Konoha: The Foundation's revelation at the outset shocks the world.

If it's too big, it's like using a lightning ninjutsu on yourself, which will naturally injure your body. If it's too small, it won't have the effect of strengthening your body.

The information about Lightning Release techniques extracted from the Third Raikage was missing the crucial aspect of controlling the 'quantity,' so Lu Chen had to experiment with this himself.

of course.

Because he possesses the ability to reverse time, he can use the most brute-force methods to test things, without needing to carefully deduce them step by step.

The Second Raikage, who created this ninjutsu, gradually increased the amount of lightning chakra until it reached an optimal level, and then developed a complete training method. This process took a very long time, but Lu Chen can greatly shorten that time.

Half a day passed in a flash.

At the bottom of the canyon.

Lu Chen stared intently at the lightning coiled around his arm until it gradually dimmed and disappeared, revealing an arm that appeared perfectly normal.

"Is it ready?"

Lu Chen clenched his fist and felt that his arm was not damaged at all, only slightly numb, and its toughness seemed to have increased slightly.

Crackling! !

After determining the level of chakra produced, Lu Chen sat cross-legged, and the chakra within his body suddenly surged, transforming into lightning-attribute chakra that crackled and spread out, instantly covering the surface of his body.

Unlike the Eight Gates Lightning Release state, the thin layer of lightning covering the body is more similar to the form of the Third and Fourth Raikage, but it looks much weaker.

Zizzi! !

Lightning-attribute chakra continuously intertwined within and outside Lu Chen's body.

These lightning-attribute powers, under Lu Chen's indulgence and lack of control, began to naturally erode every cell of his body, but to just the right degree, without causing damage.

Under this erosion and stimulation, Lu Chen felt his whole body getting hot, and every cell seemed to be being tempered by lightning-attribute chakra.

"It seems there are no problems. This should be it... After that, it's just a matter of gradually adapting and gradually increasing the amount of chakra until the body becomes more and more accustomed to the flow of lightning chakra..."

After sensing for a moment and realizing there was no problem, Lu Chen closed his eyes slightly and began cultivating at five times the speed.

It is worth mentioning that.

Just a few days ago, the ability to accelerate time was improved again, with the upper limit increasing from four times to five times, further expanding the range of changes in the flow of time.

However, the ability corresponding to 'Scale III' is still shrouded in mystery. The mystery has only thinned slightly, and it seems unlikely to be unlocked in a short time unless there are any significant changes.

Zizzi! !

If you stood not far away and looked at Lu Chen at this moment, you would see that Lu Chen was in a strange state, and the position of his entire body seemed to have become a scene that was fast-forwarded several times.

The wisps of white lightning that kept popping out from his body were moving at a normal speed, but the speed at which these lightning arcs were generated was abnormal; they were being generated at an extremely fast speed.

The lightning chakra that tempers the body, once transformed into lightning arcs, is already considered a kind of ninjutsu that is detached from the body and is no longer controlled by Lu Chen's time flow. However, in the state of time acceleration, he will create more lightning chakra at a higher frequency.

Because his body was in a state of time acceleration, he could still withstand the effects of these denser lightning arcs, and his cultivation speed was still improved. However, this improvement was not simply in line with the time acceleration multiplier, but was more complex and could not be accurately calculated.

three days later.

Lu Chen has completed the initial tempering.

He spent some time deducing the strength of the lightning attribute for the next stage, and then continued with new tempering and cultivation.

As time went by, he continuously increased the strength of his lightning attribute, and his body, under tempering, became more and more compatible with the power of the lightning attribute.

During this training process, Lu Chen also confirmed one thing: this kind of 'lightning transformation' of his body did indeed help him to further open up the Eight Gates of Lightning Escape!

After training for half a month, he clearly realized that when using the Eight Gates Lightning Release, the damage of lightning to the body was much lower. If he only opened the fourth gate, he didn't even need to use time reversal to recover, and he could resist the side effects.

"In that case, there is indeed hope of opening the eighth gate."

Lu Chen murmured a word of apology to himself.

It was highly unlikely that he would open the eighth gate, because the Eight Gates Formation is a ninjutsu that is easy to learn and difficult to master. Starting from the third gate, it becomes increasingly difficult. If he were to open the sixth gate, his physical age would probably be around twenty years old, and if he were to open the seventh gate, he would probably be over thirty years old.

Although he can use time acceleration to speed up this process, his actual physical age will not change unless he uses time reversal, but that would invalidate all his previous cultivation achievements.

When a ninja reaches the age of thirty or older, the only areas where they can further improve are their mental strength and combat experience; their physical body will almost never improve.

Forty is the peak age to maintain one's performance; after that, one's performance will gradually decline.

Chapter 242 A Head Worth Thirty Million Taels

If one cannot open the eighth gate of the Eight Gates Formation by the age of forty, then one will most likely never be able to open it, because the body has already begun to age.

Not everyone can open the eighth door.

Even the seventh and sixth gates are enough to trap the vast majority of ninjas.

However, the Lightning Release Body Tempering Technique gave Lu Chen a glimmer of hope for opening the eighth gate, because practicing this ninjutsu would make it much easier for him to open the subsequent gates!

Perhaps cultivating this secret technique will take him a lot of time, perhaps a year or even many years, to reach a sufficient level. In the short term, it will actually slow down his progress in opening the first gate of Lightning Release and finally the eighth gate!

Open to the eighth door.

For him, that meant invincibility.

With time accelerated, if he opens the eighth gate, let alone Madara Uchiha, even Kaguya Otsutsuki would probably not be able to withstand his attack!

In the following period, Lu Chen began a long period of cultivation.

Because his body was more adapted to the chakra of lightning release, and his chakra reserves had gradually reached the level of a Kage, Lu Chen was able to master the upgraded version of Chidori, Raikiri, quite easily in the process.

Compared to Chidori, Raikiri no longer has the sound of a chirping bird; the lightning-attribute chakra is more concentrated and powerful, and its piercing force is greater.

650 and.

Practicing the Thunder Escape Body Tempering Secret Technique also further enhanced Lu Chen's physical body in terms of speed and strength.

All of this combined made him feel that even without relying on the Kusanagi Sword to use the 'Heavenly Flash' technique, he could break through the Third Raikage's defense!

"My current strength should be considered Kage-level by now."

Lu Chen murmured to himself, but then shook his head slightly and said, "No, if we compare him to Nagato... he's still a bit lacking..."

Against the Six Paths of Pain, with his current strength, he is confident enough to fight all six of them and defeat them. However, against Nagato's true form, he will still run into trouble.

Nagato's true form is too powerful.

In the original story, Kabuto, unfamiliar with Nagato's power, haphazardly manipulated Nagato's body, suppressing Naruto and Killer Bee, who were already in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode. If Itachi Uchiha hadn't intervened, both of them would probably have been killed on the spot.

If it were Nagato himself, who was more familiar with his own power, fighting, then even if Itachi, Naruto, and Killer Bee joined forces, they probably wouldn't be able to defeat him.

Whether it can withstand Shinra Tensei and Bansho Ten'in is another matter.

His movements can usually be clearly captured by the Preta Path, which absorbs chakra; the Human Path, which can directly strip away the soul upon contact; and the Rinnegan's own eye techniques.

After careful consideration, Lu Chen felt that facing Nagato would still be very difficult for him. If he was too aggressive, he might be killed by Nagato using his Human Path abilities.

That's a power that targets the soul!

"Further practice is needed."

After muttering to himself, Lu Chen dispelled the lightning strike in his palm and continued his cultivation.

time flies.

Several months passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the course of several months, the ninja world gradually returned to peace.

Although the war is not truly over, the current state of the various ninja villages is like that of a husky that has been leashed and suddenly let off the leash. The atmosphere that seemed to be arguing fiercely and ready to fight at any moment has suddenly become tense.

All of this was caused by the fact that Lu Chen's act of killing Hanzo of the Salamander was too shocking, which made all the major ninja villages deeply wary of Lu Chen and dare not act rashly again.

The ninja withdrew to the Land of Water.

The Cloud Ninja also retreated to the Land of Lightning.

The Iwa ninja also retreated to the border of the Land of Earth to observe the movements of the ninja world.

During the period when the ninja world became peaceful, Lu Chen mastered the Lightning Release Body Tempering Technique from the very beginning to a level that was almost as strong as before.

This so-called "not weak" probably means that without using time acceleration, the Eight Gates, or other abilities, he has strength close to that of a Kage, relying solely on his Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

of course.

This is also related to the fact that Lu Chen's current chakra level has fully reached the Kage level standard.

After reaching this level of cultivation, the progress of further improvement becomes much slower. In fact, this lightning escape technique does not have specific stages; it is simply about accumulating and layering up little by little.

The Third Raikage likely trained in this ninjutsu from a young age, practicing it relentlessly for decades, accumulating physical strength and this secret technique to a terrifying degree.

In fact.

In Lu Chen's view, the upper limit of this secret technique might be even higher than that of the Eight Gates Formation. If one could cultivate it for thousands or tens of thousands of years, it was unimaginable how much one could temper one's physical body.

Of course, these are just hypothetical scenarios. Without the power of the Six Paths, one simply cannot live that long. Moreover, the higher one's cultivation level, the greater and more intense the amount of chakra required must be.

Lu Chen's slow progress in cultivation is also related to the fact that his chakra reserves cannot keep up with the pace.

With chakra levels barely reaching Kage level, that's about the extent to which one can cultivate.

"It's time to go back."

Lu Chen twisted his neck and stood up from the rock.

Although he had been training during this time, he usually ate and drank in the nearest town. There he would occasionally come into contact with ninjas and had always been aware of the situation in the ninja world. He knew that the situation in Konoha had now completely stabilized.

"Let's go get something to eat first..."