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Chapter 4: The Power of Space and Time, High-Rank Ninja 1
Space-time power, space-time chakra, space-time property transformation...
With just one glance, Gojo Yoru knew the special effects of black chakra.
As is well known, ninja chakra has seven attributes: wind, fire, water, earth, lightning, and yin and yang, which are the five elements of yin and yang in this world.
Yin and Yang are hidden attributes that can only be possessed innately and cannot be acquired through cultivation, unless a powerful external force modifies the body.
Even the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, as well as Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha from the original story, could not cultivate Yin-Yang attributes later in life.
Madara Uchiha possessed Yin-Yang and the Five Elements because he received Hashirama Senju's cells. Otherwise, his limit would have been the same as Sasuke Uchiha's, who could only possess Yin and the Five Elements at most.
The fusion of the changes in the properties of the two attributes is called the bloodline limit.
The fusion of the three attributes is called bloodline elimination.
This is the limit of what the ninja world knows.
Gojo Yoru, however, knew that the fusion of seven attributes constituted the Bloodline Limit.
Those are the 'one of their own' in the eyes of the Otsutsuki Junke!
Without bloodline limit or all-attribute Otsutsuki, they are just hybrids among hybrids, no different from those inferior creatures.
There are only seven chakra natures; this is common knowledge in the ninja world.
Only a few people know that there is an eighth hidden special attribute in the ninja world.
That is a power that transcends the seven attributes, with both its lower and upper limits being extremely outrageous. Some of them are no less than Bloodline Limits, or are themselves a type of Bloodline Limit, or are even more powerful than Bloodline Limits!
That is the power of spacetime!
The ability to manipulate space and time is actually quite common in the ninja world.
Storage rolls involve the principles of space and time.
The art of spirit communication also involves the power of space and time.
However, these are all things that can only be barely touched through contracts and seals, and cannot be used on oneself.
Therefore, when the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, developed the Flying Thunder God Technique, demonstrating the terror of space-time power to the entire ninja world, this ninjutsu immediately became one of the strongest S-rank secret techniques in the ninja world.
To date, apart from Tobirama Senju, the developer, no one else in Konoha has mastered this S-rank secret technique.
Moreover, the Flying Thunder God Technique is merely a support-type space-time ninjutsu.
Throughout the thousand-year Warring States period, no offensive space-time ninjutsu had ever appeared in the ninja world.
Because no one can truly master the power of space-time, let alone change their chakra nature into space-time chakra, not even the pure-blooded Otsutsuki of the universe can!
Their space-time abilities, like the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kamui, simply consume chakra or Yin Release chakra to manipulate some space-time power.
Amenominaka, Yomotsu Hirasaka, Daikokuten... these bloodline limits and divine arts are all auxiliary space-time abilities.
In contrast, Kamui, who possesses neither bloodline limit nor divine arts, has a rare offensive spacetime ability.
Even so, offensive Kamui has a wind-up animation and requires a large amount of eye power to activate. Its abilities are fixed, and it does not convert chakra into spacetime manipulation.
And now, the first being to possess space-time chakra... has been born!
So it's no wonder Gojo Yoru was so excited. The fact that he didn't burst into laughter was already a testament to his composure as someone who had lived two lives and was a transmigrator.
During those six years, no one knew how much pressure Gojo Yoru was under.
If he had been born at the beginning of the story, the same age as Naruto and Sasuke, even without a bloodline limit or cheat codes, Gojo Yoru would have accepted his fate and lived a life of mediocrity.
With his familiarity with the plot, he was fully capable of avoiding any major calamity except for the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which was not even a major calamity, but rather a beautiful dream.
But coincidentally, the time period that Gojo Yoru traveled through was the same age as Minato Namikaze.
The Second Shinobi World War could break out at any time, and the information revealed in the original work is pitifully scarce. Gojo Yoru had no idea whether Minato Namikaze's class of students had been sent to the battlefield.
If you are sent to the battlefield, even if you are only in charge of logistics, there is always the possibility of enemy ninjas invading. Those ninjas who are capable, or even those who come with a mission, must be at least Special Jonin.
Without the protagonist's halo, encountering them is a guaranteed death situation.
The more a time traveler knows, the more they worry, especially when they are in a time period where they have no advantage in the plot. Gojo Yoru's pressure increases every day.
Therefore, his game strategy guide already included preparations for becoming stronger by any means necessary.
In order to survive, he was even willing to become an experimental subject, a composite monster similar to Kakuzu and Hiruko.
To lay the groundwork for his plan, he, as an "adult" who knew the importance of connections and networks, cultivated an aloof and domineering persona from the moment he entered school, putting on an act every day.
In fact, on many nights, Gojo would wake up from nightmares.
He dreamt that the plan failed right at the beginning, that his mind was read and his identity as an alien was revealed, and that he would become an even more miserable experimental subject.
He dreamt that he had finally gained great power, only to be killed by a force from a higher dimension, rendering all his efforts futile.
These are all invisible shackles that bind Gojo Yoru.
But now, all these shackles have shattered as the black spacetime chakra appears!
Originally, he could only become an all-around Jonin, and even if the game strategy was perfectly implemented, he would only reach the upper limit of the pseudo-Six Paths level. Now, this has become very vague.
This is what makes spacetime special.
Its lower limit is very low; even ordinary ninjas can use space-time power to create storage scrolls.
Its potential is very high; even elite Jonin like Kakashi Hatake were able to injure the progenitor of chakra because he mastered offensive space-time ninjutsu.
Yoru Gojo, who possesses space-time chakra, now has a very ambiguous strength, with his power entirely dependent on the amount and usage of his black chakra.
If he can develop offensive techniques, he, who is currently only a first-year trainee ninja, will be just like those elite Jonin who have mastered S-rank secret techniques, and will already have the means to threaten the Kage.
Even the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, who is immune to ninjutsu, will have their defenses breached if hit by him.
If black chakra cannot be used for attacks, then Gojo Yoru's strength remains unchanged, just like those ninja clans who possess secret techniques and bloodline limits; they simply have special abilities.
Even for the latter, Gojo Yoru was already satisfied.
Because his feet had just become ethereal.
Intangibility—this was Obito Uchiha's invincible, bug-level ability throughout the entire Naruto series!
If Gojo Yoru can achieve complete intangibility, then no one in this era can kill him by means other than assassination, including that ninja world savior who is still alive!
Now, he is a master of patience!