Habara took another deep breath, and then his entire person seemed to dissolve into the lightning. At the same time, he could no longer suppress this intense Lightning Release. The unrestrained current began to scatter around him, and the lightning extending from his body crossed the narrow stream, extending all the way to the rock wall opposite.
Daigo was involuntarily forced back step by step, and at the same time, the excessively harsh sound made her involuntarily cover her ears.
If Habara's feeling just now could be described as boiling water, now it was like pouring boiling water into boiling oil.
Seeing himself like a giant sparkler, Habara couldn't help but frown. Then, under his control, the lightning on his body gradually weakened until it extinguished.
"Success."
Habara showed Daigo a heartfelt smile, and even made a somewhat flippant V-sign.
Based on the Six Rens Technique, the Blood Release Technique and the Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm worked in succession. However, rather than saying that these three were ninjutsu, it was better to say that they were three buff effects.
The Blood Release Technique, needless to say, its greatest role was to greatly enhance Habara's physical abilities. The Six Rens Technique and the Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm were formulas that increased the quality of chakra.
Moreover, there was no essential difference between the Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm and the Six Rens Technique. The difference between them was only in the output efficiency of chakra and natural energy.
Compared to the Six Rens Technique directly mixing natural energy into the meridians, the Arc Gradual was a bit more complicated.
After witnessing that Cloud Magnet Release ninja, Habara had been intentionally and unintentionally playing with his own chakra. This was because he discovered the controllability of his own chakra...
Habara, it seemed, was magnetic from the roots. Simply put, he could control not only metal, but also the energy within his body, or rather, the latter might be the foundation and internal cause of the former.
So, after gathering natural energy with the sealing formula, it also had the basis for further manipulation.
To explain Habara's Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm using an analogy, assume that the chakra flowing in his meridian system was a ball of blue cotton, and the natural energy in the seal was a ball of red cotton.
When the chakra flowed through the sealing formula, Habara's operation began. Through stretching and spinning, he twisted the blue "cotton" into a thread. The same was done with the natural energy. Then the next step of the operation was to twist the blue thread and the red thread together again... This was the origin of the so-called "double helix structure" in biological structures.
Well, it should be said that this was the "Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm."
And since it could be twisted once or twice, it could naturally be twisted three or four times. The reason why Habara's Lightning Release intensity had skyrocketed a second time was precisely because he had twisted the two red and blue ropes together again. Strictly speaking, what Habara had just used was not the Seven Increase Rhythm, but the One Increase Rhythm and the Two Increase Rhythm.
In terms of energy density alone, the Two Increase Rhythm had already clearly surpassed ordinary Sage Chakra. However, the difference between Habara's method and real Sage Mode was very obvious – Sage Chakra was a chemical reaction, while his method was a physical addition.
The energy utilization efficiency of Sage Chakra was higher. But regardless, the Arc Gradual allowed Habara to quickly apply natural energy to actual combat, so it was a very good formula.
Even assuming that the energy density of natural energy was equal to that of a ninja's chakra, then under the Two Increase Rhythm state, his output efficiency was four times that of the original, comparable to a four-times Kaioken.
According to Habara's completely subjective speculation, in the One Increase Rhythm state, his chakra quality was definitely inferior to Sage Chakra. But in the Two Increase Rhythm state, it should be greater than or equal to Sage Chakra... He was using twice the energy of Sage Chakra, and hoping that the damage effect would be on par with Sage Chakra, this shouldn't be too much, right?
His Lightning Release in the "four-times Kaioken" state was completely different from the Lightning Release in the "two-times Kaioken" state.
The Arc Gradual Seven Increase Rhythm was Habara's first attempt at an organic combination (simple splicing) of "Magnet Release" and Sage Techniques, and the effects it brought were very satisfactory to him.
As for the shortcomings of this technique, there were mainly two.
First, this kind of in-vivo ZIP would cause the energy flow to surge dramatically and put a heavy burden on the meridian system. With Habara's current state, the Two Increase Rhythm was already the limit.
Second, the chakra consumption of the Two Increase Rhythm was twice that of the normal state, so Habara wouldn't use it unless it was an extreme situation... The Six Rens Technique was already a very good buff.
With the completion of the development of the new ninjutsu, Habara's use of natural energy was now at a state higher than Jugo's, but lower than Sage Mode. And he could also make the effect of the technique close to Sage Techniques through secondary compression. Although it was only a physical addition, Habara added a lot.
In a sense, he could now be called a "half-sage," commonly known as Habara the Half-Sage.
With all his firepower, Habara's strength could definitely reach the jonin level. In fact, his attack power could even surpass that of a Kage, it's just that his lack of chakra hadn't been fundamentally solved. The thirty-second true man time was still too short.
In this sense, Habara could express a little gratitude to Orochimaru, after all, the natural energy that ordinary people couldn't touch in their entire lives was solved by Orochimaru with a single injection.
After possessing high-quality chakra, Habara could actually try another technique, but he wasn't in a hurry, because the problem he faced from beginning to end wasn't a lack of attack power, but a lack of stamina... He was very hard, but also very fast.
If Habara went to the battlefield next time, he could already be regarded as a top-tier combatant.
Let's move the time back a little.
When Habara and Daigo left Konoha for the forward camp in the Land of Rivers, the Fourth Hokage hadn't actually left. Besides condolences, he had other business to deal with here.
The Land of Rivers stood between the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind. This country originally had a small ninja village called Tanigakure, but unfortunately, this ninja village disappeared during the Third Great Ninja War... For some reason, it just disappeared.
The Hidden Eddy Village of the Uzumaki clan had been destroyed. It was only normal for other small ninja villages to be casually wiped out by one of the Five Great Ninja Villages. As for whether Tanigakure would be rebuilt after the war, that would depend on whether the Land of Rivers could obtain the support of a major power.
Geographically speaking, the Land of Rivers was a long and narrow country from north to south. In the western part of this country, closer to the Land of Wind, there was a mountain range that ran north-south across the country. This mountain range was called the "Brown Earth Mountain Range."
This mountain range wasn't very famous, but a certain peak on the mountain range became very famous after the Third Great Ninja War, because its name was Mount Kikyo... that is, the battlefield where Konoha defeated the main force of Sunagakure.
In short, because of the obstruction of this mountain range, the warm and humid air currents from the South Sea were blocked to the east of the Land of Wind. This terrain was one of the reasons for the desert environment of the Land of Wind.
The warm and humid air currents followed the Brown Earth Mountain Range all the way north. After penetrating deep into the inland, they were finally blocked by the plateau terrain of the Land of Earth on the south side... This was the origin of the rainy climate in the Land of Rain.
Simply put, after the Battle of Kikyo Pass, Konoha controlled most of the territory of the Land of Rivers, while Sunagakure could only guard the mountain range, preventing Konoha's forces from continuing westward.
Another important reason why the Fourth Hokage came to the front line was to prepare to sign an agreement with the Fourth Kazekage, namely the "Konoha-Sunagakure Non-Aggression Agreement."
The main content of this agreement was to prohibit Konoha and Sunagakure from crossing the Brown Earth Mountain Range, so that the Brown Earth Mountain Range essentially became the ceasefire line between the two ninja villages.
The previous conflict should have been the last attempt by both countries, and the result was that neither side could achieve any effective progress, so both sides completely gave up.
Because both sides were powerless to advance, the agreement was signed very smoothly, without any problems.
After the agreement was signed, Konoha probably controlled three-fifths of the land of the Land of Rivers, and they were all plains and valleys with suitable climate and fertile soil for grain production. As for the west of the mountain range controlled by Sunagakure... Let's not talk about it, imagine it for yourself.
And this non-aggression agreement could basically be regarded as a sign that the two countries were about to withdraw from the war. After that, there should be a ceasefire agreement and a peace treaty.