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Progress II

After his first birthday, Dix kept the same schedule he always had before. Train, and work, and train some more, experiment with concepts and ideas he had about chakra, try and use his past knowledge and apply it to the chakra system and repeat. Time flew, from summer to winter the years passed by without anything notable happening, except Dix's rapid growth in skills.

By the time he turned 3 he was able to control his inner chakra pretty well. He tried to carve out new chakra channels in his body to imbue his organs with energy even more. It didn't really work out, it was mostly painful, and he had to concede, as he was afraid of any side-effects there could be... like death, or something even worse. He understood he has to be way more careful and choose the safe options, because he probably won't get other chances if he dies. Instead he tried dividing his focus on channeling chakra into his organs while doing his other tasks at the same time. This worked to an extent, but not perfectly. He was safe, but could also improve more. After a ton of work and more then a year of training he was able to do almost anything while his whole body, every single cell he had was drowning in chakra.

This was actually quite hard to manage, at the beginning it only lasted for a short while, because the chakra had to be controlled masterfully for it to not be wasted while it circulated. Also it was quite painful. Dix had to put up with the overwhelming amount of chakra he cultivated to actively reshape his body to accommodate even more chakra. Due to his relatively young age his body was still receptible to change. If he tried this at above the age of 14 or so he would definitely die.

Due to him constantly circulating, expending and regenerating his chakra it has been growing at a rapid rate for years. This means his chakra reserves and regeneration was closing onto a jonin's level. After a specific breakthrough at the age of around 3 and a half, his chakra regeneration rate overcame the maximum amount he was able to expend on keeping his organs enhanced, meaning he was able to keep them boosted passively.

The most important research he was conducting was boosting his mental capacity. By default enhancing the brain with chakra like any other organs made it work faster, have better memory and such. Basic upgrades, not much else. But that wasn't enough for him. He had to multitask many things at once, even if he is just sitting or doing some basic tasks or chores. His boosted brain could probably keep up with this, but he had to plan ahead for when he has to fight and strategise mid-combat.

He had three possibilities ahead of him. The first one is to ignite dormant parts of his brain with chakra and try to use those to bruteforce upgrading his brain's stats and hope it will make it easier to multitask. This had many problems, biggest of all he had no idea how to do it. The mysteries of the human brain was a hard nut to crack even for the scientists in his previous life. He was able to scan it somewhat with his inner vision, but that didn't give him much to work with either. He knew different parts of the brain had different functions like emotions, memory, handling facial expressions etc. This meant if he tried to activate his whole brain and every part of it at once, chances are his senses would be overloaded and his head would fry, or even worse.

The second option was he could try and carve extra pathways or break open the already existing ones towards his most important organs. Or maybe all of them. The 361 tenketsu points a person has all over their body are nodes to distribute chakra, but at the same time they are limiters. For some reason the body actively holds back chakra to not overexert itself.

With some research in his own body Dix could find and identify the Eight Gates throughout his body. These are bigger tenketsu points than the rest and are major distributors of energy. The practice of opening these are well-known in the ninja world, and are mostly used by ninjas specialized in taijutsu, as a last resort trump-card, because this technique leaves the user severely tired after it has ended. Higher stages of it can even cripple the user for a while. The last stage give the user the power to surpass the Five Kages, but also kills them in the process, so its only mildly useful.