Chapter 128: Yin Seal - Phase Three
Sakura had even thought of the experimental base.
It would be built in the Land of Snow. That place was secluded enough, suitable for her to hide her secrets there, without worrying about being discovered by the enemy.
Only the cloning technology was still without a clue. But that was okay. She was a medical ninja, and with the help of chakra, it wouldn't be too difficult to develop cloning technology from scratch and create clones.
However, at this time, Sakura was still treating this idea as a joke. She had thought that a technology like cloning did not exist in Naruto. If she really had to develop it herself, who knew what year or month that would be. At the very least, let her finish developing the two semi-finished products she had on hand first.
What she didn't know was that the Naruto world was full of black technology. In the Naruto sequel that Sakura hadn't seen, clones had already begun to appear. In fact, the mad scientist Orochimaru had already begun to study cloning technology...
However, cloning technology could not only be used on this modified Yin Seal, but could also be used for the high-level development of Sakura Rush—this jutsu, in its later stages, would probably not be enough with just ice clones. It would be necessary to experiment with a real body.
Therefore, cloning technology was something that Haruno Sakura was determined to obtain.
Her mind was filled with many ideas, many of which required a living person to experiment on.
Sooner or later, she would have to start researching cloning technology.
However, Sakura also had to admit that just using clones to increase the power of the Yin Seal was actually the lowest level of modification. After all, doing so didn't actually touch the core runes of the Yin Seal at all.
If it just ended like this, then that would be too much of an underestimation of her, Haruno Sakura.
Let's let the thoughts diverge a little more.
Why must it be storing chakra? A person's chakra is limited, after all. Even with multiple clones stacked, it wouldn't be too much. After all, the clones have not undergone training and are inherently weak, so the amount of chakra they can produce is very small.
So, is there a way to convert other energy into that crystal for storage, and then convert it back into chakra that a ninja can use when needed?
Theoretically, it is feasible.
The function of sealing jutsu is very powerful. It can seal most ninjutsu and energy into a scroll for preservation. It can even seal the pure-energy-state Amaterasu. Absorbing a little bit of external energy is naturally not a problem. Although Sakura had not yet studied sealing jutsu in depth, she was deeply convinced of this point.
As for how to convert external energy into a storable crystal, this was probably a difficult point, but it was not a fantasy. She would leave it to be solved in the future when she had studied sealing formulas in depth.
Let's call the Yin Seal that uses clone chakra the Phase Two Yin Seal. Then the Yin Seal that has been modified to this extent should be the Phase Three Yin Seal.
What energy can the Phase Three Yin Seal absorb—for example, the energy of lightning in nature?
The power of a single lightning strike is 1 billion watts, and the average energy is 5 billion joules. In Haruno Sakura's conception, she could try to use the Yin Seal to absorb and convert it, from electrical energy to chakra energy. The amount of chakra obtained this way would surely be extremely large. Not considering losses, one time would be about the energy of one Raikiri.
In a summer thunderstorm, there could be as many as ten thousand lightning strikes. If all of them were stored in the Yin Seal, the converted chakra would be enough for her to continuously bombard with various A-rank ninjutsu for several days.
However, this was not the limit.
The energy of a single lightning strike is only about 1400 kilowatt-hours. A large-capacity thermal power plant can generate more than ten million kilowatt-hours of electricity a day, which is more than ten thousand times the energy of a single lightning strike. That is to say, the energy that a power station can supply is equivalent to a thunderstorm coming steadily every day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year...
The electrical energy produced by a power plant is stable, long-lasting, and enormous in quantity. If Sakura could develop the Phase Three Yin Seal, it would be most suitable to use this kind of electrical energy.
Of course, these are all ideal situations that do not consider losses.
However, even if the loss was as high as ninety percent, that is, only ten percent of the energy was preserved, the energy that the Yin Seal could store would still be frighteningly large.
When Sakura was flipping through materials, she would from time to time see that many of the older generation greatly admired the figures of Hashirama Senju's generation, saying that the aftershocks of their battles were even more terrifying than the large-scale ninjutsu of today. Their battles would often permanently change the terrain of a region. For example, the Valley of the End where they had fought was originally called Departure Mountain...
She just didn't know, when her Yin Seal - Phase Three was developed, if she could also leave behind a legendary figure like the First Hokage.
Perhaps at that time, she could use the Reanimation Jutsu to summon the First and Uchiha Madara and have another match... to see whether her Ice Style and Water Style were more powerful, or Hashirama Senju's Wood Style or Uchiha Madara's Sharingan!
At that time, she should have completed:
Sakura Rush - Phase Three, Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals - Phase Three, and Yin Seal - Phase Three. These three "Phase Three" ninjutsu would respectively strengthen her reaction speed, battlefield movement speed, and endurance.
Water Style: Wind Blade Raging Stream—speaking of which, it was not wrong to call this jutsu Water Gun - Phase Three—was her main output skill.
Haruno Sakura-style nin-taijutsu—paired with Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals - Phase Three would be another Namikaze Minato who used the Monstrous Strength Technique.
And various large and small defensive and offensive water and ice jutsu, responsible for probing and completing various small tactics.
At that point, her taijutsu, ninjutsu, chakra amount, reaction speed, movement speed, as well as offensive and defensive capabilities would have all reached an extreme level that an ordinary ninja would find hard to imagine...
Of course, the Yin Seal was still not at its limit just like that...
However, all of this, before she learned sealing jutsu, any phase of the Yin Seal was just a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water.
So after the girl had fantasized for a good while, when the beautiful dream in her mind disappeared and she returned to the cruel reality, looking at the thousands of sheets of incomprehensible sealing formulas before her, she immediately felt—
Let's just let these fantasies stay in the dream stage for now.
Just looking at these formulas made her head ache. She really did not have the courage, after having chewed through the medical ninjutsu books that Tsunade had given her that could stack up to her chest, to go and chew through the professional books on sealing formulas that were not much shorter...
And she had too many things to be busy with recently.
Besides the work that Tsunade said she would be giving her soon, she also had to develop two ninjutsu, continue to learn medical knowledge, and she hadn't finished learning the Ice Style she had brought back from the Land of Snow. There was a huge pile of things to do, yet she couldn't open many shadow clones at once to speed up the ninjutsu research and development like Naruto...
The modified Ice Style: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, that is, its second phase, was already mostly figured out. There was not much work left. Sakura would definitely put her energy here first in the near future. Otherwise, leaving a ninjutsu with 99% development progress just sitting there without moving would be enough to drive a perfectionist crazy.
Then there was Phase Two of Sakura Rush, which had recently hit a bottleneck. She felt that she had done everything she should have, and there were no mistakes, but the result was not very ideal, just a little stronger than Phase One. In her expectation, Phase Two of Sakura Rush should have at least cut the reaction time required by Phase One in half.
She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought. In the end, she still submitted the problem to her master, Tsunade, to see what high-level insights she had, and where exactly Sakura had gone wrong.
In short, this jutsu probably wouldn't produce results for a while.
Before these two ninjutsu were completed, Sakura absolutely could not start a new project and invest a large amount of time and energy into it.
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