ALL NOVEL Chapter 7: ch7
"Sis, how are things going at school lately? I haven't heard you talk about schoolwork for a long time."
West Valley High is a key school, and Emily Smith's grades were generally low, so she attended a regular high school close to home.
John Smith plans to have a serious talk with his family and tell them that he doesn't plan to go to college so they can save the money for Emily's education.
Emily's eyes turned red when she heard this topic, and her voice was a little aggrieved, "It's still the same, neither good nor bad, but I can't learn as well as you."
Seeing this, John knew that she was upset and quickly comforted her.
"Sis, don't take it too seriously. In a few days, it's time to awaken in the Divine Tree Space. As long as you have good ninja talent, you might be able to awaken a Bloodline Limit and become a genius overnight."
"It's you who could awaken a Bloodline Limit," Emily said absently. "Bro, you've been smart since you were a child. How can your sister compare with you?"
The more she spoke, the more aggrieved she became. After hearing this, Sarah Feng and Jack Smith remained silent and lowered their heads to eat.
John took a deep breath and decided to be direct, "Aunt Sarah, Uncle Jack, Emily, I have something to discuss with you."
"What's the matter?" Sarah put down her chopsticks.
John said, "It's about college. I don't plan to go. Let Emily go instead."
"What did you say?" Jack's expression immediately turned stern after hearing this, while Emily's heart skipped a beat.
"Why wouldn't you go to college with such great talent? Don't you know that college is the only way out?"
"Yes, John," Sarah said, quickly catching on. "Did you hear something?"
"What did I hear?" John feigned confusion. "I don't want to go to college because I think it's unnecessary and just wastes my time."
"No!" Jack slammed the table and shouted, "What nonsense?"
"You go to school and don't think such nonsense. From now on, the whole family is counting on you to be successful. You can't just say no! This matter is not up for debate!"
"Uncle, I..."
"Stop talking; it's not happening!" Jack's attitude was very firm. John didn't expect that he, who was usually very easygoing, would be so unyielding on this matter.
When Emily saw this, the hope that had just been ignited in her heart was shattered again, and her resentment toward John intensified, completely breaking out.
"Dad, you're so unfair. I couldn't go to college when I wanted to, but if my younger brother doesn't want to go, you force him to. Who is your real child?"
With a cry in her voice, she shouted at John again.
"John, I hate you! You stole my future, boohoo."
"Sis..." This was the first time John saw her like this. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately promised, "Sis, don't worry, I will definitely find a way for you to go to college."
"What can you do?" Although Emily thought he was just comforting her, she still didn't want to give up a glimmer of hope when it came to her big future.
What can I do?
John thought about it for a while. He had not yet entered the world of the Sacred Tree, nor had he awakened. He was just an ordinary person. What could he do?
However, the shadows of two people appeared in his mind, and after a moment, he spoke in a determined voice.
"I have two close friends with wealthy backgrounds. I think tens of thousands of dollars won't be a problem for them. I can borrow the first year's tuition from them to help you go to college."
"As for the tuition fees for the next three years... I believe I can change this family's situation in less than a year, and then money will no longer be a problem!"
John said seriously, and the three family members were stunned after hearing this.
How many tens of thousands of dollars can a student borrow?
This went against their understanding of living a life of poverty.
"John, can you really borrow it?" Jack asked hopefully. If there were a way, he didn't want his daughter's future to be ruined.
"The first year is the most expensive. If Emily can really go to college... we'll figure out a way for the rest."
"It should be no problem." John nodded, "Although I've never asked them for anything, these two have a good relationship with me, and I think they will help."
"That's great." Jack sighed, "To be honest, your aunt and I were just discussing asking Emily to drop out of school."
"You know the situation at home. Only one of you can go to college. We want you to go to college more, and for this reason, Emily thinks we're being unfair."
"Uncle Jack, don't worry." John patted his chest and said solemnly, "You've raised me for 18 years, and now it's my turn to support you."
"John, thank you," Emily said with red eyes, "If you can help me go to college, I will be grateful forever."
"Haha, let's not talk about outsiders. We're a family."
"Sis, just wait a moment. In a few days, we'll go to the awakening together. I'll tell them face to face then."
"Yeah, thank you, little brother."
With John's guarantee, Emily felt much happier and nodded with relief.
After dinner, John immediately returned to his room, took off his shoes, and sat cross-legged on the bed, beginning to extract Chakra from every cell in his body according to the Chakra extraction method taught in school.
Buzz.
As he began to refine the cells in his body, they immediately responded and released the energy they had accumulated over the past few days.
In less than ten minutes, these energies merged into a new Chakra, which traveled through the meridians in his body.
This Chakra was very weak, and it might not have been noticeable if John hadn't felt it carefully.
After wandering around for a while, the new and old Chakra merged, slightly increasing his total Chakra amount.
"Too little." However, John shook his head and whispered, "Even if I continue refining for ten days, it won't be enough to perform a single Three Basic Technique."
The energy in cells is limited and can only accumulate so much each day.
John understands this, so he knows there's no need to rush. Only when he becomes stronger in the future and can obtain the highly nutritious mystical creature meat to change his physical quality can he refine Chakra faster.
After being unable to refine more Chakra, John began to practice the speed of forming seals.
He slowly formed seals with his hands, and with a bang, another person appeared—it was the Clone Technique.
Although the Clone Technique only required three seals, it took him more than two seconds, which made him very dissatisfied.
Since the beginning of his senior year, the school has taught students the Chakra refining method and the Three Basic Techniques. John has been diligently practicing the speed of seal formation ever since.
But in reality, Chakra is very violent and powerful, far more than a hundred times more powerful than in the Hokage world, so it also becomes very disobedient.
Every ninja in the Divine Tree Continent is careful when forming seals, for fear that Ninjutsu will explode before it's released.
It takes significant effort to solve this problem.
According to John's understanding, the purpose of the seal is to guide the Chakra in the body through gestures to flow in an orderly and rapid manner, finally forming the Ninjutsu that the ninja desires.
Therefore, the key to improving the speed of seal formation is not how fast the gestures are but to make the Chakra in the body obedient, as familiar as commanding one's own arm.
Regarding this point, he thought of the water-walking and tree-climbing training in the original story.
Both of these practices allow one to quickly and accurately master one's Chakra.
He hadn't practiced like this in the past because his Chakra was limited, and he would need to rest and recover after practicing for a long time.
However, as time went by these days, his Chakra could barely sustain practice for several hours at a time, and he felt that the opportunity was ripe.
"Have a good rest tonight and start practicing hard tomorrow!"
After making the plan, John immediately turned off the lights and lay down. He suppressed his desire to play with his phone when he couldn't sleep and finally fell asleep two hours later.