In front of a residential building not far from the Ninja Academy, Veigar, who had been traveling with the Body Flicker Technique, suddenly appeared at the entrance.
Looking at the closed gate, Veigar pressed the doorbell.
"Who is it?"
Hearing Tomohisa Ishikawa's voice from inside, Veigar immediately replied, "Teacher Tomohisa, it's me."
"Veigar."
A moment later, Tomohisa Ishikawa opened the door and looked at Veigar outside. "Veigar, what brings you here?"
"Come in."
After following Tomohisa Ishikawa inside, Veigar was given a glass of water. Tomohisa Ishikawa then asked, "What brings you to see your teacher today?"
"Is something wrong?"
Veigar said, "Teacher, I have some questions about cultivation and would like to ask for your guidance. Please."
Tomohisa Ishikawa agreed without hesitation. "No problem."
"Tell your teacher about them. I'll see if I can help."
Veigar raised his head and asked Tomohisa Ishikawa, "Teacher, do you know how to train chakra control?"
Facing Veigar's intense gaze, Tomohisa Ishikawa thought for a moment before nodding. "I do!"
Veigar pleaded, "Then please teach me how to train my chakra control!"
"Please!"
Veigar wasn't unaware of how to train chakra control, but he couldn't let it show, because he was merely a civilian ninja student without any background.
So, he needed to find a suitable source for his knowledge of chakra control training, and Tomohisa Ishikawa was the opening he had chosen.
Only then would he have no need to fear others finding out.
Faced with Veigar's plea, Tomohisa Ishikawa, who seemed to have some reservations, said, "I can, but you have to tell your teacher where you learned that chakra control could be trained and improved."
Veigar replied, "Didn't you read the cultivation notes my father left behind?"
"They mentioned that precise chakra control could not only make the Body Flicker Technique faster, but also reduce the difficulty of learning other ninjutsu."
Tomohisa Ishikawa scratched his head and answered awkwardly, "Did they?"
"All right, then! Since that's the case, your teacher will teach you how to train your chakra control."
If Veigar had been born into a ninja clan or had some sort of background, training his chakra control would not have been this troublesome.
But Veigar had none of those things, so he could only rely on himself.
Using his foresight, he would steadily and methodically make himself as strong as possible as quickly as he could.
At the riverside where Veigar usually trained, Tomohisa Ishikawa said to him, "The method for training chakra control is actually very simple."
"That is—Tree Climbing?"
Veigar asked with feigned confusion, "Tree Climbing?"
"Isn't that a very simple thing?"
Tomohisa Ishikawa shook his head. "This is different. I'll demonstrate it once, and you'll understand."
"Watch closely!"
Tomohisa Ishikawa stood beneath a large tree, then "climbed" up it step by step using only his feet.
A while later, Tomohisa Ishikawa hung upside down from the tree and said to Veigar, "This is the Tree Climbing your teacher was talking about."
"As long as you can do it about as well as your teacher, you'll have completed half of your chakra control training."
Having achieved his goal, Veigar showed little excitement. Instead, he continued asking Tomohisa Ishikawa, "Half?"
"What about the other half?"
Tomohisa Ishikawa replied, "The other half is Water Walking."
Next, Tomohisa Ishikawa explained the tricks for Tree Climbing to Veigar. Afterward, Veigar began his Tree Climbing training.
"Bind."
With Chakra gathered beneath his feet and a Ninja Sword in his hand, Veigar began his first Tree Climbing practice.
However, during his first attempt at Tree Climbing, Veigar fell from the tree after taking only his second step.
Seeing this, Tomohisa Ishikawa said to Veigar, "When you first start training, you can try running first to familiarize yourself with the feeling of stepping on a tree."
Veigar turned around and replied, "Yes. Thank you, Teacher."
A week had passed since Veigar began his Tree Climbing training. Through his constant efforts, he could already hang upside down on the tree.
Veigar discovered that after training for this period, both the Three Basic Ninjutsu Techniques and the Body Flicker Technique had improved noticeably.
In the blink of an eye, the two-month holiday had passed, and tomorrow would be the start of a new school year at the Ninja Academy.
During these nearly two months of single-minded training, Veigar had not only learned to stand on the surface of the water, but also stood on the water whenever he practiced Sword Technique.
He was doing two things at once.
As the sun set, before the new term began, Veigar prepared to practice the Body Strengthening Technique left behind by Viking Koshima.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Veigar kept his eyes closed and continuously refined Chakra from within his body.
The Body Strengthening Technique focused on using Chakra to strengthen the body. However, Chakra itself was energy refined from the cells of the human body.
In theory, Chakra and the Body Strengthening Technique were completely contradictory.
The ingenuity of the Body Strengthening Technique, however, lay in the fact that the extracted Chakra could not be stored permanently.
No matter who they were, any Chakra they refined would gradually dissipate if left unused, unless they possessed a special Chakra storage technique or tool.
As far as Veigar knew, the technique that could store Chakra was the Yin Seal.
"Binding."
As Veigar opened his eyes and gave a soft shout, the Chakra that had begun to dissipate was actually bound around his body.
Before long, a faint layer of Chakra wrapped around Veigar's body, like clothing he had put on.
"Bang."
However, in the very next moment, the Chakra wrapped around Veigar's body burst apart with a bang like a punctured balloon.
Veigar was instantly thrown onto the bed by the shock wave produced by the explosion of the Chakra Cloak.
Veigar slowly sat up, mentally summarizing the reasons for his failure.
His control over Chakra was insufficient, and the amount of Chakra he had refined and allowed to dissipate naturally was too great...
Having grown accustomed to failing the first time he practiced a ninjutsu, Veigar began another round of training after summarizing the reasons for his failure.
As he sank into training once more, Veigar felt somewhat troubled. He felt that, with his current level of chakra control, practicing the Body Strengthening Technique was still a little too difficult. He needed more precise chakra control.
After all, forming a Chakra Cloak that looked like clothing was merely the first step in beginning the Body Strengthening Technique.
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