Jokichi was dumbfounded, dazed for a good while before he snapped back to his senses. He blinked his eyes, confirming it once again, and the information displayed on his retina was no different from what he saw before.
"It is the peeping of the Telescope Technique..."
Jokichi's mouth twitched, not knowing what to say. He originally hoped that his eyes were playing tricks on him, but now it seemed that what he envisioned was a bit different.
As the leader of the number one ninja village in the ninja world, the Third Hokage had a bad habit, which was that he liked to use his crystal ball to peep at the women's bathhouse. This book was definitely a special item forged because of this bad habit.
Although an item that could view the scenery within a 30-kilometer radius centered on the holder was also very awesome, there would be plenty of opportunities to obtain reconnaissance items later, whereas obtaining ninjutsu a day later meant wasting a day of training time. What Jokichi urgently needed right now was ninjutsu, not a reconnaissance tool.
However, it was an unexpected joy to begin with. Although it failed to meet his expectations and caused his mentality to collapse a bit, he still adjusted back very quickly.
After roughly checking the functions of the Book of Omniscience, he threw it into the system space, then sorted out the things the Third Hokage gave him, and put the things other than the ninjutsu scroll into the cabinet for safekeeping. After doing all this, Jokichi sat back at the desk, opened the ninjutsu scroll for practicing chakra control, and slowly read it.
The higher a ninja's degree of chakra control, the easier it is to master ninjutsu. Some high-level ninjutsu even require a ninja to have absolute control over chakra in order to learn them. Jokichi had already trained to the point of learning ninjutsu, so chakra control training was imminent. He would read through the training content today, and he could start practicing tomorrow.
Hmm! Should I say as expected of the Professor of Ninjutsu.
This training method written personally by the Third Hokage did not have a single professional term. Many complex and difficult to understand parts were explained using simple and easy to understand metaphors. Jokichi understood it after reading it once, which was a world of difference from the ninjutsu scrolls left by his parents. Obviously, the Third Hokage also knew that Jokichi had not received systematic ninja training and did not understand much professional knowledge, so he specially wrote this training method.
Time always passes quickly when a person is focused. After Jokichi finished reading the contents of the scroll, it was already twelve o'clock at night, and the sound of the wind sweeping the leaves echoed outside the window. Jokichi yawned, stretched, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower and sleep.
...
A night passed silently.
At 7 am the next morning, Jokichi woke up on time. He sat up, opened a corner of the window and looked out. The gray sky and the leaves blowing with the gentle breeze made people feel a hint of chill.
"It is autumn!"
Jokichi stared blankly at the scenery outside for a while, then sighed with emotion. He remembered that when he was born in this world and opened his eyes for the first time, what he saw was the scenery outside the window, where the gentle breeze carried autumn leaves soaring in the sky.
Unknowingly, it had already been five years since he came to this world.
For the past five years, he had been moving forward with a heavy burden, the immense pressure making him almost unable to breathe. Even thinking about it now, Jokichi still felt lingering fear. If he had not accidentally discovered the usage of his cheat at the Hokage Rock three months ago, he reckoned he would have already been crushed by the immense pressure!
Thinking back to these three months where his cheat exerted its power, everything went smoothly, forming a sharp contrast with his previous experiences. This really felt like a dream.
After Jokichi sat on the bed and sighed with emotion for a while, he lifted the quilt and went to the bathroom to wash up. A ninja's training is very arduous. If one wants to become a powerful ninja, they must train rain or shine, day after day.
Before long, he finished washing up. Jokichi changed into a clean set of training clothes and went out.
Today, he was going to practice chakra control, striving to complete the training within a week.
...
The process of training was very boring, and there was nothing much to talk about. It was nothing more than trying again and again, summarizing lessons after experiencing countless failures, and then succeeding.
Jokichi completed the tree climbing and water walking training in a week as expected. His degree of control over chakra reached the point where he could direct it as easily as moving his own arms. However, he did not have other ninjutsu to practice, so after completing the chakra control training, he used his spare time to practice ninja tool mastery.
Throwing tools, and close-quarters combat with kunai and katana. Although no one taught him, if it was just the basics, there were many books in the library recording training methods. Relying on the books in the library for self-study and hard training, Jokichi's mastery of ninja tools also went from being a complete amateur to becoming a little bit proficient.
...
Time slipped away bit by bit, and soon a month passed.
During this month, Jokichi trained taijutsu in the morning, practiced ninja tool mastery in the afternoon, and strolled around the bustling streets of Konoha at night, wanting to try his luck at collecting some materials. Because of the recovery of the Sage Body and the Ring of Kurama, his training intensity was very astonishing. Coupled with the effect of the Hot-Blooded Headband, half a day of his was more than a full day for others.
Furthermore, the talent of the Sage Body made his physical fitness grow very quickly. Currently, in terms of physical fitness alone, he belonged to the outstanding category among Genin, and his chakra was also naturally growing every day. By now, his chakra had already surpassed that of an ordinary Jonin.
Hmm! Jokichi was comparing it with the Root captain he met at the 39th Training Ground that day. His chakra was about twice as much as his.
As for material collection...
It could only be said to be not very ideal. Konoha was too big, and the whereabouts of ninja were erratic, so it was difficult to meet people with the potential for materials.
But it was not completely fruitless.
Three days ago, when Jokichi was eating noodles at Ichiraku Ramen, he picked out a hair from his bowl. It was Uncle Teuchi's. He originally wanted to get angry and ask Uncle Teuchi to change to another bowl, but when he picked up the hair, the system's notification sound rang in his mind.
[Ding! Found special material "Mastermind", can forge special item "Behind-the-Scenes Boss", do you want to forge?]
Jokichi hurriedly ran to the toilet to forge the item. As a result, a stick like an Ultraman transformation device appeared in his hand, and the information of the item also appeared on his retina.
"Behind-the-Scenes Boss: Can transform into a powerful Six Paths Boss. You can only transform when you make everyone think you are an ordinary minor character."
Being able to turn a person into a Six Paths level Boss, it had to be said that it was very strong, but the condition for use made this thing very useless. Making everyone think I am an ordinary minor character... How is that possible, it is not like I am Otsutsuki Ichiraku.
Seeing the description of this thing, Jokichi was also speechless for a while. However, something is better than nothing, having it is always better than not having it.
...
October 10, Konoha Year 53.
Exactly five years since the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack, and also the memorial day for the countless victims of that year. On this day, Jokichi did not train, but changed into a black yukata used for mourning and walked towards the Memorial Stone.
He was going to pay respects to his deceased parents.