"When I empty my mind and body to merge with nature, it seems I can indeed sense something flowing around me, though I can only perceive it faintly." Hearing his words, Kikyo didn't pay any mind to the Natural Energy fluctuation from earlier, focusing her mind to recall her feelings while sitting in meditation.
"Is that so? Then it should be soon." Hearing Kikyo's answer, Retsu was somewhat surprised.
Although the Natural Energy in this world is indeed easier to perceive than in the Naruto World, it still exceeded his expectations that Kikyo could touch the Natural Energy so quickly without any assistance.
Kikyo's talent for Senjutsu was definitely higher than his, but thinking about the powerful Spiritual Power within her, he felt it was only natural. A Priestess's Spiritual Power is inherently a manifestation of a powerful soul; formidable Spiritual Power often means the soul is also purer and stronger.
However, Retsu wasn't envious; Kikyo's strength was innate, while his soul grew stronger step by step along with the accumulation of his Chakra.
In the Naruto World, the more powerful a Ninja's soul is, the more resilient it becomes; many strong individuals can even break free from the shackles of Edo Tensei using their own soul power.
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"The hardest step in perceiving Natural Energy is sensing them in the first place. You've already achieved that. With more practice for a while, you'll be able to clearly capture the Natural Energy around you," Retsu said to Kikyo, pulling back his wandering thoughts.
"Mhm, I'll work hard." Kikyo nodded and closed her eyes again, emptying her mind and body.
A Priestess's cultivation inherently includes sitting in meditation; for her, merging her mind and body into nature was not a difficult task.
Seeing Kikyo enter her cultivation state once more, Retsu also closed his eyes and sank back into Sage Mode.
Just as the two were sitting in meditation and the surroundings fell into a dead silence, a slender figure quietly appeared on a large tree not far away, silently watching the wooden building in the woods and the two people sitting on the second-floor balcony.
Suddenly, within her line of sight, the man who had been sitting quietly opposite the Priestess vanished instantly.
Seeing this, she immediately prepared to leave, but a figure suddenly appeared before her like a ghost and grabbed her by the neck.
"Who are you?" Retsu raised an eyebrow as he looked at the white-haired little girl in his hand and the mirror she was holding in her arms.
This familiar appearance... if he remembered correctly, she should be Naraku's Incarnation, that emotionless little girl—Kanna.
"Kanna." Facing the inquiry, Kanna, whose neck was being gripped, stated her name expressionlessly.
"She actually answered obediently; as expected of an emotionless girl." Looking at Kanna, who was staring at him without any expression, Retsu was somewhat surprised.
He recalled that in the plot, Naraku was able to give birth to the two Incarnations, Kanna and Kagura, primarily because he obtained the small piece of the shard of the shikon jewel that Kikyo had taken from Kagome. Combined with his own shards, he had assembled a nearly complete shikon jewel, which gave him the ability to create Incarnations.
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