Chapter 144: Slacking Off

Although it expended countless energy.

But all of this is undoubtedly worth it.

Each ninja, due to differing innate talent, results in slightly different outcomes when activating their chakra to strengthen the body.

However, by the age of Dong Shilang, the methods for ninjas to enhance their strength are basically the same.

On one hand, they train in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu, while constantly exercising their physical and mental energy to increase their chakra amount.

On the other hand, they refine chakra through eating, resting, and the energy leaked from their own cells, to targetedly activate themselves.

Or targeting vision, smell, strength, speed, nerves, etc.

However, each activation is kept within limits, partly due to one's own energy, and another important factor is insufficient chakra.

Know that bodily activation consumes considerable energy; relying solely on the energy generated by the human body, a comprehensive self-improvement is simply impossible.

Therefore, most ninjas will enhance themselves item by item according to their actual needs,

resulting in extremely slow progress in strength, while each ninja, having strengthened only one aspect, exhibits glaring weaknesses that are easy to exploit.

Only jinchuriki receive extraordinary enhancement from the unconscious leakage of chakra from the tailed beasts.

Having successfully mastered Sage Mode undoubtedly brings Dong Shilang unparalleled benefits; thus he no longer needs to agonize over whether to boost his strength, speed, or reflexes.

Now he doesn't have to choose—he wants it all~

When he first began trying,

With two Shadow Clones, he transformed his gathered senjutsu chakra into yin and yang attributes and orderly transmitted them to his main body, Dong Shilang began his bodily activation.

He carefully controlled these energies, mixing them in a specific perfect ratio, then let them slowly wander and dissipate through the meridians~

Dong Shilang felt a sensation he had never experienced before……

It was like a drought meeting sweet rain, or dry kindling encountering fire; his whole body felt as if soaked in a hot spring.

A warm feeling enveloped his entire body, as if returning once more to the womb when life begins to grow slowly.

This feeling was not only bodily; his mind also seemed to undergo a baptism, shedding usual anxiety, irritability, darkness, and other negative emotions, becoming more tranquil and pure.

He had this feeling entirely because, over these years, his exploitation of his own cellular energy had never ceased.

Since he could refine chakra, over these six-plus years, physical training, shadow clone study, and ninjutsu practice each consumed his chakra, while his cellular and spiritual energy naturally bore these side effects for him.

But his body is still in a growing state, so he feels nothing now; once his physical development ends and life's peak passes, these issues will gradually appear.

This time, with the addition of natural energy, his chakra increased out of nowhere by tens to hundreds of times, while his body cells and spirit had been exploited for too long, leaving him famished, thirsty, and exhausted—hence this feeling.

Suddenly, this situation was alleviated, and the feedback to him was undoubtedly quite positive.

If one merely strengthens oneself by exploiting one's own potential, how could it compare to gaining energy from the outside to strengthen oneself!

……

Alas, there is no so-called power of all phenomena!

He glanced at his two shadow clones behind him and the shouts coming from outside.

Dong Shilang gathered his thoughts, didn't linger, and directly got up to go open the door.

"Oh, it's Inaho-san; I don't know what business you have this time."

After opening the door, looking at the visitor outside the courtyard, Dong Shilang felt puzzled, not knowing what the person wanted from him.

Regarding this 'Inaho Uchiha', he still knows him, and together with a few other guys, they were called by netizens in his previous life as the Uchiha's 'Crouching Dragon, Phoenix Chick'.

One day in the future, they will suspect Itachi of 'murdering' Shisui, come to his door to argue, adopting a posture of confronting him with accusations.

As a result, this group's skills were truly trendy; they were dealt with by the thirteen-year-old Itachi Uchiha in a few quick moves,

not even needing a ninjutsu, just using taijutsu……

Know that their combined age at that time would be more than enough to be Itachi Uchiha's grandfather generation~

……

"How come you're still holed up at home in broad daylight, not opening the door?"

After entering, this guy didn't first say what the matter was, but instead began questioning Dong Shilang.

He secretly rolled his eyes, thinking whether he opens or closes the door is none of his business~

Although he thought that, he couldn't say it out loud; although he didn't care about the guy, there was no need to provoke him.

The other party now considers himself the right-hand man of Fugaku Uchiha……

"There's no other reason; I'm just doing bodily activation training at home and don't want to be disturbed……"

Also, there's nothing to hide; this kind of thing, any Chunin or higher ninja generally knows some related information.

Moreover, since starting bodily activation training, Dong Shilang has tried to stagger his patrol times and extensively uses Shadow Clones to 'slack off'~

Slacking off leadership! In his previous life he was well versed in that……

As long as he doesn't run into bad luck with some sudden situation, basically there's no problem.

Know that this is the Leaf Village's old nest; at most it's just some spy‑catching, and spies' combat ability is generally average~

Thus he frees up a lot of time to facilitate his cultivation.

His current cultivation plan, aside from the daily morning 'seated meditation' which remains unchanged, has stopped all weighted running and such.

With a more efficient cultivation method, he finally broke free from that endless physical training.

His daily cultivation now feels somewhat like cultivating immortality~

He splits off several Shadow Clones to help transform senjutsu chakra, then his main body controls the 'activation' of the flesh.

Just doing seated meditation each day lets him easily increase his strength.

Of course, some maintenance training is still indispensable……

"Like that? Forget it……"

"Lord Fugaku, there's a mission; come with me……"

After hearing Dong Shilang's words, Inaho Uchiha didn't think much more, and spoke to him in a businesslike tone.