Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 76 Deducing the Caged Bird

I woke up feeling refreshed.

Not only is the splitting headache from last night gone, but even the vital energy consumed when I activated brain overclocking last night has recovered by nearly 80%!

"You don't need another 10 days to recover?" Ning Yuan was somewhat surprised. Logically speaking, if you use up all your true energy in ten days, shouldn't you need another ten days to recover it?

But now it seems that's not the case.

"It seems that the protagonists in those martial arts novels don't have to spend decades to recover their true energy after using it all up." Ning Yuan thought of the Heavenly Mountain Child Granny, who could recover all her nearly 100 years of internal energy in just over ten days.

It is evident that the restoration of vital energy is related to the sleep restoration effect of the "Phoenix Lineage Chart," but it is by no means entirely due to it.

There must be other factors at play.

So, what is it?

Physical adaptability?

The body's adaptability ten days later is different from that ten days ago, so the cultivation speed ten days later is naturally faster than that ten days ago.

For example, if I can accumulate 1 point of true qi on the first day, 2 on the second day, 3 on the third day, and 10 on the tenth day, then I will have accumulated a total of 55 points of true qi in these ten days.

After all the energy is depleted, you can accumulate 12 points of true energy each day. So, it doesn't actually take 10 days to recover all the true energy, but only 5 days.

"There's probably more than one reason, because even considering physical adaptation, the speed is still fast!"

Moreover, the progress of the cultivation method is fast in the early stage, but if you have a hundred or ten years of true qi, then the cultivation method can hardly progress any further. How can you explain the problem that a hundred years of true qi can be recovered in just a few days?

Therefore, Ning Yuan had another conjecture: the theory of the upper limit of true qi!

Is it possible that a person's capacity for true qi has an upper limit at a certain time, and that cultivation is the process of raising this upper limit?

It's like blowing up a balloon, expanding the dantian (lower abdomen).

This explains why I could recover the true energy of 10 days in just one day, because those 55 points of true energy were not my limit, but the limit of my dantian.

The slow pace of cultivation in the early stages is because the dantian is still being developed. Once the dantian has been expanded, the subsequent process of further expansion is unnecessary.

True Qi is formed by the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy. Physical energy is like food; as long as there is a sufficient supply of food, physical energy can be generated continuously.

Therefore, producing true qi is not difficult; the difficulty lies in storing it!

If only I had a mentor, I could just ask and get the answer to this kind of question.

Unfortunately, he was in the Naruto world, so many questions could only be pondered and guessed, and he didn't even know if his guesses were correct, so he could only make do with what he had.

However, seeing how quickly the true energy is restored, there's no need to be stingy about activating the brain overclocking feature; it can be used whenever needed.

As for skills, it's best not to use them if you can avoid it. After all, even if the recovery speed is fast, it still takes some time. Wouldn't it be better to use that time to develop your dantian?

"Ning Yuan, why are you sitting so loosely like that!" Mei Hui noticed something was off about Ning Yuan as soon as she woke up in the morning.

After seeing it many times, I realized it was just a pose.

It's not as stiff and upright as before; it has a more relaxed feel to it.

"I call this returning to simplicity!" Ning Yuan shrugged. "Don't you think my attitude is quite deceptive?"

"I didn't realize that." Mei Hui was speechless. She only felt that the child had a big appetite lately and had started to slack off.

However, it's not necessarily a bad thing; it's ultimately a good thing that the child can eat it.

I seem a bit dazed and confused. Is it because I've been under too much academic pressure lately?

With classes, learning illusion techniques, and medical ninjutsu, isn't that too much for a child?

"Ningyuan, are you still going to learn those genjutsu and medical ninjutsu? Should I help you decline?" Meihui asked. "We are, after all, the Hyuga clan. It wouldn't be good for you to learn these things outside."

Huh?

Ning Yuan's eyes lit up. He really didn't need to learn medical ninjutsu anymore. If he could use Mei Hui's connections to turn it off, that would be a good thing.

However, learning medical ninjutsu makes it easier to fall into depravity under Hiruzen Sarutobi's nose, so from this perspective, medical ninjutsu cannot be abandoned.

"Didn't the clan chief already talk to me? He agreed, how can we back out now!" Ning Yuan waved his hand: "It's alright, I'm smart, I can stick to it!"

"Alright!" Mei Hui sighed. It's not good for a child to be too smart or too opinionated; it makes a mother feel unfulfilled.

Ning Yuan's confusion wasn't due to exhaustion, but rather because he was multitasking.

While eating, he recalled his research on sealing techniques.

Yesterday I activated my brain overclocking mode and studied more than half of it. Although I haven't finished learning it yet, a proper sealing ninja usually only has three or five sealing techniques that they are good at.

Therefore, his skill level has actually surpassed most Jonin who specialize in sealing techniques, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the best in Konoha.

After all, Mito, who specialized in sealing techniques, is no longer around, Kushina hasn't grown up yet, and neither Danzo nor Tsunade are specialists in sealing techniques.

Of course, Ning Yuan was referring to theory.

In practice, he has little chakra; he'd probably struggle even to cast a sealing technique.

Sealing techniques are divided into two major systems: the sealing system and the spell seal system.

Both use the same sealing method: forming sealing characters with chakra to seal the item.

The difference between the two is that the former uses its own chakra to maintain itself, while the cursed seal absorbs the chakra of others or natural chakra to maintain its existence.

Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of these two sealing techniques are quite obvious.

Sealing techniques utilize one's own chakra, resulting in fast sealing speed and noticeable effects, but with a short lifespan.

Cursed seal techniques are maintained by the chakra of others or natural chakra, so the sealing speed is slow and the effect is slow, but the lifespan is extremely long, and it is possible to seal a person until the end of time.

For example, the Chibaku Tensei that sealed Kaguya-sama should be a kind of cursed seal technique.

It is obvious that the Caged Bird Seal is a cursed seal technique that uses the user's own chakra for power and accompanies the user throughout their life.

Once the recipient dies, the supply of chakra is interrupted, and the Caged Bird Seal will immediately activate, destroying the Byakugan.

Therefore, the mark of a caged bird should have three basic structures.

An energy structure used to intercept chakra and maintain the cursed seal.

The sensing structure activates when the supply of chakra is interrupted.

The functional structure receives signals from the sensing structure to disrupt the white eye.

In addition, the Caged Bird Seal can also be activated by the main family to disrupt the brain nerves of the branch family.

Therefore, the sensory structure should also include a part that receives external chakra. The trigger structure should also include a part that destroys the branching brain nerves.

Thus, Ning Yuan deduced a parallel sealing technique structure.

This structure should share a single energy system, and then have two parallel functional components that each perform their functions independently without interfering with each other.

Given that the Hyuga children were put into the Caged Bird Seal at the age of 3, and they did not have chakra at that time, and that the Byakugan's field of vision would be reduced by 1° after being put into the Caged Bird Seal, the energy system should be located in the eyes, drawing on the pupil power of the eyes.

The absorbed pupil power is used partly to maintain the functional structure of the eyes and partly to maintain the functional structure of the brain nerves.

Chakra must circulate through the meridians.

Therefore, the structure of the sealing technique should resemble an H.

The horizontal bar of the H represents the energy source, with the upper end leading to the two eyes and the lower end leading to the brain's nerves.

The construction method should be

(End of this chapter)