Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 127 A Day in Li Yao's Seclusion for Cultivation (Daily Life Chapter)

A new day begins with the crescent moon hanging high in the sky.

Around six in the morning... To be honest, Li Yao couldn't tell the time either, because day and night in the Arctic Circle are different from those around the equator.

But it didn't matter, Li Yao didn't even look at the time.

After urinating, Li Yao woke up feeling refreshed and energetic, and he took it as the start of a new day.

"Let's start the new day by practicing Lightning Release Chakra Mode."

Li Yao sat on a large, protruding rock in the middle of the valley, his eyes closed, his legs crossed in a five-point-to-the-sky posture, and his body occasionally flashed with wisps of blue-white electric arcs.

Deep within his body, Li Yao continuously controlled the Lightning Release chakra and the weak lightning condensed from it to stimulate his cells, keeping them in a state of constant excitement and activity, much like receiving electrotherapy, only for a longer duration.

Sizzling sounds... After a short while, about a minute, the cells couldn't take it anymore and started to get damaged.

At this moment, Li Yao had a thought, and Wood Release chakra condensed to heal the cells, then continued the electrotherapy.

That's how you train in Lightning Release Chakra Mode. There are no shortcuts; it all depends on time and your own body's adaptability.

After a long and arduous struggle with the Third Raikage, and finally a close-quarters battle with the Third Raikage in his true form, he sensed the secrets of the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Lightning Release Chakra Mode is not a simple ninjutsu that involves covering the entire body with Lightning Release chakra to enhance physical activity and improve nerve reaction speed.

During the battle in the nameless valley of the Land of Earth, the Third Hokage almost touched Li Yao's true form at the closest point, so he sensed it very clearly.

In the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode, his physical body seemed to merge with the Lightning Release Chakra, becoming a special life form that was half Lightning Release Chakra energy and half flesh and blood.

In that special semi-energy-based life state, the Third Raikage's reaction speed was so fast that even with Li Yao's nerve reaction speed increased several times after opening the Death Gate acupoint space, the speed of the black iron chains he controlled under those circumstances could not have much effect on the Third Raikage.

This demonstrates just how fast the Third Raikage's reaction speed is in this state.

The ability to train one's physical reaction speed to this level cannot be achieved simply by covering the entire body with a Lightning Release chakra armor.

The key lies in that physical state, which is almost indistinguishable from that of a semi-energy life form.

That physical state, almost fused with Lightning Release chakra, pushed the Third Raikage's body to its limit, giving him incredible reaction speed and physical strength.

To achieve the physical strength of the Third Raikage.

The idea was just as Li Yao had sensed: once his cells adapted to a near-fusion with Lightning Release chakra, his physical strength would naturally increase to the corresponding level.

What Li Yao is doing now is precisely this: by continuously condensing Lightning Release chakra within his body and stimulating cells with lightning, he accelerates the cells' adaptation to Lightning Release chakra and lightning.

Once his cells have adapted to Lightning Release chakra to a certain extent, Li Yao will be able to activate Lightning Release chakra mode and use this ninjutsu.

So far, let's take stock of Li Yao's various abilities.

Among ninjutsu, only taijutsu is not strong for Li Yao; his strength in other ninjutsu, such as genjutsu and sealing techniques, is not bad.

What limits his development is his chakra level.

A large amount of chakra requires a powerful body.

With the Death Gate acupoint also opened, Li Yao's body was now as if all limiters had been removed.

During this period, he felt it clearly. Even without training, just walking, breathing, and sleeping, his body was getting stronger day by day, and his dantian space had even increased a bit.

Li Yao even had some doubts. He wondered if he would end up like Saitama from One-Punch Man, training diligently for three years until he could part the Earth in the middle.

That's why Li Yao chose to cultivate the Lightning Release Chakra Mode to accelerate the strengthening of his physical body.

Physical skills may seem insignificant, but once you break through your limits, they can become a powerful force capable of ending the game with a single kick.

Imagine three years from now, a casual punch will be the Elephant of Evening, and a serious kick will be Night Guy.

When the six-spotted monster arrived, Li Yao not only wanted to dance, but also to go clubbing.

He doesn't even need to wait for Naruto and Sasuke to be born; he can start the grand finale three years later and destroy the entire ninja world.

I just don't know if there are any limits to the improvement of this physical body.

Li Yao focused on condensing Lightning Release chakra and stimulating his cells with lightning, secretly looking forward to his future self four years from now.

An hour later.

With his chakra nearly depleted, Li Yao stopped his Lightning Release Chakra Mode training, got up, and leaped off the frozen sea, activating his Extreme Speed ​​Running Training Mode.

Running is one of the most basic forms of exercise.

First, run at full speed for ten minutes, then rest for ten minutes, then do full-speed push-ups for ten minutes, then rest for ten minutes, then do full-speed sit-ups for ten minutes, and then run at full speed for ten minutes to complete the one-hour training set task.

After that, I stopped to practice Lightning Release Chakra Mode for an hour, and then got up to train for another hour.

After repeating this cycle three times, accumulating a total of six hours of training, the morning training ended, and Li Yao was about to eat.

"Let's have fish today!"

Li Yao thought to himself, stretched out his hand to condense a blazing fireball, then jumped into the air and smashed the condensed fireball onto the ice surface.

Bang!

After a burst of hot air from the explosion, a hole two meters in diameter appeared on the ice, revealing the dark seawater inside.

tread!

Li Yao landed beside the ice cave. With a thought, he grasped a condensed ink fishing rod in his hand. The fishing line, hook, and even the small fish used as bait were all condensed from ink mimicry ninjutsu.

Li Yao placed the bait into the deep seawater beneath the ice cave and controlled the small fish used as bait to keep swimming.

Although this place is deserted and freezing cold, there are many large animals, so it is obviously rich in resources. There should be a lot of fish under the ice.

Sure enough, Li Yao didn't have to wait long before the small fish formed from ink in the deep water was swallowed whole by the big fish.

Because of the fusion of Li Yao's consciousness within his chakra, he could sense things very clearly and knew a big fish had taken the bait without needing a fishing float.

With a thought, Li Yao sent out eight thin ink-like lines that shot out from the ink-like small fish swallowed by the big fish, piercing through the big fish's body and binding it tightly.

Li Yao forcefully pulled the fishing rod upwards.

Although the big fish was very strong, with Li Yao's physical strength enhanced by chakra, it was almost like fishing for a small fish. He didn't need to play the fish; he simply lifted it up from the cave entrance.

"Tuna?"

The big fish looks a lot like a bluefin tuna on Earth, and it's also very big; Li Yao estimates it weighs seven or eight hundred pounds.

The big fish was still jumping around.

"Should we bleed him?"

"Let it go."

Thinking of some things he had seen on Douyin about what to do after catching a tuna, Li Yao killed a large fish that he suspected was a tuna and then cut its tail to bleed it out.

When they returned to the cabin in the valley, Li Yao had already cut the big fish into more than fifty pieces. He only took out a piece of meat and bones to eat, and put the rest into the Blackwater Space.

In the wooden kitchen, there's an earth-style stove, a large pot made of ink-wash mimicry, wood provided by wood-style techniques, fire-style techniques to ignite the fire, water in the pot made of water-style techniques, and fish... oh, the fish is all-natural.

Someone on the internet once said that if Sunagakure had used Earth Release ninjutsu for infrastructure, they wouldn't be so poor that the village's Kage would have to personally mine for gold just to make ends meet.

It is evident that the magical power of ninjutsu has great potential in infrastructure development.

At least Li Yao experienced the benefits of various escape techniques for survival in the wild.

Of course, this is on the premise that you know a lot of escape techniques.

Something like a large cauldron is not something that an ordinary person can conjure using ninjutsu.

Thanks to Li Yao, who developed the new ninjutsu of ink mimicry, which can give ink mimicry the relevant attributes, making the ink pot really like a big pot, with good heat conduction and no leakage.

Ten minutes later.

Li Yao filled a huge bowl with fish soup and fish meat using ink mimicry and returned to the restaurant. He sat down on a chair made of wood and drank the fish soup while eating the fish meat.

After eating and drinking his fill, Li Yao returned to his bedroom for a nap.

While Li Yao was sleeping, under the wooden house, in front of a boiler, Li Yao's shadow clone was adding fuel and boiling water.

Li Yao installed a heating system in the wooden house.

By continuously boiling water to generate scalding steam that circulates in pipes that mimic the condensation of ink and water, the temperature inside the wooden house is kept at around 20 degrees Celsius.

So, even though the average temperature here is below minus ten degrees Celsius, Li Yao doesn't need to cover himself with a blanket when he sleeps in the wooden house, which is very comfortable.

Here we must mention Li Yao's innate talent once again.

This is because consciousness is integrated into chakra.

The ink pipes and boilers he created were always under his absolute control and could exist almost permanently.

As long as he doesn't actively let this portion of chakra dissipate, the ink pipe will continue to exist.

It was because of this ability that Li Yao was able to afford to install a heating system in his cabin.

Li Yao woke up after sleeping for two hours.

After washing up, Li Yao returned to the valley.

"Fire Release: Fireball Technique!"

Li Yao fired a fireball, clearing a large area of ​​snow and revealing the gravel ground beneath. He squatted down, picked up a stone, tossed it in his hand, and then enveloped it in chakra to sense it.

Then Li Yao had a sudden thought.

"Transfiguration".

He combined the Transformation chakra copied from Enma with the Transformation chakra to use it.

Bang!

A wisp of white smoke dissipated, and Li Yao's figure vanished, replaced by a strange bluish-brown stone with Li Yao's head on it.

"What a strange feeling!"

Li Yao felt that parts of his body had turned to stone. No, his body was now stone, with only his head still retaining its flesh and blood.

The transformation chakra copied from the Monkey King is indeed abnormal. When combined with the transformation chakra, it can transform flesh and blood into a non-living substance like stone, but it still retains human self-awareness.

Bang!

Li Yao canceled the transformation spell and returned to being human.

He hasn't yet fully grasped the essence of transforming by combining the chakra of the Transformation Technique with the chakra of the Body Transformation Technique; he needs a long period of practice.

Next, Li Yao found a snow rabbit. He first used his chakra perception to collect information about the snow rabbit's flesh and blood, and then used his transformation chakra to transform into a snow rabbit.

Although it still cannot fully transform, the transformed part is indeed made of the flesh and blood of the snow rabbit.

"Great, I've chosen the right direction."

In a sense, Transfiguration is already very close to Perfect Transformation.

Aside from the inability to conceal chakra, it was almost identical to the perfect transformation technique in Li Yao's mind.

Because transfiguration can perfectly transform into another kind of biological body, a transfiguration in which the genes and cells are exactly the same.

It can be said that if Li Yao were to transform into the third generation, his physical body would be exactly the same as the current third generation, even down to the cells and genes.

"Unfortunately, chakra cannot be hidden, nor can it be made exactly the same."

Li Yao sighed inwardly. If the Transformation Technique could perfectly replicate the opponent's chakra, then it could perfectly transform into someone else. Even someone like Minato, who had special chakra perception abilities, would not be able to distinguish the real from the fake through chakra.

"How do we solve the problem of chakra replication?"

While practicing his transformation technique, Li Yao was also secretly pondering.

But after thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't come up with a clue.

Transforming and replicating flesh and blood is fine, but chakra is formed by the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy, and spiritual energy involves the soul.

Li Yao couldn't even perceive the souls of others, so how could he possibly replicate their souls?

This is unsolvable, and Li Yao has no solution for the time being.

But there's no rush now. Let's refine the Transfiguration technique, which can perfectly transform and replicate flesh and blood, first.

When we've become stronger, we'll find a way to seek out secret techniques related to the soul.

"Didn't the Third Hokage always want to get that improved Spirit Transformation Technique from me? Does that mean the Third Hokage has the unimproved Spirit Transformation Technique?"

"Yes, very likely."

Li Yao nodded, then suddenly chuckled to himself. What a coincidence! Back then, it was the Third Generation who tormented him to get the Spirit Transformation Technique. Four years later, it was his turn to torment the Third Generation and make him hand over the Spirit Transformation Technique.

As long as one obtains the art of spiritualization and researches the perfect transformation technique.

Hey!

The Third Hokage, Konoha—we have plenty of time to play around.

Four hours into the Transfiguration practice, it was evening, or so it seemed, since the sun was still there after it had curved into an arc.

Li Yao returned to the cabin, ate his meal, rested for a while, and began to study how to strengthen the black iron chains.

The black iron chains couldn't stop the Third Raikage's piercing slash, which almost caused Li Yao a great loss, something Li Yao never forgot.

While Li Yao was studying the black iron chains, his shadow clones were also condensing Wood Release chakra while adding fuel to the fire.

The nature transformation of chakra is not something that becomes unchanging once mastered.

The same Wood Release technique can be used by some people only for landscaping, but Hashirama Senju's Wood Release: Wood Golem can grab Tailed Beast Balls with his bare hands.

This difference in the strength of Wood Release is due to the varying nature of Wood Release chakra.

Just like how the strength of steel forged once and steel forged hundreds or thousands of times is completely different, even though they are both steel.

Li Yao's current Wood Release chakra nature strength is still far from that of a God of Ninjas.

In the previous battle in the valley of the Land of Earth, Li Yao's Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees seemed to have some of the flair of Hashirama Senju's Wood Release, but it was still far from it.

The giant tree he created could even cut through the wind style of a Jonin from Kumogakure, but it was far inferior to the wood style used to grab a Tailed Beast Ball.

It was also because his Wood Release technique was too fragile that he couldn't defeat the Third Raikage.

Otherwise, the Third Raikage, who couldn't even cut down a large tree so easily, would have already become a dead man at Li Yao's hands.

Li Yao had his shadow clones continuously refine and enhance the strength of his Wood Release chakra nature, hoping to increase the power of Wood Release as quickly as possible.

Four hours later.

Li Yao stopped studying the black iron chains, withdrew his shadow clone, and created another shadow clone to watch over the boiler, while he went back to bed to sleep.

I slept for a relatively long time this time, just like sleeping at night, and then started the same training plan as today the next day.

This is roughly a typical day of Li Yao's spiritual practice during his seclusion.

Although it was somewhat tedious, six years of laboratory experience made Li Yao feel no boredom at all; on the contrary, he enjoyed it.

After all, the feeling of your body getting stronger day by day is just too great.

(End of this chapter)