Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swords Begins in Kumogakure

Chapter 17 Tailed Beast Splitting Jinchuriki

On the fourth day, Tamura Hiroshi was secretly taken by Tsuchida to the research department located in the belly of a mountain, with a mask on his face to avoid revealing his identity.

"Those are the tentacles of the Eight-Tails?"

Looking through the glass window at the enormous tentacles sealed inside, Tamura Hao couldn't understand the Eight-Tails' form.

The lower half of this octopus's tentacles is unlikely to provide sufficient support; the structure is simply too flawed.

"The Third Hokage was able to suppress the Eight-Tails, and during the battle, he severed the Eight-Tails' tentacles multiple times. Those tentacles were all sealed away by us."

"Our village once produced two geniuses, the most vicious criminals, Kinkaku and Ginkaku. They devoured the flesh and blood of the Nine-Tails and gained its power. We tried to replicate them, but unfortunately, we've never succeeded."

The person on the earthen platform sighed, "Golden Horn and Silver Horn were too strong back then. If the Third Hokage hadn't mastered Hell Thrust, it would have been difficult to break through their Tailed Beast Cloaks."

"Lord Tsuchidae said that the use of the tailed beasts was modeled after the First Hokage's wife, who used sealing techniques to seal the tailed beasts into the bodies of powerful ninjas. However, our village's sealing techniques are not of a high enough level to seal the tailed beasts."

A complete Tailed Beast is too powerful to seal, but sealing only a part of it shouldn't be too difficult. It's definitely safer than directly consuming the Tailed Beast's flesh and blood.

Looking at the enormous octopus tentacles, Tamura Hiroshi put forward his idea in this regard.

This wasn't actually his idea. In the future Fourth Shinobi World War, Kabuto Yakushi sealed the Eight-Tails' horns, which Orochimaru had nurtured, into Fukai's body, unleashing the power of the tailed beast.

Then there's the fake Nine-Tails Jinchuriki at the Fire Temple. The fact that he could become a Jinchuriki simply by collecting Nine-Tails chakra proves that this line of thinking is feasible.

"Snapped!"

"Why didn't we think of that?"

After a moment of stunned silence, Tu Tai slapped himself, then became excited.

Yes, it's not easy to seal or contain a complete tailed beast, but it's definitely not that difficult to seal a tailed beast's flesh and blood.

"This token will allow you unrestricted access within the research institute."

He took out a token and handed it to Tamura Hao. Tsuchida then ran off excitedly, preparing to report the matter to the Third Raikage.

If this idea succeeds, their Hidden Cloud Village will be rich.

Give me a piece of the flesh and blood of the Eight-Tailed Fox.

Tamura Hiroshi said to the ANBU ninja guarding the door of the room where the Eight-Tails' tentacles were sealed, expressing his interest in the flesh and blood of the Tailed Beast.

Having witnessed Tsuchida's attitude towards this person, the ANBU ninja didn't say much. He opened the door, took out a tentacle flesh specimen from the prepared pieces, and handed it to Tamura Hao.

"Is this the chakra of the tailed beasts?"

Looking at the crimson chakra emanating from the flesh and blood inside the bottle filled with sealing techniques, Tamura Hao understood that it was the Eight-Tails' chakra.

Where is the Sharingan stored?

After sealing the bottle inside the sealed scroll he had brought, Tamura Hao asked the ANBU ninja where the Sharingan was stored.

"Follow me!"

The ANBU ninja formed hand seals to create a clone, signaling Tamura Hao to follow, and led him to the laboratory where the Sharingan was being researched.

The researchers in charge of that area saw that the people were brought by the Anbu and that they had a warrant for the Raikage's assistance, so they didn't say anything.

"Is there any research on disused Sharingan eyes?"

After reviewing the research reports on the Sharingan in the lab, Tamura Hao proposed to scrap the Sharingan.

He knew that the key to the Sharingan lay in its pupil power, while the eye structure was only secondary.

Moreover, the Hidden Cloud Village had already figured out the structure of the eye, but the research yielded little result.

"some!"

Seeing that Tamura Hao only mentioned the Sharingan that needed to be scrapped, the person in charge breathed a sigh of relief and took out several bottles from the refrigerated cabinet next to him. Inside were four dissected Sharingan eyes soaking in the bottles.

"Give me a quiet room."

Taking the bottles, Tamura Hiroshi stated his request, wanting to try something.

The person in charge didn't say much, and led Tamura Hiroshi to a rest room next door.

"I hope it succeeds!"

He whispered something, took out a Sharingan and held it in his hand, then refined his chakra to envelop it and used the Chakra Absorption Technique.

Chakra absorption techniques are not uncommon; many ninjutsu have the ability to absorb the opponent's chakra, especially Earth Release and Water Release.

For example, Jirobo's Earth Release: Earth Prison Barrier among the future Sound Five, and Kisame Hoshigaki can directly absorb the opponent's chakra.

Of course, Tamura Hao's chakra absorption technique wasn't high-level; he had obtained it from Tsuchida beforehand.

Moreover, the focus is on absorption, but the refining ability is very poor. It also lacks the support of water and earth attributes, making the effect even worse.

Under the effect of the Chakra Absorption Technique, the Sharingan, which had already been damaged by research, could not withstand the pressure and shattered. The power of the eye within was absorbed by Tamura Hiroshi's chakra, and soon the pale blue chakra turned scarlet.

However, this was merely a simple mixing, not a fusion or refinement, because the Sharingan's ocular power level was far too high, far exceeding Tamura Hao's chakra.

This is the limitation of the Chakra Absorption Technique: it cannot absorb chakra of a higher quality than itself.

However, that was enough. Tamura Hao never thought of refining the Sharingan's power with his own strength; that was unrealistic.

You have to rely on someone else for this!

He took a deep breath and decisively slapped the crimson chakra onto his forehead, using his own chakra to guide it into the spiritual world where the cheat system resided.

As expected, the Sharingan's eye power was immediately detected by the cheat system and instinctively suppressed and decomposed as an intruder.

Soon, the four branded phantoms were separated. They were the same four as before, and the last branded phantom to be separated was the most blurry and illusory.

Tamura Hao examined the four phantoms, then used the power of the shattered jade fragments to grind the Six Paths Sage Otsutsuki Isshiki and the fourth phantom into dust. He then pushed the ground-up original imprint in front of the Otsutsuki Kaguya phantom.

As expected, the phantom of Kaguya Otsutsuki instinctively began to devour it, especially the fragments of Isshiki Otsutsuki and the Sage of Six Paths' imprints, which were devoured the fastest, followed by the last imprint.

That mark was the deepest hidden and of the highest level. Kaguya's phantom struggled to devour and refine it, but fortunately, it had already been ground down by the power of the broken jade fragments, becoming the most basic nourishment, and thus lacked the power to resist.

As Kaguya's phantom solidified slightly after absorbing the three marks, Tamura Hao pushed the Sharingan's power towards her, and she instinctively absorbed it as well, resulting in a touch of blood-red light appearing between her brows.

"The conjecture is correct. It is possible to awaken and enhance Kaguya Otsutsuki's will and power through chakra, especially the chakra will obtained from the bloodline descendants left by the Sage of Six Paths, which is the most powerful."

Seeing the blood-red light between Kaguya's phantom brows, Tamura Hao confirmed his earlier guess.

This is his speculation based on Kaguya Otsutsuki's resurrection and the Sage of Six Paths' reappearance during the Fourth Shinobi World War. Both of them retained their own will within their chakra, which is why Kaguya said she wanted to reclaim her own chakra, rather than seize and harvest it.

This proves that it was originally someone else's chakra, and not simply a source.

Therefore, no one in the ninja world could resist Kaguya, and the pressure was even greater than when facing Isshiki Otsutsuki and others. It was a suppression that came from the depths of one's bloodline and the essence of chakra, unless one could reach the Six Paths level.

This is precisely what he valued, which is why he chose the phantom image of Kaguya Otsutsuki's mark.

Of course, the most important thing is that Kaguya Otsutsuki is the only female among the four, and she seems to be a bit naive. Even if this Kaguya phantom gains sentience in the future, she will be much easier to fool.

(End of this chapter)