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Chapter 97 B-Rank Ninjutsu, Ignoring Defense
Chapter 97 B-Rank Ninjutsu, Ignoring Defense
early morning.
Waste treatment plant.
Sosuke hasn't come for a long time.
During this time, he has been practicing the Instantaneous Movement Technique with added weight.
Today, he has come to inspect the results.
He was standing on a steel wire. The wire was suspended in the air, three meters off the ground.
He stood there like an acrobat, perfectly steady. But that wasn't enough.
"We can begin!" he shouted.
Yuanzao was not far away, holding a handful of pebbles, and threw them out without any hesitation.
Whoosh whoosh.
Pebbles rained down on us.
Sosuke moved along the tightrope. His feet clung to the wire, and his body made all sorts of incredible dodging maneuvers.
Sideways, backbend, and even handstands on the wire.
Every movement was incredibly fast, as if teleporting.
All the stones missed their target.
"That's about it."
Genzo threw away the last stone and nodded.
"Your reaction speed and Body Flicker Technique have surpassed most Chunin."
"With your tool manipulation skills and those expensive ninja tools, you can now put up a fight even against a Jonin."
"But that's all."
Yuanzao is always very clear-headed.
"If you want to kill a Jonin, you're missing one thing."
"What?" Sosuke jumped off the wire.
"Ultimate move."
Yuanzao uttered three words.
"Steel wire can cut, shuriken can thrust, and explosive tags can bombard."
"But these are all physical attacks."
"Jonin are able to use chakra flexibly for defense. Unless they take damage head-on, physical attacks are just tickling."
"You need a way to cut through chakra defenses."
Cut through chakra defenses?
Sosuke thought of Wind Release. Wind Release's nature transformation is known for its cutting ability.
"Didn't you say that advanced ninjutsu involving nature transformation often requires several years of practice? I'm starting to practice Wind Release now—" Sousuke shook his head.
"Who told you to practice Wind Release?"
Genzo rolled his eyes.
"Who taught you medical ninjutsu?"
"Yakushi Nonou, director of the orphanage."
"Didn't she teach you that move?"
Genzo made a chop motion with his hand.
"Chakra Scalpel"
Zongsuke was stunned.
Chakra Scalpel. Rank B Medical Ninjutsu.
By concentrating chakra in the hand and using extreme compression and flow, an incomparably sharp chakra blade is formed.
It can easily sever meridians and muscle fibers.
Because it is a pure form of chakra high pressure, ordinary chakra defenses are useless against it. It is not only a medical ninjutsu, but also an extremely terrifying destructive technique.
"That's an advanced technique in medical ninjutsu."
Sosuke hesitated.
"Dean Nono said that the technique is extremely difficult to control, and if you are not careful, you will sever your own tendons."
Many medical ninjas can only use this technique for surgery their entire lives, which means it can only be used in an extremely quiet and stable environment.
Want to use it in real combat?
That requires maintaining the stability of the chakra cluster in the palm while moving at high speed and dodging attacks.
That's too difficult.
"The past is the past. Now, your reflexes are quick enough, and your chakra control has been honed through the trials of the Tightrope and the Body Flicker Technique."
"And your left eye—"
Genzo stared at Sousuke's blindfold.
"Although I don't know what you've been up to, this eye should help you see the form of chakra better, right?"
He was experienced and could tell the clue about the left eye just from Sosuke's dodging movements.
Sosuke touched his left eye.
Yes. Snake eyes can see not only heat, but also the flow of chakra.
With the microscopic assistance of snake eyes, controlling the chakra scalpel would be much easier.
"You are fully qualified to learn."
"Once you learn this move, your hands will be your knives."
"With your teleportation technique, I just need to get close enough to touch you."
"The enemy's muscles will break, and his meridians will be paralyzed."
"This is the perfect finishing move for you—silent, stealthy, and deadly."
Sosuke simulated that scene in his mind.
Approaching with a teleportation technique, blocking movement with steel wire, and then—
A karate chop.
The enemy's muscles are torn and their meridians severed, instantly rendering them incapable of fighting. This is indeed far more efficient than indiscriminate bombing.
"I understand. I will learn it."
That night. Konoha Orphanage, basement.
"You want to learn chakra scalpel?"
Upon hearing Sousuke's request, Nonou frowned slightly.
"Mr. Sosuke, that's a B-rank ninjutsu. Its difficulty is comparable to the Healing Palm Technique."
"Although your chakra control is improving rapidly, the chakra scalpel is very dangerous."
"The Palm Healing Technique outputs healing energy; even if it gets out of control, it's just a waste of chakra."
"But the chakra scalpel is an output of cutting energy. Once it gets out of control, your hand will be the first to be ruined."
I want to give it a try.
Sousuke insisted.
"I know my limits. If I lose control, I'll stop immediately."
Nono sighed.
She couldn't persuade the man. He craved power too much, though he usually appeared rational and restrained.
"All right."
Nono walked to the lab table.
"Reach out your hand."
Sosuke extended his right hand.
"The principle of the chakra scalpel is to gather chakra at the edge of the palm to form an extremely thin blade."
"This blade must be extremely sharp and extremely stable."
Nono extended her hand.
hum.
A buzzing sound, like the flapping of a mosquito's wings, rang out.
A pale blue chakra aura covered her palms.
The edges of the halo were extremely clear, without the slightest tremor.
She picked up a piece of paper at random.
There was no direct contact with the paper; the palm simply made a light stroke about three centimeters above the paper.
laugh.
The paper was cut neatly. The cut was as smooth as a mirror.
"This is the chakra scalpel."
Nonou dispersed her chakra.
"Its cutting principle is that the high-frequency flow of chakra severs the connections between molecules."
"Now, you try to condense it."
"Don't rush to form a blade. First, try to compress the chakra at the edge of your palm."
Sosuke took a deep breath. His snake-like eyes darted around, fixed on his right hand.
In the snake's vision, he saw the flow of chakra through the meridians.
"Gathering — Compression —"
He channeled his chakra into his right hand.
A buzzing sound appeared on my right hand. However, the light was scattered.
Chakra was like a burning flame dancing in the palm of the hand, unable to form a stable blade shape.
"compression."
Sousuke wanted to mold this ball of flame into a knife.
Zizizi!
Unstable chakra surged wildly across the skin's surface, causing waves of stinging pain.
"stop!"
Nono immediately called for a stop.
"This is too hasty. The chakra is running wild; if this continues, it will damage the meridians."
Sosuke dispersed his chakra. His palms were bright red, and blisters had even formed in some places.
"It's difficult."
This is much harder than manipulating a steel wire. A steel wire is an inanimate object, while chakra is a living thing.
To make a living thing as stable as an inanimate object goes against the nature of chakra.
"Is there any shortcut?"
Sosuke asked the question he was best at.
In other words, can I spend money on in-game purchases?
Nono thought for a moment.
"There are tools to aid in cultivation."
She took a black object out of the cabinet.
It looks like a piece of rubber, but its surface has a metallic sheen.
"This is chakra blocked like glue."
"These are high-end consumables used by the medical team to practice chakra scalpel surgery."
"Its characteristic is that it can only cut through when the sharpness of your chakra reaches a certain standard. Otherwise, it will stick to your chakra like chewing gum."
"Practicing with it will allow you to intuitively feel the limits of sharpness."
"However, this thing is very expensive. One piece costs five thousand taels. And it's a consumable."
Sosuke smiled. If it can be solved with money, then it's not a problem.
"I want to buy this for 100 yuan."
Nono was stunned for a moment. One hundred yen? That's five hundred thousand taels.
"Are you going to empty the medical department's entire inventory? —"
three days later.
The Kikyo Pavilion, basement.
Sosuke sat at the table. In front of him was a thick layer of chakra blocking out like glue.
"Chiba, record the data."
"Yes."
Chiba was wearing glasses and holding a stopwatch.
Sosuke extended his right hand.
hum.
The blue light on my palm has stabilized slightly compared to three days ago.
"cut!"
Sousuke slashed with his sword.
puff.
My palm sank into the black rubber. It didn't cut through; it felt like sinking into mud.
The viscous resistance traveled back through his chakra channels, making him feel nauseous.
"Failure. Insufficient sharpness."
Chiba coldly announced the result.
"Again."
Sosuke drew his hand.
the second time.
the third time.
The discarded rubber blocks piled up into a small mountain. Sosuke's hands were already somewhat numb.
But he didn't stop.
He was searching for that feeling. That feeling of compressing chakra to its limit, even to the point of qualitative change.
The fifty-third piece.
Chiba sat on a high stool to the side, holding a notepad in his hand, his voice completely flat.
"Scrapped. The cut edges are rough, and the chakra output jittered upon contact."
Sosuke sat at the table.
His forehead was covered in sweat, which slid down his cheeks and dripped onto the table.
His right hand was trembling slightly. The intense chakra compression was putting a tremendous strain on the meridians in his palm.
"continue."
Sosuke reached into the box and took out the fifty-fourth piece.
He closed his right eye.
The eye patch on the left eye had already been removed.
A white snake coiled in its eye socket, its red eyes fixed on the edge of Sousuke's right palm.
In the unique vision of a snake's eyes, the world is microscopic.
Why can't I cut through it?
Sosuke is thinking.
Nono said that the principle of the chakra scalpel is high-frequency flow.
But through Snake Eyes's vision, Sosuke saw the essence of the problem.
His chakra flow was not smooth. The blue aura on the surface looked like a knife.
But at the microscopic level, its edges are jagged, and those jagged edges are jumping around erratically.
It's like trying to saw a tire with a dull, chipped knife and a trembling hand.
Of course you can't cut through it.
"Is it because you lack self-control?"
No.
Through practice with steel wire and Body Flicker Technique, his control has reached the top level of Chunin.
The problem lies in the feedback mechanism.
Medical ninjas rely on their feel for the game.
The output is adjusted by the resistance encountered when chakra comes into contact with an object. This requires thousands of repetitions to develop muscle memory.
"But I don't have that much time to practice my touch."
Sosuke stared at his hands.
"In other words, even with the help of Snake Eyes, it's impossible for me to master this ninjutsu in a short time —"
How can we solve this?
He suddenly remembered that the Second Hokage had a ninjutsu called Water Cutting Wave, which could cut through steel.
Perhaps we can refer to the principles of this ninjutsu —
Sosuke looked at Chiba, who was recording data.
"Chiba, why can the Second Hokage's Water Release ninjutsu cut through steel?"
"Because of high pressure and — laminar flow."
Chiba drew two pictures.
"In ordinary water flow, molecules collide randomly, which is called 'turbulence.' Energy cancels each other out internally."
"The Second Hokage's Water Release technique causes all water molecules to move in the same direction and at the same speed; this is called laminar flow. The energy is highly concentrated."
Chiba pointed to Sousuke's hand.
"Your chakra scalpel is now a turbulent flow. It looks like a scalpel on the surface, but at a microscopic level, chakra particles are colliding wildly."
"To cut through the resistance, you must transform the turbulent flow into laminar flow."
"I understand the reasoning."
Sousuke smiled bitterly.
"The problem is that I can't see the microscopic movement of chakra particles. Although my snake eyes can see through things, the resolution is not at the molecular level."
"I can't see if they're bumping around randomly, so I can't adjust them."
"unless----"
A sudden inspiration struck Sosuke.
"Unless there is a medium that can visualize the chaotic collision of chakra."
He suddenly stood up.
"Chakra conduction metal".
"That metal is extremely sensitive to chakra. If the chakra flows smoothly, the electrons inside the metal will be arranged in an orderly manner. If the chakra is disordered, the metal will produce noise."
"Chiba, what if we grind the chakra-conducting metal into powder and mix it into this rubber—"
Chiba's eyes lit up.
"If it's made into a suspension or colloid—when your chakra cuts in, if the flow is erratic, the metal powder will produce diffuse reflection, which is to say, turbidity."
"If you achieve laminar flow," the metal powder will align neatly along the direction of the chakra, which means—it will become transparent!
Transform the feel into the visual!
This is a brilliant idea.
That's also an extremely wasteful idea.
Chakra-conducting metal, sold by the gram, is ten times more expensive than gold.
Grind it into powder? Mix it into disposable practice rubber?
This was an absolute waste. But Sosuke disregarded the cost.
Tenten Ninja Tools Shop.
The proprietress looked incredulous.
"You want to buy chakra-conducting metal—scrap?"
"It's not waste."
Sousuke corrected.
"I want to buy a whole chakra conduction metal ingot. Then, please grind it into the finest powder."
The proprietress looked at him as if he were crazy.
"Boss Takaya, do you know that even the lowest purity chakra-conducting metal can be used to forge two top-quality chakra blades? Grinding it into powder? That's a waste."
"You don't need to worry about that."
Sosuke slapped on a check.
"Five hundred thousand taels. Is that enough?"
"—This is just the cost of materials. Grinding is very labor-intensive and also wears out the machines—"
"Add another 100,000."
"Deal! Come pick up the powder tomorrow!"
the next day.
Underground laboratory.
In front of Sosuke was a bowl of dark, gelatinous substance.
That's a specially made "developer inhibitor".
It contains chakra-conducting metal powder worth 600,000 taels.
To the average person, this is just an expensive lump of mud.
In Sousuke's left eye, those tiny metallic particles floated silently in the rubber matrix, waiting for the summoning of chakra.
"Let's begin."
Sousuke extended his right hand. He gathered chakra.
A blue halo covered the palm.
He slowly inserted his palm into the colloid.
In the snake's vision, a strange scene unfolded.
Around his palm, the metallic particles began to dance wildly. They were tossed about by the chaotic flow of chakra, forming murky vortexes.
"It really is a turbulent current," Sosuke thought to himself.
This is visual feedback.
He began to make adjustments.
"Stay calm — Lower the frequency — Unify direction —"
He was like someone adjusting a precision instrument.
He fine-tuned the output of every bit of chakra by observing the "turbidity" through the snake's eyes.
This is infinitely more efficient than blindly practicing.
Ten minutes passed.
The erratic movement of the metal particles around my palm decreased.
Half an hour passed.
Those murky eddies began to dissipate.
One hour.
Sosuke's forehead was covered in sweat, and his mental focus was extremely high.
Sudden.
At a certain moment.
The gel on the edge of his palm turned transparent.
All the metal particles pointed in the same direction, perfectly aligned.
They form countless parallel channels.
Laminar flow!
The ball of blue chakra that had been pulsating restlessly in Sousuke's palm was now as still as a piece of blue glass.
Sharp and stable.
"That's the feeling."
Sosuke remembered the frequency of chakra output at that moment.
He gently waved his hand.
It's as easy as gliding across the water.
laugh.
The block of chakra in front of him, as sticky as glue, silently split in two.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, and even the metal particles inside were neatly cut away.
"It's a success."
Chiba pressed the stopwatch.
Duration: 3 seconds. Sharpness: S grade.
Sosuke dispersed his chakra and slumped into a chair.
His right hand was trembling violently. This extremely precise control puts a tremendous strain on the meridians.
But he succeeded.
He used money and science to buy the feel for the game that others needed years of hard work to master.
"This is—the Chakra Scalpel."
Sosuke looked at his hands.
An invisible blade capable of severing muscles, meridians, and even cutting through chakra defenses.
Combined with his teleportation technique, as long as he gets close enough to touch him—
That would result in disability.
"Congratulations, Mr. Sosuke."
Chiba looked at the expensive waste.
"However, this training material, worth 600,000 ryo, is now ruined. The magnetism of the metal powder has been magnetized by chakra, making it unusable."
"Six hundred thousand taels for the essence of a B-rank ninjutsu is a good deal."
Sosuke didn't care at all.
"Next, we'll have our live-fire drills."
"I need to find something durable to chop with to test the knife."
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