My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 070

You locked yourself in your room, pondering all night, but still couldn’t figure out how to truly combine this “Parasitic Demonic Flame” with your Fire Release.

If you were to use other Fire Release techniques to forcibly control it, as you did with the Wood Release constructs before, the preparation time would be too long.

Moreover, due to indirect control, your control over the “Parasitic Demonic Flame” was even weaker than that of a regular Fire Release, making it easy to miss your target. Unlike the Wood Release constructs that just stood there and took hits, ninjas wouldn’t foolishly stay put and wait for your attack.

If this were the case, this power would not only fail to defeat your enemies but would also become a self-imposed trap.

After much thought, you finally pinpointed the crux of the problem: this flame didn’t belong to you!

All your manipulations of it were merely borrowed. How could something borrowed be as easy to command as your own limbs?

Even though countless inspirations flashed through your mind, you still couldn’t grasp that one solution.

You decided to spend this last day of vacation exploring Konoha. Perhaps while relaxing, you might find some inspiration!

After a simple breakfast, you decided to check out a training ground first. After all, training grounds were where most Konoha ninjas sparred, honed their skills, and developed and created ninjutsu. Perhaps the myriad of ideas gathered there could help you find a solution.

You casually found one of the livelier training grounds near the heart of Konoha. Watching the ninjas sparring and the various ninjutsu flying around, you couldn’t help but feel that their combat skills were simply atrocious.

Trying to find inspiration from these ninjutsu and moves was simply wishful thinking!

Perhaps the high-intensity training in Root had raised your standards, so you found a quieter area—the Jonin practice zone.

Those who could truly be called Jonin were rare even in a top-tier ninja village like Konoha. You estimated that Konoha’s official Jonin wouldn’t exceed a thousand, and they were spread throughout the village, with most of them out on missions. Therefore, having one or two in a single training ground was already a lot.

Most of those training here were actually individuals with one or two unique skills, the so-called Special Jonin.

Among this group of Special Jonin, you spotted a familiar face. This person was tall, wore an old-fashioned pair of round sunglasses under a dark blue headscarf, and was dressed in a black stealth suit.

Oh, isn’t that Konoha’s number one teacher, Ebisu!

Ebisu easily defeated the Chunin in front of him, struck a cool pose, and was about to show off to Konohamaru, who was watching from behind, when you silently crept up behind him and patted his shoulder.

Startled, Ebisu quickly turned around. Seeing your request for a spar, he looked hesitant, but Konohamaru, sitting on a large rock, loved a good show and clapped his hands, demanding that Ebisu accept the challenge.

The result, of course, was that Ebisu was thoroughly beaten by you with your bare hands. He unleashed several ninjutsu but couldn’t even touch a corner of your clothes.

“Yay! Yay!”

Watching Konohamaru cheer at his defeat, Ebisu didn’t know how to handle him.

This was the Hokage’s grandson. Aside from the lessons prescribed by the Hokage, in his free time, he was no different from a servant-like playmate.

Ebisu frowned helplessly and introduced you to the Third Hokage’s most beloved grandson, Sarutobi Konohamaru.

You reached into your ninja tool pouch and took out an explosive tag, folding it into the shape of a shuriken.

Then, using the Transformation Jutsu, you made it slightly larger than a regular shuriken, presenting it to Konohamaru as a special welcome gift, and instructing him repeatedly not to roast this shuriken with fire!

After escorting Konohamaru home with Ebisu, you both strolled around the outskirts of the Sarutobi clan compound. You couldn’t help but marvel at how useful the Chunin vest was; wearing it, no one suspected anything wherever you went.

If you were also accompanied by teaching ninjas like Ebisu or Iruka, then the only places in all of Konoha you couldn’t go were probably the deepest parts of Root and Anbu.

But you yourself were from Root, so for you, the entire Konoha held no secrets!

You and Ebisu walked and chatted. When the topic of weapons came up, Ebisu remembered that you had just joined Konoha’s Anbu, and Anbu was an extremely dangerous job, so he highly recommended a professional ninja tool customization workshop.

It was said that the owner of this ninja tool workshop inherited his craftsmanship from a master ninja tool maker in the Land of Iron.

You recalled the five million ryo cash that Danzo gave you after training, a full seventh of the amount. For someone who was alone and sought nothing but to improve his strength and kill Uchiha Itachi, the most appropriate use was clearly to purchase ninja tools.

After parting ways with Ebisu, you arrived at the ninja tool workshop and flipped through the somewhat worn but extremely thick ninja tool catalog on the counter.

It contained not only standard ninja tools like shuriken, kunai, and ninja swords but also records of all the weapons crafted since the workshop opened, from Hashirama Senju’s door-sized greatsword all the way to the last page, the chakra blades customized by the Third Hokage for Asuma Sarutobi…

Listening to the shop owner’s incessant explanations in your ear, and the clanging of the blacksmiths, you walked over to the weapon display rack and picked up a longbow to try.

As early as your training in Root, you had discovered that few ninjutsu could attack targets beyond a hundred meters, and even if they could, the chakra consumption was enormous.

In contrast, if you imbued arrows with your Fire Release nature transformation, it would be equivalent to a long-range ninjutsu with extremely low consumption and decent power!

Although the Sharingan’s visual range was inferior to the Byakugan, as a dōjutsu, it was no less effective than the eyes of hunters who relied on their vision to hunt in the mountains. Not to mention, in terms of dynamic vision, the Sharingan had an inherent advantage that even the Byakugan couldn’t compare to!

Therefore, you asked the shop owner if he could craft a longbow for you that could directly absorb chakra and condense energy arrows.

At the same time, you placed five million ryo in cash on the table, along with your Anbu identification card and a chakra alloy ingot the size of a large dictionary!

Seeing your extravagant display, the shop owner quickly led you to the back of the shop, saying with some difficulty that it wasn’t about the money, but that he simply didn’t have the skill to create a weapon that could condense chakra.

You had only been trying to see if you could prematurely replicate an energy attack method similar to the “Indra’s Arrow.” Now it seemed that replicating the ninjutsu of the complete Susanoo was still too difficult.

So you settled for the next best thing, asking him to further refine the chakra alloy in your hand to use as material for crafting the longbow and arrows.

After some thought, the shop owner nodded and said that with his skill, two-thirds of the alloy you provided would remain after purification.

Using this as raw material, he could craft a longbow whose draw weight could be adjusted according to the amount of chakra infused, plus a box of replacement metal bowstrings, and over a hundred arrowheads that would increase in sharpness when chakra was infused…

As for other accessories, they would also be included, even a lifetime warranty service.

After all, customers who could produce five million ryo in cash at once and bring their own large piece of chakra metal were truly rare!

Just as you were about to leave, you saw raging flames emanating from a blast furnace and immediately realized that refining chakra metal also required precise control over fire…