[Ding! You completed 30 Breathing Activities. Breathing Experience +90, General Experience +30. Current level: level 3 (210/500)]
Half an hour passed, and the bell rang.
"After this morning's Ninja Knowledge Class, I believe everyone now understands what Chakra is. So, in this lesson, we'll learn how to extract Chakra!"
The first class of the afternoon was actually Chakra extraction.
This class alone showed the difference between clan ninja and Civilian Ninja. Many Civilian Ninja had never even heard of Chakra before entering school.
Clan ninja, on the other hand, not only knew about it, but many had already completed Chakra extraction training before enrollment and could demonstrate it right away.
Shōhoku Sōun silently took out his notebook and began recording everyone's progress, mainly that of the civilian students.
The time it took someone to extract Chakra basically determined their aptitude for practicing ninjutsu. The Ninja Academy would reorganize classes based on how long Civilian Ninja took to extract Chakra.
The outstanding ones would be placed in the same class as Ninja Clan children, while the average ones could only transfer to regular classes.
Hyuga Ningyuan directly extracted Chakra, then began trying to train it the same way he trained his Telekinetic Power.
He started by pushing scraps of paper, then moved on to pushing book pages.
His movements were subtle, and with his cheeks puffed out, no one noticed what he was doing. Even Yūhi Kurenai thought the pages had been blown up by his breath.
Only the system calmly and dutifully recorded every one of Hyuga Ningyuan's activities.
[Ding! You completed one Chakra activity training session. Chakra Activity Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current level: level 1 (1/100)]
"System, change the name. Don't call it Chakra Activity—call it Telekinetic Power!"
Hyuga Ningyuan was developing the Hyuga Clan's Chakra in the direction of Telekinetic Power. It had that potential, so he could naturally just use the name Telekinetic Power.
The system had no sprite, but it was not rigid either. After Hyuga Ningyuan pointed it out, the panel automatically changed the name.
LV1 Telekinetic Power was terribly weak. Not only was its force low, but its control was crude.
Other people's Telekinetic Power could carve flowers into grains of rice, while Hyuga Ningyuan's could only control one large clump at a time, like a hammer.
Still, nothing could be accomplished overnight. He had the patience for it.
Besides, after playing around for ten minutes, he received another new prompt.
[Ding! You attempted and completed One Mind Two Uses once. You have unlocked a new talent.] [Talent: One Mind Two Uses. You can do different things simultaneously.]
One Mind Two Uses was not a skill, but a personal talent. If you could do it, you could do it; if you could not, you could not.
However, this talent could also be developed through training. The ancient prodigy Yuan Jia had been born with One Mind Two Uses. After discovering his unusual ability, he underwent specialized training and eventually reached the realm of using one mind for six purposes.
Hyuga Ningyuan unlocking this talent proved that he had the potential. Just now, while training his Chakra, he had also tried to maintain his Breathing Technique, and he had actually succeeded for quite a while. That was how the talent had been activated.
The benefit of this talent was that he could grind two types of experience at once, such as practicing his Breathing Technique while training his Telekinetic Power.
This talent was also useful in battle. For example, he could form a fire seal with his left hand and a wind seal with his right, use two elemental ninjutsu at once, and then unleash a combined ninjutsu.
Of course, that was assuming he also knew the One-Handed Seal.
When class ended, not a single civilian student had produced Chakra yet, but that was not something that could be rushed.
Even geniuses needed one or two hours. It was perfectly normal for ordinary people to need three or four days.
The second, third, and fourth classes of the afternoon did nothing else but extract Chakra. Those who had already succeeded also had to disperse it, extract it, disperse it, extract it, maintaining that cycle continuously.
This was to let their bodies adapt to Chakra, so that they could extract it with a single thought.
Otherwise, if battle was about to begin and everyone had to wait half an hour for you to extract Chakra first, would that not be a joke?
Hyuga Ningyuan did nothing else either. He simply kept grinding his Breathing Technique and Telekinetic Power.
After the One Mind Two Uses talent appeared, he could maintain his Breathing Technique at one hundred percent. It gave him three experience points per minute, and by the third class, it was already full!
[Ding! You completed 100 Breathing Activities. Breathing Experience +300, General Experience +100. Current level: Level 4 (10/1000)]
Hyuga Ningyuan's breathing rate dropped to sixteen breaths per minute, but his breathing efficiency improved further. He could even vaguely feel large amounts of oxygen being drawn into his lungs and then pumped throughout his body.
After every breath, a warm sensation spread through his entire body.
This was not even an illusion—it was a feeling that truly existed!
"It's got that Demon Slayer Breathing Technique feel now!" He had only risen to level 4, yet the Breathing Technique already carried a faintly extraordinary quality. He did not dare imagine what it would be like at level 5 or level 10.
And there was his Telekinetic Power.
Its training effect was also excellent. It likewise gained one point per minute, and after one hundred Telekinetic Power activities, it leveled up as well!
[Ding! You completed 100 Telekinetic Power Activities. Telekinetic Power level +100, General Experience +100. Current level: level 2 (1/500)]
At level 2, the pushing force of his Telekinetic Power had increased considerably. Before, the same amount could only push one corner of a page. Now, it could push an entire page.
He no longer needed to use his fingers to turn pages!
Furthermore, his fine control over Telekinetic Power had improved. Previously, his smallest controllable unit had been roughly the area of one palm. Now, it had shrunk to a tiny two-by-two-centimeter patch.
When the fourth class ended, his Breathing Technique had reached Level 4 (200/1000), and his Telekinetic Power had reached level 2 (100/500).
He also had 375 extra General Experience points!
"School's out!" At the teacher's command, the entire classroom rushed out like unleashed wild dogs.
Only a few reserved students remained seated, waiting for everyone else to leave first.
Hatake Kakashi was one of them.
Ningyuan had no intention of befriending Kakashi. Kakashi would graduate after this year anyway, and the Hyuga Branch Family was destined to have little interaction with Kakashi or Namikaze Minato. There was no need to force his way into their circle.
He patted Yūhi Kurenai on the shoulder. "Come on, rooftop!"
"The rooftop?" Hatake Kakashi curiously glanced at the two behind him, then shook his head. As a ninja, instead of seizing every moment to study and grow stronger, they were wasting time on pointless things.
Wait, haven't I said that before?
Forget it. I won't bother with them. I need to hurry home and tell Father that attending class is nothing but a waste of time. I want to graduate early!
There were no obsessive overachievers at the Ninja Academy—at least, not yet. So after school, the rooftop was completely empty, without a single person there.
"What a perfect training ground. It's spacious, has an open view, and it's sturdy! I really don't understand why the protagonists of those fanfics always liked hiding in little woods!" Hyuga Ningyuan looked over this quintessential anime setting, healthy and unhealthy scenes flashing through his mind.
Adi, the manga I updated every month. Adi, the action romance movies I liked. Adi, Teacher Mikami, Teacher Hatano.
Turning around, Ningyuan looked at Yūhi Kurenai, who had followed him up and whose face was slightly red from being alone with a boy. Without wasting time comforting her, he went straight to the point. "Have you ever come into contact with dancing before?"
"Um, I've seen some ritual dances at shrines before!" Yūhi Kurenai said.
"We're dancing for ordinary people, so the dances we perform are very different from ritual dances!" Ningyuan said. "We need to attract the audience as much as possible, so the movements must be simple and crisp, and the rhythm must be strong. Since most of the time our stage will be on the streets, I call this kind of dance: Street Dance!"
"Street Dance?" Yūhi Kurenai blinked. It sounded rather impressive.
"I'll perform a set of Street Dance for you. You'll understand once you see it!" Ningyuan said, first bringing up the system.
He invested 85 General Experience points, and his Dance level immediately rose from level 1 to level 2!
In an instant, countless pieces of dance knowledge flooded Ningyuan's mind. And because this skill was Dance rather than Street Dance, the additional knowledge he gained covered the entire spectrum of dance!
It included, but was not limited to, classical dance, folk dance, Latin dance, Street Dance, tap dance, popping, and more!
Not only did dance knowledge fill his mind, but his body beneath his clothes also changed.
For example, his arms and abdomen gained muscle, his body became more flexible, and movements he had previously been unable to perform could now be attempted.
The Breathing Technique and Telekinetic Power he had trained before were things he had never encountered, so Hyuga Ningyuan had not felt much.
But after leveling up Dance, Hyuga Ningyuan immediately understood just how incredible this system was.
LV1 was roughly equivalent to being a beginner, while LV2 already meant he had achieved modest success!
In other words, those 85 experience points had directly turned him from a complete dance novice into the equivalent of a dance department graduate who had studied for three or four years.
The key was that even if he did not spend points and leveled up through training alone, it would normally take only four or five days.
Four or five days to achieve what took others four or five years.
All he could say was that the system was awesome!
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