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  "Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

  Three shuriken flew out in a triangur formation, colliding mid-air, and scattered in different dires amidst the sparks.

  "Thud! Thud! Thud!"

  The shuriken embedded themselves into different tree trunks, each precisely hitting a falling leaf.

  Kamihane slowly retracted his hand and g Uchiha Hikari beside him, saying softly, "Shurikenjutsu is something that we Uchiha master quite easily. I believe you'll reach this level soon."

  Hikari frowned slightly, " you be more specific? I don't uand."

  Kamihane blinked, as if choked.

  After Uchiha Hikari joihe team, he was surprised to find that his own foundation wasn't actually the worst in the group.

  In trast, Hikari's fighting style was much more barbaric. Whether it was because she had been sealed for too long or because her basics were ily weak, she could only use her ocur teiques. Her taijutsu didn't even follow the simplest patterns, and her chakra trol, along with shurikenjutsu, was utterly crude.

  In this regard, she was quite simir to Kawaki from the inal timeline, who only knew how to manipute the power of the "Karma" while his foundational training was abysmal.

  Even Madara couldn't help but shake his head a only this remark:

  'Such trivial matters, Kamihane, you teach her.'

  Thinking of this, he cleared his throat and said, "Training in shurikenjutsu requires suffit observation and physical coordination. You possess the Mangekyō Sharingan, so your observational skills are naturally exceptional. What you o do now is try to synize your movements with your thoughts. As for the teique of throwing shuriken..."

  He pondered for a moment, theended a finger and smiled, "Use your favorite method, whatever feels fortable for you!"

  Uchiha Hikari was left speechless, with a bck line floating above her head, "Is this how Madara-sama taught you?"

  "You might be misuanding something; I wasn't taught by Madara-sama," Kamihane spread his hands, "To be ho, my foundation is also quite poor, just slightly better than yours."

  "You're lying."

  She frowned, her tone calm, "You precisely trol the dire and nding points of hundreds of shuriken. Teach me."

  "Well... it's accumuted practice over time, bined with certain epiphanies during life-ah moments. Of course, the experiences and guidance of rades are also crucial."

  Hikari tilted her head, her eyes fshing with fusion, "Life-ah moments?"

  "Ah, in the Warring States era, not everyone was like you, a trump card only appearing at the critical moment to secure victory," Kamihane shook his head, "As a foot soldier charging otlefield, if your bat skills aren't strong, you only be on fodder. Often, human potential is forced out."

  He picked up a shuriken from the ground, "On a chaotic battlefield, if your throw isn't accurate, you and your rades could be in danger; simirly, if you 't move freely on water, you'll only be drowned by the enemy—"

  With a "whoosh," the shuriken shot through the air, drawing a graceful arc around the two, and then, like a swallow returning to its , it nded ba front of Kamihane, spinning on his fiip.

  "This... this is good, teach me," Hikari slightly widened her beautiful eyes, like a child disc a beloved toy.

  "Simple trajectory calcution, sidering wind dire, air humidity, and so on, then whoosh, hey... in short, it's whoosh~ hey..." Kamihaured a couple of times, imitating the motion.

  Hikari ched her small pink fists, veins popping on her smooth forehead, "If you keep mog me, I'll kill you!"

  "Uh, let's not get so violent," Kamihane recalled the fear of being dominated by Amaterasu, his expression turning grim.

  "This is the task Madara-sama assigo you," she stared straight into Kamihane's eyes, her small haended, "Teach me."

  "Be serious," she added.

  Kamihane sighed deeply; it seemed Madara was destio be a hands-off leader.

  "It seems your desire to bee stronger is even more urgent than mine," Kamihane said, "Do you also think the Eye of the Moon Pn is feasible?"

  Not long ago, Madara had formally introduced his "Eye of the Moon" pn to the two, including the Rinnegan, the Outer Path Statue, the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, and the Infisukuyomi, a world-ending ocur teique.

  Acc to Madara, these were all recorded on a stoablet in the basement of Naka Shrine, left by the Uchiha aor Indra, with the full details only visible to those with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

  These revetions solidified his beliefs and guided his path forward.

  However, before proceeding, Madara decided to assess the world's current state, to determine if Hashirama's method had truly brought peace. If this peace was only superficial, as hypocritical as Konoha's acceptance of the Uchiha, then he would stick to his vis and immediately execute the "Eye of the Moon" pn.

  "If Madara-sama thinks it's possible, then it's possible," Hikari said calmly.

  Such fidence, almost indifferent... Kamihahought to himself.

  He knew well that the so-called "Infisukuyomi" pn was merely a scheme by Bck Zetsu to revive Kaguya ōtsutsuki. The tents of the 's tablet had been tampered with by Bck Zetsu, and even Madara had bee a pawn in his game.

  An "ideal world," "true peace"—all of it was a plete sham!

  Bck Zetsu, or more accurately, Kaguya's ultimate goal, was to revive and solidate defeo prepare for the arrival of the ōtsutsuki !

  If Kaguya succeeded in reviving, all of humanity would be transformed into White Zetsu by the Diviree; if the extraterrestrial ōtsutsuki invasion succeeded, then all of humanity would bee nourishment for the Diviree, devoured by the ōtsutsuki ...

  Whichever side prevailed, it would be catastrophic for the world.

  The current ninja world may seem peaceful, subdued by the overwhelming presence of Hashirama and Madara, but beh the surface, there lurked numerous dangers.

  An evil deity of unknown in...

  The shadoutor, Zetsu...

  The desdants of Hamura on the moon...

  The Sage of Six Paths, who observes the world from the Pure Land...

  And then there's the Otsutsuki Isshiki, who has takehe monk Jigen's body, survived for over a thousand years, and harbors far-reag ambitions...

  The ninja world is fraught with uainties...

  However, even though Kamihane is aware of all this in advance, he ot speak of it, for no one would believe him, and doing so might only endanger himself.

  For now, he only stay by Madara's side, silently growing stronger, waiting for the right moment to bee a pyer in the game, ultimately taking trol of his owiny.

  The so-called "lying low and developing power"—bah! It is precisely the principle of a gentleman hiding his talents and biding his time.

  "These are not things I should be sidering right now," Hikaru suddenly said, a glimmer of mencholy in her eyes. "All I know is that if I don't get stronger, I'll just be a burden, and I'll definitely be cast aside."

  Iernoon.

  Uchiha Hikaru pced one foot oree trunk, fog chakra on the sole of her foot. After taking a deep breath, she pced her other foot orunk as well, her body perpendicur to the tree at a 90-degree angle.

  She was training her chakra trol and bance.

  From above, Kamihane's voice rang out:

  "For a ninja, walking on trees or water is simply one way of utilizing chakra. The principle involves using chakra to alter the physical properties of the molecur fibers in tact with the soles of the feet, influeng the behavior of hydrogen bonds, thereby increasing the adhesive force betweeree trunk and the soles. The difficulty lies in stantly switg the state of chakra focus while walking..."

  Hikaru's face remaiense, and after struggling to take two steps, she fell down.

  Rubbing her bottom, she stood up and looked up at the figure iree, her expression a mix of exasperation and envy.

  Iree, Kamihane was hanging upside down, his feet firmly attached to the underside of a branch, his bck hair standing on end. His natural posture resembled that of a nont bat.

  Holding a scroll in his hands, he responded casually, "You're fog too hard. My suggestion is to try to trol your chakra in the most fortable ossible, imagining yourself walking on ft ground, gradually turning it into an instinct..."

  Uchiha Hikaru took a deep breath, her expression serious, and tinued her attempts.

  Kamihane paid her no mind, his gaze never leaving the scroll in front of him.

  "Spiritual Transformation Teique: Separating one's spiritual energy from physical energy, materializing the spiritual energy into a stable 'spirit body,' and using it to engage in bat. The effects of this teique trahe ventional cept of ninjutsu.

  The spirit body possesses the sciousness of the user, fly at high speeds, traverse any terrain, and is immuo all physical attacks. It possess an enemy, causing their spirit to colpse from within, or enter another's mental world to forcibly trol their body.

  Once mastered, the soul bees specialized, developing a vast range of sensory abilities that detect the souls of others, regardless of distance or prior knowledge of their location. Upon transf into a spirit body, the user instantly reach the target's body.

  Depending ouation and the user's will, this teique aplish many things, such as transmitting information, firming the target's life or death, or even supplying the target with chakra.

  However, it has a fatal weakness: when the spirit body leaves the physical body, the tter bees extremely vulnerable to attack. Without a physical body, the spirit body will quickly dissipate and perish."

  "This is practically the legendary 'out-of-body soul travel'!" Kamihane nodded repeatedly, his resolve to master this teique growing stronger.

  The reason it's cssified as an S-rank ninjutsu is because the barrier to mastering the Spiritual Transformation Teique is exceedingly high. The practitioner must possess high-quality Yin Release chakra, and soul separation itself is aremely perilous endeavor. Only those with great determination would even dare to attempt it.

  At that moment, a figure nded on the branch, causing both of them to look up.

  bck, with long hair reag his waist, and carrying a fan and scythe on his back—it was Uchiha Madara.

  "How's the training going?"

  "Not great," Hikaru raised her small, palm-sized fad poi Kamihane, rep didly, "He 't teach properly."

  Nani?

  Holy crap, sis, you look all i and cute, but you're actually ratti, and right in front of me!

  Kamihane was stunned, hooking a foot onto the brand swinging himself up to stand on it. "Um... Lord Madara, her shurikenjutsu has improved signifitly. When it es to a single shuriken, she's already achieved perfect accuracy. It's just her chakra trol that needs work."

  "He's lying. His methods are impossible for me to learn," Hikaru tinued, her words shog everyone.

  Kamihane broke into a cold sweat.

  "Teach her properly," Madara said calmly, gng at him.

  "Of course, of course," Kamihane nodded nervously.

  "More importantly..." He quickly ged the subject, "Lord Madara, did you gain anything from your trip?"

  "I just paid a simple visit to an old friend," Madara replied, a faint sneer on his face. " the state of the people is bound to be a lengthy process. We still have a long way to go."