In the blink of an eye, Might Ken is now four years old. Fortunately, he is not as rough looking as Might Dai, but more like his mother Kyoko.
"Ken, today you are 4 years old. I promises that your physical training will also start from today. Are you ready?" Might Dai looked at Ken seriously.
"Father, I am ready. I have always wanted to train and become a powerful ninja." Ken looked at Dai and said firmly.
"Haha, good, you are worthy of being my son."Dai laughed. "Physical training does not depend on how talented you are, but on whether you have enough perseverance to stick to it. Only by perseverance can you have strong taijutsu"
"I will train hard and stick to it every day!"Ken said loudly, as if he was making a vow, maybe he was.
"Come on, I'll take you to the woods next to us, where I have a training ground specially built." Might Dai said as he led Might Ken to the woods next to his house. The father and son arrived at an open space in the woods.
There were several wooden stakes standing on one side of the open space, surrounded by trees of different heights and several targets. There should be a small river deeper into the woods, and the sound of the river flowing could be heard.
"My son, before you start training, I have to tell you that taijutsu is the way of attacking and defending with the body or weapons. But before you start training, you have to have a strong belief, or the way of ninja. Only a strong belief can keep you going. My belief is to protect important things at all costs. This belief is your innermost thought. You will slowly search for it in your future training. Only when you find your taijutsu can you achieve success."
"Father, I also want to protect the important things with my life."
"What is important to you?" Dai asked seriously.
"Dad, mom, and brother are the most important to me, and I want to have the ability to protect you." Ken said seriously with a determined face
"Haha, good!, next, I'll train you but don't complain about being tired." Dai smiled brightly. Then he took out a green tights and said to Ken.
"First you have to put on this tights so you can exercise better."
Ken said with a look of disgust "No, I don't like green," and then shook his head wildly.
"Has my Ken-chan started to dislike his dad?" Dai looked said looking sad.
Ken looked at his father and sighed, so he reluctantly put on the green tights.
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"Ken, first of all, there are two types of taijutsu, one is the attack and defense with fists and feet, and the other is the attack and defense with weapons, both of which belong to taijutsu. In addition to taijutsu, there are also ninjutsu, genjutsu, etc. ,they're are collectively called ninjutsu. The comprehensive strength of a ninja includes these things, and taijutsu are the foundation of all ninjas. Ninjas who are good at taijutsu are taijutsu ninjas, and ninjas who are good at ninjutsu are ninjutsu ninjas. Taijutsu ninjas are usually good at close combat. They are highly activate their bodies through chakra and exert extraordinary speed and strength. They may use fists, feet, knees, elbows and other parts of the body to attack, and even use body rotation and jumping to avoid enemy attacks. In battle, taijutsu ninjas will look for the enemy's flaws and launch attacks with lightning speed, striving to kill with one blow. "
"Ninja ninjutsu is better at long-range attacks and strategic layout. They use chakra to release water, fire, thunder, earth, wind and other ninjutsu. Usually, ninjutsu is very powerful and is a long-range attack. Ninja ninjutsu uses strategy and judgment of enemy information to find opportunities to kill with one blow."
"In addition to ninjutsu and taijutsu, ninjas also use ninja tools, such as throwing techniques, commonly used for throwing shurikens and kunai, etc. But don't underestimate taijutsu. Your grandfather became a powerful ninja during the Warring States period with taijutsu."
"Dad, do you know ninjutsu?" Might Ken asked curiously.
"Of course, the ninja's chakra is divided into five attributes: fire, earth, water, wind, and lightning. I am of the earth attribute, and I know earth attribute ninjutsu, but my ninjutsu talent is not good. I have only learned two ninjutsu, namely earth escape·earth return and earth escape ·heart beheading technique. And I'm good at taijutsu."Dai said to Might Ken
˜My father actually knows Ninjutsu, so why does Might Guy have no talent for Ninjutsu? Although Ken was full of doubts, he was always confused about how Might Guy got the Eight Gates. He didn't know if it was taught by his father, but he couldn't ask his father directly, so he asked.
"Dad, do you know any powerful Ninjutsu or Taijutsu?"
"My ninjutsu is not very powerful, but I has a very powerful taijutsu, which has been passed down in our family since the Warring States Period."Dai said proudly.
"Dad, what kind of taijutsu is that? Please teach me." When Ken heard his father say that,he was excited.
"Not for now. This physical skill is very dangerous. I can only teach you after your body has been trained to a certain level. Your brother's body is almost ready now, so he can learn it this year."
˜It must be the Eight Gates of Death. It turns out that the Eight Gates of Death is a family inheritance. Ken guessed.
"Well, strong taijutsu require a strong body, the foundation of taijutsu is physical training. I will teach you when you meet the conditions for physical training. Now I will teach you how to exercise your body. " Dai demonstrated and explained the movements, and taught Ken the basics of push-ups, squats, frog jumps, running, left and right hops, handstands, handstand walking, straight punches, kicks, etc.
He also told Ken that when one training movement cannot be done, do another one, such as if you can't run anymore, do push-ups, and if you can't do push-ups anymore, do squats. Also, handstands and handstand walking require practice to master, so there is no need to rush. After Ken understood the key points of these movements, Dai began to supervise ken in his exercises. During the exercise, the gentle father disappeared, and a particularly strict one appeared.
"What is your belief? Is that it?"
"The things you want to protect are about to be taken away. What can you protect if you run so slowly?"
"Your punch is like caressing your lover. Do you use caressing to calm your enemy's murderous intent?"
"Are you kidding me, is this a kick? I thought you were shaking your legs!"
Ken felt like crying at these roast his dad began throwing at him but couldn't, because the water in his body needed to be turned into sweat and there was really no extra water to turn into tears.
Ken collapsed on the ground, his whole body was like a puddle of mud, and Dai was still roasting him,beside him. Ken wanted to get up and continue, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get up.
"Ken, that's all for today."
"Dad, I'm sorry to disappoint you. The training is too difficult. I want to get up and continue training, but I can't get up. I'm too weak."Ken said with a disheartened tone.
"Haha, Ken, don't be discouraged. As long as you try your best, you will make progress. Everyone grows up from a weak position. Ordinary and easy things can kill all your ambitions. Doing difficult things will definitely gain you something. Don't care about gains and losses. Don't ask how much you have done. Just keep working hard."Dai encouraged Ken.
"I understand, father, I will train hard every day."Ken said firmly. Dai picked up the tired Ken and walked home. The setting sun shone on the father and son, lengthening their figures. After arriving home, Dai got a bucket of hot water for Ken, and then put some medicinal herbs in it.
"This is an ancestral medicinal bath, which can effectively nourish and repair minor injuries to your body caused by exercise, and can also relieve fatigue."Dai helped Ken take off his clothes and put him into the water.
Ken felt numb and itchy all over his body, and felt a little uncomfortable.
"Don't move, just stay in the water." His father stopped him from moving around.
"Dad, you said that grandpa was a powerful ninja during the Warring States Period. How did he come to Konoha?" Ken was very curious about his grandpa.
"Because no matter how strong you are there's always someone stronger. Although your grandfather was powerful, he died in the chaos of the Warring States Period. Your grandmother brought me, who was young at the time, to settle in Konoha. Konoha had just established a village and accepted us."Dai said, reminiscing
"And grandma? Is she still alive?"
"Your grandmother passed away a long time ago. When she brought me to Konoha Village, my training required a lot of money. In order to keep me from falling behind in my training, she worked very hard and died of exhaustion when I was a child." Dai thought of his mother and his face was filled with sadness.
"Its okay Dad, you still have us." Ken seeing his father face, comforted him
"It's okay, because of you, your brother and your mother that I has enough faith!"
"Dad, how did you train when you were a kid?"
"At that time, I had no one to guide me and didn't understand these things, so I trained on my own, which later led to physical injuries and affected my current state." Dai explained, hoping that Ken can complete the training tasks according to his arrangement in the future. Through today's extreme training, Dai roughly understands Ken's physical condition and can arrange the most reasonable training plan.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back."Guy's voice rang out. ""Oh, Guy is back. Ken, you stay in the medicinal bath, I'll go check on Guy"
After saying this, Dai went to ask Guy about his training and physical condition. After a while, Dai came into the bathroom with Guy, filled a bucket of hot water for him, put some medicinal herbs in it, and let Guy take a medicinal bath together with Ken, then Might Dai left.