Chapter 18 Genjutsu Training

At night, a cool breeze blows gently.

Two figures, one big and one small, are sitting opposite each other on the lawn by the river.

"The so-called Genjutsu, its essence is a kind of Yin Release technique, which is a technique that uses Chakra to interfere with the other party's five senses by mobilizing spiritual energy to make them fall into hallucinations!"

Although it was still unpleasant for him to see Sōseki, Shinku does not hide his own secrets and he still explained as much as he could when teaching Sōseki about Genjutsu.

"In other words, Genjutsu can be roughly divided into vision, sense of hearing, sense of smell, taste, sense of touch?" Sōseki asked while holding his chin in his small hand.

'Huh? Is there such a thing?' Shinku's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Shinobi's basic knowledge level is not high, almost all of them stay at the elementary school level, so that few people do even the simplest addition and division.

'Indeed, Genjutsu used to be said to disturb the five senses, but it was more based on vision, sense of hearing and sense of touch. Relatively speaking, there are almost no Genjutsu for taste and sense of smell. If it can be developed for these two, maybe it can be used in the next war. And then the other villages...'

"Shinku-senpai, Shinku-senpai!" Seeing Shinku plunged into endless fantasy, Sōseki had no choice but to call him back.

"Huh?" Shinku woke up and felt a little embarrassed when he saw Sōseki looking at him strangely. In order to maintain his dignity, he had to forcefully explain, "Did you see? The truly powerful Genjutsu-user Shinobi needs to be able to fantasize like me."

Sōseki didn't expose it, but rather nodded in recognition.

Genjutsu is something that doesn't work without imagination.

"Before I formally instruct you in Genjutsu's training, I will teach you how to crack Genjutsu." Shinku showed serious expression, "Only by understanding Genjutsu's weaknesses can you not be targeted by the enemy on the battlefield."

"There are two ways to crack Genjutsu, one is to disrupt the flow of chakra in your body by yourself, and the other one is to let others disrupt the flow of chakra in your body. It should be noted that for Genjutsu using Dojutsu, only the second method works. Therefore, when the enemy is an expert who uses Dojutsu to cast Genjutsu, you must not face the enemy alone."

Shinku said in a desolate tone. Although he is known as Konoha's strongest Genjutsu-user Shinobi, he couldn't reach the height of those Dojutsu experts in history throughout his life.

Because of this, he was so ecstatic after discovering the Kurenai's talent in Genjutsu. He wanted to prove that people's talent and hard work can beat those cheating Bloodline's ability.

Sōseki didn't care about Shinku's expression, but asked thoughtfully, "Disrupting the flow of chakra in the body? Isn't that essentially controlling the body? If you can perfectly control the flow of chakra in your own body, doesn't that mean that you will be immune to the first type of Genjutsu?"

Hearing this, Shinku was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile, "You are not wrong in understanding it that way, but this kind of thing may only can be done by God of Shinobi like Shōdaime-Sama."

Sōseki was noncommittal, but he secretly thought in his heart, "Perfectly control the flow of chakra in the body, isn't it Eight Gates Technique?"

Sōseki is not as enthusiastic in Eight Gates Technique as some "senior". He is very clear about his own strengths, talent, thinking, and learning ability - and these are not very useful for Eight Gates Technique, who depends on time to improve.

It took twenty years to obtain a moment of brilliance, which is not worthwhile for a genius. At least in Sōseki's view, he has more ways to gain this level of power.

However, this does not mean that Sōseki does not value Eight Gates Technique.

What he wanted to get was actually the lower-level route of Eight Gates Technique.

For example, constantly opening two to three gates in the body and use Medical Ninjutsu to repair the damage caused by opening those gates, and then, the excess chakra overflows after opening those gates can be stored in the Yin Seal, and even in a critical moment, he can open more gates with the help of Creation Rebirth.

The difficulty in realizing this perpetual motion fantasy is that he has to heal his body at all times. This requires not only extremely high chakra control, but also able to do two things at the same time.

Apart from this, physical training is also a very important point. The stronger the body, the smaller the damage caused by opening the gate, and the less chakra used to heal his body, otherwise, the chakra he got from opening the gate may not be enough to heal his body.

Shinku didn't know that Sōseki was actually thinking about Taijutsu in his Genjutsu class. After calming himself, Shinku then said, "The strength of Genjutsu lies mainly in two aspects, one is the strength of our spiritual strength, and the other is the authenticity of the illusion."

"Do you know why those Dojutsu experts is better than ordinary person in Genjutsu?"

Sōseki retracted his divergent thinking and replied without hesitation, "Dojutsu doesn't need hand seal, so it is more convenient and concealed than ordinary Genjutsu."

Shinku nodded in approval and asked again, "What else?"

Sōseki pondered for a while, and then asked tentatively, "Is it the Dojutsu can be used as an amplifier to enhance Genjutsu's spiritual strength?"

"Amplifier? This statement is interesting." Shinku sighed as he said, "Us Genjutsu-user Shinobi are struggling to create real illusion one by one, but in the end, it may not be as good as the illusion casually made by the Dojutsu experts. The reason is that their spiritual strength is much stronger than us. "

Sōseki nodded lightly. 'Indeed, their spiritual strength is so unreasonable.'

It's like Uchiha Itachi's Tsukuyomi. It clearly builds a completely unreasonable world. It's obvious that the enemy knows that he has been in an illusion right away, but he can't break free.

According to Sōseki's understanding in his previous life, this is like the common saying in those xianxia novels "one force can defeat all methods, no matter how shoddy my fantasy is, if your spiritual strength is not up to the standard, you will not be able to break free."

But to say that the importance of the authenticity of the illusion is very low, it is not necessarily true. The best proof is the Infinite Tsukuyomi - a construct of the real-like illusion. The ultimate Genjutsu that can pull the whole world into a fantasy world and indulge in it!

Thinking of this, Sōseki asked, "Shinku-senpai, is there no way to improve our spiritual strength?"

"Improve spiritual strength? I have never heard of it, but..." Shinku first shook his head, and then said hesitantly, "It is said that the spiritual strength of legendary Shōdaime-sama is so strong that he can interfere with reality, but at the beginning, he didn't seem to have this kind of ability. Shōdaime-sama is someone who has calmed the Warring States Period. Perhaps the way is to improve your spiritual strength is getting the baptism of war or life and death, understand the faith and strengthen your own power."

Sōseki nodded thoughtfully, it is precisely because he knows more than Shinku that he valued spiritual strength improvement more. Just like Asura and Indra's spiritual strength that can make their chakra reincarnate for several generation, and the Sage of Six Paths who lives in between life and death in a state of soul, and even be able pull the souls of the previous Kage from the Pure Land back to this world all by himself.

That kind of mental strength is simply powerful to the unimaginable realm.

'Chakra, spirit, soul...Perhaps, I need a technique that can touch the essence of the soul!'

Seeing that Sōseki was silence, Shinku thought that Sōseki was frustrated because of the limitations of Genjutsu "Cough cough, actually, you don't need to be too frustrated. Just like your personal talent, you must rely on yourself to truly tap on your own potential. Otherwise, how can the title of Konoha's strongest Genjutsu-user Shinobi doesn't fall into those Dojutsu clan's hands?"

Although he didn't believed in those lies given by Shinku, Sōseki still pretended to be inspired, "I understand, Shinku-senpai."

"Well, the next step is training the entry-level Genjutsu, D-Rank Genjutsu - Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique. The hand seal is Snake-Rat. Come and feel the horror of Genjutsu..."