You used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport Shinnō and Gennō one after the other to the research base established on the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools.
Both were exceptional talents in their own right. Shinnō, who developed a body activation technique capable of neutralizing the side effects of the Eight Gates, was easily a medical ninjutsu expert on par with Tsunade.
Gennō, on the other hand, was a master of mechanical traps. His explosive tag mechanisms were so well-concealed that even the Byakugan struggled to detect them.
You tasked them with different areas of focus: one would specialize in biology, the other in technology. Supplementing them was Karin, whose expertise in sealing techniques made her a vital core member of this research group...
You once again took out the "Fission Technique" scroll copy and handed it to Shinnō for translation and research. While he may not have Orochimaru's genius for technology, his mastery in biology—especially in cellular manipulation—was undeniable, given he had successfully developed the body activation technique.
After assigning your tasks, you acquired a complete set of textbooks titled "Fundamentals and Advanced Shinobi Technology" compiled by Orochimaru, from Gato's research team. With your own intuition and talent, you began studying them at high speed.
Only by fully grasping this scientific foundation could you forge your own path in technological research—just like how one needed to understand chakra and sealing formulas before mastering ninjutsu or fūinjutsu.
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〖Seventh Year〗
Using the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai extracted from Yamato's body, you successfully analyzed the method of its synthesis.
You further refined the Hyūga main family's bloodline, purging it entirely of impurities.
The bodies of ninja delivered by Gato soon piled up throughout the underground base. You extracted them for their bloodline essence, producing an entire bottle of refined bloodline fluid.
This time, you resolved to fuse both the Wood Release and Hyūga clan bloodlines at once!
As with synthesizing other elemental Kekkei Genkai, you first refined both Water and Earth Release to their purest forms and activated their latent properties.
Having already fused four different Kekkei Genkai, you were more than familiar with the process. After ingesting a specially formulated potion, you carefully followed the intricate structures within the Wood Release bloodline.
You gradually guided your own Water and Earth chakra natures to combine into various formations.
And then it happened.
That strange gray energy—possibly divine in nature—suddenly surged forth again. Just as you were about to use the prototype Transcription Seal hidden in your eye to stabilize it, the energy flowed directly into your Sharingan.
What followed was extraordinary.
Both the external Wood Release bloodline and the one beginning to form within your body suddenly transformed into countless runes.
Once they assumed this runic form, it became easy for you to pinpoint the gaps and inconsistencies between the two. And because these runes bore similarities to sealing formulas, you found you could actually force your bloodline to evolve!
Originally, your ocular powers only allowed you to remove bloodline rejection symptoms and harmonize two bloodlines.
But now—with this mysterious power boosting you—your understanding of Kekkei Genkai had reached a whole new level. You weren't just repairing flaws anymore; you could enhance and improve them!
If you had enough time and ocular power, you could theoretically take an ordinary person with no chakra and, by inscribing them with these divine runes, grant them the ability to refine chakra—or even implant them with a Kekkei Genkai!
Could this truly be the power of a god?
Perhaps it came from an Ōtsutsuki deity... or something else entirely. You had a growing sense that the shinobi world was far more complex than it seemed on the surface.
Under the infusion of this divine energy, not only did you perfectly replicate the Wood Release, but you also enhanced its bloodline purity—pushing it to an ancestral level rivaling even Hashirama Senju himself!
However, wielding such power came at a heavy cost.
Just completing the structure of Wood Release blurred your vision and consumed more than half your chakra reserves.
Faced with such depletion, you had no choice but to shut the process down temporarily. You would need to wait for your ocular power to recover before continuing to refine your bloodline and further explore the applications of this divine energy.
The newly born Wood Release bloodline converged in your heart, ready to surge through your body with the next heartbeat and integrate completely.
Closing your eyes, you quickly locked onto the remaining bloodline essence and the purified Hyūga bloodline nearby. With a wave of your hand, you drew both into your palm, then immediately consumed them.
At that moment, ancestral Wood Release, pure Hyūga lineage, and the very essence of bloodline power swept through your entire body.
You felt your entire being swell.
Your flesh, bones, meridians, dantian—even your spirit—became incredibly active.
Then came the explosive surge.
The surrounding matter, energy—everything on the floating island—became nourishment for your breakthrough.
The Tailed Beasts within the floating island were rapidly drained of chakra by the Adamantine Sealing Chains. Constructs composed of Kekkei Genkai began to shrink. The barrier surrounding the island collapsed with a thunderous boom.
The ocean, the air, even the lightning in the sky responded to your awakening, clashing with immense force and generating surges of energy.
You absorbed them in an instant, yet they were still not enough.
So the air and sea joined in—reefs from the ocean floor, fish tossed by waves, birds in the sky, clouds overhead...
Everything that could be drawn in was pulled into your body.
A massive rift appeared in the cloud-covered sky, sunlight pouring directly onto you, bending slightly around your form.
In the ocean, a deep vortex opened, swallowing endless seawater yet never filling up.
Empowered by this deluge of energy, your aura soared skyward.
A white, silky cocoon gradually enveloped your body, layering around you as drastic changes began within.
Finally—
Crack!
A sharp sound echoed as a slit tore through the cocoon.
The rift between sea and sky sealed up. The cocoon shattered completely.
You stepped out into the air.
But there was no divine robe. No Truth-Seeking Orbs circled behind you.
As expected—without a true Rinnegan, and not being the reincarnation of Asura or Indra—even though you had gathered both of their bloodlines, you were still a step short...
The Six Paths had not opened for you.
Clearly, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, wasn't as generous as he appeared to be.
Though he seemed to have bestowed chakra upon humanity, he had split the Ten-Tails—most intimately tied to chakra—into nine Tailed Beasts. Its true body was sealed on the Moon.
The Rinnegan was divided into two halves: one with Indra, the other with Asura.
Moreover, the ability to awaken the Rinnegan wasn't just a matter of bloodline density...
There was something critical hidden within their bodies.
You reached up to your temples.
There—slightly bulging beneath your skin—were two hardened growths.
Bone-like horns.
Still buried under the flesh... but undeniably forming.
You had truly begun your Ōtsutsuki transformation.
This was something neither Indra nor Asura ever possessed. Only those who surpassed the second-generation Ōtsutsuki bloodline, like the Sage of Six Paths, could attain it.
And yet, even though you had now surpassed them in bloodline purity—even physically manifesting Ōtsutsuki traits—you were still just a blank-slate Ōtsutsuki.
Could it be due to your lack of Yin-Yang Release and the Kekkei Mora?
You couldn't help but think that your current state resembled that of Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki—one from a branch family, lacking the full might of the main line.
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