What is Kizaru's limit?
To be honest, Kizaru himself wasn't very sure.
All he knew was that he was still experiencing constant growth in strength.
It had been five days since Minato returned to the village. After explaining the principles and training methods of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken to Jiraiya and Danzo, leaving them in charge of teaching Minato, Kizaru no longer had to worry too much about Minato's training.
It wasn't that Kizaru wanted to slack off; it was due to two reasons.
First, Kizaru believed in Minato's talent, as well as Jiraiya's teaching ability and his uncle Danzo's expertise in Wind Release ninjutsu.
Second, Kizaru himself had been undergoing training lately.
After taking Duy as his disciple and teaching him the Rokushiki, Kizaru also obtained a scroll for training in the Eight Gates from his disciple.
With Kizaru's current strength, most ninjutsu in the ninja world wouldn't offer him much improvement, but the Eight Gates was one of the rare exceptions.
After obtaining the Eight Gates scroll, Kizaru began practicing it.
The learning difficulty of the Eight Gates itself wasn't very high, mainly requiring the user to channel chakra through eight specific chakra points in the body, continuously disabling the body's self-protection functions.
The biggest challenge in using this forbidden jutsu lay in the requirements for the body's physical condition. The practitioner needed to have a well-conditioned and resilient body to withstand the violent chakra released after disabling the restrictions.
If the body wasn't strong enough, the practitioner would either fail to open the chakra points or die instantly upon opening them.
Fortunately, Kizaru's physical condition ranked second in the entire ninja world, with nobody daring to claim first place.
With a body combining the peak physical conditions of a high-ranking officer, Kizaru stood as a terrifying presence in terms of physical strength alone, surpassing the entire ninja world.
Therefore, after obtaining the Eight Gates scroll and mastering the activation method, Kizaru managed to reach the Sixth Gate, the Gate of View, on his first attempt.
The Seventh Gate, the Gate of Wonder, wasn't that Kizaru couldn't open it, but he was worried that directly activating the seventh gate would amplify his power too much, making it difficult to control his strength and explosiveness, resulting in unnecessary destruction.
By Kizaru's estimation, the Gate of View could amplify his physical abilities and chakra by about two to three times, with a manageable burden on the body.
After testing the Gate of View, Kizaru concluded that if he wanted, he could continue fighting with it activated.
After testing the Gate of View, with a rough idea in mind, Kizaru voluntarily left the village before opening the Gate of Wonder, running to a desolate area more than thirty miles away from the village.
There, Kizaru tested the amplification effect of the Gate of Wonder.
With the Gate of Wonder activated, Kizaru's physical abilities and chakra could increase by about five to six times.
However, activating the Gate of Wonder would impose a considerable burden on Kizaru's body.
Kizaru wasn't sure how long he could sustain it, but he estimated that maintaining it for a day shouldn't be a problem.
The duration was insignificant to Kizaru!
In the entire ninja world, facing Kizaru going all out with the Gate of Wonder, whether enemies could last even a minute was a question, let alone a day.
Satisfied with the enhancement the Eight Gates provided him, Kizaru began a period of training after mastering this forbidden jutsu.
The main contents of his training were two-fold: becoming more proficient at quickly opening the gates and adapting to the changes in his body's speed and strength after opening them.
In the desolate area thirty miles away from the village, Kizaru, bare-chested, was currently undergoing training.
Having practiced the Eight Gates for a week, he had basically adapted to the body enhancement after opening the gates.
Enveloped in blue steam like a Saiyan, Kizaru was attempting his strongest attack.
With the Gate of Wonder activated, the massive increase in chakra, the Armament Haki at its peak, the uncontrollable strength of the Steam Release technique under the intense chakra, the boost from his Devil Fruit ability, the fusion of Rokushiki: Finger Gun and Taijutsu: Daylight Tiger.
Kizaru was preparing to combine all of the above abilities and techniques to unleash his strongest attack.
Bent knees, feet planted on the ground, directly sinking into the earth, right hand raised, index finger emitting a golden light.
Armament Haki gathered at the tip of his index finger, concentrating all his strength and chakra, Kizaru, bursting forth in an instant, began his frontal assault.
The airflow around him combined with the steam emanating from Kizaru's body, under the drive of immense chakra, transformed into golden-blue arrows, akin to the mythical arrows that shot the sun, sprinting forward at ultra-high speed.
At the extreme speed and immense power, the space around them distorted. In an instant, Kizaru rushed to a towering rocky mountain ahead.
Before the stabbing finger could touch the mountain, cracks resembling a spider's web began to appear on the impenetrable rock, and the solid mountain began to collapse under the tremendous air pressure and spatial distortion.
With a thunderous roar that pierced the heavens and earth, the towering rocky mountain, upon contact with Kizaru's index finger, disintegrated under the tremendous shockwave capable of distorting space, turning into dust.
After destroying the mountain, Kizaru stopped, but the terrifying shockwave he unleashed did not cease.
The laser beam continuously expanding from the tip of his index finger combined with the colossal shockwave, transforming into a golden dragon, carrying a terrifying momentum of destruction as it surged forward.
Destroying everything in its path, after advancing thousands of meters, the golden dragon created by Kizaru emitted a dazzling white light in all directions.
A thunderous explosion shook the earth, causing the ground to tremble, and the scattering shockwaves ruthlessly engulfed everything.
Transforming into golden light, Kizaru flew directly into the sky.
Looking down below, watching as the shockwaves spread over a distance of more than twenty miles, and stopping at the outskirts of Konoha, Kizaru secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
That was terrifying! Almost wiped out the village!
Feeling fortunate in his heart, feeling the soreness in his right arm muscles and the pain at the tip of his index finger, Kizaru raised his right hand.
At this moment, Kizaru's right index finger had turned dark red.
After shaking his right hand lightly and sensing someone coming from the direction of the village, Kizaru elementalized again and flew towards the incoming individuals.
On the road from Konoha to the outside world, ANBU leader Sarutobi Shinnosuke led ten ANBU ninjas, rushing towards the direction of the earthquake and explosion.
Although the shockwave caused by Kizaru's recent explosion did not reach the village, the earthquake and the deafening noise it caused did reach the village.
Such a huge disturbance naturally aroused anxiety and vigilance in the village.
For safety reasons, the Third Hokage arranged for his son, ANBU leader Shinnosuke, to lead the elite members of the ANBU to investigate outside the village.