Naruto: My setting is above yours

Chapter 16 The Power of the One-Tailed Beast

Hatake Sakumo felt his disciple's sincerity and was deeply moved, yet also somewhat wistful.

This time, instead of thanking him, he stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll accompany you in your cultivation."

Genma's heart finally settled down.

He then glanced at the [Settings] and almost lost his composure.

hiss!

It's out!

During the subsequent training, Genma was clearly distracted. He only regained his focus and began to train seriously after being beaten up by Kakashi.

After lunch, Genma and Kakashi were sent to school by Sakumo Hatake.

However, attending classes is out of the question.

With their shadow clones taking over, Genma and Kakashi secretly went to train on their own again.

Same old place.

Once inside the woods, Genma immediately focused his attention on the [settings book].

He previously had 1 point of his setting value, but now it's... 10 points!

In other words, changing the death of teacher Sakumo Hatake immediately gave him 9 points of character setting.

That's absolutely terrifying.

However, after looking at the log, he understood.

It changed the death of their teacher, Sakumo Hatake, and also changed Kakashi.

For Kakashi, his father's suicide was the first major upheaval and turning point in his life.

Adding both together, is a setting of 9 points too much?

Xuanma felt it wasn't too much at all.

However, with such a sudden abundance, we need to think carefully about how to make the best use of it.

"The first thing we need to do is solve the problem of chakra levels. This is the most basic and also the most crucial issue."

"For now, if we have more chakra, we can use Shadow Clones to gain experience, and the progress of Wood Release Chakra Mode can also be accelerated."

While the Wood Release Chakra Mode is not suitable for actual combat at the moment, Genma clearly feels the changes in his body and has high expectations for the future, making it worthwhile to invest his time in it.

Returning to the issue of chakra quantity, there are now more set values, and more ways to obtain it.

For example, if it wasn't previously the first choice, directly modify the chakra amount setting.

Another aspect is the long-term goal of further refining and modifying the chakra extraction technique.

Another option is to add settings, such as stamina or constitution.

Previously, with fewer options available, Xuanma had to choose carefully.

And now... he wants it all!

"Impulsiveness is the devil; one must not act recklessly."

Xuanma tried his best to restrain himself.

He thought about it carefully and realized that increasing his physique or stamina was not a good choice, or rather, it was not as cost-effective as directly increasing his chakra reserves, and it was also redundant.

Because an increase in chakra levels inevitably leads to an increase in physical strength and even mental strength.

If physical strength and constitution are increased, then perhaps mental strength will also be added in the future.

By continuously modifying the chakra level setting, one can essentially improve both physical strength and mental strength simultaneously.

Let's eliminate physical fitness and stamina for now!

"Of course I have to consider the long term, but I also have to consider the urgent needs at present."

The idea for modifying the subsequent settings of the Chakra Refining Technique had already been conceived before Xuanma.

We can now extract the power of plant and animal cells to create chakra; the next step is natural energy.

However, it is foreseeable that even if one can absorb natural energy and refine it into chakra, it will still require a gradual transformation of the body.

Without sufficient chakra reserves, the practicality of a simple Sage Mode wouldn't be much better than the current Wood Release Chakra Mode.

"I want both the present and the future!"

With 10 points of set value in hand, Xuanma has plenty of confidence.

So he first focused his attention on the chakra column.

Chakra: 1 card (configurable)

In terms of physical strength, Genma is now on par with Kakashi.

And in the process of gradually surpassing it, this is the Chakra Refining Technique 1.0, or the Wood Release Chakra Mode.

So how much should it be modified?

Or should we find a benchmark?

For example, Jiraiya, a top-tier commoner ninja, has an energy rating of 10, which is basically equivalent to a small tailed beast.

Similar examples include Hidan and Kisame, who possesses a tailless tailed beast.

Suddenly, Genma had an idea: why not use the tailed beasts as the unit of chakra?

From the One-Tailed to the Nine-Tailed, the amount of chakra increases progressively.

Without chakra at the level of a tailed beast, how dare you claim to be using cheat codes?

However, if the chakra is directly raised to the level of a tailed beast, even the One-Tailed Shukaku, I wonder if a setting value of 10 is enough.

After all, Genma currently has 1 card's worth of chakra, but that card is only the 7-year-old Kakashi.

After thinking it over, Xuanma decided to test the waters first.

First, compare him to Jiraiya, Jiraiya at his peak.

Huh? Only 5 points are needed for the setting.

What about the power of the One-Tailed Beast?

8 points!

A surge of heat swept through my entire body, and every cell seemed to rejoice.

There were no changes on the surface of his body, but with the modification of the settings, Xuanma's body underwent earth-shattering changes.

His body was being transformed by an unseen force, and his physical strength was steadily increasing.

When everything calmed down, Xuanma felt incredibly strong.

He immediately raised his hand to form a hand seal, and as the smoke rose, nine shadow clones appeared one after another.

Although he hadn't learned the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique extensively, he had mastered the Shadow Clone Technique and possessed amazing control over chakra, making it very easy for him to perform the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

Nine shadow clones went to collect plant chakra at Genma's command.

After thinking for a moment, Genma attempted to condense Yin Release chakra.

Previously, due to limited physical strength, his Yin Release chakra ratio could only be 7:3. Now, with a massive amount of physical strength to support him, he wants to see what he can achieve.

7.5:2.5, no problem.

8:2, no problem.

However, Xuanma felt that his mental strength was about to reach its limit.

Sure enough, pushing back further, the ratio is 8.2:1.8, the limit.

As long as he continues forward, even if his mental strength sustains him, once the extracted chakra is completely depleted, Genma feels that he will definitely die from mental exhaustion.

"However, I wonder if this ratio is stronger, weaker, or on par with the Yin Release chakra of the Uchiha clan's Mangekyou Sharingan?"

Genma was very much looking forward to it, and then he dispersed all the Yin Release chakra he had extracted.

Next, we will refine the Yang Release chakra.

The previous limit was 6:4.

Now, trying again, Genma directly raised the ratio to 7:3, that is, 7 parts physical strength to 3 parts mental strength. This requires a more resilient mental will to fuse a small amount of mental strength and a large amount of physical strength into chakra and control it.

Furthermore, the required physical and mental strength will be greatly increased.

For example, the normal ratio of chakra extraction is 1:1, but Genma can now fuse his hair-thin mental power and hair-thin physical power into chakra.

However, when converted to Yang Release chakra at a ratio of 7:3, it is impossible to refine the physical strength of 7 strands of hair and the spiritual power of 3 strands of hair into Yang Release chakra.

It would be more than ten thousand times higher.

Therefore, Xuanma's stamina was completely insufficient last time.

Now that I have enough energy, I did it easily.

However, Genma also discovered that controlling this level of Yang Release chakra was not so smooth.

"If I were to use this level of Yang Release chakra to heal myself, I would be just like Hashirama Senju, unable to precisely control the healing process."

Feeling the powerful Yang Release chakra within his body, Genma's expression was very solemn.

Insufficient control means that in this state, even minor injuries can heal themselves without a trace through cell division.

Like Hashirama Senju, or Tsunade's Yin Seal + Hundred Healings Technique + Creation Rebirth.

This is overtreatment!

"This requires exceptional control to flexibly adjust the strength of chakra nature transformations, and in battle, one must also have sufficient mental focus to treat each type of chakra layer by layer... This is indeed very, very difficult."

Xuanma frowned. He had previously thought that Hashirama Senju's passive healing without hand seals was due to his innate physique and inability to control it skillfully, but now it seemed that was not entirely the case.