69novels Chapter 75 The Pathogenesis of Perceptive Talent
Chapter 75 The Pathogenesis of Perceptive Talent
Chapter 75 The Pathogenesis of Perceptive Talent
Five o'clock in the morning.
A dull thud echoed precisely in the warehouse's backyard. It was Matt Day practicing kicking at the wooden stakes.
At the same time, Chiba, wearing thick glasses, sat by the window, dissecting a small animal.
Sosuke, meanwhile, began spinning two glass marbles between his fingertips.
Kaori Uzuki stood at the second-floor window, watching the three of them.
She moved here. To be Sousuke's personal bodyguard.
"Miss Kaori, won't you come down and practice?"
Dai stopped kicking, looked up with a face full of sweat, revealing his signature white teeth.
"The boss said you need to test the results of your cultivation."
Kaori placed her hand on the hilt of her sword and leaped. She jumped from the second floor, landing silently.
"Then please give me your guidance, Senior Dai."
She did not underestimate her opponent. During this time, she had already sparred with this man several times, and his terrifying power made even a Chunin like her feel uneasy.
The two got into position.
Kaori drew her sword. The blade flashed like water.
"Konoha Style: Dance of the Crescent Moon!"
Without using shadow clones, she was incredibly fast, transforming into three afterimages that attacked Dai's upper, middle, and lower body respectively.
Dai did not dodge.
"Such a sharp blade! But—"
Dai tensed all his muscles, channeling his chakra and attaching it to his arms.
when!
The long sword struck Dai's arm guard, producing a metallic clang. The immense recoil made Kaori's hand go numb.
Immediately afterward, Dai's sweeping leg was already upon him. There were no fancy techniques, only extreme speed and power.
Kaori's pupils contracted.
She might have toughed it out before. But now, she remembered Genzo's words.
"Especially skilled Jonin must learn to use their brains and tools."
Her left hand suddenly jerked.
The steel wire hidden in the cuff shot out instantly and wrapped around the wooden stake next to it.
Use the leverage to pull.
Her body defied the laws of physics and shifted three meters to the side, barely dodging Dai's sweeping leg.
boom!
Dai's kick missed, and the force of the wind created a shallow ditch in the ground.
"Steel wire?"
Dai was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"Interesting! Kaori-san, you've gotten stronger!"
With a flick of her wrist, Kaori launched herself into the air, tracing a strange arc as she circled around to Might Guy's blind spot—directly behind him.
"So fast!" Dai reacted extremely quickly, just about to turn around.
But Kaori's left hand swung again.
shhhhhh!
Three kunai, each attached to a steel wire, shot towards Dai's feet in a triangular formation.
Dai instinctively raised his foot to dodge.
It was in that very moment.
"twist!"
Kaori suddenly pulled the main thread.
The three kunai intertwined, and the steel wires instantly wove together into a tripwire net, trapping Dai's ankle.
This is exactly what Genzo is good at.
Dai's body stiffened, and his center of gravity swayed slightly.
In that 0.1-second moment of imbalance, Kaori's knife arrived.
She fell from the sky, using gravitational potential energy to slash her long sword straight at the back of Dai's neck.
What a powerful combo!
An ordinary ninja would probably be completely flustered. But Might Guy is no ordinary person.
"Burn!!!"
Dai let out a low growl.
boom!
A surge of energy erupted from his body.
He twisted his waist forcefully, and his thick thigh snapped the steel wire!
Snap! Snap! The steel wire broke.
Dai turned around and caught Kaori's slashing blade between his palms.
when!
The long sword remained stationary, three inches in front of Dai's forehead. It did not budge.
Kaori was suspended in mid-air, her face flushed. She had used all her strength, even unleashing her chakra, but she just couldn't pull the blade out or lower it.
This is the absolute difference in power.
"call--
Kaori gave up.
"I lost."
She was somewhat discouraged. Even with the newly learned manipulation techniques, they still seemed a bit flashy in the face of absolute power.
"No! Kaori-san!"
Dai Song underwent surgery and revealed a serious expression.
"Just a moment ago, I lost my balance, and I definitely felt the danger. You've become a threat to me."
This is an extremely high evaluation.
It's important to know that Might Guy's current level of taijutsu is already enough to easily defeat elite Chunin.
Kaori sheathed her sword, slightly out of breath.
"It's just a trick, Mr. Dai."
Sosuke sat in his chair and clapped softly.
"Kaori, you've mastered tool manipulation. Unbelievable, only half a month—you're a genius!"
"Thanks to your support, boss." Kaori bowed slightly.
The bills from Konoha Hospital have been settled.
Uzuki Yugao has been discharged from the hospital.
Her face was still pale, but at least she no longer had to wear an oxygen mask.
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Kaori took her to the West Street warehouse.
Sosuke arranged for them to have a sunny room. It was dry and warm there.
"Mom, it's so warm here."
Xi Yan sat by the window, holding a cup of hot milk in her hands.
"Because the sun is really strong here."
Kaori was making the bed; the brand-new cotton quilt, dried in the sun, had a fluffy warmth.
She looked at her daughter with eyes full of tenderness.
But after only a few days, her eyes were filled with worry.
Xiyan's illness was not completely cured.
The doctor said it was a problem with the lung tissue structure, and even with Fengzhiguo Qingfei San (a traditional Chinese medicine formula), it could only suppress the symptoms and not cure the condition.
That night, Xiyan coughed again.
The coughing made Kaori uncomfortable.
"Cough cough————"
Xi Yan covered her mouth and curled up.
"What's wrong?" Kaori gently patted her daughter's back.
"A tightness in my chest."
Xiyan's face turned bright red, and she made a hissing sound in her throat, like a bellows.
"I'll go get Chiba!"
Kaori picked up her daughter and rushed down the stairs.
In the laboratory on the first floor of the warehouse.
Chiba is examining a plant slice under a microscope. Sosuke is spinning marbles beside him.
Without further ado, Chiba picked up the stethoscope and placed it on Yugao's chest.
"There are strong rales in her lungs. There's fluid buildup. Where did she go today?"
"I felt the room was too stuffy, so I took her to the edge of the woods for some fresh air," Kaori said urgently.
"forest?"
Chiba put down the stethoscope.
"This is the third time. Her condition worsens every time she gets near dense vegetation."
Chiba took out a silver needle, gently pricked Yugao's finger, and drew a drop of blood.
"Moreover, her sputum was very strange."
"Cough it out."
Chiba patted Yugao on the back.
"Cough cough————"
Xiyan coughed painfully, spitting out a thick liquid into a glass container.
That wasn't ordinary phlegm.
It has a semi-transparent, gelatinous texture with faint golden specks inside.
Chiba used tweezers to pick up a little of the viscous liquid.
The liquid stretched into a long thread at the tip of the tweezers, refracting an eerie luster under the light.
"It doesn't look like pus, nor does it look like the discharge from a viral infection."
Chiba casually smeared the drop of liquid onto the leaves of a potted plant that was about to wither.
That was the control group he used for toxicology experiments.
A miraculous scene unfolded.
The leaf, which was originally withered and curled, immediately straightened its veins and turned green after coming into contact with the liquid.
Even more surprisingly, a new bud sprouted on the branch.
"This is—" Sosuke's eyes widened.
He reached out and gently touched the viscous liquid with his fingertips.
Nourishing.
A faint stinging sensation came from my fingertips. It wasn't an electric current, but a wild, primal, corrosive feeling.
It felt like sticking your hand into strong acid.
"Natural energy".
The word flashed through Sosuke's mind.
He thought of the Jugo clan's constitution, or those losers who turned to stone because they couldn't control their Sage Chakra.
"Kaori, does Yugao have any special talents?" Sousuke asked.
"No, she's just a child, she hasn't even started cultivating yet—wait, if it's a special talent—"
Kaori suddenly remembered that someone from "Root" had told her that Yugao possessed a special talent for perception.
She told the story.
"A talent for perception—no wonder."
"Mr. Sosuke, do you know why?" Chiba asked, puzzled.
Sosuke's medical knowledge is not as good as his, so how come he seems to have already found the cause of the illness?
"While I can't be entirely certain, her illness is probably caused by natural energy."
"Natural energy?" Kaori and Chiba both looked at him at the same time.
"In this world, besides the chakra within the human body, there is also a primal energy circulating in the air, on the ground, and in the forests."
"Every breath of air we take contains natural energy. Ordinary people can't feel it, but it's different for Yugao."
"She possesses a talent for perception."
"The so-called sensory talent is essentially the nervous system's extreme sensitivity to the flow of energy in the outside world."
"Her lung disease may be an organ-level lesion caused by her sensory gift."
"To put it simply, it means that her lungs sensed the natural energy she inhaled with each breath."
"For ordinary people, this kind of violent energy is harmful. Of course, normal breathing is fine, but Xiyan's lungs are too sensitive."
"So her immune system mistook the natural energy for a virus, secreting a lot of mucus to wrap around it and try to cough it up."
Sosuke looked at the suffering child.
"This isn't an illness. This is—a talent."