Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 497 Complete Lightning Release Chakra Mode

Inside the 500-square-meter research room, the most eye-catching features are three large devices.

One is a metal pool on the left, filled with black liquid. It is calm and still, and if you don't look closely, you might mistake it for a single piece of black metal.

There were eight thick, cable-like things attached to the metal wall outside the pool, but I didn't know what they were for.

One end of one of the four cable-like structures is connected to the bottom of the computer host, which looks like a large freezer in the middle, and they do indeed appear to be cables for transmitting signals or electricity.

This computer tower is one of the most conspicuous pieces of equipment in the room, with a large rectangular screen on top.

At this moment, a researcher in a white coat, an older man with two white beards, was looking at the various red and blue data displayed on the screen while operating the buttons on the freezer computer host.

Li Yao couldn't understand the data on the screen, nor did he know what the old man was doing.

However, through the transparent panel in the conspicuous compartment on the right, which stands upright like a coffin, one can see the Fourth Raikage lying naked with his eyes closed.

Needles connected to silver-white threads were inserted into various parts of the Fourth Raikage's body, densely packed together.

Li Yao sensed the past and discovered that these needles were inserted into the chakra points within the Fourth Raikage's body, even the Death Gate point was not spared.

Tear!

The silver-white wire is still conductive, and current is being input into it, occasionally flashing blue-white electric arcs.

"Is this... lightning tempering?" Li Yao thought to himself.

The Fourth Raikage primarily trained in Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

The strength of a Lightning Release Chakra Mode depends primarily on the intensity of body tempering, that is, the degree to which the body adapts to lightning.

Li Yao, who had also trained in Lightning Release Chakra Mode, knew this.

"Should we increase the current, Lord Raikage?"

Standing in front of the massive computer tower, the doctor in the white coat looked up at the screen above and asked a question.

At this point, the current had reached a terrifying level.

An ordinary person would have been charred by the powerful electric current long ago. Only the Fourth Raikage, who trained in Lightning Release Chakra Mode and whose body was highly adaptable to lightning, was able to withstand it.

However, the current has now reached a dangerous level.

The screen showed that the Fourth Raikage's heart was beating at over 300 beats per minute, three times that of an average person.

With each heartbeat, the heart and blood vessels are under tremendous strain. If something goes wrong, the heart could burst, which is very dangerous.

"continue!"

The word "Continue" appeared at the top of the screen. This was achieved by transmitting the Fourth Raikage's answer from his mind to the computer screen via electrical signals.

"All right."

"If you can't take it, Raikage-sama, you must say so! Don't force yourself to bear it!"

The old man in the white coat first pressed a red button, then slowly pulled the hand switch that controls the amount of current input.

"Don't worry, if I can't handle it, my physical instincts will show my thoughts on the screen. Just don't let your eyesight get blurry."

On the screen, the Fourth Raikage's words were displayed. The old man in the white coat quickly assured him that he would concentrate and would not let anything happen to the Raikage.

"Tsk tsk!"

"Brain-computer interaction has even appeared! Yunyin's technology feels like it has surpassed modern Earth."

Inside the mezzanine, Li Yao looked on in amazement as he watched the conversation between the Fourth Raikage displayed on the screen.

Although this brain-computer interaction relies more on chakra as a medium to perfectly and accurately present what the Fourth Raikage was thinking on the computer screen, it is still amazing enough.

Li Yao increasingly felt that, in the end, chakra technology might not necessarily be weaker than simple chakra ninjutsu.

"Let's see how effective the Fourth Raikage's technological training is first."

Li Yao wasn't in a hurry to show himself; he wanted to observe first. Even if the Fourth Raikage's physical body reached the level of the Third Raikage, he wouldn't be able to withstand a single move from him. He wasn't worried at all.

"Hold on, you must hold on!"

Before long, as the current increased, the Fourth Raikage lost all interest in anything else. Inside his body, every muscle felt like it was being pulled hard, and it was on the verge of bursting open at any moment.

However, the Fourth Raikage managed to hold on with his strong will, preventing his body from collapsing, and continued to endure the powerful electric current stimulation.

Having witnessed the Fourth Tsuchikage emerge from the Tailed Beast Ball explosion, the Fourth Raikage realized that in order to defeat or stop the Fourth Tsuchikage, he also needed a physical body capable of withstanding the Tailed Beast Ball explosion and the speed to keep up with the Fourth Tsuchikage.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even have had a chance to fight back against the Fourth Tsuchikage.

To possess the physical defense to withstand a Tailed Beast Ball and even greater speed, only the fully evolved Lightning Release Chakra Mode can achieve this.

Since its development, no one has ever reached the complete form of the Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Even the Third Raikage, the father of the Fourth Raikage, did not have it.

The Fourth Raikage is even more of a different story; he's still not as good as his father.

The strength of Lightning Release Chakra Mode is related to physical strength.

In terms of physical strength, the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode is indeed not as powerful as his father, the Third Raikage.

However, the Fourth Raikage was more skilled at controlling Lightning Release chakra than the Third Raikage.

With his more refined control over Lightning Release chakra, the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode was no less powerful than the Third Raikage's, and in some aspects, it was even stronger.

For example, the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, which incorporates the Peacock Technique, allows the Fourth Raikage to fly faster than the Third Raikage.

However, in terms of physical strength alone, the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode is actually one level behind that of the Third Raikage.

The Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode has assimilated his body into a state that is half flesh and half energy. His body is so strong that as long as he is not hit head-on by a small Tailed Beast Ball, but is only affected by the blast radius, his body can withstand it completely under the protection of the Lightning Release Armor, and his life will not be in danger.

This is the source of the Third Raikage's confidence to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Eight-Tails.

However, compared to Li Yao's Earth Release clone - Rock Rock, which could withstand a direct hit and explosion from a super-large Tailed Beast Ball and remain unharmed, the Third Raikage's defense was far inferior.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been defeated and killed by the Earth Release clone - Stone Rock even after using the One-Hit Man Technique.

However, if the Lightning Release Chakra Mode can be developed to the point where the body's cells are completely adapted to lightning, then the strength of the body will definitely be... if not surpassed, at least comparable to the Fourth Tsuchikage.

It was with this determination that the Fourth Tsuchikage was determined to master the complete Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and in the shortest possible time.

Because no one knows if the Fourth Tsuchikage might suddenly have a change of heart and attack Kumogakure again.

Who will protect the village then?

As the Fourth Raikage, he had to step forward.

Therefore, he must obtain the power to resist or even defeat the Fourth Tsuchikage as soon as possible.

For this reason, he risked his life to use strong electric current to stimulate acupoints throughout his body to accelerate the process of his body adapting to lightning.

(End of this chapter)