Besides studying taijutsu and ninjutsu during the day, Chen Yue also had nightly training. He practiced the unique secret technique of the Uchiha clan - the Moon Meditation: a technique that can alleviate physical and mental fatigue, and enhance focus.
It sounded rather mystical, but it was actually very simple to practice.
It only takes three steps: First, sit cross-legged or lie flat, relax your body and mind.
Second, adjust your breathing, making it even.
Third, dismiss all thoughts, fix your consciousness on a mental object for a long time, and continuously outline it in your mind's eye, making it clearer and clearer in your spiritual world until there is nothing else left.
The reason it is called the Moon Meditation is that the Uchiha clan's fixed mental object is a 'full moon'.
When Uchiha Hokaku first took out the 'Moon Meditation' and explained to Chen Yue that it was an Uchiha secret technique, he was very excited.
Secret techniques, plus the new knowledge of 'Meditation' that was not in the original, made him very interested.
However, after practicing it for a while, he realized that it was not the soul-cultivating, spiritual power-enhancing, or even Yin-Release power and Sharingan-enhancing divine skill he originally thought, but just a simple meditation technique that existed in his previous life.
However, it did have some effects, especially in alleviating physical and mental fatigue.
Chen Yue meditated for a quarter of an hour each morning before heading out for training and each night before going to bed. This did help him to fall asleep easily after a day of training and to continue to engage in new training with a refreshed spirit the next day.
Apart from that, Chen Yue had not yet discovered any other significant effects.
But according to his great-grandfather, Uchiha Hokaku, long-term continuous practice can indeed improve one's mental power and focus, and ultimately enhance chakra refinement and control, as well as the learning and use of ninjutsu.
In addition, the effect of enhancing spiritual power and Sharingan power that he originally thought was not completely absent, it just takes a long time to achieve this effect.
In fact, what Chen Yue didn't know was that although the Moon Meditation was called an Uchiha 'secret technique', it was no longer the case now.
Meditation is a method of actively cultivating mental abilities, and like all other methods of actively training physical abilities, it is to increase the amount of chakra and enhance the ability to control chakra.
Although the amount of chakra and chakra affinity are significantly affected by innate talent, there is still a role for training.
The two factors that affect chakra: spiritual energy and physical energy.
Generally speaking, there are many methods for training to improve physical energy, but there are few active methods for improving spiritual energy, and they are basically passively improved through experience accumulation and life experiences.
Although meditation is a simple method of actively cultivating spiritual power, and its effects are not immediate, it was still not something that ordinary civilian ninjas could access during the Warring States period. It was a legacy only possessed by major ninja clans, which is why it could be called a secret technique.
However, after the establishment of Konoha, especially after the establishment of the Konoha Ninja Academy, meditation was included in the Ninja Academy curriculum.
To improve the quality of ordinary civilian ninjas, narrow the gap between them and clan ninjas, and thereby achieve complete integration of clan ninjas and civilian ninjas into the village, eliminating potential conflicts between clans and the village, has always been something that Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama wanted to do after the establishment of Konoha.
After all, if the main ninja force in the village is all clan ninjas, then the so-called village is still a clan union, and there is still the possibility of clan conflicts leading to the disintegration of the village.
But if the number of civilian ninjas is increased and their quality is correspondingly improved, then even if their overall quality is still inferior to clan ninjas, their combined strength can make civilian ninjas account for a large proportion of the village's strength.
As the power of civilian ninjas increases in the village, the proportion of clan ninjas in the village will correspondingly decrease.
In this way, even if a certain clan has problems in the future, such as internal strife or rebellion, it will not lead to the easy disintegration of the village.
After all, so-called ninja clans are not a monolithic entity. On the contrary, they still have considerable conflicts with each other.
And ninja clans that cannot unite cannot exert absolute power over civilian ninjas.
In this case, even if future Hokage inheritors cannot possess the power and prestige of the two Senju clan Hokages, they can still guarantee the unity of Konoha by rallying civilian ninjas and some clan ninjas to suppress the rest.
Chen Yue, who did not yet fully understand the current situation of the village, had not yet realized these ideas.
Only later, when he had a better understanding of the world, did Chen Yue realize that the so-called ninja clan that might have problems was the Uchiha clan?
Therefore, the Senju clan, or more precisely, the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama's policy, was mainly to guard against the Uchiha clan?
Because, after the 'decline' of the Senju clan, there were no other clans in Konoha that could rival the Uchiha clan, not even the Hyuga clan, another bloodline limit clan with kekkei genkai.
In this case, who else but the Uchiha clan could be qualified?