Attempting to Develop Chidori, an Unlucky Start (Four Updates Complete)

After playing around at Heaven Dou Royal Academy for another day and getting much more familiar with the future members of the Imperial Fighting Team, Yu Tianlin's two days of vacation also came to an end.

During that time, Yu Tianlin tried chatting with Dugu Yan about poison, hoping to use that as a lead-in to medicinal herbs, or even immortal-grade herbs.

But Yu Tianlin soon discovered that aside from being very knowledgeable about her own Jade Phosphor Serpent poison, Dugu Yan only had a shallow understanding of other toxins, let alone medicinal herbs.

Apart from some relatively common herbs used to stop bleeding or treat colds and chills, she barely recognized any others. It was obvious that Dugu Yan had absolutely no interest in medicinal herbs.

Thinking about it, that made sense. If Dugu Yan liked messing around with herbs, Dugu Bo would have taken her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well long ago, and he would not have ended up giving all the immortal-grade herbs to Tang San.

It seemed he would still have to think of another way regarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After returning to Thunderbolt Academy, Yu Tianlin officially began his school life. However, he attended classes every morning, used Attract Thunder to Temper Rings at night while also cultivating his Soul Power, and only had nothing to do during the free activity time in the afternoon. It was incredibly boring.

Other students could use the afternoon to spar and exchange pointers, improving their combat experience. But because Yu Tianlin could not use his Martial Soul or Soul Skills, he could only watch from the side, completely unable to join in.

As for using the afternoon to meditate and cultivate Soul Power as well? That would not work either. If one meditated and cultivated for too long in a single day, efficiency would drop drastically.

This was knowledge summarized by countless generations of senior Soul Masters, something one could learn even at a Junior Soul Master Academy. The best amount of time to spend meditating and cultivating each day was around six to eight hours, as that gave the highest efficiency. It was not as if meditating and cultivating twenty-four hours a day without eating or drinking would make Soul Power grow rapidly.

Then should he go play with his cousin Yu Tianxin? Forget it. With his own elder brother pressing close behind him, Yu Tianxin was also under great pressure and was busy cultivating every day. Yu Tianlin did not feel right disturbing him.

He could not spar and exchange pointers, and he could not cultivate Soul Power either, so what was he supposed to do every afternoon? He could not just run around playing all day, could he? Would that not make him the same as those silkpants he had met at Heaven Dou Royal Academy?

When he remembered those silkpants he had run into that day, Yu Tianlin felt a wave of irritation. That kind of trash could have been knocked down by him in a few moves as long as he could fight at full strength. Unfortunately, he could not use his Martial Soul or Soul Skills, so once the other side used Martial Soul Possession, dealing with them became very difficult, and in the end he had still needed his guards to step in and resolve it.

If he ran into that kind of human scum again in the future, would he still have to let his guards act for him? That was way too frustrating.

The frustrated Yu Tianlin felt he could not keep going on like this, so he sank into thought.

Although he could not use his Martial Soul or Soul Skills, he had no problem using Soul Power. Could he use Soul Power to create a Soul Skill of his own?

Once the thought came, he acted on it. In any case, his afternoons were boring as hell, and he had nothing to do. This was the perfect time to find something to work on.

After returning to his single dorm room, Yu Tianlin locked the door and began thinking about Self-Created Soul Skills.

His Soul Power had the lightning attribute, so what kind of Soul Skill should he create?

Very naturally, Yu Tianlin thought of the skill Chidori from Naruto.

In his previous life, Yu Tianlin had really liked watching Naruto, so he had some understanding of Sasuke's skill.

The so-called Chidori involved gathering a high-intensity electric current in the palm. Under the stimulation of the current, it increased the body's activity, making one's palm hard and sharp like a treasured blade that could cut through iron as if it were mud, while also increasing the speed of one's thrust.

Because the sound emitted by the high-intensity current was like a thousand birds chirping, this move was called Chidori.

The skill Chidori was extremely useful. If converted according to the Soul Skills of Douluo Continent, it should increase his attack power and speed. He just did not know how great the increase would be, but he figured it should not be low. As long as he could develop it, perhaps it would be even more useful than the Thunderbolt Dragon Claw from his Thousand Year Soul Ring, and might even be comparable to his Dragon Transformed right arm.

Since he had confirmed his goal, the next step was repeated attempts. Yu Tianlin directly activated Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul Possession, while also triggering Dragon Transformation in his right arm.

That was right. For this kind of experiment, he definitely had to do it in a Dragon Transformed state. Yu Tianlin had not forgotten the miserable state of his left arm two years ago when he fought the Thunderous Hell Vine and it had been corroded by lightning.

Developing Chidori required gathering a high-intensity electric current in his palm. If he failed to control it properly and caused the current to erupt wildly, that would be disastrous. After Dragon Transformation, the strength of his arm doubled, so if such a problem occurred, the damage he suffered would be much smaller.

Looking at his Dragon Transformed right arm encircled by two purple Soul Rings, Yu Tianlin gritted his teeth, urged his lightning-attribute Soul Power into his dragon claw, and then carefully controlled it to stimulate lightning from within.

"Bzz—bzz—"

However, only a faint flicker of electric light flashed over his dragon claw. It did not hurt or itch, and there was no numbness either. It seemed to have no effect at all.

Fine, this current was way too weak. It seemed he had been a little too cautious.

Thinking of this, Yu Tianlin prepared to raise the current intensity by just a tiny bit.

"Bzzzt!"

However, the current erupted violently this time. The sudden powerful electric light dazzled Yu Tianlin's eyes. Not only the dragon claw, even his Dragon Transformed right arm was affected by the current. The entire Dragon Transformed arm twitched violently, and Yu Tianlin first felt a burst of numbness, followed by intense pain.

"Fuck! That hurts like hell!"

He hurriedly stopped sending in Soul Power, and the electric light dissipated as well. His Dragon Transformed right arm was revealed again, only to show that it had been shocked pitch-black. The dragon claw was the worst part, and Yu Tianlin could even smell something burnt.

Logically speaking, if a current of this level attacked from the outside, it probably still would not be able to do anything to Yu Tianlin's Dragon Transformed right arm. However, he had stimulated such powerful lightning from inside his arm. This was self-harm, a death-seeking act, and even his Dragon Transformed right arm could not withstand it.

Fortunately, Yu Tianlin had foresight and attempted it in a Dragon Transformed state. Otherwise, just that one shock would have crippled his right arm outright.

Soul Skills were dangerous; development had to be handled carefully!

He had clearly only controlled the current intensity to rise a tiny bit, yet so much had suddenly erupted. It seemed this was because his control over the Power of Thunder and Lightning was very weak.

But now was not the time to think about that. The urgent priority was to deal with his electrocuted right arm!

Thinking of this, Yu Tianlin directly exited the Dragon Transformation state, withdrew his Martial Soul, then slammed open his dorm room door and ran toward the academy infirmary.

Although Yu Tianlin's injury was somewhat serious, fortunately this was Thunderbolt Academy, and the teachers in the infirmary were extremely experienced in treating injuries caused by lightning. On top of that, Yu Tianlin had come promptly to seek treatment, so no lasting problems were left behind.

However, the infirmary teacher still wrapped him in bandages and warned him not to use his right hand for the next week.

This was fucking ridiculous. Yu Tianlin had only wanted to make an initial attempt, but he had never expected to end up like this. What an unlucky start.

It seemed he could not casually make such attempts for now. It was far too dangerous. His control over the Power of Thunder and Lightning was too low, and he had no way to precisely regulate the current he stimulated. Even if he tried a few more times, the result would be the same.

He should first improve his control over lightning-attribute Soul Power. As for the training method, uh, he would use tree climbing and water walking from Naruto!

One of these two training methods involved drawing in, and the other involved releasing outward. As long as he could successfully complete them, his control over his own lightning Soul Power would improve tremendously. After that, exploring Chidori would be much safer.

Four updates today.

First, because this was all transitional plot, and everyone would find it boring, so I wanted to finish it as soon as possible.

Second, because the contract was officially signed, and I'm very happy about it, so I updated two extra chapters.

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