Inside the temporary command tent, Yotsuki Sora sat cross-legged, carefully sensing the chakra within him.
His chakra reserves were immense, but his body was even more exceptional. Unlike a Jinchuriki, he had no trouble controlling all that chakra.
The chakra within him was his own. He could circulate and use it whenever he wished!
But being able to draw on it did not mean he could release it all at once.
It was like opening a floodgate.
You might have an entire reservoir of water, but with only one outlet, you could never release it all at once, no matter how hard you tried.
That was why various forms of Nintaijutsu had emerged.
Nintaijutsu used chakra in advance to strengthen the body.
Lightning Armor worked on that principle.
It used Lightning Release Chakra to stimulate the muscles and vastly increase physical strength. At its core, though, it was still a way of releasing chakra.
The Eight Gates Formation was different!
"So that's how it works..."
The chakra around Yotsuki Sora roiled like boiling water.
His clash with Might Duy had given him a grasp of the technique's principles and intricacies, even though he had only just encountered it.
Unlike the external stimulation of Lightning Release Nintaijutsu, the Eight Gates Formation released the body's limitations from within.
It was like opening another floodgate in the vast reservoir that was the human body.
Each gate opened made chakra flow more violently, allowing even more of it to pour out.
"The eight critical points in the chakra pathway system..."
Sora traced a diagram of the body's pathways in the air with his finger.
His training in Lightning Release Nintaijutsu had made him intimately familiar with the paths chakra took through his body.
"First Gate: Opening."
"Remove the brain's restraints and release one hundred