Chapter 71: The Freshwater Equation
Sasuke stored the box with the tricolor pills, especially treasuring the yellow curry one. It was an important trump card. With its power, his chakra would multiply tenfold, enough to unleash several Great Ball Rasengan.
"The Rasengan is almost developed, but the progress of this syrup whip seems somewhat slow."
He previously thought he'd develop it in a few months, but compared to the A-rank ninjutsu he had mastered in less than a day, this C-rank one seemed like an eternity.
"How can I speed up the progress?" he wondered, touching his chin. Then, he remembered the Rasengan. 'Wait,' he thought, 'reverse development... starting from the end and deconstructing the beginning. Why not apply the same logic here?'
This idea had great potential. His own sonic radar technique was based on a similar principle. First learn it, use it, then reverse its principle, and finally, master it.
With his idea clear, he abandoned the whip's development and focused on the full-area version: the Starch Syrup Capture Field. Although its chakra consumption was higher, it offered more material to work with.
"Water Style: Water Prison Technique!"
He ordered his shadow clones to release a small solid water prison. Then, he took a bowl of maltose and poured it into the rotating water prison. Soon, the maltose fused with the water, making it so sticky that it stopped spinning.
Now began the true reverse engineering. Eight shadow clones surrounded the sticky prison, pressed their hands onto it, and infused their chakra, forcing it to spin again.
"Success or failure depends on this move."
As the chakra increased, the prison spun faster and faster. After more than ten minutes, the syrup's color began to fade. Under the catalysis of chakra, the maltose was reversing its nature. But then, Sasuke noticed something unexpected: a small bubble appeared in the center of the water prison.
'Does the reverse reaction produce a gas?' He collected the gas, lit a piece of cotton, and threw it inside. The flame extinguished instantly. 'Carbon dioxide.'
"Water Style: Water Prison!"
He performed the opposite experiment: converting a pure water prison into syrup. The change was partial, but sufficient. He discovered that this process also produced a gas. Upon testing it with the cotton, the flame burned violently. 'Oxygen!'
He put the pieces together. Water to syrup produces oxygen. Syrup to water produces carbon dioxide. He remembered the chemical formula for maltose from his previous life: C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁. To convert water (H₂O) into sugar (which contains Carbon), the jutsu must be taking carbon from the air, from CO₂.
After more investigation, he finally resolved the chakra reaction equation:
12CO2+11H2O+Chakra→C12H22O11+12O2
In this process, chakra played the key role of a catalyst.
"Huh? This equation, if inverted, is very similar to my Taotie Technique."
His digestion technique took food (sugar), consumed oxygen, and produced chakra and water, while exhaling carbon dioxide.
"I didn't expect that developing a Water Jutsu would allow me to further improve my most fundamental technique. What a pleasant surprise!" he thought, brimming with joy. It seemed there were countless treasures buried deep within ninjutsu, waiting for him to continue digging.
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