Naruto: From Novice to Grave

At night, before going to sleep, Higashino Makoto began his chakra control training as usual.

Now, he has entered the second stage he has defined, which is to continuously adjust the ratio of the two energies in chakra and push them toward the two poles of yin and yang.

Each adjustment requires not only fusing the new proportions into chakra again, but also becoming familiar with the characteristics of this chakra and then achieving precise control.

It takes a lot of time.

But he enjoyed it. Higashino was very curious to see what surprising results would occur if the proportions were adjusted to their extremes.

For example, the original chakra was a mixture of 50% physical energy and 50% spiritual energy, which is a universal type.

Taijutsu and ninjutsu are usable, but as for attributes, that's another kind of training. Those attributes are innate, so you just keep strengthening and changing their nature.

Those who are not born with these attributes can gradually acquire them through cultivation, but Dongye's energy is not currently focused on that, as it also requires a lot of time. For the time being, he does not have the need to possess all five attributes.

Now, by adjusting his physical energy to 70%, he can use medical ninjutsu; conversely, by adjusting his mental energy to 70%, he can learn and cast genjutsu with twice the efficiency.

But it gets harder and harder as you go on. He vaguely defines 10% as a stage. The problem is that the further you go, the harder it is to reconcile the differences. You can only use a slow and steady approach, day after day.

Are there any good ways to speed up this process?

Yes, brother, yes.

If you take two of the Uchiha clan's three-tomoe eyes and attach them to yourself, you'll be guaranteed to thrive in Yin attribute cultivation.

Get Orochimaru an injection of Hashirama cells, and his Yang attribute will explode in a short time.

So, what is the price?

will die.

You'll either be killed by Hashirama's cells and turn into a giant tree, or you'll be chased and hacked to death by a bunch of red-eyed people and turned into mincemeat.

The power gained through one's own hard work and cultivation is still the safest and most reliable.

He has stopped practicing hand seals before bed. His hand seal speed is pretty good right now. Anyway, he doesn't plan to be a docile ninja. His fighting style wasn't based on ninjutsu, so it's enough for now.

In fact, if one cultivates chakra control to its ultimate level and masters the energy circulation circuit of a certain ninjutsu, one can directly complete it within the meridians using mental power, without needing to mobilize it through hand seals.

Clap your hands and you'll get whatever you want; you don't have to clap your hands either.

The hand seals were originally developed by Indra so that humans could use techniques. His family were born with the authority to control chakra, so they didn't need to form any hand seals.

Ultimately, chakra belongs to the Otsutsuki clan; it simply spread into the human body and, through generations of reproduction, merged into the cells.

It not only made superhuman powers cheap, but also changed the structure of the human body.

Humans are like factories that produce chakra; we can use them temporarily, but we don't ultimately own them.

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After falling asleep, Higashino's consciousness floated above his body as usual.

He's gotten used to it now, routinely drawing white natural energy into his body every night. The only difference is that, as his cultivation has grown, his consciousness has become much stronger than before, and he can now draw in more natural energy at once.

He thought tonight would be another ordinary day, blending seamlessly with the white mist, no different from before, but unexpected changes soon occurred.

Although he was already very skilled at absorbing natural energy, Higashino never relaxed his monitoring of his body. He never forgot that natural energy was not a docile sheep; it was a deadly thing.

Today, halfway through his cultivation, Higashino's consciousness keenly observed something flashing on his forehead.

It was a circular pattern that appeared and disappeared on the forehead. As white natural energy flowed into the body, the circular pattern finally became clearly visible.

On the forehead, a pattern slightly larger than a one-yuan coin from the previous life appeared, with a circle enclosing a ring and a small dot embedded above the ring. The pattern was silver in color and did not contrast much with the skin, but it was still quite noticeable, as if the skin had become diseased.

"Could this be some kind of pattern used in Sage Mode?"

As Higashino Makoto pondered this question, the pattern seemed increasingly familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before. He immediately began to carefully recall where he had seen it before.

This thing looks a bit like the battle pattern of the Hell Martial God - Yuan Hai. Could it be that he cultivated himself into a magnetic field madman?

Impossible, absolutely impossible! This is the damn ninja world!

Higashino Makoto was definitely not crazy. He quickly figured out the difference: the battle crest of the Hell God of War was just a single circle, much larger than his, and it was blue.

Good news: I don't have to be a lunatic anymore.

Better news: This pattern is from the same mold as a certain naked man.

Jonathan Osterman, known in the underworld as Dr. Manhattan and nicknamed "Blue Dick," drew this symbol on his forehead; it's the mark of a hydrogen atom.

Could it be that I didn't become a magnetic field madman, but instead became a quantum god?

That would be amazing, they'd be omnipotent!

Unfortunately, it's impossible to think about it. Higashino Makoto is still a completely ordinary person, and he has also discovered the difference between the two.

Dr. Manhattan's design is larger overall, but the circle in the center representing the atomic nucleus is smaller, while Higashino Makoto's design is smaller overall, but the circle in the center is larger.

Rather than a symbol of the hydrogen atom, it is more accurate to describe it as a symbol of a natural satellite orbiting a planet.

Or you could say planets orbiting the sun.

This makes much more sense. Natural energy, after all, represents this planet, or even this galaxy or universe.

Fortunately, it only appeared on a small area of ​​the forehead, unlike the sage masks of the three great holy lands of the ninja world, which made the faces look like they were from a theatrical performance.

I don't know if it will disappear after the absorption of natural energy ends.

Even if it doesn't disappear, it's no big deal. Just think of it as having a tattoo. Anyway, there are plenty of people in the ninja world who like to mess around with their faces.

Nohara Rin had two square paint patches on her face, the Inuzuka family members all had dog teeth painted on their faces, and Kankuro's face looked like a ghost.

What's wrong with Higashino getting a tattoo?

Finally, Higashino realized that there was a sage's face with a similar pattern in the ninja world—that was Hashirama Senju.

The difference is that the pattern on Higashino Makoto's forehead is smaller than the one on the first generation's forehead, while the inner circle is larger and the outer ring is thinner, with an additional dot on the outer ring.

Most importantly, Higashino really doesn't have eye wrinkles, which is great. To be honest, eye wrinkles don't quite fit his aesthetic.

The problem now is that few ordinary people have seen Hashirama Senju's Sage Transformation; it's classified.

How will we explain the similar texture on her forehead to that of Hasi Hot Mom?

Explain what? I'm a fucking immortal, who dares to ask me for an explanation?

The next morning, Makoto Higashino stood in front of the bathroom mirror, looking at his smooth, fair forehead, and for some reason felt a little down.

Having a tattoo makes you afraid of being mistaken for a delinquent, but once you lose it, you miss it. It's fucking pathetic.

It seems that his cultivation of natural energy is still incomplete. Higashino Makoto has decided that if absorbing natural energy is the first stage, then the appearance of immortal markings now is the second stage: the preliminary immortal mode.

When the immortal markings stabilize and stop disappearing, that will be considered entering the third stage, which should be... the normal immortal mode.

The thought of having another training goal immediately lifted Dongye's spirits, and he happily went out to begin his daily training.

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Besides Yin and Yang, the five elemental chakras give rise to all sorts of techniques. What is the original purpose of these techniques?

It is mimicry, imitating the outward phenomena of all things in nature. Controlling these phenomena becomes the ninjutsu in the hands of a ninja.

Ninjutsu training mainly involves changes in form and nature.

The form changes are relatively simple, but the fact that Higashino can actually create a Rasengan means that his control over chakra has reached an extremely high level.

After all, this is the technique known as the ultimate transformation technique in the original work. It looks like a chakra ball, but its interior is extremely complex. It is formed by the convergence of countless high-speed, high-density chakra streams rotating around the center.

The nature of the change is much more complicated. First, you need to understand what the nature of a certain attribute of chakra is and what its external manifestations are before you can delve deeper in that direction.

In the training field, Higashino Makoto formed hand seals and unleashed a Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, a gust of wind blowing forward and causing the trees to rustle.

This is a simple C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu. The rank refers to the difficulty of learning it, not its power. Power is only related to the amount of chakra used.

An ordinary genin can only blow down a wooden house, but if you let Hashirama Senju infuse all his chakra at once, he could blow the entire village of Konoha into the sky.

At the same time, this ninjutsu only uses the most basic nature transformation of the wind attribute, namely the rapid flow of wind.

Does wind have other properties?

Yes, friends, yes, for example, air pressure, or the cutting formed by the rapid friction of high-density wind-attribute chakra.

If one's imagination runs wild, one could explore even more gender transformations, but human energy is limited, and Higashino Makoto doesn't intend to go on to make endless connections; he'll just stick to the most commonly used ones in his practice.

His innate chakra natures are wind, earth, and water.

What are the different properties of the Earth element? There are too many to list, including inclusiveness, heaviness, gravity, decomposition, and so on.

What changes occur in the properties of water? These include flexibility, high-speed cutting, and impact resistance.

There's so much to it; no one can possibly know it all in a finite lifespan. No wonder Snake wants to pursue eternal life.

His ideal was to learn all the skills in the world, because the short lifespan of humans is not enough.

Fortunately, Higashino's ideals are different from his, so he only needs to cultivate a few nature transformations that are useful to him.

As for the others, I'll study them slowly when I have time.

Thinking of this, he once again unleashed a major breakthrough, but this time he aimed at his feet. The powerful airflow crashed into the ground, propelling his small body upwards.

During this process, Higashino Makoto quietly sensed the flow of wind-attribute chakra, deepening his understanding of this property.

Soon after, several more clones appeared, each with their palms clasped together, holding a leaf between their fingers, attempting to use chakra to split the leaf in two and comprehend the properties of cutting.

He was so engrossed in cultivation that he could not extricate himself.