Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 134 Holy crap! Patrick Star!

"But...hehe!"

"Sizzle sizzle..."

Li Yao smiled and instantly conjured a lightning shield that enveloped him and the ink eagle. All the nano clay bomb insects that floated by were electrocuted by the lightning shield and lost their ability to explode.

"As expected, Li Yao not only knows the weakness of the Clay Explosion Release, but also has a very strong sense of perception."

"We can only keep an eye on it from a distance."

Dalaran had no more illusions and focused all his efforts on controlling the clay bird to get away from Li Yao. At this point, he was certain that the other party was Li Yao, after all, the black eagle under his feet was too obvious.

"Trying to run? Too late."

With a thought, Li Yao's ink-wash eagle transformed into a streamlined bird with three pairs of wings, and under his deliberate control, its flight speed was even faster than that of the birds in Dalaran.

Soon, Li Yao rushed out of the range of the C4 nano-clay bomb.

During the journey, Li Yao also took the time to use his Wind Escape technique to bring back more than a dozen clay nanobots.

Li Yao deliberately allowed these nanobugs to enter his cells, thereby obtaining changes in the chakra properties within these nanobugs.

"I see, a ninjutsu similar to ink mimicry."

According to his chakra perception, there are two types of chakra within the clay nanobugs. One is regular Earth Release chakra, but with a higher intensity of Earth Release properties. The other is chakra formed by the fusion of Lightning and Earth properties. Li Yao guessed that it should be Explosion Release chakra.

The higher-grade Earth Release chakra should be used to create white clay.

Li Yao instantly copied two types of chakra.

With his hands behind his back, he used a higher-level Earth Release chakra to create white clay in his left palm, proving his guess was correct.

Condensing another type of Explosion Release chakra in the right palm is rather simple and direct; it can directly detonate chakra without a carrier and can also control the direction of the explosion.

"Very good, another bloodline limit obtained."

Li Yao smiled slightly, crossed his hands behind his back, and withdrew the clay chakra and explosion chakra from the experiment.

This is the source of his confidence in breaking through the limitations of his bloodline.

Although limited by his physical bloodline talent, his body quickly reached its limit.

However, the limits of the soul and spirit have not yet been reached; they are still growing, only not as fast as before.

However, in just one year of spiritual growth, Li Yao's soul strength has increased by more than five times compared to before.

His powerful soul not only made his chakra perception ability, especially his perception of chakra nature changes, more refined and faster.

It also allows him to copy related chakra nature changes even faster.

He instantly copied the higher-quality chakra, the Explosion Release: Bloodline Limit.

Once he solves the problem of chakra quantity, he can study the Perfect Transformation Technique while collecting and replicating the chakra of various powerful bloodline limits in the ninja world, thus becoming a genuine bloodline ninja.

"Bang bang bang..."

Just as Li Yao approached within a kilometer of Dalaran, Dalaran, realizing that he was not as fast as Li Yao, threw more than a dozen clay bird bombs backward, which exploded and instantly formed a huge black smoke screen to block Li Yao's vision.

Dalaran immediately controlled the clay bird to fly upwards, avoiding Li Yao's line of sight.

Unfortunately, he didn't know how powerful Li Yao's chakra perception was.

Li Yao remained unmoved and flew directly towards Dalaran.

Boom! Boom! Dalaran kept throwing out clay bombs that detonated prematurely, but none of them could stop Li Yao.

"It seems the intelligence was wrong; Li Yao's secret technique allows him to fly very fast."

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Dalaran felt no fear. He smiled as he watched Li Yao approach rapidly, then formed a hand seal.

"C4.5 Mod - Annihilation".

Dalaran's body rapidly became transparent, and all his chakra converged towards his heart, forming a black chakra sphere.

"Holy crap! Patrick Star!!!"

Li Yao, who was already about 600 meters away from Dalaran, was startled and quickly stretched out his right hand to condense a bolt of black lightning and shoot it out.

The explosive power of Deidara's Ultimate Art Star has a radius of ten kilometers or some other number.

At his current distance, there's no way he can escape.

The only way to turn it into a dud is to use Lightning Release.

But... sizzle!

The black lightning attack failed to break the black chakra sphere, nor did it stop it from turning blacker.

"Holy crap... are all the people from Iwagakure this brave?"

He self-destructed after only a few exchanges. What kind of god-like operation was that? Li Yao was impressed. He originally wanted to use the Perception Deprivation Technique as soon as he entered the 500-meter range, but... damn it.

Ignoring everything else, Li Yao quickly condensed the Black Iron Feather Robe and Lightning Release Chakra Armor to cover his entire body, while simultaneously manipulating a large amount of ink to wrap around him, forming a black steel sphere with a diameter of ten meters.

There's no escaping it; we can only tough it out.

Just as Li Yao completed his defense...

"burst!"

The black sphere, which contained all of Dalaran's chakra, suddenly exploded.

In an instant, a dazzling white light filled the sky and the earth, and the power of the explosion enveloped Li Yao in a flash.

On the earth, a colossal white star, five kilometers in radius and fifteen kilometers in height, stood tall, its interior filled with explosive chakra.

Damori Alice and Biwako's group, who were fifty kilometers away, witnessed this scene and immediately quickened their pace to rush to the explosion site.

"That chakra... it's Explosion Release!"

Biwako, with her extensive experience, immediately recognized the giant white Patrick Star in the distance as resembling the ultimate Explosion Release technique used by a Explosion Release ninja from Iwagakure.

The person who could force an Iwagakure Explosion Release ninja to perish with him, unleashing an explosion of this scale, must be no ordinary person.

Recalling the intelligence from the underground bounty operation, Biwako's eyes flickered, and she immediately looked at Kato Dan, asking, "Is it Li Yao?"

"I don't know." Kato Dan shook his head, then stopped and said, "I'll use my spirit transformation technique to take a look."

"Okay." Biwako stopped, and Akira Inuzuka stood guard outside.

Kato Dan sat down and used the Spirit Transformation Technique, his soul transforming into a spirit body that flew out of his body and sped towards the direction of the explosion.

Kato Dan could sense two souls on the side of the explosion. One of them was a bit far from the explosion site, about ten kilometers away. It should be the ninja who used Explosion Release.

The other one was at the center of the explosion and absorbed all its power, but its soul strength did not weaken at all, according to its perception.

If the intelligence is correct, then the person should be Li Yao.

However, Kato Dan had never met Li Yao, only seen his portrait, and he needed to go and see for himself if it was indeed Li Yao.

The souls created by the spiritification technique travel very fast.

Before the explosion had completely dissipated, Kato Dan had already arrived above the blast site.

The force of the explosion dissipated quickly.

Two thousand meters in the air, the ink-wash steel sphere that enveloped Li Yao was gone, and his lightning chakra armor had become a tattered version of beggar's clothes, with only a few pieces still covering his body.

But... hahaha!

Li Yao smiled, and the ink-wash eagle re-formed and hovered in the air.

After being weakened by the ink-wash steel sphere and the lightning chakra armor, the explosion was no longer powerful enough to destroy the reinforced wood chakra black iron cloak.

He's unharmed, but... his chakra is a bit depleted.

With a whoosh, Li Yao once again took out the enormous sealing scroll, opened it, and absorbed the chakra within.

"Is that Li Yao?"

Standing a hundred meters in front of Li Yao, Kato Dan, in his spirit form, looked at Li Yao's face on the back of the ink-wash eagle and muttered to himself, "This seems a little different from the portrait."

A year later, as Li Yao's physical strength reached its limit, his height and appearance also reached their peak at twenty-four or twenty-five years old.

He has grown to 1.82 meters tall, and his face is no longer the childish face of a twelve-year-old. He has become much more mature and composed, and his facial features are more defined.

Kato was somewhat unsure whether the man he was seeing was actually Li Yao.

Especially... how did the other party manage to use Ayase-senpai's Super Beast Imitation Painting Secret Technique?

Moreover, it's the same ink ninjutsu that Ayase-senpai uses, without a brush or scroll, but directly condenses chakra!

Kato Dan was shocked; Li Yao's intelligence indicated that he should not know this ninjutsu at all.

(End of this chapter)