Chapter 178: The Heretical Path of Lightning Style
However, before Haruno Sakura could praise him, this guy started to praise himself.
"In that case, at close-to-mid range, I'm pretty much an invincible existence... hehe!"
As he said this, Sasuke couldn't help but reveal a smile tinged with a bit of smugness.
This little look of self-satisfaction ruined his usual straight-faced, feigned seriousness.
This guy... could it be that this is what he's like when he's alone?
It feels like his character design has collapsed!
Sakura didn't have the heart to remind Sasuke that he was still far from the realm he was fantasizing about. At the very least, a ninjutsu of that design would require him to be constantly casting and releasing Raikiri and Chidori. The amount of chakra required would have to be more than a hundred times what he had now!
However, after thinking about it carefully, Haruno Sakura actually found that apart from the terrifyingly large chakra consumption, there was a real possibility of realizing these concepts of Sasuke's.
For example, the conceptual ninjutsu of the "Chidori Battle-Suit" had a certain similarity to the Raikage's inherited "Lightning Chakra Mode," the Lightning Armor.
However, a ninjutsu like the Chidori Battle-Suit was clearly influenced by her. Its construction was exceptionally exquisite and complex, in order to concentrate its power as much as possible on the chakra cloak. On the other hand, the Third Raikage's "Lightning Armor" was more about using his abundant lightning chakra to enhance his tyrannical flesh and activate his cells. His abundant chakra could even make his whole body erupt with lightning, thereby obtaining terrifying strength, speed, and defense.
Sakura's personal feeling was, naturally, that she was more inclined towards Sasuke taking this Lightning Style path of the Chidori Battle-Suit.
After all, the technical-flow route was more to her taste.
It was also more suited to Sasuke's style. After all, although his chakra amount was not small, it was still a far cry from the Raikage's inhuman, even Tailed-Beast-level chakra amount. If he couldn't even bear the consumption of the Chidori Battle-Suit, then he shouldn't even think about taking the path of the Lightning Mode.
Besides, speaking of which, the Raikage's image wasn't very suitable for Sasuke, was it...
Just imagine, if Sasuke learned the Raikage's methods, trained his muscles until they were bulging like small mountains, veins popping, his whole body more exaggerated than a bodybuilder, looking like a demonic muscle-man... and then paired that with his delicate little face...
Wow. The picture is too beautiful, I can't look!
She immediately patted Sasuke's shoulder vigorously and said with a reassuring smile, "It's a good idea. Just develop in this direction!"
"Whatever you do, don't learn the Raikage's 'Lightning Armor'! That kind of lightning chakra mode is a heretical path that leads to madness!"
Sasuke was completely baffled.
"Raikage"? "Lightning Armor"? "Heretical path"? How were these words connected?
"Alright, Sakura, stop joking," he said. Being interrupted by her, Sasuke also came back to his senses from his divine reverie. "Those were just general directions. It's hard to say how far I can go. After all, Kakashi-sensei has been developing the Chidori and Raikiri for so long, and I haven't seen any further progress from him!"
"Sensei is just plain lazy..." the pink-haired girl mercilessly complained about Kakashi 50/50. She really rarely saw Kakashi take the initiative to train. "All he does every day is walk around with a little yellow book, finding all sorts of excuses to be late. When he trains with us, he's also half-hearted. I suspect he doesn't train at all!"
Haruno Sakura didn't know that she had spoken the truth.
In fact, in the thirteen or so years from the Nine-Tails incident until now, Kakashi had been immersed in the pain of the past. Having also lost the supervision of his teacher, the Fourth, he had not undergone any decent training. Apart from the natural increase in his chakra amount, his strength had seen almost no improvement.
So much so that after more than ten years, he didn't even know that his Sharingan could awaken to the Mangekyo state!
The extent of this person's laziness was clear.
"That's true... but he has been much more diligent recently." As Kakashi's disciple, Sasuke subconsciously defended him.
But Sasuke wasn't talking nonsense. Kakashi had indeed started to become more diligent recently.
Speaking of which, this matter was rather amusing. Sakura couldn't help but purse her lips and chuckle. "With you around, how can he not be diligent? If he doesn't train again, he's going to be surpassed by you!"
That fellow Kakashi, he still had some sense of honor as a teacher. His Lightning Style had almost been completely learned by Sasuke, and his progress on the Raikiri Raging Stream was being closely followed by Sasuke. He had only managed to cultivate it a week or two faster than Sasuke. If he didn't work hard, he would be completely surpassed by Sasuke and become the laughingstock of the elite Jonin world.
"Hmph, when this Chidori-style ninjutsu is successfully developed, I will have already surpassed him in Lightning Style!" Sasuke said, the corner of his mouth curling into a tsundere arc. "So if you have any secrets to shape transformation, just tell me. I'm very curious about your Ice Style ninjutsu research!"
Haruno Sakura was suddenly in a difficult position.
It wasn't that she was being precious... the techniques and secrets that she could tell Sasuke and Naruto, she had never hidden from them. It was just—
"What is there to say about the shape transformation of Ice Style! Its shape transformation uses ice as a medium, which is already a condensed form. It's much simpler than shaping your lightning chakra... Don't just look at how I've developed a lot of new ice jutsu recently. In fact, most of them are just slight modifications on the original foundation, and they basically don't involve much in the way of shape transformation techniques."
She said, spreading her hands.
Finally, she added another sentence, "If there really were any useful techniques, I would have told you even if you hadn't asked."
That was true. Sasuke thought of the training she had mentioned about using daily chores to practice chakra. This kind of training had already become a small habit in his life.
"Uh..." Hearing this, Sasuke scratched his head. He had thought he could get some true insights from Sakura. Now he was a little disappointed.
"Then what about ice nature transformation?" he asked, not giving up. "Let's talk about your experience. Maybe there's something that can be applied?"
The nature transformation of Ice Style chakra?
To be honest, due to the lack of materials and the short research time, her understanding of Ice Style was still only a little superficial.
"Since you want to know, I'll just talk about it simply," Sakura said, sighing and sitting on the top of the training post. "Let me state beforehand, my understanding of Ice Style is far from being as deep as my understanding of Water Style. Don't blame me if I say anything wrong!"
Regarding the development of Ice Style, Haruno Sakura, who had been unable to train recently due to her recovery, had taken this opportunity to sort out her thoughts and had also gained some of her own insights.
The most obvious point of Ice Style's nature transformation was its low temperature.
However, as for what the essence behind creating low temperatures was, Sakura still did not have a clear answer.
But just in terms of creating low temperatures, it was already enough for the girl to play with many tricks.
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