Ten Thousand Kinds of Eight Gates Released Formation

"Don't move, Your Majesty! Your slightest tremor almost made me make a mistake!"

An Ice Clone complained in the tunnel.

"It's so itchy there! You're me too, you have to understand how I feel!" The real person put on an innocent expression.

Another Ice Clone roughly pressed down on the original's hand, which was lying on the floor. "Alright, this time I'll hold on tight. I guarantee she won't be able to move an inch!"

"Ugh...! That hurts a bit," the main character groaned. "Hey, Number Seven, you used too much force! My hand is all bruised!"

"Number Seven is ready!" The Number Seven clone, responsible for pressing down on her, completely ignored her.

"Number Six is ready!" another clone holding the miniature scroll chimed in.

"The Sealing Jutsu under the right armpit is ready!"

"Error within one-thousandth, position locking complete!"

"Clear the area! All other groups, halt your work. I, hold your breath and suppress your Chakra... K! Absolutely calm! Right armpit group, commence operations!"

A scout-type clone, resembling a commander, stood on the table.

With a whoosh, a flash of blue Chakra appeared in the hand of Number Six holding the miniature scroll, and rice-grain-sized spells began to be printed one after another onto the girl's smooth skin.

"Thirty percent... Hold on, don't breathe, don't use Chakra, don't move... Sixty percent... Almost over... Ninety percent... One hundred percent! Very good, this time it's a success."

"Hoo~" Sakura herself took a long breath.

Although she lay motionless on the ground the whole time, it was by no means easy for her.

During her vacation, she began using her Ice Clone to help her shrink the Yin Seal technique onto her body.

After two efforts, more than 95% of the content has been completed. A few more shrinking seals will complete this Ninjutsu.

From the commander's clone's perspective, the girl lying on the ground, wearing only her undergarments, can be seen very clearly.

The densely packed seal techniques stretched from the girl's face and neck all the way to her abdomen, legs, arms, and even her armpits. This was because Sakura's body surface area was only 14 square meters—calculated using the formula for adolescent body surface area based on her height and weight. Subtracting her hair, the area available for writing the seal techniques was even smaller. Even if tens of thousands of Sealing Jutsu were shrunk to the extreme, it would still be difficult to completely imprint them on her body.

At this moment, Sakura's entire body was covered in various runes, making her look somewhat eerie.

"So many runes! It's giving me trypophobia!" Number Six said with a laugh, touching his own skin.

Number Seven laughed too, "It is a bit ugly, but do you really have trypophobia... Anyway, it's okay, once the spell is activated, the runes will become transparent and invisible."

"It's not just a little ugly, it's absolutely hideous..." the clone standing on the table complained. "Alright, if you don't want to see the real body this ugly anymore, hurry up. There's not much left. Is the left armpit set ready?"

"Ready!" four voices said simultaneously.

"Very good, I did well just now, keep it up~ Hold your breath and restrain yourself--Eh?"

A knock suddenly sounded on the door.

Everyone was stunned. Hinata who knew about this lab; what was she doing here at this time?

"Hinata, is that you? Come in!" Sakura asked.

A clone walked over and opened the door, Hinata's head poked in.

"Are you doing an experiment, Sakura? I saw a lot of your clones outside." She walked in, glanced at the scene inside the lab, and quickly locked the door. "Brother, come in later!"

"Working on the Yin Seal..." The girl casually grabbed a bath towel and draped it over herself. "Almost done."

Hinata looked around at the floor covered with Sealing Jutsu, then at Sakura lying on the ground covered in seals, and made a clicking sound that was hard to decipher.

"Sakura, this technique you used came at a huge cost!"

"Don't worry about it!" Sakura rolled her eyes at her. "Once you finish writing it, you'll activate it by channeling Chakra, and the technique will become transparent and completely invisible. By the way, what are you two doing here?"

The girl rolled her Byakugan and plopped down on the table. "Of course I need to talk to you. Finish this first, then let your brother wait outside for a bit."

"Tsk, making Neji so long, are you even his caring little sister?!"

"I'm worried he'll be scared if I let him in now!" Hinata said with a smile.

Sakura was speechless.

However, Neji didn't have to wait long before the Yin Seal project was completely finished.

"Okay, is that alright? What did you two come to see me for?" Sakura asked as she saw Neji enter. A beautiful purple diamond-shaped mark had appeared on her forehead, giving her a more alluring look.

The siblings exchanged a glance, Hinata said, "Do you remember that pressure point technique we developed before that amplifies Chakra?" (Please see Chapter 53)

"I remember, haven't you been using it all along? But we've stopped development work. So, any new ideas? Or any major breakthroughs?"

Sakura certainly still remembered this technique. Back then, she was young and ignorant, and almost killed herself when she tried to develop it, so it left a deep impression on her.

The development of this technique is too risky. The 361 acupoints in the meridian system are used to restrict and control the flow and transformation of Chakra. There are many acupoints that must never be opened, because once opened, the physical strength and spirit accumulated in the body will start to be converted into Chakra wildly and cannot be stopped until the practitioner dies.

However, there are also some gentler acupoints that only slightly increase Chakra when opened. If these acupoints are connected and opened simultaneously, the Chakra- boosting effect can be stacked.

Sakura and Hinata's experiments back then didn't yield ideal results. They only found a few acupoints with mediocre effects, and most of them couldn't be connected, so the increase in Chakra wasn't very noticeable. The more they continued the experiment, the more pitfalls they encountered. Opening many acupoints for even a few seconds could be fatal. If Sakura hadn't had strong enough control over her Chakra to forcibly close the acupoints when she sensed something was wrong, she probably would have been dead long ago.

She still remembers that during the last experiment, she tried to open the acupoint called the Killing Intent Pressure Point or "Shakshaka Hole"). If it hadn't been not fully opened at the time, and the amount of Chakra released wasn't large enough, she might have been splattered with blood on the spot... It was because she almost died in that experiment that she and Hinata chose to stop developing this technique.

Ultimately, the Chakra Amplification Jutsu they developed could only slightly increase Chakra levels, and was completely incomparable to the Eight Gates Released Formation.

However, the so-called Eight Gates Released Formation actually involves selecting eight interconnected acupoints from the 61 acupoints on the human body. By opening these acupoints in sequence, the body's Chakra can be relatively safely released, allowing for the release of increasingly powerful Chakra, thus granting the user immense power in a short period of time.

There are many options for forming a set of interconnected acupoints, Eight Gates Released Formation is just one of them. However, the Eight Gates Released Formation is quite remarkable for being able to select seven interconnected acupoints that, when untied, will not cause death.

Selecting eight acupoints from the 61 acupoints in the human body results in 61!/5!, or 6677,0011,54,075,6800 (twenty-six trillion trillion) choices. Adding the constraint that the selected acupoints must be connected and adjacent, based on Sakura Haruno's experience and calculations, there are approximately 0 to the power of 8: 6561,000,000 (six hundred and fifty billion) possibilities. Even if only one in a hundred million of these are feasible, there are still tens of thousands of possible acupoint selection schemes in the Eight Gates Released Formation.

For this reason, Sakura has always believed that forbidden techniques like the Eight Gates Released Formation could be developed on a large scale.

However, although theoretically there should be many similar forbidden techniques, only the Eight Gates Released Formation is the only one that has survived in the Hokage world. This is probably because there are too many pitfalls in the acupoints, and acupoints like the "Gate of Death," which are fatal when opened, are everywhere. Imagine if the creator of this forbidden technique had chosen the Gate of Gate of Death as one of the first few gates...

Then the Eight Gates Released Formation Ninjutsu would no longer exist in this world.

Similarly, if the other founders hadn't been unlucky, perhaps the Hokage world would still have forbidden techniques like the Nine Gates and the Seventh Gates.

That said, the reason why the last gate of the Eight Gates Released Formation is the Gate of Death is indeed a sad story!

In short, because developing this technique is too dangerous, Sakura and Hinata have had to announce that they are giving up.

Hinata then spoke with a mysterious smile.

"Wasn't the biggest breakthrough you ever achieved?"

Upon hearing this, Sakura was taken aback.

She was a little confused; she hadn't studied that technique recently!

What exactly happened?

I was eating out just now, so this update is a little late. Please recommend, comment, and add more chapters!

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