Chapter 34: Improving Ice Release
That natural energy in Ryo’s body was activated by Chakra . What he didn’t expect was that natural energy didn’t have to be deliberately guided to be able to merge with Chakra .
Whenever the Chakra merged with that energy goes through a part of his body, that part will turn into ice, and the natural energy within that Chakra will be reabsorbed .
So after full ice elementization, all the natural energy within Ryo’s body will be integrated into his Ice body and it can be mobilized at anytime .
Ryo tried an Ice release Jutsu while in that elementization state . It was as Fukasaku described .
The natural energy within his body is 1st to fluctuate . Then a part of it enters the water that he’s about to freeze . What happens then is that the Natural energy in the air would be attracted by Ryo’s own natural energy . This pushes the external wind natural energy into the water, freezing it .
Whenever the natural energy within him is fully consumed (as freezing requires a lot of natural energy), Ryo’s body can’t supplement it by external energy, so Chakra is used as a self-regulatory mechanism .
After some experiments, Ryo became certain that the key to his Ice Elementization was this internal natural energy . It was activated by Chakra, and is attracted to external natural energy . But it didn’t have the other effects
of its regular counterpart .
So he called Fukasaku, and told him about the progress he made . However, he concealed the part concerning this internal natural energy .
“Ryo chan, you have already understood natural energy . Now you need to feel it around you . By feeling it flow into you using the oil, you must grasp that feeling and translate it into making it flow into you without the oil . ”
Because he didn’t have to worry that Ryo would be overwhelmed by natural energy, Fukasaku only came to help him when he needed guidance . He spent his times training Jiraya elsewhere .
In the Manga, the time that took Jiraya to master Sage mode wasn’t really precised . Ryo also didn’t know when he was there to study it .
Today, since they are both disciples in Mount Myoboku, so Jiraya was actually in a way, Ryo’s senpai!
Jiraya’s 1st step, meaning entering Sage mode with the help of the toad oil, was a success . Without using it, he could also sense and use natural energy . It’s just that he wasn’t able to balance it it properly with his own chakra .
Ryo, who understood well natural energy now, was actually pretty familiar with it . After all he’s been using it for ice mode for over 3 years . So it only took him a few days to sense the world’s natural energy without the oil
oil .
Through all these days of practice, and especially after discovering the natural energy within his own body, Ryo has been thinking about finding a way to combine the 3 energy sources he has to enter sage mode .
His only concern was his attempt will consume his natural energy . If he’s willing to use sage mode, he’ll have to find a way to supplement it .
Ryo didn’t want to experiment too much before solving this problem . He once again called Fukasaku who was really impressed with his progress on arrival .
For the next step in his training, Pa didn’t give Ryo a precise method . But he suggested that he should sit down and get a feel for his ice mode .
Ryo tried to use what he learned about the attraction of external Natural Chakra to his own, by exposing his natural energy to the outside world . The wind and water parts of the external natural energy were drawn to his own like moths into a flame .
Using that gathered energy; he tried using Ice release, and what happened was that none of his Chakra was used except for what he needed for water release .
The problem of overusing Chakra in his ice mode was finally solved after all those years .
Ryo felt finally at ease . But then he discovered the flaw of this technique . Because of the mobilization of part of his
of his internal Natural Ninjutsu, he couldn’t actually complete elementization . There was always some palm sized part of his body that didn’t turn into ice . Such a thing could be a fatale weakness for him in combat .
Ryo reabsorbed his own natural energy, and the external one that he gathered began to dissipate slowly .
“If only I can gather it and store it!” Ryo was thinking out loud .
“Kid, you can try using your [Yin Seal] . ” It was Jiraya’s voice appearing out of nowhere .
“Jiraysan, don’t go around scaring people like that!” Ryo looked back at Jiraya .
“Kid, you’ve made great progress with your training . I just saw how you gathered so much natural energy . Boss just went home for dinner . So I came here to check out on you . ”
Ryo was very grateful hearing this . Jiraya has known him for just a few days and now he cares this much about him . He showed his gratitude .
“Don’t mention it little devil . Now, did you just say you want to store natural energy?”
Ryo nodded and said, “Yeah, I have found a way to get a lot of natural energy fast, but no way to store it . ”
“So, you can try the Yin Seal that Kushina gave you, I was told by Minato that she taught you on how to use it . ”
“Jiraya san, it wasn’t designed it wasn’t designed to store natural Chakra, and it’s not to be used frequently . ”
“Well you can always try . If it turns out that you can store natural energy with it, I can help you change it making it more usable . I’ve seen its use and development after all!”
“Really Jiraya san?!” Ryo never expected such a pleasant surprise .
“Of course, a Sage always keeps his word! Now start trying to store natural energy!” He pointed at him telling him to start .
Ryo repeated the same thing he did before . This time, he gathered his natural energy in his Yin Seal . This caused a crazy inflow of external natural energy into it .
Ryo only took in the Wind and Water Natural energy, and was able to actually fill 1% of his seal’s storage . With his recovery rate, he’ll be able to repeat this a 100 times, and totally fill up the seal in 1 weak!
He was feeling the natural energy being trapped in the seal and he knew it could seal natural energy .
So Jiraya went on and changed the release mode of the seal .
After being changed by Jiraya, the seal was still not comparable with that of Tsunade . It was releasable at will whenever it had Chakra in it, with the ability to turn it off too . But its weak point was that it was only refillable after being totally drained .