chsdbacks Chapter 8 Changes in Properties
Chapter 8 Changes in Properties
Behind Konoha, the mountains were covered in a blanket of silver.
Genma stood quietly in the snow, which was more than a foot deep, with a slight chakra emanating from his feet. His body was light and he did not sink in the slightest.
In front of him were several iron balls of different sizes, the smallest of which was the size of a fist, radiating a chilling cold in the icy wind.
He reached out and slowly pressed his hand on the surface of the largest iron ball.
The cold touch traveled up his fingertips, but his eyes remained unmoved.
"The key to the nature transformation of Fire Release lies in the extreme conversion between 'burning' and 'high temperature'."
Genma pondered the key to the matter: "Leaves and wood are ultimately flammable. But iron requires a terrifying burst of heat that can instantly change its shape."
He took a deep breath, and the vast chakra within his body began to surge, circulating according to the path of fire attribute transformation, frantically transforming into scorching energy, converging towards his palm.
"laugh……"
A thick cloud of white vapor suddenly erupted from the spot where his palm touched the iron ball, and the snow melted and vaporized at a visible speed, forming a white fog.
Genma closed his eyes and focused his mind, exerting all his control over his chakra.
He could "sense" that under the impact of chakra, the frost on the surface of the iron ball disappeared instantly, and the metal surface began to heat up slightly.
But that's all.
A few minutes passed, and apart from the surface of the iron ball becoming warm and even a little hot to the touch, nothing else changed.
On the contrary, Genma himself had a slight sheen of sweat on his forehead due to the continuous high-intensity output of chakra.
He withdrew his hand, looked at the iron ball that had only been "heated," and frowned slightly.
"The output and conversion efficiency of chakra are not enough, or rather, the heat is too dispersed and cannot form an extreme high temperature at one point that is enough to melt steel."
He recalled his explosive fire attribute and its source—the Lunaria talent from Abel.
That flame should not be a gentle heat, but a violent destructive force.
"Control is not about suppressing their nature, but about guiding it to erupt."
Xuanjian seemed to understand something.
He didn't rush to try again, but instead walked to the side, sat cross-legged on the cleared ground, quietly recovered his chakra, and repeatedly rehearsed in his mind.
The exceptional comprehension brought about by the soul completion allowed him to accurately analyze the reasons for failure: the problem was not the amount of chakra, but the control of "quality" and "form".
He needs to compress and condense the explosive properties of fire-style chakra, releasing it instantly at the point of contact, like turning a shotgun into an armor-piercing bullet.
Half an hour later, Genma stood up again, his eyes becoming even sharper.
This time he chose a slightly smaller iron ball.
He slowly covered it with his right palm, and chakra surged again.
But this time, the approach is completely different!
He no longer pursued large-scale heating, but instead compressed his chakra to an extreme, condensing it into a small area in his palm, pushing the nature transformation to its limit.
"Buzz..."
A wave of scorching energy spread out, and the air seemed to distort slightly.
Below Genma's palm, the "point" where the iron ball touched his hand began to turn red at a speed visible to the naked eye!
It started as a dark red, then turned orange-red, and finally became a dazzling bright red.
A distinctive smell of metal being burned at high temperatures filled the air.
Genma's forehead veins were slightly visible as he maintained this high level of concentration and output with all his might.
He could clearly "see" that, under the microscopic vision of chakra perception, the crystal structure of the iron ball began to loosen and deform at high temperatures.
"Now!"
He gave a low shout in his heart and suddenly poured in his last bit of strength.
"Sizzle—!"
A soft sound, like a red-hot iron being plunged into water.
The bright red dot had finally reached its melting point, and a shallow, fingernail-sized dent had been forcibly melted into the surface of the iron ball, with traces of the melted material re-solidifying remaining at the edges.
It worked!
Genma exhaled a long breath of stale air, his breath carrying a scorching sensation.
He withdrew his hand and looked at the small dent. Although it wasn't big, it represented a qualitative leap.
Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation Training, Third Stage – "Iron Melting", Completed!
This means that his mastery of fire-style chakra nature transformation has reached a considerably profound level.
The destructive power of this kind of intensely concentrated flame far surpasses that of ordinary fire-style ninjutsu.
"Next, it's the final step..."
Genma's gaze was intense as he looked at the palm of his right hand.
There, a Rasengan, without any seals or attributes, purely formed by the ultimate transformation of chakra forms, was about to emerge.
What changes will occur when this newly mastered, explosive and concentrated "Iron-Melting Fire" is incorporated into it?
Fire Release: Rasengan!
Just thinking about that name made Genma's blood boil slightly.
That will no longer be a simple physical impact, but will be accompanied by extreme high temperatures and combustion effects, and its power will increase exponentially.
……
Deep in the dense forest of the back mountain, where the cold wind howled, the snow on a clearing had long been cleared away by the repeated bursts of heat, revealing the scorched ground.
Genma was breathing slightly heavily as he opened his right palm.
Apart from some soot marks, there was nothing seriously wrong; there wasn't even a single burn blister.
"The talent of the Lunaria race is truly astonishing."
He muttered to himself, his tone a mixture of relief and helplessness.
Fortunately, his superhuman fire resistance allowed him to undertake this extremely dangerous training attempt without any hesitation.
Unfortunately, he has failed dozens of times but still has not been able to find a way to perfectly integrate the violent fire-style chakra into the Rasengan.
The essence of the Rasengan is the ultimate form of chakra transformation—a high-speed, stable, centripetal compression rotation.
The essence of fire attribute transformation lies in "burning" and "explosion," which is the ultimate release of energy, almost contrary to the "stability" and "compression" required by the Rasengan.
Every time he carefully tried to inject the scorching chakra, forged through "molten iron," into the already formed Rasengan prototype in his palm, the balance would be instantly shattered.
"boom!"
Another violent explosion.
The fire-attribute chakra, compressed to its limit, exploded violently the moment it was freed from its restraints, with flames mixed with chaotic air currents, causing Genma to take a half step back. A burning stinging sensation came from his palm, but it was only a stinging sensation, and his skin remained intact.
"Where did the problem lie?"
Genma didn't rush to try again. Instead, he sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and carefully savored every detail of the moment he had failed.
With his extraordinary chakra perception, he could clearly "see" the process of failure.
When the scorching fire-attribute chakra touched the steadily rotating chakra sphere, it did not fuse evenly. Instead, it was like a drop of water splashing into a pot of boiling oil, instantly triggering a violent and disordered chain reaction. This disrupted the delicate balance brought about by the geometrical rotation, leading to the collapse of the overall structure.