Chapter 2: Mastery Talent Brought by Consciousness Mutation

Human beings, whether in terms of soul or body, are constantly emitting energy to the outside world.

This is easy to understand—living human bodies themselves are sources of heat, constantly radiating heat outward.

This process involves natural energy loss, something that virtually all living organisms experience.

The heat emitted through this loss is actually the accumulation of energy naturally emitted by the body's cells during life activities.

This energy is precisely the bodily energy required to condense Chakra.

The soul works similarly. As long as the soul does not extinguish and consciousness persists, every fluctuation of thought and emotion naturally emits spiritual energy outward.

Chakra is formed by merging these two types of energy—body and spiritual (mental) energy—that are constantly emitting in a one-to-one ratio.

At first glance, condensing Chakra may seem not too difficult.

In reality, it is quite challenging.

Where does the difficulty lie?

It lies in the word "control."

In fact, almost no one can achieve precise control over both physical energy and spiritual energy.

Even geniuses like Minato, or the legendary Ninja clans like Senju and Uchiha, cannot achieve perfect control over physical and spiritual energies.

Since precise control over physical and spiritual energies is not feasible, how do people merge these energies to form Chakra?

The answer is "guidance."

In practice, while precise control over physical and spiritual energies is not possible, they can be guided through one's own consciousness.

People with Ninja talent can guide the collision and fusion of their physical and spiritual energies.

During this fusion process, when the energies of the body and mind collide in a precise one-to-one ratio, Chakra is formed.

Since it's about guidance, there's inevitably an efficiency issue.

Guiding the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy is like guiding the collision and fusion of two blobs of black and white ink.

At the moment of fusion, it's impossible to precisely merge the black and white inks in a one-to-one ratio to form gray ink.

Only a part of the gray ink manages to fuse successfully, while the rest is either more white or more black.

Guiding the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy is similar. A significant portion of the physical and spiritual energies dissipate without forming Chakra.

Actually, given enough time and continuous guidance of the fusion of physical and spiritual energies, it's possible to merge all physical and spiritual energies into Chakra.

Just like mixing two blobs of black and white ink. If the initial fusion isn't successful the first time, stirring multiple times will eventually cause all of the black and white inks to merge into gray ink in a one-to-one ratio.

If physical energy and spiritual energy can also be repeatedly guided to fuse multiple times, then most of the physical and spiritual energies can also merge into Chakra.

Unfortunately, physical energy and spiritual energy are not like ink; they cannot exist for a long time.

In a Ninja's body, physical energy and spiritual energy actually dissipate very quickly, lasting no more than one-tenth of a second inside the body.

It's like water flowing rapidly down a waterfall, where not a drop of water stays on the waterfall for more than a second, physical energy and spiritual energy are the same.

Although a lot of physical energy is born every moment, it quickly dissipates into the surroundings.

It's because physical energy and spiritual energy exist for such a short time that it's very difficult for anyone to achieve precise control over their fusion; they can only guide most of it.

From some residual memories of Kimura Akira, Akira can roughly conclude that Kimura Akira's utilization rate of physical energy and spiritual energy was barely one percent.

In other words, the former Kimura Akira could only condense one unit of Chakra by guiding one hundred units of physical energy and spiritual energy.

This talent for condensing Chakra... without comparison, Akira doesn't know just how lacking he is.

But based on feeling, Akira thinks that Minato's talent for condensing Chakra should allow him to utilize at least twenty percent or more of his physical and spiritual energy.

Specifically how much, Akira cannot sense Minato's process of condensing Chakra, so he doesn't know.

However, even if a genius like Minato has strong talent for condensing Chakra, he absolutely cannot achieve one hundred percent utilization of physical and spiritual energy.

Yet Akira can currently utilize one hundred percent of his physical and spiritual energy because he can precisely control every unit of physical and spiritual energy that emanates from himself, preventing their dissipation.

It's unclear if this is due to the effects of his crossing over.

Akira's consciousness seems to have undergone a mutation, transforming from a conceptual illusion into a substance that truly exists in the real world.

His consciousness no longer seems to be just "consciousness" but rather another self that has come alive.

This awakened consciousness naturally integrates into his physical body, allowing Akira to achieve the legendary state where body and mind are in perfect harmony.

Akira's micro-level sensing of the body has reached an unbelievable level for an ordinary person—it's no longer a sensation, but true "seeing."

That sensation is intoxicating, as if becoming a god.

In addition to this extremely subtle sensing, the awakened consciousness has brought another ability.

He can control the energy sensed as if using telekinesis.

From the moment of condensing Chakra.

Every moment inside Akira's body, the energy naturally emanating from each cell, he can accurately sense and manipulate this energy, preventing it from dissipating.

Similarly, the spiritual energy emanating from the soul is also controlled in this manner.

Every bit of spiritual energy is precisely sensed and controlled by his consciousness.

"This is amazing!!!"

Sensing the continuously condensing Chakra within his body, Akira is excited and thrilled.

Comparing the speed of condensing Chakra formed drop by drop in as he remembers in his memories.

At this moment, Akira's entire body seems to burst open like a constantly condensing flow of Chakra, which is a stark contrast.

Every moment, the energy emanating from his body and soul is controlled by Akira's consciousness and fused into Chakra in a one-to-one ratio in a short instant, without wasting any bit.

If someone were to touch Akira's body right now, they would find it extremely cold.

Because almost all of the energy emitted by his body is being used to condense Chakra, naturally lowering his body temperature.

At this moment, Akira is like a popsicle in summer, extremely cold.

Minato, sitting beside Akira, can clearly feel it; it's like sitting next to an air conditioner.

"Such fast Chakra condensation speed!!!"

Minato was shocked; Akira's Chakra condensation speed at this moment is too fast and too much. Chakra inside Akira's body was rapidly increasing.

The condensed Chakra flows mostly into the low stomach along the Chakra meridian channels to be stored, with a small portion remaining in various acupoints and some dispersing into cells throughout the body.

Akira can sense that the Chakra dispersed into the cells has been absorbed by them.

After absorbing the Chakra, the cells become even stronger and more vibrant.

Stronger and more vibrant cells in turn support and enhance the mind, making it more stable and active.

This enhancement is very subtle and ordinary people cannot perceive it.

However, over the years, it quickly widens the gap in physical fitness between ninjas and ordinary people.

At this moment, Akira also understands why the children of Kages are so extraordinary.

The difference between having Chakra and not having Chakra is truly significant.

For talented ninjas, age doesn't matter.

Once they have sufficient Chakra, their physical fitness is not inferior to older ninjas and may even be stronger.

"So... can I control more Chakra to disperse into the cells for absorption?"

Akira suddenly had an idea. With absolute control over physical and mental energy, he also has complete control over Chakra.

Controlling Chakra to disperse into body cells would be easy for him.

"Let's try."

Akira cautiously increased the amount of Chakra dispersing into his cells bit by bit, afraid that a sudden increase might overwhelm the cells.

"Mm... Doesn't seem to work."

After a while, Akira furrowed his brow slightly. The amount and rate at which cells absorbed Chakra remained constant, unaffected by the increased dispersal rate of Chakra.

With this outcome, his idea to enhance physical fitness by increasing the rate of Chakra absorption into cells had failed.

But it was still alright.

Akira wasn't too bothered. With his current talent for condensing Chakra at one hundred percent efficiency, the volume of Chakra would quickly increase.

Soon, he would be able to provide Chakra absorption to all his body's cells around the clock.

Others couldn't sustain precise Chakra nourishment to all their cells all the time.

Only Akira, with absolute Chakra control due to his consciousness mutation, could do so.

As a result, his physical fitness would also improve rapidly, much faster than before.

Deep in thought, he felt a tingling sensation in his cells. Akira withdrew the actively dispersed Chakra, controlling it to flow back into his dantian.

Having absolute control over Chakra has another advantage.

Chakra, when under absolute control, apart from nurturing cells, does not dissipate or overflow.

Chakra is akin to a normal heat source in the body. While maintaining a constant temperature (Chakra amount), it continuously radiates heat outward.

Of the Chakra that dissipates and disperses, some is absorbed by one's own cells, but most actually dissipates into the environment.

In contrast to others, Akira can store this dissipated Chakra under absolute control in his dantian.

With this process of gain and loss, Akira's Chakra will continue to increase.

In the original work, Tsunade's Yin Seal gathers and seals away the Chakra that naturally dissipates daily, releasing it when needed to effectively accumulate a vast amount of Chakra.

If Akira learns the Yin Seal technique, he could seal away a significantly greater amount of Chakra than Tsunade ever did.

Because Tsunade cannot collect one hundred percent of the dispersed Chakra, but he can.

"It looks like I'll have to find a way to become Tsunade's disciple!"

The Yin Seal, a sealing technique that can accumulate vast amounts of Chakra, is very precious. In the original work, the only one who could learn it was Sakura, who became Tsunade's disciple.

For Akira to learn the Yin Seal, his only option is to become Tsunade's disciple.

However, becoming Tsunade's disciple is no easy task.

Especially since he is also a boy.