One month later—
[After reading a large number of medical books and combining them with the medical knowledge from your previous life, you conduct in-depth research and create the Perfect Foundation-Building Medicinal Bath Formula.]
"Hah… it's finally done! Now I can speed up my growth!"
As he sorted through the new medicinal bath formula in his mind, Uchiha Sora broke into a smile.
Even with his parents' protection, he was still in this dangerous world, and war could break out at any time.
He truly had very little sense of security.
Raising his strength as early as possible was the most important thing.
Without delay, Sora wrote down the formula, got up, left the study, and found his mother.
Handing the formula to her, he said, "Mom! This is the perfect foundation-building medicinal bath formula I created for myself. It has no side effects at all, and its effectiveness is nearly twice as strong as the previous version of the Uchiha foundation-building medicinal bath formula I created. It can also be used once every day."
"Oh?"
Uchiha Misa was immediately startled. She quickly took the formula and read through it, then muttered with a slight headache, "As expected… it's even more profound now. There are even more parts I can't understand!"
"You really are incredible, child!"
"I'll gather all the ingredients for you as quickly as possible!"
To reduce the side effects to nearly nothing—
Her son was truly a monster.
She could already imagine that with this medicinal bath, after a few years, her son would become a super-monster far beyond his peers.
"Mm! Then I'll trouble you, Mom! Remember to buy the ingredients separately as much as possible, and mix in some other medicinal herbs as well, just in case the formula gets leaked."
As he nodded, Sora couldn't help but remind her.
The stakes tied to this formula were no small matter.
"You child!"
Hearing that, Misa smiled, reached out to rub her son's head, and teased, "Your mother is still a Medical Chūnin, and I've worked in the medical field for years. How could I not understand something like that? Just rest easy!"
"And don't stay holed up in the study reading all day long. You should go out for a walk once in a while too, or you'll end up making yourself sick from staying cooped up!"
"I know you don't like playing with children your age, but don't you like that girl Mikoto quite a bit? Then having her take you out for a walk or look around should be fine, right?"
It just so happened that the First Elder also intended for Sora and Mikoto to be together. Misa felt it might be a good idea to encourage them a little, let them spend time together early, and determine each other's feelings sooner.
If they truly weren't suitable, it would be better to decide early.
"Alright, alright!"
Sora nodded with an amused smile, then turned and returned to the study.
As for the matter between him and Mikoto—
With his keen and powerful spiritual power, and because his parents had not been especially careful, he had long since found out.
"Since I've been given this chance, and Sister Mikoto is willing too, then no matter what, I'm not letting you marry Sister Mikoto, Fugaku. Heh!"
Sora sneered inwardly.
In his eyes, Fugaku simply wasn't worthy of Mikoto.
In fact, Fugaku wasn't even qualified to be clan head.
Given the Uchiha clan's situation, a weak and indecisive person was fundamentally unfit to be the clan head in this era.
The reason the future Uchiha clan had ended up in that state in the original timeline had a great deal to do with Fugaku as well.
You could say it was because of suppression from Konoha's higher-ups, or because of Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi.
But weren't the problems of those two also, in part, Fugaku's problems?
Shisui was a genius of the clan, and Itachi was even his own son.
That the two of them eventually made such choices—was that not also, to some extent, the result of Fugaku's failure in raising and guiding them?
Over the next several months,
Sora continued learning more medical books and medical knowledge while also undergoing medicinal bath foundation-building.
At the same time, he never forgot to circulate one major cycle of the Innate Technique every single day. In the process, the innate qi in his lower dantian accumulated more and more.
His meridians, muscles, and bones began improving at a rapid pace.
Even his height started increasing visibly.
…
[Based on the growth patterns of your own spiritual power, combined with medical ninjutsu knowledge, the Memory Palace meditation method from your previous life, and many other meditation techniques, you experience an epiphany and create the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method.]
[Spirit-Refining Meditation Method]: Using spiritual power as brush and ink, one constructs and visualizes a memory palace within the mind, thereby tempering and enhancing both the quality and quantity of spiritual power.
"It's done! Let me test the effect!"
As Sora digested the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method born from his epiphany, he immediately sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began trying to circulate it.
Using spiritual power as brush and ink, he started little by little to construct the memory palace.
Throughout the process, he could feel the resistance and difficulty.
At the same time, his spiritual power was being consumed at a rapid pace.
Sora's spiritual power already far exceeded that of ordinary people. Even before birth, he had been able to project his spiritual power outward, and now, at a little over one year old, it had continued growing day by day.
Yet even so, under the operation of this technique, it was consumed at a shocking rate. In less than half an hour, Sora could no longer hold on. His face turned a little pale, and with a look of deep exhaustion, he opened his eyes.
"Hah… the difficulty really is high! With my spiritual power, I only barely managed to sketch out a rough outline and barely reach the first level of beginner entry. Looks like I'll still have to accumulate and improve it step by step from here on."
Sora thought to himself.
Now was not the time to dwell on that.
The excessive depletion of spiritual power left him dizzy and lightheaded, so he immediately began circulating the recovery section of the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method and entered a meditative state to restore his spiritual power.
That's right—
This Spirit-Refining Meditation Method naturally did more than simply temper spiritual power. It also included a corresponding recovery method, one that could accelerate the restoration of spiritual power by several times.
Another hour passed.
With the help of the meditative recovery technique, Sora's spiritual power finally returned to its peak.
He opened his eyes and sensed his spiritual power. His face lit up with joy.
"As expected, the spirit-refining effect is excellent! Not only has my spiritual power become much more condensed, its quantity has increased by ten percent as well. The results are remarkable!"
Of course, Sora understood that this effect came from his first time cultivating the Spirit-Refining Method. The results would definitely diminish a great deal later on.
After all, as both the quantity and quality of spiritual power continued to improve, further advancement would only become more and more difficult.
But even so, this was more than enough.
One had to know—
The ninja world had no truly complete meditation method for improving spiritual power.
Even clans such as the Yamanaka and Nara, who specialized in Yin Release secret techniques, did not possess such a complete spirit-refining meditation method.
With the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method, refining and increasing the quality and quantity of his spiritual power became another part of Sora's daily cultivation routine.
That night,
after the whole family had returned, Sora even specially called Mikoto over. Then he took out a scroll recording the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method, placed it on the table, looked around at everyone, and said:
"What's recorded here is the Spirit-Refining Meditation Method I recently comprehended and created. Cultivating it every day can improve both the quality and quantity of spiritual power. All of you should memorize it and begin cultivating it as soon as possible."
"What? Improve spiritual power?"
Hearing this, Sora's family and Mikoto were all shocked.
Uchiha Masayuki and Misa hurriedly took the scroll and read through it carefully.
Then, with a grave expression, Uchiha Masayuki looked at his son and asked:
"Who else have you told about this?"