Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!"

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!"

Kamiya Keiyun was awakened by the sound of roosters crowing. Dawn had only just begun to break, and bright moonlight streamed through the window, casting the room in a hazy glow.

He saw his sister kneeling on the floor. Was she... asleep?

"What's wrong with you? I slept on the floor in the afternoon, and now you're sleeping on the floor at night?" Kamiya Keiyun got up and tried to carry Sanyō to his room, but after struggling for a while, he couldn't move her.

He hadn't yet learned how to use Chakra to increase his strength.

"Fine, then sleep on the floor!" Kamiya Keiyun spread the bedding out on the ground, pushed Sanyō onto it, and tucked her in beneath the blanket.

Then he got up, went outside, and climbed onto the roof.

He closed his eyes and emptied his mind. A pristine white lotus appeared in his thoughts.

For some reason, although the World Lotus was pink and white, the one he visualized was entirely white.

Along with the lotus came the soft sound of chanting.

The Great Dao is formless, giving birth to Heaven and Earth; the Great Dao is without emotion, guiding the sun and moon; the Great Dao is nameless, nurturing all things. I know not its name, and so reluctantly call it the Dao. As for the Dao: there is clarity and turbidity, movement and stillness; Heaven is clear and Earth is turbid, Heaven moves and Earth is still; men are clear and women are turbid, men move and women are still. From the root it descends to the branches, and thus all things are born. Clarity is the source of turbidity, movement is the foundation of stillness; if people can remain ever clear and tranquil, Heaven and Earth will all return.

Not only had this Meditation Method been successfully created, its effects were unexpectedly good.

Normally, a Meditation Method should only work while one was visualizing and stop working once the visualization ended. But perhaps because he was too close to the World Seed, this lotus seemed to have taken root in his mind. Together with the chanting, it kept restoring his mental energy at all times.

As for whether his mental strength had grown, he didn't know. Maybe the progress was too slow for him to notice; after all, it had only been running for one night.

But even if it merely restored his mental energy, he had already struck gold. It meant that the time he could spend using 3D modeling to train his Chakra Control could be greatly extended.

"Mm, visualizing a white lotus, complete with recitations from the Classic of Purity and Tranquility... I'll call this method the Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra. As for the 3D modeling method for training Chakra Control, I can call it the Bright Virtue Method. It sounds like it comes from The Great Learning, from the phrase 'manifesting bright virtue,' but who would ever guess it actually means MMD!" Kamiya Keiyun grinned smugly.

Still, he only knew how to practice these two methods, not how to teach them to others. Others aside, he definitely had to teach his sister.

He would have to study that later. Hm?

Perhaps because of the Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra, Kamiya Keiyun's senses had become exceptionally sharp. He could actually feel that the village seemed... far from peaceful.

Why were people running around in the middle of the night? Didn't they need sleep? The neighbors had work tomorrow!

Buzz!

A black shadow flashed past, and then a masked ninja appeared beside Kamiya Keiyun, startling him!

The ninja was dressed entirely in black and carried a short sword on his back. His hair, however, was quite conspicuous—a head of white hair, very similar to his deskmate's.

"W-Who are you?" Kamiya Keiyun asked curiously. "Do you have to work at night too?"

"Work?" The masked ninja paused, then asked in a deep voice, "Which family are you from? Why are you up here in the middle of the night?"

"My house is right here!" Kamiya Keiyun pointed at the house beneath him, then added, "I couldn't sleep, so I came out to bask in the moonlight. Is there a problem?"

The ninja was speechless. "You'd better not do this. Staying up in the middle of the night can easily lead to misunderstandings. Even if you want to bask in the moonlight, you should lie in the courtyard instead!"

The next second, the man had vanished.

!!!!

Holy shit, this is an adult ninja? Kamiya Keiyun looked well-behaved on the surface, but inwardly, he was utterly stunned.

He had just been thinking that his senses seemed much sharper, and then this man had appeared beside him without a sound.

Even though all of his attention had been on that man, he had no idea when he left or which direction he went!

What kind of person was that? That was terrifying!

If he had wanted to attack him, he wouldn't have had the slightest chance to fight back!

Kamiya Keiyun wisely climbed down and went to sleep.

Although the Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra could restore mental energy, sleep was meant to clear away the metabolic waste that accumulated in the brain during the day. Meditation couldn't completely replace sleep. There were still two or three hours until dawn, enough time for another nap.

The next day, school began as usual with an hour of the Chakra Refining Technique, followed by literacy class.

Kamiya Keiyun felt that it was a bit of a waste of time, but he didn't know what else to do. He looked around—and discovered that a student was actually sleeping!

It was a child with a Pineapple Head. It was only the second day of school, and he actually dared sleep openly in class. Wasn't the teacher going to do anything?

He looked at Umino Iruka. Their classroom was a tiered lecture hall, so there was no way students in front could block the teacher's view of those in the back. The sleeping kid would definitely be noticed!

Yet Umino Iruka simply ignored him, as if the child didn't exist!

"You can do that?" Kamiya Keiyun thought about it. This teacher didn't seem particularly responsible. Yesterday, he had brushed off Kamiya Keiyun's question, and now he was ignoring a student sleeping in class.

Come to think of it, why wasn't Kakashi in class? Had he taken leave, or was he skipping school?

Whatever. Since someone else was doing it, he could do the same.

Of course, he wasn't planning to sleep. His mind was still clear, but he might faint while using the Bright Virtue Method. To keep his head from hitting the desk and making a sound, he decided to put his head down on the desk first.

That way, his classmates wouldn't know whether he had fainted or simply fallen asleep. Perfect!

He closed his eyes and continued shaping Chakra!

After training all morning yesterday, his Chakra Control had improved considerably. Previously, even shaping a human figure had been difficult. Now, he could practically do it in a single step.

Next came the fine detailing, and Kamiya Keiyun was in no hurry.

When he used to make models, it was perfectly normal for him to spend more than ten hours manipulating a mouse. If he had no reference and had to imagine and sculpt everything from scratch, it would take days or even months of adjustments.

Besides, this was tied to improving his strength. Anyone from Huaxia was an elite grinder. They could grind themselves to death even when they couldn't see any progress, and now he could clearly feel himself improving by leaps and bounds!

After literacy class came the lunch break. The ninja academy was small, and many students lived nearby. Some simply went home to eat, while others brought lunchboxes and ate at school.

His lunch was decent enough: rice and stir-fried cabbage with meat.

That supposedly main-character-like Uchiha Obito, on the other hand, was eating rather poorly. Not only was there no meat, but perhaps too much salt had been added. The boy's expression was particularly colorful as he ate.

"Isn't he from a major clan? Are things bad at home?" Kamiya Keiyun thought about it, but didn't go over to him.

He might be the main character, but Kamiya Keiyun didn't think he was any worse. I have a cheat ability—how could I become the main character's lapdog?

There would definitely be a place for him among the future mecha pilots!

But he soon realized he wasn't needed. The girl with bun-shaped hair and rapeseed-like markings painted on her face had already gone over and shared her lunch with Uchiha Obito.

"Her name is Nohara Rin. She's from the Nohara family," a voice said beside him. It was Inuzuka Hana, someone he could barely count as an acquaintance.

"Oh, oh!" Kamiya Keiyun nodded.

"Just as I thought, you weren't paying attention at all when everyone introduced themselves!" Inuzuka Hana looked as though she had caught him red-handed.

"Yeah, I was spacing out then." Kamiya Keiyun nodded.

"Wow, you actually admitted it!" Inuzuka Hana froze. When people ran into this sort of thing, weren't they supposed to hurriedly deny it?

"What's there to deny?" Kamiya Keiyun shrugged. It didn't affect anything.

That was also thanks to modern internet culture. He played games too, and in games, people casually dragging each other's parents into insults was incredibly common.

After arguing online long enough, Kamiya Keiyun had figured out the trick. When someone wanted to quarrel with you, the best response wasn't to argue back—it was to agree with them.

"Why is your support so trash?"

"Yeah, yeah, you're right about everything."

"Your Q is so crooked, my grandma could play better than you!"

"Yeah, yeah, you're right about everything."

See? Didn't answering like that instantly make the atmosphere more harmonious?

"Fine." Inuzuka Hana nodded, then looked at Kamiya Keiyun curiously.

Children in the Naruto World matured early. Hinata had already fallen for Naruto when she was five.

Inuzuka Hana was the same. When school started, she had noticed Kamiya Keiyun, who stood out from the crowd. His looks were one thing, but while all the other children cried, fussed, and clung to their parents—even Kakashi seemed a little nervous—he alone had remained calm.

That was why she had noticed that Kamiya Keiyun had been spacing out throughout the entire class's introductions.

Still, she hadn't expected him to simply nod and admit it!

How should she put it? He seemed to have this... very mature air about him!