Naruto: Cultivating to Immortality

Chapter 52 Strength Enhancement

At dawn, Hyuga Kanan awoke from her deep sleep to find herself full of energy. The spiritual power in her mind had become very condensed, constantly absorbing the pure soul energy refined from the Qiankun Inheritance Jade, continuously strengthening her spiritual power.

Unfortunately, pure soul energy provides too little boost to one's current spiritual power; a massive amount is needed to enhance it.

Then the previous plans will have to be put on hold. Improving one's spiritual power is certainly a good idea, but the improvement is obviously slow and cannot quickly enhance one's immediate combat strength.

So most of the energy absorbed on the battlefield is used to improve one's cultivation level and physical body, so that one can gain a foothold among ninjas more quickly, and not be suppressed by any Jonin, or even have to pay a price to save one's life.

Hyuga Kanan, having revised his plans, didn't waste any time. He immediately began mobilizing the pure soul energy to accelerate the vortex in his dantian, allowing him to absorb natural energy and refine it more quickly. This would enable his body cells to reach saturation as soon as possible, allowing him to reach the perfect Qi Refining stage. At that point, he would be able to rival a Jonin in physical strength, with speed and power exceeding that of an ordinary Jonin. This would greatly enhance his survival ability, making him more likely to survive on the battlefield.

The World Will cannot allow itself to cultivate peacefully at its own pace; its time is running out. As seen in the original story, the Fourth Shinobi World War is the last bit of time the World Will can hold out. It will definitely force Hyuga Kanan to rapidly increase his strength until he can fight against the Sage of Six Paths, thus reducing the pressure on itself and allowing it to buy more time.

Hyuga Kanan is now essentially the chosen one of this world, but the world's will doesn't dare to directly help him or treat him like a true chosen one, as that would attract the attention of the Sage of Six Paths. However, it will still give him some preferential treatment, such as crisis sensing, which won't directly help him escape danger.

From a time perspective, there are still 30 years until the Fourth Shinobi World War. It seems like a long time, but for cultivators, this amount of time is very likely just a period of seclusion later in their cultivation journey.

Immortal cultivators have always had the longest cultivation time among all cultivation systems, but each breakthrough increases their lifespan, allowing them to evolve slowly and become extremely powerful in the later stages.

Hyuga Kanan is currently only at the Qi Refining stage, yet his lifespan has already reached 120 years. After breaking through to the Innate stage, he can add another 60 years to his lifespan. As long as he reduces his energy expenditure and combat, he can even live to the maximum of 200 years. After that, each subsequent stage will not be a 60-year period. Upon reaching the Golden Core stage, his lifespan will reach 500 years, and at the Nascent Soul stage, it will exceed 1000 years.

In fact, as long as there is no coercion from the world's will, Hyuga Kanan is prepared to train slowly. In such an environment with abundant natural energy, Hyuga Kanan is confident that he can improve step by step, it just takes a lot of time.

But now the World Will is using both kindness and coercion to force Hyuga Kanan to reach a level where he can fight the Sage of Six Paths as quickly as possible. Even if he is not a match for him, he can distract the World Will and reduce the pressure on him.

Refining the soul energy of ninjas not only increases Hyuga Kanan's training speed but also helps the world's will reclaim the authority of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Refining soul energy is equivalent to refining these powers drawn by chakra, allowing them to enter the world's reincarnation channels and strengthening the world's authority over the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Hyuga Kanan is very clear about his current situation. He can only accelerate his training in accordance with the will of the world. Everyone is no good, so the outcome will depend on the final game. Right now, Hyuga Kanan is just a pawn and does not have the strength or qualifications to become a player. However, Hyuga Kanan believes that sooner or later he will have the strength and qualifications to overturn this game.

The only thing to do now is to quickly cultivate and improve his strength. Hyuga Kanan continuously refines natural energy to strengthen his entire body, which can also nourish his injuries and allow him to recover and become stronger quickly.

Countless energies refined by the dantian qi vortex enter the body's cells, continuously strengthening them and preparing for future breakthroughs, while the body's overall strength rapidly increases.

He spent all his daytime refining and absorbing natural energy to improve his cultivation level, and at night he used his divine sense to visualize the Nuwa sculpture to enhance his divine sense strength. His daily cultivation schedule was extremely busy.

A month passed quickly. Since returning to the courtyard, Hinata Kanan had not gone out again, and his mother delivered food to him on time every day.

Hyuga Kanan's mother still felt sorry for her youngest son, and she also heard from some people about the situation Hyuga Kanan suffered when he went to the battlefield.

He was sent to the Konoha leadership as cannon fodder, a disgrace to the Hyuga clan, to wash away the shame of the prestigious clan having a loser among its members.

Having barely survived, she returned alive, but the Hyuga clan offered no words of comfort, simply ignoring her presence. Seeing her covered in wounds and with multiple broken bones filled her, her mother, with guilt. She kept wondering if she should have let Hyuga Kanan go to the ninja academy to become a ninja. Being an ordinary clansman would have been fine; a lower status was acceptable, as long as she could survive and at least wouldn't have to worry about her life. Now, returning to the clan wounded all over, she received no comfort from her clansmen.

When Hyuga Kanan's mother faced Hyuga Kanan, her face was filled with tenderness and guilt.

But Hyuga Kanan didn't have time to think about these things. His mind was completely focused on cultivation. He had a vague feeling that he didn't have much time to cultivate anymore and would soon be thrown out to the battlefield by the Hyuga clan again.

Therefore, while there are no other matters to attend to, it is best to improve one's strength as soon as possible. Regardless of whether this feeling will come true in the end, having greater strength will always allow one to better face future situations.

A month of peaceful training allowed Hyuga Kanan's injuries to be basically healed. Even the broken bones had recovered, and their strength had even increased, becoming harder and more flexible, greatly enhancing his combat capabilities.

Hyuga Kanan's internal energy has increased by at least twice as much as before. Her advanced Qi Refining stage is now completely stable, and she is faintly approaching the Perfection stage. Naturally, this has resulted in a higher level of physical strength, with significant improvements in power, speed, and defense.

If he were to encounter that elite Jonin from Iwagakure again, even without using his divine sense, he would be able to keep up with the opponent's attack and movement speed. His current defense and strength would prevent a single punch from breaking his bones. He would also have the ability to basically counter the opponent's taijutsu attacks.

If I were to use my divine sense now, I could completely suppress the opponent's consciousness without them being on guard, giving me the power to defeat or even kill them.

However, his use of his divine sense was still too crude. He couldn't weave an illusion to deceive the opponent's senses like a ninja using genjutsu. Instead, he directly and violently suppressed the opponent's consciousness, rendering them unable to resist.

Should I learn some of the techniques for using genjutsu ninjutsu that are passed down in the ninja world? Hyuga Kanan secretly pondered this possibility. With his powerful spiritual sense, he could more easily weave illusions to deceive the senses of ninjas, and save more spiritual sense. He could definitely become a top-tier genjutsu ninja.

However, the Hyuga clan has never been a clan that uses genjutsu. In fact, because the Byakugan can see through abnormal chakra entering the mind and is not afraid of genjutsu, they do not have any genjutsu collections and do not bother to collect genjutsu ninjutsu.

Therefore, there's virtually no chance of learning genjutsu and ninjutsu. Konoha's genjutsu and ninjutsu are mostly kept within the ninja clans, making it impossible for them to teach other ninjas freely.

Unless you become a vassal of another clan, no one will teach you anything. The instructors will only teach you the experience of becoming a ninja, and generally will not easily teach you ninjutsu.

Hiruzen Sarutobi only obtained the Senju clan's inherited ninjutsu and a portion of their legacy by becoming a vassal of the Senju clan. After the Senju clan completely withdrew from Konoha, Tobirama Senju's legacy was naturally inherited by his disciples, and Hiruzen Sarutobi truly obtained the Senju clan's collection. Combined with the collection of the Sarutobi clan, Hiruzen Sarutobi essentially obtained the collections of two clans, one of which was a large clan with a thousand-year-old heritage.

After World War II, Hiruzen Sarutobi used these collections to continuously absorb the loyalty of Konoha's commoner ninjas, laying the foundation for him to become the most powerful Hokage in Konoha. After all, most of Konoha's commoner ninjas became Hiruzen Sarutobi's vassals, and the power he could wield in Konoha far exceeded that of these clans, making it easy for him to suppress them.

Therefore, Hyuga Kanan had absolutely no idea how to learn genjutsu. The Hyuga clan could never become someone else's vassal; even if you wanted to, there was no way. As a member of the branch family, the power of life and death was in the hands of the main family. How could anyone possibly teach genjutsu to him?

This is also why the Hyuga clan can only practice their family's Gentle Fist style. Not all members of the Hyuga clan are suited to practicing Gentle Fist, but they can only practice it. Otherwise, given the Hyuga clan's Byakugan talent, even disregarding offensive ninjutsu, their potential to become medical ninjas would be undeniable, but the Hyuga clan doesn't have a single medical ninja.

The principle of keeping techniques secret is a general consensus among these ninja clans, and it forms the foundation for protecting their clan's status. Therefore, Hyuga Kanan's plan has little chance of being realized at present. He can only continuously strengthen his spiritual power and develop his own techniques for using it.