"I am happy that what I said made you a happy and proud mom. However," Zarue fidgeted and blushed in embarrassment, "I did not follow your instructions completely as you told me to, I am sorry I was curious to see what would happen and I caused disappointment by whiffing!" Zarue cried out in shame hiding his face.
Regen was bewildered, before even getting to explain that he had used Ki Sense at the master level in under a minute, he had done more?! Shaking her head at her silly child he patted his head in comfort.
"Before saying you are a disappointment, tell me what else you did that had you so excited to try it." Regen could not hold her excitement in. Her son was doing things at a matter of instinct, making him more than a prodigy! What else had he figured out in Ki techniques without trying, she had to know. Talk about a proud mommy moment.
Blinking a couple of times and seeing that his mom was overjoyed by what he said, Zarue took a deep breath to calm himself. "Well, after feeling that using the Ki filtering technique and focusing the power just into my arms safely would not be enough to make a dent into the tree. Which by the way mom, that tree was not like a regular fir tree." Zarue remembered seeing that trees Ki and how it differed from the rest of the trees.
"Zarue! My goodness, you could tell from the Ki alone that the tree was different?!" Regen laughed and shook her head. "You are correct, though it looked like a regular fir tree, it was actually an iron wood tree, the fiber from that tree can make clothes and certain armor and weapons as if actual iron! I was going to have you practice using Ki Filtering until you had cut it, and turned the fibers into the strongest and most durable clothes. That tree would last you until adulthood! We could make pretty much an indestructible bag from it as well, and many practice tools for you to practice physical training without the use of Ki! Do go on though!" Regen said excitedly, if he did what she thinks he did...
"Well, if you insist, I trust you mom. I figured I would try and use the iron wood tree's own Ki against it, and used Ki filtering to pull its own Ki to help weaken the tree and apply the strength with my strength, which for some reason, it did not weaken the tree, nor did the Ki get pulled away from the tree, but instead, I felt the strength of the tree become my strength as well, as if it was just stacking itself on me like… clothing! It was like I was cloaked in the tree's strength adding itself to me without causing damage. In excitement realizing that this would do exactly what I needed it to do, I swung the axe…." Zarue soon quieted down in mid sentence.
Seeing some remorse on his face Regen was puzzled, "What happened next Zarue, this is a learning experience, so it is ok if something did not happen just right. That is what is called experimenting. Please continue." Regen comforted Zarue some more.
Seeing that his mom was completely on his side and wanted to understand what he went through he continued, "As I swung the axe, my excitement led me further down my thought process, I was hoping to cut the tree down and then perfectly cut the way you do since you are the master logger and charcoal maker in the whole region! So the process flew through my mind and as the blade would connect with the tree, it went through it!" Zarue said in bewilderment.
Regen's eyes went wide and she looked at the tree, then back to Zarue, no, he could not have done that. "When you realized that you lost focus on the task at hand did you think you would not cut the tree?" Regen asked hurriedly.
Zarue blinked in surprise, "Yes actually, that is what happened mom!"
Regen smiled wide, "Zarue, I need you to believe in yourself and that you did cut the tree completely!"
Zarue was confused, but nodded his head and took a meditative sitting position. Clearing his mind of all doubt and the encouraging words of his mom that he had not only hit the tree, but completely cut it, he trusted her words so much, that he believed it wholeheartedly. As this realization happened a soft shaking could be felt and heard.
"Zarue, look at the ironwood tree!" Regen exclaimed in excitement.
Zarue heard his mom's excited words and opened his eyes and looked in amazement. The ironwood tree was shaking violently when chunks of the lower branches started to fall as if cut by a master logger in mid air, as the lower chunks of branches fell, the next layer would start to fall, then the next highest, until the peak of the tree was reached, and then from the top chunks started falling all the way down to the base. The tree was felled perfectly as if to be removed carefully so as to not damage houses near it! He ran to the wood and realized also, the cuts also looked exactly like his mothers cuts, perfectly sized for each thing that would need different uses.
Zarue jumped excitedly and looked at his mom who was overcome with joy and laughing and jumping with him in excitement.
"Mom, what just happened?! What did I do?!" Zarue looked at his mom excitedly and giving her a massive big hug.
Regen laughed and sat down with Zarue in her arms. "Son, first, you perfectly used not, one, but two techniques that I want to go over with you first, and those are Ki Filtering and Ki Sensing." Regen described and went into detail more about what each technique he had used and how he achieved complete master level in basic usage of the techniques.
"Now, for what just happened here, I want to wait until your mom comes with lunch. Oh speaking of which!" Regen's wife appeared with food and her face was bright and radiant in happiness seeing her family being cute.