Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 143 Thousand Hands
Ring ring ring!
The urgent school bell rang in the ninja school, and the 'little radishes' who were playing around in various parts of the classroom reluctantly returned to their seats.

Naruto lowered his head, quickly stuffed a whole box of strawberry heart-shaped cookies into his mouth, and skillfully picked out the love letter covered in food crumbs and threw it into the plastic bag on the table.

These are all clever tricks devised by Gray Glass's suitors.

When they discovered that she only accepted food and not love letters, they started to come up with crooked ideas, stuffing love letters into boxes full of food.

This was tough on Naruto, who loved to chew his food in big bites.

Every time he helped Hui Li clean up the snacks, he had to be careful, because those people would not only put love letters in the snacks, but also small gifts and toys.

such as--

puff!
Naruto puffed out his cheeks and spat out a tiny kunai.

The kunai was only the size of a little finger, and when it fell on the table, it made a solid clanging sound. I wonder which brilliant person came up with this idea.

Even if Hui Li is a cultivation fanatic, she shouldn't give him this gift, right?
He turned to look at Hui Li beside him.

She was looking down at a thick book, occasionally scribbling incomprehensible characters on a draft paper with the tip of her pen.

She has been in this state for the past few days, supposedly studying knowledge about incantations and seals.

The rule was that blind people can't see the text, so I have to help them copy notes?

Ugh, I got scammed!
Naruto channeled his grief and anger into his appetite, and quietly opened another box of snacks below.

Wow...

'Ninja School Gray Glass' flipped through the basic knowledge of curse seals and sealing techniques borrowed from Hiruzen Sarutobi.

To alleviate the pressure from the Ash Bones, the Yang Release clone seeks out Hashirama's cells within the Root, while also searching for new clues.

If a powerful sealing technique is inscribed on the ashes in the form of a spell, could it temporarily suppress the bone's ability to devour, giving the Yang Release clone a little more time?
With her fingertips tapping the pages, Gray Glass searched for a new breakthrough, word by word.

Ring bell…

The school bell rang softly.

The students quickly took their seats, and Iruka walked in from outside with a textbook, tapping the blackboard with his pointer to completely silence the buzzing chatter.

"This lesson is about the history of the ninja world. Turn to page 43 of your history book. We'll talk about the beginning of the First Shinobi World War."

Da da!

The chalk scribbled and drew on the blackboard, recounting that boring period of history.

"Two years after the battle at the Valley of the End, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, passed away. In March of the same year, the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, succeeded him as Hokage, and the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Leaf Village..."

Iruka's soporific voice rang out in the classroom as usual, but Gray Li kept her head down and continued studying the spell seals, seemingly oblivious to the sound.

at the same time.

The experimental department of the No. 3 underground base.

Can immortal beings also suffer from bloodline diseases?

Upon hearing Chihaya Toru's words, Kairi raised an eyebrow.

The bloodline disease brought about by the evolution of the Corpse Bone Pulse has already caused her great distress, forcing her to delve into the Root to find Hashirama cells as an antidote.

But judging from what Chihaya Tohka said, it seems that the Hashirama cells also have their own problems.

"Bloodline disease, as the name suggests, is a general term for diseases caused by mutations in a ninja's bloodline limit."

Thinking that Hairi didn't understand the meaning of bloodline disease, Chihaya Toru explained it to her.

"This is an incurable disease that only ninjas who have awakened their bloodline limit, and who are outstanding geniuses with powerful bloodlines, are qualified to suffer from."

Oh, by the way, people like you are most prone to this kind of genius syndrome.

To explain things thoroughly, Chihaya Toru humorously used Hairi as an example.

Hui Li stared indifferently at Chihaya Toru without uttering a word.

"Ha ha……"

The silence made Chihaya Tohru feel a little awkward, and she chuckled awkwardly, "Don't worry, you're not that easy to get a bloodline disease..."

"Let's talk about interstitial cells."

The cold voice echoed in the basement, and she suddenly understood why Ryoma Aburame was the way he was.

"sorry."

Chihaya Toru quickly apologized and continued:

"When I was teaching you medical ninjutsu, I said that life force is the most corrosive and dangerous force in the world."

Excessive vitality can cause terrible deformities in the patient's wounds, and even mutate the body's genes, leaving future generations to suffer.

The vitality of the interstitial cells is beyond description.

Super cells, born from an unstoppable life force, devour energy indiscriminately, regardless of friend or foe.

It will uncontrollably destroy everything around it, expanding, splitting, and converting chakra without limit, until even it can no longer bear this power. It can only passively use Wood Release to release this power and turn itself into a giant tree.

As the cells lignified, the ability to reproduce infinitely disappeared, and Hashirama's physical body died.

This is the truth behind the First Generation's death.

The basement suddenly fell silent.

Hui Li stared at the giant tree, which was bursting to death by an uncontrollable force—what a rich way to die.

She devoured the Three-Tails and the Nine-Tails in succession, yet she still felt her chakra was insufficient. It's hard to imagine what it would feel like to be overwhelmed by the rampage of one's own chakra.

Anyway, it should be much better than dying from having your bones drained dry.

The Sharingan, Shikotsumyaku, and Sage Body all develop bloodline diseases to varying degrees when they evolve to a certain level. It seems that the weakest of these, the Byakugan, has never been known to have any cases of this disease.

Good fortune may be the harbinger of misfortune, and misfortune may be the harbinger of good fortune.

The Byakugan's power is difficult to acquire, its upper limit is extremely difficult to reach, and its lower limit is very low, but it is stable and does not have these strange symptoms, making it a very high-quality bloodline limit.

Hui Li thought to herself, becoming increasingly satisfied with her own eye-rolling.

"Even Hashirama Senju himself couldn't control this power, so it would be even more difficult for others to control."

That's exactly what happened.

We transplanted interstitial cells into many people, and apart from one lucky child, no one could withstand the erosion caused by the interstitial cells.

"Aren't there successful examples?"

Hui Li recalled the plot of the original work.

The only child Chihaya mentioned is likely Yamato. He was the sole survivor of Orochimaru's human experiments, joined Root under the codename "Kō," and was later defeated by Kakashi during the assassination attempt on Hiruzen Sarutobi, subsequently joining the Anbu.

He is considered the only inheritor of Wood Release in Konoha.

"That child somehow managed to merge his cells with Hashirama's cells. The newly formed cells no longer possessed that abnormally terrifying vitality, nor could they break through the limits of humanity. He merely obtained the Wood Release bloodline limit, which is far from a success."

One of my very talented collaborators abandoned the interstitial cell transplantation experiment and parted ways with me after that failed experiment.

Chihaya Tohru's expression showed regret when she mentioned that business partner.

"It's Orochimaru, the one you just mentioned."

Hui Li guessed.

"Well, you might not have heard of him. He's your... senior brother." "Why did you two go your separate ways?"

"Our ideologies don't align, um... let's not talk about him."

Not wanting Hairi to know too much about Orochimaru and potentially ruin Danzo's plans, Chihaya Toru quickly steered the conversation back on track.

"Interstitial cell transplantation experiments have been going on for countless years."

Transplant recipients range from the elderly on their deathbeds to newborn babies.

From ordinary ninjas with no talent to elite Jonin-level ninjas with bloodline limits, even members of the same clan as Hashirama Senju, none could withstand this strange power.

Chihaya Toru stroked the glass.

Under the palm of your hand.

The mangled, fleshy base and the struggling limbs tell the story of the experiment's outcome.

"You even experimented on the Senju clan?" Hai Li was somewhat shocked; Chihaya Toru's madness had simply exceeded her imagination.

"not me."

Chihaya shook her head and corrected Hairi's wording.

"The Hashirama cell experiments have a history of several decades. When you and I were just starting out in the medical ninja training program, Lord Danzo, the Third Hokage, and the Senju clan themselves were already secretly conducting cell transplantation experiments."

We simply inherited their research data and findings.

Call ~
Hui Li exhaled a deep breath of stale air.

The power of the 'God of Shinobi' is indeed coveted, and she herself joined Root for this reason. Orochimaru turned against his mentor and severed ties with his childhood friends, so it was only natural for the Senju clan to make such a decision.

After all, they had witnessed Hashirama Senju's power firsthand, and their obsession with it was more urgent than anyone else's.

Looking again at the massive base forged from pale flesh, a terrifying thought suddenly arose in Gray Glass's mind:

"What are the results of the Senju clan's experiments...?"

"Didn't I say it before? They all failed."

Chihaya Toru's malnourished face was close to the glass pillar. Under the incandescent light, his face was fully reflected on the smooth glass, colliding with the face of the person struggling to survive in the fleshy base.

"I meant the Thousand Hands..."

"They're all here."

"What?" Gray Glass's eyelashes trembled.

"The Senju clan, who dominated a region during the Warring States period, allied with the Uchiha clan to quell the war and establish Konoha Village, and then mysteriously disappeared."

They're...almost all here.

Through the glass wall bearing a few fingerprints, Chihaya Toru stared at the enormous human flesh base beneath the giant tree, her dark eyes like two deep black holes.

That look in his eyes was terrifyingly calm.

Goooo!

Goooo!

The chunks of meat writhed in the nutrient solution, making an unpleasant sound, as if a beast were chewing its prey.

Hui Li slowly raised her head.

He rolled his eyes as he looked up at the giant tree reflected in the glass.

Faces with different expressions grow on the tree trunk, the lush giant tree sways gently, and green light spots surge, forming a life force ocean like ocean waves.

That's really... too much!

……

Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and the wind stirred them up, occasionally letting in slivers of light.

Zizi!

A burst of lightning.

The main body, who was practicing Lightning Release Chakra Mode at home, suddenly stopped training, stood in the center of the training ground, closed his eyes, concentrated, and pressed his heart with his fingers.

In the void, a double-helix chain stretched outwards from one end to her heart and from the other end indefinitely.

Two streams of chakra swirled within the spiral, exchanging countless memories, knowledge, and images between the main body and the clone.

Hashirama cells, bloodline disease, the Thousand Hands, and the Giant Tree kept flashing through her mind. Only after transferring all the memories did she feel a slight sense of fatigue.

The amount of information is overwhelming.

Hashirama died from a bloodline disease caused by a Sage's body.

The Senju clan's disappearance was not due to following Hashirama Senju's will and merging into Konoha, but rather because horrific human experiments killed 80% of the clan's ninjas, leaving only the old, weak, and disabled to bury the Senju's glory.

According to Chihaya Toh's description.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and the leaders of the Senju clan were all involved in this matter.

Back then, Konoha was in a critical period of being besieged by several major ninja villages. Under various pressures, the three parties launched a massive human experiment in order to reproduce Hashirama Senju's divine power.

Back then, medical ninja training was not as advanced as it is now, and the number of people trained was very small.

Chihaya Toru, who was still a child at the time, learned medical ninjutsu from one of the many researchers, so he knew a lot of inside information.

At first, the Senju clan was relatively restrained, only using the elderly for experiments. Later, they started using young adults and teenagers. The sunk costs became higher and higher, and the people who witnessed the power of Hashirama's cells became more and more crazy. Finally, they refused to give up and even let infants participate in the experiments.

This decision completely eradicated the Senju clan.

The final result was nothing but the giant tree with its almost limitless vitality, and the renowned Senju clan perished.

It's really sad.

Thinking of the base in her memory, which had been built by countless people, Hui Li's feelings were hard to describe.

On the one hand, she felt saddened by the hasty demise of the Senju clan; on the other hand, her own attempt to transplant Hashirama's cells seemed no different from his.

Transplanting interstitial cells seems to be a dead end.

Chihaya Toru subsequently provided Hairi with a great deal of medical ninjutsu information, experimental data reports, directions for Hashirama cell research, and many issues during the transplantation process.

The more reports I reviewed, the more my belief in transplanting interstitial cells with gray glass became shaken.

awful.

It's really miserable.

The thick experimental reports were full of death lists. Even those one or two who survived turned into half-human, half-tree monsters, with no research value, and were all thrown under the giant tree to serve as nutrients for the growth of new Hashirama cells.

With such a high mortality rate, she really didn't want to gamble on that one in a thousand chance.

The saying "gamblers never have a good end" is no exaggeration; the fate of the Thousand Hands Clan has already proven it.

The most crucial point is that even if she wins the gamble, it seems she won't be able to obtain a life-giving immortal body.

Yamato only possessed Wood Release, not a Sage Body. Similarly, the other people who received Hashirama's cells in the original story did not gain vitality comparable to Hashirama Senju.

Danzo and Obito used Hashirama's cells as power banks for their Mangekyou Sharingan and as launchers for their Wood Release techniques. Madara Uchiha, on the other hand, relied on Hashirama's chakra to awaken his Rinnegan. The White Zetsu were a group of cloned, vegetative beings with terrifyingly weak strength.

There is not a single person who has ever truly obtained life force at the level of Hashirama Senju!

(End of this chapter)