Overdrawing Chakra

What should I do? What exactly should I do now?

Xuan Ye had no idea what to do. His chakra had already been completely depleted, yet the final acupoint, the Yangbai Acupoint, was still one-fifth away from being opened. If he gave up now, he would gain nothing.

Even the eight acupoints he had just opened would be sealed again one by one. But there was no chakra left in his body. What was he supposed to do? Xuan Ye lowered his head and thought for a while before suddenly raising it.

His expression was exceedingly resolute. Xuan Ye's eyes told everyone that he would not give up.

Since I have no chakra, it seems I can only use that method. There was no other way left; only that one method remained—overdrawing chakra.

Unless it was the very last resort, Xuan Ye truly did not want to use this method. But since there was really no other way, he could only resort to it.

However, if he used this method, he could not faint midway through overdrawing chakra. If he fainted during the process, his body would continue following the command it had received before he lost consciousness—that was, it would continue overdrawing chakra.

The consequences of continuously overdrawing chakra would be terrifying. The lighter consequence would be never being able to use chakra again. But even that was considered fortunate. There was another possibility: death. Permanent death.

Because the body would constantly be overdrawing chakra, the meridians throughout the body would gradually rupture under the strain. The body's cells would also slowly die from the excessive chakra overdraft. Therefore, if he fainted midway through overdrawing chakra, at best his meridians would rupture and he would never be able to use chakra again; at worst, a large number of his cells would die, and he would sleep forever—in other words, die.

Xuan Ye understood those two consequences very clearly. If he could avoid using this method, he would do his best not to use it. But now there was no choice. Not a trace of chakra remained in his body, while the Yangbai Acupoint, the last of the nine major acupoints, was still one-fifth unopened.

Therefore, if he wanted to open this powerful ninjutsu, he had to use this method.

Of course, he could choose to give up on opening this ninjutsu. But if he gave up, the eight acupoints he had opened before would have been opened for nothing, and everything he had done would be rendered meaningless. Besides, he was not the type to give up halfway.

Moreover, Xuan Ye felt that if he gave up now, opening this ninjutsu in the future would be far more difficult than it was this time. His chakra was still scarce now, and the nine major acupoints near his eyes had not yet undergone much chakra tempering.

Thus, opening this ninjutsu was not yet too difficult. But once his chakra grew more abundant, and the nine major acupoints near his eyes underwent countless rounds of chakra tempering, they would develop resistance to chakra. By then, the difficulty of opening this ninjutsu would increase drastically.

Coupled with Xuan Ye's personality, he did not want to give up. He wanted to take a gamble. How could he become stronger without facing risks? Strength and danger corresponded to one another. To gain great strength, one had to face great danger.

There was no such thing in this world as obtaining immense power without paying anything in return. Such a thing did not exist, and it never would.

Xuan Ye struggled countless times in his heart, repeatedly asking himself what kind of decision he should make. Yet every step of that process only made him more certain: he wanted great strength.

Xuan Ye wanted to gain tremendous strength, and gaining great strength required sacrifice. To gain great strength, he had to face tremendous danger. At this moment, his decision was certain. He would gamble.

Xuan Ye wanted to see whether he could succeed. He wanted power so intoxicating that he was willing to face such enormous danger.

After silently making his decision, Xuan Ye immediately began opening the last of the nine major acupoints, the Yangbai Acupoint. At this moment, one-fifth of the Yangbai Acupoint remained unopened.

However, he absolutely could not underestimate this final one-fifth. Although Xuan Ye had already successfully opened eight major acupoints, along with four-fifths of the Yangbai Acupoint, this final one-fifth had to be opened using overdrafted chakra.

Therefore, even this final one-fifth—this inconspicuous, tiny one-fifth—was an extremely difficult hurdle to cross. Yet as long as he crossed this hurdle that blocked his path—

Xuan Ye's strength would definitely improve enormously. This ninjutsu was called the Divine Eye. Just from its name alone, one could tell how powerful it was. Furthermore, this ninjutsu had been gifted by the system, making it even more reliable.

Wasn't there a saying? It was also this system's catchphrase: this system's products were always premium goods. Thus, Xuan Ye was not worried about this ninjutsu's power at all. All he needed to do now was overdraw chakra and use the chakra he overdrafted to open the final one-fifth of the Yangbai Acupoint, the last of the nine major acupoints.

As long as Xuan Ye successfully opened this final one-fifth, he could look forward to experiencing his strength grow explosively. That feeling seemed rather nice. He was already starting to feel fired up.

Xuan Ye calmed his mind and mobilized all of his mental energy, using every bit of it to frantically overdraw chakra—overdrawing chakra that had already been exhausted.

The mental energy Xuan Ye mobilized quickly reached the location of the Yangbai Acupoint. That mental energy frantically followed his commands, ordering the cells to extract chakra. But at this moment, it could no longer be called extracting chakra; it was called overdrawing chakra.

Although those cells had already had a great deal of chakra extracted from them, Xuan Ye still used his mental energy to overdraw the chakra hidden deep within the cells.

Strand by strand, chakra was slowly overdrafted. Though the extracted chakra was not much, as long as there was chakra, Xuan Ye guided it toward the Yangbai Acupoint, the last of the nine major acupoints, to open this final acupoint that bound him.

Slowly, strand after strand of chakra was poured into the Yangbai Acupoint. The final one-fifth that bound him finally loosened slightly. Xuan Ye immediately increased the speed at which he transported chakra, frantically mobilizing it to open the Yangbai Acupoint.