The Girl Being Bullied

"So strong!"

Yu Tianlin stared in shock at the cluster of blue lightning on his dragon claw.

From what he could feel, the powerful current gathered on his dragon claw was twice as intense as Chidori. In other words, it could provide him with a 200% attack power boost!

To sum it up:

When Yu Tianlin used Chidori alone, his attack power increased by 100%. When he used only Dragon Transformation, his attack power likewise increased by 100%. When Chidori and Dragon Transformation were stacked together, his attack power could increase by 200%. And here was the important part: now, after Yu Tianlin created this strengthened version of Chidori and stacked it with Dragon Transformation, his attack power could rise by an astonishing 300%!

And that was not all. Yu Tianlin could also stack his Second Soul Skill, Thunderbolt Dragon Claw, on top of it, adding another 100% attack power!

There was also speed to consider. As the current in his dragon claw strengthened, the current radiating through his right arm to his whole body increased as well. Originally, under Chidori's state, the activity of Yu Tianlin's muscles had already been boosted to a certain extent, increasing his speed by 50%. Now that the current had doubled, his body's muscle activity had risen dramatically under the stimulation of such a powerful electric current. From what he could feel, his speed boost should have reached 100% as well!

"Everything about it is twice as strong as Chidori, so I'll call it Lightning Cutter." Looking at his dragon claw, Yu Tianlin muttered to himself, "Unfortunately, this Lightning Cutter can only be used after Dragon Transformation. Otherwise, my body in its normal state can't withstand it."

"And then there's the Soul Power consumption. It's way too fast!"

Yu Tianlin could feel that while he maintained the state of Dragon Transformation plus Lightning Cutter, his Soul Power was draining at a terrifying speed. At most, he could only keep it up for three minutes!

It really was the same time limit as Ultraman—three minutes of being a real man, huh.

Not only that, if he continued stacking Thunderbolt Dragon Claw on top of it, that three-minute duration would shrink even further!

Of course, Yu Tianlin definitely would not keep holding up Lightning Cutter and chat with his opponent the whole time, so the duration did not matter much. What mattered was how many times he could actually use it. With his current Soul Power, he should be able to unleash it twice.

"Whew!"

Yu Tianlin let out a long breath, dispersed the Lightning Cutter in his hand, and simultaneously exited the Dragon Transformation state. The feeling of his Soul Power draining like a sluice gate had been opened instantly disappeared.

"Dragon Transformation plus Lightning Cutter plus Thunderbolt Dragon Claw can raise my attack power by 400%. This is my strongest strike right now."

Thinking this, Yu Tianlin could not help shaking his head.

Although this move was extremely powerful, it consumed too much. He basically could not use it normally, so he might as well keep it as a trump card.

As for now, he would meditate and cultivate to recover his Soul Power.

The night passed quickly. The next day, after the academy held a farewell party for the other Four Elements Academy groups, it sent people to carry out a major cleanup and tidy away the five arenas on the training ground, so the students did not have to attend class.

Having gained another day off, Yu Tianlin decided to go to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to visit his big brother and his friends. After all, they had gone nearly a month without seeing each other, so they had surely grown somewhat distant. It was a good chance to reconnect.

The others did not really matter. The key was still Dugu Yan.

Over the past half month or so, whenever he had free time, Yu Tianlin had also been thinking about Dugu Yan's problem.

As far as he knew, the reason Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan had been corroded by poison was that both of them had Beast Martial Souls and cultivated poison arts, so the toxins had completely fused with their bodies.

The solution sounded simple enough: find a soul bone, then force all the toxins in the body into that soul bone.

But it was easy to say and hard to do. How exactly was forcing out the poison supposed to work? If he messed around without figuring out the method first, one mistake might trigger an even stronger backlash.

Yu Tianlin only vaguely remembered that Tang San seemed to have prepared medicine to assist with forcing out the poison, which was why he succeeded in the end. But as for what medicine it was or how it should be prepared, Yu Tianlin knew nothing at all.

As for asking Dugu Bo? Forget it. He definitely would not know either.

Still, there was no rush. There was still plenty of time.

The reason Yu Tianlin was so conflicted was that he wanted the best of both worlds. After all, his big brother liked Dugu Yan, so Yu Tianlin still wanted to cure her, and then use that opportunity to get his hands on the immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

If Yu Tianlin was really pushed into a corner, he had plenty of ways to solve it.

Thinking as he traveled, before he knew it, Yu Tianlin had arrived at the foot of the mountain below Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

This time was all right. On the way up the mountain, he did not run into any self-important spoiled young masters.

After arriving at the main campus halfway up the mountain, Yu Tianlin went straight to Tian Zhi Building to look for his big brother. However...

"What? You're saying Yu Tianheng isn't here?"

Yu Tianlin had not found his big brother in the classroom, so he had no choice but to ask someone else. In the end, the answer he got was actually the same.

He looked around the classroom of Tian Zhi Class One again and discovered that Dugu Yan and the Shi Family Brothers were not there either. Yu Tianlin could not help frowning as he asked, "Where did they go?"

"How would I know!"

However, perhaps because the person he asked had been in class all morning, he was rather irritable. Now that class had finally ended and he wanted to hurry off and play, his attitude seemed somewhat impatient.

Fine. Yu Tianlin knew that his big brother usually did not have much interaction with these people, so it was understandable that they did not know where his big brother had gone.

He would go take a look at the Heavenly Minor level. Yu Feng, Osler, and Ye Lingling were all in Heavenly Minor Class One. They should know.

However, when Yu Tianlin arrived at the Tian Wei Building, what he saw made him frown.

He saw three male students in goose-yellow school uniforms surrounding a corner of the wall, and the person trapped by them seemed to be a girl.

Through the gaps between the three of them, Yu Tianlin could faintly see that the surrounded person seemed to be wearing black clothes.

A girl? Black clothes?

Yu Tianlin's heart stirred, and he seemed to understand something. He walked toward them.

Once Yu Tianlin drew closer, he could hear the voices of the three male students speaking.

The male student in the middle had a head of fiery red hair. At that moment, he was giving a wicked smile as he said, "Heh heh, little sister, why are you wearing a black veil in broad daylight? Could it be that you've done something shameful?"

The two beside him were clearly his lackeys. At this moment, one of them said with feigned seriousness, "That should be it. This Ye Lingling wears a veil every day. It can't be because she's ugly, right?"

That was right. The girl being surrounded was Ye Lingling.

Another lackey chimed in, "No matter what, we'll know once we lift it and take a look."

"Mm, makes sense," the young man in the middle said, putting on a serious air. "Heaven Dou Royal Academy is under my uncle's direct jurisdiction, so naturally, I also have a responsibility to help him maintain the academy's discipline. A student who hides her face like this definitely has a problem. Let me expose her true face."

As he spoke, the young man reached toward Ye Lingling, intending to lift her veil.

Because the overall strength of his right arm had doubled after Dragon Transformation, the current it could withstand had also doubled. As a result, Lightning Cutter was twice as powerful as Chidori, specifically shown as a 200% increase in attack power and a 100% increase in speed.

This was definitely different from Naruto, but the name Lightning Cutter was something the protagonist had casually chosen simply because it was stronger than Chidori, so there was no need to dwell on it.