Chapter 33 - 33 (2/2)

Similarly to the manga, Fukasaku put some of the oil on Ryo's arm. However, Ryo didn't feel the flow of natural energy.

When Naruto was painted with the oil, he felt the inflow of energy and his arm started to morph into a frog's limb. Ryo however, didn't feel any inflow of energy, although his hand started morphing just like Naruto's.

”Fukasaka Sama, why is this happening?” Ryo felt that this was strange. Natural energy is clearly flowing into him, but he was totally unaware of it.

”Your 1st step to learning Senjutsu is to understand the difference between your Chakra and natural energy!” As he finished his words, he hit him with his stick to bring out the natural energy in his arm.

”Ryo Chan, you don't have to worry about being swallowed by natural energy, so use the oil as you want. Once Ice elementization starts, it means that practice has failed. When that happens, start over, until you can distinguish between your three sources of energy.”

Ryo fully understood what his 1st task was.

He began refining his Chakra. Because the Ice mode absorbs a lot of natural energy,

When Ryo began refining his chakra, because he also was working on his Ice affinity, he absorbed a lot of natural energy into his body.

Whatever was left in his body of that Natural energy formed within him a new ”Chakra” while he was refining it early in his life. It was indeed a combination of Natural energy, Physical energy, and Spiritual energy. However, it wasn't in a 1:1:1 Ratio. It wasn't Senjutsu Chakra. This allowed him to have absurdly high amounts of Chakra. All of this is what was called by Fukasaku the Natural Energy Baptism.

And because his 1st encounter with natural energy was while he was refining Chakra early on in his life, Ryo cannot distinguish between the 3 types of energy.

After identifying the path he should take. He painted his body with Toad Oil and opened his Sharingan and observed the Chakra's flow within his body.

A moment later, his body started morphing into the shape of a toad. Ryo's chakra flow wasn't influenced.

”Huh?” When Ryo was about to fully turn into a frog, his Chakra flow ceased, and his cells acquired the molecular structure of ice.

At the beginning of Ice Elementization, Ryo discovered that a large amount of the energy acc_u_mulated in the body began to flow into his cells at that moment.

Ryo knew that physical and spiritual energy won't be absorbed in that process. For the 1st time, he was able to feel this energy intuitively.

After that, Ryo lifted this mode, and he continued applying Toad Oil.

Once, twice…

Ryo, who had no problem with working hard, couldn't count how many times he repeated it before finally identifying the feel of natural energy.

Unlike physical and spiritual energy, Natural energy had a different feel to it, like it was alive.

After identifying it, he closed his eyes and felt the chakra flow in his body.

He discovered that although his Chakra does not contain natural energy, his body had some of it. Once he used Ice elementization, that energy was used to complete the transformation.

This energy had a peculiar attraction to the natural energy of the outside world. Ryo's intuition told him that it's the chief culprit behind his inability to enter Sage mode.