Time passed quickly. About a week had gone by. During this week, due to the appearance of the chakra network space, the changes in the Ninja World were overwhelming.
There were two most obvious changes. First, the strength of low-level Ninjas had increased. A large number of low-level Ninjas had increased their proficiency within the chakra network space and learned a vast amount of advanced Ninjutsu and secret techniques that could be called hidden arts, leading to a significant increase in their strength.
Another change was... the number of missions in the Ninja World had decreased, while the number of Rogue Ninjas had increased!
The decrease in mission numbers was because the chakra network space had spread. Many ordinary people had also awakened Chakra and possessed a certain degree of strength. Although they might not even compare to a Genin or even a Ninja Academy student, they finally had some ability to protect themselves.
Facing bandits with similarly increased strength, they might not have a solution, but when facing things like wild beasts, ordinary people would no longer be afraid.
As for the simultaneous increase in the number of Rogue Ninjas, it was because Ninjas' reliance on Ninja villages had greatly decreased.
Originally, one of the most important ways Ninja villages controlled Ninjas was through the advanced Ninjutsu they held. Generally, only after reaching a certain Ninja rank and completing many missions for the village could one exchange for certain advanced Ninjutsu from the village.
Therefore, except for some clan Ninjas, the vast majority of ordinary Ninjas were attached to the entire Ninja village system, all for the sake of those advanced Ninjutsu.
Otherwise, given the characteristics of the Ninja profession, where couldn't they survive? Especially since many Ninjas were orphans and had no ties to begin with.
As for being hunted down by the Ninja village after becoming a Rogue Ninja... frankly speaking, unless there was some special reason, such as holding confidential intelligence or knowing major information, then, to enjoy the treatment of being hunted by the Anbu, one had to be at least a Special Jonin!
For ordinary Chunin, the Ninja village would at most investigate a little. As for Genin, who were like leeks... which Ninja village had so many Anbu to care about these Genin who died or went missing by the thousands every year?!
Most Genin were not the "Konoha 11", and they didn't have any noble moral character. They did the job of a Ninja, firstly because it paid well, and secondly, wasn't it for more powerful strength!
And now that there was a learning channel like the chakra network space, who would be foolish enough to exchange for Ninjutsu from the Ninja village?
Not only did the number of Rogue Ninjas increase, but recruitment for the Ninja Academy also encountered huge difficulties. What the Ninja Academy could teach, the chakra network space could also teach; what the Ninja Academy couldn't teach, the chakra network space could still teach, and it didn't charge money!
Under these circumstances, everyone naturally chose the chakra network space; on the contrary, the Ninja Academy was left unattended.
Facing this situation, the leaders of the Ninja villages were naturally very anxious. However, facing an epoch-making Ninjutsu like the chakra genjutsu network, these high-ranking officials who couldn't keep up with the times couldn't think of any solution. Not to mention that all the major Ninja villages were in chaos now; just sorting out their internal problems was enough to give them a headache.
Of course, the increase in Ninja strength brought by the chakra network space also had a burst period and a plateau period. After all, within the genjutsu space, one could only practice technical skills. Once skills were practiced to the peak, there was no further progress to be made.
As for the advanced Ninjutsu inside, not to mention that the top-tier Ninjutsu required contribution points, in reality, even if most top-tier Ninjutsu were taken out, ordinary Ninjas couldn't master them. This wasn't even a problem that could be solved by grinding time in the chakra network; it was that those Ninjas simply lacked the talent.
Once the burst period passed, in the remaining time, these Ninjas could only rely on polishing their bodies and cultivating Chakra nature transformations—methods that required hard work in the real world—to increase their power.
However, even so, the strength of Ninjas in the entire Ninja World had increased significantly. Even the most ordinary Genin could learn a few trump-card Ninjutsu in the genjutsu space, capable of unleashing the power of an original elite Chunin in a short time.
And for figures like Chunin and Jonin, their strength naturally increased even more, especially those who had massive Chakra but were short on Ninjutsu; they could almost reach the Kage level in a few days.
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