Bloodline Limit

The first thing Yichen did after successfully completing his Kekkei Genkai training was not to try out new abilities, but to sleep peacefully for a day and a night.

After the transformation, Yichen's body was in excellent condition, but Yichen spirit was on the verge of collapse after a month of torment.

A day later, Yichen woke up from his sleep. Although he had recovered, the psychological impact of the previous ordeal still lingered. So, although he had plenty of physical and mental strength, he appeared listless and dispirited.

However, Yichen was, after all, a Jonin, whose willpower was far beyond that of ordinary people. So, after a long period of rest, he finally emerged from the shadow of the past.

After strolling around the camp and appreciating the beauty of life, Yichen went to Kitsuchi's office to express his gratitude to Kitsuchi and Purple Lightning.

If the two hadn't tried their best to distract him during this month, Yichen couldn't imagine how he would have gotten through it.

Purple Lightning was direct; ignoring Yichen's thanks, he said, "Go try out your new ability."

Yichen smiled; he was also eager to know if the suffering he had endured over the past month had been in vain.

The three arrived at the Training Ground, whereupon a crowd of onlookers immediately gathered. Yichen had caused quite a stir recently, and everyone now knew about his development of his Kekkei Genkai.

Now they also want to know just how powerful Yichen's Kekkei Genkai really is.

After his complete transformation, Yichen was able to Chakra Control within his body at will.

With a thought, Yichen Hand Seals and used Porcelain Release on the Purple Lightning in front of him. Starting from Yichen's hands, a large amount of mud spread towards the Purple Lightning.

As was his habit, Purple Lightning drew his blade, slashing the approaching mud until it scattered in all directions.

But a miraculous scene unfolded: the scattered mud did not dissipate; instead, under Yichen's control, it approached Purple Lightning again from all directions.

Purple Lightning frowned, but still did not choose to dodge. Instead, he channeled his Chakra into his sword and slashed at the mud again and again.

This time it had some effect. The mud that was directly hit by the Purple Lightning immediately lost the enhancement of the Porcelain Release Chakra, turned into rocks, and then fell to the ground.

However, these out-of-control mudslides are only a negligible amount in the overall picture.

Because he was familiar with the ability, Yichen did not use his full strength to control the mud. Instead, he slowly gathered the scattered mud back together and waited for Purple Lightning to come up with a new solution.

Seeing that ordinary attacks were ineffective, Purple Lightning unleashed a barrage of Sword Qi in all directions.

The condensation of Purple Lightning's Sword Qi was so Yichen that it could penetrate the Sword Qi without any resistance.

However, the mud is now on the offensive, not on the defensive, and being breached does not affect the large-scale offensive.

So although some more mud was lost, Yichen managed to surround Purple Lightning with the remaining mud. The sparring session ended there.

In the first round of sparring, Yichen's mud gave him a significant advantage, which was normal. Yichen was a ranged ninjutsu user, and if a Taijutsu Ninja stood still, Yichen could easily defeat them even before he learned Porcelain Release.

In the second round, Purple Lightning used full-speed evasion to avoid the mud from the very beginning. Yichen also changed his tactics, no longer concentrating all the mud in one place, but scattering it in a larger surrounding area, and then controlling them to surround and intercept Purple Lightning.

Yichen was deeply impressed by this scene, as the Kazekage of Sunagakure in the original work fought in the same way. However, compared to the Kazekage, the scale of Yichen's mud was still much smaller.

However, Purple Lightning, as an opponent, was not Kage Level opponent either. When faced with such a ninjutsu that covered all angles and all directions, both the Body Flicker Technique and sword techniques seemed too powerless.

Finally, Purple Lightning's dodging range shrank, leaving him no choice but to admit defeat.

"Phew~~" Yichen let out a long breath. This kind of large-scale control was still too unfamiliar to him. Fortunately, the amount of Chakra Yichen after his transformation had also changed dramatically.

During the month-long transformation, Yichen's Chakra level increased by about seven or eight times, now reaching a terrifying 240A.

Yichen had previously asked a Kage Level Chakra they possessed, Ōnoki's answer was that even the Kage Level with the least Chakra had more than a thousand times the chakra of an average Jonin.

According to Yichen's conversion method, if the unit of Chakra quantity for Kage Level is S, then 1S should equal 1000A. Therefore, although Yichen's Chakra quantity has increased a lot, it is still far from reaching the quantity of Kage Level.

However, Yichen had a feeling that although this transformation was complete, his body was still growing at an alarming rate, and 240A was far from the end.

Besides the amount of Chakra, Yichen felt that this transformation had also significantly improved various aspects of his body, including strength, speed, agility, and reaction ability.

Even the speed of Hand Seals has increased: reaching 5.5-6.0 seals per second.

Other gains were plentiful as well, but I won't list them all.

There was only one thing that disappointed Yichen: he had originally thought that this transformation would allow him to Wind Release: Breakthrough to the Kage Level. However, after suffering so much, there was not a single sign of Wind Release: Breakthrough.

After careful analysis, Yichen understood. After all, Wind Release: Breakthrough to the Kage Level mainly depends on willpower and the transformation of mental strength. Mental strength drives changes in the body.

However, the development of Kekkei Genkai involves the body, with physical strength driving the enhancement of mental power.

In the former case, mental strength represents a qualitative change, while physical strength represents a quantitative change; in the latter case, physical strength represents a qualitative change, while mental strength represents a quantitative change.

Therefore, although this experience increased Yichen's mental strength considerably, it did not bring about any fundamental change.

However, Yichen was not a greedy person. Although he was disappointed, this feeling did not last long, and he quickly recovered.

Improving each ability requires adapting to it one by one. More importantly, the Porcelain Release is more useful than I imagined, which means I need to develop some targeted tactics.

It might even fundamentally change traditional combat habits.

In the original story, Yichen felt that Gaara's fighting style was too simplistic, but now Yichen doesn't think so. It's not that Gaara doesn't want to increase his fighting style; it's just that it's unnecessary. One trick is all you need.

In the past, when facing a close-combat Elite Jonin, I needed to use various ninjutsu in combination and constantly maintain the distance between us using the Body Flicker Technique. But now, I can corner my opponent without even moving a step.

After a while, who would still use the same fighting methods? That's the power of Kekkei Genkai.

After Yichen rested for a while, Kitsuchi Yichen had a match with him. However, this time Yichen did not have it as easy as when he dealt with Purple Lightning.

It's not that Kitsuchi is much stronger than Purple Lightning, but Kitsuchi also knows Area of Effect Ninjutsu. Yichen's Porcelain Release is stronger than Earth Release because of its versatility.

However, when Kitsuchi unleashed a wide-range ninjutsu, Yichen's mud was instantly covered by the opponent.

When faced with Kitsuchi, the Porcelain Release is completely useless.

Yichen's overall strength has now surpassed Kitsuchi's, but if the two were to clash using ninjutsu, Yichen would still be no match. Although Kitsuchi's Chakra reserves are unclear, they are certainly much greater than Yichen's after this surge.

There's no way around it; he's born with a deficiency. Although he tries his best to make up for it later, he can only narrow the gap with ordinary people. Compared to Kitsuchi, a ninja who also values Chakra and even relies on it more than Yichen's efforts in terms of Chakra are not as good as Huang Tu's.

Despite using a combination of water and earth attributes, Porcelain Release was suppressed by Kitsuchi Earth Release, leaving Yichen feeling somewhat frustrated. It seemed he couldn't blindly follow Gaara's fighting style.

The Kitsuchi also reminded Yichen that even with Porcelain Release, he couldn't neglect his main attribute Water Release.

Porcelain Release is the first step in Yichen's main questline, but it's not the end point.

After Porcelain Release, Yichen still needs to develop other Kekkei Genkai.

If it weren't for the fact that the battle with Purple Lightning revealed the merits of Porcelain Release technique, Yichen's research on it would have been sufficient at this point.

Having completed its first life evolution, Yichen was not content with that. Even if it wasn't in a hurry to start the next step, it could begin to work on the plans it had made.

The second step's goal is to Dual Bloodline Limit.

Not knowing how to develop the Yin Release, Yichen could only choose to fuse two of the Five-Attribute again.

The reason Yichen was able to master Porcelain Release so quickly was due to a crucial prerequisite: both Water Release and Earth Release were Yichen's primary attributes.

However, if Yichen were to develop a second bloodline limit, he would have to choose an attribute other than water and earth. But neither Fire Release nor Lightning Release is Yichen's forte, which means that Yichen's next transformation will be a long way off.

"Sigh... I'm just too greedy."

Which attribute should I choose?

Influenced by the original work, Yichen's love for Lightning Release surpasses that for Fire Release. Among the ninjas who used Lightning Release in the original work, Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke, and the Fourth Raikage all demonstrated the power of Lightning Release to the fullest extent.

But what about Fire Release? Fire Release was heavily criticized in the original work; the Great Fireball never even hit anyone.

Furthermore, Lightning Release has a strong support function, which is clearly demonstrated by Uchiha Sasuke in the third round of the Chunin Ninja Exams in the original work.

Fire Release has virtually no use other than attacking, and coincidentally, Yichen possesses A-rank attack ninjutsu and the Porcelain Release Kekkei Genkai.

Therefore, if fire and lightning are equal, Yichen will definitely choose lightning.

However, Yichen had no choice but to bow to reality.

After all, Yichen had learned at least a B-rank Fire Style Jutsu Fire Release technique a long time ago, but he had only barely learned a C-rank Lightning Release Lightning Conduction so far.

Although neither has high talent, Fire Release is still much better than Lightning Release.

Therefore, Yichen ultimately had to succumb to reality and reluctantly chose the Fire Release.

As for whether to combine Fire Release and Earth Release or Water Release, that will be decided later.