This spot seems good enough. No road or building in sight, and I can't detect any people either. I look around and try to find a tree suited for my purpose here today.
Lately, I've been finding my dwelling to be stifling my progress somewhat, what with my desire to progress to more advanced skills. Skills that are regrettably quite showy in their nature. The orphanage just lacks an appropriate place where I can both train said skills secretly, and damage to a certain extent.
Therefore, today, I set out in a random direction heading towards the outskirts of the perimeter in the hopes of finding a suitable, unmarked, training ground.
That trek brought me to the rice paddies I currently find myself in. It really is quite beautiful; the smell of the earth in the wind, the sound of running water from a nearby stream, I should get out more. Best of all, though, is that all of my senses are telling me the same thing. I'm completely alone, as the 'workers' otherwise known as the older kids have gone for their lunch.
After a quick survey, I pick a relatively empty field and walk up to place my right foot against it. Spreading my spirit energy to said foot, I begin to very slowly build it up until I feel myself standing in a solid surface. A few minutes spent tugging and pulling on my leg assured of the strength of my spirit energy's hold unto my weight. I start to concentrate my spirit energy in the various muscles and ligaments of my lower body as I'd been practicing and begin to feel the weightless sensation I've come to associate with augmented muscles. At this point, I started lifting my left foot off the ground and walking towards the swamp. Before managing to reach anywhere far, however, I find myself flung off the ground to skid for a meter on the mud before coming to a stop.
Blinking, I take stock of myself to make sure nothing is broken. Finding myself fine, albeit a bit dirty and covered with mud, but otherwise generally no worse for wear I sigh in relief. The foothold where my right foot previously sat has an impressive depression. Getting used to concentrating simultaneously on both my enhancing my muscles and streaming spirit energy through my feet is going to take time.
Sighing, I gather myself, straighten up, and approach the area where I stood previously again.
This is going to take a while…
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Although, it is somewhat odd or maybe even ridiculous, there were many reasons why I am currently swimming in mud.
One of them is currently testing out viable training methods from all the fictional stories I've encountered in my previous life, hence my butchery of the water walking exercise from Naruto. Though now that I think about it, I may have inadvertently discovered how to use shunshin, more commonly referred to as the flash step or shunpo. A skill which, now that I think about it, should definitely go on my to-do list.
On second thought, I should experiment with it in the Soul Realm first, least I cripple myself from accidentally overloading my legs with spirit energy. As much as I hate the place for not being able to synchronise with my physical body, I am also grateful for it at times like this.
Well I better go wash up, as this also means that this exercise is a bust until I can perfectly control my spirit energy output.
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It has been 6 months after my first conversation with those two transformed spirit beast and our relationship has been growing ever since, especially between me and the silver dragon king, Gu Yuena; who still foolishly continues "mom and dad play." Which I for one am happy to oblige and maintain as it would further cement the idea of us being together, I truly have no idea how easy it was to groom little girls or maybe I am just that talented.
Anyway, during that time I have been cataloguing and experimenting non viable and viable fiction powers. For example, the infamous "Observation Haki" which from my understanding uses 'willpower' to enhance one's eyesight to the point where one can predict the future. Indeed… this is vague explanation is comparable to saying:
Step 1: Draw 2 circles side by side.
Step 2: Draw an oblong between the circles.
Step 3: Complete the architectural blueprint of Buckingham palace.
I mean sure some experienced architects may accomplish this feat, but for the rest of us, we are just left with a big fat schlong staring us in the face.
Fortunately, I have discovered that the Nen magic system from "Hunter x Hunter" was very much viable as I could already produce similar effects of its four major principles, them being:
Ten: Controlling energy to cover the body.
Ren: Flaring out your energy.
Hatsu: Projecting energy outwards.
Zetsu: Stopping the flow of energy and retracting it inside your body.
As you can see the principles aren't all that hard and with minimal control one can easily produce the same result, but the trick of the Nen magic system is to combine these four major principles to create entirely new techniques derived from them. Although I may not be able to recreate Nen abilities, such as Netero's 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva or even Killua's Godspeed. I am highly confident of duplicating its advanced techniques.
Well that should about conclude the report of 6 months training, as a side note I have also been helping out in the farm during the day, which comes with a lot of benefits. The three major ones are; one, it's a great workout which have noticeably slim me down; two, I may have stored a few more than many seeds in my Soul Realm for the purpose of replanting them and finally three, earning positive favours from pretty much every one, although the caretakers were against it at first as they have suspected that I may have just wanted to wallow in the mud, but my unrelenting perseverance have finally convinced them and here I am.
"Well time to head back"
I chide myself as I put on a fresh set of clothes that I borrowed from the orphanage, while storing the muddy set inside the Soul Realm.