“Do you know what chakra is?”
Tsunade asked seriously, her playful attitude from before nowhere to be seen.
Ruofeng fell silent, his thoughts racing.
None of this made sense.
Jiraiya had been caught peeping earlier.
Ruofeng didn’t know whether he had actually seen anything, but one thing was certain—Jiraiya had been beaten and sent flying.
Then the wind had blown away the towel covering Tsunade, and Ruofeng had accidentally seen everything.
After that, Tsunade entered the hot spring and covered herself again.
Seeing that Ruofeng was only five years old, she hadn’t paid much attention to him.
After all, he was just a child.
But then Tsunade had suddenly become furious because she thought Ruofeng had some connection to Jiraiya.
After learning Ruofeng’s identity, however, she had completely changed her attitude.
Now she was even willing to teach him chakra extraction, and she had offered to teach him the chakra-extraction method of the Senju clan.
The contrast was simply too great.
Even with the wisdom of two lifetimes, Ruofeng couldn’t quite process it.
Women truly were impossible to understand.
Even though Tsunade was only a young woman now, her thoughts were already impossible for Ruofeng to figure out.
After remaining silent for a moment, Ruofeng replied,
“Although I haven’t practiced ninjutsu or entered the Ninja Academy yet, I understand the basic principles quite well.”
“Chakra is created by drawing physical energy from the roughly 130 trillion cells in the human body.”
“I could have started extracting chakra a long time ago, but I didn’t want to use the ordinary chakra-refinement method taught by the Ninja Academy.”
“So I’ve continued taking medicinal baths instead.”
“My plan was to enter the Ninja Academy and then ask my grandfather to obtain a top-tier chakra-extraction method from Jiraiya.”
Hearing this, Tsunade pinched Ruofeng’s cheek before withdrawing the hand that was still glowing green.
“All right… The swelling on your cheek has already gone down.”
“I also examined your body just now.”
“I really don’t know how you’ve been training. You’re only five years old, yet your body is already comparable to that of some eight- or nine-year-old children.”
“The medicinal baths have certainly played a part, but you must have worked extremely hard on your own as well.”
“Starting chakra extraction now is perfect.”
“However, you really do need to be careful about which method you choose.”
“Jiraiya’s refinement method comes from the toad clan of Mount Myoboku.”
“Putting aside whether Jiraiya would be willing to teach it to you, even if he did, you wouldn’t be able to practice it.”
“That refinement method is connected to natural chakra.”
“With your current foundation, you’re not ready for it yet.”
“I’ll teach you the chakra-extraction method of the Senju clan instead.”
“This unique method was created by my grandfather—the First Hokage.”
“The chakra refined through it isn’t merely high in quality. It also possesses powerful restorative properties and can even be used to strengthen your body.”
Ruofeng stared at Tsunade in astonishment.
He was utterly dumbfounded.
Wouldn’t the Senju clan cause trouble over this?
And for such a small amount of damage, he was actually getting the chakra-extraction method of the Senju clan.
Wasn’t this a little too strange?
Did Tsunade really not care?
Ruofeng looked up at her, confusion filling his mind.
“Why?”
“The Senju clan’s chakra-extraction method should be extremely valuable. How can you just casually teach it to me?”
Ruofeng understood just how precious this method was.
It definitely wasn’t something that could be bought with a little money.
Tsunade fell silent for a moment before answering,
“Consider it compensation for the damage done to this hot spring.”
“Besides, you can also treat it as an apology.”
“An apology?”
Ruofeng suddenly thought of something.
“Is this about Jiraiya?”
As he spoke, several details about Jiraiya suddenly came back to him.
In the original story, Jiraiya had once mentioned that he had come close to death twice.
The first time was when he had been caught peeping at a women’s bathhouse.
Tsunade had broken six of his ribs, fractured both of his wrists, and ruptured several of his internal organs.
Jiraiya had nearly died from those injuries.
The second time was during his training journey with Naruto.
When a portion of the Nine-Tails’ seal was opened, Naruto transformed into his four-tailed form and lost consciousness.
While trying his best not to use a lethal attack against Naruto, Jiraiya was severely injured by the transformed Naruto.
Even so, he ultimately managed to stop him.
These were the two occasions when Jiraiya had come closest to death.
Thinking about what had happened today, Ruofeng looked at Tsunade.
Could this be that very incident?
The time when Tsunade had beaten Jiraiya so badly that he nearly lost his life?
Tsunade gave an awkward smile.
“I’d already lost quite a bit at the gambling tables today when I happened to catch Jiraiya peeping.”
“Although Jiraiya didn’t actually see anything, I was furious and beat him senseless.”
“An ordinary person’s body naturally wouldn’t be able to withstand injuries like that.”
“But Jiraiya has been cultivating natural chakra at Mount Myoboku, so his physique is already different from that of an ordinary person.”
“Six broken ribs, fractures in both wrists, and several ruptured internal organs… With Jiraiya’s body, injuries like these should heal within half a month.”
“Of course, recovering from the injuries is one thing.”
“Jiraiya and I are teammates, but don’t expect me to apologize to him later. That’s absolutely impossible.”
“Your grandfather has a good relationship with Jiraiya, so I’ll compensate you. You can also consider it my apology to Jiraiya.”
“Besides, who would care that much about this chakra-extraction method?”
Tsunade spoke as though she genuinely didn’t care about passing the method to someone outside the clan.
Ruofeng shook his head.
“I didn’t expect to obtain the chakra-extraction method so easily.”
“I thought your great clans considered things like this extremely valuable.”
Tsunade waved her hand dismissively.
“Some clans do consider these things very important. After all, they’re the foundation of their clans.”
“But the Senju don’t care that much about it.”
“Since I’m already telling you about it today, it would be even better if I could exchange it for some money.”
“After all, you’re the grandson of the hot-spring tycoon. You must be pretty rich, right?”
“Why don’t you lend your big sister a few tens of thousands of ryo so I can go gambling?”
Her eyes suddenly lit up.
That was the unmistakable look of someone utterly addicted to gambling.
Ruofeng’s heart nearly collapsed.
“So that’s your real objective, isn’t it?”
“You want to sell this technique for gambling money!”
“Hehe…”
Tsunade chuckled.
Then her expression became serious again.
“All right. I’ll teach you the extraction method now.”
“I’ll also guide your chakra through your body.”
“With your current physical condition and the amount of training you’ve already done, you should be able to extract chakra within three days.”
“If your mental strength is strong, the process will be even faster.”
“But remember this carefully.”
“Chakra is extracted from your cells. If you extract too much, you’ll damage them.”
“So you must control the amount you extract.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Ruofeng felt Tsunade’s chakra enter his body.
It slowly flowed through him.
It was as though the chakra was circulating along the pathways within his body.
Ruofeng knew that these were his chakra pathways.
To extract chakra, one first needed to understand the chakra pathways within the human body.
However, the chakra flowing through him at this moment belonged to Tsunade.
It wasn’t chakra that Ruofeng had refined himself.
After the chakra completed one cycle through his body, Ruofeng suddenly felt a faint movement between his eyebrows.
His expression changed drastically.
“How is this possible?”
“The Three-Thousand Worlds Junkyard is producing garbage again!”