Beginning Chakra Extraction

After reading the Chakra Extraction Technique, Xuan Ye calmed his excitement. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. He repeated this several times, because when extracting chakra, he had to clear his mind and could not let his thoughts wander. Otherwise, the chances of successfully learning chakra extraction would be low.

However, once he succeeded the first time, it would become very simple. The first attempt at the Chakra Extraction Technique was extremely difficult. He had to extract energy from the 130 trillion cells in his body, fuse it with his spiritual energy, and only then could he extract chakra.

As long as he successfully extracted chakra once, that feeling would be deeply imprinted in his mind and never forgotten. Though even if he wanted to forget, it would be impossible. Once chakra extraction succeeded, extracting chakra would become like a bodily instinct—he could do it whenever he wanted.

It was like his arms. Couldn't people control them freely from the moment they were born? That was also a bodily instinct. If someone wanted to forget how to control their own arms, wouldn't that be nothing but a fantasy?

Calm down, calm down, calm down. I have to stay calm. I can't be impatient. Empty my mind and relax. There's still plenty of time. I have time to take this slowly, Xuan Ye silently told himself.

Alright, that was about enough. Xuan Ye felt his state of mind gradually settle, and he was no longer as excited. He prepared to begin extracting chakra.

First, he sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and gently rested his hands above his thighs. He took another deep breath and slowly let it out. Xuan Ye felt that he had adjusted himself well enough, so he began extracting chakra.

Alright, first he had to extract energy from the 130 trillion cells in his body. The feeling was incredibly wondrous. Those who had never experienced it could never understand; they had to feel it for themselves before they could truly know.

Xuan Ye followed the method of the Chakra Extraction Technique step by step. An hour later, beads of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead, and his face had turned somewhat pale.

Extracting chakra from 130 trillion cells really is a little difficult. I'm clearly following the extraction method written on the Chakra Extraction Technique scroll, so why hasn't any energy appeared yet?

Xuan Ye could not understand it at all. Is it because I can't extract chakra? Or because I don't have the talent for chakra extraction? Unable to extract chakra from the cells in his body, Xuan Ye felt a little dejected. Am I really going to spend the rest of my life like this?

Unable to become strong, unable to control his own fate, and unable to even gain the power to protect himself—what was the point of living? Just like in his previous life, his fate would be controlled by others, and he could only survive on a meager salary.

Every day, he had to get up early in the morning and go to work, only returning home late at night. Sometimes, he even had to work overtime. Do I still have to live like that in this life? Be a weakling and forever cling to life like an ant?

No, I don't want to live that kind of life again. I've had enough of it. If I can't control my own power, I might as well die. I can't give up. I want to successfully extract chakra. Even if my life is in danger, I'm not afraid. I want to become strong.

Xuan Ye shouted in his heart, roaring madly. Even if his body was weak and uncomfortable, he had to persist. Even if his face was as pale as snow, he had to persist. Even if he ultimately failed, he would not regret it, because he had once worked hard and once held on.

If Xuan Ye's father, Minato Namikaze, had been here, he would definitely have stopped him. Extracting chakra was not that easy. Sometimes, even geniuses needed several days to successfully extract their own chakra.

For those who were not geniuses, taking several months to extract their own chakra was nothing unusual. That was normal. Yet Xuan Ye wanted to succeed in one attempt, and that was extremely dangerous.

It was also because Xuan Ye did not know this that he believed himself untalented after failing to extract energy in an hour. Even so, he refused to give up. No matter how uncomfortable he felt, he would continue.

Xuan Ye kept persevering, kept persevering. As long as he did not faint, he would keep going. It seemed that his body had sensed his desire, or perhaps his time had come. No matter what, he felt energy being extracted from his cells.

This energy was incredibly warm and comfortable, and color gradually returned to his snow-pale face.

This energy could be controlled by him. Wherever he wanted it to go, it would go. The feeling was wonderful, utterly marvelous.

For the first time, Xuan Ye successfully extracted his own energy from 130 trillion cells. It truly felt like a dream. Moreover, in the world of Naruto, no one had ever successfully extracted energy from the countless cells of the human body in a single day. This could be considered a miracle.

So this is what it feels like to possess energy? It's so comfortable that I can't help but lose myself in it.

However, Xuan Ye did not have much time to experience or savor this energy, because there was something else even more important: he needed to fuse his spiritual energy with this miraculous energy.

Having read the Ninjutsu Scrolls on chakra extraction that his father, Minato Namikaze, had given him, he knew how to fuse this energy with his spiritual energy. But before he could do so, he had to empty his mind and have no stray thoughts. Too many distracting thoughts would affect the fusion of the two energies and ultimately cause the chakra extraction to fail.

Xuan Ye sat on the bed for a while longer, thinking of nothing and doing nothing. He simply sat there quietly, casting all the unnecessary distractions from his mind. But that was not easy either. It took him more than another hour to get rid of those distracting thoughts.

Alright, that was about enough. After Xuan Ye felt that the unnecessary thoughts in his mind had been cleared away, he prepared for the most important step: fusing the energy extracted from his cells with the spiritual energy in his mind. This was also the most crucial step. If it failed, everything he had done before would be wasted.

Therefore, Xuan Ye attached great importance to the fusion of the two energies. Every step followed the method written on the scroll, perfectly and without the slightest mistake. Slowly, slowly, the two energies drew closer.

Under Xuan Ye's control, the two energies came closer and closer. The closer they got, the greater the repulsion between them, and the more difficult it became to fuse them. But none of that was a problem.

Carefully controlling them, he finally made the two energies collide. Xuan Ye frantically issued commands, making the two energies fuse. Slowly, slowly, the two energies intertwined.

Before long, the two energies fused and produced a new energy. This energy was stronger and more domineering, directly forcing the two energies to merge together.

Two hours later, Xuan Ye finally opened his long-closed eyes. He exhaled a breath of stale air and revealed a sincere smile.

He had finally succeeded. Although the process had still been extremely dangerous, as long as the result was good, that was enough, wasn't it?