Sakura had been rather excited when she first heard that Qingyun had summoned her. After all, Qingyun was her Teacher's husband and Konoha's strongest ninja. Sakura had grown up hearing stories of his exploits and naturally admired him immensely.
Who would have thought that the moment they met, Qingyun would dissolve the power within her? Sakura felt deeply wronged, unable to understand what mistake she had made for him to cripple her cultivation.
But immediately afterward, Qingyun pressed a finger to the center of her brow, and words appeared in her mind. Delight surged through her. He had not meant to cripple her at all—he was teaching her a new Cultivation Technique.
After hearing Qingyun's instructions, Sakura did not dare be careless. She hurriedly began practicing according to the Cultivation Technique in her mind.
Since she already had a foundation in cultivation, her meridians and dantian had expanded considerably. Now that she had switched to the Northern Darkness Divine Art, it did not take long for her to sense a trace of energy. Though faint, the power it radiated was much stronger than the internal force she had previously cultivated through the Nine Yin Manual.
That was not to say the Nine Yin Manual was much weaker than the Northern Darkness Divine Art.
In fact, once one cultivated it to its culmination and comprehended the true essence of Nine Yin, it was considerably more powerful than the Northern Darkness Divine Art.
However, the Northern Darkness Divine Art had one advantage over other cultivation techniques.
Ordinary Cultivation Techniques began with tempering the body, Bone Tempering, and Sinew Tempering, before progressing to sensing energy and opening the dantian to produce internal force. As that internal force deepened, practitioners would clear the Governing and Conception Vessels, open the Inner Heaven and Earth Bridge,