Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 241 Life Leap, Trinity!
Woohoo~
A strong wind howled, and the airflow rapidly exchanged in the hole outside the door, sounding like the wailing of ghosts!

The Nara brothers, who were standing guard at the gate, were the first to notice the strange occurrence. They quickly emerged from the shadows, their two scarlet three-tomoe jewels staring at each other, both somewhat at a loss.

They were twins who had a strong talent for manipulating shadows since childhood and were quite famous in the Nara clan at the time.

After the death of the Second Hokage, Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi joined forces with junior and middle-ranking ninja from Nara and Yamanaka to fight against the powerful clans.

Politically, the Nara clan became the Hokage's advisors and strategists; economically, their herbal medicine shops were exempt from taxes, and they gave away land in the heart of Konoha for free, using their price advantage to bankrupt all their competitors.

The two brothers joined Root as political sacrifices to serve Danzo. Danzo valued their superior Yin Release talent and granted them the right to have their Sharingan transplanted.

Of course, this was just Danzo's explanation. The actual situation was that the laboratory lacked high-quality materials and needed them to act as guinea pigs for the 'Sharingan transplant experiment'.

Whether it was due to their exceptional talent or the high compatibility between the Sharingan and the Nara clan's Shadow Release techniques, their ability to control shadows grew stronger with the help of their eye power. They could even control all the shadows within their sight simply by locking onto them with their eyes, without needing to form hand seals.

Of course, the cost of transplanting the Sharingan is also extremely high.

The Nara clan was never known for its chakra reserves. Despite having the potential to grow into elite Jonin like Ryuma due to the terrifying consumption of Sharingan, they ultimately stopped at the Jonin level.

Later, due to their convenience of lurking in the shadows, they have always served as an important defensive facility to protect the root base.

The original name has been abandoned, leaving only the inhuman code name 'Shadow Guard'.

That's right, although they are two brothers, they share the same name.

In Danzo's mind, they were all just tools anyway, with identical appearances and abilities, and they were inseparable in daily life. Using the same name made it easier to manage them.

At first, they agreed with each other's beliefs and didn't see anything wrong with it, until a blind woman with her eyes covered said, as if it were perfectly natural:

How can two people share the same name?

If you really can't remember what your names used to be, how about... the older brother is called Nara Kage, and the younger brother is called Nara Mamoru!

Um~ I might not be very good at naming things, so you can change it if you don't like it.

This was the first time they saw the powerful Gray Glass with an embarrassed expression, and the first time they realized that they were not just cold defensive structures in the base, but flesh-and-blood human beings.

This is the end.

They silently observed the girl's every move.

Until one morning, the memories and personalities from her past were inexplicably awakened in her mind, and they naturally merged into her shadow, allowing her to control them at will.

"Lady Gray is... experimenting with ninjutsu."

"No, we can't disturb them..."

The two stumbled as they spoke. Having been tools for many years, although their former personalities were awakened by the power of Kotoamatsukami, their language abilities had already deteriorated irreversibly.

Fortunately, they are twins who understand each other perfectly, so they do not rely on an inefficient language system to communicate.

Woohoo!

The howling and wailing continued inside the doorway.

The unchanging shadows in the corridor gradually covered the walls, and the hanging wall lamps shone brightly, but twisted and flickered under the strong wind blowing from inside the door, as if they were about to go out at any moment.

Two red lights fell silent, while orange-yellow lights floated.

Nara Kage and Nara Mamoru had materialized and were guarding the door at some point, their crimson Sharingan eyes spinning rapidly, their massive phantoms turning the corridor pitch black.

at the same time.

Inside the dimly lit stone chamber, Gray Glass, with her eyes closed, was undergoing a miraculous transformation within the Thunder Pool.

The so-called Sage Body is a special physique belonging to the Sage of Six Paths, which was later passed on to Ashura. It has extremely strong vitality and will not die immediately even if it suffers a fatal injury. Its chakra reserves are also as vast as the sea.

Nagato, a member of the Uzumaki clan, first destroyed Konoha, then fought the Nine-Tails, and later revived everyone in Konoha. His chakra reserves were unimaginable.

After Princess Tsunade of the Senju clan breaks the Yin Seal, she can heal all the Konoha ninjas at the same time.

Not to mention Hashirama Senju and Naruto Uzumaki, those two chakra monsters; any tailed beast other than the Nine-Tails pales in comparison to them.

Now, after five years of continuously absorbing life energy, the Death Forest, covering tens of kilometers, has transformed all its plants and animals into life energy, which she absorbed using the Reversal Eight Gates. She even absorbed a large portion of the Thousand-Handed Tree's life force.

The abundant life force accumulated within her cells, even forming emerald green crystals. Her weight also increased wildly due to the accumulation of life force, transforming her into the hundred-ton queen she is today.

Once a certain boundary is broken, the abundant life force will finally burst forth.

She is also about to enter the mature stage of the immortal body.

Dong Dong... Dong Dong...

The heavy drumbeats accelerated wildly, from one beat every ten seconds to seventy beats per second, and then to two hundred beats per second!

Her full chest rose and fell rapidly, her snow-white skin trembling slightly. The incandescent plasma and the air vibrated in response. If someone were standing indoors, they would feel their heart pounding, as if they were on a trampoline or floating on a cloud.

Hiss!

The indoor temperature was rising higher and higher, and the temperature in the core area around the Thunder Pool had exceeded 1,000 degrees Celsius. The distorted and hot air was devoid of any moisture. In this harsh environment where ordinary people could hardly survive, Hui Li felt extremely comfortable.

It's hard to describe that feeling of comfort.

It's like becoming a baby and returning to the womb, developing and growing anew amidst endless nutrients, making up for past shortcomings, and entering a state of perfection.

The brain is somewhat confused during the evolution of the immortal body, the mental state is ethereal as if riding the wind, and the soul reaches another peak under the extreme catalysis of life.

Buzz!

Just as she was drifting into a drowsy state, a sudden change occurred. The gray bones that were sealed by the Blood and Flesh Curse Seal seemed to be stimulated by the advancement of the Sage Body and suddenly broke free from their restraints, beginning to frantically absorb chakra.

Hui Li suddenly awoke and looked inward at herself.

The life crystals, compressed to the extreme, exploded within the body like a supernova. The cells, already extremely strong from being trained by the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, lit up one by one, like countless stars scattered across a dark sky.

The bones covered in gray patterns became even more lustrous, and ocean-like purple chakra poured into them uncontrollably. The gray and white bone membranes were quickly stained with deathly gray, and in the blink of an eye, the energy swallowed by the whale had exceeded twenty calories! If Hui Li had rushed to evolve her gray bones when she was still in the first stage of the Immortal Body, she would probably have become a gray skeleton without flesh and blood by now.

The gray bones are evolving automatically.

She instantly realized the situation before her.

As the immortal body progresses to the third stage, the Corpse Bone Meridian is also being stimulated and begins to transform into the third stage.

As mentioned before:

Like the Sharingan, the Sage Body, Corpse Bone Pulse, and the Sharingan all have three stages.

The first-tier immortal body brought Hui Li increased weight, or density, while the second-tier immortal body brought an aura of fear.

The former makes her body density far exceed that of steel, weighing over 100 tons, and her defense and attack power are extremely fierce, making it easy for her to withstand most ninjutsu head-on.

The latter exerted pressure on her mental state. Ninjas with weak will and physical strength were like lambs to the slaughter in front of her, and their numbers were almost meaningless to her. It was when she awakened this ability that her chakra level reached Kage level.

There's no need to elaborate on the Corpse Bone Pulse.

The first stage is relatively crude physical manipulation, the second stage is skeletal manipulation, and after absorbing the Nine-Tails' chakra, she unexpectedly entered an incomplete gray bone state, which, according to the Sharingan's level classification, is roughly equivalent to the transition from the Mangekyou Sharingan to the Eternal Eye.

When her pale bones are completely permeated with gray, that's when her Corpse Bone Vein will officially enter the third stage.

Ash Bones, which had been sealed by the Blood and Flesh Curse Seal for too long, seemed to want to replenish the chakra it had lost over the years, frantically devouring the deep purple ocean.

The sound of crashing waves reached her ears, and her heart pounded faster and faster, almost in unison, so fast that she couldn't count how fast it was. Only the noise of an engine echoed in the room.

The life key on his forehead kept turning, and the three dazzling life orbs had been exhausted, revealing three long-lost doors.

Sonorous!

Bones, more rigid than steel, rubbed against each other, producing a harsh, clanging sound like metal scraping together, as if a peerless swordsman were engaged in a life-or-death struggle within her body. With the endless infusion of life force, the last trace of pale white within her bones completely disappeared.

Become!

Hui Li's eyes lit up—they really did.

As her soul evolved by drawing upon life force, it also propelled her spiritual power and gray pupils. The patterns inside her irises began to become clearer, and the period of fetal movement ended prematurely under the influence of the immortal body.

Her bloodline limits seemed to be undergoing a chain reaction, evolving synchronously under the impetus of the Sage Body. Even the three-tomoe Sharingan in her palm was rotating to draw chakra, seemingly ready to connect at any moment.

puff!puff!
He ruthlessly ripped the Sharingan from his palm and threw it away. The wispy purplish-red nerves and blood vessels drooped weakly, like weeds that had been casually removed.

Her training in the Sage Body was complete; Wood Release had transformed her body to resemble Hashirama Senju's, and she no longer needed those Sharingan eyes, whose identity was unknown.

As for the Mangekyou Sharingan that she might evolve into, let's not even talk about how much energy she would waste evolving it without Indra's chakra.

These eyes were transplanted from outside. After Kakashi transplanted Obito's Sharingan, what evolved was Obito's Kamui. Therefore, even if it awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, it was not a reflection of its soul.

Now that Byakugan is about to complete its fetal movement, signifying the imminent birth of her own eye technique, there's no need for it to be superfluous here.

She used to be a sweetheart, but if she dares to compete with the White Eyes and Corpse Bone Pulse for energy at crucial moments, then she can only become a shrew.

Sonorous...

Another clanging of metal echoed as the fully evolved Ash Bone finally stopped absorbing chakra, and its crystalline surface rapidly dimmed and receded.

Gray Glass observed the bones that had fallen into silence. Their uniform pure gray color, inside and out, symbolized decay and death, and they were not much different from the Ash Bones of the original work.

It ended that easily?
She was somewhat surprised that the All-Killing Ash Bones, which was said to be able to turn everything in the universe to ashes, had actually evolved so smoothly and beautifully! Apart from requiring an excessive amount of chakra, her experience seemed far less intense than when she evolved into a Sage Body...

Just then, a sharp pain began to sweep through her body, causing the curious Hui Li to tremble and quickly manipulate her brain to block out her nerves.

"Hiss~ Something's not right!"

The excruciating pain persisted, a agony that seemed to emanate from the very marrow of the body, rapidly engulfing every inch of skin and flesh, leaving no room to shield the agony. The nerve tissue that was once as attuned as an extension of my arm had also been completely out of my control.

She knew it wouldn't be that simple!
Her delicate face was contorted by the intense pain. Her mental and physical strength surged wildly under the evolution of the immortal body, bringing indescribable pleasure. The combination of the two made her feel as if she was about to have a split personality, with pain and pleasure battling each other in her left and right brains.

what happened?

Hui Li forcibly endured the excruciating pain that felt like her brain was being twisted, and the light in her eyes became even more dazzling, her vision expanding infinitely to the microscopic level.

Hua Hua...

The cells, brimming with vitality and covered with milky-white roots, began to change shape at this moment, and a gray-black pattern full of decay and death climbed on the surface of the cells.

The cell membrane, plant cell wall, and cell nucleus are all stained under the gray patterns. The life energy that has crystallized inside is fighting against the gray, and her somatic cells have officially become the battlefield in the life-and-death struggle.

Every second, tens of millions of cells rupture and die, while at the same time, many more new cells are revitalized in the corpse.

It seems that the Ash Bones are in conflict with the Immortal Body?

Hui Li wasn't sure if the situation was normal, because judging by the destructive power of the gray bones, a mere third-stage immortal body could not possibly withstand such a restrained death force. This situation seemed more like a kind of selective evolution.

Just as the Lightning Release Chakra Mode filters out cells that can resist Lightning Release, the Ash Bones might also be filtering out super cells that can better withstand the power of death. However, the filtering method is rather brutal; if it were someone with weak vitality, they would have already turned into ashes under this filtering process.

hum!
As Hui Li was observing the changes in the cells, she suddenly felt a stinging pain in her eyes, followed by a surge of heat from inside them.

Gray lines, a symbol of death, are invading her brain and eyes.

buzzing-

The blurry pattern in the iris flashed wildly, and the Byakugan, which was in the final stage of fetal movement, was frantically absorbing chakra and converting it into pupil power under the stimulation of the gray bones to resist the death invasion of the gray bones!

Rumble!
Like the roar of a ship's engine echoing in a silent stone chamber, the chakra seed in his heart flickered uncertainly.

All the abilities of his bloodline limits were violently surging, with the Shikotsumyaku and Sage Body evolving against each other. The Sage Body promoted the formation of the Byakugan, and the highly evolved Byakugan also interacted with the Shikotsumyaku...

All abilities were being triggered frantically, with the left foot stepping on the right to extract energy. Hui Li was horrified to discover that even with the immortal body that had entered the third stage, it would be difficult to bear this vampire body!
(End of this chapter)