"Is this... Yin-Yang Release?"
Slowly lowering his head, Chiba gradually opened his closed eyes and looked at the hands he had raised, palms up. A few traces of uncontrollable astonishment appeared on his face.
This was truly...
Too incredible!
Yin-Yang Release, Yin Release Chakra, and Yang Release Chakra—even though this was merely a simulation within a mental space, he could still fully sense their wonder.
They were completely different from the five conventional Nature Transformations of wind, earth, water, fire, and lightning. Though he had previously believed they were Chakra applications similar to Nature Transformation, they were different—entirely different.
This was something on a higher level, the complete development of the miraculous power known as Chakra, the purest application involving physical energy and spiritual energy.
If the five conventional Nature Transformations were the outward development of Chakra after spiritual energy and physical energy fused, then Yin-Yang Release was the inward development after spiritual energy and physical energy fused. It brought forth the true power of the spiritual or physical energy within Chakra, thereby producing even more miraculous changes.
Though it was still Chakra, still a perfect blend of physical energy and spiritual energy, it drew out only the characteristics of spiritual energy or only the characteristics of physical energy.
The one that solely brought out the characteristics of spiritual energy was Yin Release, which could create form from the formless. The one that solely brought out the characteristics of physical energy was Yang Release, which could greatly increase the activity or density of physical energy—or, at a deeper level, could grant life.
And Yin-Yang Release could do more than that. Through the use of Yin Release Chakra and Yang Release Chakra, it could also evolve all kinds of ninjutsu just like the other five conventional Nature Transformations.
There were such