"You... you... how could you use natural energy to hit someone? You have no sense of restraint..." After Ryun healed Sasuke's external injuries, he sternly began to scold Nanaise.
He felt this girl was just as careless and thoughtless as her mother was when she was little. She could accidentally hurt others if one wasn't careful. Many children didn't dare to play too wildly with her. As for making her angry... the consequences were even more terrifying...
When Ryun was a child, he could fight seven at once. But given Nanaise's current strength, if everyone was only allowed to use taijutsu, she could probably fight 100 Sasuke's of the same age by herself...
"I just wanted him to feel the natural energy... Who knew he was so fragile, fainting after just one touch..." Nanaise put her hands behind her back, looked at her feet, and muttered quietly.
While the father and daughter were talking, Sasuke smoothly regained consciousness.
"Are you okay..."
Ryun moved close to him with an apologetic smile.
"Uh... I... I'm fine..."
Sasuke rubbed the back of his head and replied, then immediately turned his gaze back to Nanaise.
"Was that invisible force just now the natural energy you mentioned?"
"Uh huh..."
Seeing that Sasuke woke up and didn't blame her, Nanaise couldn't help but show a smiling face.
"That kind of invisible energy... it's amazing!" Sasuke seemed very interested in natural energy.
"Alright... let's go have breakfast together first. Nanaise, go call your Pig Mother to get up and eat..."
"Oh oh..."
A short while later, in the dining room, when Sasuke saw the hot breakfast on the table, his expression showed great surprise.
In Sasuke's impression, a man should keep 'a gentleman away from the kitchen'. Cooking was something women did. Managing household chores was also a woman's responsibility, just like his parents. The man handled matters outside, the woman managed the household.
But what did he see here? The Number One Strongest in the Ninja World was actually cooking himself? And most crucially, whether it was the fried eggs, grilled meat, or toast, the heat control was perfectly mastered. He was clearly an old hand in the kitchen!
"Ryun Uncle, did you make all this breakfast..." Sasuke finally couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, our family doesn't have a nanny... So? Does it suit your taste?" Ryun asked with a smile.
"It's very delicious... Your breakfast is even better than what my mom makes..." Sasuke praised sincerely.
"Hehe, Sasuke, my dad is amazing. The food he makes is super fragrant..." Nanaise smiled somewhat proudly.
"Huh? The food I make isn't fragrant? Nanaise???" Kushina entered the dining room after finishing her washing up. The moment she came in, she heard her daughter praising her father again.
The smile instantly vanished from Nanaise's face. "Mom, you're far from it..."
"???"
"Then don't eat the food I make for lunch..." Kushina gave her a sidelong glance and said calmly.
"Won't eat it then. I'll have Dad make me Chinese food. Japanese food isn't even fit for dogs..."
Nanaise had an expression of 'Only Dad is good in the world', which made Kushina's hands itch, wanting to hit someone.
"If you eat my cooking again, you're a little dog. Let's see if your dad can keep cooking for you forever." Kushina said with a cold laugh.
"Ahem... let's eat..."
Ryun hurriedly played the peacemaker. If this continued, he wouldn't just be making breakfast and dinner anymore; he'd probably be responsible for all three meals a day from now on...
"..."
Watching this family of three, Sasuke felt that in terms of usual family hierarchy, the lowest status probably belonged to Ryun Uncle...
After breakfast, when Ryun and Sasuke walked out of the villa, they saw Guy already doing his daily exercises on the Shadow Residence lawn.
"Uncle, you're finally out! I'm already prepared to spar with you in taijutsu!" Guy said excitedly as he walked up to Ryun.
"Little Guy, have you eaten breakfast? If not, go inside and eat first..." Ryun appeared unhurried.
"Ate it an hour ago. I get up at 5 AM every day... Uncle, don't you do morning training anymore?"
Guy had heard from his father that Ryun Uncle used to have the habit of morning training too, and got up even earlier than him. His cultivation was said to be extremely diligent.
It was precisely because of this great perseverance that he could achieve such high accomplishments. Old Dai often used Ryun to motivate his own child.
One evaluation Old Dai once gave about Ryun left a deep impression on Guy: He clearly has monstrous, top-tier talent, yet he's still willing to put in a hundred times more effort than ordinary people. For someone like this to become a 'God', in my view, is only natural!
"I do... I get up at 4 AM to cultivate. It's just that my current training focus is internal rather than external. Training the body ten times isn't as good as circulating Senjutsu Chakra through the body for one cycle!" Ryun generously revealed his training method.
"Uncle... tell me in detail, how to do it!" Guy's eyes shone, eagerly wanting to know Ryun's internal cultivation method.
Sasuke also quickly pricked up his ears, afraid of missing any of this important cultivation knowledge.
"Little Sasuke, what are you doing? Even if you knew this knowledge, you couldn't cultivate it now. Go train over there. First, run 100 laps around the Shadow Residence, then come back." Ryun pointed towards the perimeter wall.
"Ah! O... okay..." Hearing Ryun's serious instruction, Sasuke obeyed without a second thought.
"Little Guy, the mindful meditation and perceiving nature I taught you before, how far have you gotten with that now? Can you sense natural energy?" Ryun suddenly asked about this subject.
"Uh... this... that natural energy..." Guy hemmed and hawed, unable to form a complete sentence.
"What this or that? Don't tell me you didn't take it seriously?" Ryun suddenly straightened his face.
"Ah... I did, Uncle, it's just... it just felt too boring. I couldn't sit still during several attempts, or I ended up dozing off..." Guy said, his face red with shame.
"You, you... I've always emphasized to you that in the path of cultivation, 'movement is not as good as stillness'. Your taijutsu is indeed good, your physique is strong and healthy, but the peak period for pure physical ninja is extremely short. Moreover, once past thirty, physical functions begin to decline rapidly..."
What Ryun described was the common problem of physical cultivation ninja. Guy actually knew this point. His father, Might Dai's physical functions had declined very quickly. Nowadays, he couldn't even engage in long periods of taijutsu training.
"Train the muscles, bones, and skin externally; train a single breath internally. You must always remember, this 'Sage Breath' is the true superior skill... With It circulating through your body's cycles, your meridians become clear, all your acupoints open!" Ryun did not hold back any secrets from this nephew.
"Uncle, are you talking about Sage Art... that method is too difficult. Can I really learn it?" Guy rarely showed a discouraged mood.
"You usually move too intensely. The moment you stop, your whole body feels uncomfortable. To put it bluntly, you're a typical hyperactive patient..." Ryun pinpointed his problem directly.
"Nani? Hyperactive patient? Me???" Guy exclaimed in surprise.
"Of course it's you, could it be me?... I'm telling you, this is an illness. These next few days, you stay by my side. Also, you must strictly control your desire to exercise. Try to let your mind relax. Your brain cannot remain in a state of excitement all the time..."
Hearing Ryun's description, Guy instantly felt his head swelling. "Uncle, whatever you say goes. I'll listen to you these next few days..."
"Good, good. Come inside with me. Uncle will properly cure you of this bad habit..."
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