Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 147 Mission
It's true that one thing brings down another thing.

The crimson Sharingan shone brightly, its single tomoe swirling excitedly around the pupil. Hui Li gazed at the multi-eyed, fleshy ball in her hand, which exuded an aura of evil, and sighed inwardly.

The rampant rage of the Hashirama cells as they devoured her cells and chakra was still vivid in her mind.

At this moment, when it encountered the Sharingan, it was completely suppressed by its eye power. Not only could it not devour the power of the Sharingan, but its own vibrant chakra was also absorbed by the Sharingan.

“…Ahhh!”

His blood-red chest was open, revealing his throbbing heart and lungs. The man was still howling, but only half of his tongue remained in his mouth, making it impossible to understand what he was saying.

Hui Li found him too noisy, so she grabbed a rag and stuffed it into his mouth.

呲!
The translucent fingernail, avoiding the arteries, wrapped a scalpel and precisely cut a gash in his heart.

"Woo~"

My bloodshot eyes rolled back in pain.

In response, Hui Li simply cut open her heart without any expression, embedded the fleshy ball in her hand into the wound, and the green light of medical ninjutsu illuminated her chest.

The pale fleshy mass sprouted buds and quickly merged with the heart.

The azure blue ordinary chakra core and the emerald green Hashirama chakra core began to permeate and merge with each other, while the tomoe in the Sharingan spun wildly.

This person was the leader of the three Jonin sent by Kumogakure to attack Konoha's main gate.

After killing Kotetsu and Tetsuya, the other two Jonin were beaten to death by the arriving reinforcements. The remaining one attempted suicide but failed and was captured alive by a sealing technique.

The interrogation team questioned this person for nearly two months, but he did not budge and even bit his own tongue.

In the end, they could only torture him until his will was weak, and then use their mental power to enter his brain to extract the information. After that, he was imprisoned in Konoha Prison, and somehow he was taken by Root to be used as a subject for human experiments.

The emerald green light quickly healed the wound.

In the center of the blood-red heart, a pale cell inlaid with the Sharingan began to spread outwards. Hui Li quickly mobilized the opponent's life force to resist the erosion of the Hashirama cells.

"Crack!"

Behind.

Chihaya Toru took a big bite out of the apple, her sunken cheeks puffing out. Watching Hairi's calm actions, the appreciation in her eyes was as clear as the juice inside the apple.

After a month of teaching, he couldn't be more satisfied with his experimental assistant.

No matter how difficult the medical ninjutsu is, it can be learned quickly and mastered with practice.

She finished reading and memorizing the medical book I showed her today in less than two days, and will be able to apply it fluently in another day.

The once exceptionally talented pharmacist, Nonou, was the most gifted person he had ever seen. Whenever he saw the group of useless people in the experimental department, he missed his former disciple terribly.

it's good now.

Danzo found him a more talented woman named Hairi as his assistant. Many of the Root experiments were now handled by her, while Chihaya Toru only needed to provide theoretical guidance. Life became much easier for him.

Because he's consuming less chakra each day, he feels like he's gained a lot of weight lately.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

I hope this disciple can live a long life; he can hardly imagine what he would do without Hui Li.
dong dong!

The familiar sound of a cane came from outside the door.

"Lord Danzo!"

The respectful greetings from the lab personnel outside revealed the person's identity.

Click!

The operating room door was opened directly, and Chihaya Tohru threw the apple she hadn't finished eating into the trash can and stood up to greet them.

"Danzo..."

An old man with a gloomy expression, his right eye wrapped in bandages, strode into the operating room with a cane, interrupting Chihaya Toru's insincere greeting with a single hand gesture.

Watching the busy figures at the operating table, Danzo's narrow left eye narrowed slightly, revealing his pleasant mood:

"How has my disciple performed?"

"very perfect."

Chihaya Toru shook her head in admiration; even a meticulous researcher used the word "perfect," which speaks volumes about her praise for Gray Glass.

"She is just as good as me with chakra scalpels and palm techniques, and can perform 90% of surgeries independently. She would be perfectly capable of applying for the position of chief physician at Konoha Hospital right now."

"Is there any psychological resistance?"

In terms of talent, Hairi never disappointed Danzo.

He gave the other person two pointers, albeit with some reservation, and the other person's mastery of Wind Release techniques improved by leaps and bounds. From that moment on, he understood why the other person possessed such strength at such a young age.

He weighs 250kg, of which 240kg is due to natural endowment.

Just as Chihaya Tohru was about to speak, a violent shaking sound suddenly came from the operating table.

"Woo!"

The man's body trembled violently, making the operating table creak and groan.

The skin on his chest was quickly healed by medical ninjutsu, and the moment Hai Li's chakra stopped, the pale Hashirama cells had already spread to his chest.

His dark skin was quickly covered by paleness, which instantly permeated his entire chest.

Hui Li narrowed her eyes. At this rate of erosion, the opponent clearly couldn't withstand the erosion of Hashirama's cells. Even if she suppressed it with her Sharingan, she would only be waiting to die.

If the Hashirama cells were allowed to grow like this, then those three single-tomoe Sharingan eyes would probably be wasted. With a swift chakra scalpel, she sliced ​​open the chest, grabbed the heart—now entirely composed of Hashirama cells—and ripped it out.

呲!
The root-like blood vessels pull on the heart.

"Woo!"

The man suddenly lifted his body, his hands frantically gripping the metal plate beside the bed.

hum!
The chakra scalpel severed the blood vessels connecting to the heart, and the man only twitched twice and died after the heart was completely detached from his body.

“Look, you see.”

Chihaya smiled, her palm facing upwards with her four fingers pointing at Hairi.

She was placing the heart back into the petri dish, calmly removing her gloves. Her delicate face was expressionless, like an emotionless puppet.

There's no need for Chihaya Toru to make any comment; this state perfectly meets Danzo's requirements, and even exceeds them somewhat.

He vaguely remembered that the other party was a hero of Konoha who sacrificed himself to fight to the death against the Cloud Village ninja and rescue countless classmates. Was it because the brainwashing effect of Kotoamatsukami was too strong, or did the other party finally reveal his true nature?
Why does it feel like their experimental methods are even more brutal than Orochimaru's?

Ignoring Danzo and Chihaya Toru, who were standing in front of the door giving her strange looks, Hairi carefully examined the pieces of meat inside the petri dish in her hand.

After the cyborg cells absorbed the man's energy, they grew considerably larger.

It looked almost as big as an adult man's fist, and the core of its chakra grew accordingly, producing more chakra.

The Sharingan embedded in the Hashirama cells became even more crimson. At this point, they could no longer suppress the power of the Hashirama cells and frantically extracted the chakra from the Hashirama cells to generate more ocular power.

One of the single tomoe spun rapidly around the pupil, even forming a circle. As the accumulated pupil power deepened, a second tomoe gradually began to emerge within the circle.

"Evolved!"

Chihaya Toru's voice was filled with surprise. Forgetting her pretense of loyalty next to Danzo, she ran over to observe the Sharingan's advancement with Kairi. "The power of Yang is indeed the source of the growth of the power of Yin."

Confirming her suspicions, Hui Li curled up the corners of her mouth, unable to hide her excitement.

With the help of the Sage Body and the Sharingan working together, she finally understood the relationship between the Yin and Yang energies in the human body.

The most fundamental power of the human body is Yang power, while the all-powerful Yin power is transformed from the absorption of Yang power. The soul, spiritual power, and eye techniques all originate from the nourishment of Yang power.

Therefore, people with strong vitality do not have weak souls. On the contrary, those who are born with strong souls become weak and sickly because they absorb too much Yang energy. Itachi Uchiha's bloodline disease should have originated from this.

The immortal body, containing boundless yang energy, is the foundation of all of Kaguya Otsutsuki's power.

The heavy, gray bones, filled with the aura of death, can only be contained by a Sage Body with boundless vitality; the immense chakra of the Tailed Beasts must be sealed by a Sage Body that also possesses a massive amount of chakra; the unpredictable and all-powerful Mangekyou Sharingan, like a wish-granting machine, requires a Sage Body to replenish its eye power and alleviate fatigue.

Madara Uchiha was well aware of this.

Although he successfully awakened the Rinnegan by stealing Hashirama's chakra, he lacked the vitality to cultivate it. It took him decades to barely develop it, by which time he was already withered and emaciated.

Later, he transplanted the Rinnegan into Nagato, who possessed the Sage Body, in order to use his life force to slowly nurture the malnourished Rinnegan to maturity.

If she's not mistaken, there must be some kind of connection between the Byakugan and the Sage Body.

Maybe... maybe...

The Yang energy of a Sage's body can also be absorbed and evolved by the Byakugan!

The Byakugan's powerful control over the body and chakra is perhaps intended to prevent active cells from indiscriminately devouring other substances and to curb the infinite transformation of Yang Release chakra at a microscopic level.

Hui Li's eyes lit up.

The Sharingan's power embedded in the Hashirama cells gradually stabilized, and the two mysterious tomoe slowly came to a stop, facing each other at a 180-degree angle, reflecting a scarlet light.

pass!

All connected!

As if a layer of mist had been lifted from the gray glass, the world before my eyes suddenly revealed extraordinary colors.

Two eye techniques, two constitutions, nine tailed beasts, bloodline limit, Yin-Yang power—by clarifying the relationships between Kaguya Otsutsuki's various abilities, the powerful progenitor of chakra has no secrets left from her.

"Why didn't my Sharingan, which I had previously implanted, show this change?"

Chihaya Toru circled the petri dish in Hairi's hand, her expression beginning to show a hint of madness.

"The previous method of connecting the Sharingan and Hashirama cells was too crude. The synapses in the optic nerve were not properly repaired, and the blood vessels were blocked, so it could not absorb enough Yang energy."

Staring at the petri dish in her hand, Hui Li excitedly provided the answer.

Relying on the microscopic abilities of the Byakugan, she can see and repair even the slightest obstruction in the eyeball, which is what facilitated the evolution of the Sharingan.

Danzo, who had been left out in the cold for half a day, watched as these two experiment madmen treated him like air, circling around the glassware in their hands, but he wasn't angry at all.

He wasn't interested in or could not understand the two people's experimental theories, but he understood the final results.

Hui Li, using some unknown method, successfully cultivated and evolved the single-tomoe Sharingan into a double-tomoe Sharingan using Hashirama cells.

In this way, all those Sharingan with single or double tomoe have the opportunity to become triple tomoe, and it is even possible to cultivate ordinary Sharingan into Mangekyou Sharingan using Hashirama cells.

Intercolumnar cells have always been more for show than practical use, yielding few research results, but consuming countless experimental subjects.

He actually didn't want Chihaya to continue her research for a long time, but he was still a little unwilling, so he kept insisting.

However, if Hashirama cells can enable the Sharingan to evolve, then the situation is completely different.

He might not have many Sharingan, but he could probably produce over a hundred. If he were to give them all to Hui Li to cultivate into Mangekyou Sharingan...

Who in the ninja world can rival him?

Thinking of that dreamlike scene, Danzo licked his lips thirstily, his excitement even greater than that of Hairi and the other two.

Listening to Hairi and Chihaya's passionate discussion, Danzo slowly sat down in Chihaya's chair, picked up his cane and placed it horizontally on the edge of his thigh to avoid making noise that would affect their experimental inspiration.

Tick ​​tock!

Tick ​​tock!

The blood in the dead man's chest cavity continued to seep out, radiating blood spots along the edge of the operating table onto the floor.

Hairi and Chihaya Toru manipulated chakra to feed Hashirama's cells and continuously stimulated the other two Sharingan with medical ninjutsu, attempting to recreate the situation that had just occurred.

The gloomy old man leaned back in his chair, the forked scar on his chin smoothing out. His single eye, narrowed into a slit, stared at Gray Glass, lost in thought.

Tick ​​- tick -

The thick blood vessels stretched out, connecting the black floor tiles to the operating table. Hui and Li finally mastered the method of Sharingan evolution, successfully catalyzing the other two Sharingan into two-tomoe eyes as well.

"It's all about the Sharingan's absorption efficiency. Hai Li, you're a genius!"

With her deep brown eyes protruding from their sockets, Chihaya Tohru held a petri dish and stared at the three scarlet Sharingan eyes.

He and Orochimaru joined forces because of their shared dream of immortality, but eventually parted ways due to differences in their research philosophies.

Orochimaru believed that immortality could be achieved by freeing the soul from the constraints of the body, and that the realization of immortality necessarily depended on the absolute power of Yang.

Now, Gray Glass's experiments prove that both of their studies were correct.

Yang and Yin appear to be opposites, yet they share the same origin. The soul invades another's body to absorb Yang energy, while the body's cells generate endless vitality to nourish the soul.

Both paths are the same and both are feasible.

"Cough cough!"

Danzo, who had been sitting in his chair for half a day, finally couldn't help but cough twice to remind the two of the conversation as it drew to a close.

"Lord Danzo, you haven't left yet?"

Chihaya Toru reluctantly put down the petri dish and gave Danzo a polite smile.

"You want to get rid of me?"

"My subordinates dare not."

Danzo snorted coldly. Knowing Chihaya's nature, he couldn't be bothered with this guy who was reckless when it came to experiments. He turned to look at Hairi, who was still deep in thought, and gave her a stiff smile.

"Well done, you are worthy of being my disciple."

What does this have to do with you? Aren't I the one teaching you?
Chihaya thought to herself, but lowered her head and dared not speak.

"Is there anything else, teacher? There's been new progress in the experiment, so we might be quite busy these next few days..."

While casually dealing with Danzo, Hairi's mind was excitedly pondering the issue of the balance and transformation of Yin and Yang.

Since extreme Yin can suppress and absorb Yang power, if we control the extreme Yin Release chakra in the Sharingan and simulate the filter on the surface of Hashirama's cells, is it possible to directly purify life force?

It seems very likely!

Neither pure Yin nor pure Yang is the right path; only the combination of the two can give rise to the myriad phenomena of the universe.

The most crucial step in reversing the Eight Gates may lie here!

"I'll leave the experiment to Chihaya for now. Now I have a task for you," Danzo said, ruthlessly interrupting the excited Hairi.

(End of this chapter)