radicalducati Chapter 51 Taoist Contemplation Methods
Chapter 51 Taoist Contemplation Methods
While Hyuga Kanan was lost in thought, Konoha's reinforcements caught Iwa ninja completely off guard, causing heavy casualties. As more and more Konoha reinforcements entered the battlefield, Iwa ninja could only retreat. However, when Hatake Sakumo led the Uchiha clan ninjas into the battle, they immediately broke through Iwa ninja's defenses, leading to a major rout for Iwa ninja.
The man inside the cave, who was about to head out to hold off the Iwa ninja forces, suddenly stopped. He heard the sounds of a massive battle raging outside.
Orochimaru understood that Konoha's reinforcements had arrived, and it seemed he no longer needed to risk his life.
Tsunade, helping Jiraiya to a stop, had clearly heard the commotion outside. She smiled at Jiraiya and said:
"Looks like we're in luck; we don't need to worry about who we have to give up on anymore!"
Jiraiya grinned widely before collapsing into unconsciousness.
Hyuga Kanan's thoughts were interrupted by the explosion outside. Coming back to his senses, he murmured to himself, "It seems I've also benefited from Jiraiya's luck as the last chosen one, escaping danger!"
A day later, Hyuga Kanan lay in a hospital room at the Konoha camp, his body still wrapped in bandages, his arm immobilized by a splint, and his right eye still wrapped in bandages.
Although the wounds have healed considerably, several bones in my body were broken and haven't fully recovered. There are still cracks, and it will take some time for them to fully heal. As for the whites of my eyes, it's even more complicated. The repair process is slower, and the inside is full of fractures, requiring even more time and energy. My vision hasn't been restored yet; only the pain has subsided.
At the time, only eight people survived inside the Konoha cave stronghold, awaiting rescue. Two of them were crippled and lost their qualifications to become ninjas, while the others were seriously injured. Jiraiya was the most severely injured, only able to stay alive thanks to Tsunade's medical ninjutsu. He was treated when Konoha reinforcements arrived, but his injuries were not fatal; they were mostly caused by excessive blood loss and reactions from over-extraction of chakra. With timely treatment, his recovery speed was faster than that of Hyuga Kanan, who suffered multiple fractures.
The wounded, including Hyuga Kanan, are about to return to the village, as they are currently not capable of fighting and need to rest and recuperate to fully recover.
As for Hyuga Kanan's squad, only he and their captain, Yamanaka Ryuichi, remained alive. The battlefield was extremely chaotic, and Hyuga Kanan was one of the Iwa ninja's primary targets, so he dared not fight alongside his squad members. He could only move around alone, trying to prevent the Iwa ninja from surrounding him, and had no time to care for his teammates.
Yamanaka Ryuichi did visit Hyuga Kanan, and upon discovering that Kanan had multiple fractures and even lost the sight of one of his most important Byakugan eyes, he only offered a few words of quiet comfort before leaving. Clearly, the captain was deeply saddened by not being able to stay by his team's side to protect them, resulting in the loss of members who were either killed or seriously injured, and the loss of the Hyuga clan's Byakugan.
This squad is practically defunct, and Hyuga Kanan might face punishment if she returns to the Hyuga clan.
Today was the day to return to the village. Hyuga Kanan stood among a group of wounded soldiers and slowly moved to the entrance of the camp, only to find Orochimaru standing there, silently watching him.
Hyuga Kanan slowly approached Orochimaru, preparing to say goodbye.
Orochimaru spoke first, his voice still as husky and magnetic as ever.
"Kid, it seems you're in luck. Your wish has come true! You've survived."
After saying that, he turned to leave, but suddenly paused and whispered something, unsure whether he was speaking to himself or to Hyuga Kanan.
"A life without strength is too fragile! Look at the lives lost on the battlefield. They lost their lives because they were not strong enough. Striving to improve strength is the guarantee of survival."
Watching Orochimaru leave, Hyuga Kanan thought for a moment and then abandoned his previous words. The current Orochimaru was clearly acting strangely. Perhaps it was because only a few of the troops he had led had survived, which made him feel somewhat sentimental. After all, he was not the Orochimaru of the future, and he had not yet reached the point of being indifferent to life. He still had feelings of camaraderie and kinship with his fellow villagers.
What Hyuga Kanan needs now is to spend time accelerating his progress in improving his strength. He doesn't want to experience again being nearly defeated by a Jonin from Iwagakure. At the very least, he needs to ensure that most ninjas pose no threat to him, thus guaranteeing his basic safety.
Hyuga Kanan sensed that the war was nearing its end. The fact that Konoha was able to send troops to rescue Orochimaru's forces indicated that the Sand Village had likely been defeated, and Konoha could now engage in one-on-one battles with the Iwa ninja in the Land of Rain.
Given Konoha's current strength, Iwa ninja would definitely be no match for Konoha in a one-on-one fight. Therefore, contacting Kirigakure is the only way. However, it should be noted that Konoha's Third Hokage and his comrades, the higher-ups, have not yet made a move and are on guard against Kirigakure's intervention.
The current Konoha leadership is full of powerful ninjas. At the very least, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, Kagami Uchiha, Torifu Akimichi, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane are all elite Jonin, and there are more than three Kage-level ninjas.
If the Mist Ninja were to make a move, they would likely face a crushing attack from numerous top experts of Konoha's leadership, leading the various Konoha clans, which could leave the Mist Ninja with psychological trauma.
After the Mist Ninja opened the Blood Mist Village, it's highly likely that they were overwhelmed and unable to retaliate during the battle with Konoha. The ninjas of Konoha's various clans are not ordinary civilians; their various secret techniques caused the Mist Ninja a great deal of trouble. In addition, there were high-ranking Konoha members leading the charge, so it's quite normal for the Mist Ninja to be crushed by Konoha.
After a slow journey, Hyuga Kanan's wounded troop finally returned to Konoha, but there was no Konoha high-ranking official to greet them. The villagers and Konoha hospital ninjas simply took the wounded to the hospital and that was the end of it.
Hyuga Kanan's injury wasn't something that could be cured; he could only recover slowly. After all, it was a broken bone, so all he needed to do now was spend time healing.
Upon returning to the clan's territory, Hyuga Kanan only briefly visited his mother before heading straight to his own courtyard. His second brother had already joined a force led by Konoha's higher-ups to the battlefield where Kirigakure was launching its attack. As for his father and eldest brother, there was no need for him to see them.
Back in her room in the courtyard, Hyuga Kanan immediately focused her consciousness on the depths of her mind, projecting it directly onto the Qiankun Inheritance Jade. She had the jade pendant scan her current situation to see if it could provide a more intuitive understanding of how much she had improved.
Personal Panel
Host: Hyuga Kanan
Realm: Advanced Qi Refining
Physical attributes: Five Elements Body
Cultivation techniques: Taoist Qi Refining Techniques, Taoist Spirit Nourishing Methods
Physical Strength: Copper Skin and Iron Bones
Soul strength: 5 strands of divine sense (one strand is equal to 100 times that of an ordinary person)
Seeing that his soul strength had reached 5 strands, he was also in a good mood. This was equivalent to more than 5 times his original strength. You should know that once you reach 100 strands of divine consciousness, you can condense your divine soul and learn the Taoist technique of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. At that time, you will have three clones.
This is nothing like the clone techniques of the ninja world; these are complete clones, possessing the same consciousness, capable of autonomous training, and never dissipating. It's equivalent to tripling one's training speed, and unless all three clones are killed simultaneously, one is practically immortal. After all, clones can recombine and regenerate simply by expending soul and energy; true death only occurs when one's own lifespan is exhausted.
But Hyuga Kanan believed that as long as he wasn't killed, in such a world full of natural energy, he would definitely be able to keep breaking through, eventually shattering the void, ascending to immortality, and achieving eternal life.
Now, under the cover of the world's will, I must enhance my divine sense as much as possible, so that I can reach the Divine Soul Realm as soon as possible, enabling me to create clones from the One Qi Transformation into Three Pure Ones, making me less vulnerable to being killed.
In Taoism, once the soul reaches the realm of divine consciousness, the effects of the Nourishing Spirit Technique diminish significantly, and the rate of divine consciousness enhancement slows considerably. However, Taoist geniuses have developed a specific method to enhance divine consciousness: the Taoist visualization method. This involves continuously visualizing the form of an object using the power of divine consciousness to refine it, allowing it to continuously improve through this refinement.
But what Hyuga Kanan needs now is to choose the object of his visualization. Ordinary things are not very helpful for tempering spiritual power. He needs something that can give him a high level of spiritual power tempering to use the visualization method.
The Jade of Heaven and Earth Inheritance contains several powerful objects that can be visualized and used, but without guidance, one is unsure which is best suited to them. This is the downside of not having guidance from elders within the sect. Although there are several options, with someone to guide one, one can directly choose the most suitable one; now, one can only rely on intuition.
Hyuga Kanan's consciousness was constantly sensing various things within the Qiankun Inheritance Jewel, trying to choose the one that best suited her feelings.
Soon, Hyuga Kanan's consciousness sensed that one of the objects began to exhibit a slight fluctuation similar to her consciousness the moment they came into contact, while the others did not exhibit this sensation at all.
Hyuga Kanan didn't hesitate and directly chose this item.
When the object floated out of the Qiankun Inheritance Jade, the divine sense was instantly stunned upon contact with it.
I vaguely sensed that it was a sculpture of a woman with a human body and a snake tail, but she was a mythical figure that all Chinese civilization should know, namely the goddess Nuwa.
Hyuga Kanan's spiritual power kept approaching, but his perception kept reminding him that he could only start visualizing from the bottom of the sculpture and not directly visualize the whole body, otherwise it would instantly drain his spiritual power and have no tempering effect at all.
Hyuga Kanan followed this feeling, his divine sense slowly reaching the scales of the snake's tail on the Nuwa statue at the bottom. Instantly, his divine sense was drawn to that scale, constantly visualizing its patterns. Soon, his divine sense was refined by the patterns on the scale, and Hyuga Kanan quickly became extremely exhausted. His mind was rapidly depleted, causing severe fatigue in his consciousness, requiring immediate rest and adjustment.
Hyuga Kanan also quickly withdrew his divine power and fell into a deep sleep.