Seeing Hashirama's nonchalant expression, Mito laughed quietly again.
They knew that when it came to innovating and developing new techniques and Ninjutsu, Seimei took after Tobirama.
And along with the love for innovation came its occupational hazards.
Unless Seimei was researching some quiet kind of Ninjutsu, he would always end up blowing the training ground at least once every few days.
And recently, the frequency had only increased as he grew up.
Mito asked, "Shouldn't you go and check? What if he gets injured in one of his experiments and sets the house on fire?"
Hashirama waved his hand and replied, "Injured? Him?"
"Nah!"
"He had already mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique. He can teleport to a safe place at any moment."
"That Jutsu is really amazing. I wanted to learn that, too. Unfortunately, I couldn't. Tobirama told me that my space-time talent was too low to learn it."
"As for setting the house on fire? That's even more impossible."
"Seimei had already asked me to reinforce the training space with my Wood Release constructs."
Mito nodded in understanding. "I see. Your Wood Release can absorb chakra, and the woods you create won't catch fire."
Hashirama shook his head and replied, "It's not that they won't ever catch fire. My woods can be burnt too, as long as the temperature and the chakra density of the fire are high enough."
"But at my level, there are hardly any individuals whose Fire Release can cross that threshold."
"Plus, with Seimei's mastery over Water Release, there is no need to worry about setting the home on fire."
Mito agreed with an amused smile. "This made me recall Tobirama's early days."
"Just like Seimei, he was too excited about researching new Ninjutsu, often causing all kinds of explosions and accidents."
"There was one time when he tried to make a contract with the ocean and ended up flooding the entire clan compound."
Hearing this, Hashirama suddenly laughed.
"Hahahaha!"
"Yeah, and he did that multiple times, too."
"The clan elders were furious. Later, they even mocked him by calling him an Ocean Release expert."
"They weren't wrong. He literally released an ocean."
"Hahahaha!"
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While Hashirama and Mito were reminiscing about Tobirama's past, Seimei was looking at the spot where he had been standing just a few moments ago with a deadpan look on his face.
His failed Ninjutsu had triggered the explosion, creating a crater three meters wide and one meter deep. The crater was surrounded by several spider-web-like cracks, scorched soil, and flickers of flame.
The earth at the center of the crater had almost turned into magma.
Seeing such a devastating scene, a few droplets of imaginary cold sweat couldn't help but appear on his forehead.
"Fortunately, I have already learned the Flying Thunder God Technique. Otherwise, I would have been toast by now."
Seimei murmured. He still felt the lingering fear after seeing the aftermath.
Before the ring of fire chakra could completely destabilize and explode inwardly, Seimei teleported away from the middle of the fiery ring to a safe spot marked by his Flying Thunder God Seal.
And soon after that, the fiery ring exploded.
"Then again, without being proficient in a space-time displacement Jutsu like the Flying Thunder God Technique, I wouldn't even dare to try to experiment on this Fire Release Jutsu myself."
"It's dangerous. Way too dangerous. No wonder many ninjas die every year from trying to create new Ninjutsu."
What? You asked why he couldn't just move away from the ring before it exploded. You said he could have simply used the Body Flicker Technique, and there was no need to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to get away?
Well, if it were any normal Ninjutsu, it wouldn't have been fine to use the Body Flicker Technique to get away.
But the Jutsu Seimei that he was trying to create wasn't normal.
The Jutsu created a fiery ring of condensed fire chakra around Seimei. So, once the ring destabilized, it became extremely volatile and sensitive to external anomalies.
In short, if Seimei tried to get away from the destabilized fiery ring, it would have reacted to Seimei's chakra. And it would have accelerated the deterioration of the already volatile condensed fire ring, causing it to explode immediately.
So, physically crossing the edges of the ring was out of question.
To get away safely from the danger, learning a space-time teleportation Ninjutsu was necessary.
Only after he became proficient in the Flying Thunder God Technique did he dare attempt to create this Ninjutsu.
If he could complete it, it would at least be a top-tier A-rank wide-area annihilation Ninjutsu, if not a S-rank one.
But soon, thinking about the trouble he had to go through to innovate new Ninjutsu, he couldn't help but grumble.
"Tsk!"
"Those chakra beasts have it easy."
"Just grow up and boom: a new innate skill learned."
"Rank up and boom: Another new innate skill learned."
"That AA-rank Lava Demon unleashed the wide-area innate skill, Radius Blast, so easily. It was like the demon just tapped on a keyboard, and the skill materialized on its own."
"Didn't think that creating a single Jutsu inspired by that Lava Demon's innate skill would be this troublesome. Even developing Chidori and its variations was several times easier."
While Seimei was immersed in his thoughts, the flames created by the explosion, including the lava, had already disappeared.
Just as Hashirama mentioned, before researching the Ninjutsu, Seimei had asked Hashirama to reinforce the training ground with his Wood Release structures.
No matter how much fire his failed Ninjutsu ignited, the Wood Release construct around the training ground wouldn't catch fire, preventing the residence from burning.
The training ground would even snuff out the fire after a few seconds.
Seimei wouldn't even have to lift a finger at all.
True Wood Release can really create a perfect training zone for those who are prone to causing explosions and love practicing Fire Release Ninjutsu.
Of course, only True Wood Release, made of the unique combination of Earth, Water, and Yang chakra nature, could achieve what his uncle Hashirama's Wood Release had achieved.
Common Wood Release Kekkei Genkai awakened by the Senju clan ninjas, such as Kyojuro, who Seimei had fought as a six-year-old kid, couldn't achieve that.
Although the common Wood Release still resisted fire and absorbed the chakra of the enemy, those effects were pretty weak.
Full-fledged Jonins who were proficient in Fire Release could still set the woods generated by the common Wood Release on fire.
As for his uncle Hashirama's Wood Release?
Even a peak Super Kage-level ninja specializing in Fire Release would have a tough time setting Hashirama's wood constructs ablaze.
Only something on par with Amaterasu Flames—the inextinguishable black flames as hot as the solar flares—could set the wood constructs of his uncle, Hashirama, on fire.
But how rare were the Amaterasu Flames?
Only a few Uchiha clan ninjas who had awakened Mangekyo Sharingan had a chance to awaken the Amaterasu Flames as one of their ocular techniques.
According to his uncle, even Madara hadn't awakened those flames as his Mangekyo Sharingan's ocular technique.
In the Warring States Era, Hashirama had faced several Uchiha ninjas who had awakened Amaterasu. But they all died before their flames could even land on Hashirama.
At most, a few of his wood clones were set on fire. That was it.
"Well, whatever."
"I have already developed the core of the Ninjutsu."
"I will entrust the rest of the development to my shadow clones."
Once the shadow clones developed a rudimentary and workable version of the Ninjutsu, Seimei's system would immediately record it in the skill section.
Once it was done, he just had to use it again and again to increase the Jutsu's proficiency and develop it further.
The ancestors (cough…the web novel enthusiasts from his previous world) were right.
Only by combining cheats and hard work could you create miracles.
Anyway, having cheats was amazing.
With that, he created a few shadow clones and left the task of researching the new Jutsu to them.
Ignoring the grumbling shadow clones, Seimei quietly and shamelessly exited the training grounds and walked toward the kitchen.
His stomach was already grumbling.
"Gotta fill the tummy up."
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