-time job as a courier.

  "Xiao Mengling, it seems like you haven't been helping out much these past few days? It's getting busy here and we can't keep up. Is everything okay with you?" Lamei Shu asked Mengling as he was eating halfway through his meal.

  "Oh, I've been training for the past few days and just mastered a new jutsu that Kakashi-sensei taught me, so I was in the middle of practicing it, sorry about not being able to come here." Meng Ling replied with a hint of apology.

  "Oh, I see. You're really something else! Not even six years old yet and you're already learning ninjutsu? Don't worry, though - I can still manage to hold my own here. Just come back and help me out when you have some time, okay?" Ramen Uncle chuckled and patted Mengying's shoulder.

  "Ah, thank you, uncle." Meng Ling smiled lightly and continued eating her ramen with her head down.

  "Ugggh..." But at this moment, the street suddenly became noisy, and behind Meng's back, a strange sound rang out.