Chapter 9 - The Difficulty of Developing the Perfect Transformation Technique
To avoid alerting the Ninja on duty at the barrier, only real animals like small birds can pass through the barrier unnoticed.
Small birds in nature do not have Chakra within their bodies.
Therefore, the Ninja on duty at the barrier, upon sensing it, would determine that this small bird was not transformed by a Ninja or controlled by other Ninja, and thus ignore it.
Because once a small bird is transformed by a Ninja or controlled by a Ninja, there must be Chakra present on the bird.
As long as Chakra is present, it will inevitably be detected by the barrier.
This is why the Five Great Shinobi Countries' Chakra Perception barriers are terrifyingly strong at sensing Chakra.
Almost no enemy Ninja can break through silently.
But once one possesses the Perfect Transformation Technique, everything becomes very easy.
A small bird transformed by the Perfect Transformation Technique is a real small bird, with not a trace of Chakra inside its body.
When entering and exiting the Villages of the Five Great Shinobi Countries freely, one will not be identified as an enemy invasion by the Chakra Perception Ninja, thus avoiding attention.
As a result, Kimura Takuya, who has mastered the Perfect Transformation Technique, can directly infiltrate each Village to gather intelligence.
Moreover, transforming into a small bird or similar to approach enemy Ninja will not make them wary, making it even easier to gather useful intelligence.
Furthermore, small birds can fly, meaning Kimura Takuya, who possesses the Perfect Transformation Technique, also becomes a Ninja who can fly.
It's important to know that in the Fire Shadow World, there aren't many Ninja who can fly; you can count them on one hand.
At critical moments, being able to fly can save one's life.
Therefore, a Ninja who can fly is, in a sense, inherently invincible.
After all, if in doubt, one can fly away as a sign of respect, and the enemy can only watch them disappear helplessly.
Even in the sea, one can perfectly transform into a fish and swim in the deep sea to evade enemy pursuit.
The atmospheric pressure of the deep sea will automatically prevent any enemy from approaching.
Crucially, whether perfectly transformed into a fish or a small bird, because there is no Chakra present, Chakra Perception-type Ninja cannot detect them.
Once out of sight, it is very difficult for any Ninja to catch up, making it an excellent escape tool.
If used for assassination, the Perfect Transformation Technique is also a great tool, as the absence of Chakra makes it hard for people to notice and be wary.
It can be said that the Perfect Transformation Technique can not only be used for infiltration and intelligence gathering but is also excellent for assassination and escape.
And intelligence gathering, escape, and assassination are essential duties for Anbu Ninja.
The Perfect Transformation Technique perfectly aligns with and suits Anbu Ninja.
"No wonder Kimura Takuya wanted to research and create the Perfect Transformation Technique; it truly is a Ninjutsu that perfectly suits Ninja in organizations like Anbu!"
Lee Yao sighed in his heart.
"It would be a shame for such a perfect Ninjutsu to stop here."
Lee Yao's heart stirred, and he decided to inherit Kimura Takuya's research and create the Perfect Transformation Technique.
This is the period between the First Ninja War and the Second Ninja War.
And it is highly probable that the arrival of the Second Shinobi World War is not far off.
Lee Yao doesn't know if he will be taken to the battlefield.
But if he can create the Perfect Transformation Technique before then...
Then, whether or not he is taken to the battlefield, when he is surrounded and forced to escape, the Perfect Transformation Technique will be his safest means of escape.
Mastering the Perfect Transformation Technique will significantly enhance his personal safety.
"But such a powerful Ninjutsu shouldn't be that easy to create, right?"
Lee Yao frowned slightly, guessing with some trepidation as he continued to flip through the notes.
As he expected, the idea of the Perfect Transformation Technique was excellent, but achieving it was very difficult.
To evolve the Transformation Technique from a visually deceptive Transformation Technique to a Perfect Transformation Technique involving material transformation, there were too many difficulties.
Kimura Takuya first began his research into the first step of material transformation from the perspective of the Body Replacement Technique.
As is well known, the Body Replacement Technique is actually just a Clone Technique, and like Water Clone, Sand Clone, and other Clone Techniques, it is not a Space-Time Ninjutsu that can swap positions with wood.
Otherwise, Sasuke's six Rinnegan's exclusive ability, Heavenly Hand Power, would be too cheap.
In reality, the so-called Body Replacement Technique is merely a Ninjutsu combat tactic where one seizes the opportunity in battle to release a Clone to attract the enemy's attention, while one's own body hides and waits for an opportunity to strike; it is not a true Ninjutsu.
Kimura Takuya was actually researching the principle of a Clone Technique performed with wood.
The Clone Technique among the Three Body Technique and the wood Clone Technique in the Body Replacement Technique are different, or rather, they are not on the same level of Ninjutsu.
The Clone Technique in the Three Body Technique is actually just a series of illusory Clones of oneself; in a sense, the Clone Technique is also an application of the Transformation Technique, only the illusion transforms into one's own appearance.
Therefore, the Clone Technique in the Three Body Technique is merely a form transformed by Chakra, possessing no weight, and naturally no offensive power.
It cannot even perform intense movements, only very simple movements in place, and will shatter like a high sand dune at the slightest forceful impact.
So, how can a Clone Technique be made to move like a normal person and possess a certain sense of impact and offensive power?
The answer is to use wood as the center to perform the Transformation Technique, allowing the illusory Clone to be anchored to the wood. In this way, the ethereal Clone gains stability from the wood, not only making it less likely to be shattered but also allowing the Clone to possess the weight of the wood through the Chakra connection.
This way, when the Clone fights and collides with the enemy, the physical sense of impact is more real, making it easier to deceive people.
Kimura Takuya researched wood Clones to understand how wood, through Chakra, gives the illusory Clone the physical impact of a real person, and what the connection between the two is.
In his notes, after researching for a period, Kimura Takuya figured out the principle of the wood Clone.
Chakra is both energy and a special energy channel that can transmit the "weight" of wood to the illusory Clone, then, with the illusory Clone as the subject, bestow weight upon it.
This did not involve material transformation, but it already showed a glimmer of possibility.
"Chakra can imbue some properties of matter onto Chakra."
Following this line of thought, Kimura Takuya replaced the wood with a living small bird and performed the Transformation Technique with the small bird as the center.
If he could convert the weight of the small bird into the weight of the illusory Clone...
Then, going a step further, could he transmit information like the small bird's flesh and cells to the illusory Clone, making the illusory Clone also possess flesh and cells, transforming it into a normal living person?
The answer is clearly yes, it's possible.
However, in the first stage, Kimura Takuya failed when trying to perform the Clone Technique using a small bird, even a dead one.
Unlike stable wood, whether alive or dead, Chakra couldn't transmit "weight" to the illusory Clone to form a stable small bird Clone.
If this step couldn't be broken through, material transformation couldn't even be considered.
But this step was too difficult.
More than half of the notes recorded Kimura Takuya's various experiments researching this step.
Even so, Lee Yao flipped to the end and still didn't see Kimura Takuya breaking through this crucial step.
But he wasn't without any gains.
Through his research and experiments, Kimura had a relatively credible hypothesis.
The reason Chakra couldn't transmit the small bird's weight to the illusory Clone was because small birds, like humans, have physical energy and spiritual energy within their bodies.
And because Chakra itself is formed by the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy...
Therefore, when his Chakra entered the small bird's body, it would also be subtly affected by these two energies.
He couldn't output the small bird's weight as stably as he could output the wood's weight when entering wood.
To stably output the small bird's weight, Kimura Takuya speculated that the physical energy and spiritual energy within the small bird's body needed to be in a stable state.
But this is impossible.
Physical energy and spiritual energy are constantly changing, like the water of a flowing waterfall; a seemingly motionless waterfall, the water in the waterfall one moment and the next is actually different, constantly flowing and changing.
Therefore, stabilizing the physical energy and spiritual energy within the small bird's body is impossible.
If one cannot stabilize the physical energy and spiritual energy within the small bird's body...
If one could make their Chakra maintain synchronous changes with the small bird's physical energy and spiritual energy at all times, then theoretically it might also be possible to stably transmit the small bird's weight to the illusory Clone.
But this is also impossible to achieve.
Not only could Kimura Takuya not do it, but it would also be very difficult for others to do.
People can't even precisely sense their own physical energy and spiritual energy changes, let alone the changes in a small bird's physical energy and spiritual energy.
"So difficult."
Seeing this, Lee Yao subconsciously shook his head, putting himself in that position; he couldn't do it either. He could only precisely sense his own spiritual energy and its changes; for what was inside a small bird, he was powerless.
He continued to read.
After failing at this step, Kimura did not give up; he changed his approach.