For the next half month, Hanfu's life briefly fell into a routine. He shuttled between three places: the Ninja Academy, Might Duy's home, and his own.
At school, Hanfu occasionally teased his classmate Ito Ni and chatted with Iruka, Anko, and the others. Most importantly, during lunch breaks, he relentlessly pestered every second-year teacher for advice on the Chakra Refinement Technique, going through the whole lot of them three times!
He had forty-five chances to collect the technique over half a month. Four failed, and forty-one succeeded. Adding those to the six earlier successes, Hanfu's Chakra refinement speed was now 470% of what it had been at the start—nearly five times faster!
After forty-seven fusions, the pale blue orb representing the Chakra Refinement Technique had grown steadily darker. It now looked almost a deep blue, and seemed to be just one small step away from perfection.
When Hanfu was at Might Duy's home, he was practically a hired hand. He had to boil water, pour it, and sort out all kinds of odds and ends. After Shennong finished massaging Might Duy's back, Hanfu had to study the Bandage Technique for half an hour. He also had to keep up awkward small talk with them to build their relationship. In a word, exhausting!
And when he got home, Hanfu still didn't get to rest. He put a lot of effort into training his little brother, doing his best to minimize the influence of those two old men, Inoue Gekko and Matsushita Gekko. At the same time, he discreetly shifted his own homework onto his little brother.
As for Hanfu, he refined Chakra.
With each successful collection of the Chakra Refinement Technique, followed by fusion and enhancement, Hanfu's refinement speed improved day by day. After half a month, the amount of Chakra