The water in front of his fist had already begun to vibrate violently. The distance to the bright water surface above was only a fleeting moment away.
But when he was less than half a foot from the surface, when the splashing water had already reached the tip of his nose, Shinichi suddenly withdrew his strength.
The tightly tensed muscles throughout his body instantly relaxed, and the sharp momentum that had been tearing through the water vanished without a trace. He allowed the rushing current to wrap around his body as he slowly sank downward like a falling leaf.
The sand and silt at the bottom of the pool had not yet settled after being stirred by the earlier shockwave of his step.
When he returned to the original spot, his foot lightly tapped against the ground to stabilize his body. His eyes slowly opened, reflecting the flowing water light above as he silently reviewed the incomplete punch from moments ago.
He is developing a new Nintaijutsu technique.
Previously, he had created the flame shuriken, Dark Sweep, by reducing the rotation and extreme compression of the Great Flame Rasengan.
He also combined the Chakra Enhanced Strength techniques taught by Tsunade to create his own flame fist, Wild Bite.
Now, he was thinking about how to surround himself with flames, which reminded him of the ultimate Taijutsu technique taught by Master Chen, the Leaf Dragon God.
This technique requires the user's body to rotate rapidly in a spiral, forming a tornado-like azure dragon shape.
The attack trajectory, spiraling upwards and combined with the surrounding wind blades, creates astonishing power.
However, the drawbacks are also obvious. It requires hundreds of rotations to build up momentum, and the lead time is too long. The center of the storm formed by the high-speed rotation is itself a huge flaw.
Ever since he learned this move, he has been pondering a question.
"Could I spin my body a few fewer times?"
"Even just one lap?"
However, the powerful force of the Leaf Dragon God comes precisely from the inertial kinetic energy accumulated from hundreds of rotations in an instant.
After much deliberation, Shinichi finally focused on increasing the chakra output, combining the unique technique of compression, convergence, and the instant burst of Chakra Enhanced Strength with the rotating form of Leaf Dragon God and the unique chakra spiral state of Rasengan.
"Inertia… my thinking is correct! Since the body's hundred rotations must be discarded, then I'll let chakra rotate in place of the body, rotating in the form of a Rasengan!"
The moment the thought settled, Shinichi's previously vague idea suddenly became clear in three steps.
Step 1: Getting started!
His body tensed up again, and his chakra surged towards his feet like a tide. Using the Chakra Enhanced Strength techniques taught by Tsunade, he forcibly compressed and condensed it into a solid ball of blue light.
Bang!
The mud and sand surged upwards again, and his body was violently propelled upwards by this sudden burst of force, with a speed even faster than before when the force was not withdrawn!
This step perfectly replaces the initial acceleration required for rotation with a compressed burst of chakra.
Step 2: Gathering Strength!
As he rose to the middle of the pool, he suddenly exerted force in his waist and abdomen, performing a precise half-circle twist. His muscles bulged slightly under the momentum of his Chakra Enhanced Strength technique, and the chakra surging in his chakra network poured into his right fist like rivers flowing into the sea, causing a warm blue light to emanate from his fist.
This half-circle twist has no extra movements; it is purely to allow the force to form a twisting inertia, but it concentrates the force into a single point more directly and rapidly than a hundred-circle rotation.
Step 3: Shaping!
Almost simultaneously with the gathering of strength in his fist, his released chakra began to swirl around his body, enveloped in the surrounding water. Without the high-speed rotation of his body, this chakra, through its compressed and explosive force, forcefully created a beautiful spiral of airflow along the direction of his fist.
Although not as magnificent as the original tornado, it was more refined and sharper.
The water was churned into fine blades, drawing silvery trails around him.
This was a rotation of chakra replacing the rotation of his body, perfectly replicating the unique wind blade cutting power of the Leaf Dragon God.
Whoosh!
The next second, he burst out of the water like a black lightning bolt, splashing water everywhere, and landed steadily on the rocks on the shore.
Water dripped from his clothes and hair, forming a small puddle on the ground, but Shinichi was completely unaware. He still had his right fist hanging down, his eyes slightly closed, repeatedly replaying every inch of the trajectory of his punch in his mind.
It doesn't rely on hundreds of overlapping rotations; a half-turn twist acts as the fuse, replacing rotational inertia with a burst of incredible force…
"Using one rotation to replace a hundred rotations, using one form to replace a hundred forms…"
He slowly opened his eyes and murmured softly. "When it's fully developed, perhaps it could be called Hundred Forms…"
The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he stopped himself from speaking.
"For now, I'll temporarily call it Rising Dragon."
Compared to the authentic Leaf Dragon God, the Rising Dragon's charging time is more than ten times shorter, making it almost instantaneous in battle, and completely eliminating the fatal flaw of the eye of the storm.
Of course, the flaws are also obvious: the chakra consumption is about the same as the original, but the power is much weaker than the genuine Leaf Dragon God.
However, these are minor issues.
First, he no longer cared much about chakra consumption. His own foundation, combined with the enhancement from various talents, along with the powerful recovery of Endless Vitality and the efficient absorption of food energy from Gourmet, were enough to support such expenditure.
Second, this technique had not yet been fully developed. The current Rising Dragon was merely an incomplete form that laid the foundation. It relied purely on combining the Leaf Dragon God with the Chakra Enhanced Strength technique to form a humanoid Rasengan-like attack. There remained enormous room for improvement, and its ultimate power could not yet be estimated.
Moreover, in his plan, modifying the Leaf Dragon God was only the first step. The next step was to integrate the change in the chakra nature.
At that time, Rising Dragon will be completely transformed. The fist would not only generate condensed wind blades but also blazing flames entwined within the spiraling airflow.
Wind would fuel the flames, flames would borrow the might of the wind, instantly forming a fiery tornado capable of burning everything to ashes.
This would no longer be a simple Taijutsu, but true Nintaijutsu.
His third Nintaijutsu technique.
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