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The answer is, for now, it doesn't matter.
Spring of Konoha 35.
Another year had passed.
In Laboratory Two of the Root Base, within Akemiya Kenshi's Life Gate Chakra acupoint, a special Chakra, emitting the same kind of fluctuation as the invisible binding force of the acupoint's barrier, slowly merged into the barrier.
Then, a trace of normal Chakra from within the acupoint flowed out, only to be immediately captured and sealed by the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu.
Kenshi didn't care about it.
Within his acupoints, Chakra flowed freely.
If Kenshi could control his body now, the smile on his face would be brilliant, filled with joy.
After a year and a half of research, he had not only found a way to extract Chakra from his acupoints, but he had also achieved it.
The principle was actually quite simple.
Kenshi discovered that the invisible force that tightly bound the Chakra within the acupoints, preventing it from escaping, was of the same type as the invisible force that sealed and restricted Chakra in the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu.
Kenshi boldly speculated that sealing jutsu that restricted the flow of Chakra might have been inspired by the invisible force that bound Chakra in acupoints and meridians.
Therefore, Kenshi's method of breaking through the invisible force that bound and sealed the Chakra in the acupoint barrier was simple. It was like condensing Chakra similar to the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu Chakra to break free from the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu.
Kenshi only needed to condense Chakra that emitted the same kind of fluctuation as the invisible force of the acupoint barrier.
The invisible force would also emit a unique fluctuation when binding Chakra.
The sealing Chakra of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu would also emit a kind of fluctuation, forming an invisible force to bind and restrict Chakra.
Based on this characteristic, Kenshi reversed the process, deducing that Chakra emitting the same fluctuation as the acupoint's invisible force could break free from the acupoint's invisible force's binding, just like removing a sealing jutsu.
But because there was no existing Chakra template, Kenshi could only rely on his own reverse deduction and exploration, which is why it took so long.
He had actually thought of this method half a year ago.
And only now, today, had he condensed the acupoint Chakra that could break free from the acupoint's invisible force's binding.
Kenshi simply called this Chakra that could break free from the acupoint's invisible force's binding "acupoint Chakra." It was a new type of attribute Chakra, with the attribute effect of binding Chakra flow.
This time, it took a long time to condense the acupoint Chakra.
But the results were gratifying.
Kenshi controlled the acupoint Chakra to open the acupoint channel, controlled the normal Chakra to flow out, from a thin thread to a stream the size of chopsticks, and finally closed it again. He could freely control the size of the acupoint's open channel and the amount of Chakra flowing out of the acupoint.
Unlike opening a gate in the Eight Inner Gates, which directly explodes the acupoint and releases all the Chakra within it.
The acupoint Chakra that Kenshi condensed was like a switch on a sluice gate, allowing him to control the size of the acupoint's open channel, thus controlling the amount of Chakra flowing out.
This ability to control the amount of Chakra flowing out of the acupoint had the greatest advantage of preventing Kenshi from worrying about opening the acupoint causing a massive burst of Chakra that would damage his body.
In other words, even if he opened the Death Gate acupoint and drew upon the Chakra within, he wouldn't die.
Actually, the reason why opening the Death Gate in the Eight Inner Gates is said to be fatal is because the Death Gate contains a massive amount of Chakra. If it's fully opened and released all at once, the amount of Chakra is too terrifying.
The body simply can't withstand that level of Chakra impact.
That's why it's said that opening the Death Gate is fatal.
But if you only open a small channel in the Death Gate acupoint, like the Chakra Sea, and draw upon the Chakra through the meridian channels, you don't have to worry about the Chakra impacting and damaging your body.
With acupoint Chakra, the countless Chakra acupoints in Kenshi's body were no different from Chakra Seas that could store Chakra.
Plus, the acupoints themselves had the ability to bind and prevent Chakra from escaping.
In a sense, each acupoint was a Yin Seal, capable of storing unused Chakra.
If Kenshi filled all the Chakra acupoints in his body, his Chakra reserves would surpass a limit.
At least, it would be thousands of times greater than when he only had one Chakra Sea to store Chakra.
Such a large amount of Chakra would be enough for him to fight.
Except for Jinchūriki, his Chakra reserves shouldn't be less than anyone else's.
Thinking about this, Kenshi was satisfied.
One acupoint Chakra had completely solved his problem of insufficient Chakra reserves.
Now, he had a place to hide Chakra.
He could also extract Chakra from his acupoints.
The next step was to figure out how to turn this Chakra into combat power.
According to Kenshi's plan.
He had to first gain the strength to escape from this secret base. Then, his next step would be to research and develop a perfect transformation technique to avoid Konoha Village's perception barriers and the tracking and perception of Konoha ninjas with Chakra Sensing ability, and then escape from Konoha.
Without the strength to escape from here.
Even if he developed a perfect transformation technique, it would be difficult for him to get out.
In the past year, because no one had come to check on him, Kenshi had regained control of his body once. He saw where he was and understood that he must be in an underground research base.
This kind of research base would definitely be filled with all sorts of perception barriers and defense barriers.
Even if he could transform into a bird without Chakra, he wouldn't be able to escape.
And suddenly appearing as a bird or a snake in this underground research base would be too obvious. It would be suspicious at a glance.
Kenshi wouldn't underestimate the observation ability of ninjas.
Minato's appearance was still vivid in his mind. Kenshi wouldn't make the same mistake again.
So, he had to gain immense strength first.
But... how to turn Chakra into strength?
Kenshi pondered.
For Kenshi, the only paths to turn Chakra into strength were ninjutsu and genjutsu.
Taijutsu wasn't an option.
He couldn't move at all. Taijutsu, which required the body to move, was out of the question.
He could only focus on ninjutsu and genjutsu.
The ninjutsu he currently knew were the basic three techniques, plus the Shadow Clone Technique he learned from his father's notes.
He didn't know any other ninjutsu, including Rasengan.
Although he could easily condense other elemental Chakra, the prerequisite was having relevant jutsu seals and elemental Chakra as templates. Then, he could easily replicate, condense, and develop them.
But he currently didn't have any Chakra templates for other ninjutsu. He didn't know the corresponding Chakra Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation. On his own, he could only rely on reverse deduction and exploration, like he did with acupoint Chakra.
But this method of self-exploration had a problem: it took time.
And Kenshi didn't have that much time.
Although almost two years had passed since anyone had bothered him.
But Kenshi knew very well that the Third Hokage hadn't forgotten him.
Perhaps he would remember him at some point, come over, and give him a quick death.
Kenshi wasn't afraid of death now.
He just didn't want to die like that.
So, he had to improve his strength in a short period of time.
Ninjutsu wouldn't improve in a short time.
Genjutsu was even more out of the question.
He didn't know any genjutsu... Wait, that's not entirely true!
Kenshi suddenly remembered the jutsu that the Third Hokage had been using on him. Now he remembered. Once, when the Third Hokage was furious, he said the words "Dark Walking Technique."
Now, with his past memories and his current thoughts, he remembered.
Dark Walking Technique was a genjutsu developed by the Second Hokage specifically to counter the Sharingan. It could block a person's vision, plunging them into darkness.
This genjutsu, although it didn't have any actual attack power, was definitely a very suitable auxiliary jutsu for Kenshi.
At least, without any powerful offensive ninjutsu, the Dark Walking Technique would be very helpful for him to escape from this base.
"Let's learn this genjutsu first."
Kenshi instantly made a decision.
He remembered that the last few times the Third Hokage used the Dark Walking Technique on him, his soul had already merged with Chakra, gaining the Chakra Sensing ability to perceive Chakra Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation.
Although the Third Hokage's Chakra hadn't come into contact with his Chakra at that time, the genjutsu Chakra he used to activate the genjutsu had come into contact with Kenshi's Chakra.
Kenshi frantically recalled the Chakra Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation of the Third Hokage's Dark Walking Technique genjutsu at that time.
As he recalled, Kenshi controlled the Chakra in his acupoints to simulate Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation.
Because it had been almost two years since the memory, Kenshi couldn't remember the Chakra Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation of the Dark Walking Technique clearly, so he could only rely on reverse deduction and exploration.
But compared to the acupoint Chakra that could only be reverse deduced and explored through fluctuations, reverse deducing the Dark Walking Technique Chakra should be much easier.
But even if it was easier, it wouldn't be enough without a month or two.
A month or two, Kenshi thought, was acceptable.
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