Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 261 Dragon Vein Chakra

"Not completely puppetized yet!"

Soon, Li Yao arrived at a secret underground chamber, hidden in the wall, and closely sensed the centipede sitting there.

The opponent's body was not completely transformed into a puppet; half of its physical body remained.

Along the way, Li Yao had not sensed the souls of Naruto and the others.

Based on this, it can be inferred that Li Yao arrived here about one or two years earlier than Naruto and the others.

"One or two years... that should be about right."

Li Yao thought to himself, then turned and left without immediately killing the centipede.

He will first study the dragon veins, and once Baizu has developed a complete human puppet transformation technique, he will absorb Baizu's soul to obtain everything.

Anyway, with him around, the dragon vein won't be damaged.

After passing through the underground rock layers, Li Yao arrived at the base of a tall tower.

The familiar, enormous circular pool, with a suspended passageway connecting to the central pillar, in the center of which stands the sealing altar for controlling the dragon vein—the Eye Box.

At this moment, the black magic patterns on the altar were revealed, the dragon vein was in an open state, and the dragon vein chakra was being continuously drawn and sent to the top of the tower for storage.

Li Yao emerged from the wall; there was no one there, nor any puppets.

Centipede's puppet production factory is on the other side, which is also the gathering place for the puppet threads connecting various parts of the city, and it is also where Centipede hides.

Li Yao arrived at the edge of the pool. The dragon vein chakra beneath it was a pale purple, like magma, radiating waves of heat.

"It really is chakra!"

"That's wonderful!"

The fact that the power of the dragon vein exists in the form of chakra is something Li Yao never expected.

In this world, the energy fluctuations of the dragon veins that Li Yao sensed were completely different from the chakra fluctuations.

So at first he thought that the dragon vein was another special kind of energy, similar to natural energy.

As a result, after coming to this world in person, his perception of the dragon vein energy became clearer. Now, with closer perception, he confirmed that the dragon vein energy is a kind of chakra, and a chakra with a very high degree of change in nature, although its composition is somewhat complex.

Within the Dragon Vein Chakra, Li Yao clearly sensed some changes in properties that were similar to those in his Black Hole Space Chakra.

In addition, there are some nature transformations of fire-style chakra.

I haven't been able to discern any other attributes in Li Yao yet.

Currently, it appears that the Dragon Vein Chakra contains variations in the properties of time, space, and fire chakra.

It gives the impression that Dragon Vein Chakra is a combination ninjutsu, not a new chakra attribute obtained by fusing three chakra attributes like Bloodline Elimination, but a mixed chakra obtained by mixing three chakra attributes together.

However, this mixed chakra seems to have undergone some kind of mutation, making it look almost indistinguishable from a single chakra attribute.

What is presented is the dragon vein chakra attribute.

Bang!

Li Yao created a shadow clone, which flew down into the pool and reached out to touch the chakra.

hot!

It's burning hot!

It felt like touching real lava, but I could withstand it. Other than that, it didn't seem to have any other effects.

Clearly, the "eyebox"-like sealing device served to stabilize the energy of the dragon vein.

In this way, Li Yao can personally access the Dragon Vein Chakra.

He was afraid that rashly touching the dragon vein chakra would be affected by the power of spacetime and send him directly back to his own world, so he sent his shadow clone to test it out first.

He was relieved that it wouldn't happen now.

"Thank you, Dragon Vein, for being chakra!"

Li Yao smiled, immediately withdrew his shadow clone, and personally came to the pool, floating in mid-air, reaching out to gently touch the dragon vein chakra.

In an instant, the complex and varied properties of the dragon vein chakra entered his chakra perception.

Complex!

profound!

And enormous!

This was Li Yao's first impression of the changes in the nature of the dragon vein's chakra.

The nature of the changes was so complex that Li Yao felt he wouldn't be able to figure it out in less than a year or two.

Secondly, it's too profound. Many of its properties don't belong to the seven basic chakra attributes; they are related to space and time.

If the dragon vein were not in a chakra state, even if Li Yao could sense the mystery of this energy fluctuation, he would find it difficult to convert it into a spacetime chakra ninjutsu.

Li Yao admitted that he did not have Tobirama's talent for developing ninjutsu; he only had absolute control over chakra.

Li Yao was very good at learning existing ninjutsu, and he could learn it almost instantly.

If we're talking about developing ninjutsu, after all these years since he transmigrated here, he has only developed the Black Iron Chain Technique, the Will Purification Technique, and the Black Hole Space Technique, which can be considered as the ninjutsu he truly developed.

All other ink-wash ninjutsu are extensions of the original ninjutsu, not his own development.

It is evident that Li Yao possesses some talent for developing ninjutsu, but not much.

"Fortunately, the dragon vein energy is in chakra form!"

Li Yao once again marveled at his good fortune.

Fortunately, the energy of the dragon vein is chakra, so he doesn't need to study those mysteries of space and time. He only needs to replicate and condense his own dragon vein chakra, and then he will naturally be able to use the unique space-time power of the dragon vein chakra.

"It's just that the nature of the dragon vein chakra has too many or too vast variations!"

"Multiple" is not the same as "complex".

Complexity refers to structural complexity, while variety refers to the variability of properties.

The nature of dragon vein chakra is not only extremely complex but also numerous.

Li Yao's estimate that he could figure out how to replicate and condense the Dragon Vein Chakra in one or two years was just an ideal estimate. He couldn't guarantee how long it would actually take to replicate and condense the Dragon Vein Chakra.

No matter how many years it takes, Li Yao is determined to replicate the Dragon Vein Chakra.

For the rest of the time, Li Yao stayed at the Dragon Vein. When there was no food, he sent his shadow clones outside to find food, while his main body remained in contact with the Dragon Vein to sense the changes in the nature of the Dragon Vein's chakra.

In the blink of an eye.

A year has passed.

Li Yao remained immersed in sensing the changes in the nature of the dragon vein's chakra.

In this world, Little Leaf also spent a year guarding the desert where the original phantom was located.

Even though Li Yaoying's clone had told her that she could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear directly beside her when her main body returned, she still didn't leave.

Xiao Yezi didn't want any more accidents to happen.

Last time we agreed to go to other worlds together, but something unexpected happened. This time, Xiao Yezi is determined to prevent any accidents from happening, so she will stay here and guard the place.

Because Li Yao can sense the connection between his chakra consciousness and this world, the time flow of the two worlds is linked, so the time flow is the same.

A year has passed in the other world, and a year has also passed in this world.

That year, the Ninja World War broke out.

In truth, it was Li Yao himself who lit the fuse.

In order to help the Wind Release clone take over, he personally attacked Sunagakure after many years. The commotion that day was huge. The key was that he killed too many ninjas from the ten great clans, causing Sunagakure's strength to drop sharply.

The reason why Sunagakure has the concept of the Ten Great Clans is because their combined power almost represents the power of Sunagakure.

Just like the Konoha Twelve Clan, their combined power almost represents the power that Konoha possesses.

Consider the twelve strongest clans of Konoha: the Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, Sarutobi, Uchiha, Senju, and others. If most of their ninjas suddenly died, how much strength would Konoha have left?

The same applies to Sunagakure. With the ten major clans being targeted by Li Yao, most of their ninjas were killed or injured, and the overall strength of Sunagakure naturally declined by more than half.

With such a severe decline in strength, the major powers, especially Iwagakure and Kirigakure, who are mortal enemies of Sunagakure, would not let go of such a rare opportunity.

Thus, three months after Li Yao's Wind Release clone succeeded as the Fourth Kazekage, the Third Shinobi World War began with Sunagakure simultaneously fighting against Iwagakure and Kirigakure.

A month later, Konoha, under Danzo's scheme, attacked Iwagakure and joined the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Finally, to avenge the Third Raikage's severed arm, the Hidden Cloud Village launched a surprise attack on the Land of Earth, joining the Fourth Shinobi World War.

From this point on, the Third Shinobi World War entered its most intense phase.

(End of this chapter)