New Talent: One Mind Two Uses

# Chapter 16: New Talent · One Mind Two Uses

[Ding, you have completed 30 Breathing Activities, Breathing Experience +90, General Experience +30, current level LV3 (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 will learn how to extract Chakra!"

The first class of the afternoon was actually extracting Chakra.

From this lesson alone, one could see the difference between clan ninjas and civilian ninjas. Many civilian ninjas had never even heard of Chakra before starting school.

But clan ninjas not only knew about it—many had already completed Chakra extraction training before enrollment, and now they demonstrated it directly.

Shōhoku Sōun silently pulled out his notebook and began recording everyone's progress, mainly focusing on the civilian students.

The time it took for a person to extract Chakra basically determined their aptitude for ninjutsu. The Ninja Academy would reassign classes based on how quickly civilian ninjas could extract Chakra.

The outstanding ones would be placed in the same class as clan children, while the average ones could only transfer to ordinary classes.

Hyuga Ningyuan directly extracted his Chakra, then began attempting to train it using the same method he used for Telekinetic Power.

He started by pushing a piece of paper, then moved on to pushing book pages.

His movements were very subtle, and with his cheeks puffed out, no one noticed what he was doing. Even Yūhi Kurenai thought the pages were being blown by his breath.

Only the system calmly and dutifully recorded every activity of Hyuga Ningyuan.

[Ding, you have completed one Chakra Activity Training, Chakra Activity Experience +1, General Experience +1, current level LV1 (1/100)]

"System, change the name. Don't call it Chakra Activity—change it to Telekinetic Power!"

Hyuga Ningyuan was developing the Hyuga Clan's Chakra in the direction of Telekinetic Power. Since it had this potential, using the name Telekinetic Power was only natural.

The system had no spirit, but it wasn't rigid either. After Hyuga Ningyuan prompted it, the panel automatically changed the name.

LV1 Telekinetic Power was quite poor—not only was its strength weak, but its control was also very rough.

Other people's Telekinetic Power could carve patterns onto grains of rice, but Hyuga Ningyuan's could only move one large clump at a time, like a hammer.

But nothing could be achieved overnight. He had the patience for it.

Moreover, after playing with it for ten minutes, he received another new notification.

[Ding, you have attempted to complete One Mind Two Uses. 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. Either you had it or you didn't.

However, this talent could also be trained postnatally. The ancient prodigy Yuan Jia was born with One Mind Two Uses. He discovered his peculiarity, then underwent specialized training, eventually reaching the realm of One Mind Six Uses.

That Hyuga Ningyuan could unlock this talent proved he had the potential. Just now, while training his Chakra and attempting to maintain the Breathing Technique simultaneously, he had succeeded for quite a while, and so this talent was successfully activated.

The benefit of this talent was that he could grind two types of experience at once—for example, training the Breathing Technique while exercising Telekinetic Power.

This talent was also very useful in combat—for instance, forming a fire seal with the left hand and a wind seal with the right, using two elemental ninjutsu simultaneously and then releasing a combined technique.

Of course, the prerequisite was also knowing the One-Handed Seal.

After one class ended, none of the civilian students had generated Chakra yet, but this couldn't be rushed.

Even for a genius, it would take one or two hours. It was normal for ordinary people to try for three or four days.

The second, third, and fourth classes of the afternoon did nothing else but continuously extract Chakra. Those who had already succeeded also had to disperse and extract, disperse and extract, maintaining this cycle.

This was to let the body adapt to Chakra, achieving the effect of extracting Chakra with just a single thought.

Otherwise, if you had to fight, you'd still need to spend half an hour extracting Chakra first—wasn't that a joke?

Hyuga Ningyuan didn't do anything else either. He just kept grinding the Breathing Technique and Telekinetic Power.

After the One Mind Two Uses talent was born, the Breathing Technique could be maintained at 100%. It added 3 experience points per minute, and by the third class, it was already maxed out!

[Ding, you have completed 100 Breathing Activities, Breathing Experience +300, General Experience +100, current level LV4 (10/1000)]

Hyuga Ningyuan's breathing frequency dropped to 16 times per minute, but the breathing efficiency further improved. He could even faintly sense large masses of oxygen being drawn into his lungs and then infused throughout his body.

After each breath, a warm, comfortable sensation spread through his entire body.

This wasn't even an illusion—it was a genuinely tangible feeling!

"It's starting to feel like the Demon Slayer Breathing Technique!" Having just reached Level 4, the Breathing Technique already had a hint of the supernatural. He couldn't imagine what effects Level 5 or Level 10 would bring.

And then there was Telekinetic Power.

The training effect for Telekinetic Power was also very good—the same 1 point per minute. After 100 Breathing Activities, Telekinetic Power had also leveled up!

[Ding, you have completed 100 Telekinetic Power Activities, Telekinetic Power Level +100, General Experience +100, current level LV2 (1/500)]

At Level 2, the pushing force of Telekinetic Power had increased significantly. Previously, the same amount of force could only push one corner of a book page; now it could push an entire page.

He no longer needed to move his fingers to turn pages!

Moreover, the refined control over Telekinetic Power had further improved. Before, his smallest control unit was roughly the area of a palm; now it had shrunk to a small piece of 2×2 centimeters.

By the time the fourth class ended, the Breathing Technique level had reached LV4 (200/1000), and the Telekinetic Power level had reached LV2 (100/500).

There were also 375 surplus General Experience points!

"Class dismissed!" The teacher's command sent the entire classroom of students charging out like wild dogs off their leashes.

Only a few restrained ones remained seated, waiting for the others to leave first.

Hatake Kakashi was one of them.

Ningyuan had no intention of befriending Kakashi. After all, he would graduate once this year was over, and as a member of the Hyuga Branch Family, he was destined to have little overlap with Kakashi or Namikaze Minato. There was no need to force it.

He patted Yūhi Kurenai on the shoulder. "Let's go, the rooftop!"

"The rooftop?" Hatake Kakashi glanced curiously at the two behind him, then shook his head. As a ninja, not seizing every moment to study and strengthen oneself, but instead wasting time on pointless things...

Wait, haven't I said this line before?

Forget it, I won't bother with them. I need to get home and tell my father—this class is a complete waste of time. I want to graduate early!

The Ninja Academy had no tryhards, at least not yet. So after school, the rooftop was completely empty, with not a soul in sight.

"What a perfect training ground—spacious, with a wide view, and sturdy! I don't get why those fanfic protagonists always love sneaking off into the woods." Hyuga Ningyuan gazed at this iconic anime setting, recalling some wholesome and not-so-wholesome images in his mind.

Adi, my monthly manga updates. Adi, my favorite action romance movies. Adi, my teachers Misaki and Aoi.

Turning around, Ningyuan looked at Kurenai, who was following behind with a slightly flushed face from being alone with a boy. He didn't waste time comforting her and cut straight to the point: "Have you ever danced before?"

"Uh, I've seen some shrine ritual dances before," Kurenai said.

"We're dancing for ordinary people, so our style is very different from ritual dances," Hyuga Ningyuan explained. "We need to grab the audience's attention as much as possible, so the moves have to be simple and lively, with a strong rhythm. Since most of the time our stage is on the streets, I call this kind of dance: Street Dance!"

"Street Dance?" Kurenai blinked. It sounded pretty impressive.

"Let me show you a set of Street Dance moves, and you'll understand," Ningyuan said, pulling up his system.

He invested 85 points of General Experience, and his dance level instantly rose from Level 1 to Level 2!

In an instant, a flood of dance knowledge poured into Ningyuan's mind. And because his skill was "Dance" rather than just "Street Dance," the knowledge he gained covered the entire spectrum of dance!

Including but not limited to classical dance, folk dance, Latin dance, street dance, tap dance, robot dance, and more!

Not only was dance knowledge filling his mind, but his body beneath his clothes was also changing.

Muscles appeared on his arms and abdomen, his flexibility increased, and moves he couldn't have done before were now within reach.

Since he had previously trained in Breathing Technique and Telekinetic Power—things he'd never encountered before—Hyuga Ningyuan hadn't felt much impact.

But with this upgrade to dance, he immediately understood just how incredible this system was.

Level 1 was roughly equivalent to a beginner, while Level 2 was already a decent level of proficiency!

In other words, those 85 points of experience had taken him from a dance novice to a graduate who had studied dance for three or four years.

The key point was that even if he didn't invest points and relied on training to level up normally, it would only take him four or five days.

Four or five days to achieve what others needed four or five years to accomplish.

All I can say is: the system is incredible!