"Why did my Yang Chakra Body stop progressing after reaching fifty percent?" Shinji checked the panel.
When Hinata became his disciple, he had gained a ten percent increase. However, the progress of him using Yang Chakra to continuously nourish his body had not increased since then.
Mimi, who was beside Shinji, stopped his frantic eating when he heard this. He asked Shinji with a puzzled expression, "Yang Chakra?"
"Yes, exactly this kind." Shinji nodded, then Yang Chakra appeared on his right hand.
Mimi's first impression upon seeing this Chakra was that it was full of vitality.
"What an incredible energy."
Mimi, with narrowed eyes, came before Shinji's right hand and asked very seriously, "You said you've been using this Chakra to nourish your body?"
Shinji was startled, then nodded and said, "Yes, but recently, no matter how much I nourish it, the progress hasn't increased."
Mimi asked, puzzled, "Can you sense the exact progress?"
Such a thing was somewhat unbelievable.
Shinji ignored Mimi's inquiry. He merely dispersed the Chakra, and then spoke, "More or less."
Mimi didn't ask further when he saw this. He only sighed with emotion, "You truly are a terrifying person."
Shinji: ???
Mimi said, looking at Shinji, "Just from that Chakra, I can feel it's a highly pure life energy fluctuation."
"And you yourself are not of this constitution, yet you're using this Chakra to nourish your body. Don't you feel any pain while doing so?"
Shinji merely nodded. "The feeling is acceptable."
After all, for him, that bit of pain was like his muscles being destroyed and repaired every moment.
"That's why I said you're terrifying." Mimi was speechless upon hearing this.
"Do you have any insights? After all, I have no methods now." Shinji flicked Mimi's forehead and said irritably.
"No, but I do have something to tell you about the yōkai." Mimi clutched his aching forehead, swaying as he returned to his spot.
"What saying?" Shinji asked curiously.
"Daiyōkai with divinity not only have indestructible bodies, but even their bones and meridians are difficult to destroy." Mimi said, glancing at Shinji, his meaning self-evident.
Upon hearing Mimi's words, Shinji was startled.
Bones, meridians...
Slap—
Shinji slapped himself on the forehead. He had actually made a rookie mistake.
All this time, he had only used Yang Chakra to nourish his flesh, but he had never done anything for his bones and meridians.
No wonder his Yang Chakra Body had been stuck at fifty percent. The nourishing of his flesh had already reached its limit.
"Actually, you should be glad that you haven't entered a deeper level of nourishing all this time." Mimi opened his mouth, yawning.
"What do you mean?" Shinji blinked and asked.
"The flesh is the foundation. Only when the foundation is stable can one enter a deeper layer." Mimi said.
Shinji nodded, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes. He began to guide the Yang Chakra to enter a deeper level of nourishing.
As the Yang Chakra gradually covered his bones and Chakra pathways, cold sweat unconsciously dripped from his forehead.
Compared to the pain of nourishing his flesh before, the current pain was almost unbearable for him. If the previous pain was like being continuously punched, then now it was the kind that went deep into his bones.
However, having a reaction meant that the direction Mimi suggested was correct.
As Shinji entered this state, Mimi , who was sitting next to him, stood up. After circling Shinji a few times, he finally spoke, "This guy is truly a monster."
After speaking, Mimi opened his mouth and exhaled wisps of mist, enveloping Shinji's figure. This was the energy from his ancestral land, which was Senjutsu Chakra. It didn't help much, but it could prevent Shinji's consciousness from fading.
"I can only help you this much." After doing all this, Mimi scratched his neck with his hind leg and guarded Shinji.
—
As night fell, Shinji slowly opened his eyes.
Seeing the mist around him, he knew it was Senjutsu Chakra with a slight perception.
He turned to look at Mimi, who was lying beside him, and said, "Thanks, Mimi."
"No problem, just give me more sake." Mimi wagged his tail indifferently.
"No problem." Shinji shook his head and smiled, readily agreeing.
Shinji clenched his fist, feeling a bit sore. He then looked at the data on the panel, and when he saw that the progress of his Yang Chakra body had finally jumped from fifty percent to fifty-one percent, he laughed out loud.
Mimi, tilting his head, asked curiously, "Did it work?"
Shinji nodded. "Yes, it worked, but the pain of this nourishing and the precision of Chakra control are much greater."
Mimi said, "Know when to stop. Even a daiyōkai like me wouldn't dare to do what you're doing."
Mimi showed an expression of speechlessness. Shinji's words now were purely show off.
Shinji didn't refute Mimi's words, instead asking, "By the way, how long did this nourishing take me?"
Mimi replied, "In your current time, it's eight hours."
Upon hearing this, Shinji compared it to the first time he had nourished his flesh. The time had more than doubled, but the progress was far less. It seemed that future sessions could only be strengthened step by step, measured in years.
Mimi got up and came before Shinji, asking, "Are you sure you don't need to recuperate properly?"
The recuperation he spoke of wasn't about Shinji's physical body, but his spirit. After all, resisting pain for eight continuous hours, Shinji was treating himself like he wasn't human.
Although he was mentally exhausted, Shinji still asked, "Where are Naruto and the others?"
Mimi said, "They came to ask just now, but I turned them away, I told them to go back first, as they had already completed their training content."
Shinji nodded. "That's good."
"Alright, stop dawdling. I'll take you to the ancestral land to recuperate."
After Mimi finished speaking, he transformed into his true form, lowering his head, signaling Shinji to climb on.
"Thank you, Mimi." Shinji braced himself, got up, and then lied flat on Mimi's head.
Mimi lifted his massive head, glanced upwards, and then leaped. He quickly flew towards the dark sky.