Hiding in the sand, splitting into many places, starting with Arkham

"The first stage of training involves attaching wind-style chakra to a kunai and throwing it. That's all you need to do."

Kazekami Chiran casually tossed a kunai, which stuck firmly into the wooden post.

"Pay attention to the marks around the kunai, the marks of destruction caused by the dispersed wind-style chakra. This must be limited to more than one centimeter. Mastery of nature transformation is built upon precise control of chakra."

Shimizu, Maki, and Yekura each picked up a kunai and did as instructed.

Maki's kunai shot out, and the wind-style chakra on it indeed cut a several-centimeter-long gash around the point where the kunai struck.

Yekura did the same, only the gash was a bit shorter than Maki's.

"It doesn't seem that difficult?"

Shimizu didn't use his superpower, relying only on his own chakra, and found that he had already met Kazekami Chiran's requirements.

Of course, even so, without using his superpower, Shimizu's control over wind-style chakra was several levels higher than before.

"It must be because Shimizu is a puppeteer, making him more skilled at precise chakra control."

Kazekami Chiran was slightly surprised, but quickly found a reason.

"Perhaps."

"Now that Shimizu has met the requirements, I'll talk about the next step."

Kazekami Chiran picked up a leaf, held the stem with his left hand, and swiped at the leaf with the index finger of his right hand, instantly cutting it into two even halves.

"Wind has fluidity. It's easy to cut a leaf by attaching it to a sharp kunai, but it's not so easy on a finger... easy?"

Kazekami Chiran stopped moving, looking at Shimizu.

Two pieces of leaf appeared in Shimizu's hand, and when put together, they formed a complete leaf.

"Um... I usually follow the exercises left by Chiyo-sensei to train ninjutsu. Maybe that's why my mastery of wind release has improved a lot recently."

"I see!"

Kazekami Chiran nodded in understanding.

Chiyo was a legendary figure close to or even equal to the Five Kage level, so it was normal to have this ability.

In addition, Shimizu usually uses puppetry as his main fighting style and hasn't shown much of his wind release level.

If Kazekami Chiran usually tested Shimizu's wind release level more often, he might have noticed something was wrong.

"The next step is like this."

Kazekami Chiran wrapped a new leaf in his hands, and when he reopened them, the leaf inside was also cut in half.

"Without using any objects or visual perception, cut the leaf using the most primitive method. Generally speaking, most ninjas need half a year to do this. Afterwards, it's about directly using wind release chakra to continuously cut waterfalls, rivers, and other fluids for a long time."

"Being able to do this means you have basically mastered the nature transformation of wind release, and you can integrate this cutting ability into the use of ninjutsu, or even add the nature transformation of wind release to some other ninjutsu."

"The village once had statistics that the average time it took for jonin in our Sand Village to master the basic nature transformation of wind release was about a year. It took me five months back then.

Your talents are at least no worse than mine back then, which is why I believe you can master the nature transformation of wind release within half a year."

Shimizu looked at the two leaf fragments in Kazekami Chiran's hand and tried it himself.

The leaf fell apart.

This result made Yekura and Maki breathe a sigh of relief.

If Shimizu had almost completely mastered the nature transformation of wind release all at once, these two geniuses would have suffered a considerable blow.

"Well... it's much better than when I tried it for the first time. Actually, the main trick is to imagine the wind release chakra as two opposing air currents. The friction between the two air currents generates a powerful cutting force. You can try again. You've already reached this step. I feel like you should be able to complete the practice of nature transformation of wind release in two or three months."

"Thank you, Captain Kazekami."

Shimizu said gratefully.

"Well, take a day off tomorrow and let you think about it yourself. Okay, you guys continue practicing. I have things to do."

Kazekami Chiran waved his hand casually, patted his butt, and left.

Yekura and Maki continued to practice kunai throwing.

Shimizu picked up a fallen leaf flying from a distance, held it in his palm, and looked thoughtful.

He seemed to have some impression of what Kazekami Chiran taught.

In order for Naruto to integrate the nature transformation of wind release into the Rasengan, Kakashi specially asked Asuma, who was better at wind release, to guide Naruto.

The method taught by Asuma seemed to be very similar to what Kazekami Chiran taught.

Naruto seemed to have created hundreds of shadow clones in one go, and spent an afternoon forcibly mastering the skill of cutting leaves. With the help of Kakashi and Yamato, the subsequent cutting of the waterfall took some effort.

There was also Uchiha Sasuke. When Kakashi was guiding Naruto, he seemed to have said that Sasuke had mastered the nature transformation of lightning release in one month three years ago, right?

Among them, the Sharingan, which can see through chakra flow and copy ninjutsu, must have helped Uchiha Sasuke, but it cannot be denied that Uchiha Sasuke's talent in lightning release is absolutely top-notch.

There is nothing wrong with reading it once!

So, what about myself?

Shimizu tried again according to the trick Kazekami Chiran said.

Spreading out his palm, two pieces of leaf lay quietly in his palm, the cut was smooth and straight.

"Tsk, I still won't tell them, lest they be hit."

Shimizu tore the leaf to pieces with wind release, glanced at Yekura and Maki who were still throwing kunai, and sat down again.

Now, he really seemed to have become a genius.

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Demon Slayer World.

Mount Ken'e, Risshan Temple.

"Pa!"

"Pa!"

"Pa!"

In the wide courtyard, Shimizu held a bamboo sword and exchanged moves with the old monk Morioka.

In order to have enough practice effect, he deliberately "restrained his strength."

In fact, it was not using chakra to strengthen the body, and controlling the body's strength and speed within the range of normal humans.

"Pa!"

The old monk slapped Shimizu's wrist with his sword, knocking the bamboo sword out of Shimizu's hand.

"Thirty-seven moves! Senior Shimizu lasted more than thirty moves under Morioka-sensei this time! You lost!"

Sagawa Kengyo reached out to Akiba Ren beside him.

The latter reluctantly took out the candy from his pocket and handed it to Sagawa.

"Amitabha, Shimizu-kun, your swordsmanship can be regarded as having just scratched the surface, and you can start learning the Breath of Wind with the old monk."

So tired...

My schedule has been a bit messed up recently. I finished that chapter in the evening, slept for two hours, and finally finished this chapter before twelve o'clock.