Konoha's Way of Death

Chapter 18 Treading Water
On the bank of the Nanhe River, Eliyi put her hands on her knees and panted slightly.

He raised his head and glanced at Ruoren, and found that Ruoren was breathing smoothly, without panting at all, and said softly in surprise: "Ruoren, you are so powerful, you are not tired at all after you have dragged me for such a long distance?"

"Ah, this is the result of practice." Ruoren replied with a smile.

He said to Erika: "I'm going to start practicing, you wait for me here, if you're bored, just tell me."

After finishing speaking, Ruoren glanced behind him, and there, a brat was hiding in the bushes.

Seeing Wakato looking this way, Akira Uchiha quickly shrank back, panting heavily.

"Almost found out, hmph, let's see how I can solve your conspiracy."

After Akira Uchiha finished speaking, he quietly looked towards the river with his probe.

Konoha was built under a cliff, the terrain is flat, and the Nanhe River has no big drop from high to low, so the water flow is not too fast.

Ruoren originally wanted to find a lake or go directly to places like Konoha Tangyu to try the first step of treading water, but Konoha does not have a lake, and soup baths need money.

On a certain tree not far away, a guy who was completely wrapped up, wearing a mask covered with patterns, quietly watched Ruoren sinking into the river and climbing up again.

He sighed and started trying again.

After Ruoren finished speaking, he looked at the river with a serious face, not knowing what to do.

Just when he was about to resist, he felt a pain in his neck, his surroundings began to spin, and when he fell to the ground, he had already passed out.

Erika also covered her mouth, very surprised.But she didn't make a sound, for fear of disturbing Ruo Ren's practice.

If a person has no money, he finally thought that he would have to reach this point anyway, and the water in the Nanhe River was not deep, so he came here directly.

Suddenly, he trembled all over, as if he was being targeted by some powerful monster.

When he walked on the water, because of the shoes, he didn't feel deeply. Now that there is water flowing away from his hands, the feeling is more obvious.

The black cat stood up, fell to the ground like fallen leaves, and then burrowed into the bushes without making a sound.

If a person concentrates and calms down, he slowly covers the chakra under his feet.He is already very familiar with this step.

But stepping on water is very different from climbing a tree. The water is constantly flowing. If a person can't find the direction of practice, it will be difficult to rely on time. Up to now, there has been no progress at all.

Ruoren wiped his face, smiled and comforted: "It's okay, the river here is very shallow, no one can die, don't worry."

After Chakra recovered, Ruoren got up and stepped on the water again.

After finishing speaking, Uchiha Akira looked at the river worriedly, and found Ruoren emerging from the water, snorted, turned and left.

When climbing a tree before, he only needed to overcome the solid and invisible adsorption force, and control too much chakra to prevent the fragile bark from being trampled.

He came here on purpose because the water here is gentle and the river is not deep, otherwise the Nanhe River is so long, he would not be bothered to run so far.

The black cat landed lightly from the tree, glanced at this guy, turned and left.

He got up and walked to the river, touched his chin, thought for a while, and stretched out his hand to cover the chakra on his hand.

The river water under his feet splashed in all directions, obviously affected by Chakra, splashing water directly.

However, the water surface is different from solid objects such as trees. If a person feels that he can't step on it at all, the chakra on the bottom of his feet seems to be taken away by the river.

If people laughed, he found a way.

"Ruoren, are you alright?" Erika asked worriedly.

Ruoren came back to his senses, smiled lightly and said, "It's all right."

Just now, he discovered that after strengthening the chakra, the water no longer passes through the gaps between the fingers, but as if holding a hard membrane on the palm, the water can only flow to both sides.

It's a pity that his first attempt ended in failure, and his whole foot fell into the river, and then he plunged into it, making a bigger splash.

Erika still looked worried, but he didn't bother Ruoren, and took two steps back gently.

"Yes, I succeeded."

Ruoren raised his head and spat out a mouthful of water, spewing out a jet of water like a whale breathing, and then crawled out of the river under the pull of Erika.

He calmed down, kept Chakra on his palm, and continued to reinforce it against the water flow, reducing the loss of Chakra.

The black cat squinted its eyes, and sneered secretly: "It's hard to find a little monster who fits my clan, but I can't let you get in touch with him too early."

He simply increased the output of chakra, and the whole foot was covered with light blue light.

"Um?!"

Erika yelled happily.

He hurriedly turned his head, stretched out his hand to grab Kunai, and wanted to be alert, but there was a chill on his neck.

No matter what, if a person cultivates chakra, it is certain, and this has surpassed him by a large margin.

The black cat praised secretly, and when he saw that Ruoren was not in any danger, he turned around and left.

Erika stood up in a panic, ran to the river, and looked at the river uneasily.

"This guy, that's all." Akira Uchiha in the distance laughed to himself, and after being ridiculous, he fell silent again.

"Ruoren, are you okay?"

Chakra no longer blasted the surface of the water, and his feet landed firmly on it.

When his chakra was exhausted, he sat down cross-legged, thinking while recovering his chakra.

In the distant forest, a black cat has been lying among the leaves, watching quietly through the gap.

But the water flow is different, it is disordered and shapeless, and simply controlling the absorption and output of Chakra cannot make him stand firmly on the water.

Suddenly, it stopped moving, and the whiskers at the corners of its mouth kept trembling.

Ruoren looked at Erika suspiciously, looked at his feet, and saw that the water was taking him downstream.

Wakato was also very excited, and waved at Erika, only to find that Erika's joyful expression had disappeared, replaced by blankness.

"If the old man of the third generation wants to see it, he should use that technique. It seems that someone is following this kid."

The practice of climbing trees before was difficult, but after all, it was stepping on a solid body. As long as you consider the fragility of trees and keep practicing, you can succeed.

If a person still feels unable to step firmly, his chakra has been overflowing, flowing away with the water like sand and sand.

If people didn't notice these at all, he was panting heavily at the moment, already feeling very tired.

If a person leaves the other foot directly from the shore and stands on the water with both feet, it will be as if he is walking on flat ground.

The black cat stared at a certain direction in the forest, where there was a person hiding in the tree.

"It's not bad, it's already done this step."

But now he has found a way.

"Forget it, take the time to grind."

In the distance, Akira Uchiha was stunned: "This guy, he has cultivated Chakra."

"If people!"

Although he couldn't see through the leaves, he couldn't feel wrong.

Then he dipped his hand into the river water, and the river water passed through the gap between his fingers, constantly taking away the chakra in his hand.

This time he succeeded.

Ruoren gritted his teeth and stepped on it.

"Damn it, I won't let you surpass me too much. Hmph, no wonder you can beat me, but you just took advantage of Chakra. After I find my brother to cultivate Chakra, I must make you look good."

"puff--"

"It doesn't matter, the big deal is getting wet."

"Well, why is it getting farther and farther?"

"Ruoren, you succeeded."

Seeing Ruoren sitting on the ground, frowning in a daze, Erika asked uneasily.

If a person lifts his foot, the upper of the shoe will touch the river water.

"..."

Ruoren was speechless, and quickly walked towards the shore, but he hadn't been able to control this state well, and he sank again as soon as he lifted his foot.

Ruoren quickly climbed to the bank, spit out the river water that entered his mouth, lay on his back on the ground, and stared at the sky absentmindedly.

"Well, at least there's been progress, hasn't it?"

(End of this chapter)