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"Sister, I feel like I'm not feeling as well as usual today..."

Indeed, he looks much more mentally challenged than before.

Jiraiya and Minato exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Tsunade raised an eyebrow, reached out and placed her hand on Chiaki, preparing to use her chakra to check her condition. But as soon as she did, Chiaki cried out in alarm.

"Stop! Stop! Sis! Stop right now!"

As Tsunade mobilized her chakra, Chiaki's life force fluctuated, startling her so much that her heart raced.

"how……"

Completely bewildered, Tsunade quickly stopped channeling her chakra.

She was perfectly fine when I treated Qianqiu's injuries last night...

As soon as Tsunade's chakra stopped contacting Chiaki, the fluctuations in Chiaki's life force slowed down and returned to its normal state.

"Wait me a moment……"

Chiaki closed his eyes to sense his life state, his face stiffening. He seemed to realize something, gestured to the three bewildered people, and gritted his teeth to take out his kunai again.

"Please don't think it's what I'm thinking..."

She forcefully slashed a large gash on her arm, and blood trickled out. As her life force replenished, the wound healed. However, before the wound was completely healed, Qianqiu gritted her teeth and slashed another large gash on her arm.

"Well--"

The pain comes like a tidal wave, and even if it heals on its own, the pain will not be less.

What's even more distressing is that after the pain from the wound, Chiaki also experiences pleasure due to the excessive loss of life force. The pain and pleasure intertwine, making her feel like she's losing her senses.

Minato shuddered as he watched Chiaki repeatedly deplete her life force through self-harm.

Qianqiu, you're a wolf in sheep's clothing! I admire you, you're a true hero!

After more than ten attempts to recover, Qianqiu finally stopped, panting heavily.

Her life force was almost depleted, and her figure began to shrink...

only!

She hasn't shrunk to the size of a nine-year-old at all!

"Oh my god... I knew it..."

Chiaki looked at her wound, which was healing more slowly, with despair, and at her fingers, two knuckles of which were peeking out from Mengmeng's sleeve.

At nine years old, she can only show one finger joint!

"Let me check..."

Jiraiya reached out and placed his hand on Chiaki, checking her current life force status.

"...What state were you locked into back then?"

He turned to Tsunade and asked.

"Nine years old..."

Tsunade looked at Chiaki, who was noticeably larger than before, with a strange expression.

“Great, she’s ten years old now.”

Jiraiya clapped his hands and smiled kindly, "Happy birthday, Chiaki."

"What the heck! It's not my birthday today!"

Qianqiu was both amused and exasperated. Her life-locked state had grown up, which meant that she could only grow to the age of ten at the very least. This was truly a cause for celebration.

She's one step closer to becoming a beautiful young woman who'll be attracted to boys.

"No, what does this have to do with me..."

Tsunade remained bewildered, while Jiraiya scratched his head. "Probably... I guess... it's because you were the one who locked on her, and your life force got mixed in, causing her to synchronize?"

"You'll have to ask Orochimaru about that. In any case, you shouldn't use chakra on Chiaki for the time being."

"I suspect the reason she changed is because you treated her all night last night... which made me watch over her at the door all night... cough cough cough..."

Chapter Twenty: Studying Medicine Won't Save You (beep beep beep)

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

"Fire... Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Hula

Two fireballs, one large and one small, rose up in the clearing in the forest, the burning air twisting and turning.

"Control the amount of chakra a bit more; if it's too coarse, it won't be able to effectively concentrate the chakra for the jutsu."

Jiraiya sternly pointed out the problem, adding a cutting remark, "You're not using a Fireball Jutsu on someone, you're just giving them chakra!"

"Woooooooo..."

Chiaki held her head and accepted Jiraiya's reprimand. Due to the expansion of her life force, her chakra was too abundant, which made her somewhat lacking in chakra control.

"...Be more careful next time."

Seeing Chiaki holding his head in a wronged state, Jiraiya held his breath and quickly looked at Tsunade.

Girl, do you know you've become increasingly adorable lately?

No, I need to look at Tsunade to clear my head. Cuteness is worthless in the face of sexiness!

Chiaki has maintained the body of a ten-year-old for two weeks now. Her fulfilling daily life has almost made her forget her goals, and she doesn't even feel that there's anything wrong with sometimes making feminine gestures unconsciously.

For the past two weeks, she has been practicing hand seals with Jiraiya during the day, learning how to use ninjutsu and the most basic chakra control, and studying the theoretical knowledge of medical ninjutsu with Tsunade at night.

As for the issue of vitality, Chiaki never worried about it. That damned Jiraiya made her release ninjutsu continuously every day, using every one of the five elemental ninjutsu.

He also had a reason that Chiaki couldn't refute: "Ordinary people don't have as much chakra as you to squander, so they use ninjutsu less often, and their unfamiliarity with it leads to a slower activation speed."

"Since you have to use up your life force anyway, you might as well use it to convert chakra and practice releasing ninjutsu more often. Try to get more than ten times the amount of chakra that others use. This way, your hand seal speed and ninjutsu release speed will far surpass others, giving you an advantage."

No problem!

Aside from the fact that Chiaki's hands cramped up from using ninjutsu every day, and the feeling of being drained and replenished by his chakra, which was a bit uncomfortable, everything else was fine.

After two weeks, she released ninjutsu at least two hundred times a day, totaling more than a thousand times, which made her scalp tingle and even made her feel nauseous whenever she used ninjutsu.

However, the effect is significant. At least her hand seal speed is now comparable to that of an ordinary genin, not to mention her ninjutsu release speed, which is incredibly fast.

The most outrageous thing is the speed of chakra recovery. After nearly a hundred times of being drained and then replenished, Chiaki's body seems to have gotten used to being drained. As long as she starts to recover chakra, her life force is converted at a rapid speed as if it were free.

Yes, vitality is indeed free.

A genin spends three years honing their skills and developing their foundation, while Chiaki only took a total of one month.

In just one month, Chiaki had completely mastered the fundamentals of taijutsu, shuriken throwing, chakra control, basic ninjutsu, and hand seals, reaching the level expected of a genin.

However, there are limits to human capabilities.

At this stage, Qianqiu has almost reached a bottleneck. All that can be done is to continuously accumulate experience, improve the understanding of these fundamentals, and finally break through the current level.

Of course, there is another way, as long as you don't do re...

Oops, I've gone off-topic. Let's get back to training.

Jiraiya was a disciple of Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he himself possessed a highly creative offensive Mangekyou Sharingan, even developing many ninjutsu on his own.

Not only is he adept at the Five Elements Escape Techniques, but he also knows most of the ninjutsu that ordinary ninjas should have. However, he is not so proficient in basic ninjutsu such as the Great Fireball Technique because they are not his usual ninjutsu in combat. But they are enough to teach Chiaki.

As for ninjutsu, just use the powerful and familiar ones. Why bother with all those fancy tricks like the old man does?

What is this Five Elements Great Bullet Technique? Is it cool?

Yes, he is very handsome.

Is it strong?

Yes, it is very strong.

Uh……

It's just not practical! Yes!

All that fancy stuff, with shadow clones and multi-attribute attack combinations, isn't even as loud as the sound of me summoning Gamabunta and letting him sit on my butt.

"Come on, next one."

"Earth escape! Earth flow wall!"

"Earth...遁, Earth Flow Wall!"

"Water escape! Water rushes into waves!"

"Water... wait a minute..."

"Wind Release! Breakthrough!"

"Water rushes against the waves... wind, oh oh oh..."

"Lightning Release! Earth Movement!"

"Lightning Release! Breakthrough!"

Chiaki shouted confidently, as if he had already caught up with Jiraiya's rhythm.

"???"

Jiraiya pressed down on her clever little head and smiled, saying, "Little Chiaki, tell me, where did you get your breakthrough in Lightning Release?"

"Um... just a whoosh, a whoosh, and that's a Lightning Release breakthrough, right?"

Qianqiu opened her little hands and made a cute gesture.

Her sweet, girlish voice was incredibly cute, causing Jiraiya countless points of damage.

Goodness, she's starting to let loose a bit.

"I've been meaning to say this before: Chi-chan is just a genin. Why are you teaching her so many elemental ninjutsu? Why not just teach her ninjutsu that matches her chakra nature?"