Chapter 5: Beginning to Extract Chakra
After finishing the scroll on the Chakra Extraction Technique, Orion calmed his inner excitement. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. He repeated this several times, because when extracting chakra, one must clear their mind and not let it wander. Otherwise, the success rate of learning the technique is low.
However, once you succeed a single time, it becomes very simple. The first time is extremely difficult; you must extract energy from the 130 trillion cells in your body and then merge it with your spiritual energy to finally produce chakra.
As long as you successfully extract chakra once, the feeling becomes deeply ingrained in your mind, never to be forgotten. But even if you wanted to forget, it would be impossible. After that first success, extracting chakra becomes like a bodily instinct; you can do it whenever you want.
It's just like your own arm. Don't people have the ability to control their limbs freely from birth? This is also a bodily instinct. If you wanted to forget how to control your arm, wouldn't that be a complete fantasy?
Calm, calm, calm. I must be calm. I can't be impatient. Empty my mind and let myself relax. There's still a lot of time. I have time, I can take it slow, Orion said to himself silently in his heart.
Okay, that's about right. Orion felt his state of mind gradually settle, and his excitement waned. He prepared to begin extracting chakra.
First, he sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and gently placed his hands on his thighs. He once again took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Orion felt that his state was properly adjusted, so he began the process of chakra extraction.
Alright, first, extract energy from the 130 trillion cells in my body. The feeling was incredibly wondrous, something that those who haven't gone through it could never understand. You had to feel it for yourself to comprehend it.
Orion followed the method from the Chakra Extraction Technique scroll step-by-step. An hour later, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Orion's forehead, and his face had become a little pale.
It really is a bit difficult to extract chakra from 130 trillion cells. I'm definitely following the extraction method on the scroll, so why isn't any energy appearing?
Orion was very confused by this. Is it because I can't extract chakra, or because I don't have the talent for it? The thought that he couldn't extract chakra from his body's cells made Orion a little disheartened. Am I going to live out my life like this? Unable to become strong, unable to control my own destiny, and unable to protect myself? Then what's the point of living? It would be just like my previous life, with my fate dictated by others, just getting by on a meager salary.
Every day, I had to wake up early in the morning to go to work and could only return home late at night. Sometimes I even had to work overtime. Is this life going to be the same? To be a weakling, forever groveling to survive like an ant?
No! I don't want to live that kind of life anymore! I've had enough of it! If I can't command my own power, I'd rather die! I can't give up! I want to successfully extract chakra, and I'm not afraid even if there's a risk to my life in the process. I want to be strong!
Orion screamed and roared in his heart. Even though his body was weak and uncomfortable, he had to persist. Even if his face was as pale as snow, he had to persist. Even if he failed in the end, he wouldn't regret it, because he had tried, he had persevered.
If Orion's father, Minato Namikaze, had been there, he would have definitely stopped him. Extracting chakra is not that easy. Sometimes, even a genius needs several days to successfully extract their own chakra.
For those who weren't geniuses, it wasn't surprising to take several months to extract their own chakra; that was normal. Yet Orion wanted to succeed in one go, which was extremely dangerous.
It was because Orion didn't know this that he thought he was talentless after an hour of failing to produce energy. Therefore, he didn't give up, continuing even when it was incredibly uncomfortable.
Orion kept persisting, kept persisting. As long as he didn't faint, he kept going. It was as if his body sensed his desire, or perhaps his time had come. Regardless, he finally felt the energy being extracted from his cells.
This energy was incredibly warm and comfortable. His face, once as pale as snow, gradually regained its color.
This energy can be commanded by me. Wherever I want it to go, it will go. This feeling is so good, so wonderful.
Orion had successfully extracted his own energy from his 130 trillion cells for the first time. It was truly like a dream. Moreover, in the world of Naruto, no one had ever succeeded in extracting energy from the body's countless cells in a single day. This could be considered a miracle.
So this is what it feels like to have energy? It's really too comfortable. It makes one want to get lost in it.
However, Orion didn't have much time to feel and get intoxicated by this energy, because there was another very important matter: he needed to fuse the spiritual energy in his body with this miraculous energy.
Because he had read the jutsu scroll his father had given him, he knew how to merge this energy with his spiritual power. The prerequisite for this was to clear his mind and have no distracting thoughts. If there were too many distracting thoughts, it would affect the fusion of these two energies, ultimately leading to failure in extracting chakra.
Orion sat on his bed for a while longer, not thinking about anything, not doing anything. He just sat there quietly, casting out all the unnecessary thoughts from his mind. This wasn't easy either; it took him another full hour to get rid of the distracting thoughts.
Alright, that should be enough. After Orion felt he had cleared his mind of stray thoughts, he prepared to proceed with the most important part: fusing the energy extracted from his cells with the spiritual energy in his mind. This was the most critical step. If this step failed, all his previous efforts would have been for nothing.
Therefore, Orion paid extreme attention to the fusion of the two energies. Every step was done according to the method on the scroll, perfectly standard, without a single error. Slowly, slowly, the two energies approached each other.
Controlled by Orion, the two energies got closer and closer. The closer they got, the greater the repulsive force between them, and the more difficult the fusion became. But these were not problems for him.
Manipulating them carefully, the two energies finally collided. Orion frantically gave the command for the two energies to merge. Slowly, slowly, the two energies intertwined.
Before long, the two energies fused, producing a new energy. This new energy was more powerful, more domineering. The original two energies were directly forced into fusion by this new one.
Two hours later, Orion finally opened his long-closed eyes. He exhaled a breath of turbid air and revealed a genuine smile.
I finally succeeded. Although the process was extremely dangerous, the result was good, and that's enough, isn't it?
(End of this chapter)