Shinichi ignored him and turned toward the cabin. The wooden stairs groaned under his weight, while the dim corridor reeked of mildew and fish.
He pushed open the door to his cabin. Sunlight streamed through the round porthole, casting a bright patch upon the wooden floor.
He sat cross-legged in the center of the light, took out the dark green vial from his robe, and let the Three-Tomoe Sharingan slowly spin as it carefully analyzed the chakra structure within the liquid. A moment later, he gave a disdainful snort.
"Yeah, right. As if I'd believe you. You stitched-up freak think you can trick me into drinking corpse water? Disgusting," Shinichi muttered. "Good thing I have my cheat. Even if it's fake, I can still deduce it. Let's see what you're really plotting."
Then his consciousness returned to his main body, where he used one opportunity at Heavenly Secrets Spring to deduce a cultivation technique.
The instant his consciousness sank into Heavenly Secrets Spring, torrents of information surged over him.
The simple chakra circulation routes Hiruko had provided began to generate new, more intricate pathways.
Before long, a new cultivation method was simulated—using chakra to mimic the Hozuki Clan's unique liquid vibration frequency, then using the Tiger-Ox-Monkey hand seals to reverse the normal state of water-nature chakra...
He obtained the training method for the Hydrification Technique. Just as he had expected, there was no need to drink the contents of the vial at all. It only needed to be applied to the arm as a catalyst, and under Heavenly Secrets Spring's deduction, even that step had been omitted.
"Tch. Just as I thought, he left something up his sleeve. If I really drank this thing like he said, he'd probably plant something strange inside me!"
Shinichi's consciousness returned, and he secretly