Chapter 2 - The Talent for Control Brought by Consciousness Mutation
Humans, whether it's their soul or body, are constantly radiating energy outwards.
This is easy to understand; a living human body is itself a heat source, constantly radiating heat outwards.
This is a process of natural energy loss, common to almost all living organisms.
The heat dissipated through this loss is actually the aggregation of energy naturally radiated by body cells during life activities.
This energy is the physical energy required to condense Chakra.
The same is true for the soul; as long as the soul is not extinguished, as long as there is still consciousness, then every fluctuation of thought and emotion will naturally radiate mental energy outwards.
Chakra is formed by controlling these two types of energy, which are constantly dissipating, to fuse in a one-to-one ratio.
At first glance, it seems that condensing Chakra in this way is not slow.
In reality, it's very difficult.
Where is the difficulty?
The difficulty lies in the word "control."
In fact, almost no one can achieve 100% control over physical energy and mental energy.
Even geniuses like Minato, or the long-standing Ninja clans like the Senju and Uchiha, cannot precisely control physical energy and mental energy.
Since they cannot control physical energy and mental energy, how do people obtain Chakra by fusing physical energy and mental energy?
The answer is "guidance."
In reality, physical energy and mental energy cannot be precisely controlled, but they can be guided through one's own consciousness.
People with Ninja talent can guide their own physical energy and mental energy to collide and fuse.
During fusion, a portion of the physical energy and mental energy, precisely in a one-to-one ratio, forms Chakra.
The process of condensing Chakra is actually the process of guiding physical energy and mental energy to fuse.
Here, the emphasis is more on guidance than on precise control.
Since it is guidance, there must be a problem of utilization efficiency.
The process of guiding physical energy and mental energy to fuse is like guiding two blobs of black and white ink to collide and merge.
It's impossible for the black and white ink to perfectly fuse in a one-to-one ratio to form gray ink in an instant.
Only a portion of the gray will fuse successfully, while the rest will be gray that is either too white or too black.
The same applies to guiding physical energy and mental energy to fuse.
It's impossible to instantaneously fuse all the guided mental energy and physical energy into Chakra in a one-to-one ratio.
A large portion of the physical energy and mental energy dissipates without fusing into Chakra.
In fact, given enough time, by continuously guiding physical energy and mental energy to fuse, all physical energy and mental energy could also be fused into Chakra.
Just like two blobs of black and white ink.
If one fusion isn't enough, stir it a few more times, and most of the black and white ink will fuse into gray in a one-to-one ratio.
If physical energy and mental energy could also be repeatedly guided to fuse multiple times, then most of the physical energy and mental energy could also be fused into Chakra.
Unfortunately, physical energy and mental energy are not ink that can exist for a long time.
The physical energy and mental energy within a Ninja's body actually dissipate very quickly, existing in the body for no more than a tenth of a second.
It's like a fast-flowing waterfall; not a single drop of water stays on the waterfall for more than a second.
The same is true for physical energy and mental energy.
Although a lot of physical energy is generated every moment, it quickly dissipates into the world.
It is also because the existence time of physical energy and mental energy is very short that it is difficult for anyone to precisely control the fusion of physical energy and mental energy; they can only guide the majority to fuse.
Therefore, most Ninja cannot utilize 100% of the physical energy and mental energy naturally dissipated from their bodies every moment.
From some of Kimura Yao's residual memories, Li Yao could roughly deduce.
Kimura Yao's utilization rate of physical energy and mental energy barely reached 1%.
In other words, the former Kimura Yao could only condense one unit of Chakra for every hundred units of physical energy and mental energy he guided.
This talent for condensing Chakra... without comparison, Li Yao didn't know how bad it was.
But intuitively, Li Yao felt that Minato's talent for condensing Chakra should at least achieve a utilization rate of over 20% for physical energy and mental energy.
How much exactly, Li Yao couldn't perceive Minato's Chakra condensation process, so he didn't know.
However, even a genius like Minato, no matter how strong his Chakra condensation talent, would absolutely not be able to achieve 100% utilization of physical energy and mental energy.
But Li Yao can now utilize 100% of physical energy and mental energy.
Because he can precisely control every bit of physical energy and mental energy that dissipates from him, preventing them from disappearing.
He doesn't know if it's because of the transmigration.
Li Yao's consciousness seems to have undergone a mutation, transforming from a conceptual, illusory thing into a truly existing substance in the real world.
Consciousness no longer seems to be "consciousness"; it's like another self, having come alive.
The awakened consciousness naturally fused with the physical body, bringing Li Yao's control over his body to the legendary state of body and mind unity.
His microscopic perception of the body also reached an incredible level for an ordinary person; "seeing" cells was no longer a feeling but a true "seeing."
That feeling was intoxicating, as if he had become a god.
In addition to extremely subtle perception, the awakened consciousness also brought another ability.
He could control the perceived energy like telekinesis.
From the moment he began to condense Chakra.
Li Yao could precisely perceive and control the energy naturally dissipated from every cell in his body every moment, preventing it from scattering.
Similarly, the mental energy dissipated from his soul was also like this.
Every bit of mental energy was precisely perceived and controlled by his consciousness.
Precise perception and control led to a 100% utilization rate of physical energy and mental energy.
"This is amazing!!!"
Perceiving the continuous flow of Chakra condensing within his body, Li Yao's heart was filled with excitement.
Compared to the speed of Chakra condensation in his predecessor's memory, which was like drops of water forming one by one.
The current flow of Chakra condensing from Li Yao's entire body, like a bursting water pipe, showed an enormous difference.
Every moment, the dissipated physical energy and mental energy would be controlled by Li Yao's consciousness in a short instant to fuse into Chakra in a one-to-one ratio, without wasting a single bit.
If someone were to touch Li Yao's body at this moment, they would find it incredibly cold.
Because almost all the energy his body emitted was used to condense Chakra, his body temperature naturally dropped.
At this moment, Li Yao was like an ice pop in summer, very cold.
Minato, sitting beside Li Yao, felt it very clearly, like sitting next to an air conditioner.
"Such fast Chakra condensation speed!!!"
Minato was shocked; Li Yao's current Chakra condensation speed was too fast, and there was too much of it.
The Chakra within Li Yao's body was rapidly increasing.
The condensed Chakra flowed mostly into his Dantian for storage through the Chakra meridians, a small portion remained in various acupoints, and some diffused into cells throughout his body.
Li Yao could perceive that the Chakra diffused into the cells was absorbed by them.
And cells that absorbed Chakra became stronger and more vibrant.
More vibrant and stronger cells, in turn, reinforced the spirit, making it more stable and active.
This enhancement is very subtle, and ordinary people cannot feel it.
But over the years, it will quickly widen the gap in physical fitness between Ninja and ordinary people.
Li Yao now understood why the child Ninja in Hokage were so abnormal.
Having Chakra and not having Chakra truly makes a huge difference.
Among them, for talented Ninja, age doesn't matter.
Once the Chakra volume is sufficient, their physical fitness will not be inferior to older Ninja, and may even be stronger.
"So... can I control more Chakra to diffuse into and be absorbed by the cells?"
Li Yao suddenly had an idea. With his absolute control over physical energy and mental energy, he also had 100% control over Chakra.
He could easily control Chakra to diffuse into his body cells.
"Let's try."
Li Yao gradually increased the amount of Chakra diffusing into his cells, not daring to increase it all at once, fearing that the cells might not be able to withstand it and collapse.
"Hmm... it seems not."
After a while, Li Yao frowned slightly. The amount and speed at which cells absorbed Chakra were constant, and they did not absorb more simply because the diffused Chakra volume was increased.
Thus, his idea of increasing cell Chakra absorption speed to improve physical fitness was a failure.
But it's still alright.
Li Yao didn't dwell on it too much. With his current 100% utilization rate in Chakra condensation talent, his Chakra volume would increase very quickly.
At that time, he could supply Chakra for absorption to all cells in his body around the clock.
Others cannot provide precise, round-the-clock Chakra nourishment to all their body cells.
Only Li Yao, who possesses absolute Chakra control due to his consciousness mutation, can.
In this way, his physical fitness improvement will also be very fast, at least much faster than before.
While contemplating, feeling a stinging sensation in his cells, Li Yao withdrew the Chakra he had actively diffused into the cells, controlling it to flow back into his Dantian.
Having absolute Chakra control also has another benefit.
Chakra can be absolutely controlled; except for what nourishes the cells, other Chakra will not dissipate or overflow.
It should be known that Chakra, like physical and mental energy, will naturally dissipate even within the human body, just not as quickly as physical and mental energy dissipate.
Chakra is like an ordinary human body heat source.
While the temperature (Chakra volume) remains constant, it is also radiating heat outwards every moment.
A portion of this dissipated Chakra is absorbed by one's own cells, but most of it actually dissipates into the world.
Compared to others, Li Yao, through absolute Chakra control, can control and store this portion of Chakra that would dissipate into the world within his Dantian.
With this increase and decrease, Li Yao's Chakra will become more and more abundant.
In the original work, Tsunade's Yin Seal was achieved by collecting and sealing the Chakra that naturally dissipated daily, and then releasing it when needed, thereby indirectly gaining a massive amount of Chakra.
If Li Yao were to learn the Yin Seal, the Chakra he sealed would definitely be much more than Tsunade's.
Because Tsunade cannot collect 100% of the dissipated Chakra, but he can.
"It seems I have to find a way to become Tsunade's disciple!"
The Yin Seal, a sealing jutsu that can grant a massive amount of Chakra, is very precious. In the original work, only Sakura, who became Tsunade's disciple, could learn it.
The only way Li Yao can learn the Yin Seal is to become Tsunade's disciple.
However, becoming Tsunade's disciple is not easy.
Especially since he is a male.