Useless Dark Chakra

Minamoto Takuya stood within the dim space of the Time-Space Hole, in no hurry to leave as he began analyzing this Zero-Tails technique.

Yet as his understanding deepened, a trace of undisguised disappointment crept onto his face.

The essence of this technique was fundamentally different from the blueprint he had initially hoped to obtain.

According to Shennong's explanation in the Original Work, Dark Chakra was born from negative emotions such as anger and hatred that grew within the human heart.

Its logic was that one only needed to induce intense dark emotions in the target as "soil," then plant the "seed" of the Zero-Tails within them. That would catalyze the intangible shadows of the mind into tangible dark energy.

It was precisely because of this description that Minamoto Takuya had held certain expectations before setting foot here.

He had imagined that this method might open a door to an inexhaustible source of Dark Chakra.

Even if he did not need it himself, the Little Ten-Tails would surely never turn away energy!

Any form of energy could be devoured and converted into nourishment for its growth.

Unfortunately, the technique in his hands was far from a shortcut to infinite energy.

It had a fundamental limitation that could not be overcome: it did not alter the core nature of chakra.

Namely, that it was the product of combining physical energy and spiritual energy.

So-called "Dark Chakra" merely forced intense negative emotions into that process as a catalyst and a "dye."

The inevitable result was that a person's theoretical upper limit of chakra was also the limit of how much Dark Chakra they could produce.

The technique itself could not create energy beyond an individual's limits out of thin air.

No matter how dark or surging one's emotions were, the amount of Dark