Seeing his parents leave, Higashino Shin sat silently on the bed, feeling the extracted Chakra slowly dissipating.
Chakra is not like Internal Energy or mana; it cannot be accumulated. If it isn't used after extraction, it slowly returns to the body.
Unless it is stored using a special method, such as Tsunade's Yin Seal.
Higashino Shin waited until the Chakra had completely dissipated before immediately forming the Ram Seal with both hands to continue extracting; this is the Cultivate of Chakra.
Because Chakra is energy that is extracted and used immediately, Ninja will extract it before a battle to make it convenient to use during combat.
But the problem is, your enemy won't stand there and wait for you to slowly extract it.
A Ninja is not a hero; they won't talk to you about morality, much less wait for you to be ready before deciding the outcome.
Ninja is a profession that emphasizes efficiency. Completing the mission is the primary goal, and for that, they can use any means necessary sneaking attacks, poisoning, kidnapping relatives for threats those are all basic operations.
So, while you're spending time extracting Chakra in front of your enemy, the opponent's choice will definitely be to come and send you on your way.
With a Ninja's attack speed, a tiny bit of time is enough for someone to use nine different ways to kill you.
If a Ninja wants to have combat power, they must Cultivate Chakra extraction until it becomes a bodily instinct.
The standard for this instinct is not needing to painstakingly balance the ratio of physical and spiritual energy, and certainly not needing to form hand Seals. Instead, with just a thought, the Chakra is successfully extracted within the body.
If Cultivate to the extreme, the body will even autonomously synthesize some Chakra during normal times.
The function of the Yin Seal is to collect and compress this Chakra that is autonomously synthesized and naturally dissipated during normal times, making it convenient to burst out during battle.
This is equivalent to having a massive extra mana bar for free, naturally giving a huge advantage, and even allowing one to maintain eternal youth.
It is said that Tsunade does exactly that; though she is in her dozens, she acts young all day long, her apparent age fluctuating between ten and thirty.
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Extracting Chakra again, Higashino Shin found that after having one successful experience, the second time was a bit easier, and he no longer needed to cautiously balance the ratio of the two energies.
The body seemed to have a memory and began to slowly solidify the synthesis path of Chakra. The speed of synthesis also became a bit faster, but he still needed to use the Ram Seal for assistance.
Very good, this will be the nightly Cultivate homework from now on,
until it is Cultivated into a bodily instinct.
Waiting for the Chakra to naturally dissipate, Higashino Shin continued with the third extraction.
After repeating this cycle several times, Higashino Shin looked at the alarm clock and ended tonight's Cultivate because it was almost bedtime.
After Rebirth into the Ninja World, his schedule had become extremely self-disciplined. He slept as soon as it was time every day, leaving the body ample time for recovery and never letting fatigue carry over to the next day.
The next day, he also got up on time to exercise, never allowing himself to have thoughts of being lazy or staying in bed.
Coming to the living room, he found that his parents had already gone to bed, with several empty wine bottles placed on the dining table.
Both parents were young people in their 20s. Originally, a reunion after a short absence is better than the wedding night, and they would surely do some physical and mental exercises at night, but now the master bedroom was completely silent.
It seemed that after seeing their son was a Genius, the couple was a bit too happy and accidentally drank a few too many bottles, and were now sleeping soundly.
Ninja is a profession that must remain vigilant at all times, which is why alcohol is one of the Three Prohibitions. To allow them to indulge like this once, besides happiness, the family was also a harbor that made people feel at ease.
Humans are an intelligent species prone to extremes, and Ninjas who possess powerful strength are even more so.
The masterminds behind the scenes either lost too many younger brothers, lost their goddess, or lost their best female friends, so they all turned into lunatics one by one.
And a happy family is the cure for all of this.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what many Ninjas lack.
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Higashino Shin quietly cleared the empty wine bottles and snacks from the table, did a simple cleaning, and prepared to wash up and sleep.
After returning to the bedroom, seeing there was still some time, he sat silently by the bed practicing hand Seal speed.
Currently, he was still unsure about his future fighting style.
Because he didn't yet know which area among Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu was more suitable for him, but regardless, it was never wrong to grind his hand Seal speed first.
When his designated bedtime arrived, Higashino Shin extracted Chakra for the last time today. After sensing that his cells were beginning to tire but his body was filled with power, he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, letting the Chakra dissipate naturally.
The biological clock he had developed over several years allowed him to fall asleep the moment he touched the pillow, and he quickly entered dreamland.
But today something went wrong. Soon he found that he was still awake, unusually awake, and it seemed his senses had become much sharper.
This shouldn't be!
In this Rebirth life, his family was complete and happy, and he lived every day very fully without any mental exhaustion; it was impossible for insomnia to occur.
Could it be that the joy of successfully refining Chakra for the first time made him too excited? Or was it caused by the Chakra dissipating within his body?
Since he couldn't sleep, Higashino Shin decided to go to the study to look at books on Chakra theory; perhaps he could find the answer there.
But he soon discovered that he couldn't move at all, his body was as if it were imprisoned on the bed.
This situation was somewhat familiar to him, and he soon remembered that he had experienced a similar problem, which was something that happened before the college entrance exam in his previous life.
Back then, a similar situation had occurred for a few nights: his eyes could see clearly, but his perspective was fixed, his body was completely unable to move, and fear spread uncontrollably.
It had terrified him back then, until he later learned it was sleep paralysis caused by excessive stress, commonly known as 'ghost pressing on bed,' which occurs during adolescence due to high pressure.
Since he had the experience and knew the reason, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Higashino Shin even observed his familiar bedroom ceiling with interest in this state.
Then he realized he was wrong.
This was not the same thing as the 'ghost pressing on bed' from his previous life at all.
His body was indeed fixed, completely unable to move, and his eyes could not turn.
But his perspective could turn; he could look wherever he wanted as he pleased, like a fixed camera that could be adjusted to any angle.
Then he 'saw' his body sleeping soundly on the bed.
At this moment, he seemed to be floating above his body.
What is this? Soul Emergence?
Calm down!
Higashino Shin began to analyze carefully.
This is the naruto world, different from his previous life; the Soul truly exists and is visible, and he knew of several kinds.
Not to mention the dead lying in the Pure Land who could be pulled out by Edo Tensei, among the living, Orochimaru should start researching cutting his own Soul in a few years, and the former Kato Dan liked his Soul to float out and cut others.
Shadow Clones can even divide consciousness.
But all of those can move freely, unlike him now, who can only see but not move.
After thinking about the known information for a while and finding that it didn't match his situation, Higashino Shin began to observe the world from this perspective, trying to analyze the cause from it.
Then he discovered the difference between this perspective and his usual one.
The world was still the same world, and the environment was still the same environment.
But besides these, the space seemed to be filled everywhere with an omnipresent and extremely thin mist.
This was something that could not be seen or felt from a physical perspective.
In this special perspective, these mists showed a ribbon-like fluidity, like rivers flowing freely between heaven and earth, appearing in faint white, red, green, purple, cyan, and so on.
What is this?
Higashino Shin tried to move them with his will and found that he could actually nudge some slightly.
He tried to lure the most numerous red mist. When a trace of red merged into his consciousness, Higashino Shin immediately felt an incredibly violent aura invading.
Danger! Danger!
He immediately instinctively cut off the connection between the two and expelled that trace of red mist.
He could actually expel it autonomously? Then there was nothing to be afraid of.
So he tried other colors and found they were all very dangerous, but unlike the red invasion, the other colors seemed to want to assimilate him.
Only the white was different. The white mist seemed to be trying to decompose him, but its power seemed too weak, resulting in very slow decomposition that was still within a bearable range.
Higashino Shin discovered that after these white mists mixed and entangled with his consciousness, they flowed toward his body sleeping on the bed.
He observed calmly and found that the body did not show any abnormalities. The consciousness body floating above the body seemed to have become a filter, resisting the decomposition power of the white mist and transporting the filtered mist to the physical body.
While filtering, Higashino Shin was also thinking.
What exactly are these mists?
After thinking through all the Ninja World information he knew, only one answer remained: it was Natural Energy.
But are there so many kinds of Natural Energy? The original work didn't say so. Could this be his Golden Finger?
Yes, as a reincarnator, how could Higashino Shin not want a cheat? After all, cheating is legal in this world and won't get your account banned.
Setting aside the various Bloodline cheats, the Late Stage administrator, Old Man Six Paths, even personally stepped in to give his reincarnated brats cheats.
After giving Bloodlines, he gave his son's reincarnated Chakra; after giving Chakra, he gave instant resurrection; after giving resurrection, he gave the Six Paths Yin and Yang Power.
There was nothing left to give.
He... he didn't even want his face anymore.
After Rebirth, Higashino Shin was just an ordinary civilian, not a descendant of the Six Paths, with no Sage Eyes, no Sage Body, and no one stuffing a pet into his stomach as a hand warmer.
For a while, before going to bed at night, he had even called out for System-kun, Panel-kun, and Deep Blue-kun, but there was no response.
So he began to study with desperate self-discipline, trying to become powerful through his own Cultivate.
He had even thought that if this body really had no talent in the future, he would go and recognize Might Duy as his godfather and practice the Eight Gates by sacrificing his life.
As for looking for Orochimaru, he hadn't thought about it. That guy was too sinister; ordinary people couldn't handle him and would easily become experimental consumables.
He didn't expect that today his Golden Finger seemed to have arrived. Doesn't that mean he doesn't have to work desperately hard in the future?
If I worked hard before the Golden Finger arrived, and I still work hard after it arrives, then hasn't this Golden Finger come for nothing?
No, Higashino Shin felt instead that he would need to work even harder in the future.
Just then, Higashino Shin suddenly felt his consciousness body becoming a bit unable to hold on. If it continued, he would disappear and become part of the white mist, so he immediately actively cut off the connection between the two, like a scumbag who disappears after tricking a girl out of her body.
The consciousness body felt a wave of fatigue. With a thought, it returned to the body on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
It seems this cheat isn't easy to use either; one moment of carelessness could turn oneself into a vegetable.
Natural Energy is good, but don't overindulge; eating too much makes it easy to ascend to heaven!