January 28, Konoha Year 50.
At 8:00 AM, Hyuga Yu, having pulled an all-nighter at the Root base, completed his verification of the relationship between Wind Release and the Caged Bird chakra using temporary, simplified experimental equipment.
Of course, given the crude conditions, Yu only achieved the result that "Wind Release factors" did indeed exist. He used a spectrometer to simply record the process across nearly a hundred decomposition experiments.
In short, the result was as follows:
The concentration and quantity of "Wind attribute factors" naturally present within Hyuga Yu's body were directly and positively correlated with the magnitude of the "gravitational and repulsive forces" produced when combined with the Caged Bird chakra.
These "Wind attribute factors" were not difficult to understand. The essence of Wind Release is the promotion of "force," and these "Wind attribute factors" were like a special energy field, bio-energy frequency, or waveform pushed under the influence of Wind Release.
Since Yu had already mastered the nature transformation of Wind Release and possessed Wind Release: Flowing Astral, which allowed him to freely control cellular activity, pressure, and flow rates, as well as the atomic-level Wind Release: Chakra Scalpel, he was able to use the latter to flow rapidly through the Twelve Regular Meridians. This influenced the resonance between the "Wind factors" and the Caged Bird chakra, causing them to bind more tightly. Consequently, Yu obtained the preliminary "switch" to modify the gravity of the cyan chakra.
For example, right now—
In a corner of the crude laboratory, Hyuga Yu raised his hand and aimed at a coffee cup placed on a wooden table twenty meters away. His five fingers spread slightly, and then he pulled back!
"Universal Pull!"
The next instant—crackle, crackle!
It wasn't just the coffee cup; even the wooden table supporting it, the iron plating fixing the table to the floor, and even the plaster on the wall further behind began to shake under the influence of a suddenly expanding invisible energy. Immediately following—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The wall plaster, iron nails, wooden planks, the table, the coffee cup... everything in the direction Hyuga Yu's palm was aimed was snapped by a terrifying suction force. Driven by countless undercurrents, they flew toward the ball of cyan chakra in the center of Yu's palm!
Yu's eyes narrowed. At the moment the jumble of debris was about to make contact with him, he clenched his fingers.
"Almighty Push!"
—BOOM!
An invisible repulsive force erupted from Yu's palm, blasting forward!
The immense gravitational and repulsive forces acted simultaneously on the debris flying in mid-air, as if two invisible walls had collided. The objects pushed by these two walls were instantly squeezed, deformed, and twisted, turning into flat discs!
Creeeeeak—
A sharp, piercing sound suddenly exploded!
In mid-air, countless flattened "flying discs" fell at Yu's feet.
Judging by the results alone, the "gravitational and repulsive forces" derived from the basic abilities of the Tenseigan chakra that Yu had newly mastered were similar in effect to his own Wind Release: Tensei and Wind Release: Vacuum Universal Pull. However, whether in terms of convenience, casting conditions, or the ceiling of the technique, they were worlds apart.
Moreover, this was not a simple one-to-one replacement. The cyan chakra and Wind Release could be used simultaneously; stacking these two techniques together could unleash even greater power.
According to Yu's preliminary estimates, using both techniques together would instantly consume nearly half of the chakra in his body, but the result would be that he could even pull a Tailed Beast in its complete form!
And in a situation using only the combination of the repulsive force and Wind Release: Tensei, Yu could even consume all of his chakra to create a small-scale "Chaotic Almighty Push."
The coverage radius would be approximately two kilometers.
Beyond that, other new ways to play and applications more suited for shinobi combat were unlocked, though... these would require further detailed development of the ability.
At this moment, Yu looked at the mess twenty meters away, the laboratory floor looking as if an intensity-eight gale had swept through it. He frowned slightly. "The ability is developed, but the precision... is rather pathetic."
"I clearly just wanted a sip of coffee..."
"However, the theory is clear. What comes next is to continuously improve the precision of the gravitational control. Once this ability is developed to its limit, my Wind Release will basically have reached its peak as well."
"Then, it will be time for the development of Yang Release..."
Yu couldn't help but feel expectant. "Wind Release can unlock the gravitational and repulsive characteristics of the Caged Bird chakra. So, what abilities can Yang Release unlock?"
"By extension, what kind of Tenseigan abilities do Fire Release, Water Release, Earth Release, Lightning Release, and even... Yin Release represent?"
"If I gather all seven attributes and complete the Otsutsuki bloodline, will I be able to evolve and obtain the true Tenseigan, stepping into the Six Paths level?"
"That power capable of destroying and reconstructing the world... can I truly master it?"
As he thought this, Yu suddenly raised his head. The vision of his Byakugan swept into the base outside the room, where a figure was walking quickly toward him.
It was Terai.
Terai soon pushed open the door. Upon entering, he saw the "flying discs" all over the floor. He couldn't help but look up at Yu, who looked calm as if he had done nothing. Terai felt the urge to remind him that there were actually training grounds in the base... but in the end, he held it back and said nothing. He held up a scroll he had brought. "Tennin, the Akimichi Clan's Multi-Size Technique has arrived!"
"Also, the team has finished assembling. When do you plan to set out?"
Hearing this, Yu looked at the scroll in Terai's hand, a flash of joy appearing in his eyes. Then, after a moment of thought, he said deeply, "Let's set out now. I can study the secret technique on the road."
"Fine!"
Soon, Yu walked out of the base. After a brief meeting with the members of the three Root companies that had been reassigned, he led them toward the Land of Rain from the direction of the Land of Hot Water.
Meanwhile, on the other side, in a forest outside the Hidden Mist Village.
A handsome young man wearing a white robe, his face wrapped in bandages and his white hair tied in a ponytail, walked through a path covered in pools of blood. Soon, he arrived in front of a round-faced ninja wearing a Hidden Mist forehead protector who was on the verge of death.
The white-haired boy raised an eyebrow and looked faintly at the Mist ninja before him. "The Hidden Mist's Dark Style user, Chūkichi... Heh, I've finally gotten you~"
Chūkichi was vomiting blood, looking at the white-haired boy before him in horror. He struggled to ask: "Who... who are you? Why... why did you attack us!"
Just a minute ago, Chūkichi of the Mist was leading a team on a mission. He was an elite Jonin who had been urgently recalled from the front lines after the Mist's collapse. He possessed a powerful Kekkei Genkai called "Dark Style," which allowed him to absorb others' ninjutsu and chakra for his own use. [Note: In the manga, Dark Style is a sensory ninjutsu, but this follows the movie version where it is offensive/absorptive.]
After the Mist collapse incident triggered by Konoha's "Tennin," Hyuga Yu, the Mist ninjas who rushed back to the village were immediately assigned numerous missions by the Mist Elder Council to stabilize the volatile situation. But while Chūkichi was busy executing his mission, he "suddenly" encountered this eerie white-haired boy on the road.
The opponent attacked without a word. Chūkichi's team consisted of one Jonin and one Chunin, and he himself was an elite Jonin of the Mist. However, when facing this white-haired boy who looked less than fifteen years old, it took less than a minute for all the Mist ninjas present to be killed one by one in an extremely brutal fashion. These Jonin were like little chicks in the opponent's hands, "kneaded" at will.
"Kneaded" in the physical sense—the heads of his two teammates had been slammed into their stomachs by the white-haired boy's palms. They now lay beside him, blood gurgling from their dark, twisted necks.
He was the only one left alive...
And now, hearing Chūkichi's question, the white-haired boy narrowed his eyes slightly. "Me? Heh, I am but a nobody."
He chuckled and pressed his palm against Chūkichi's face. "But it won't be long... I will become the ruler of this world!"
"By then—"
"Everyone in the entire shinobi world, all those who once looked down on me, will know my name."
Crack!
The white-haired boy's palm applied slight pressure to Chūkichi's face. His fingertips became as hard as steel, easily crushing Chūkichi's skull. The intense pain caused Chūkichi to faint instantly.
Only then did the white-haired boy coldly spit out his name: "Hiruko."
Until there was no more sound around them, and even the birds in the sky dared not chirp, intimidated by the intense killing intent emanating from the boy below.
Hiruko glanced at the unconscious Chūkichi beneath him, the corners of his mouth beneath the bandages curling slightly. "Dark Style: Capture complete."
"With this, I have gathered Steel Style, Swift Style, Storm Style, and now, Dark Style!"
"My Chimera Technique is only missing one last kind—a Kekkei Genkai to supplement spiritual power and achieve the balance of Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements. Finally, with the help of the celestial phenomenon of the Nine-Star Alignment, I will achieve the ultimate evolution, perfectly merging five Kekkei Genkai and obtaining..."
"Eternal life!"
Regarding the choice of the final Kekkei Genkai, Hiruko already had a general idea. Not long ago, the Battle of Kannabi Bridge broke out between Konoha and the Hidden Stone in the Land of Grass. During this battle, Uchiha Obito of the Uchiha Clan died in the line of duty and gave the power of his Kekkei Genkai—the Sharingan—to Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi thus inherited the Kekkei Genkai and gained the power of the Sharingan.
After hearing about this, Hiruko quietly rushed to the Land of Grass and met Kakashi Hatake. After some verification, he was convinced that the Sharingan in Kakashi's eye was special, something different from the ordinary Sharingan of other Uchiha clansmen. As long as he waited for that power to grow, it could help him complete the Chimera Technique!
The Chimera Technique was not complicated; it was simply a cutting-edge gene-fusion technology of the shinobi world that could merge humans with summoned beasts, or humans with humans. How simple was it?
Even Hiruko's three not-so-bright subordinates could learn to operate it and gain powerful strength through it.
But the Chimera Technique was also very difficult. When the number of fusions exceeded two, resulting in multiple Kekkei Genkai, the bloodlines of various shinobi clans would conflict. How to regulate this power to make it harmonize became the most rigorous problem.
Hiruko had researched many alternative solutions but finally found that only elite Kekkei Genkai ninjas among ordinary people could support his completion of the Chimera Technique.
Ninjas with shinobi clan bloodlines often encountered irreconcilable problems during bloodline fusion, which basically ended with the experimental subject exploding.
There were almost no exceptions.
Now, having finished pondering his future plans, Hiruko was about to pick up Chūkichi and leave. However, at that moment, he suddenly discovered that Chūkichi was tightly clutching a storage scroll.
"Hmm? What is this?"
Hiruko tried to pull the scroll out, but failed to pry it loose after several attempts. Even though Chūkichi was unconscious, his fingers were still death-gripped around the scroll, as if it were something extremely important to him and the Mist. This piqued Hiruko's interest. He narrowed his eyes and immediately activated Steel Style, brutally snapping Chūkichi's fingers one by one to extract the scroll. He saw a line of large characters written on it:
Summary of Recovered Items from the Ruins of the Mist Yang Release Laboratory.
Looking at the title, Hiruko was somewhat confused. "Yang Release Laboratory? What is this? With the Mist's environment, they could conduct research experiments of this level?"
Deciding to be thorough, Hiruko opened the scroll and summoned the items within. Soon, piles of powder were continuously spat out from the scroll. At the very end, a light cyan organic sphere was spat out—it was the product Hyuga Yu had left behind in the Mist's Yang Release Laboratory.
The cells within had already died and become inactive, but under the influence of the Yang Release power, it still maintained a "half-dead, half-alive" state, becoming a mass of organic aggregates that held no research value for Yu.
However, as he looked at this organic sphere, Hiruko—who considered his chosen "Chimera Technique" ratio to be perfect—was suddenly stunned. He immediately summoned a large amount of experimental equipment on the spot, used a patch-clamp system to pick up a piece of the organic matter, and observed it under an atomic force microscope. "Wait... this structure?"
His expression suddenly became solemn. "This thing... it can actually harmonize Yin, Yang, the Five Elements, and even the bloodlines of various major shinobi clans so perfectly? It has achieved a relationship of harmonious coexistence?"
"Is this... a new ratio for the Chimera Technique? The bloodlines of the Hyuga, Senju, and Kaguya are actually all inside, along with two unanalyzable substances... and it has a far higher ceiling than my own ratio???"
For a moment, Hiruko felt his scalp go numb. "No, how is this possible?"
Hiruko believed his gene-fusion technology was at the forefront of the shinobi world; the only ones who could compare to him were Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation and the "Snake-style" body modification technology.
After all, the origin of the Chimera Technique was a concept he had when he was assisting Orochimaru in developing body modification technology before defecting from Konoha. But now, someone had actually completed the ultimate ratio for the Chimera Technique before him, without even knowing the technique existed?
"Who on earth is it? Who established this Yang Release Laboratory? And who is doing this research?"
At this thought, Hiruko's breathing tightened. He immediately flipped through the scroll quickly. Finally, his eyes locked onto the laboratory supervisor information column at the end of the scroll, focusing on a name that looked like a code name:
"Tennin"!
Hiruko's eyes narrowed instantly, and a flash of determined greed flickered within them!
"Root's 'Tennin'? Or that brat from the Hyuga Clan who claimed he wanted to become a 'Tennin,' Hyuga Hizashi?"
"No, the only one who could appear in the Mist is the one from Root."
"In other words, it's that kid from the Hyuga Clan who caused the Mist's collapse a few days ago... Hyuga Yu? Is he using the Mist's resources to complete a technique similar to the Chimera Technique?"
"Hmph, interesting~"
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