Chakra Extraction Technique

Minato Namikaze handed the scroll bearing the Chakra Extraction Technique to Genya Namikaze, watching Xuan Ye's expression nervously. He did not have much time to spend with Genya Namikaze and did not know his child very well. He had considered this gift for a long time before making his decision.

He knew that Xuan Ye had turned four this year and was old enough to extract Chakra, which was why he had chosen it as Genya Namikaze's fourth birthday present. Still, he had been worried, afraid that Xuan Ye might not like the gift. Clearly, he had overthought it.

Xuan Ye stared at the Chakra Extraction Technique in his hands, overflowing with excitement. Wild joy appeared on his face. Three years—he had been in this world for a full three years. At last, he could begin extracting Chakra. This is the first step toward becoming one of this world's strong.

Seeing the delight on Xuan Ye's face, Minato Namikaze let out a sigh of relief. Thankfully, Xuan Ye liked the gift, and he had not chosen wrong. He just did not know whether he qualified as a father.

He spent so much time away from his child that he naturally did not know what Xuan Ye was thinking. Nor did he know what kind of image he held in his child's heart.

But I will do everything I can to give my child the best life. I will not let him be hurt or sad. I will give him a happy childhood. That was what Minato Namikaze was thinking at that moment.

Genya Namikaze hurried back to his room, took out the scroll containing the Chakra training technique that his father, Minato Namikaze, had personally given him, and gently opened it with both hands.

Chakra training techniques were not particularly rare. For someone of Xuan Ye's status, obtaining one was fairly easy. But for villagers without any status, it was an extremely difficult matter.

They had no way to obtain a Chakra Extraction Technique, so they could only remain ordinary villagers for their entire lives, with no means of becoming strong. Of course, those with exceptional talent still had a chance to obtain one, like Minato Namikaze. He had been a civilian ninja without any backing, but his talent was good enough that he could receive many resources.

These things differed from person to person, and that was only natural. Talented people could obtain abundant resources, while those without talent should not even think about receiving large amounts of resources. Even a single Chakra Extraction Technique was difficult for them to acquire. There was no fairness in the world of Naruto.

The scroll was still very new, so Xuan Ye judged that it had been made not long ago. His father must have bought it especially for him. A single scroll was not cheap at all.

Scrolls engraved with methods for training ninjutsu were still within an affordable range, and Minato Namikaze could buy a few of them. But if an actual ninjutsu was stored within a scroll, the price became truly exorbitant.

Leaving aside whether it was expensive, simply making this kind of Ninjutsu Scroll was extraordinarily difficult. Ordinary people could not make them, and even some geniuses were incapable of doing so.

To create such a Ninjutsu Scroll, one needed exceptional talent, followed by countless experiments. Only then was there a possibility, a chance, a probability of creating a Ninjutsu Scroll that sealed a ninjutsu within it.

Although these Ninjutsu Scrolls were expensive, there was a reason for it—they were worth the price. They were extremely convenient to use. One only had to tear the scroll apart. Nothing else needed to be done; tearing it was enough.

Even an ordinary villager who had never trained and did not possess a trace of Chakra could use this kind of Ninjutsu Scroll. As a result, they were always in short supply. The daimyō of those nations always carried many Ninjutsu Scrolls sealed with ninjutsu on them.

Combined with the difficulty of making them, these scrolls sold for incredibly high prices. Even Minato Namikaze, after becoming Hokage, did not have enough money to buy many Ninjutsu Scrolls. If he bought any, he could only buy a few. Buying too many was impossible; he would not have enough money.

Xuan Ye suppressed his excitement, focused his gaze, and carefully studied the technique before him that explained how to extract Chakra.

After reading for a while, Xuan Ye began to understand. Chakra extraction was neither particularly difficult nor particularly simple. To extract Chakra, one had to draw physical energy from each of the body's 130 trillion cells.

Then, one combined it with the energy produced by spiritual power, which was formed through one's experiences, training, accumulation, and exercise. When the two fused together, they formed the most basic Chakra.

Chakra was an energy produced through the perfect fusion of the various energies controlled by the human body. It was the foundation for performing ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu, and it could also be formed into threads to bind opponents or cut through substances likewise composed of Chakra.

There was also a more advanced form of Chakra: Sage Chakra.

Cultivating Sage Chakra was extremely difficult. One had to fuse three kinds of energy together. After the three energies slowly merged, the resulting power was Sage Chakra.

Two of those three energies were relatively easy to acquire, but obtaining the third was not so easy. The third energy was Nature Energy. To obtain it, one had to go to one of the Three Great Sacred Lands, first form a contract with its summoned beasts, then acquire Nature Energy there before finally beginning the cultivation of Sage Chakra.

The Three Great Sacred Lands were Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest.

Mount Myōboku was an unknown and mysterious sacred land in the ninja world, home to summoned toads. It was the sacred land where his father Minato Namikaze, his father's teacher Jiraiya, and his not-yet-born younger brother Naruto Uzumaki had formed contracts.

It was also where Jiraiya and his unborn younger brother Naruto Uzumaki cultivated Sage Chakra.

Ryūchi Cave, also called Taki Cave, was a place for cultivating Sage Chakra that stood alongside the legendary Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest in Naruto.

In Naruto, Orochimaru had once wanted to cultivate Sage Chakra there as well. However, after his hands had been sealed by the Reaper Death Seal used by the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, his body could no longer withstand the power of Sage Chakra. Thus, he tried to take Sasuke's body in order to cultivate Sage Chakra.

Shikkotsu Forest was a legendary land of immortals in Naruto. Together with Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave, it was known as one of the Three Great Sacred Lands. Its master was Lady Katsuyu, whose strength was mysterious and formidable. It was also where one of the Three Sannin, Tsunade Senju, had formed her summoning contract.

Other than these Three Great Sacred Lands, Xuan Ye had never heard of any other places that possessed Nature Energy and allowed the cultivation of Sage Chakra. Naturally, Kushina Uzumaki had told him all of this.

He just did not know whether there were any other places beyond the Three Great Sacred Lands that possessed Nature Energy and allowed the cultivation of Sage Chakra.