Grind is My Ninja Way

Seimei gathered his thoughts, wiped the blood from under his left eye, and then focused, sensing the ability residing in his right eye.

Time passed by.

A moment later, Seimei opened his eyes. A subtle chakra fluctuation emerged, but there was no change in Seimei's body.

However, Seimei knew that the dojutsu in his right eye had been activated.

Similar to the dojutsu in his left eye, the one residing in his right eye also had no offensive capabilities.

Its name was 'Hito no Mi' (Control of Humanity), and it had only one effect: to control oneself.

Controlling oneself meant controlling everything within oneself, including but not limited to organs, tissues, cells, consciousness, and so on.

Anything that fell within the scope of 'self' could be influenced by 'Hito no Mi.'

Of course, with Seimei's current abilities, he couldn't achieve overly precise control.

Currently, he could only influence things at the organ level.

For example, controlling the heartbeat rate, the stomach's efficiency in digesting and absorbing food, the secretion of adrenaline, and so on.

Just from these, if 'Amenominaka' was the strongest dojutsu, then 'Hito no Mi' was undoubtedly the weakest.

But don't forget, this was just the beginning.

Indeed, the current 'Hito no Mi' could be called the weakest dojutsu, but its development potential shouldn't be underestimated.

Now, its precision was a bit lacking, and its operability wasn't strong.

However, as his abilities improved and his control over his body became more precise, there would be more possibilities.

For example, controlling the body's muscles to exert their full strength, releasing the body's limitations on chakra, and promoting the body's rapid adaptation to various harsh environments.

As his control over his body improved, all of these could be achieved.

Especially controlling the body's adaptation to harsh environments, which was essentially a form of evolution, and moreover, a self-controlled evolution.

If Seimei had previously worried that his Mangekyo Sharingan couldn't evolve into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan,

Then now, with 'Hito no Mi,' there was no need to worry.

Transplanting the eyes of a sibling to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was essentially about making up for genetic defects, thus making this ability more perfect.

He had no siblings, but 'Hito no Mi,' coupled with the 'Reflecting Heart Technique,' was enough to guide his body towards targeted evolutionary mutations and complete his genes.

In other words, there were no more obstacles on the path to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Furthermore, with 'Hito no Mi,' the strengthening of his body could also enter the fast lane.

Additionally, once 'Hito no Mi' reached a certain level, it was highly likely that he could actively recover from the blindness caused by frequent use of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Although using 'Hito no Mi' itself would also cause blindness, as long as he controlled the pace well, he could definitely significantly delay this time.

Thus, coupled with the increased resilience of his body after evolution, even without the powerful vitality provided by Hashirama's cells, his Mangekyo Sharingan wouldn't be rendered useless in a short time.

This also meant that his peak combat power could be maintained for a long time.

And as long as he could evolve his Sharingan to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan level within this period, there would be no need to worry about subsequent problems.

It could be said that 'Hito no Mi' was deeply connected to his future path. To some extent, its importance was no less than the life-saving 'Amenominaka.'

After carefully experiencing the effects of 'Hito no Mi' for a while, Seimei closed his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Then, he opened the proficiency panel again.

The familiar light blue screen appeared.

[Name: Uchiha Seimei

Age: 12 years old

Constitution: 14

Spirit: 15 -> 19

Chakra: 12500 (42644)

Bloodline: Sharingan - Three Tomoe (9999/10000) -> Sharingan - Mangekyo (1/50000)

Skills: Chakra Refinement Technique: lv5 (554/5000)

Wind Release: Wind Blade: lv4 (1660/2000)

Shadow Clone Technique: lv3 (340/1000)

Chakra Absorption Technique: lv5 (2750/5000)

Rasengan: lv4 (1710/2000)

Mystical Palm Technique: lv7 (8210/20000)

Chakra Scalpel: lv4 (920/2000)

Reflecting Heart Technique: lv7 (4885/20000) -> lv7 (4886/20000)

Swordsmanship: lv6 (5850/10000)

Illusion Sword Technique: lv3 (15/1000)

Instant Sword Technique: lv1 (162/200)

Chakra Control: lv5 (1450/5000)

Perfected Skills:]

Firstly, it could be seen that his 'Spirit' attribute, with the Sharingan evolving from three tomoe to Mangekyo, directly increased by four points.

It was important to know that his base was already very high, and on top of that, it increased by another four points. One could imagine the magnitude of this increase.

Seimei roughly estimated that his current mental power was at least 1.8 times that of before.

Thus, considering the slight difference between his 'Constitution' attribute and his 'Spirit' attribute, Seimei felt that his mental strength was at least twice that of his physical strength.

And twice was almost a critical point. Once this threshold was exceeded, the balance would be broken, and there would definitely be trouble.

Feeling the current pressure of his spirit on his physical body, Seimei was now somewhat glad that he hadn't rushed to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan earlier.

If he had awakened it then, his 'Constitution' attribute would have only been 11 points, a full eight points lower than his current 'Spirit' attribute of 19.

With such a big gap, the risks involved were unimaginable.

Fortunately, he had safely avoided this pitfall.

However, he couldn't relax in strengthening his body in the future and even needed to improve it as soon as possible.

Only in this way could he balance his spirit and physical body, preventing an imbalance.

Furthermore, there was another benefit to quickly balancing his physical body and spirit, which was that he could unleash more potential.

Unlike now, limited by his lower 'Constitution' attribute, even though his 'Spirit' attribute had increased by four points, his theoretical maximum chakra limit only increased by less than 50,000 points, from 71,000 points to 120,000 points.

Undoubtedly, this increase was a bit small.

Similarly, the improvement in his chakra recovery speed was also not as expected. The maximum amount of chakra he could recover daily only increased by a little over 30,000 points.

That is, the 54,000 points of chakra he could recover daily had now become 85,000 points.

Although this number was almost twice his current chakra limit, compared to the four-point increase in his 'Spirit' attribute, it was still somewhat unsatisfactory.

Fortunately, the untapped potential was stored within his body instead of being wasted, so Seimei didn't dwell on it too much.

Shifting his gaze from the basic attributes, Seimei looked at the Bloodline section.

Just as he had truly felt, his Sharingan had been upgraded from three tomoe to Mangekyo level.

However, the progress bar behind the Mangekyo Sharingan (1/50000) made him a bit dizzy.

Seimei quickly used the Reflecting Heart Technique once to see how much effect it still had on the evolution of his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Previously, each use of the lv7 Reflecting Heart Technique could give his three-tomoe Sharingan one proficiency point.

And now...

After one use, the evolution progress of the Mangekyo Sharingan didn't change at all.

Seimei tried again, still no response, but he could feel that its effect on the Sharingan's condition remained.

It wasn't until the third use of the Reflecting Heart Technique that Seimei saw the progress bar behind the Mangekyo Sharingan increase by one point.

In other words, it took a full three uses of the Reflecting Heart Technique for his Mangekyo Sharingan to gain one evolution point.

Combined with the five times longer progress bar, this difficulty was almost fifteen times that of evolving the three-tomoe Sharingan to Mangekyo.

Upon obtaining this data, Seimei almost fainted.

However, he quickly calmed down.

Firstly, compared to before, his chakra recovery speed had greatly improved, and the amount of chakra he could use daily had increased significantly. He didn't have to worry about not having enough chakra for the time being.

Secondly, the proficiency of his 'Reflecting Heart Technique' was already close to a quarter of lv7, and it wouldn't be long before he could successfully advance it to lv8.

By then, the boosting effect on the Mangekyo Sharingan would definitely improve, and the final proficiency required wouldn't be so exaggerated.

Finally, and most importantly, after awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, he now had the conditions to plan for controlling tailed beasts.

And once he controlled a tailed beast as a 'Chakra Battery,' even fifteen times the difficulty wouldn't be a big deal.

(End of this chapter)