Naruto: Cultivating to Immortality

Chapter 16 Hyuga Secret Technique

As dawn broke and the sun rose, Hyuga Kanan was already sitting cross-legged under a tree in her small courtyard, beginning her morning meditation practice.

Because I have to wait for the school's arrangements, I don't need to go to school for the next two days. I can use these two days to study the ninjutsu scrolls that my mother and older brother gave me yesterday.

Two days later, the most likely assignment would be to the logistics team behind the battlefield, and Hyuga Kanan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. He had just become a ninja, and it seemed he was about to be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The anime didn't provide a detailed account of the Second Shinobi World War; it only showed Konoha's victory at the end. However, it didn't specify the number of casualties Konoha suffered, but it's estimated that the number of dead was considerable.

As is customary, Hinata Kanan ended her meditation for the day.

I started practicing the Taoist Subduing Demon Fist once to warm up my body and mobilize the natural energy I had refined within, in preparation for practicing the Soft Fist later. After all, if I didn't mobilize the natural energy in my body, it would all be absorbed by my body cells, and there wouldn't be much energy left to practice the Soft Fist.

The natural energy within my body is being refined at a much slower rate than my body can absorb. I can only rely on the power of my soul to forcibly control the cells to stop absorbing the energy, allowing the refined natural energy to circulate through my meridians, mimicking the effects of chakra.

During his last sparring session with his father, he could only use the Taoist Subduing Demon Fist to fight, as he didn't have any internal energy to enhance his attacks. It was only because he remembered the effects of the Byakugan that he forcibly stopped his cells from absorbing and refining energy, mimicking the flow of chakra within his meridians, thus preventing his attacks from being seen through.

I deliberately saved up a lot of energy this time in order to practice Gentle Fist, thinking that Gentle Fist requires internal energy to act as chakra, and I wanted to see how effective and powerful it would be.

Just thinking about how, one day when my father used Gentle Fist, those places were where chakra flowed, and I would mobilize the energy in my body to move along those lines.

Soon, the energy in his body flowed to key parts such as his white eyes, hands, and legs. Instantly, his white eyes automatically opened, and his body teleported towards the wooden stake. A Bagua pattern appeared around the wooden stake, and a surge of energy bound the wooden stake. Then, he clenched his hands into sword fingers, and the energy attached to the sword fingers. In an instant, he struck several parts of the wooden stake.

"Two palm strikes, four palm strikes, eight palm strikes, twelve palm strikes." Hyuga Kanan's sword fingers struck the wooden stake rapidly. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty palm strikes were completed on specific locations on the stake. More than twenty craters appeared on specific locations on the stake, and the other side could be seen through the craters. Only then did Hyuga Kanan realize that those parts of the stake had been pierced through.

"How could it pierce right through? Isn't Gentle Fist a technique for striking pressure points? If the body has already been pierced, what's the point of striking pressure points? You should have killed yourself. Did I use too much energy, or do ninjas use chakra for defense when attacked? But that doesn't make sense! You can see from the anime that ninjas are typically strong in attack but weak in defense. Ordinary people can be killed with sharp weapons unless they have special defensive ninjutsu."

Hyuga Kanan stood quietly in front of the wooden stake, closed his eyes, and began to ponder.

"When Father uses Gentle Fist, I can defend with my hands, proving that Gentle Fist doesn't cause penetrating wounds. Even if my physical strength is much stronger than an ordinary person, it's impossible for him to defend against my Gentle Fist attack just now. I only used less than 1/10 of my energy just now, so it shouldn't be because I had too much energy. The only reason is that the quality of my energy is far higher than the intensity of chakra. Thinking about it, that makes sense. The energy in my body is refined natural energy, which is stronger than the natural energy used in the so-called Sage Techniques in the ninja world. It's inevitable that it's more powerful."

Thinking this through, Hyuga Kanan understood. Chakra was a very low-quality energy, a combination of a ninja's physical energy and spiritual energy mixed with fragments of the Sage of Six Paths' will. Although it could manipulate a small amount of the environmental rules, its strength was extremely weak. In contrast, the energy within his body was entirely refined natural energy, much stronger than the natural energy in the environment. It was normal that its power was comparable to that of chakra.

Then I won't need to use Bagua Palm or any other palm techniques to increase power and control the opponent's body. I will develop my own Bagua Palm, just like the Bagua Empty Palm, a one-hit kill technique. The only thing I need to maintain or even strengthen is the control over the Bagua pattern. I don't need to pursue multiple palm strikes to acupoints.

Hyuga Kanan immediately went into the room, took out the Bagua Sixty-Four Palms manual her mother had given her, and began to study it again.

Now I need to thoroughly understand the chakra flow patterns of all the palm techniques in Baguazhang, such as the twelve palms, thirty-six palms, sixty-four palms, and the 128 palms derived from them, to find the most suitable trajectory for myself to unleash a one-hit kill palm, and at the same time prepare for other family secret techniques later.

Looking at the records of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms training method and chakra circulation routes, Hyuga Kanan also began to use his soul power to mobilize the energy within his body according to the recorded routes.

The Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist technique, in essence, involves using the Byakugan to observe the opponent's chakra flow, then channeling one's own chakra through pressure points to block the opponent's chakra pathways, thus disrupting their chakra flow. The key to mastering this technique, and the crucial element of the main clan's secret arts, lies in understanding how to release chakra from one's own pressure points.

My current goal is to learn how to open up my chakra channels through my acupoints in Baguazhang and then release it. The human body has a total of 720 acupoints, of which 108 are considered "dead" points. Therefore, I need to first open up these major "dead" acupoints and then gradually expand to the others. Once all the acupoints in my body are open, I can release energy from different acupoints at any time. Finally, by controlling the released energy, I can learn the main family's secret techniques.

I have basically mastered the Eight Trigrams Twelve Palms, and I quickly mastered the more difficult Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms through my own deduction. Now I need to deduce the trajectory of chakra release in other Eight Trigrams Palms to open up the acupoints.

And so, the morning passed. Hyuga Kanan had almost figured out the pathways of the other acupoints and was now preparing to mobilize energy to open them up along these pathways.

Hyuga Kanan sat cross-legged, and the energy in her body began to flow along the pathways, and soon one acupoint after another was slowly opened up by the energy in her body.

Hyuga Kanan withdrew the energy from her body, slowly stood up, and twisted her somewhat stiff body.

Now all the acupoints in my body have been opened up, and as long as I circulate the energy in my body, I can release it from each acupoint at any time.

Standing before the desk, he formally opened the main family secret technique scroll—the Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation—that his elder brother, Hyuga Hiashi, had given him yesterday. Now he could finally take a good look at how this main family secret technique was actually released.

Looking at the Baguazhang Reversal Technique, he quickly understood the conditions for releasing it: all the acupoints in the body must release chakra at the same frequency, then use mental power to extend it a certain distance, and then use the body to rotate at high speed to form a bowl-shaped barrier, achieving the effect of defense or even rebound.

While recalling the conditions for the release of the Heavenly Resurrection, Hyuga Kanan walked towards the training ground in the courtyard. By the time he arrived at the training ground, he had memorized all the conditions. Now was the time for the experiment to succeed.

Soon, Hyuga Kanan used his powerful soul force to mobilize the energy within his body to each acupoint, adjusting the energy within all the acupoints to reach the same level, then releasing it, and then using his soul force to stretch the released energy.

Well, the released energy stretched for less than a meter before being quickly diluted and assimilated by the external natural energy. The soul power immediately lost control of the released energy, and the energy vanished completely.

Hinata Kanan was a little discouraged; she had thought she could succeed on her first try.

After adjusting his mood, Hyuga Kanan began a new attempt. This time, he did not plan to stretch too far, because if he stretched too far, the energy in his body would become too thin, and it would be difficult for his soul power to prevent the external natural energy from assimilating it. He could only increase the energy output and the control of his soul power.

This time, Hyuga Kanan was prepared. She stopped stretching when she reached 30 centimeters and then rapidly rotated her body. Instantly, a white sphere with a diameter of two meters appeared on the training field, sending all the soil and stones on the ground flying.

After a while, the spinning figure stopped, leaving a circular mark on the ground centered on Hyuga Kanan. Hyuga Kanan looked around, saw the damage he had caused, and nodded in satisfaction. He had finally learned this secret technique of the main family.

With a few more practices, you'll be able to release it even faster.

I finally have my first ninjutsu that I can use, and it's a high-level defensive secret technique.