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Chapter 62: Rasengan
After all, his mortal body was not that of a summoning beast with a powerful lineage; he couldn't practice this way for long. Of course, it was also possible that his body hadn't adapted yet, or that there was a more perfect breathing frequency that could mitigate these after-effects.
'The cause of these after-effects is probably due to some mysterious and unknown factor in the breath. Or perhaps the body's cells absorb food energy and experience rejection reactions. Or both,' he thought.
"Could that mysterious factor not be natural energy?" he wondered, shocked, but quickly dismissed that fantasy. If it truly were natural energy, with his current chakra and control, it would have already been assimilated and turned into a lifeless object. "If it's not natural energy, then what is it?"
He shook his head. He had no idea, so he didn't investigate further. He wasn't a true scientist seeking truth above all else. As long as it worked, he would simply use it.
After a long rest, the numbness in his body began to disappear. He had the illusion of regaining control of a body that seemed to have been exiled. Instinctively, he used the Akimichi Digestion Technique to restore his chakra.
"Huh?" he exclaimed softly. He discovered that the numbness's after-effects vanished at an accelerated rate.
"It turned out to be like this," Sasuke's eyes lit up. Since the after-effects could be eliminated with food energy, it meant that the cause was the absorption of those mysterious factors. Food energy played a neutralizing role. It seemed that this mysterious factor was beneficial, but also had a strong corrosive power that food energy could neutralize and assimilate.
With this in mind, he quickly ate and made the most of his digestion technique's power. After more than half an hour, the numbness completely disappeared, and he resumed practice. This time, while practicing, he began to deliberately stimulate the food energy in his body to cooperate with the special breathing frequency at a deeper level, constantly adjusting it to find a rhythm that suited him.
He discovered that food energy could really protect against the mysterious factor, neutralize it, refine it, and absorb it into his cells. With the continuous deepening of the practice, Sasuke became more and more addicted.
"This, this is wind..."
Between breaths, suddenly, he felt as if his entire body was flooded with an endless breeze, as if he were lightly floating in the void. This sensation was fleeting, and then he discovered that there was a trace of Wind-attribute chakra in his body.
"No way? I'm about to develop Wind-attribute chakra!" he suddenly felt as if in a dream. He had been looking for how to do it, and now, inexplicably, he had succeeded.
"Who said that developing the second attribute requires first understanding the nature of chakra? It seems that what's written in the scroll isn't entirely true." His situation was the opposite of what the scroll described. Now he understood the changes in the form of the Wind attribute's air pressure flow, and the chakra of that attribute in his body was rapidly condensing.
Just after passing the critical point, he felt the numbness again and had to interrupt his practice. After a long while, he gradually regained control. 'Next time, I should control the duration well, no need to force it to the maximum,' he thought.
He applied the Digestion Technique again, and the numbness was relieved. He was about to eat to replenish energy, but suddenly realized he had no appetite. For the first time since he learned the technique, he felt full, even a little bloated.
"Huh? The amount of chakra in my body has increased."
He realized it later, but discovered that his chakra capacity had slightly increased. Although the increase wasn't much, it had broken the restraints of his body.
"Developing a second attribute doesn't increase the amount of chakra, so what's my situation?" He touched his chin and thought for a long time, but didn't know why. In any case, it was a good thing. "If this trend continues, my chakra will soon reach the level of a jonin."
He couldn't help but feel happy. The severe lack of chakra had always worried him.
"It seems I can start preparing to practice the Rasengan."
At this point in the story, Minato Namikaze had not yet developed it. If he developed it now, it would not be considered an infringement. It would be his exclusive ninjutsu, protected by Konoha's official copyrights. If he handed it over to the village, he could exchange it for at least an A-level ninjutsu. Of course, once handed over, he would lose exclusive copyright, and teaching it to others would require the use of mission records and merit points.