Quincy Chakra Control

Seeing no objections from the group, Chiba Yuyin began calling out names from the list.

"Xiong Jie, come up for the test. Yuma, get ready."

A tall man stepped forward.

Brimming with confidence, he walked onto the stage, gripped the handles with both hands, and began channeling chakra.

The chakra traveled along the metal strips and darted onto the glass panel.

Xiong Jie carefully controlled the chakra, trying to draw according to the pattern.

But he used too much force, and the chakra line went beyond the pattern.

Startled, he hurriedly pulled the chakra line back.

Yet he overcorrected again, and it went past the pattern once more.

After several back-and-forth attempts, the chakra lines on the glass panel had become something of a tangled mess.

"Is it because of the distance?"

Hyuga Seisen observed from below and quickly spotted the problem.

There was a certain distance between the person and the glass panel, and chakra needed time to travel from the hands to the panel.

That created a delay during control.

And once too much force was applied, the chakra output would surge, increasing the chakra's speed and greatly reducing the delay.

As a result, the delay kept changing between fast and slow. This test did not merely assess one's ability to control chakra direction.

It also tested one's ability to maintain stable chakra output.

Over the next stretch of time, the more Xiong Jie tried to control it,

the more wildly the chakra twisted and darted around, completely beyond his control.

Before long, he was declared to have failed after his chakra strayed too far outside the pattern area.

Seeing this, Chiba Yuyin wrote a zero in Xiong Jie's column on the form.

Then she said, "Zero points. Begin the second test now."

Xiong Jie wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and gripped the handles again.

After his first failure, he had realized there was a problem with the delay.

But stable chakra output was easier said than done.

He could only slow down and carefully guide the chakra along the pattern.

This attempt was much better than the first. The chakra lines mostly followed the pattern.

Though they were still rather uneven, they remained within an acceptable range.

Just as Xiong Jie thought he had this one in the bag, the chakra lines he had drawn earlier began to slowly fade.

Panicking, he tried to speed up, only for the chakra to start running wild again.

In the end, the computer declared him a failure once more.

Chiba Yuyin expressionlessly wrote down another zero.

"Zero points. Third test!"

When the people below saw Xiong Jie's miserable state, they all swallowed hard.

Especially those who knew Xiong Jie and knew his chakra control was not actually that poor.

If even he found it this difficult, they had little hope for themselves.

"Looks like it's not that simple."

A sweet, soft voice drifted over, accompanied by a pleasant fragrance.

Hyuga Seisen turned toward the sound and found Hyuga Ayane standing beside him at some point.

He leaned close to Hyuga Ayane's little face and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear,

"When it's your turn, pay attention to keeping your chakra output stable."

Hyuga Ayane jumped when Hyuga Seisen suddenly leaned so close.

Her face instantly turned bright red, and she instinctively wanted to move away.

But seeing the serious expression on Hyuga Seisen's face, she suppressed the thought.

She nodded solemnly, then asked, "How do I keep it stable?"

"Have you learned pressure-point sealing?" Hyuga Seisen asked.

At the mention of that, Hyuga Ayane quickly forgot the awkwardness from before.

Her little face filled with pride. "I learned that skill when I was four. My grandfather even praised me as a genius!"

Four years old?

Hyuga Seisen looked at her in a new light. He had not expected this little foodie to be a genius.

He raised a thumb and showered her with praise until the little girl became a little embarrassed.

Then he continued, "From what I've observed, you don't actually need that much chakra output."

"The person on stage is making things harder for himself by using both hands."

"There are so many acupoints in the hands, and the meridians throughout the body differ in length. The chakra coming out of them will definitely travel at different speeds."

"With both hands involved, it becomes even harder."

Hyuga Ayane nodded as if she half understood. "Then what should I do?"

"When it's your turn, use one hand to output chakra."

"At the same time, seal all the acupoints in that hand, leaving only a few with similar flow rates to output chakra."

"That way, your body won't need to regulate so many acupoints at once."

"You can focus all your attention on a few key acupoints."

"Oh, I understand!" Hyuga Ayane nodded.

While they spoke, Xiong Jie on the stage had already been defeated once again.

Chiba Yuyin expressionlessly called for the next person.

Time passed bit by bit. Even with Xiong Jie's earlier example,

very few of those who went on stage managed to pass.

Even when some people noticed the issue with using one hand versus two midway through,

and switched to outputting chakra with one hand, they still failed.

"The elimination rate is this high?"

Most of those taking the test were ninja academy students and had not put much effort into chakra control.

But since this was being used as a screening criterion, it meant they truly wanted those with naturally strong chakra control.

In other words, they were looking at talent!

This also showed that the village had not set aside many resources for training medical ninjas.

It was not like Tian Lu had said, with the village investing heavily in them.

"Hyuga Seisen, take the stage. Chengren, prepare yourself."

"It's your turn!" Hyuga Ayane urged from beside him.

Hyuga Seisen nodded and walked over to the table.

He extended his right hand, gripped the handle, and began refining chakra.

The chakra swiftly traveled along the metal strip and reached the glass.

Hyuga Seisen tested it a little and found that the control was not particularly difficult.

With the Quincy Inscription and Innate Full Soul Power, his chakra control far surpassed that of his peers.

Seeing that, he confidently began tracing the pattern.

The chakra lines on the glass immediately began to sweep and dance like dragons and phoenixes.

Yet under his powerful control, they followed the pattern with perfect precision.

"Damn! Whose monster is this?"

The people below were utterly stunned.

After watching so many people get eliminated,

they had developed a clear understanding of just how difficult this test was.

Then someone suddenly came along and drew so effortlessly.

They were thoroughly shaken.

"Is the Hyuga Clan's chakra control really this absurd?"

"Are you stupid? It's the Gentle Fist. They strike acupoints—how could their control be weak?"

"But this is way too exaggerated. I couldn't draw as well as him even with a pen."

Before long, Hyuga Seisen copied the pattern onto the glass panel exactly.

The computer monitor flickered, displaying an "88."

Cheers erupted from below once more.

In the earlier tests, most people had only scored in the twenties or thirties.

The few who passed had barely scraped past forty.

The highest score, fifty-one, had already amazed everyone.

Now there was an eighty-eight.

"Eighty-eight points! This guy is incredible."

"Yeah, he's freaking amazing."

"He doesn't need that many points. It'd be great if he gave me twenty."

"Senior Seisen is handsome and so amazing. I really want to have his babies."

"Pah! How did a lovestruck idiot sneak in here?"

"Who are you calling lovestruck? Insulting a girl in public? Watch me report you!"

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