Chapter 51: Six Powers Complete
Successfully replicating "Shave" didn't just mean that all of the Six Powers were now within his reach. It also meant that Izumo had opened a brand-new path for creating techniques of his own.
Next came Iron Body.
In the original Six Powers, Iron Body was essentially achieved by pushing muscle tension to its extreme limits and controlling blood flow until the body hardened to the level of steel.
But Izumo insisted on turning chakra into the "forging material" for this physical durability technique.
Tensing his muscles was something he could already do with nothing but his own bodily control. However, regulating blood flow required him to borrow the power of chakra.
In his first attempts, he sat cross-legged atop a blue stone in the training field. With extreme caution, he guided chakra into the blood vessels beneath the muscles of his arm. Yet every time that flow reached the capillaries within his biceps, his control slipped away.
Sometimes too much chakra surged through, overfilling the vessels and accelerating his blood flow to the point where even lifting his arm became difficult.
At other times, the amount of chakra injected was far too little. When a kunai grazed his arm, a thin line of blood still appeared along the shallow cut.
After repeating the process for several days, he finally grasped the principles of "controlling blood with chakra" and "locking muscles with chakra."
First, he allowed chakra to seep gently into every muscle fiber like a fine current. Then he wrapped it layer by layer, as if braiding strands of steel cable together.
After that, he slowly applied pressure along the pathways of his blood vessels. At the tips of his fingers, he could clearly feel it—the muscles that had once been soft were gradually becoming dense, like tungsten steel wrapped beneath a coating of chakra.
When he stood before the training target again, he took a deep breath and spread chakra across his entire body. The ninja sword in his hand cut through the air and slammed directly into his own shoulder.
A sharp metallic ring echoed out. Sparks burst upward nearly half a foot into the air, and the blade itself chipped slightly at the tip instead.
Without hesitation, he took advantage of the momentum and raised his hand to meet the shuriken flying toward him. Chakra instantly condensed in his palm.
With a crisp snap, he caught it firmly. The handle of the shuriken still trembled faintly in his grip. When he opened his hand, his skin was completely uninjured.
Seeing the skin of his palm turn a bluish-black shade, Kamizuki Izumo slightly eased the flow of chakra. The color gradually returned to normal.
[Six Powers – Iron Body: Beginner (1/100)]
The modification of Paper Art became an exercise in "dancing with the wind."
The original version relied on relaxing the muscles and sharpening sensitivity to airflow, allowing the body to evade attacks as lightly as a sheet of paper.
On that foundation, Izumo added chakra perception and spatial awareness.
Standing in the center of the training field, he closed his eyes and let chakra seep out from his pores, as if he were spreading an intricate web of fine silk tightly around his body.
At first, he could only vaguely sense the direction of strong winds. When the trap mechanisms in the field activated and began attacking, his body was like a torn sheet of paper caught in a storm.
He staggered as he tried to dodge, often losing his balance and falling onto the ground until his backside went numb. The edges of his clothing were soon covered in dust and sand.
But as his sensitivity improved, he began to catch subtle patterns in the flow of air. Even the tiny vortices stirred by passing shuriken now appeared clearly in his mind, like ripples across the surface of water.
He began learning to let his chakra "flow along" with incoming attacks. His body folded and shifted lightly, like rice paper softened by water. When his feet touched the ground, there was almost no sound at all.
During a test, ten kunai were launched from different directions. He stepped through the gaps in the air currents he perceived through chakra.
His waist and abdomen rotated like a spinning top. His shoulders and back curved like a drawn bow. The kunai whistled past the edges of his clothes and strands of his hair.
Even beneath his feet, disturbances in the airflow formed scattered miniature whirlwinds.
When the final kunai embedded itself precisely in the center of the target behind him, the system panel immediately updated:
[Six Powers – Paper Art: Beginner (1/100)]
At that moment, it felt as though he had merged with the surrounding wind. The sound of air in his ears was no longer chaotic noise but had transformed into a guiding melody. The paths of incoming attacks before his eyes seemed to slow, like turtles crawling across the ground.
The breakthrough with Moonwalk was a process of "building a road" with chakra.
The original version relied on ultra-fast kicks to step on the air and generate reactive force, allowing movement through the sky.
In the Ninja World, even Might Guy, after opening the Gate of Death, could step on air.
But with Izumo's current level of taijutsu, he knew he hadn't reached that stage yet. So he stood beside a large tree at the edge of the training field, quietly thinking.
When climbing trees, he could gather chakra in the soles of his feet to adhere to the trunk. If that was the case, could he use the same principle to "build a path" in the air and simplify Moonwalk?
He tried compressing chakra into the soles of his feet, forming small footholds the size of coins. But the moment he lifted his foot from the ground, those points burst like bubbles with soft pops.
His body dropped heavily into the sandpit below. Dust flew everywhere, stinging his eyes, while a dull ache spread through his waist and abdomen.
Rubbing his lower back, he stood up again—unwilling to give up—and continued trying, pushing his chakra control precision to its limits.
He adjusted the compression level of his chakra until the edges of each foothold emitted a faint blue glow.
He altered the frequency of the energy flow, making each foothold spin like a miniature thruster that continuously generated reactive force.
Then he added ultra-fast kicks in midair to create sufficient propulsion, allowing brief bursts of aerial movement.
Until one morning, when the sun had just begun to rise above the walls of the training field, he took a deep breath. With a series of rapid kicks, he continuously formed chakra "energy pads" beneath his feet as stepping points.
At last, he succeeded.
One step shot him forward three meters, leaving behind faint blue points of light beneath his feet that quickly faded away.
Izumo moved faster and faster. The sound of wind in his ears turned into music. Wooden posts and ground targets rushed backward in his vision.
When he landed steadily, the panel finally lit up:
[Six Powers – Moonwalk: Beginner (1/100)]
Spreading both arms and feeling the cool morning breeze, Izumo experienced for the first time the freedom and exhilaration of "walking through the void."
Last came Tempest Kick and Finger Pistol.
Tempest Kick was an air slash generated by ultra-fast kicks that created vacuum blades, while Finger Pistol was a technique that concentrated the entire body's power into the index finger, hardened it, and fired it forward with bullet-like speed.
For Izumo, replicating these two techniques turned out to be the least difficult of all. After mastering the control of blood and muscles, and adding localized chakra reinforcement, both techniques soon appeared on his proficiency panel:
[Six Powers – Tempest Kick: Beginner (1/100)]
[Six Powers – Finger Pistol: Beginner (1/100)]
As he saw the new skill category appear on the pale blue panel:
[Six Powers (Shave, Iron Body, Paper Art, Moonwalk, Tempest Kick, Finger Pistol): Beginner (1/100)]
Kamizuki Izumo's eyes shone with excitement.
At last, he possessed a complete set of high-level taijutsu techniques that truly belonged to him alone.
Now, it was time to unleash everything he had without hesitation.
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