Chapter 33: Kakashi in the Thunderstorm
"Lightning Cutter Scroll!"
"Using this scroll will grant full mastery of the S-rank ninjutsu—Lightning Cutter!"
The description was simple, yet its content was shocking. From nothing more than a beginner treasure chest, an S-rank ninjutsu had actually appeared!
"Learn!"
Li Jie xuan took out the scroll and chose to learn it without the slightest hesitation.
The very next second, his consciousness abruptly shifted into a raging thunderstorm…
"Boom!"
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, as if the world itself were about to be torn in two by the earth-shattering bolts.
Yet within the unbroken downpour, Li Jie xuan noticed a small figure standing alone in the wind and rain…
"Kakashi!"
That dazzling silver-white hair was like lightning itself against the black of night.
It was Kakashi in his youth—but what was he doing here?
Li Jie xuan couldn't help but widen his eyes. It felt like watching a movie that was almost indistinguishable from reality. He could clearly feel the dampness of the rain and the savagery of the thunder.
The fierce wind blew, causing Kakashi's silver hair to sway gently…
"Crackle—"
Pale blue lightning leapt into existence. Kakashi lowered both hands, and a brilliant mass of blue lightning suddenly ignited within his palms!
In the next instant, Kakashi himself transformed into lightning, shooting straight toward the sky like a bolt of electricity!
Blazing blue lightning surged upward, rising against the thunder.
At that exact moment, a massive bolt of pure white lightning came crashing down from the heavens.
Li Jie xuan held his breath in tension. Time itself seemed to slow to a crawl…
But in the end, the pure white lightning and the violent blue lightning collided fiercely in the pitch-black rainstorm!
"Boom!"
The deafening explosion plunged the entire world into silence.
The sky trembled as the enormous white bolt split cleanly down the middle, breaking apart into two smaller strands of lightning that fell toward the ground…
"It was cut!"
"He actually cut the lightning!"
Li Jie xuan's entire body began to tremble uncontrollably. "Kakashi… cut the lightning."
And at that moment, the blue lightning that had cleaved the bolt showed no sign of stopping, continuing straight ahead until it finally slowed after piercing through hundreds of massive trees…
"So this is Lightning Cutter!"
Once Li Jie xuan realized this, everything before his eyes began to fade away. Only when that silver-white, disheveled hair vanished from view did he slowly come back to his senses.
This scroll had actually let him experience the birth of Lightning Cutter!
"Ox—Rabbit—Monkey!"
Forming seals by pure instinct, faint pale-blue lightning began to appear in Li Jie xuan's palm…
"Crackle—"
Even though he was still soaking in the tub, Li Jie xuan unconsciously pushed his hand forward.
"Lightning Cutter!"
The entire sequence of movements flowed smoothly, as if it were second nature.
The pale-blue lightning gradually gathered in his palm, forming a deep-blue blade. But just as the blade reached halfway through its formation, an overwhelming sense of exhaustion and emptiness surged through him.
His chakra was depleted!
The shortage of chakra caused the half-formed deep-blue blade to tremble violently.
Yet Li Jie xuan could only stare dumbly at the incomplete Lightning Cutter blade in his hand…
At last, the half-formed blade exploded with a thunderous bang, breaking apart into hundreds of razor-sharp arcs of electricity that shrieked piercingly through the air…
Those hundreds of lightning strands bloomed like a silver bouquet, piercing through everything in their path!
Li Jie xuan's mouth fell open. "Chidori?"
There had always been a saying that Chidori was a weakened version of Lightning Cutter. Because Sasuke's research into Lightning Cutter wasn't deep enough, Lightning Cutter had a quieter sound while Chidori was louder—proof that Chidori's energy wasn't as concentrated, that its chakra hadn't been compressed enough.
But in Li Jie xuan's case, the situation was completely reversed.
Because of the system's existence, his understanding of Lightning Cutter was no less than Kakashi's own.
However, his pitifully small amount of chakra dragged the technique down. With Lightning Cutter only halfway completed, it could only mutate into an uncontrollable Chidori!
The fact that it didn't blow Li Jie xuan to pieces was pure luck…
Only after the fact did Li Jie xuan break out in a cold sweat. Now he finally understood why an S-rank ninjutsu could appear in a beginner treasure chest!
This scroll wasn't like the shuriken-throwing skill rewarded by the system. The scroll only taught you how to use the ninjutsu—it didn't care whether you actually had the chakra or the ability to cast it!
"Seriously screwed…"
Li Jie xuan muttered bitterly to himself. At least it was Lightning Cutter—worst case, it could still turn into Chidori and be released.
If it had been something like Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, that kind of trap skill…
Li Jie xuan would probably already be dead.
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