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Chapter 156 - Chapter 156: The Long Way Around Is the Shortcut

That said, you already possess the standard Otsutsuki traits—Byakugan, an exceptionally powerful body, and vast reserves of chakra.

In fact, you've even acquired some features unique to those who have consumed the God Tree's fruit: Wood Release, the Sharingan, the Adamantine Sealing Chains of the Uzumaki clan… all of which have been enhanced along with your Otsutsuki transformation, including the synthesized Kekkei Genkai.

Even the Shikotsumyaku—Kaguya's exclusive Kekkei Genkai—has undergone evolution.

Though it hasn't developed into the "All-Killing Ash Bones" that can kill on contact, defying even Six Paths-level power, it has fused and mutated with Wood Release and Magnet Release.

Now, you can fire projectiles like tree grafts that not only cause massive tree roots to grow inside the target's body, but also induce a form of metallic transformation—slowly turning the victim into chakra metal, as if magnetically drawn toward natural mineral veins.

And it's incredibly fast.

In comparison, it's a powerful killing move—more than enough to render any ninja with extracted bloodlines into disposable tools, recycled as fuel to enhance your Shikotsumyaku even further.

All in all, while you haven't yet fully reached Six Paths-level power in one leap, you're not far off.

And compared to the Ten Tails' Jinchūriki, you hold a massive advantage: your power belongs entirely to you. You won't plummet in strength if the Tailed Beast's chakra is stripped away.

Your base form alone is already close to the Six Paths tier!

Aside from not having a completed Kekkei Mora and lacking the Six Paths power necessary to withstand Truth-Seeking Orbs head-on, there's really no difference.

But that doesn't mean you can't counter a Truth-Seeking Orb.

With both Uchiha and Wood Release powers at your disposal, if you were to activate a Perfect Susanoo and wrap it around your Wood-Style Buddha...

Susanoo over Buddha!

It might very well be possible to use brute force to directly smash through a Truth-Seeking Orb!

Your body is tough enough to endure the explosion damage caused by the orb's detonation!

And then there's Sage Mode. Truth-Seeking Orbs can't negate Senjutsu. That means, with a large reserve of Sage Chakra, you could forge jutsu capable of resisting them!

...

And finally, another path—one that might seem roundabout to an Uchiha, but is in fact a safer and more stable shortcut to solidifying your Otsutsuki form:

A method not even the Sage of Six Paths might have anticipated.

Although he sealed off the path of Indra and Asura from reaching true Six Paths-level power—meaning that without being their reincarnations or unlocking the Rinnegan through the combined powers of both, no one could reach that height...

And the so-called opportunity to own a Rinnegan was nothing more than a pitfall. Only Nagato, used by Uchiha Madara as a pawn, had it—and even he didn't know how to truly wield it.

You don't need to fight Nagato for what looks like the "only" path forward.

After all, the Sharingan holds infinite potential for ocular techniques!

You found a loophole through a unique ocular power—extracting the Hyūga clan's bloodline for yourself, thus acquiring their lineage and cleverly bypassing the Caged Bird Seal and the clan's traditions...

Which led the way to another immensely powerful path—one that now lies wide open to you:

The Tenseigan.

As long as you awaken the Tenseigan, you'll be able to form Truth-Seeking Orbs!

The doors to Six Paths-level power will finally open for real!

No reincarnation required. No Rinnegan. Not even the Ten Tails' chakra—which can be stripped away—matters.

All you need... is your own Otsutsuki chakra!

...

With that thought, you close your eyes and deactivate your Sharingan.

When you open them again, your pupils have become pure white, gleaming like the full moon—

Byakugan.

For someone with Otsutsuki blood, awakening the Byakugan is only natural.

Next, you retrieve two additional Byakugan from a glass jar. These eyes were taken from Hinata—the main house heiress—so their purity is unquestionable.

You hold in your hands the technique to fuse Byakugan powers directly, absorbing their ocular energy as material, with no need to transplant the eyes themselves.

You simply absorb them.

The two pearl-like Byakugan dissolve into ash in an instant, their pure ocular energy completely absorbed by you.

At that very moment, a strange tremor passes through your heart. The purity of your Byakugan has crossed a critical threshold—marking the first stirrings of the Tenseigan's awakening.

If you had only Hyūga blood, or lacked some essential component of your synthesized Otsutsuki bloodline, this wouldn't have happened. The Tenseigan doesn't awaken so easily.

Unfortunately for others...

But fortunately for you.

You're already a bona fide member of the Otsutsuki clan.

And Hinata's Byakugan is exceedingly pure.

Together, they unlock the path to the Tenseigan!

...

When you open your eyes again, you switch back to your Six Tomoe Sharingan.

You're just more comfortable using the Sharingan. The Byakugan's vision is a bleak, grayscale world—just whites and varying depths of black. Like staring at an X-ray all the time.

No wonder the Hyūga clan—both main and branch—always seem so grim and lifeless...

Besides, while your Byakugan is still evolving toward the Tenseigan, it consumes an enormous amount of Ocular Power. It's best not to use it unless absolutely necessary.

Excessive use could delay its awakening—

Or worse, cause the evolution to fail.

Luckily, you still have the Sharingan to fall back on, so there's no need to worry about exhausting your Byakugan's power.

...

The Tenseigan may be powerful, but you can't neglect your other plans.

You intend to replicate what the Hyūga clan on the Moon once did: forge a massive Tenseigan strong enough to rival the Ten Tails.

It could serve as your personal backup energy source—or act as a catalyst to help your Byakugan evolve into the Tenseigan.

To do that, though, you'll need a massive number of Byakugan—ones not branded with the Caged Bird Seal.

But in the current shinobi world, even if you were to refine the entire Hyūga main house, you still wouldn't gather enough.

So, you have a different plan to mass-produce them—

Bloodline transplantation.

The Byakugan is relatively easy to awaken—among Kekkei Genkai, it's one of the most accessible. Nearly every Hyūga who can use chakra can also awaken it.

For your test subjects who've received transplanted Hyūga blood, awakening the Byakugan is a bit trickier. But with your own Otsutsuki chakra injected into them, it's enough of a stimulus to trigger the eye's awakening.

Using three blood samples taken from the Hyūga branch's guardian squad, you conduct repeated transplants and awakenings.

In a short span, you successfully produce a large number of Byakugan.

...

Though you notice that with each awakening, the transplanted blood becomes thinner, and the resulting Byakugan gradually decline in quality...

You alleviate this by implanting White Zetsu cells into the test subjects, and periodically repairing the Hyūga bloodline using refined bloodline essence.

Even so—

After exhausting the three bloodline samples completely, you've only managed to produce a little over one hundred barely passable Byakugan.

That's only a tenth of the minimum required for forging the giant Tenseigan you envisioned!

And these mass-produced Byakugan fall far short in purity—even worse than the Hyūga branch's standard.

Using them as raw material would likely result in failure unless you increased their quantity a hundredfold to offset the impurity!

"Looks like I'll have to start studying cloning techniques..."

You decide to change your approach with these Byakugan. You set aside a few higher-quality ones to nourish your own Tenseigan evolution.

The rest you'll transplant into the most promising researchers in your team.

With the Byakugan's powers, their research capabilities will surely reach new heights.

As for the remaining dozen or so, you plan to reserve a few as material for your team's early breakthroughs...

The rest?

You'll send them to Orochimaru—to assist him in his cloning research.

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