"...My body... actually discharged the excess Natural Energy on its own?! And that blue thing just now..."
Fukasaki Sennin instantly understood everything that had happened before its eyes. Then, it noticed Naruto wiping his face as he emerged from the oil pool—his right eye was that deep golden pupil with a black background, but at this moment, above his left eye, an extremely faint orange eyeshadow had emerged!
Sage Chakra control, he's reached the entry level?!
A massive wave of shock surged through Fukasaki Sennin's heart. This wasn't just simply sensing Natural Energy; it was the hallmark of having achieved the preliminary stage of harmonizing the Natural Energy drawn into the body with one's own Chakra, and then controlling and applying it!
Although he was still far from 'Sage Mode', this speed of entry... was simply inconceivable!
One must know that back when Jiraiya reached this step, he had stayed at Mount Myōboku for several solid months! During that time, Fukasaki Sennin's daily job was to hold a black rod and give a 'beating' to Jiraiya—who was constantly turning into a toad and getting bruised and swollen because his Natural Energy was out of control—to help him discharge the excess energy.
The process could be described as tragic; Jiraiya suffered, and Fukasaki Sennin was exhausted as well.
But what about this child before him? From the moment the Toad Oil was applied until now, it had been barely ten minutes at most!
Naruto was currently immersed in the wonderful sensation coming from his body. It was a brand-new sense of mastery, a feeling that a vast and gentle power, which had been dormant, was now gradually awakening within him.
Controlling this Natural Energy was theoretically extremely difficult, like trying to pick up a slippery loach moving nimbly in water with chopsticks; it required precision and patience.
But strangely, for Naruto, although he could feel the 'difficulty' involved, the actual operation had an inexplicable'smoothness' to it.
His body might not have the relevant memories, but in the dark, his Soul seemed to possess an incredibly familiar 'muscle memory' for Natural Energy.
With just a slight attempt at guidance, he crossed the threshold as naturally as water flowing into a channel.
There was another thing... Naruto's thoughts shifted slightly; this was done by his own ability—[Blue Moon Thousand Wings].
When Urashiki used this ability, it was for evading lethal attacks or rapid displacement, like a slippery loach. But Naruto felt that the potential of this ocular technique went far beyond that.
He had made some attempts before and found that although he could easily 'energize' himself into blue paper cranes, there were obvious limitations; he could not energize other living beings, people, or animals.
At the same time, he could not directly transform inanimate physical matter, such as Kunai, shuriken, or rocks, into harmless energy paper cranes.
In other words, he couldn't just wipe away an enemy's attack and 'decompose' it like some powers in fantasies.
However, today's Senjutsu Cultivation gave him a brand-new inspiration.
Since living entities and fixed matter could not be energized, then... what about forms without a physical body, composed purely of energy?
Isn't Natural Energy exactly such a vast energy that permeates heaven and earth, formless and substance-less yet truly existing?
This thought flashed through his mind.
Naruto concentrated his spirit, and his [Star Eye] suddenly lit up, emitting a strange light that carried the fluctuations of certain rules.
Under the gaze of Fukasaki Sennin and Satsuki, in the air in front of Naruto, it was as if invisible brushstrokes began to sketch.
Bit by bit, piece by piece... azure-blue energy paper cranes, emitting a soft glimmer, actually began to condense and manifest out of thin air!
They did not fly out from within Naruto's body; instead, they were directly transformed from some invisible 'existence' in the surrounding space, flapping their illusory wings and silently circling and dancing above the oil pool.
Naruto had succeeded. Through the [Blue Moon Thousand Wings] of his [Star Eye], he had truly captured and 'energized' the invisible Natural Energy permeating the surroundings, manifesting them into the form of visible blue paper cranes!
Fukasaki Sennin stared at the blue paper cranes that were once again condensing from thin air and dancing gracefully. It reached out its front webbed foot and caught one of them.
The moment the paper crane touched its skin, it turned into a warm and pure flow of energy, merging into its body.
"This, this is... he actually managed to materialize and stably maintain formless and substance-less Natural Energy?!"
Fukasaki Sennin carefully felt that familiar, gentle pulsation belonging to Natural Energy.
Beside it, Uchiha Satsuki was also drawn by these paper cranes emitting a dreamlike azure light. A sigh of "So beautiful" involuntarily rose in her heart. She subconsciously reached out her hand, wanting to gently touch a light crane floating past her eyes.
"Wait! Stop, little Satsuki! You can't absorb it directly!"
Fukasaki Sennin caught Satsuki's movement out of the corner of its eye and hurriedly called out to stop her. "The Natural Energy condensed in there is too much for your current body! Directly absorbing it will cause trouble!"
However, the warning was a step too late. Satsuki's fingertip had already touched the edge of a paper crane, and that light crane instantly vanished into her body.
"Ugh...!"
Satsuki's expression changed immediately. She clearly felt a vast and unfamiliar gentle energy surge into her Meridians, completely incompatible with her own Chakra. The two energies did not merge smoothly; instead, they were like oil and water mixed together, making her Chakra flow become sluggish, and bursts of swelling pain and strange sensations came from inside her body.
Fukasaki Sennin immediately grabbed the black rod nearby, preparing to help Satsuki 'beat' out the excess Natural Energy. Satsuki also felt certain parts of her body seem to produce a slight, unsettling pulling sensation, as if an uncontrolled transformation might occur at any moment... But the next instant.
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