Another day, Main World, Konoha Village, Seventh Training Ground.
"Ha~ah," Number One Hashirama sat cross-legged on a rock, looking utterly bored.
Sasuke stood quietly beside him, waiting. Not far away, the Third Hokage and his wife, along with the Fourth Hokage and his wife, who had come to join the fun, were all watching Lin Ke and Utakata standing in the middle.
[Finally!]
Lin Ke mechanically ran through the Substitution Jutsu again. Just as he was about to cancel it, he realized it was the one he wanted, and his heart filled with joy.
[Excellent, Pearl Jam, you're the one!]
"I'm going to start the experiment," he said, alerting his bodyguards.
As a Stand with absolutely no combat ability, Pearl Jam was naturally the most suitable experimental subject for Stands and Tailed Beast Chakra.
Even if it became permanent, so what?
"Is it starting?" Number One Hashirama perked up slightly, clasped his hands together, and entered Sage Mode.
"Hmm, a lot of strange things. I see, your technique..." He wore a thoughtful expression.
Sasuke also opened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Lin Ke carefully took out a small piece of leftover Tailed Beast Chakra Cube scrap, controlling Pearl Jam to fly over and start nibbling.
In the eyes of others, the physical Chakra Cube in his hand gradually disappeared into thin air, as if it were being bitten off by something invisible.
Utakata's muscles tensed as he entered Tailed Beast Mode, ready to take Lin Ke, who claimed the experiment had 'extremely high risks', away at any moment.
Soon, the scrap was completely devoured.
[It seems... nothing happened?]
Lin Ke was just wondering when he suddenly felt a swelling in his head. He clutched his throbbing temples, a strong sense of discomfort surging through his body.
"What's wrong?"
"Lin Ke?"
"Buzz~"
Concerned voices rang out, but were quickly replaced by a buzzing in his ears. He felt that the air he exhaled was scalding hot, his skin flushed red, looking as if he had been boiled. The changes in his body were not over yet.
A large amount of unfamiliar Chakra flowed down from familiar locations—the Opening Gate and Rest Gate of the Eight Gates Formation—and rapidly spread throughout his body along the meridian system.
The Clone Jutsu and Transformation Jutsu he was maintaining were forcibly canceled.
He was a little flustered at first, but quickly calmed down. He pressed one hand on his body and released the Mystical Palm Technique, feeling slightly more comfortable, but still very uncomfortable. Those Chakra rapidly occupied his entire body, constantly breaking down and transforming into his Chakra, which in turn became his physical strength and mental power.
The swelling sensation grew stronger and stronger. He had the illusion that he was about to be burst open by these suddenly emerging Chakra, but his well-honed body told him that there would be no problems.
One Mystical Palm Technique after another was released, alleviating the discomfort in his body and maintaining his mental clarity.
"Thump!" He knelt on the ground, wisps of white mist rising.
"Don't move." Sasuke stopped Utakata, who was about to step forward to heal him, and frowned, "Lin Ke's body is now full of Six Tails' Chakra, just like a Jinchuriki."
"There's no point in sending your Chakra into his body, use Water Release to cool him down."
Utakata was anxious and confused, but after careful sensing, he realized Sasuke was right. He opened his mouth and spat out a stream of water, enveloping Lin Ke.
"Chi~" The water that wrapped around him was instantly turned into steam.
Number One Hashirama, maintaining Sage Mode, walked over, closed his eyes, and sensed the Pearl Jam floating around Lin Ke. He said with surprise, "Using pure spiritual power to create something similar to a Shadow Clone, this technique..."
He found it hard to describe just how interesting this technique was.
Pure spiritual power cannot interfere with reality.
Suppression through killing intent or similar aura is the limit of what spiritual power can achieve. To interfere with reality, it must be converted into Chakra.
Chakra created from pure spiritual power, lacking physical energy, would become 'greedy Chakra' that craves physical energy, making it very unstable and difficult to control, let alone use to release Ninjutsu.
That's why Impure World Reincarnation requires a vessel.
Without a vessel, even he doesn't know how much strength he could exert in a pure soul state.
Yet, Lin Ke's spiritual power seems to possess some strange stability. Under the effect of the technique, he condenses his spiritual power into some kind of image, using illusion to affect reality. This technique is incredible.
Since it's a semi-virtual illusion, even if it can affect reality, it's just spiritual power. What's eaten, of course, enters the main body.
"He should be fine." Number One Hashirama collected his thoughts and said, "He's essentially eaten Tailed Beast meat. It would have been more troublesome without those strange little things as a buffer."
"He'll be fine now, and it might even be beneficial."
This process is similar to what Uzumaki Naruto went through before. The Eight Trigrams Sealing converts the Nine-Tailed Chakra into his own Chakra. Lin Ke is just doing it a bit more crudely, purely using intangible spiritual power to filter out the Tailed Beast's will from the Tailed Beast power, forcibly absorbing it.
As long as he can endure it, his Chakra and stamina will slowly increase.
Hearing the First Hokage's assessment, everyone who had gathered around in concern felt relieved.
Utakata maintained the release of artificial water, constantly cooling Lin Ke down, while Sasuke beside him monitored the state of Lin Ke's Chakra.
The young Namikaze Minato and his wife were also prepared to step forward and help seal the Chakra.
After a while, the abnormality on Lin Ke's body slowly returned to normal. He gasped for breath, sweat soaking his clothes, his muscles involuntarily spasming.
There was still some pain, but for him, pain was something he was used to, nothing serious.
I should have known, the Stand is an image condensed from the main body's spiritual power...
Lin Ke stood up, feeling the abundant stamina and slightly excited spirit. He didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
The experiment of Stand materialization had completely failed.
Number One Hashirama was observing and speculating, but he himself felt it firsthand, and now he was very clear about the essence of the Stand.
The Stand technique is to condense his spiritual power into an image and project it, giving the spiritual power some kind of ability. There's no point in thinking about permanently obtaining a certain Stand.
Could he possibly separate his spirit independently?
What's the difference between a body without a spirit and a dead person? Even if it were possible, he wouldn't try it.
Without a permanently independent Stand, the randomness cannot be solved. He still needs to keep drawing lots.
The good news is that the Stand, as an image that can interfere with reality, will transport the eaten solid Chakra into the body, filtering it and breaking it down into his Chakra and stamina.
As long as he could endure the pain, he would have another method of growth different from taking drugs, which was to consume materialized Chakra Cubes.
[Why is it so painful for me to want to become stronger?]
Lin Ke complained rather speechlessly.
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