Chapter 3

It had been almost week since Issei had found his chakra and ki. Since then he had scoured the book and his mangas to make a list of all ki and chakra techniques, and boy was it long.

The list for ki techniques were long and was very varied for Issei to simply start trying to emulate and practice them and it was the same for chakra.

Though he did find some useful tips on how to increase one's ki and chakra using some training methods described in the book along with some additional methods from his mangas. He did want to just stick to increasing his chakra and ki reserves and if possible try to gain access to chi as well.

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Now what was the difference between ki and chi? Well Issei found that ki was pure physical energy which represented the life force of a person, while a chi was a natural energy that existed in nature as free flowing energy.

Chi while it was natural energy also known as natural ki was not pure physical energy like ki which represented life force. Chi also represented spiritual energy as well as other assortment of natural energies.

The book clearly stated that while chi and ki are most closely related they are vastly different due to their inherent nature and composition, since one was pure while the other was a combination of different energies. Comparing chi and ki were like comparing iron and steel, almost same appearances but different in properties and like steel chi tended to have different kinds and categories as well.

The book also emphasized on one fact about chi and ki it was that many people have different interpretation of ki and chi, some will have different meanings of ki and chi while some will just have the labels of ki and chi reversed for it.

The book in such situation advised to first feel the energy and then decide on its nature.

For chakra the book was clear that it was made of mental and physical energy not spiritual or magic with physical as the magical and spiritual energies were inherently different than mental energies.

The book stated that mental energies were mostly come in the form of psychic or esper powers also known as psi or psionics.

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Issei after researching all this soon began to follow through the ki and chakra building exercises as well as energy sensing for the beginning stages of Senjutsu training, and it was coming quite well too and was soon able to sense the life force of others but still was not able to distinguish them but it was just the second day of his sensory training so he was in no hurry.

Now most would that Issei must have been a prodigy to have made such advancements in such short month but he was not, though he was exceptional and very determined so he progressed quite faster than an average trainee.

The reason for his progress was that he had unrestricted access to all techniques and training methods for a sage in the art of Senjutsu and a treasure stove of knowledge that span more than a thousands of years of history that were tried, tested and refined to the point of maximum progress to get the best out of every second of training.

Now where was this treasure stove of thousand of years of knowledge? Why, it was it book of course.

It seems that the book while old and plain ordinary looking was enchanted in ways Issei could not even imagine. So when he accidentally channeled a bit of chakra new pages which weren't there before appeared and that too without increasing the book size or mass.

Issei who had previously memorized what was a 250 page book of information now had access to over more than 1000 pages worth of info on chakra alone.

He later tried channeling ki and the same happened with additional info and techniques on ki.

After skimming through and some pages he found that many of the techniques were exclusive to sages only as only they had the proper training to use them many dealing with nature and healing and crafting of various items.

He poured most of his time just going through all the techniques and info on chakra and ki and after a week he was able to memorized everything not understand or use them but he had memorized almost everything not all but close.

Now his brain should not have been able to processed everything there was but due to various memorization techniques both mundane, ki based and chakra based he was able to memorize and recall them perfectly, though it cause him to pass out for over two weeks and was a walking zombie for another week. If he had no had those memorization techniques he might have taken years to recover and even speak coherent words instead of mad ramblings.

He really was amazed at what he learned though, now that he slowly recalled them. There were quite a few, scratch that a whole lot of techniques that blew his mind, some literally would do exactly that.

The techniques range from healing, which he liked a whole lot, combat which went from ranged, silent, and frontal combat, which some were anti-world level techniques, to exploration, transportation, learning and teaching which Issei seemed to have unknowing mastered must have been how he leaned everything so quickly to just about everything even cleaning which had quite a lot of tips and example of application as well.

But what amazed and almost boggled Issei was that if a technique could be used and performed without ki or chakra it was written right next to it and Issei was shocked at learning how they could be done in almost all the methods listed some of the mundane techniques or their ki or chakra or even chi counterparts were easier to perform though some suffered from lack of power or were plain risky and dangerous.

Some were of style of fighting that made even the most skilled practitioner of martial arts that Issei knew look like novices, after all some techniques were able to cut diamond using paper or a stick. While some were just plain sounded and looked plain impossible till Issei tried some of the easier ones and they worked.

But what boggled Issei was that most of them followed science. Science!

Not the mundane science that he knew like laws gravity or something like that but laws with deals in time manipulation, faster than light travel, time dilation, hammerspace and sub-space and laws of multiple layers of reality, dimension, timeline and universe and their differences and so much more.

Issei was able to freeze water while keeping it on fire and made it float in the air and that was just a basic experiment that he came across. Who knew you could do that with milk paperclips and an old Beatle song.

What was more amazing was that they were all written by one person and one person only who went by the name Librarian.

Some of the other sages who had met him wrote that he was a fun eccentric guy always out seeking for knowledge and recording them and always trying to refine and find new ways of doing things, hell at one time when one magician name Salazar performed an orchestra of music using only magic and no musical instruments he did the same with a lot of glass bottles and drums and water and five rubber ball and a silver coin complete with a voice choir. How did he do this the answer vibrations and resonance and a whole lot of creativity.

But one day he disappeared and everything he did along with him. There were no giant cities of unbreakable glass, no grand monuments or libraries of knowledge and also nothing of the great feats he ever did was remembered or even believed to have existed except for some things and records which were immune to any inference of time. It was as if he was wiped out from time itself along with everything he did.

The sages at that time searched for him and investigated his disappearance and even searched for his friend the one call Doctor to get some answers about his disappearance but alas they found nothing, nothing at all except for the fact that the Daleks were involved who were they, they did not but every sage vowed to avenge him after all the felt much anger and hatred against the ones who could do such a cruel thing. And Issei also felt the same.

There were also records of countless prodigies who at the time wrote more that have of what was known about their respective line of works that were considered even miraculous even by today's standard both using ki and chakra and the mundane method.

There were also a lot of things Issei learned from the book and still could not understand a whole lot of them like knowing a proverb but not its meaning, and more and more were being revealed to him each and every time he read the book, and it was getting boring. BORING. BORING, BORING, BORING!

Yes, it was that much boring. Now don't blame Issei after all one can only read so much no matter how interesting it may be before becoming bored and not even exercising and training help stop the boredom.

Okay so he admit it, that it was fun to know how to created bombs from chicken eggs and water and also fun to break all HUMAN law of physics all the while playing with gravitons, but a child could only take so much of science when he was not that scientifically inclined towards it. nor did he want to keep reading about the totally awesome techniques that would take him quite a while to start training in.

So Issei took a trip to the store and bought a whole lot of anime DVDs and watch a marathon for four whole days then went on a long trip with his parents all over Japan and Europe for two months and came back right in time for school. All the while not touching the book nor any mangas or undergoing any training and spend some much needed time socializing with his parent and friends.

It was quite relaxing and Issei thought that he was now in somewhat a stable mindset of continuing his sage training.

He first wanted to complete training his sensory skills that were still a bit lacking as he still was not able to distinguish individual signatures but it was coming by as expected and he was finally able to access subspace for storage and travel, not to mention training, his favorite been the phantom subspace in which time flows 25 times faster but if one is skilled enough could control the speed of the flow and might even interact with the real world.

The last thing Issei started practicing was on a location spell that locates potential sages and teleports the user near them but that required using Senjutsu or a lot of ki and chakra which Issei was slowly going to have access to as his reserves of ki and chakra were slowly increasing to a level that was more than safe to use the spell and even if that was not the case he was able finally going to access Senjutsu chakra as he was almost finishing his sensory training and would be able to sense Senjutsu chakra.

School was finally starting and Issei was kind of looking forward to it along with his plans for finally using Senjutsu for the first time. But what Issei did not know was that he would face a test that many failed to pass, a test that even the greatest prodigy failed to conquer and that it would change him and his views forever.

For Issei did not know that he would face the hatred of that world and the phantoms of old if he did then maybe he would not have been so eager to share that knowledge with the ones who were going to become something more than his friends.

AN:- Now were are finally getting somewhere with this story and I'm sure there are a lot of question and a lot of explanations to be given not to mention a lot of things to be revealed but I'm thinking of revealing them in the course of the story so please be patient and do tell what you want to see most and what question you have.

Till then See ya, Later.