REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!Chapter 85: Traces of the Otsutsuki
Originally, Yasushi had planned to give up—simply discard these stolen things. But a Mangekyo accidentally seized from Kakashi brought a turning point.
That Mangekyo Sharingan had originally belonged to Obito. Moreover, this eye wasn't obtained through an ocular technique, so it wouldn't be affected by the technique's negative influences. The result was:
The ocular power stolen from Obito couldn't fuse with Yasushi's own ocular power, but it was absorbed by this Mangekyo Sharingan—stored there!
Aha!
Now the stolen goods had a channel for fencing!
Though using it was still very laborious and not smooth enough, at least it was a good start.
So Yasushi stored all of Obito's ocular power in that Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan. As for Itachi's ocular power, he had no choice but to keep storing it in his body, waiting to figure out a solution later.
With the ocular power fused from Fugaku's eyes, Yasushi could completely suppress the conflicts caused by Itachi and Obito's ocular powers. But during the battle at Konoha, Itachi's eyes unexpectedly advanced!
When Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan evolved into Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, he detected Yasushi's ocular technique and severed it in time, cutting off Yasushi's path to stealing his ocular power. However, the high-quality ocular power generated during advancement was still partially stolen through the existing channel.
It was this portion of high-quality ocular power that caused the imbalance in Yasushi's ocular power!
That's why he came to find Orochimaru so urgently—wanting to use the First Hokage cells' Wood Release to construct a new power balance, perhaps even taking the opportunity to claim Itachi's ocular power for himself.
But there was no need to tell Orochimaru these things. He merely nodded silently, pointing at his chest, indicating the very center of the triangle formed by the three Mangekyo Sharingan on his body:
"Transplant it here."
Orochimaru nodded with a smile. "Fine. Actually, transplanting anywhere doesn't make much difference."
After recording all data in detail, Orochimaru picked up the scalpel and smiled at Yasushi:
"Get ready. I'm beginning!"
Knowing Yasushi didn't trust him, he didn't administer anesthesia. He simply reached out and cut an incision at the location Yasushi specified.
Blood flowed out. Orochimaru ignored it, only methodically extracting First Hokage cells mixed with inhibitors, precisely implanting them in Yasushi's chest. Then he quickly drew anti-rejection medication and other substances into a syringe, administering them intravenously into Yasushi's body.
Despite the inhibitor's effects, the First Hokage cells already began taking effect.
Without Yasushi needing to heal it, the wound automatically closed.
Orochimaru's serpentine eyes gleamed as he stared intently at Yasushi's condition, holding a small notebook and continuously recording data changes on the instruments.
After a moment, the inhibitor lost effectiveness. Yasushi felt a surge of violent chakra explode from that tiny piece of flesh, spreading throughout his body.
The quantity of this chakra wasn't actually high, but its quality was terrifyingly elevated. Ordinary chakra simply couldn't resist its erosion—it was devastatingly defeated, assimilated, then rapidly developed and strengthened.
However, when this chakra rose toward Yasushi's shoulders, it was immediately suppressed.
Two Mangekyo Sharingan resided there, both from Uchiha Fugaku's selfless contribution.
When the chakra tried moving downward, it encountered Obito's Kamui Mangekyo and was still suppressed.
After multiple setbacks, the Wood Release chakra randomly surged toward his limbs and body. Yasushi's muscles began bulging and transforming—flesh one moment, tree trunk the next. Green branches began growing all over his body.
But Yasushi wasn't anxious at all, allowing this Wood Release chakra to rampage throughout his body.
Only when mutations somewhere became too excessive would he activate his Mangekyo Sharingan, injecting Yin Release ocular power there to balance things slightly.
Otherwise, he left everything to his body's automatic adaptation.
Sure enough, everything went as he expected. The portion of Yin Release chakra belonging to Itachi finally clashed with the Wood Release chakra.
The two battled back and forth within his body, fighting fiercely.
Yasushi was like a biased referee, coldly observing the battle's direction. Whichever side grew weak, he'd go help a bit, keeping the battle always in a stalemate state.
Finally, after a long offensive and defensive war, the chakra fluctuations within his body slowed down.
A new energy balance had formed!
Yasushi sat up from the examination table. Ignoring Orochimaru's unsatisfied expression, he extended his fingers and toyed with the small sapling growing from there. After repeated attempts, he finally successfully dispersed all traces of Wood Release from his body.
However, to smoothly execute Wood Release jutsu would probably require some practice time.
As for not having Wood Release jutsu in hand, that wasn't a big problem. He could just find Zetsu—he definitely had plenty of Wood Release secret techniques.
He moved his body, got down from the examination table, spat a small fireball to burn away the blood on the table, then thanked Orochimaru.
Orochimaru waved his hand with a chuckle:
"No need to thank me. It's all just transactions."
"Reanimation and First Hokage cell transplant are both complete. When do you want the Snake Sage Mode?"
Yasushi thought for a moment and shook his head.
"Snake Sage Mode isn't urgent. Let me first digest the First Hokage cells and Wood Release."
"Fine. When you need it, give me advance notice. I also need to schedule ahead with the Snake Sage."
After the two made arrangements, Yasushi stood to take his leave. But his gaze swept over the Byakugan, and his heart stirred with curiosity:
"You have dozens of pairs of Byakugan here. Did you obtain the method to unseal the Caged Bird curse mark from Hiashi Hyuga?"
"No." Orochimaru's eyes showed regret as he shook his head. "Hiashi Hyuga is a tough man. He refused to admit the relationship between the Caged Bird and Tenseigan even unto death."
"I interrogated several main family elders and shinobi. They also refused to admit it."
"I had summoning beasts request the Leader's Human Path puppet to help search for intelligence, but before the Human Path arrived, Hiashi was rescued."
"Rescued?" Yasushi was stunned. "Konoha still has someone who can rescue people from your hands? Didn't you go recapture him?"
"That's where it gets most interesting." Orochimaru showed no disappointment—instead, he excitedly flicked his tongue again. "That person wasn't from Konoha. I didn't recognize him at all."
"But he happened to have Byakugan!"
"Byakugan?" Yasushi's heart stirred with realization. He urgently asked: "Was that Byakugan shinobi also able to control many puppets?"
"Looks like you know something!" Orochimaru smiled even more happily. "That's right. Along with that shinobi came many humanoid puppets."
"These puppets had no eyes, but moved agilely with extremely high flexibility. They didn't need chakra threads for control at all—nothing like those stiff puppets from Sunagakure. Instead, they were more like Nagato's Six Paths puppets, capable of autonomous action, just much weaker."
"Ah, then there's no mistake!" Yasushi had an epiphany. "That's Otsutsuki Toneri!"
"Wait, Otsutsuki Toneri is still young now. Could it have been his father?"
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