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Chapter 118: Experimenting with Sage Arts, Exploring Sage Mode
Inside the room.
Konan spread the transcribed "Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation" and "Sage Art: White Rage Technique" flat on the table.
She looked at Alex. "Alex, I'm ready."
Alex nodded.
His white paper body expanded with a swish, covering the texts.
[Golden Finger Activated: Replication!]
In the next second.
Alex flew away, his size returning to the normal size of a palm.
Konan asked with concern, "Alex, how did it go? Did you learn them?"
After all, these were Sage Arts, different from ordinary ninjutsu. She was a bit worried there might be complications.
[Don't worry. My ability is very powerful. Even Sage Arts can be learned instantly.]
As long as it was text-based, it was within the range of Alex's replication.
Mastered in an instant.
He flew above Konan's head. While she looked on in confusion, he shot a red dragon of light from his paper body.
Sage Art: White Rage Technique!
Alex had Konan's Senjutsu chakra stored in his body, allowing him to use Sage Arts at any time.
The red dragon exploded, and blinding white light filled every corner of the room.
It turned into a sea of light; nothing could be seen in the vast whiteness.
At the same time, the surrounding air vibrated violently.
Konan had her vision and senses stripped away instantly, as if she had been isolated from the world.
Her body also felt intense paralysis due to the high-frequency vibration of the air.
Her eardrums trembled violently; only a sharp humming sound remained, and she could hear nothing else.
The white light soon dissipated, and the air stopped vibrating. She gradually regained her senses and ability to move.
Alex floated down in front of Konan: [Konan, how was that Sage Art?]
Konan let out a long breath, taking a good while to recover before saying, "It strips away vision and perception, and paralyzes the enemy with intense air vibrations."
"This Sage Art seems primarily designed to restrict the enemy, depriving them of the power to resist. It is especially effective against enemies with special eyes."
[Exactly.]
Under the shroud of the special white light, whether it was the Sharingan, Mangekyo, or Byakugan, vision would be domineeringly stripped away.
Other sensory ninjutsu would also be interrupted by the Natural Energy within the white light, rendering them useless.
The intense vibration of the air around the body would produce strong paralysis.
As a means of restricting enemies, this Sage Art was quite excellent.
Konan pondered, frowning slightly. "This Sage Art is indeed powerful, but considering the coverage of the white light... even if I cast it myself, I'm afraid I would be affected as well, having my vision stripped."
[That would indeed happen.]Alex nodded.
This large-area white light did not distinguish between friend and foe.
Kabuto Yakushi was able to see and move freely in the white light because he covered his eyes with a special protective snake membrane and had modified his body to be immune to the paralysis caused by air vibrations.
Naturally, Konan didn't have such means.
But Alex, being a piece of paper, was unaffected by the white light and air vibrations.
He hadn't figured out how to solve the visual problem for Konan's eyes yet.
But the physical paralysis was easy to solve.
Think it, do it.
Alex released "Sage Art: White Rage Technique" again.
Immediately, he flew back into Konan's chest and used Dark Medical Ninjutsu.
Paralysis, to put it plainly, was a form of physical damage. It just needed to be healed, which was very simple for Dark Medical Ninjutsu.
Paralyzing while healing—it was a piece of cake for Alex.
As a steady stream of medical chakra poured into every part of her body, Konan felt the paralysis fading rapidly.
Once a dynamic equilibrium was reached, her body no longer felt a trace of numbness.
The ringing in her ears disappeared simultaneously.
Under the White Rage Technique, aside from being unable to see or sense, she could move normally.
At this time, Alex could naturally act as her eyes, leaving her basically unaffected.
The white light dissipated.
This time, Konan returned to normal quickly, without the discomfort she felt the previous time.
Alex flew out from her chest: [Konan, with me here, you can move freely under the White Rage Technique.]
"It's a good thing I have you, Alex," Konan smiled. "If it were just me alone, not to mention how long it would take to learn this powerful Sage Art, even if I learned it, using it would likely hurt me as much as the enemy."
Hehehe...Alex smiled smugly inside.
Then he began to experiment with the next Sage Art.
Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation. It lived up to its name.
By absorbing Natural Energy, it endowed inorganic matter with life force, transforming it into organic forms that could be controlled freely.
Alex landed back on the ground, a grey light flashing on his paper body.
—Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!
The moment Senjutsu chakra was injected, the entire floor, and even the walls and ceiling of the room, seemed to come alive.
Ripple-like fluctuations appeared on the hard stone surfaces.
Stone spikes thrust toward Konan, who was surrounded in the center, from all directions.
Under Alex's control, they stopped only ten centimeters from her skin.
The tips of the stone spikes contained abundant Natural Energy, and the overall material strength had been enhanced unknown times over.
Extremely sharp and sturdy.
It was evaluated as a Super S-rank physical attack with terrifying power.
A lifelike grey stone dragon swayed its body with extreme agility in front of Konan.
Its tail was linked into the floor.
Subsequently, all the stone spikes suddenly transformed into various stone creations.
There were foolishly cute rabbits, majestic and domineering tigers, insidious crawling poisonous snakes, and so on.
Under Alex's control, the originally lifeless stones all turned into vivid, stone animals full of vitality.
Konan watched all this in astonishment. "This is Inorganic Reincarnation? It can actually bestow life upon stones?"
[It's not true life.]Alex flew to her side.
[Rather than life, it's more appropriate to call them puppets. Once the Sage Art is interrupted, they will revert to stone.]
It was just that compared to ordinary puppets, their material was harder, and they could be controlled more at will.
Their abilities far exceeded those of ordinary puppets.
It was merely Inorganic Reincarnation; naturally, it was far inferior to true Daoist magic that could turn stone into spirits.
Alex controlled a stone spike to stab at a prepared block of refined iron.
Squelch!
It sank into the block easily, piercing right through.
This kind of attack object created by Inorganic Reincarnation was extremely hard and sharp.
It was worthy of the name of a Super S-rank physical attack.
After testing the power, Alex began to control all the stone creations to merge back into the floor and walls one by one.
Then he dispersed the Sage Art, and the whole room returned to its original state.
Konan looked at the iron block with a large hole pierced through it. "The power of Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation is quite good. It can be said to be the sharpest means to break defenses."
"I just don't know if it can pierce the Fourth Raikage's Strongest Lightning Armor."
That...
Alex pondered, unable to be certain.
Whether it could pierce or not would only be known after trying.
The coverage range of these two Sage Arts would increase with the amount of Senjutsu chakra used.
After this round of experiments, overall, Alex was very satisfied with the power of these two Sage Arts.
Their strength had advanced another step.
Konan suddenly held Alex. "Alex, transfer a little Senjutsu chakra to me. I want to enter Sage Mode."
[Hmm?]Alex was confused. [What for? There's no battle.]
Konan leaned in close to him, smiling ambiguously. "Don't you want to try the ice muscle and jade bones under Sage Mode?"
The skin and flesh of Sage Mode...
That... indeed requires detailed exploration.
Her hot breath made Alex's heart itch, like a cat's paw scratching at his heartstrings.
He really couldn't refuse such a request for exploration.
Konan hugged Alex with a smile, turned around, and walked toward the bathroom.
Next was time to explore the secrets of Sage Mode...
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