[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-grind-is-my-ninja-way":3,"chapter-grind-is-my-ninja-way-grind-is-my-ninja-way-chapter-951":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Grind is My Ninja Way",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1481972,1929,"Chapter 951 946: Qualitative Leap","grind-is-my-ninja-way-chapter-951",951,"\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, over an hour had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nearing noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the training room, Seimei was still quietly sensing the Chakra Refining Technique cycling tirelessly within his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one point, it suddenly seemed to jam, grinding to a halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Seimei wasn't alarmed—quite the opposite, he was thrilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because the automatic cycling stopping meant the old loop he'd built was no longer suitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there could only be one reason for this: his Chakra Refining Technique had leveled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as this thought crossed his mind, a faint wave of insight surged within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Seimei focused his mind and began absorbing these new revelations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process took a full half-hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he opened his eyes again, they were brimming with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, the sudden burst of insight was indeed tied to his Chakra Refining Technique advancing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, his Chakra Refining Technique had officially reached Level 7.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he'd anticipated, hitting Level 7 brought a qualitative leap in its effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, the Chakra Refining Technique served two purposes for him: restoring chakra and tapping into his body's potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first—chakra restoration—came in two forms: passive and active.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passively, at Level 6, an hour of running the Chakra Refining Technique restored three thousand chakra points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a full day of twenty-four hours, that amounted to seventy-two thousand chakra points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early on, this method of chakra restoration had been his main reliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as his base attributes grew higher and his body naturally recovered chakra faster, the chakra restored passively by the Chakra Refining Technique was becoming almost negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond passive restoration, there was also active chakra recovery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Seimei rarely used this method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because it didn't increase his daily chakra cap—it merely squeezed out the recoverable chakra in a short burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From its effects, it was clear this was a technique for unleashing maximum combat power in a pinch, not particularly useful for training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, such squeezing would weaken his body, affect chakra output for days, and even waste some chakra due to its rushed nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Seimei, who was focused on training, this was a losing deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for boosting combat power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chakra hadn't been the bottleneck for his combat strength in a long time. His chakra reserves already far surpassed a normal person's, and further increases yielded diminishing returns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This became even more apparent after he created All Things Sealed, opening a seal space to store chakra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he basically never used this method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having the ability and not using it was different from not having it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his Chakra Refining Technique now at Level 7, both aspects had seen significant improvements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, passive chakra restoration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went from three thousand points per hour to five thousand points per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't about squeezing his body for more chakra but about improving energy efficiency—using less mental and physical energy to produce more chakra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he could now restore an additional forty-eight thousand chakra points per day (= (5000 - 3000) 24)!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well… while the increase wasn't massive, more was always better than less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, active chakra restoration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It still couldn't break his daily chakra recovery cap, but when he needed to go all out, he could now refine all his chakra much faster than at Level 6.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, the loss during the process was less than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, it was an improvement, but not a dramatic one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Seimei wasn't too disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because chakra recovery speed wasn't his main focus. His real priority was the latter effect: tapping into his body's potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by improving this could he more quickly convert the skyrocketing potential from his boosted base attributes into actual combat strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that in mind, Seimei calmed himself, opened his status panel, glanced at his chakra cap, noted the number, and began actively running the Level 7 Chakra Refining Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he did, he immediately felt the difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If running the technique before was like digging into his potential with a spoon, bit by bit, now it was like wielding a shovel, scooping out huge chunks at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speed was leagues faster than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seimei was so immersed in the thrill of it that he lost himself in the sensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slipped by, second by second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In what felt like no time, it was already noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his stomach growled loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't eaten since morning, and now that it was noon, his body was naturally sounding the alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interruption snapped Seimei out of his trance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Checking his panel again, he saw his chakra cap had increased by 460 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he glanced at the time—an hour and change had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doing a quick calculation, he got his answer: running the Chakra Refining Technique for an hour now boosted his chakra cap by three hundred points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, that number was only sixty-four points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, at Level 7, the technique's ability to tap into his body's potential had more than tripled in speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This completely exceeded Seimei's expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He'd known from past upgrades that each level-up doubled the technique's effect in this regard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he'd prepared himself for a qualitative leap at Level 7, he'd only expected it to hit around two times the previous effect—maybe a hundred fifty points per hour, which would've already been beyond his expectations. But three hundred points per hour? That was unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate, running it for twenty-four hours a day would increase his chakra cap by 7,200 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's 7,200 points a day. Over thirty days, that's 216,000 points. In a year, it'd be 2.6 million points of chakra cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Seimei felt a glimmer of hope that he could fully convert his body's potential into actual combat strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why only a glimmer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple—his base attributes weren't standing still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on past experience, if his Mental or Physical attributes increased by just two points in a year, it would easily outpace the effects of his Chakra Refining Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that wasn't a hard benchmark to hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, his potential might keep growing faster than he could tap into it—unless…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless he could level up the Chakra Refining Technique again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While going from Level 7 to Level 8 wouldn't bring another qualitative leap, the improvement would surely be no smaller than the jump from Level 6 to Level 7.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That might be enough to keep his potential from piling up endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But leveling up the Chakra Refining Technique again? Easier said than done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at his panel, Seimei saw that over the past hour, the technique's proficiency had only increased by one point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like before, leveling up at Level 7 still relied on grinding time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was still one point of proficiency per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To go from Level 7 to Level 8 required 20,000 proficiency points—that's 20,000 hours, or over two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over two years, huh…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seimei shook his head, pushing the thought aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up, left the training room, washed up quickly, and headed outside to find some food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No rush on the training!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today was his rest day anyway, so there was no need to push himself too hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goals for today were simple: first, complete the routine nurturing of his Byakugan; second, get familiar with the Level 7 Chakra Refining Technique to get it running automatically again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of these was particularly challenging for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he'd take it easy and tackle them with a calm mind!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Chapter End)\u003C\u002Fp>",1261,"2026-06-06T03:31:03.429Z",1,"novelbin.me","4c857fa05756d5a9e904af61d62534e2c9fdba5b6a9902b5b4428eb653916c20","grind-is-my-ninja-way-chapter-952","grind-is-my-ninja-way-chapter-750",1097,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgrind-is-my-ninja-way-cover.jpg"]