Chapter 5 Lightning Body TemperingBy the riverbank.Fang Xu stared at the rock blasted into a black pit by the Thunderbird, his chest still heaving.Strong.Really strong.Even if it was just a weakened version of the Thunderbird, and even if his body couldn't support the intensity of Enel at all, it still unleashed destructive power far exceeding his peers.But the problem was also obvious.The stamina consumption was too great.Just now, with only a few attempts at elementalization, lightning assault, and the Thunderbird, he was drained to the point where his limbs felt weak.If he really fought an enemy and the first few moves didn't resolve the opponent, the one who collapsed might be himself."Fruit abilities consume stamina."Fang Xu raised his hand, tiny electric arcs still dancing across his fingertips."But in Ninja battles, the core is Chakra."A thought suddenly popped into his head.What if he could use Chakra to replace a portion of the stamina consumption?The Rumble-Rumble Fruit was a completely different system.Chakra was the foundation of power in the Hokage world.Both currently existed within his body, and they didn't conflict with each other.Since they didn't conflict, was it possible to convert them into each other?Or rather, use Chakra to assist the fruit ability and reduce the physical burden?As soon as this thought popped up, Fang Xu's breathing immediately became a bit heavier."If it succeeds, it won't just be as simple as purely having an extra Rumble-Rumble Fruit.""Lightning Release plus Rumble-Rumble.""Chakra plus Logia type.""If these two sets of powers are truly integrated, my upper limit will be directly raised by a huge margin."But very soon, Fang Xu calmed down again.The idea was a good one.But he hadn't even confirmed the most basic problem right now.His original Chakra attributes were the dual attributes of Water and Earth.There was no Lightning.Precisely because of this, he had never been able to truly cultivate the C-rank Lightning Release: Lightning Sphere left behind by his parents.It wasn't to say that one absolutely couldn't learn Lightning Release without the Lightning attribute.Rather, the difficulty would be much higher, the consumption greater, and the power poorer.For a civilian student with relatively weak Chakra reserves, forcefully practicing a Ninjutsu not suited for oneself was simply a waste of time.But now it was different.The Rumble-Rumble Fruit had already integrated into his body.His entire person could transform into lightning.Would his Chakra attributes be affected as well?"I'll know just by trying."Fang Xu didn't continue staying by the riverbank.Although this place was remote, the commotion he made just now wasn't small.If he continued to stay here, in case patrolling Ninjas discovered the charred traces, explaining it would be very troublesome.He reined in his electric arcs and dragged his exhausted body back home.After entering, Fang Xu first drew the curtains, then checked the courtyard and outside the house once more.Confirming no one was paying attention to this place, he took out a small wooden box from the very bottom of the cabinet.Inside the wooden box were a few sheets of Chakra test paper.These were things used when testing attributes at the Ninja Academy. The original owner had later bought two sheets himself, thinking of testing again after his Chakra improved.But previous tests still showed Water and Earth, so they had been left aside untouched ever since.Fang Xu picked up a test paper and took a deep breath."Don't let me down."He slowly poured Chakra into it.The test paper quickly reacted.The left corner first became moist, as if soaked in water.Immediately after, the right corner began to feel heavy, the surface of the paper became rough, and tiny cracks appeared along the edges.Water attribute.Earth attribute.Just like before.Fang Xu's brows had just furrowed when the next second, changes suddenly erupted.Crackle!An extremely faint electrical sound came from inside the test paper.The test paper, which was originally only half-moist and half-cracked, was pierced from within by an invisible force of lightning, as if.The whole sheet trembled violently, fine wrinkles surfaced on its surface, and then with a "pop", it shattered into large pieces of paper scraps.Fang Xu's fingers stiffened.Shattered.The entire sheet shattered.It wasn't simply the edge pulverization like with the Earth attribute.Rather, there was first the reaction of Water and Earth, and finally it was directly pierced through by a more domineering lightning-natured Chakra.He lowered his head to look at the scraps in his palm, his heartbeat growing faster and faster."Lightning attribute..."Fang Xu couldn't help laughing out loud."I really awakened the Lightning attribute!"The original dual attributes of Water and Earth had become the three attributes of Water, Earth, and Lightning.Moreover, this Lightning attribute was obviously not as simple as an ordinary awakening.It came from the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.It came from a top-tier Logia-type ability.Fang Xu could even sense that when he poured in Chakra, a portion of the lightning power within his body was driven along with it.What did this explain?It explained that between Chakra and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, an intersection point truly existed.They were not two forever parallel roads."Lightning Release: Lightning Sphere can now be learned."Fang Xu immediately thought of that scroll in his parents' remains.In the past, he could only look at it with envy.Now it was different.With the Lightning attribute in hand, this C-rank Lightning Release could truly play its role.More crucially, Lightning Release Ninjutsu itself could help him understand Chakra's shape transformation and nature transformation.What the Rumble-Rumble Fruit gave him was lightning instinct and Enel's development experience.What Lightning Release gave him was the Chakra circulation method under the Ninja system.Comparing both sides, perhaps he could really find a method to convert into each other and mutually substitute consumption.Fang Xu packed away the shattered test paper, his eyes growing brighter and brighter."Insufficient stamina is my biggest shortcoming right now.""But Chakra can be trained, and physical constitution can also be trained.""If I can let Chakra support the fruit ability, and then use lightning in reverse to temper my body..."He paused for a moment, suppressing the excitement in his heart.Meals must be eaten one bite at a time.Roads must be walked one step at a time.No matter how big the idea was, he still had to start with what he could do right in front of him.Lightning Body Tempering.In Enel's experience, there wasn't a lack of similar things.Lightning could stimulate the body, strengthen reactions, and boost muscle explosive power.But this thing was also truly dangerous.Too low an intensity had no effect.Too high an intensity would first electrocute oneself into scrap.Especially the internal organs and the brain; Fang Xu didn't dare touch them at all right now.He sat cross-legged and raised his right index finger."Start with one finger first."A wisp of current thinner than a hair drilled out from within his body, wrapping around his index finger.Numb.Itchy.Following that was a pain like being pricked by needles.Fang Xu clenched his teeth, forcibly controlling the current so it wouldn't dart around randomly.The skin of his fingertips turned slightly red, and his flesh felt like it was being gnawed by countless tiny bugs.He didn't rush to increase the intensity, instead feeling out the limit of his body's endurance bit by bit.Ten seconds.Twenty seconds.Half a minute.After his index finger adapted, he then spread the current to his entire hand.Palm, back of the hand, wrist, forearm.Every inch it advanced, Fang Xu would stop to adapt.It really hurt.But the effect was also very obvious.The places stimulated by the current felt as if the muscles had been awakened, carrying a warm sensation amidst the soreness.Fang Xu clenched his fist, able to feel that his arm's reaction was a bit more sensitive than before.Just a bit.But this was already enough."Effective."He let out a breath and continued to expand the range.Skin.Muscles.Bones.The current was like a tiny hammer, pounding the outer layer of his body over and over again.Fang Xu always strictly guarded a single line.Do not touch internal organs.Do not touch the brain.He avoided the vicinity of his heart, lungs, abdominal cavity, and spinal cord entirely.What he wanted right now was body tempering, not suicide.Half an hour later, Fang Xu finally stopped.The moment the electric arcs dissipated, his entire body almost collapsed sideways onto the ground.It wasn't pain.It was hunger.Extreme hunger.His stomach felt hollowed out, and every part of his body was crying out for food.
