Adamantine Sealing Technique Form Development

"Hmm...?"

"What did Danzo do to my cellular Chakra?"

In Lab Two, inside the glass chamber, Li Yao sensed that the portion of Chakra Danzo had separated from him was being devoured.

A vast mass of Chakra brimming with powerful vitality was devouring his portion of Chakra. His Chakra could not resist at all and was soon completely consumed.

Li Yao's consciousness, fused into that Chakra, quickly dissipated once it no longer had Chakra to sustain it.

That Chakra's devouring power was far too strong!

If the Eight Trigrams Seal absorbing his Chakra was like using a spoon to scrape away at a mound of dirt, then that immense Chakra was like a massive excavator digging frantically.

Against that overwhelming devouring power, Li Yao's Chakra had no ability to resist whatsoever.

"What should I do?"

Li Yao pondered.

If that Chakra appeared within his body, he would be drained of Chakra and die. Even if he did not die, without Chakra, he would never escape this place.

"Just a little more. Just a little more."

Within Li Yao's Chakra Acupoints, he was fusing the attributes of Acupoint Chakra and Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra while constructing the chain-shaped transformation of Chakra.

Half a year ago, after exhausting every possible way to turn the Chakra in his body into strength, Li Yao had finally come up with an idea.

The most formidable thing he possessed now was Sealing Technique Chakra.

Both Acupoint Chakra and Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra possessed powerful sealing abilities capable of restraining and binding Chakra.

He wanted to make this sealing ability simpler to use while giving it powerful destructive force.

Generally speaking, Sealing Techniques required the user to first immobilize the enemy before applying a Sealing Jutsu Formula to them.

The process of laying down the Sealing Jutsu Formula's patterns could not be interrupted. If the target struggled violently and caused deviations in the patterns, the Sealing Technique would fail or become unstable.

That was why Sealing Techniques were generally not used as a conventional combat option.

However, one ninja clan had overcome the drawback of needing to immobilize an enemy before using a Sealing Technique.

That was the Uzumaki Clan. Their Sealing Techniques had been developed to the point where they could be used as conventional weapons.

The most renowned among them was the Adamantine Sealing Technique.

It condensed Sealing Technique Chakra into chains of almost solid Chakra through Chakra shape transformation. While allowing the Sealing Technique to shift between tangible and intangible states, it ignored whether the enemy was immobilized or not. As long as the chains pierced the enemy's body or bound them, they could seal the enemy's Chakra.

The Adamantine Sealing Technique was a Sealing Chain formed from Adamantine Sealing Technique Chakra through the ultimate Chakra shape transformation.

It possessed such powerful sealing effects that even the fully transformed Nine-Tails, once sealed inside Kushina, would be firmly immobilized and unable to move.

Unlike the Eight Trigrams Seal Minato used later, which could not completely suppress the Nine-Tails with Sealing Technique Chakra and could only reinforce the seal's gate as much as possible, leaving the Nine-Tails a tiny cell.

This showed that the Adamantine Sealing Technique was already an incredibly powerful technique, one especially suited to Li Yao's current circumstances.

So Li Yao wanted to condense the Sealing Technique Chakra he had learned into adamantine chains as well.

And his ambitions went far beyond that.

He wanted to fuse the powerful binding attribute of Acupoint Chakra with the restraining nature of Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra, creating a new Sealing Technique Chakra with an overwhelming ability to restrain and bind Chakra.

Then, he would use this new Sealing Technique Chakra to condense the form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique.

Li Yao believed that the Adamantine Sealing Technique condensed from this new Sealing Technique Chakra would instantly restrain an enemy's Chakra flow.

Since then, Li Yao had been working on fusing the attributes of Acupoint Chakra and Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra, as well as developing the Chakra form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique.

Whether it was fusing the attributes of Acupoint Chakra and Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra or developing the Chakra form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique, neither was much different from creating a new ninjutsu for Li Yao.

Fortunately, his Chakra sensory ability was truly absurd.

He extracted the similar and overlapping parts of the nature transformations of Acupoint Chakra and Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra, breaking them down and conducting fusion experiments, experimenting over and over before constantly comparing the results.

Now, half a year later, Li Yao was only a step away from fusing a new Sealing Technique Chakra where one plus one was greater than two.

At the same time, the Chakra form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique was only a step away from reaching its most stable state.

The Chakra form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique appeared to be merely a chain formed by linking together "U"-shaped sealing loops, but its internal shape transformation should have been far more complex.

It was like the Rasengan. It appeared to be nothing more than a ball of rapidly compressed, rotating Chakra, but its overall rotation and compression followed a pattern, all compressing and rotating inward.

If it were irregular, the Chakra's rotation would be unstable, making it impossible to form a Rasengan.

This could be seen from the second stage of Rasengan training.

If one could not steadily and continuously output Chakra to maintain a stable rotational compression state, the water-filled balloon would burst from even the slightest fluctuation.

The Adamantine Sealing Technique was the same. Simply condensing the shape of a chain was easy; Li Yao could do it casually.

But such a Chakra chain was fragile and would shatter at the slightest impact. It could not possibly bind a Chakra monster like the Nine-Tails.

After all, aside from its vast Chakra reserves, the Nine-Tails possessed terrifying physical strength, enough to gouge a trench five or six meters deep into solid rocky ground in an instant.

If the Adamantine Sealing Technique was not sturdy enough, it could not bind a Nine-Tails like that at all.

So merely condensing the form of the Adamantine Sealing Technique was not enough. The crucial point was constructing an internal structural form that would make it exceptionally sturdy.

At this step, Li Yao had no genuine Adamantine Sealing Technique Chakra to sense and observe, so he could only rely on his own imagination to develop it.

What material was the strongest?

Most people would think of steel and diamonds.

But when it came to what kind of chain was strongest, hardest to snap, and best able to withstand tensile force—

What instantly came to Li Yao's mind were the various modern steel cable bridges spanning the great mountains and rivers of modern Guizhou.

Those steel cable structures that suspended loads of thousands or even tens of thousands of tons were undoubtedly the best demonstration of a chain's strength.

Li Yao's "Adamantine Sealing Technique" was developed and studied by imitating the structure of steel cables.

The most basic component of a high-strength steel cable was steel wire. The strength of the steel wire itself determined the lower limit of the cable's strength.

Multiple high-strength steel wires were spirally twisted together with specialized tools to form a steel cable.

Then, multiple steel cables of that strength were spirally twisted together to form a thicker steel cable.

After two layers of spiral twisting, the cable's toughness and tensile strength were greatly enhanced.

If necessary, thicker steel cables could continue to be spirally twisted together into even larger cables, increasing their strength further.

But this kind of stacking was not a fundamental improvement, merely an increase in quantity.

The key was still the steel wire itself.

For Li Yao, that meant the Chakra threads themselves. How to increase the strength of those Chakra threads was the real key.

After a long period of calculation, development, and research, Li Yao concluded that he could use the powerful binding ability of Acupoint Chakra on ordinary Chakra to restrain, compress, and gather ten thousand rapidly flowing ordinary Chakra threads together, forming a basic Chakra thread resembling a steel cable.

Then, using that Chakra thread as the basic unit, he would spirally twist ten thousand such Chakra threads together into a thicker Chakra steel cable. He would then wrap the Chakra steel cable in new Sealing Technique Chakra that fused the powerful binding of Acupoint Chakra with the powerful restraint of Eight Trigrams Seal Chakra, further enhancing the cable's toughness and strength.

Finally, he would connect the ends of this new Sealing Technique Chakra steel cable to form the "U"-shaped loops of a chain.

Then, he would link these loops together, one within another, to form the final new Sealing Technique Chakra steel cable chain—a new Adamantine Sealing Technique developed by Li Yao himself.

The hardest part, and also the very first step, was this.

Using Acupoint Chakra to restrain ten thousand rapidly flowing ordinary Chakra threads, compressing them as much as possible into one stable Chakra thread.

Accomplishing that was extremely difficult.

Li Yao needed to control ten thousand Chakra threads as they flowed at rotational speeds even faster than the Rasengan, while also outputting Acupoint Chakra at high intensity and using its powerful binding ability to compress those ten thousand rapidly flowing Chakra threads toward the center as much as possible.

Only when the ten thousand rapidly flowing Chakra threads were bound, compressed, and gathered by Acupoint Chakra into a stable Chakra thread could it be considered a success.

The difficulty did not lie in Chakra control.

It lay in the mental strain. Maintaining such precise Chakra control consumed far too much mental energy.

Even with Li Yao's current special state of Chakra-soul fusion and his control over Chakra, he could only approach a stable state. Given his current mental condition, he could not break through that final step anytime soon.

However... would Danzo give Li Yao the time?