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Chapter 186: The Potential of Haki
Chapter 186: The Potential of Haki
Mu Yue quietly ventured deep into the forest, keeping her Byakugan activated throughout the journey to ensure no other ninjas were nearby.
Mu Yue began her experiments by testing the use of Haki without opening the Eight Inner Gates, gathering her chakra in her hand and swiftly performing a nature transformation.
As she manipulated her chakra, Mu Yue's right palm was swiftly covered by a black substance, resembling a black glove.
She drew a kunai with her left hand and forcefully stabbed it towards her right hand.
Clang!
The kunai struck the Haki-covered palm with great force, as if it had pierced an incredibly hard object, unable to penetrate even the slightest bit.
Mu Yue stimulated the chakra in her left hand, infusing the kunai with lightning-release chakra to significantly enhance its power.
Zzzt! Zzzt!!
Shimmering blue lightning enveloped Mu Yue's hand, continuously striking her palm protected by Haki.
Despite its paper-thin appearance, the pitch-black substance possessed formidable defensive capabilities, withstanding the lightning-release attack for several minutes without any signs of damage.
"The defensive power of Haki's hardening is impressive," Mu Yue nodded, acknowledging the locally-developed Haki's defensive capabilities, akin to those in the world of the Fire Shadow.
Mu Yue also possessed a ninjutsu similar to Haki hardening, known as Earth Release: Earth Spear.
This technique allowed her to harden her body, increasing her defensive and offensive capabilities.
When comparing the strength of Earth Spear and Haki, she found that Earth Spear's upper limit was far inferior to Haki in terms of attack, defense, and versatility.
Earth Spear only offered hardening capabilities and could not be applied to weapons or enhance attacks like Haki.
The sole advantage of Earth Spear was that it could be used in conjunction with Haki without conflict.
However, Mu Yue felt it unnecessary as Haki alone provided sufficient hardness. Using Earth Spear in addition would be overkill and a waste of chakra.
After testing the defensive capabilities with the lightning-infused kunai, Mu Yue created a shadow clone to attack her with Fake Darkness. She protected her arm with Haki, directly facing and enduring the full force of the attack with her palm.
The destructive power of Fake Darkness was renowned, and with this test, Mu Yue demonstrated that she could now largely ignore most ninjutsu.
Of course, Mu Yue wouldn't simply absorb all ninjutsu attacks in future battles, as if Haki required no chakra to maintain.
Mu Yue attempted to push Haki to its limits but found that even with expending 10,000 points of chakra to harden and envelop her fist with Haki, she was still far from reaching its full potential.
She contemplated this for a moment before deciding against it; a single punch consuming that much chakra was excessive. With that, she canceled the technique.
It was important to maintain a low profile within Konoha, and causing too much of a ruckus might attract the attention of the Anbu.
Next, Mu Yue tested the effect of Haki-enhanced weapons, choosing a standard shuriken for this experiment.
She coated the blade of the shuriken with the pitch-black substance of Haki and threw it at a boulder half the height of a person.
The Haki-enhanced shuriken effortlessly pierced through the boulder and even penetrated the tree behind it, displaying remarkable penetrative power.
However, the chakra consumption of Haki concerned Mu Yue, leading her to conclude that it should be used sparingly, like a ninjutsu. Otherwise, indiscriminately throwing a barrage of shuriken enhanced with Haki would be extremely chakra-intensive.
Since her previous tests revealed that Earth Spear could be used alongside Haki, Mu Yue proceeded to attempt to enhance ninjutsu with Haki.
She started with Lightning Release: Chidori, simultaneously performing a Yin Release nature transformation and using Haki to envelop the Chidori.
With the augmentation of Haki, the Chidori was no longer pure blue lightning but took on a black-blue hue, appearing somewhat eerie.
The empowered Chidori demonstrated a significant increase in power and destructive capabilities, as the black lightning ravaged everything it touched.
Not all ninjutsu could be enhanced by Haki, however. Mu Yue discovered that only a minority of ninjutsu were compatible, with most being unsuitable, especially those involving fire, wind, and water.
"Open, open!" Finally, Mu Yue activated the Eight Inner Gates and attempted to use Haki while in this state.
Once again, Mu Yue gathered chakra in his hand, and soon his palm was covered by the black substance of Armed Haki.
Mu Yue was not surprised. The more gates of the Eight Inner Gates were opened, the more violent the chakra became. Even at the first gate, he could perform ninjutsu.
"Gate of Rest, open! Gate of Life, open!" Mu Yue opened two gates in quick succession and instantly felt the chakra within him becoming uncontrollable.
At the third gate, Mu Yue found it impossible to perform ninjutsu due to the challenging nature of chakra control.
Prepared for this, Mu Yue didn't mind. If he couldn't perform fine manipulations, then he simply wouldn't.
Mu Yue burst out with chakra throughout his body, using Armed Haki. The pitch-black Haki instantly covered him, making him look like he was wearing a tight-fitting black suit of armor.
Mu Yue could feel the chakra within him being rapidly depleted.
The chakra consumption of using Armed Haki all over his body was far greater than just using it on his palm or arm. If he wanted to maintain the strength of the Armed Haki, the cost would be even higher.
For Mu Yue, using Armed Haki all over his body was not worth it. He could switch to Lightning Release: Breath Method and burst away when facing most ninjutsu, consuming far less chakra than the cost of enduring it with full-body Armed Haki.
However, Might Guy was different. With the vast amount of chakra he gained from opening the Eight Inner Gates, he couldn't use it all up, and his attacks were purely taijutsu, requiring him to fight in close quarters most of the time. Armed Haki all over his body would provide excellent protection.
After completing all the tests, Mu Yue concluded that Armed Haki could be used in conjunction with the Eight Inner Gates, but forget about concentrating it on a single point to enhance strength or harden just an arm. It was all or nothing—either he couldn't use it, or it covered his entire body, with no way to control specific areas.
Furthermore, he couldn't use Armed Haki to enhance weapons; he could only harden and cover his body with it.
Mu Yue could only describe the combination of Eight Inner Gates and Armed Haki as the ultimate in brute force with no finesse whatsoever.
Mu Yue also tried using Eight Inner Gates, Rock Breath stripes, and Armed Haki together, but the chakra consumption was so extreme that he quickly stopped after less than three seconds.
The chakra depletion was absurd; he couldn't maintain the three gates of the Eight Inner Gates with this.
Mu Yue would rather just use Eight Inner Gates with Rock Breath or Eight Inner Gates with Armed Haki, even if it made him slightly weaker. This way, he could fight for a more extended period.
"I wonder how long it'll take Guy to learn this. Before mastering Armed Haki, it's a brute force style, but Yin Release is even more difficult to learn than the five basic natures." Mu Yue felt that teaching Guy Armed Haki from scratch might be several times more difficult than teaching him Rock Breath.
While Rock Breath was challenging, it suited Guy's personality well, and it was considered a taijutsu.
Armed Haki was different. It was a genuine Yin Release secret technique, and one had to learn Yin Release nature transformation to use it.
Although Guy wasn't as bad as Rock Lee, who couldn't learn ninjutsu at all, his ninjutsu talent was still pitiful.
Previously, when Mu Yue taught Guy the Shadow Clone Technique, it had been a real headache. Kakashi had learned it in one go, but it had taken Guy a month to reach a proficiency of over 40, and that was with the assistance of the Teaching System.
In the end, Mu Yue gave up and told Guy not to bother learning it, as Shadow Clones weren't very useful for him anyway.
Facing such a Guy, even with the upgraded Teaching System, his own proficiency in Yin Release nature transformation, and his perfect-grade Haki, Mu Yue felt that teaching Guy the basics of Armed Haki would still be very challenging, and it might take years.
(End of Chapter)
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