Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 2 Corpse Bone Pulse

What does it feel like to get shot in the head by a sniper rifle?
At this moment, Hui Li knew a little bit about it.

The sharp, cold iron object pierced her brow bone with an eerie heat. Her brain secreted a large amount of adrenaline to suppress the pain. Memories of her past and present lives flashed by like a noisy, complex, and overwhelming slideshow, leaving her somewhat dazed.

But soon, as the adrenaline subsided, intense pain swept through every inch of his body. A burning, constricting pain shot through his brow, like red-hot iron wreaking havoc inside him, especially the skull injury, which was even more severe and prolonged, feeling as if he were being roasted on fire.

Is this the end?
Is this how my life of over thirty years is going to end?
The intense pain between her eyebrows and the strong impact on her brain made Hui Li's consciousness somewhat dazed.

The constantly flowing blood stained his eyes red.

Don't want to die.

I don't want to die!

The intense unwillingness seemed to completely awaken Hui Li's will to survive. His deathly gray eyes suddenly gleamed, and the veins around his eyes bulged, like tree roots taking root in his flesh and blood to continuously draw nutrients.

The world before my eyes suddenly became clear and transparent.

Countless memories and thoughts coalesced into a single idea; the will to survive grew wildly like a mighty iron thorn; the brain was activated by intense pain; amidst a buzzing roar, it was as if a switch within the body had been suddenly flipped. Infinite power surged from every part of the body; the bones and muscles seemed to awaken self-awareness, fully activating.

Squeak, squeak.

Strange squeezing sounds emanated from the skull, like the soles of shoes rubbing against snow and ice crystals, or like a terrifying beast chewing its prey with sharp teeth.

Before him were the girl's eerie gray eyes, and in his ears came strange noises emanating from inside her head.

The ANBU member, whose legs had been crippled, instantly sensed something was wrong. His muscles tensed, and he forcefully plunged the kunai in his hand into the brow of the strange girl in front of him.

But... it can't be inserted.

Seeing the enemy's eyes widen suddenly, Hui Li, with a kunai stuck in his forehead and his face covered in blood, smirked.

His smile was ferocious and terrifying.

Chakra suddenly surged into his brow bone.

Squeak! Squeak!
The kunai let out a miserable scream, overwhelmed by the burden.

The hard steel twisted and deformed, and then, to the horrified gaze of the Hidden Mist members, the steel kunai was snapped in two by Gray Glass using his brow bone.

Clang.

The broken kunai fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Monster! A monster..."

The Dark Division member braced himself on the ground and retreated in fear, but unfortunately, with his legs crippled, he was unable to create any distance.

They could only watch in terror as the monster in human skin stood up straight again.

under the moonlight.

The girl stretched out her right hand and held it in front of her face, her lifeless pupils between her fingers appearing even more sinister.

The tips of the five fingers protrude from the stark white bones, tapering and narrowing to a long, slender blade. Its thin layer resembles the world's sharpest scalpel, dazzling to behold at a single glance.

The bone blades were fully formed, and the five bone blades transformed the girl's delicate, fair hands into the claws of a wild beast.

Claws tear the air apart.

The secret agents instinctively looked up to avoid it.

His grey eyes locked on the enemy, completely seeing through their actions.

With almost no pause, the claws swiftly changed direction, anticipating the sweeping motion and precisely intercepting the moving head.

Amidst screams, the mask bearing the Mist Shadow mark shattered instantly, and below, an unidentified handsome young man with his head and face torn to pieces collapsed helplessly to the ground, the red and white substances staining the soil, adding another layer of bloody mud to the scene...

nightfall.

The clouds and mist dissipated.

A large expanse of moonlight spilled onto the ground, draping the young man before them in a silvery cloak.

"Whoosh..."

Retract the bone claw.

Having survived the ordeal, Hui Li collapsed to the ground, panting. Her heart was pounding, as if a mad deer was pounding against her chest.

He carefully pulled out the broken blade, which was bent between his eyebrows, and strangely, no blood flowed out.

Chakra surged to the center of the brow and was rapidly consumed, like gasoline burning intensely in the fuel tank of a speeding sports car. Osteocytes rapidly divided and multiplied, repairing and filling the gap above the brow bone. The damaged skin wriggled and gathered towards the center, and the skin, flesh, and blood vessels automatically glued together, emitting steam-like vapor.

In the blink of an eye, the vertical eye between his brows vanished without a trace, as if the terrifying injury he had just suffered was merely a terrifying illusion.

Hui Li was not surprised by the abnormality in her body.

Corpse Bone Vein.

The limits of blood succession of the Taketori clan.

The ability to freely manipulate all the bones in the body for defense or attack. Anything related to bones, such as osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and calcium concentration, can be manipulated without restriction, allowing for bone formation, decomposition, or hardening. Because bones pierce tendons and skin when pulled from the body, the Corpse Bone Vein also possesses a self-healing ability to rapidly heal external injuries.

However, this is only a superficial introduction to the Corpse Bone Pulse in the original work.

As a true member of the Bamboo Clan, Hairi has a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of her clan's bloodline limit.

In my memory, the Kaguya clan called the ability of the Shikotsumyaku (Corpse Bone Pulse) to manipulate bones "complete awakening," also known as "second-stage awakening." Healing injuries and simply manipulating flesh and blood is "first-stage awakening," or "half-awakening."

The Kaguya clan was able to dominate a region and become famous throughout the ninja world simply by relying on their taijutsu.

It doesn't rely on the rare second-tier awakening that only appears once every few decades, but rather on the semi-awakened state that most adult members of the Bamboo Clan can possess.

The so-called semi-awakened state of the corpse bone vein.

With hard bones and well-developed tendons, it can unleash superhuman strength beyond human limits, regardless of injury. It possesses a powerful self-healing ability that allows it to rapidly recover from non-fatal wounds. Its body automatically sutures wounds to prevent excessive blood loss, maximizing its stamina in prolonged battles. Finally, it has an unstoppable adrenaline rush, becoming increasingly excited with each battle, and possesses a powerful fighting instinct that allows it to continue fighting the enemy even when unconscious, relying solely on muscle memory.

It can be said that every semi-awakened member of the Bamboo Cutter Clan is an absolute berserker, a corpse demon who is unafraid of pain and death.

That is why this battlefield was so brutal.

Under the vast moonlight, most of the corpses of the bamboo grove members were in tattered state, making it difficult to even identify them.

This wasn't because anyone was so cruel as to even mutilate corpses; it was simply that the Kaguya clan was too powerful and too difficult to kill. Some Kaguya even fanatically viewed the intact corpses of their fallen comrades as a symbol of shame and weakness.

No wonder I didn't die.

Hui Li gently stroked the smooth skin between her brows, then looked down at the large bloodstains on her chest. She immediately understood why the original owner of this body could survive even after being stabbed through the chest. It must have been that after her memories of her past life awakened, her Corpse Bone Vein partially awakened during a life-or-death crisis, helping to heal the knife wound on her chest.

I only activated my White Eyes just now when I was fighting for my life.

It seemed that the Corpse Bone Pulse was fully activated by the Byakugan, and it leaped into the second-stage awakening state, helping her resist the enemy's fatal thrust and thus enabling her to counterattack and kill her opponent.

Hui Li struggled to her feet. The fear between life and death was immense; her limbs felt weak and powerless. Although the kunai hadn't pierced her brain, its powerful impact and kinetic energy still made her dizzy and disoriented; she wished she could lie down among the corpses and fall asleep.

can not sleep.

She slapped herself hard, the stinging pain forcing her to pull herself together.

The undigested ration pills in his stomach quickly dissolved, and his depleted chakra reserves were used to provide energy for his actions.

She had just rolled her eyes at everyone; the battle was nearing its end.

The massive encirclement of the Hidden Mist Division contracted towards the center, with countless squads of the division roaming and moving across the battlefield. Only the eastern side was breached.

Chakra was infused into the Byakugan, and the pale gray pupils gradually darkened in color.

The forest receded rapidly, and the world became more transparent.

In the extreme distance of the white eye.

The corpses of the Mist Shadow members, cloaked and wearing white masks, were piled up like mountains. Groups of pythons as thick as buckets left countless pits in the ground, and colorful, highly venomous snakes slithered and crawled, like the loose threads of a knitted sweater densely covering the surface of the corpse pile.

There's no need to say more about who the murderer is.

Orochimaru rescued Kimimaro and they broke out from the east. If she wants to escape the encirclement of Kirigakure, this may be the only way out.

Sudden.

Numerous chakra reactions appeared in my field of vision.

Bai's eyes twitched slightly, and his gray pupils contracted. Half a mile away, in the clear, dense forest, a small team of a dozen or so members of the Dark Guard were rushing towards Hui Li at top speed.

It moved so fast that it approached Gray Glass in just a few breaths.

thump!
There was no time to see the enemy's specific information, let alone escape.

Hui Li collapsed to the ground instantly, her blood-stained face buried in the soil. Her Corpse Bone Meridian activated rapidly, her limbs limp and twisted into shapes that no normal person could possibly achieve.

If you don't look closely, you can see the extremely subtle undulations in the back, making it indistinguishable from a corpse.

There was a long silence.

Whoosh whoosh!
A dozen or so members of the Mist Shadow Anbu leaped down from the tree branches.

Their masks varied in shape, but they all wore the same standard dark-skin uniforms.

The leader had dark brown hair and wore a mask in the shape of a tengu. He was dressed in the uniform of the Kirigakure Anbu, and a cloak covered his body completely.

Hui Li buried her face in the soil.

Rolling your eyes will induce a reaction.

All the masks, clothing, and even skin and bones of the Anbu melted away, and a large amount of chakra in the meridians came into view: one elite Jonin, three special Jonin, and the rest were Chunin. The difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves was too great, and we could not fight them!

Hui Li held her breath, daring not to move an inch except for her eyes.

"Mist Raven, Dark Fox, Bloodhound, the three of you stay here to clean up the battlefield. Kill any remaining members of the Bamboo Cutter clan on the spot. The rest of you, come with me."

"Yes!"

The three ninjas answered in low voices.

After giving the order, the Dark Army captain, wearing a Great Tengu mask, turned and left, with many Dark Army members following suit and flying away.

Only three Chunin remained on the field.

Wearing a fox mask and a hood, the ninja of medium build possesses the most chakra. The ninja with the crow mask is slender with eerie gray-green hair. The ANBU member with the dog mask beside him is tall, nearly two meters, with short, blood-red hair that resembles steel needles.

A murky stream of air slowly escaped from between his teeth. Lying on the ground, Hui Li grinned, licking the mud on his red lips that was stained with a hint of blood.

Whoosh!
Without warning, the fox-faced masked figure raised his hand, and a shuriken flashing with cold light spun through the air and flew towards Gray Glass.

Gray Glass's eyelids trembled, but her body remained motionless.

laugh--

The shuriken pierced precisely into the chest of a corpse next to Hui Li. The distance was so close that she seemed to be able to clearly feel the tremor as the shuriken entered the flesh.

"What's wrong, Nether Fox?"

"It's nothing, I think I just heard some noise over there."

The ninja with the fox-face mask nodded to the raven-faced ninja in the middle, indicating that there was no need to be nervous, and walked straight towards Hui Li.

"The monsters that pluck bamboo are very stubborn, so be careful."

The ninja with the crow-face mask couldn't help but remind him.

"Don't worry~"

The ring at the end of the kunai spun rapidly on his fingertip like a top as the man wearing the fox-face mask walked straight to the corpse of a member of the Kaguya clan. This person was about seven or eight years old, similar in age to Hairi. His limbs were broken and twisted as he lay on the ground, his face covered in blood, making it impossible to determine his gender.

The spinning kunai stopped for a moment, then shot straight into his chest like a meteor.

puff.

The kunai pierced the flesh, drawing out large amounts of blood. The small body on the ground trembled and curled up. Only the base of its broken limbs could move, and the ends twisted weakly as it crawled on the ground, whimpering unconsciously, like a puppy with its limbs broken.

There were still survivors.

Hui Li, who was lying on the ground, was startled.

She had just found a kunai on the child's body; the body was ice-cold to the touch, and she thought the child was dead, but to her surprise, the child was still breathing.

It's no use just living.

The fox-faced operative formed hand seals and steadily threw two more kunai. After the victim fell silent, the operative slowly stepped forward and used the back of his foot to turn the child's body over. The kunai pierced the heart, extinguishing all life. Then, he reached into the child's clothing and searched inside.

Seeing that nothing unexpected had happened, the other two ninjas also went to other corpses and stabbed them one by one in the heart with kunai.

Watching the ruthless assassin plunge a sharp weapon into the chest of the corpse, Hui Li's face darkened, her fingers gripping the soil tightly.

Having barely survived, and even managed to kill a Kirigakure ANBU member using the Corpse Bone Pulse technique, I never expected to fall into another crisis in an instant. Damn it, the medical department's mortuary disposal team should be handling the corpses, not ANBU ninjas!
What are they looking for?
As the three men rummaged through the corpse's pockets, Hui Li's mind raced, trying to find a glimmer of hope in this desperate situation.

Time passed by minute by minute.

There weren't many intact corpses on the battlefield, and given that Gray Glass was very close to the corpse from before, the fox-faced ANBU quickly turned his attention to Gray Glass, and walked towards him with a kunai covered in sticky black blood in his hand.

The enemy was getting closer and closer.

Hui Li lay on the ground, her body tensing up instantly. Her stiff body, which had been still for a long time, trembled slightly.

How to do?
(End of this chapter)