Yang Release

"This technique consists of four hand seals in total."

Yu Fenglan was also teaching with great effort: "Son, follow the seals to guide your chakra. Imagine yourself as a tree, then use your chakra as branches to grow outward from your body, extending continuously."

"Remember, the chakra must be refined, and the condensed branches must be solid; otherwise, they won't be able to extend far enough, which will result in a very short sensory range."

"The length of the branches determines your sensory distance, while the number of branches determines your sensory range and precision."

"However, since you are just starting your training, first condense a single sensory branch with a length of one meter. Increase the length and quantity only after you have mastered it."

Genma nodded.

At this moment, Ritsuka appeared at the doorway: "Genma, dear, breakfast is ready. Continue this later!"

Yu Fenglan immediately patted Genma as well: "Let's go. You need to be full to have the energy to train."

Genma nodded and stood up.

The breakfast was very hearty. As Genma ate, his mind remained occupied with the sensory ninjutsu, Thousand Branch Spirit Touch.

Yu Fenglan and Ritsuka saw this, feeling both gratified and pained, so they took turns putting delicious food into their son's bowl.

Once he was full, Genma greeted them and stood up to return to the study to continue delving into the ninjutsu.

Time passed unknowingly until 10:00 AM, when Shizune's voice came from outside, startling Genma.

He stood up, walked to the living room window, and looked out to see Shizune standing downstairs.

"Wait a moment!"

After calling out, Genma immediately changed into a blue and white hooded windbreaker, went out, and headed downstairs.

"Genma, why didn't you go to the hospital today?"

Shizune asked.

Genma quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I was studying at home today, so I didn't go."

Shizune immediately waved her hand to show she didn't mind, then smiled: "Genma, Lady Tsunade is still waiting for us. Let's go together!"

Genma was startled upon hearing this: "Lady Tsunade intends to teach me medical ninjutsu?"

Shizune nodded, then spoke well of Tsunade: "Lady Tsunade looks a bit fierce, but she is actually a very good person. Um... please don't mind it."

Genma chuckled upon hearing this: "I don't think Lady Tsunade is very fierce."

Well, actually, she is quite fierce.

You can't even see her face.

Cutting off the negative thoughts in his mind, Genma said to Shizune: "Let's go!"

Shizune nodded, then led Genma as the two stepped through the snow to arrive at Tsunade's home.

Tsunade's home felt very large to Genma; it wasn't the apartment-style building he lived in, but a massive estate.

However, this estate also carried a sense of decay, lacking the warmth of human presence.

When Genma saw Tsunade, the latter was sitting at a desk placed on a carpet, with brushes, ink, and scrolls laid out upon it, and a stove nearby to ward off the chill.

Seeing the two kids enter, Tsunade said: "Kid, I heard you are training in medical ninjutsu to improve your chakra control?"

Genma was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized she must have heard it from Shizune, so he nodded: "That is indeed the case."

"Because I have no other means to further train my own chakra control."

"In my view, chakra control is the most fundamental ability for a ninja, second only to chakra refinement."

"Strong chakra control will allow me to learn other ninjutsu with half the effort in the future."

Tsunade raised her eyebrows slightly upon hearing this: "Did your parents teach you this?"

The Ninja Academy certainly wouldn't teach this.

Genma shook his head: "Not entirely."

"Chakra is the foundation of a ninja. Ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu are, in the end, all applications of chakra by a ninja."

"Application is control."

"Just like how we use chopsticks to eat; only by flexibly controlling the chopsticks can we eat smoothly."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade immediately became less indifferent.

To have such an understanding at this age is truly rare.

In the ninja world, even many Chunin do not realize these things.

He is indeed a very clever kid.

After thinking for a moment, Tsunade asked: "What technique do you want to learn from me?"

I can choose freely?

Genma was a bit surprised, but he also understood Tsunade's underlying meaning.

She was not taking him as a disciple.

So Genma thought for a moment, did not answer immediately, but instead sat down across from Tsunade and asked: "Lady Tsunade, where do you think the gap lies between the medical ninjutsu I have mastered and yours?"

Tsunade frowned: "What do you mean?"

Genma pondered for a moment, then rephrased his question: "For example, with Healing Technique, if we use the same amount of chakra to treat wounds of the same size and depth, will there be a difference in the results?"

A strange thought.

Is such a comparison even meaningful?

This was Tsunade's subconscious reaction.

However, since she was going to teach him something, she followed his line of questioning and thought: "Although you've set conditions, it's still not enough."

"While I haven't seen your medical skills yet, in terms of chakra control, you shouldn't be at my level."

"You should be very clear that the precision of chakra control has a huge impact on the effectiveness of treatment."

Genma nodded and asked again: "Then what about with the same level of precision in chakra control?"

Tsunade looked thoughtful, then said: "If we limit it to a specific ninjutsu, there is no difference."

Shizune sat down beside Genma and asked curiously: "Why are you making this comparison?"

Genma didn't answer Shizune, but looked at Tsunade and said: "So, it is the technique itself that limits Lady Tsunade's performance."

Tsunade nodded: "You could say that. That's why I no longer use Healing Technique, but the stronger Mystical Palm Technique."

"You're asking these things because you want to know the difference in the level of Yang Release nature transformation between you and me, right?"

Genma nodded.

If nothing else, the Wind Release nature transformation he was familiar with clearly had distinct levels of strength.

Cutting leaves, cutting waterfalls—there had to be more to it than just the amount of chakra involved.

Moreover, the difficulty of a ninjutsu is generally judged by two dimensions.

One is shape transformation, and the other is nature transformation.

Take Rasengan, for example; it has no nature transformation, being a pure shape transformation that reaches an extremely profound level in that regard.

Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, on the other hand, adds an extreme Wind Release nature transformation on top of a powerful shape transformation.

That is why, even as an unfinished product, it is of S-rank difficulty.

Since Wind Release nature transformation has such distinctions, Yang Release surely does as well.

However, the three medical ninjutsu Genma currently mastered did not involve a gradient of nature transformation.

In other words, Hemostasis Technique, Healing Technique, and Delicate Illness Extraction Technique all had the same requirements for nature transformation; they only differed in chakra output, precision of control, and shape transformation.

Genma did possess some information regarding the strength of Yang Release nature transformation.

Senju Hashirama, Karin and her mother, and the Sage of Six Paths.

Not to mention the Sage of Six Paths.

Senju Hashirama had his seal-less self-healing, and Karin could heal wounds rapidly and restore others' chakra just by being bitten.

Tsunade, who mastered the Yin Seal and used the Strength of a Hundred Technique to perform Creation Rebirth, also possessed the ability of seal-less self-healing.

Yet, Edo Madara's assessment was that Tsunade in this state was still inferior to Senju Hashirama.

Was it because her chakra was inferior?

If that were the case, Uchiha Madara certainly wouldn't have made such an assessment.

While the amount of chakra does affect the effectiveness of a technique, Genma keenly captured the contrast in the strength of their Yang Release nature transformation from these comparisons.

Therefore, what Genma wanted to learn from Tsunade was exactly this.

Tsunade also realized his goal and said: "If you want to deepen your training in nature transformation, you can learn Mystical Palm Technique."

"By mastering this technique, your Yang Release nature transformation can go a step further."

Genma immediately asked: "Lady Tsunade, is there no other way to train nature transformation directly?"

Tsunade gave a light huff: "Do you have a more direct way to train your chakra control?"

Fair enough, that made sense.

Genma nodded, then asked again: "Then, Lady Tsunade, can't one use the level of Yang Release nature transformation found in Mystical Palm Technique to perform Healing Technique?"

Shizune was already completely bewildered.