On the day of his Ninja Academy graduation exam, Zhang Muyan saw the "instruction manual" for ninjutsu for the first time.
[Clone Technique]
[Effect: Creates illusory clones with no physical form]
[Editable: 1 character]
He stared at the character "no" for a long time.
What if he changed "no" to "with"?
The next moment:
[Effect: Creates illusory clones with physical form]
The illusions, which could only fool people before, touched desks and chairs for the very first time.
From that day on, Zhang Muyan also realized that he seemed able to change one character in a ninjutsu instruction manual.
But it didn't take long for him to understand one thing:
Changing a character was not the same as making a wish.
The closer the change came to the core of a ninjutsu technique, the greater the price of making it happen;
A ninjutsu technique he could see wasn't necessarily one he could understand;
Understanding it didn't mean he could change it;
And even if he really did manage to change it, one character couldn't teach him how to fight.
So Zhang Muyan began doing something very simple:
Breaking down the rules, testing the effects, and keeping track of the costs.
Clone Technique.
Substitution Technique.
Transformation Technique.
The low-level techniques everyone at the Ninja Academy knew, but few people bothered to study seriously after graduation, were being rediscovered by him, one character at a time.
Could "near" be changed to "far"?
What if he changed "short" to "long"?
How much could one character change?
And what price would he have to pay?
Until one day, Konoha began seriously investigating this "person who could change ninjutsu."
And on Zhang Muyan's instruction manual, a page appeared for the very first time:
A nameless ninjutsu technique.
