Re-entering Naruto

"I could probably return to the Minor World and continue training now."

That night, after watching Wanda fall asleep, Li Chuan opened the panel and clicked the button to enter the Minor World once more.

Having completed this mission, he had gained the Palm Sage Technique and an additional two months in the Minor World.

At present, he had a total of eight months to train in the Naruto World. If all went smoothly, his strength would improve considerably by the time he returned next time.

After a dizzying whirl, he opened his eyes again and found himself back in the Prince's Mansion in the Land of Fire.

"Kino, come in for a moment!"

"Your Highness, what else do you require?"

Kino returned to the room, somewhat puzzled.

From her perspective, she had just handed the Ration Pills to Your Highness the Prince and left the room. She had barely taken a few steps before being called back.

"Send someone to buy more fish. They need to be alive. Bring them with me to the temple later."

Li Chuan thought for a moment before replying.

"What kind of fish would you like?"

Kino blinked twice.

She assumed Li Chuan was buying fish for the monks at the Fire Temple to eat. Though the Fire Temple was a temple, it did not forbid alcohol or meat, and fish was naturally permitted as well.

"Any kind will do. Preferably larger ones with strong vitality."

Li Chuan waved his hand.

He was not buying fish to eat. He intended to use them to train in the Palm Sage Technique.

After reading the scroll, Li Chuan concluded that the Palm Sage Technique was considered an A-rank Ninjutsu for two reasons. First, it required extremely strong Chakra control; otherwise, it could not produce any healing effect.

Second, it required extensive medical knowledge—or, more precisely, knowledge of the human body's composition, cells, meridians, and so on.

Therefore, becoming a qualified medical ninja did not require an enormous amount of Chakra or any particular talent for combat. What mattered most was Chakra control and the ability to learn medical knowledge.

That was also why many powerful jonin did not learn any Medical Ninjutsu and only used bandages when they were injured.

They simply had neither the time nor the energy to study that complicated and incredibly difficult medical knowledge.

Moreover, quite a few powerful ninja possessed exceptional combat instincts and talent for Ninjutsu, yet were hopeless when it came to ordinary learning—Naruto, the protagonist, for example.

As a martial artist, Li Chuan had learned a great deal of traditional Chinese medicine from his master since childhood, in addition to martial arts.

Medicine and martial arts went hand in hand. If martial artists did not learn some medicine, how could they save themselves after getting injured? Besides, he had often been injured while fighting Life-and-Death Boxing matches abroad, so he had also studied some Western medicine.

Thus, he had no problems whatsoever when it came to medical knowledge of the human body. What he needed to focus on was practicing finer control over Chakra.

And for that, following Tsunade's method and training with fish was the most suitable approach.

Li Chuan was not practicing finer Chakra control solely to learn the Palm Sage Technique. It could itself play a major role in combat.

More precise Chakra control allowed for better control over Ninjutsu, reduced the unnecessary Chakra wasted when casting Ninjutsu, and increased its power.

As a novice who had only been refining Chakra for five months, the amount of Chakra in Li Chuan's body was only about the same as that of an ordinary Genin. If he wanted to cast Ninjutsu more times, he had to learn to control his Chakra with greater precision.

After staying at the Prince's Mansion for most of the day, Li Chuan returned to the Fire Temple that afternoon with a large number of live fish.

"Chuan, why did you buy so many fish?"

Chiriku looked at the buckets upon buckets of live fish that Li Chuan's men carried into the temple, wearing the same puzzled expression.

Clearly, his thoughts were the same as Kino's earlier. He believed Li Chuan had bought the fish for the monks to eat.

So Li Chuan explained his plan to use fish to practice fine Chakra control and his desire to learn Medical Ninjutsu.

"There is actually such an ingenious method!"

Chiriku silently marveled before saying, "Wait here. I'll find you some scrolls."

As a temple, the Fire Temple did not have as complete a collection of Medical Ninjutsu materials as Konoha, nor did it possess many powerful Medical Ninjutsu. Still, it knew some ordinary healing techniques.

Mainly because Sage Art Chakra itself provided a certain boost to healing, the Monk Ninjas of the Fire Temple would sometimes treat minor ailments for people who came to worship.

When Chiriku returned, he was carrying several scrolls containing the Fire Temple's Medical Ninjutsu and related theoretical knowledge.

"I'm not skilled in healing Ninjutsu, so you'll have to rely on yourself."

After handing the scrolls to Li Chuan, Chiriku patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.

With the scrolls in hand, together with the Palm Sage Technique training scroll in the Mission Space, Li Chuan once again entered a frenzied mode of study and training.

The Fire Temple's healing Ninjutsu was crude, at most D-rank, and its theoretical knowledge was scattered and unsystematic.

Yet it served as an extremely important bridge for Li Chuan's study of the Palm Sage Technique.

Different worlds had somewhat different understandings of the human body. The knowledge of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Li Chuan's mind would certainly differ from this world's terminology and ways of expression in many respects.

Furthermore, the mysterious energy known as Chakra was involved, giving rise to many entirely new concepts.

It would have been extremely difficult for Li Chuan to understand all of that on his own, but the Fire Temple's theoretical knowledge provided a transition, making things much easier.

Thus, as time passed, through his efforts, he finally began to gradually master the A-rank healing technique known as the Palm Sage Technique.

Of course, aside from practicing the Palm Sage Technique and Chakra control, Li Chuan had not neglected his training in other areas either—studying the cultural theory classes taught by Chiriku, combat integration training for ninjutsu and Body Technique, and so on.

In this world, there were no high-tech products like surveillance cameras or satellite tracking. As long as he found an open area near the temple, he could practice ninjutsu however he liked.

Whenever there was something he did not understand, he could also ask Chiriku for guidance.

In the blink of an eye, five months had passed.

In the woods outside the Fire Temple, Li Chuan formed hand seals.

"Wind Release: Flower Scattering Dance."

A whirlwind materialized around him, driving the surrounding leaves to whirl rapidly around his body. A few seconds later, the whirlwind dissipated, and the leaves fell to the ground.

"Using the spinning leaves to deal damage isn't very powerful, but it can disrupt an enemy's vision and give me a chance to close in and use Body Technique. It'll do."

Long ago, Li Chuan had asked Kino to send people to the underground Bounty Hunter Guild and offer hefty rewards for ninjutsu. By now, they had gradually gained quite a few results.

That D-rank Wind Release ninjutsu just now was one of them.

However, the ninjutsu that could be bought with money were basically common techniques with little power. The highest rank was only D-rank; up to now, he had not managed to buy even a single C-Rank ninjutsu.