An Effective Treatment Plan

"Then, do you have any ideas?"

Senju Tobirama looked at Hyuga Hoshishaku, asking the question subconsciously.

But in truth, he did not hold much hope.

For a small child to possess peculiar space-time talent and strange investigative abilities was already quite surprising.

To expect the other party to keep up with his own train of thought? Was that even possible?

Meanwhile, Hoshishaku began to recall.

In the original work, Senju Tobirama had developed a forbidden jutsu called Soul Imprisonment.

The function of that forbidden jutsu was to imprison the soul of a deceased person within their body, maintaining the body's vitality to buy time for medical treatment.

This jutsu was used on Sasuke during the final great battle, successfully saving the dying Sasuke.

So, the critical point was this.

Why was this jutsu developed in the first place?

Could it be that when Senju Yuto was nearing the end of his life, he discovered the problem and developed this ninjutsu to stall for time?

But what use was knowing this information?

Senju Yuto never appeared in the original work, which proved that relying on forbidden jutsu to stall for time was useless.

The forbidden jutsu itself was useless.

Gaining more time was also useless.

Therefore, it meant that even if Senju Tobirama discovered that Yuto's soul had a problem, he could not solve it independently.

And he himself, this "accident," was the surprise force to solve the problem.

Hoshishaku suddenly spoke, breaking the silence:

"I think Yin-style chakra is worth a try; we should teach Yuto how to convert and refine Yin-style chakra."

He then added, "That is the first point."

Yin-style had just been mentioned, so Senju Tobirama was not surprised at all.

But Hoshishaku continued:

"I think Yuto's spiritual energy and life force are severely imbalanced, so could we develop a ninjutsu or sealing jutsu to store and seal the massive amount of life force, making the life force and spiritual energy slightly more balanced?"

Senju Tobirama asked in surprise, "You even know about the Yin Seal?"

Hoshishaku widened his eyes; he definitely hadn't been thinking about the Yin Seal, that thing was just for storing chakra.

So, he argued back in a different tone:

"What? Is there an existing ninjutsu for that? Can the Yin Seal you mentioned store life force?"

"Life force..." Senju Tobirama frowned, feeling somewhat annoyed that he hadn't been precise enough.

"There are ninjutsu for storing chakra, but no ninjutsu for storing life force. To be honest, we still haven't figured out what life force is, what spiritual energy is, or what a soul is."

That was what he said.

But Hoshishaku, who knew the original plot, was full of confidence in the man before him.

After all, someone who could develop a series of forbidden jutsu like Impure World Reincarnation—how could he be at a loss once he had a direction?

So, Hoshishaku began to use his brain, which was different from the natives, to continue proposing viewpoints:

"Teacher, do you think Sage Mode or natural energy would be useful?"

"After all, every Sage in the Three Great Sage Regions has lived for so long. I feel that as a long-lived Sage, if their spiritual energy wasn't strong enough, they might go crazy from living too long, right?"

In order to get the S-rank ninja card, Hoshishaku didn't pretend at all, saying whatever came to mind.

Senju Tobirama, who was listening to his six-year-old disciple spout such intelligence and conjectures, was also extremely shocked.

After this, he would definitely have to find out where this brat learned so many secrets!

Taking a deep look at this disciple, Senju Tobirama began to ponder the feasibility of these methods.

And Hoshishaku, having proposed three suggestions, was also constantly thinking about more possibilities.

He didn't consider at all whether the level of concern he was showing for a friend he had only recently met was reasonable.

But honestly, even if he did consider it, he wouldn't hold back.

He would not give up the opportunity to reach the top in one step!

In the afternoon, after having dinner with the enthusiastic Hokage couple at the Senju compound and setting a time for sealing jutsu training, Hoshishaku returned to his own clan's territory.

There wasn't much time left in the evening, so he finished his daily tasks right on time before falling into a deep sleep, exhausted.

In the period that followed, because he had to go to the Senju compound to take lessons from Uzumaki Mito, his daily routine became quite regular.

He would wake up at eight every morning, eat breakfast, and then do warm-up training with Yun Fei and the others.

After training until nine, he would go to the Senju compound to study sealing jutsu with Senju Yuto.

This continued until after lunch, when he would use his lunch break to continue telling stories to Yuto.

From two o'clock in the afternoon until five, he continued his study of sealing techniques.

Refusing to stay there for dinner, he still had to spend two hours wandering around Konoha to complete his daily tasks.

There was almost no time for rest during this period.

Occasionally, when he needed to handle matters at the shop, he even had to ask Lady Mito for leave.

Six months passed in this manner, during which he discussed many treatment plans for Yuto with Master Tobirama, finally arriving at a conclusion.

There were two treatment plans in total.

The first was an improved version of the Yin Seal.

It changed the condition for storing chakra to storing life force.

This was a secondary strategy; theoretically, it could only serve to significantly delay Yuto's current condition.

In reality, after Yuto learned it, it only slowed down his life countdown without truly resolving the issue.

The second plan was an alternative Sage Mode created based on the wild and imaginative ideas of Hyuga Hoshishaku.

Or rather, it was the "Natural Energy Body Refining Technique"!

Sage Mode was merely entering a special state to temporarily and freely utilize the natural energy drifting between heaven and earth to enhance combat capabilities.

However, the "Natural Energy Body Refining Technique" relied on the accumulation of time, using natural energy to open up all the acupoints in the body and strengthen the meridians, thereby achieving the effect of fortifying the physique.

Over the past six months, as Hoshishaku's progress in learning sealing techniques accelerated, he also read many books from the clan's collection, especially those concerning acupoints and meridians.

Combining the principles of qi cultivation from his past life with the omnipotence of chakra, and through the joint discussions with Master Tobirama and Lord Hashirama, they finally researched this set of methods.

At first, they thought they had failed.

Because while this method was indeed powerful and could truly enhance physique and life force, wasn't Yuto's problem caused precisely by his excessive life force?

However, Hoshishaku was unwilling to give up just like that. In the spirit of experimentation, he secretly practiced it in private.

To his surprise, while his life force increased, the mental power on his attribute panel was also slowly rising!

With this set of methods, Senju Yuto's life finally had hope!

However, after he began teaching Yuto the Natural Energy Body Refining Technique, this S-rank mission commission was not completed immediately.

But the mission countdown had disappeared, which meant Yuto's life was secured; the complete fulfillment of the mission was now just a matter of time.

Hoshishaku guessed that perhaps the mission would be completed once Yuto's mental power reached 100 points, the level of a normal person.

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