Although Hanyu had previously put too heavy a task on Shiko, he was, after all, a "good leader of Konoha", the kind of good leader who could even be rated as one of the top ten leaders of the year in each department of the village, so he later approved a month's long vacation for Shikou as compensation - not to mention recuperation, in theory such a long time was enough to treat serious injuries such as regenerating broken limbs.
Well, this is just a small token of my gratitude. Let Shiko take care of him. Take good care of him. He will not be discharged from the hospital until he weighs 80 kilograms.
While Shiko was in the hospital recuperating, Hanyu accompanied Mito to attend the funerals of several Uzumaki ninjas who had died previously.
In order to express gratitude for their efforts, the Third Hokage also showed up to express his condolences.
Uzumaki Mito's vitality recovered very quickly. It can be seen that it was because she no longer had to expend so much energy to suppress the Nine-Tails, so her overall condition is now much better than before the Nine-Tails plan was implemented.
After this incident, due to Shiko's admission to the hospital, the progress of Shadow Stream's work on improving the Four Symbols Seal became slowed down, and Hanyu couldn't help much by staying here, so he had some free time again.
So he hid in the Wet Bone Forest and continued to learn the magic... Well, to be more precise, without giving him any face, he has not yet reached the stage of "learning". He is currently just in the initial stage of trying to adapt to natural energy.
…
After another contact attempt, Hanyu recovered from the feeling of suffocation again. He gasped for breath, and after a long time, his spirit and five senses slowly recovered.
"Master Hanyu, after several attempts to contact natural energy, your only improvement is that your consciousness recovered about 30 seconds earlier than the first time."
Afterwards, Slug summarized Hanyu's "stage training results".
"Katsuyu… So this is a big improvement?" Hanyu asked.
"Unfortunately, it seems not. Compared to the entire learning process of immortal arts, this is only a negligible progress, and it can't even be considered an improvement."
Hanyu: "…"
Well, he knew that was the case.
"I think, it's better to practice contacting natural energy step by step. After all, I'm just at the entry stage now, and too difficult a level will only keep me out.
I can start with a small amount of natural energy, and then gradually increase the difficulty of cultivation."
After thinking about it, Hanyu finally made this suggestion because he suspected that the training method he was currently using was the method used to train a fierce man like the first Hokage.
However, compared with the real wall hanging, Hanyu is just a rookie, so if you use the wall hanging training method to train a rookie, it is very easy to train the rookie to death.
The slug seemed to sigh at Hanyu's suggestion, and then continued, "Hanyu-sama...it turns out that you don't have any talent in fairy arts."
"Cough, cough, cough."
It took Hanyu a while to understand what the slug was saying. Well, he found it a little unbelievable.
He stretched out his hands and rubbed his face vigorously. He had boasted before that he was invincible, but he was ruthlessly slapped in the face by his summoned beast and the naked reality so quickly.
Moreover, these words made Hanyu begin to doubt whether the slug was changing his personality... It was one thing for him to think that he was a loser, but it was another thing to be clearly named a loser by others. Especially when these words came from the mouth of a summoning beast with a personality like Katsuyu, it was even more heartbreaking.
Because Katsuyu can't lie, it tells the truth.
Am I, Hanyu, such a wimp? Why don't I just find a medical ninja that I like, throw myself into her arms and die…
Although he was hit hard by the slug's sudden words, Hanyu still felt that the slow progress of his training was not just a problem of his personal talent. It must be related to the slug's training method... If the training method in the Wet Bone Forest can be as step-by-step as the toad in Myoboku Mountain, then there is no reason why Hanyu would not make progress.
It is impossible for a person to become fat by eating one meal at a time... That's wrong. It should be said that it is impossible for a fat person to achieve the goal of losing weight by skipping one meal.
At this time, Hanyu began to miss the benefits of the Myobokusan toad that he had never met before... At least the snow frog oil is more fragrant than the slug meat.
As if seeing through Hanyu's doubts about the training method, the slug continued to explain, "Hanyu-sama, whether it is ninjutsu or senjutsu, for a ninja, only those techniques that can be used immediately in battle are practical techniques. Otherwise, no matter how powerful it is, what is the point?
One thing must be made clear. Although natural energy and the senjutsu chakra formed by the convergence of natural energy are extremely powerful, they are extremely unstable and highly risky energies. Therefore, the idea of storing a large amount of senjutsu chakra in advance and then using it at any time during battle is unrealistic...
As it is true, the way Lord Hanyu is using the Nine-Tails' Chakra now, it is absolutely impossible for him to use it in fairy techniques.
Although the power of fairy arts far exceeds that of ordinary ninjutsu, if you use fairy arts to fight, if you need to accumulate natural energy slowly, then the battle may be over before the energy is concentrated... Therefore, how to instantly concentrate a large amount of natural energy is the key to ensuring the practicality of fairy arts.
This is something that must be paid attention to from the very beginning of training.
Although Master Hanyu's current training method raises the entry threshold of fairy arts, it can avoid problems in the subsequent use of fairy arts and ensure that the fairy arts you learn are usable fairy arts.
If you follow Mr. Hanyu's idea and adopt a step-by-step training method... Indeed, you can get started faster, but the first step will determine how you will proceed in the future, and then subsequent problems will be difficult to solve.
From my experience, if a ninja cannot adapt to a large amount of natural energy at first, it will be difficult for him to absorb a large amount of natural energy at once later."
What Katsuyu said is not too difficult to understand. A person who has adapted to the "trickle" of energy from the beginning will probably only adapt to this method. Although he may eventually accumulate a large amount of natural energy, this accumulation of energy can only be at the cost of consuming time.
The difficulty of the fairy technique training method at Myoboku Mountain is indeed much lower than what Hanyu is currently exposed to, however... he also feels that it is not appropriate to be punished to stand for five minutes before entering the fairy mode.
So Hanyu was fooled. He took a deep breath and said firmly, "Katsuyu, you are right."
If you want to learn, learn the best, even if that kind of learning is ridiculously difficult.
If this method really doesn't work no matter what, then we can settle for the next best thing.
At this time, Hanyu was actually a little confused by the huge natural energy and the slug's words, so he confused a very important issue - his first purpose of learning fairy arts was not to apply it in combat, but to use fairy arts chakra to strengthen his body, and then seek ways to resist the erosion of his own chakra.
So for this kind of primary goal, is there any difference between entering Sage Mode five minutes earlier or five minutes later?
But at this time, Hanyu had already said "yes". Even if he reacted later, he could only temporarily continue along this most difficult road to heaven.
"Very good, Master Hanyu, we can move on to our next training session then."
A ninja can give up anything except his determination and enterprising spirit, so... Hanyu was in dire straits.
…
After more than half a year, Hanyu finally achieved some results. Whenever his body came into contact with the huge natural energy, he was able to remain conscious.
So at this time, Hanyu finally felt what natural energy was... It was really different from chakra, a huge, powerful and very unstable energy.
However, for the entire learning process of immortal arts, even this achievement is still not worth mentioning - it is probably equivalent to a person who is preparing to learn swimming, and after spending more than half a year, he can finally submerge his head in water.
Hanyu...it's really difficult.
The difficulty level even made him think several times whether he should dig up the grave of the first Hokage.
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