True Qi

"Not really suited to being a ninja?" Disbelief spread across Ye Feng's face as he kept repeating the words "not suited to being a ninja."

"To produce chakra, you need to combine mental energy and physical energy in a certain ratio. Your body currently produces extremely little energy, so the amount of chakra you can produce will also be very small. Although you're still a child and will see some improvement as you grow, judging by your body's current foundation, that improvement won't be particularly great. You'd be better off finding another path and making a living some other way," Minato Namikaze said regretfully.

Ye Feng's thoughts were anything but calm. Chakra is the foundation of being a ninja! Having so little chakra means I'm destined never to become a powerful ninja, not even a taijutsu specialist. And there's still the Third Shinobi World War, the Nine-Tails' rampage, the Akatsuki invasion, and the Fourth World War to come. How am I supposed to survive all that?!!!

Ye Feng couldn't help cursing the heavens. "Heavens, you brought me into this world, and fine, you didn't give me a cheat, but why does my talent have to be so terrible too?!"

Seeing Ye Feng's grief and indignation, Minato Namikaze knew he was upset about his difficulty producing chakra and immediately spoke up.

"You're a member of the Uchiha Clan. No one in the village will dare bully you. And if all else fails, you can come to me. I'll protect you."

But Ye Feng couldn't take in Minato Namikaze's words. All he could see ahead was uncertainty and darkness. He listlessly thanked him for his kindness and headed home in a daze.

Seeing Ye Feng like this saddened Minato Namikaze as well. He wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say. Several times, he opened his mouth, only for no words to come out. He could only watch him leave, finally letting out a sigh.

Back home, Ye Feng had no idea what path to take from here. If he couldn't become a powerful ninja, would he really have to settle for being a civilian? But the Naruto world was a world where strength had the final say. Without strength, he could only be controlled by others.

Ye Feng couldn't accept it. Did I come to this world just to live an ordinary life? Do I have to end up like I did in my previous life, with no power, influence, or money, unable even to afford a girlfriend, just a little better at fighting, knowing a few empty moves that only made me a little stronger than ordinary people...?

Wait, empty moves, the Cultivation Technique, immortal cultivation!!!

A flash of lightning seemed to streak through Ye Feng's mind, and his eyes brightened.

In the world of Ye Feng's previous life, immortal cultivation had been impossible because there was no spiritual energy. But this was the Naruto world! Although chakra wasn't spiritual energy, there was natural energy here. The original story had mentioned that natural energy was somewhat dangerous, and a single careless mistake could turn someone into a stone statue. But Ye Feng had no other choice now. Besides, he felt that as long as he was careful, nothing should go wrong. He might as well try a last-ditch remedy.

So Ye Feng calmed down, sat cross-legged on his bed, closed his eyes, and began practicing the Cultivation Technique from his previous life, sensing the natural energy around him.

A quarter of an hour later, Ye Feng opened his eyes in delighted surprise. Sure enough, the Cultivation Technique allowed him to sense some bright white energy floating around him.

Ye Feng didn't dare rush. Little by little, he guided the white energy together, then drew it through his meridians into his dantian, where it became a wisp of true qi. He had long since committed the human body's meridians firmly to memory. After all, he had repeated this process for over twenty years. Even though he had never succeeded, he knew the method by heart.

"It worked!"

Ye Feng was overjoyed. Although it was only a tiny wisp, it proved that this method worked. He could count himself as having found a path he could follow.

According to the Cultivation Technique, being able to condense true qi meant she had already crossed the threshold of cultivation and entered the body tempering realm. True qi was used to remove impurities from the body, nourish it, and strengthen it. Supposedly, some powerful cultivators who specialized in body tempering could shatter a mountain with a single punch.

After the body tempering realm came the foundation establishment realm, the golden core realm, the nascent soul realm, the deity transformation realm, and the tribulation transcendence realm.

Once cultivators reached the tribulation transcendence realm, this world would no longer tolerate them and would send down tribulation lightning to destroy them. Fewer than one in ten thousand survived the tribulation lightning. But if they withstood it, their bodies and spirits would be cleansed by the will of the world and elevated, allowing them to ascend to the Upper Realm and become immortals.

However, ascending and becoming an immortal was only speculation. After all, no one in her previous world had ascended for thousands of years, and no one knew what happened after ascension.

None of that was something Ye Feng needed to worry about now. To him, simply being able to cultivate was already a good thing!