Naruto: From Novice to Grave

Seeing his parents leave, Higashino Makoto sat silently on the bed, feeling the extracted chakra slowly dissipating.

Chakra is not internal energy or magic power; it cannot be accumulated. Once extracted and not used, it will slowly return to the body.

Unless you accumulate them using special methods, such as Tsunade's Yin Seal Technique.

After the chakra dissipated, Higashino Shin immediately formed hand seals and continued to extract it; this was the training of chakra.

Because chakra is an energy that can be drawn up and used immediately, ninjas always draw it up before each battle so that it can be used in the fight.

The problem is, your enemy won't stand there and wait for you to slowly extract their resources.

Ninjas aren't heroes; they won't talk to you about morality, and they certainly won't wait for you to be ready before a fight.

Being a ninja is a profession that values ​​efficiency. Completing missions is the primary goal, and ninjas will stop at nothing to achieve it. Sneak attacks, poisoning, and threatening relatives and friends are all basic operations.

So when you spend time extracting chakra in front of your enemy, their choice is definitely to come and send you on your way.

With the speed of a ninja, a little bit of time is enough for them to kill you in nine different ways.

For a ninja to be combat-ready, they must train their chakra extraction until it becomes second nature.

This instinctive standard requires no effort in adjusting the ratio of physical and mental energy, nor does it require forming hand seals. Instead, chakra is successfully extracted from the body with a mere thought.

If one cultivates to the extreme, their body will spontaneously synthesize some chakra in normal times.

The purpose of the Yin Seal is to collect and compress the chakra that is normally synthesized and naturally dissipated, so that it can be unleashed during battle.

It's like having an extra huge blue bar for free, giving you a huge advantage and even allowing you to stay young forever.

It is said that Tsunade does just that. She is in her fifties or sixties, but she still acts young all the time, and her age usually fluctuates between ten and thirty years old.

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Upon extracting chakra again, Higashino Makoto found that after his first successful experience, the second time was easier, as he no longer needed to carefully adjust the ratio of the two energies.

The body seemed to have acquired memory, and began to slowly solidify the chakra synthesis path. The synthesis speed also increased, but it still needed to form hand seals to assist it.

Very good, this will be your nightly practice assignment from now on.

Until it becomes an instinct of the body.

Once the chakra dissipated naturally, Higashino Makoto began the third extraction.

After repeating this process several times, Higashino Makoto glanced at the alarm clock and ended his training for the night, as it was almost bedtime.

After being reborn into the ninja world, he became extremely disciplined in his daily routine, going to bed on time every day to give his body ample time to recover and never leaving fatigue for the next day.

The next day, I also got up on time to exercise, and I never allowed myself to have the thought of being lazy and staying in bed.

When he arrived in the living room, he found that his parents had already gone to bed, and there were several empty wine bottles on the dining table.

My parents are both young people in their early twenties. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and they would definitely do some enjoyable activities in the evening, but now the master bedroom is quiet.

It seems the couple got a little too excited after seeing their son was a genius, and accidentally drank a few too many bottles. They're sleeping soundly now.

Being a ninja requires constant vigilance, which is why alcohol is one of the three forbidden substances. The reason they can indulge like this is not only because they are happy, but also because their family is a safe haven.

Humans are an intelligent species prone to extremes, and this is especially true of ninjas who wield immense power.

The masterminds behind the scenes either died because of too many of their younger brothers, goddesses, or best friends, and thus they all became mentally unstable.

A happy family is the best medicine for all of this.

Unfortunately, this is precisely what many ninjas lack.

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Higashino Makoto quietly tidied up the empty wine bottles and snacks on the table, did a quick cleaning, and then prepared to wash up and go to bed.

After returning to the bedroom, seeing that there was still some time left, I quietly sat on the edge of the bed to practice my hand seal speed.

Currently, he is still unsure about his future fighting style.

Since it's still unclear which of ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu suits him best, it's definitely the right thing to do first is to improve his hand seal speed.

When it was time for his bedtime, Higashino Makoto extracted chakra for the last time that day. After sensing that his cells were starting to tire but his body was full of energy, he fell asleep and let the chakra dissipate naturally.

His biological clock, ingrained over the years, allowed him to fall asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

But today, when the problem arose, he soon discovered that he was still awake, unusually so, and his senses seemed to have become much sharper.

That shouldn't be happening!

Having been reborn into a happy and fulfilling family life, I live a very fulfilling life every day without any mental strain, so it's impossible for me to develop insomnia.

Was it because he was too excited about successfully refining chakra for the first time? Or was it caused by the chakra dissipating from his body?

Since he couldn't sleep, Higashino Makoto decided to go to his study to look at books on chakra theory, hoping to find the answer there.

But he soon discovered that he couldn't move at all; his body felt like it was imprisoned on the bed.

This situation felt somewhat familiar to him, and he quickly recalled experiencing a similar problem in his previous life, before the college entrance examination.

I experienced similar situations on several nights during that time. I could see clearly, but my perspective was fixed, and I couldn't move my body at all. Fear spread uncontrollably.

He was terrified at the time, and only later did he learn that it was sleep paralysis caused by excessive stress, commonly known as sleep paralysis, which is caused by excessive stress during adolescence.

Since we've been through it before and know the reasons, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Higashino Makoto even observed the familiar bedroom ceiling with great interest in this state.

Then he realized he was wrong.

This is completely different from the sleep paralysis from a past life.

His body was indeed immobilized; he couldn't move at all, and his eyes couldn't move.

But the perspective can be rotated; he can look wherever he wants, as he pleases, like a fixed camera that can be adjusted at any angle.

Then he "saw" the body sleeping soundly on the bed.

At this moment, he appeared to be floating above his body.

What is this? Out-of-body experience?

calm down!

Higashino Makoto began to analyze it carefully.

This is the Naruto world, unlike his previous life. Souls are real and visible, and he knows of several kinds.

Not to mention the dead who can be pulled out of the Pure Land by the Impure World Reincarnation, Orochimaru, among the living, should start researching how to cut his own soul in a few years. Kato Dan used to like to float out his soul and cut others.

Shadow clones can even split consciousness.

But these creatures can move freely, unlike me now, who can only look but not move.

After thinking about the known information for a while, he found that it did not match his own situation, so Higashino Makoto began to observe the world from this perspective and try to analyze the reasons.

Then he discovered that this perspective was different from the usual one.

The world is still the same world, and the environment is still the same environment.

But besides these, there seemed to be an extremely thin mist permeating the space everywhere.

This is something that cannot be seen or felt from a physical perspective.

From a special perspective, these mists appear as flowing ribbons, like rivers flowing freely between heaven and earth, displaying faint shades of white, red, green, purple, and cyan.

What is this?

Higashino Makoto tried to manipulate them with his mind and found that he could actually pry them up slightly.

He tried to lure the largest amount of red mist, and as soon as a trace of red entered his consciousness, Higashino Makoto immediately felt an extremely violent aura invading him.

Danger! Danger!

He immediately and instinctively severed the connection between the two and dispelled the wisp of red mist.

They can actually expel people on their own? Then there's nothing to be afraid of.

So he tried other colors and found them all dangerous, but unlike the invasion of red, the other colors seemed to want to assimilate him.

Only the white was different; the white mist seemed to be trying to break it down, but its power seemed too weak, causing the breakdown to be very slow, still within a tolerable range.

Higashino Makoto discovered that after the white mist mixed and intertwined with his consciousness, it flowed back into his body, which was sleeping on the bed.

He calmly observed and found that there was nothing wrong with his body. The consciousness floating above his body seemed to be acting as a filter, fighting against the decomposing power of the white mist and delivering the filtered mist to his body.

While filtering, Higashino Makoto was also thinking.

What exactly is this fog?

After considering all the information he knew about the ninja world, only one answer remained: natural energy.

But are there really that many kinds of natural energy? The original work didn't say anything about it. Could this be my cheat code?

Yes, as a reborn person, how could Higashino Shin not want to use cheat codes? After all, using cheat codes is legal in this world and won't get you banned.

Not to mention the various bloodline cheats, the later administrator, the old man of the Six Paths, even personally stepped in to give his own reincarnated child a cheat.

After giving away his bloodline, he gave away his son's reincarnation chakra; after giving away the chakra, he gave away the resurrection on the spot; after giving away the resurrection, he gave away the power of the Six Paths Yin and Yang.

There were no more deliveries.

They've completely lost face.

After his rebirth, Dongye was just an ordinary person. He was not a descendant of the Six Paths, did not have the eyes of a sage, did not have the body of a sage, and no one stuffed a pet into his belly as a warmer.

For a while, he would call out to the system, the control panel, and Deep Blue before going to bed at night, but there was no response.

So he began to study with extreme self-discipline, trying to become stronger through self-cultivation.

He had even planned that if this body didn't have any talent in the future, he would recognize Might Guy as his godfather and practice the Eight Gates Formation to save his life.

As for finding Orochimaru, he hadn't considered it. That guy was too eccentric; ordinary people couldn't handle him and would easily become experimental material.

It seems like I've finally gotten lucky today. Does that mean I won't have to work so hard anymore?

If I work hard before the golden finger arrives and I still work hard after the golden finger arrives, then the golden finger was obtained for nothing.

No, on the contrary, Higashino Makoto felt that he needed to work even harder in the future.

Just then, Higashino suddenly felt that his consciousness was struggling to cope. If this continued, he would disappear and become part of the white mist. So he immediately cut off the connection between them, like a scumbag who had taken advantage of a girl and then disappeared.

The consciousness felt a wave of fatigue, and with a thought, returned to its body on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

It seems that this cheat isn't easy to use; one wrong move and you could end up in a vegetative state.

Natural energy is good, but one should not overindulge; too much of it can lead to death!