Adjusting His Mindset

This time, Yichen noticed the mental imbalance much earlier, unlike the previous time. That time, it wasted a lot of Yichen's time and directly widened the gap between Yichen and top geniuses like Ikura.

As a result, all of those top geniuses are now at the near-Kage level, and some may even have already truly become Kage Level.

Yichen is currently only an Elite Jonin. Although he has successfully developed the Porcelain Release bloodline limit, he is still far inferior to Kage Level ninja.

Fortunately, it was discovered early; otherwise, it would have been difficult to deal with if it had developed into an obsession.

There's no particularly good way to deal with this obsession; the only thing Yichen can think of is balancing work and rest.

Yichen decided to take a few days off and relax. In fact, since transmigrating, Yichen had hardly had a proper rest except when he was injured.

Even when injured, he continued to practice some minor training exercises, such as the Myriad Manifestations Banshō Ten'in. At that time, Yichen's whole body ached with the slightest movement, but he still practiced the Banshō Ten'in on his sickbed.

After explaining the situation to Kitsuchi, Yichen was granted a few days' leave. During these days, he put aside everything related to his cultivation and blocked all information that might exacerbate his anxiety.

The effect was really obvious. As soon as he took leave, Yichen immediately felt his body feel completely relaxed.

After thinking for a while, Yichen returned to his residence and removed the Weighted Training Gear he was wearing. Finally, he even changed out of his Jonin Yichen and into civilian clothes.

Since transmigrating, Yichen has been cultivating until very late Tenten, but today he went to bed after taking a walk after dinner.

Yichen had initially thought that his long-standing biological clock might be affecting him, and he might not be able to sleep. However, he fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow, and slept soundly until almost noon the next day. Calculating the time, that was about fourteen or fifteen hours.

After waking up, Yichen, still a little groggy, shook his head, slowly finished washing up, and then left the room.

As he walked, Yichen, still yawning, first went to the Logistics Department to get some food before returning to the Training Ground.

When Yichen arrived at the Training Ground, he wasn't there to cultivate. He dragged a stool to the edge of the camp's Training Ground, watching everyone cultivate while squinting in the sun.

It feels so good to see someone busy while you're actually resting.

Yichen was the Deputy Commander of the camp and a public figure, so his unusual behavior immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone glanced curiously in Yichen's direction every now and then, wondering what kind of trouble this lord was up to this time.

In everyone's mind, Yichen is a commander with many ideas.

When the camp was first established, Yichen led everyone to learn Combination Ninjutsu. Later, he developed Kekkei Genkai, and it is said that Yichen's Porcelain Release bloodline limit has now spread throughout the Ninja World. A few days ago, Yichen also came up with a Balance Training.

Some say that this Yichen also developed several ninjutsu, including a powerful A-rank offensive ninjutsu.

Hearing the whispers of the crowd, Yichen didn't care, and looked at everyone with slightly narrowed eyes.

These past few days, most of everyone's training has focused on balance exercises.

Kitsuchi Tufei, in his capacity as the head of the East Front Camp, encouraged everyone to train and even wrote a report for the village, asking them to arrange for other ninjas to train as well.

Seeing everyone so enthusiastically treating cultivation as a fun game, Yichen's mood inexplicably improved.

"Sigh," Yichen sighed, "I haven't really appreciated the scenery around me all these years."

Thinking about this, Yichen actually felt a little regretful. Over the years, because of his worries about the scene of gods fighting Fourth Shinobi War, Yichen had been like a taut string.

It feels like I'm using all my strength even when I'm eating and sleeping.

As he looked around, perhaps because the sun was too comfortable, or perhaps because of long-term sleep deprivation, Yichen, who had relaxed, became sleepy again.

Not long after, Yichen actually fell asleep sitting on the stool, and even started snoring softly.

Since everyone was a ninja, Yichen's sudden move immediately caught everyone's attention. They looked at each other, puzzled.

However, no one disturbed Yichen. That's how ninjas are; no one knows whether someone's strange behavior is part of some kind of special training.

This allowed Yichen to sleep peacefully for another noon and afternoon.

Finally, it was only after the three disciples returned to camp from their mission and realized it was time for dinner that they woke Yichen up.

Half-asleep, Yichen stretched and yawned. It took him a while to realize that he had fallen asleep by the Training Ground.

Yichen himself found it somewhat amusing. As a ninja, one must always remain alert, and the first thing one does upon waking is to check one's surroundings. Even while asleep, one must remain vigilant, ready to wake up and fight at any moment.

Yichen was quite satisfied with his relaxed state of mind; it was a good balance between work and rest, as he was indeed mentally exhausted.

The three disciples found Yichen's behavior strange. Kawakita, being straightforward, asked on their behalf, "Teacher, what's wrong? Why are you asleep by the Training Ground? And you seem a bit off."

Yichen Chen laughed and ruffled Kawakita's hair. He didn't explain. The three of them were still far from reaching Yichen's level. Even the fastest among them, Tomoko, hadn't officially become Jonin yet. Kajiyamari and Kawakita weren't even Special Jonin yet.

"Let's not talk about this, let's go eat." Yichen said, yawning as he walked towards the Logistics Department.

The three little ones followed behind him, completely bewildered.

Yichen maintained this relaxed state of mind for five days. During these five days, he slept for most of the time. Although the following days were not as extreme as the first day, he still slept for more than 12 hours each day. When he was awake, Yichen spent most of his time relaxing in the sun. Only occasionally, when he was bored, would he give some pointers to his three disciples.

However, the three disciples are currently in the stage of finding their own paths and do not need Yichen's guidance much, so Yichen basically has nothing to do.

With nothing to do, Yichen either watched the others cultivate in the camp or watched Dango cultivate. There was nothing he could do; although he had asked for leave, Kitsuchi wouldn't allow Yichen to leave the camp.

"Once the situation in the Ninja World stabilizes, we must travel around and see it for Ninja World. We can't have come all this way for nothing, can we?"

During these five days, Yichen did not go to Kitsuchi's office, did not inquire about any affairs of the camp, and did not engage in any cultivation. During these five days, Yichen completely relaxed himself.

On the sixth day, Yichen's vacation ended. Following his previous routine, Yichen washed up and got up early, put on his Weighted Training Gear and Jonin vest, and began his normal training.

This time, Yichen didn't rush his training. Instead, he proceeded step by step with the physical training that had been interrupted for five days. After breakfast, Yichen began his targeted training. His morning training consisted of Yichen Lightning Release.

Arriving at the center of the small lake he had created earlier, Yichen Hand Seals and used the Lightning Conduction ninjutsu, then tried his best to confine the Lightning Release generated by the Lightning Conduction to the center of the lake.

This first step was a success. Under Yichen's control, not a single Lightning Release reached the edge of the lake; it was all Yichen within the center of the lake.

Then Yichen began to control the Lightning Release, dispersing it so that it would slowly touch the surrounding small pillars of earth.

Although this attempt wasn't entirely successful, in Yichen's perception, only a dozen or so Lightning Release struck their targets precisely according to his will; the Lightning Release lost their accuracy when he tried to control them. While some did hit their targets, that was entirely due to luck.

However, compared to the lack of progress before, this can be considered a huge Wind Release: Breakthrough. Sure enough, my choice was right. A few days ago, my mindset was not right, and I was too tense and anxious, so I didn't perform well at all.

After adjusting my mindset this time, my state of mind became much clearer, and my self-control improved.

Dispersing the Lightning Release that still held sway, Yichen started over, repeating the process from the beginning.

After a morning, Yichen gradually mastered the knack. Although he only managed to accurately hit the target with more than thirty strands of Lightning Release in the end, it was a far cry from what he had done before.

In the afternoon, Yichen resumed his balance training: with the help of his clone, Yichen sat on the wooden plank above the Stone Cones.

The others in the camp naturally noticed that Yichen had resumed his balancing cultivation. Combined with Yichen's unusual behavior in the past few days, everyone was now very curious about just how far Yichen could go.

This includes the three disciples of Shironeko and Yichen.

After the clone released its grip, Yichen began to shake as expected, but this time the shaking was significantly less than before.

"One dust, two dust, three dust..." a ninja began to count.

Yichen was very stable in the early stages, with only minor swaying. However, after reaching level 40, possibly due to the wind, Yichen's swaying suddenly increased and became uncontrollable, eventually causing it to fall.

"44 dusts? This... how is this possible? Lord Yichen actually achieved 44 dusts in one go?"

"That's incredible! Can you really improve just by sunbathing for a few days?" someone thought to themselves.

Tomoko rubbed her eyes and asked the Shironeko, "Shironeko Sister, did Dango teach Teacher to change so much?"

The Shironeko shook its head. Although Dango had given Yichen pointers, the Shironeko knew that Yichen had tried them after Dango finished giving the pointers, and they hadn't been very effective.

Kajiyamari Shironeko denied the guess, whispering, "Could the teacher have used the Light-Weight Rock Technique?"

Kawakita nodded; that was his guess too. After all, Yichen could fly and hover in the air without any problem, let alone maintain its balance.

Tomoko shook her head and said, "Probably not. There's no Chakra fluctuation on Teacher's body; he didn't use any ninjutsu."

Amidst the murmurs of the crowd, Yichen began his second practice session.

"1 dust, 2 dust... 10 dust, 20 dust, 50 dust..."

This time, nothing unexpected happened. After adjusting her mindset, Yichen gradually found her balance after the initial wavering, and finally became completely still.

After a while, Yichen opened his closed eyes, smiled slightly, glanced at the onlookers, and humphed, "Your bodies and names will perish, but the rivers and mountains will flow on forever."

With an expression of looking down on all living beings, Yichen arrived at the Stone Cones where Dango was training and used Earth Release once again to create an even taller Stone Cones.

Hmm? I didn't expect that after adjusting my mindset this time, the power of Earth Release would also increase. The height is about 10% higher.

A clone was created, waiting below to catch him at any moment. Yichen's main body, holding the wooden plank, used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to reach the top of the Stone Cones.