On February 21st, Konoha Year 58, Jokichi completed the nature transformation training for all chakra attributes.
On April 13th of the same year, he learned the technique of imbuing weapons with the shape transformation of wind and lightning attribute chakra.
The reason he did not learn water and earth was that these two chakra attributes were not suitable for imbuing weapons with shape transformation.
Therefore, after resting for a while, Jokichi officially began training in various ninjutsu on May 1st.
On May 18th, Jokichi learned all existing Earth Release jutsu below A-rank in Konoha.
On May 21st, Jokichi accidentally obtained a strand of Ino's hair, and the system issued a prompt, forging the special item "Your Name."
Jokichi successively collected hair from Choji, Shikamaru, and others, wanting to forge special items, but the system did not issue any prompts. These two guys had not yet mastered their clan's secret jutsu.
On May 28th, Jokichi accidentally obtained a strand of Kiba's hair, and the system issued a prompt, forging the special item "Beastification Belt."
On June 20th, Jokichi learned all existing Wind Release jutsu below A-rank in Konoha.
On June 21st, Jokichi obtained a strand of Choji's hair and forged the special item "Giant Bracelet."
Jokichi fused Choji's Giant Bracelet with Choza's Giant Bracelet to upgrade it, allowing him to become even larger.
At the same time, he sighed that Shikamaru was too lazy and still hadn't learned the shadow secret jutsu.
On July 12th, Jokichi learned all existing Water Release jutsu below A-rank in Konoha.
On July 13th, the Third Hokage came to the 39th Training Ground to watch Jokichi's training progress, and conveniently taught him an A-rank ninjutsu, "Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu."
On July 29th, Jokichi learned all existing Lightning Release jutsu below A-rank in Konoha.
Of course, this did not include ultimate techniques like Chidori that belonged to contemporary ninjas.
Because he could not explain the source of his learning.
Other elemental jutsu could be explained as knowledge Ryohei acquired in Root, but for unique ninjutsu like Chidori and Rasengan, Root did not possess the training methods.
And as for those S-rank ninjutsu, someone of Ryohei's level could not access them.
Therefore, Jokichi did not learn them.
Of course, besides the reason of being unable to explain the source, it was also related to the difficulty of learning S-rank ninjutsu.
Most S-rank ninjutsu require special talents or constitutions to train, and Kakashi's Soul of a Genius seemed somewhat insufficient in the face of these S-rank ninjutsu.
Take the Flying Thunder God Jutsu for example.
Jokichi had secretly tried learning it during this time.
He understood the hand seals, chakra mobilization, training methods, and even the principles, but he just could not learn it.
This jutsu required an exceptionally high talent for space-time ninjutsu to learn.
Judging from Kakashi's ability to use the Summoning Jutsu, he did possess talent for space-time ninjutsu, but judging from his inability to use the Flying Thunder God, his talent for space-time ninjutsu probably wasn't that high either.
It couldn't be that Minato refused to teach Kakashi!
He even taught his three guards, the Genma Platoon; it was impossible for him to hold back on his own disciple!
Perhaps there were other unknown reasons.
But since Jokichi possessed the same talent as Kakashi yet failed to learn it, he defaulted to the assumption that Kakashi's space-time talent was insufficient.
Most other S-rank ninjutsu were similar.
Thinking about how he still had too many things to learn to become stronger, Jokichi temporarily set aside the training of S-rank ninjutsu.
At this point, Jokichi could also publicly claim to be a big shot who had mastered over a thousand ninjutsu.
Although he might not use most of those ninjutsu in his entire life.
During this period, the Third Hokage also came over and asked Jokichi if there were any powerful ninjutsu he wanted to learn.
The implication was to teach him a trump card.
Jokichi immediately asked for the summoning jutsu of the Monkey King, Enma.
Then, the Third Hokage smiled sheepishly and left.
Regarding this, Jokichi was very disappointed.
That was the strongest summoning beast officially designated by the anime, excluding the Tailed Beasts!
Even if you were unwilling to give it to me, summoning Monkey King Enma so I could pluck a few hairs would have been fine too!
Maybe I could have forged the "Adamantine Staff."
However, it wasn't that there was no good news.
Shikamaru finally mastered the shadow secret jutsu.
August 2nd.
Jokichi picked up a strand of hair on Shikamaru's desk, and at the same time, the system's prompt sounded.
[Ding! Detected special material "Shadow Hair", can forge special item "Shadow Guard", do you wish to forge?]
"No."
Jokichi glanced at his classmates in the classroom, declined to forge it, and waited until he returned home after school to craft it with peace of mind.
Its appearance was a mass of black shadows, fluttering like flames, but without the temperature of flames.
"Shadow Guard: Merges into the shadow, sublimating the shadow and turning it into a guard controlled by the owner, possessing a certain degree of wisdom and strength. (Note: The Shadow Guard can freely transform between tangible and intangible states, and cannot leave a five-meter radius of the main body.)"
A certain degree of wisdom and strength...
What exactly was this certain degree?
Jokichi fell into deep thought.
If it possessed human-level wisdom and strength above that of a Jonin, then it would be somewhat useful.
If not, it would be too weak.
Right at this moment, the system's prompt sounded in Jokichi's mind again.
[Ding! Detected special materials "Twin Stars" and "Shadow Guard", can forge special item "Shadow Warrior", do you wish to forge?]
Hearing the system's prompt, Jokichi froze slightly and fell into deep thought once again.
Although there had been fusions and upgrades of similar items in the past, this was the first time two completely different items were used as forging materials to create a new item.
Twin Stars was forged from Sakura's hair, appearing as a fist-sized pink crystal.
Its effect was to grant a new personality while preserving the original one; a single-use consumable.
Simply put, it was an item that gave a person a dual personality.
Items with completely different material sources and even properties could actually be forged into a new item at this moment.
Then...
"System, why didn't you prompt earlier that Twin Stars possessed forging potential?" Jokichi asked in his mind.
[Ding! A single "Twin Stars" or "Shadow Guard" does not possess forging effects; it is only when both items are brought together that they possess it.]
"I mean, why didn't you give a reminder?"
Jokichi was very annoyed.
Although this system was very powerful, it was sometimes overly rigid.
[Ding! The system itself does not have forging blueprints. It does not know which items possess forging potential, nor does it know what materials can be forged into what items. Only by personally inspecting and understanding the properties of the items, and then through calculation and deduction, can it confirm and forge.]
"Then can't you scan the globe once?"
The system fell silent for a moment before issuing another prompt: [The system only has scanning privileges for items belonging to the host. Furthermore, the system does not possess the ability to scan the globe.]
Fine, not only are you rigid, but you are also very weak.
Jokichi sighed somewhat helplessly.
Although the existence of the system allowed him to gain a foothold in this world, and even reach the summit.
But the human heart is insatiable.
Although the God-Level Forging System was strong, compared to the systems in the novels he read in his past life, it was truly devastatingly weak.
Don't just look at the system forging one overwhelmingly awesome item after another.
That was because this world had widely circulated memes from his past life and various powerful existences. If the world Jokichi transmigrated into was one without supernatural powers and without widely circulated memes from his past life.
Then this system would just be a blacksmith that saved the crafting process.