Chapter 45: Thousand Birds Completed, Power Astonishing
It was the afternoon of the second day, around four or five o'clock.
On the surface of the lake, two figures, a boy and a girl, stood upon the water. They were Yu Tianlin and Shui Bing'er.
Shui Bing'er now stood lightly on a thin sheet of ice beneath her feet, happily moving back and forth across the lake, having completely mastered water treading.
Yu Tianlin, however, remained seated cross legged on the shore, completely ignoring the fairy like figure dancing on the water. All of his attention was focused on his right hand.
The powerful current gathering in his palm let out a low hum, pulsing rhythmically. In Yu Tianlin's perception, he was only one step away from completing the true Chidori.
Now.
Yu Tianlin's eyes flashed with sharp light. He controlled the lightning attribute Spirit power, stimulating his palm according to the method he had calculated over the past two days. A dazzling blue white lightning burst out from his hand.
Crackle crackle crackle.
The originally low electric hum suddenly grew several times louder, turning into a harsh, dense sound like the cries of countless birds all calling at once. It was shockingly loud.
The disturbance on Yu Tianlin's side immediately drew Shui Bing'er's attention.
She walked calmly across the lake, hands clasped behind her back, and leaned forward slightly to examine the lightning dancing in Yu Tianlin's right palm.
"Is this your self created Spirit Skill?" she asked curiously. "It looks pretty good."
Over the past two days, lightning had often flared unpredictably in Yu Tianlin's right hand. Out of curiosity, Shui Bing'er had asked him about it. Yu Tianlin had told her he was developing a self created Spirit Skill, so she naturally knew what he was working on.
"That is right. It is finally done."
Yu Tianlin lifted his right hand and could not help but sigh with emotion.
From the moment he decided to recreate Chidori, he had spent one week concentrating his lightning attribute Spirit power, another week completing the tree climbing training, then two days on water treading and two more days on the final development work.
In total, it had taken eighteen days to finally bring Chidori into existence on the Douluo Continent.
Most of that time had gone into sharpening his control over lightning attribute Spirit power. Once his control had caught up, and with his understanding of Chidori's principles, the actual development of the technique had gone very quickly.
Actually, that was not bad at all. Sasuke had only used Chidori for a few days before taking it into battle.
Having witnessed the birth of a self created Spirit Skill with her own eyes, Shui Bing'er asked with great interest,
"Then what are you going to call this self created Spirit Skill?"
Yu Tianlin smiled.
"Let us call it Thousand Birds."
"Thousand Birds. That name is very suitable." Shui Bing'er thought for a moment, then nodded in admiration. "When it activates, it really does sound like a thousand birds crying together. The name fits perfectly. I just wonder how powerful it is."
Yu Tianlin stood up, raising his right hand with clear confidence in his voice.
"Its power is very strong. I feel that it is at least comparable to a thousand year Spirit Skill."
Now that the Thousand Birds technique was complete, Yu Tianlin could clearly feel how incredibly sharp his palm had become. His attack power had greatly increased. At the same time, the dense electric current in his palm spread through his right arm and across his body, stimulating every part of him.
His whole body felt lighter, his movements quicker, his speed clearly boosted.
Shui Bing'er could not help but laugh softly.
"Comparable to a thousand year Spirit Skill? You say that as if you actually have a thousand year Spirit Skill yourself."
But I really do.
Yu Tianlin did not bother to argue.
"Let me show you the power of Thousand Birds."
He pointed at a tree ten meters away.
"Do you see that tree? Use it as a target."
As soon as his voice fell, Yu Tianlin stamped lightly on the ground. His figure vanished from where he had been standing, then reappeared in front of the tree ten meters away in the blink of an eye.
"So fast."
Shui Bing'er's pupils shrank slightly. She could not stop herself from drawing in a breath.
Boom.
Yu Tianlin did not pause. Borrowing the force of his burst of speed, he drove his right hand, wrapped in shrieking lightning, straight into the tree trunk.
With a deafening impact, the thick trunk snapped cleanly in two.
"The power is very strong as well."
Yu Tianlin pulled his hand back, more than satisfied with what he felt.
If he converted it into simple numbers, then even without considering the added momentum from his charging thrust, Thousand Birds alone had doubled his normal attack power. As for speed, it had increased by about fifty percent.
However, Thousand Birds also had its flaws.
The sudden jump in speed made it difficult for the user to adapt. The technique also relied on a high speed straight thrust to fully unleash its destructive power.
If the enemy's speed surpassed the user's, they could easily dodge the attack or even counterattack. In that situation, with vision and reactions still not fully adapted to such speed, it would be hard to judge the opponent's movements or adjust one's direction in time, leaving the user in a very dangerous position.
In Naruto, it was said that the best way to use Chidori was to pair it with the Sharingan, which could make up for this weakness and allow the technique to display its full strength.
Yu Tianlin inwardly scoffed at this.
Saying that Thousand Birds was too fast for the user to see the opponent clearly was a bit exaggerated in his view. Minato Namikaze and the Raikage were even faster, yet they did not lose the ability to react.
Of course, Minato's speed came from spatial abilities, which was a different system from simple physical speed. It was not directly comparable, so he could be put aside.
The Raikage was different. Whether it was the Third or Fourth Raikage, their Lightning Release armor used lightning chakra to stimulate the body and greatly increase speed. This was the same type of ability as Chidori, just taken further.
Even so, there had never been any report of a Raikage being unable to react because of their own speed.
In the end, it came down to one word: practice.
Use Thousand Birds every day, every year, and gradually your body and your perception would adapt to that level of speed.
Kakashi had been unable to fully keep up when he first developed Chidori, but given his talent, he would definitely have adapted with time. It was just that he later received Obito's Sharingan and from then on always used Chidori together with it.
Long term dependence had shifted his habits, so it naturally felt difficult to use the technique with normal eyes again. Sasuke's situation was similar.
As for the consumption of Thousand Birds, Yu Tianlin felt it was within a reasonable range.
When Sasuke had been twelve years old, he could only use Chidori three times in a single day.
Yu Tianlin was eight years old now, but at level 22, he estimated that his current Spirit power reserves could support him in using Thousand Birds at least five times.
The worlds were different, and so were the power systems. There was no need to copy the numbers too rigidly.
While Yu Tianlin was immersed in analyzing Thousand Birds, Shui Bing'er slowly walked over.
"Congratulations, Yu Tianlin," she said sincerely. "The power of Thousand Birds really is very strong. It is definitely comparable to a thousand year Spirit Skill."
"Thank you for the praise."
Yu Tianlin withdrew the lightning in his palm and smiled.
"You too. As a control type Spirit Master, now that you have completely mastered water treading, your control over your own Spirit power has improved a lot. Your overall strength must have increased as well."
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