Chapter 193: Ultimate Genjutsu! (First update, seeking subscriptions and monthly votes)
Afternoon.
Tsunade and the other two women arrived after work and were immediately stunned.
Lush vegetation, birds singing, flowers fragrant, a riot of color!
And this was November!
"As expected of Asuma!"
Yūhi Kurenai chuckled, then walked quickly forward, picked a red rose, and sniffed it gently. Its fresh fragrance filled her heart!
There were also lilies not far away.
The three of them followed the small path deeper in and soon saw large patches of cherry blossoms in full bloom along both sides of the path.
"So beautiful!"
Shizune couldn't help but exclaim.
All along the way, flowers from all seasons were vying for attention.
Tsunade also noticed that many rare medicinal herbs were growing deep within the woods.
Soon, the three women heard the rumbling sound of a cascading waterfall again. They quickened their pace, and the Sage Tree they had seen before came into view.
The glow of the setting sun shone on the waterfall, reflecting a brilliant radiance that spread out.
At this moment, Sarutobi Asuma stood beneath the Sage Tree, enveloped by this brilliant light, giving Tsunade and the other two women a dreamlike feeling.
The sight made the three of them mesmerized.
"You're back!"
Sarutobi Asuma's gentle laughter reached them.
Tsunade and the other two women snapped out of their daze and stepped forward.
"Asuma, how did you do this? Even with abundant Natural Energy and fertile soil, you can't make flowers from other seasons bloom this beautifully, can you?" Shizune couldn't help but ask.
Sarutobi Asuma smiled without answering, looking at Yūhi Kurenai.
Yūhi Kurenai immediately understood and exclaimed, "Asuma, you used Genjutsu!"
Genjutsu?
Tsunade and Shizune looked at each other in surprise.
Yūhi Kurenai immediately explained, "Asuma said before that he could use Genjutsu to alter the perception of plants regarding their external environment, thus making flowers bloom in advance!"
"I've been trying, but I haven't succeeded."
Shizune was astonished upon hearing this, "Can it really be done to this extent?"
Sarutobi Asuma chuckled, "You've already seen it. I call this technique One Thought Bloom."
"Of course, Wood Release is also a factor, as it requires providing sufficient nutrients."
"But in terms of Genjutsu, this technique has indeed reached an extremely high level."
"If the target were a person, it would mean simultaneously manipulating their sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and even their sixth sense, their mental perception!"
Tsunade couldn't help but say, "This is the Kekkei Genkai of the Kurama Clan, the ability to manipulate the five senses. No, the Kurama Clan only manipulates the five senses; they can't directly manipulate mental perception simultaneously."
Yūhi Kurenai immediately replied, "Tsunade-nee-san, that's not entirely accurate either."
"A person's perception of the outside world primarily relies on the five senses. The five senses feed back to the brain, and after a series of information processing, a conclusion is reached. This actually forms mental perception."
"Manipulating the five senses fundamentally alters a person's mental perception, their mental will!"
Tsunade pondered carefully and then nodded, "That's true. It can even be explained from a medical perspective."
Shizune couldn't help but ask, "Asuma, so you've also mastered a Kekkei Genkai similar to the Kurama Clan?"
"No."
Sarutobi Asuma shook his head, "I only used a pure Yin Style Chakra Nature Transformation."
"Conventional Genjutsu, like visual Genjutsu activated by the Sharingan, affects a person's mental and conscious judgment through sight, meaning the brain processes incorrect information."
"This can be described as from outside to inside."
"Mine is from inside to outside, meaning by altering the mental consciousness, a person's five senses change."
Shizune seemed to be thinking deeply, as her own Genjutsu abilities were not bad.
Yūhi Kurenai, with her stronger Genjutsu skills, understood and analyzed, "Everything we smell, see, and touch needs to be processed by the brain before a corresponding result is fed back."
"Your brain has stored information for the scent of every flower. When you smell a scent, your brain provides a feedback result."
"What Asuma means by 'outside to inside' is deceiving your five senses. For example, the scent you smell is actually that of a lily, but the Genjutsu deceives your perception, making you smell a rose. Your sense of smell sends the information of this scent to your brain, and your brain responds that it's a rose."
"As for 'inside to outside,' the Genjutsu disrupts your original perception of things. It's clearly the scent of a lily, but your brain provides the scent of a rose. However, this is conventional Genjutsu, and because of that, it has many flaws, as any error in any detail of the five senses can be detected."
"Therefore, very few people in the Ninja World are truly skilled in Genjutsu."
"But Asuma's point about it being internal to external, changing a person's five senses, is actually about changing the mind and consciousness, which then triggers changes in the body, similar to..."
Yūhi Kurenai frowned, organizing her thoughts.
Tsunade immediately interjected, "Like a disease!"
"An organ developing a disease!"
"The mind and consciousness have an incredibly subtle and delicate connection with the human body."
"Take the Uchiha clan's Sharingan, for example; changes in emotion cause Chakra to transform, which then leads to changes in the eyes."
"Or how some people develop organ diseases due to extreme emotions."
"And since Chakra is formed by the combination of a person's mind and body, even Yin Style Chakra, then influencing the mind, or one's soul, to affect the body's organs is only logical."
"However, reaching this level can absolutely be called the ultimate Genjutsu!"
Sarutobi Asuma nodded in agreement.
This was because he possessed an 11th-level Yin Style Chakra Nature Transformation.
Furthermore, while guiding Uchiha Shisui and Yūhi Kurenai, his Genjutsu abilities had long since reached the Six Paths level.
Yūhi Kurenai's expression drooped, a hint of discouragement in her voice. "Asuma is still one step ahead. I've never been able to achieve this."
Tsunade comforted her, "Your Genjutsu is already top-tier in Konoha, and even throughout the Ninja World."
"In Konoha, besides the Uchiha, only the Genjutsu of the Kurama Clan can compare to yours. And the Kurama Clan's talented individuals are already depleted."
"Of course, Asuma doesn't count in that comparison."
Shizune quickly nodded in agreement.
Sarutobi Asuma also concurred with Tsunade's assessment.
Yūhi Kurenai was currently 18 years old, and his assessment of her Yin Style Chakra Nature Transformation was close to level 8.
At this level, very few within the Uchiha clan could match it.
In fact, currently, the only one in the Uchiha clan who could completely surpass Yūhi Kurenai was Shisui, who had awakened the Mangekyo.
Of course, Chakra Nature Transformation was just a foundation.
With the enhancement of the Sharingan, powerful Three Tomoe Genjutsu users like Uchiha Fugaku would, to a certain extent, possess superior Genjutsu abilities compared to Yūhi Kurenai.
However, there weren't many individuals like that.
Sarutobi Asuma, however, didn't offer such comfort to Yūhi Kurenai. Instead, he looked at her with warm, affectionate eyes and smiled, "Kurenai, with your mastery of Yin Style Chakra and your understanding of Genjutsu, you can actually achieve this step too. You just haven't found the right method."
"Let's talk about it when we get home."
As Sarutobi Asuma spoke, the vines wrapped around the Sage Tree unfurled, lifting the three of them and bringing them to a large wooden house on the Sage Tree.
After seating the three of them, Yūhi Kurenai eagerly asked, "Asuma, how can we achieve it?"
Sarutobi Asuma leisurely placed fresh grapes on the low table before the three women and smiled, "Kurenai, when you dream, can you realize you are dreaming?"
The three women couldn't help but recall, then simultaneously shook their heads.
Sarutobi Asuma continued, "Sometimes when we dream, many scenes feel familiar after waking up. We might even feel like we've had this dream many times, or that it has actually happened in reality."
Yūhi Kurenai and the other two women continued to nod.
Sarutobi Asuma pointed to his head. "This is actually a reflection of our subconscious mind, projecting sights we've seen in reality into the dream."
"There's a saying, 'We think about things during the day and dream about them at night.' The Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique allows the victim to see the most terrifying illusions from their heart; it's along these lines."
Yūhi Kurenai listened thoughtfully.
Sarutobi Asuma continued, "So, we can use Genjutsu to make the victim enter a dream. The scenes displayed within this dream are formed by the victim's own subconscious projections. At the same time, we deceive the victim's five senses. If we can provide the victim with an incredibly real sensation..."
"Touch, hearing, taste, smell, sight – it's as if we've created an utterly real world."
"Making it difficult for the victim to realize they are in a dream, unable to realize they've been ensnared by Genjutsu."
"This is the combination of internal and external!"
"Simultaneously applying Genjutsu to the five senses and the person's mental consciousness!"
"Of course, no technique can be perfect and flawless."
"Genjutsu is the same. The more you fabricate within the illusion, the more flaws there will be. This is why we invoke the person's own subconscious projections to minimize flaws and use the victim's subconscious projections to conceal our traces as the casters."
"Another method to increase the difficulty of breaking it is 'dream within a dream'!"
"'Dream within a dream'?"
The three women, listening intently, couldn't help but exclaim.
Sarutobi Asuma explained, "It's like a Genjutsu nested within another Genjutsu."
"Entering a dream within a dream, creating another dreamscape, and pulling the consciousness of the victim, who is already in a dream, into it."
"This dreamscape can be purely fabricated by the caster using Genjutsu. If interrogating an enemy, you can use your own dream to extract the secrets from their heart."
"And if on the battlefield, and there are multiple enemies, you can make the dreams of multiple enemies overlap."
"Even if someone can see through the flaws, or if an unaffected person helps to dispel the Genjutsu, it will still require multiple attempts. It's like taking off clothes; you always have to remove them one layer at a time from the outside."
The three women, Yūhi Kurenai included, who had been filled with admiration moments before, couldn't help but chide him after his last remark.
Sarutobi Asuma, however, continued with mock seriousness, "Of course, it's also possible to simply tear several pieces of clothing, but anyone who can achieve that must be a Genjutsu master no less than yourself!"
Tsunade asked, "Achieving this level would be extremely difficult, wouldn't it?"
Sarutobi Asuma nodded, "Certainly."
"However, with Kurenai's Chakra Control and Genjutsu abilities, I believe she can accomplish it entirely."
Yūhi Kurenai was very pleased to hear this and nodded with a serious expression, "I will work hard to complete this jutsu!"
Shizune inquired, "Asuma, you designed this jutsu, so you must have already named it, right?"
Named it?
Sarutobi Asuma raised an eyebrow and chuckled, "How about 'Dream Space'?"
Tsunade immediately pouted upon hearing this, "What a strange name!"
Shizune, however, found it interesting and smiled, "Although it's strange, it's very fitting."
Yūhi Kurenai also nodded.
"Three to one!"
Sarutobi Asuma triumphantly raised an eyebrow at Tsunade, "Then it's settled. That's the name."
Dream Space!
If it could be developed, it could be used for interrogation, offensive combat, or controlling enemies.
Sarutobi Asuma believed this could also be called the ultimate Genjutsu!
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