Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 38 Acupoint Chakra

The answer is that it's okay for now.

Spring of Konoha 35.

Another year has passed.

Inside Laboratory No. 2 at the Root Base, within Li Yao's Life Gate Chakra Point, a special chakra, emanating a fluctuation similar to the invisible binding force of the point's barrier, slowly merged into the point's barrier.

Then, a wisp of normal chakra flowed out of the acupoint and was immediately caught and sealed by the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique.

Li Yao didn't care at all about this.

Chakra was flowing freely within his pressure points.

If Li Yao were in control of his body right now, his smile would be radiant and joyful.

After a year and a half of research, he not only found a way to extract chakra from acupoints, but also succeeded in doing so.

The principle is actually quite simple.

Li Yao discovered that the invisible force that tightly bound chakra within the acupoints, preventing it from escaping, was of the same type as the invisible force that sealed and imprisoned chakra using the Eight Trigrams Seal.

Li Yao boldly speculated that the sealing techniques that seal and restrict the flow of chakra may have been developed based on the invisible forces that bind chakra, such as acupoints and meridians.

Therefore, Li Yao's method of breaking through the invisible force binding and sealing his chakra by breaking through the acupoint barrier was very simple: just like condensing the same chakra as the Bagua Sealing Technique to break free from the Bagua seal.

Li Yao only needs to gather chakra that can emit the same fluctuations as the invisible power of the acupoint barriers.

The invisible force also emits a unique fluctuation when it binds chakra.

The sealing chakra of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique also emits a kind of fluctuation, forming an invisible force that binds and imprisons the chakra.

Based on this characteristic, Li Yao deduced that the chakra that emanates and fluctuates in the same way as the invisible power of the acupoints could be released from the constraints of the invisible power of the acupoints, just like releasing a sealing technique.

It was only because there was no ready-made chakra template that Li Yao had to figure it out by himself, which took him a little longer.

In fact, he had come up with this idea six months ago.

Then, only now have they managed to condense the chakra that can release the invisible power binding the acupoints.

Li Yao simply called this kind of chakra, which could release the invisible power binding the acupoints, a new type of attribute chakra with the attribute effect of binding the flow of chakra.

This time, it took a little longer to gather chakra in the acupoints.

However, the results were encouraging.

Li Yao controlled the chakra in the acupoints to open the channels and controlled the outflow of chakra from normal flow, from a thin stream to a chopstick-sized stream, and finally to closing it. He could freely control the size of the channels opened and the amount of chakra flowing out from the acupoints.

Unlike the Eight Gates Formation, which directly explodes open all the acupoints and releases all the chakra within them, this method is different.

The chakra that Li Yao gathers in his acupoints is like a switch on a sluice gate, which can control the size of the opening of the acupoints, and thus control the amount of chakra flowing out of the acupoints.

The biggest advantage of this effect, which allows control over the amount of chakra flowing out of the acupoints, is that Li Yao doesn't have to worry about opening the acupoints causing a massive burst of chakra that could harm his body.

In other words, even if he opens the Death Gate acupoint and uses the chakra within, he will not die.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the Eight Gates are said to lead to certain death when the Death Gate is opened is because the amount of chakra within the Death Gate is enormous, and the amount of chakra released when it is fully opened at once is terrifying.

The body simply cannot withstand that level of chakra impact.

That's why there's a saying that opening the "death gate" means certain death.

However, if one only opens a small channel like the Death Gate acupoint, like Li Yao, and uses the meridian channels to draw chakra like the dantian, then there is no need to worry about the chakra impacting or damaging the physical body.

With the acupoint chakra, the countless chakra acupoints on Li Yao's body were no different from individual dantians that could store chakra.

In addition, acupoints themselves can bind and prevent chakra from escaping.

In a sense, each acupoint is a yin seal, which can store chakra that is not usually used.

If Li Yao were to fill all the chakra points in his body, his chakra reserves would exceed a limit.

It is at least a thousand times greater than the amount of chakra he could store in a single dantian.

Such a large amount of chakra is basically enough for him to use in battle.

Aside from being a Jinchūriki, his chakra should be no less than anyone else's.

Thinking about all this, Li Yao was very satisfied.

One acupoint chakra completely solved his problem of insufficient chakra.

Now we have a place to hide our chakra.

You can also extract chakra from acupoints.

The next question is how to convert this chakra into combat power.

According to Li Yao's plan.

He needs to first acquire the strength to leave this secret base before he can consider developing a perfect transformation technique to evade Konoha's sensory barrier and the tracking of Konoha ninjas with chakra sensing abilities, and then escape Konoha.

If you don't have the strength to get out of here.

Even if he develops the perfect transformation technique, it will be difficult for him to get out of here.

Over the past year, because no one had come to take care of him, Li Yao regained control of his body once. He saw where he was and realized that he should be in an underground research base.

This kind of research base must be filled with various sensory and defensive barriers.

Even if he could transform into a bird without chakra, he still wouldn't be able to escape.

Moreover, the sudden appearance of a bird or a snake in such an underground research base would be extremely obvious and would immediately raise suspicion.

Li Yao would not underestimate the ninja's observational skills.

The image of Shuimen is still vivid in Li Yao's mind; he will not make the same mistake again.

Therefore, he must first possess great strength.

But... how do you convert chakra into power?

Li Yao pondered.

For Li Yao, the only ways to convert chakra into power are ninjutsu and genjutsu.

Physical skills are out of the question.

He can't move at all right now; he can't do martial arts, which require physical movement.

The only thing they can do is work on ninjutsu and genjutsu.

The ninjutsu he currently knows include the basic Three Body Technique and the Shadow Clone Technique, which he learned from his predecessor's father's notes.

He doesn't know any other ninjutsu, including the Rasengan.

Although he can easily condense chakra of other attributes, the prerequisite is that he has the relevant ninjutsu seals and attribute chakra as templates, then he can easily replicate, condense and develop them.

However, he currently lacks any other chakra templates for ninjutsu and is unaware of the corresponding chakra nature and form transformations. If he were to rely on himself, he could only try to figure it out by working backward, much like condensing chakra in acupoints.

However, this self-taught method has a problem: it takes a lot of time.

But Li Yao simply didn't have that much time.

Although it has been almost two years since anyone paid any attention to him.

But Li Yao knew very well that the Third Generation had not forgotten him.

Maybe one day she'll remember him, then come over and give him a quick death.

Li Yao is no longer afraid of death.

He just didn't want to die like that.

Therefore, he must improve his strength in a short period of time.

It's impossible to improve ninjutsu in a short time right now.

Not to mention illusions.

He has one illusion technique... wait... it seems he doesn't know any of them!

Li Yao suddenly recalled the technique that the Third Hokage had been using on him. He remembered now that the Third Hokage had once angrily uttered the words "Darkness Travel Technique".

Now, his memories of his past life suddenly resurfaced.

The Dark Walk Technique is a genjutsu developed by the Second Hokage specifically to counter the Sharingan. It can block a person's vision and plunge them into darkness.

Although this illusion technique lacks actual offensive power, it is definitely a very suitable auxiliary ninjutsu for Li Yao.

At least in the absence of powerful offensive ninjutsu, the Dark Travel Technique greatly helped him escape the base.

"Let's learn this illusion technique first."

Li Yao made a decision instantly.

He remembered that during the last few times the Third Hokage used the Dark Walk Technique on him, his soul had already merged into his chakra, granting him the ability to sense changes in the nature and form of chakra.

Although the Third Hokage's chakra did not come into contact with his chakra at that time, the genjutsu chakra he used when activating genjutsu did come into contact with Li Yao's chakra.

Li Yao frantically recalled the chakra nature and form changes of the Third Hokage's Dark Walk Technique.

While thinking, Li Yao controlled the chakra within the acupoints to simulate changes in nature and form.

Because nearly two years had passed since his last memory, Li Yaoji was unclear about the changes in the nature and form of the Dark Travel Technique's chakra, and could only try to figure it out by working backward.

However, compared to the chakra of acupoints, which can only be deduced by reverse analysis of fluctuations, it should be much easier to deduce the chakra of the Dark Travel Technique.

Even if it's easy, it would still take at least one or two months.

For the first month or two, Li Yao felt things were going well.

(End of this chapter)