Senju Chen didn't care about the outside world, but was blown up by the thunder dropped by Uchiha Fugaku.
Konoha High Command's anxiety and confusion in all the major ninja villages have nothing to do with him for the time being.
He returned to his study room.
After that, Senju Chen sat cross-legged on the futon, eyes closed, and breathing slowed down to a state where it seemed like nothing.
The whole person is like a silent stone statue, with only consciousness diving to an unprecedented depth.
In the world he perceives, there is chaos and nothingness.
And he is the only "god" in this void.
One exhale, one inhale.
He felt that his spiritual power was like the most obedient soldier, gathering from himself and condensing into a little light at the sea of consciousness between his eyebrows.
This is the starting point of [Spirit Transformation Technique].
In the past year, for more than three hundred days and nights, he repeated this process every day. He regarded his ethereal soul, which could not even be perceived by ordinary people, as an invisible balloon, and then carefully "blowed" inward from the top of his head with his mental power.
This process is extremely dangerous.
Mental Energy is inherently dissipative, just like a handful of sand in your hand. The tighter you hold it, the faster it passes. Every time you "blow", you must maintain a mysterious and mysterious balance, allowing it to grow but not letting it get out of control.
If you are not careful, your mental energy will escape and all your previous efforts will be wasted. This is the best outcome.
Senju Chen clearly remembers that in the third month of his practice, because he was eager for success, his mental power output was slightly too strong.
At that moment, he felt as if his consciousness was tightly grasped by an invisible big hand, and then violently torn outward. The whole world instantly collapsed in his mind, turning into countless distorted color blocks and sharp noises. He even briefly forgot who he was and where he was. A huge fear that was about to completely dissolve into heaven and earth made his whole body cold.
If he hadn't had a will far beyond that of ordinary people, clinging to the clearness of the spiritual platform at the last moment and forcibly interrupting the operation of the technique, I'm afraid he would have become a drooling idiot in Konoha Hospital.
After that time, he became more patient.
Just like a top jade carving master, he carefully ponders and polishes a piece of unparalleled jade day after day.
It took a whole year.
That invisible "soul balloon" was finally blown to its limit by him.
At this moment, in his inner vision, an invisible, yet extremely tenacious energy centered on his eyebrows, slowly and tightly wrapped around his entire body, from head to toe, leaving no gaps.
The moment this soul coat was completely formed, Senju Chen's sensory world suddenly opened up.
He "heard" the sound of a fallen leaf in the courtyard outside the quiet room, swirling and falling in the air, and finally touching the ground gently.
He "smelled" the faint fruity aroma of the uneaten apple in the cupboard in the kitchen.
He "saw" a spider spinning its web leisurely on the beam, and the vibration of every spider thread was clearly reflected in his perception.
Every inch of skin on the body seemed to have grown eyes and ears, and the whole world became more vivid and three-dimensional than ever before.
He can even feel the flow of life in a tree from its roots to its trunk and all the way to its leaves.
However, that's all.
Senju Chen With a thought in his mind, he mobilized a ray of mental power that was condensed to the extreme, and carefully tried to poke it out of the body from his fingertips.
It's like a person learning to swim for the first time, dipping his toes into the cold water.
The moment that force left the protection of the body and was exposed to the outside world, it was like a wisp of smoke thrown into the strong wind. It just struggled and twisted twice, and then completely disintegrated with a "pop" and disappeared invisible.
Immediately afterwards, a pinprick-like sting came from his fingertips, causing him to frown slightly.
"It still doesn't work..."
This soul energy is like a trap within his body, which can greatly enhance his perception, but it cannot escape the limitations of his "skin".
The essence of [Spirit Transformation Technique] is that the soul leaves the body, turns the invisible into a sharp blade, and can take people's heads thousands of miles away. It can also possess others to carry out remote control and assassination.
But now, he couldn't even take the first step to break free from the shackles of his physical body.
Senju Chen slowly opened his eyes, a trace of helplessness flashed in his deep eyes.
He understood that his [Spirit Transformation Technique] practice had reached a bottleneck.
There are no shortcuts on the road ahead.
The only way is to use water milling skills to temper, compress, and polish this already formed soul energy day after day, so that it gradually changes from "gaseous" smoke to "liquid" mercury, and finally reaches the "solid state" of being as indestructible as hundreds of refined steel.
Only then can we truly break free from the shackles of the physical body and let our souls travel around the world.
However, this also means that he no longer has to spend a large part of his day in boring meditation as he did before. As long as he consciously mobilizes this power and maintains control over it in his daily activities, he can have an exercise effect all the time.
Thinking of this, Senju Chen decided in his heart and stood up from the futon.
The slight numbness caused by sitting for a long time spread along his legs. He moved his somewhat stiff body, and his joints made a series of tiny snapping sounds.
He pushed open the door of the quiet room and walked out.
The afternoon sun was just right, passing through the living room window and casting warm light spots on the floor.
I happened to see Kushina Uzumaki slumped on the sofa without any image, one leg hanging on the armrest, and the other leg dangling from time to time. She was holding a half-eaten apple in her hand, biting every bite. The crisp "click" sound was particularly obvious in the quiet living room.
That bright and charming little face just needed to be written with a brush on the four characters "too busy to panic".
Seeing this scene, Senju Chen stopped in his tracks.
His perception, which had just broken through its limits and could clearly perceive the fallen leaves in the courtyard and the cobwebs on the beams, was accurately capturing the strong signal emitted by Kushina Uzumaki.
It's a unique "aura" mixed with boredom, irritability, and nowhere to vent your energy.
The crisp sound of chewing apples, the breeze brought by the swaying calves, and the sigh coming from the bottom of her heart that was almost materializing.
Daily... exercise?
He needs an exercise method that can bring his mental power out of the body and maintain its stability and shape for a long time.
This kind of exercise requires extreme concentration and meticulous control.
His eyes slowly slid from Kushina's bright little face with "boring" written all over it to her half-gnawed apple, and finally, past her, they fixed on the kitchen door not far away.
A bold, even somewhat absurd idea suddenly took shape in his mind.
What if... you try to attach that ray of spiritual power that will disintegrate as soon as it leaves the body to some kind of entity?
For example... a kitchen knife?