Exploring Sage Mode Once More

While Jugo sat quietly to one side, wholly focused on absorbing Natural Energy, Minamoto Takuya did not stand by idly.

He gave Haku a brief instruction beside him, then used Wood Release ninjutsu to create a sturdy wooden rocking chair with an antique charm out of thin air.

After settling his original body comfortably into the chair, Minamoto Takuya immediately used the Spirit Transformation Technique.

His consciousness left his body and sank into Haku's.

Minamoto Takuya's purpose was clear and profound. He needed to once again use Haku's Ice Release body to personally experience that bone-chilling flow of chakra and its transformations.

This was not his first attempt, but this time, he was determined to compare his current insights with the experience he had accumulated while independently studying the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, integrating them deeply.

This second firsthand experience, undertaken with specific questions in mind, should help him master Ice Release.

Controlling Haku's body for experimentation felt completely different from using other test subjects before.

Haku would not, like those resistant subjects, subconsciously struggle against the invasion of his will at every moment. That made the experience exceptionally smooth and seamless.

Even so, deep within his heart, Minamoto Takuya still retained a vigilance he could not relax, maintaining his guard against Haku. This caution seemed to be his instinctive way of dealing with the world; no matter who or what it was, he found it difficult to lower his guard completely.

Time passed quietly in the silence.

Minamoto Takuya's consciousness continued to wander within Haku's body, meticulously studying every mystery of Ice Release chakra.

Yet beneath the same moonlight, Jugo was undergoing an unprecedented, utterly transformative experience.

To his astonishment, he realized that the passive suction within his body, which he had never been able to control, had stopped