Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 36 Chakra Points

"snort!"

The group member sneered, not believing Sarutobi Hō's words at all, and directly ordered, "Three times, at most three missions, and then I will take action."

Three missions to gather intelligence, the fourth mission to take action.

This was Danzo's bottom line. He knew what the Third Hokage meant and was afraid that using the Uchiha Hado technique too frequently would cause unnecessary trouble.

He agrees with this point.

However, three missions to gather intelligence were already the maximum he could tolerate.

"I'm sorry, Lord Danzo," Sarutobi Hadou said apologetically. "Five missions are already the fastest we can gather intelligence. We can't reduce it any further; it's the Hokage's order."

hateful!

It's the Hokage's order again!

They're using the Hokage to intimidate him again!

Danzo stared intently at Sarutobi Hadouken with a predatory look in his eyes.

Sarutobi Hōbō kept his head down, avoiding eye contact.

However, he resolutely obeyed the Hokage's orders.

His mission in Root was to prevent Danzo from acting unilaterally. Otherwise, given Danzo's personality, if he did something serious, the Third Hokage would be the one most affected.

After all, Root was newly established and was affiliated with the Dark Division, so everyone believed that Root meant the Third Generation.

The third generation also took this into account, which is why they sent their own junior from the same clan to supervise Danzo and prevent him from acting recklessly.

"very good!"

Faced with Sarutobi's unwavering stance despite the pressure of his gaze, Danzo did not lose his temper this time.

He took a deep breath, then waved his hand to make Sarutobi's wave ripple, and then went alone to Laboratory Number One to study the Sharingan.

Li Yao's existence has been completely forgotten.

one day,

Two days.

Three days.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside Laboratory No. 2, in one of the tall, transparent glass chambers, Li Yao was curled up, floating in a nutrient solution that emitted a faint green fluorescent light, just like a fetus.

In Li Yao's chakra perception, he was surrounded by a ball of chakra radiating a gentle light.

"No one has come for so long...it seems they're planning to temporarily shut me down."

Li Yao secretly wondered why no one had touched his body for the past three months, a stark contrast to his previous treatment.

However, having been tricked before, Li Yao didn't make any unnecessary moves. Even though he had thought of a way to hide and increase his chakra, he didn't try it out.

He was afraid that someone was secretly watching him, waiting for him to reveal a weakness.

However, now that three months have passed, Li Yao can no longer remain inactive.

He can't just remain indifferent forever.

To accumulate the strength needed to go out into the world, one must take risks.

"Let's begin."

Li Yao made up his mind and began to control the naturally dissipating physical and mental energy within his body, converging it towards various acupoints, and then condensing chakra within those acupoints.

"It's done!"

A surge of joy emanated from Li Yao's chakra fluctuations. A newly condensed chakra flowed slowly from the chakra point located at his heart on his chest.

That's right.

It's about flow.

The newly added chakra in the chakra points is not sealed off by the Bagua sealing technique like the chakra in the meridians and dantian.

This indicates that Li Yao's method of concealing the newly generated chakra has been initially successful.

In Li Yao's chakra perception, the chakra in the human body is not like water contained in a "human" shaped wooden barrel.

Instead, it flows through the body like blood via countless meridians that are distributed throughout the body.

Just like the internal energy in Taoism flows through the human body via its own meridian system.

Chakra also has its own meridian system.

The chakra gathered in the body will flow through the meridian channels to the chakra dantian for storage.

Meanwhile, some of the chakra in the dantian will flow out and naturally overflow along the meridian channels to nourish the body and improve physical fitness.

This is the circulation of chakra within the body.

Once this chakra circulation is blocked, the ninja will be unable to use any chakra ninjutsu.

The Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique involves imprisoning and sealing the entire chakra flow system of the human body. At the same time, it absorbs the target's chakra from the meridians and dantian to maintain the long-term existence of the sealing technique and ensure the permanent sealing of the target's chakra.

To break free from the influence of the Eight Trigrams Seal and conceal the newly generated chakra, Li Yao needed to find a chakra storage location that could store the new chakra without being affected by the Eight Trigrams Seal. This was the foundation.

Li Yao actually found the storage location.

He discovered through chakra perception that the chakra meridians and chakra dantian were affected by the Bagua sealing technique, but the chakra in the countless chakra acupoints interwoven with the meridian channels remained unaffected.

These chakra points are amazing, like reservoirs and dams built on a long river, which can restrict the flow of chakra while also storing chakra like the dantian.

At the same time, these chakra points are different from the dantian. They are like genetic locks, locking the chakra within the chakra points and completely isolating it from the external meridian channels. This renders the sealing technique of the Bagua Seal ineffective, or rather, prevents it from entering the chakra points to seal and imprison the chakra.

In contrast to the dantian, the chakra points are like a locked dantian chamber, inaccessible to outsiders.

The dantian, on the other hand, is a chakra hall with its door always open, which anyone can enter.

It was precisely this magical effect of chakra acupoints, which is different from chakra dantian, that gave Li Yao hope of hiding and adding new chakra.

After all, even the Eight Trigrams Seal cannot affect the chakra within the chakra points.

This indicates that chakra points are a good place to shield chakra sensing abilities to a certain extent.

If the newly added chakra is stored in it, then even a ninja with chakra sensing ability would have difficulty noticing the increase in the amount of chakra in Li Yao, even at close range.

This gave Li Yao time to quietly accumulate strength.

However, everything before was just speculation.

This can be considered a preliminary successful verification.

Whether he could evade the senses of a ninja with chakra perception was unknown to Li Yao; he would have to try to find out.

Therefore, there is still a certain risk of exposure.

However, it's not a big problem, since this is the most likely way Li Yao could think of to evade chakra sensing ability.

In the quiet No. 2 laboratory at the root.

Li Yao continued to control the naturally dissipating physical and mental energy within his body, converging it towards the acupoint at his heart, and then controlling the two to fuse and condense into chakra in a one-to-one ratio.

There are many acupoints in the human body, distributed throughout the entire body.

However, different acupoints are not the same.

Some acupoints can store a large amount of chakra, while others can store a small amount.

To put it simply, acupoints vary in size.

According to Li Yao's chakra perception, there are eight acupoints on his body that are much larger than other acupoints, some dozens or even hundreds of times larger.

The largest acupoint is the one located at his chest, which he senses can store no less chakra than his dantian, making it a veritable second chakra dantian.

Of the other seven acupoints, two are located in the brain, while the other five are arranged vertically from the middle of the upper chest to the middle of the lower abdomen.

It's a bit like the Eight Gates in the Eight Gates Formation... Hmm?

"These eight acupoints seem to correspond to the eight gates in the Eight Gates Formation!"

Li Yao suddenly realized that he had seen the diagram of the eight gates of the Eight Gates Formation in his previous life. He was also a medical school graduate and had a certain understanding of the meridians and acupoints of the human body, so the impression was still quite deep.

Now that he remembered, the acupoint where he was storing the new chakra was the Death Gate in the Eight Gates Formation.

In other words, his newly generated chakra is stored in the Death Gate.

"This... seems a bit troublesome!"

(End of this chapter)