Guy sighed silently. Rengoku had left like this several times already.
But he still could not tell how Rengoku disappeared.
"Guy-sensei, can I continue training today?"
Seeing Rengoku leave, Lee quickly ran to Guy's side and asked.
At this moment, Guy released the enhancement from the Sixth Gate of the Eight Gates and instantly felt soreness throughout his body.
After catching his breath twice, he looked at Lee's healthier complexion compared to before and answered, "You really do look much better recently. Today is your rest day, so get proper rest."
"You can only do some functional exercises today. After this period passes, I'll reduce your rest days."
Lee looked somewhat disappointed, but he still obediently started doing stretching exercises nearby.
Recently, he felt his training efficiency had improved a lot, so he no longer objected to having rest time.
As Guy sat on the ground recovering, he asked, "What exactly has Lord Rengoku arranged for you to do at Orochimaru's place?"
While pulling one leg over his head to stretch, Lee answered, "Lord Orochimaru said my anti-fatigue genes are very good and need to be researched, but I don't really understand."
"I just did some tests and had some blood drawn. After going there now, they give me lots of strange things to eat every day and then do new tests."
"After the tests, they give me a large amount of money and tell me to eat as much as I can."
"They said it helps the body recover."
After lowering his leg, Lee started stretching his thoracic spine, "Right now I probably eat three times more food than before, but I feel like I can still eat more."
Guy was very satisfied with Rengoku's arrangements. Before this, he had been confused.
Lee worked so hard, so why had he reached a bottleneck during the time he should have been improving rapidly?
He never expected the problem was simply that Lee's nutrition could not keep up because he ate too poorly.
Guy also felt somewhat guilty.
He had been too careless to even notice his student's condition.
Fortunately, Rengoku solved the problem.
Guy calculated slightly, "At your current rate of physical improvement, I estimate you can open the Seventh Gate within a year."
Lee excitedly did a flip after hearing this. After all, he had been stuck at the Sixth Gate for two whole years already.
"That's great, Guy-sensei!"
"I'll work hard!"
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The reason Rengoku left was naturally because of Deidara.
Although the dojutsu clone was no different from his real body, he had already realized that he could no longer learn anything from Might Guy.
He had gained massive amounts of combat experience on the Bond Star, but almost none of it involved Strong Fist taijutsu.
Rengoku still spent more time using a sword. Strong Fist taijutsu was only something he practiced along the way while learning the Eight Gates.
His dojutsu Shadow Transfer involved swapping the real body with the dojutsu clone.
So neither Sasori nor Deidara beside him noticed any change in Rengoku.
The three of them were now heading toward the Uchiha training grounds.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
As soon as they entered the training ground, the three saw a spectacular scene.
Fifty of Rengoku's shadow clones formed hand seals as huge waves of water burst from their mouths and turned into fierce water dragons in the sky.
Dozens of dragons flew through the air, completely drawing Sasori and Deidara's attention.
Large numbers of water dragons twisted together in the air, colliding and biting each other.
The sound of rushing water constantly filled their ears. All the water dragons roared as if none of them accepted the others.
In the end, all of them exploded into splashes of water that scattered across the ground.
It was also the first time Sasori and Deidara had seen something like this, especially fifty shadow clones training together.
And all those shadow clones were using high-level Water Release.
"Rengoku, why are you practicing Water Release?"
Deidara asked in surprise, "Do you really have that much chakra?"
Rengoku smiled, "I'm just developing water attribute chakra transformation."
"I've had this much chakra for a long time already. Otherwise, how could I use Complete Body Susanoo?"
'Using shadow clones to assist training?'
After seeing the water dragons explode apart and the shadow clones tirelessly continue forming seals to summon more water dragons, Sasori was amazed.
He understood the pros and cons of shadow clones very clearly. Being able to create so many clones while enduring the side effects made Rengoku barely seem human.
As for the Complete Body Susanoo, it was probably that giant two-hundred-meter-tall Susanoo that directly crushed Sunagakure's forces.
'You'd need chakra that powerful to form such a huge Susanoo.'
Deidara silently thought.
The three walked to a corner.
Deidara impatiently started showing his technique to Sasori and Rengoku.
He reached into another pouch at his waist and took out some tiny white crystals as fine as sand.
As he formed hand seals, he held the white crystals in his hands, and then large amounts of energy gathered into them.
Rengoku raised an eyebrow, then opened his Mangekyo Sharingan and carefully observed.
Deidara only spent a short moment charging up before swinging both hands and scattering the white crystals outward.
His hands trembled slightly. Clearly, this technique demanded extremely strict chakra control.
Deidara shouted excitedly, "Watch closely!"
"Art is an explosion, hmph!"
The white crystals, nearly invisible to the naked eye, suddenly exploded.
But what burst out was not something as simple as bomb explosions.
Instead, a layer of hazy white light spread out.
That was Dust Release!
Every white crystal that exploded released a finger-sized burst of Dust Release light.
It was somewhat similar to Rengoku's Ghost Lantern.
But the power was not on the same level at all.
Even though the Dust Release attack range was only finger-sized, if it hit someone's body, it would instantly blast a hole that large.
But Deidara was clearly focused on something else.
Pointing at the flickering Dust Release light clusters in the air, he said, "Once I can change their shapes, I can turn them into a sky full of starlight."
Rengoku observed the things Deidara had scattered and guessed the key point was likely those white crystals.
Still, it was impressive enough that Deidara had found a material capable of carrying such powerful chakra.
"You'd have much more flexibility in battle if you could delay the explosions."
Rengoku originally wanted to say that, but then felt Deidara would not care much about it, so he changed his wording.
"If you could delay the explosions, your artistic creations would become even richer."
Deidara's eyes lit up. As expected of Rengoku, he immediately spoke directly to what Deidara cared about most.
"Exactly! That's what I was thinking too. Once I can control more Dust Explosions, I'll first try changing their shapes and delaying all the explosions."
"This already has much better control than my old clay explosions."