The first gate of the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power, the Gate of Opening, is opened. This removes the brain's limitations, allowing for the full 100% potential of the body's capabilities to be unleashed. It consumes the body's energy at an accelerated rate, boosting offense and speed, and upon activation, allows for the use of the "Front Lotus."
As the first gate opened, Yu Zhibo felt as if a portal had been unlocked within his mind, a jolt like electricity coursing from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
Following this, a warm current surged from his Dantian's sequence core, merging with this electrical sensation and spreading throughout his body. Every cell began to boil.
This warm current was not spiritual energy, but a mysterious power originating from his Mangekyo sequence core, similar to the energy generated when treading water. It was the fundamental source for using the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power.
The electrical current that appeared after opening the brain's limitations, Yu Zhibo temporarily referred to as "spiritual impulse." It had appeared once before during his awakening, which had directly unlocked his gene lock and awakened his supernatural ability.
Both ability users and cultivators typically absorb spiritual energy into their Dantian until it is full, then expand it throughout their bodies to nourish and strengthen their physical form.
This spiritual energy, hidden within various parts of the body, had integrated with the cells. Even if the spiritual energy in the Dantian was depleted, it could not be mobilized. Its sole purpose was to strengthen the physical body and increase cellular vitality.
However, after Yu Zhibo removed the brain's limitations, the electrical-like sensation from his brain merged with the warm current from his sequence core and spread outward. All the spiritual energy previously hidden in his body began to surge.
With vast amounts of spiritual energy filling his body, it began to diffuse beyond his physical form, creating a flow of energy that enveloped him. This process dramatically strengthened his body to a terrifying degree for a short period.
*Whoosh!*
Propelled by the surging energy, Yu Zhibo's one-centimeter-long hair stood on end, like steel needles.
One could imagine that if such hair were to come into contact with shampoo, it would instantly repel all of it.
In the next moment, Yu Zhibo stomped his right foot on the ground, creating an indentation. Enveloped by the energy flow, he appeared five meters away and kicked down a tree with a diameter exceeding fifteen centimeters.
"Awesome!" Yu Zhibo let out a hearty laugh. This direct, rampaging destructive power, like that of a rampaging dragon, was a man's dream!
Simultaneously, the method for using the Front Lotus became fully integrated into his body. At that moment, he desperately wished to find someone to test it on.
Unlike the Sharingan, which utilized its immense information processing capabilities to perfectly unleash the body's inherent strength through its power exertion techniques, exceeding that limit could lead to physical collapse.
The Eight Gates of Heavenly Power, however, pushed beyond the existing peak, frantically squeezing the spiritual energy contained within the body to generate intense, opposing energy currents.
With the reinforcement and buffering of the surrounding energy flow, not only could attacks far beyond the body's limits be unleashed using its energy, but it also ensured the body would not collapse from the strain, making it incredibly formidable.
But there were also drawbacks.
After a period of being incredibly powerful, Yu Zhibo felt as if he had stayed up for three days and three nights, leaving him completely drained.
Gate of Rest, open!
The Gate of Rest removes physical fatigue limitations, overloads the body's energy to restore stamina, and counteracts the fatigue caused by the energy consumption rate of the Gate of Opening.
If the first gate squeezed the spiritual energy within the body, the Gate of Rest began to extract the body's most primal strength, causing his slightly weakened aura to surge once more.
His consciousness sank into the status panel. He could see that after opening the Gate of Rest, his Constitution began to decrease, quickly dropping from 42 to 40, and then to 39.
As for Strength and Agility, both had nearly doubled, reaching the mid-stage of D-rank.
Was D-rank truly weak? Not at all.
At the very least, Yu Zhibo felt immense pressure from Li Fang. Although he had recently killed a D-rank dark creature as easily as slaughtering a dog, that was largely due to the deterrent effect of Lightning Release on dark creatures.
Thus, in addition to Lightning Release, he now possessed the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power as another trump card.
As for the third gate, the Gate of Life, his current physical strength was insufficient to open it. To open more gates, he would need to train relentlessly.
He was already very satisfied to be able to open two gates from the start.
Subsequently, based on the rate at which his Constitution points decreased, he calculated that with 42 Constitution points, he could maintain the first two gates of the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power for twenty minutes. He then deactivated the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power state and sat down to rest.
His mind merged with his sequence core, and he began to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, replenishing the cells throughout his body.
Although activating the Eight Gates of Heavenly Power had caused some damage to his body, he, possessing the same physique as Rock Lee, could feel that his cells had been strengthened. With continued training, he would soon be able to break through his physical limits again, and his spiritual energy would be further expanded.
"Damn it!"
"Was this clone some kind of idiot? Why didn't it deactivate the shadow clone when it was about to die, making me suffer so much!"
He sat up grumbling, and upon realizing that the clone was also his consciousness, he suddenly understood: "I'm scolding myself!"
"But this shadow clone seems a bit chuunibyou. I don't remember being this chuunibyou normally!"
Yu Zhibo rubbed his chin while processing the information brought by the clone.
"So this is the world the Director mentioned. It's dark and not fun at all."
"Lightning Release is so important in that world, it can even electrolyze dark spiritual energy. No wonder I could electrolyze that D-rank dark energy spirit crystal into white."
"Huh? It even released Kirin. Awesome, awesome, worthy of me!"
"And karma lightning clouds, karma red lightning. This karma really hurts when it hits!"
"If those Taoist priests were from the Shenhua Bureau, I should be able to ask them for a reward, right? After all, I helped a lot this time!"
"Whatever, I still need to reach D-rank as soon as possible. Once I reach D-rank, my combat power will greatly increase, and maybe I won't have to hide my identity anymore."
Yu Zhibo mused inwardly.
After digesting the information from the clone, he started doing push-ups with a grunt.