Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swords Begins in Kumogakure

"You actually chopped it up!"

Looking at Kurenai Yuhi inside the nutrient tank, Tsunade's brows twitched.

Last time I thought this girl was just joking, but I didn't expect her to actually chop it up.

What exactly did that brat do to that girl in the illusion world?

"It's because Dad wouldn't listen to advice."

Yuhi Kurenai's firm statement was not her fault; it was her father who wouldn't listen to advice, leaving her no choice but to take such drastic measures.

Seeing the girl's tough stance and the imposing presence of a superior, Tsunade was speechless. Then she took out the still questioning-her-life-altering Kurenai Yuhi and continued to use her powers.

Because the treatment was done very well—not only was a special spray applied, but the hands and feet were also soaked in a nutrient solution infused with some life-giving water—they were well preserved and did not die, so the reattachment went very smoothly.

After seeing that her father was alright, Kurenai returned to the Elite Academy to continue her training. This time she had asked for leave, not that she had left the Elite Academy.

She needs to improve her strength as soon as possible; she is still far from being at the peak of the illusion world.

"How did Honghong become like that?"

It took Yuhi Shinku a long time to come to her senses. She looked at Tsunade, who was examining her, and couldn't understand how her originally cute and filial Kurenai had become like that.

Aside from the appearance and voice being the same as their own infrared counterpart, they are nothing alike.

What exactly did these people do to Honghong?

"I suppose this is the price I pay for gaining power."

After thinking about it, this was the only answer Tsunade could give.

She had also experienced that kind of illusionary world, and putting everything else aside, a hundred years of living there has a great impact on a person.

Kurenai Yuhi herself was only thirteen years old, and her memories spanned at most eleven years, far less than a hundred years.

Of course, that brat's antics were inevitable; I really don't know what he did to that girl in the illusionary world.

"The price of power!"

Yuhi Makoto fell silent. Her daughter had indeed improved a lot, surpassing her in both illusion and swordsmanship.

"Actually, living in the Hidden Cloud Village is quite nice. Not only are there fewer messy things, but you can also cultivate and become stronger more effectively."

The Hidden Cloud Village's foundation is far stronger than that of the Hidden Leaf Village; it's far more complex than it appears on the surface.

Tsunade offered some words of advice, saying that this Red Sunset Ninja still had a lot of potential, especially in genjutsu. Their Hidden Cloud Village was also lacking top-notch genjutsu ninjas. Next up was the construction and expansion of the virtual world, and relying solely on Chisato and Mikoto would put a lot of pressure on them.

Kurenai Yuhi didn't say anything. He was more interested in figuring out what his daughter had gone through here and who had caused Kurenai to change so much.

This point must be made clear!

Tamura Hao was unaware that he was being watched by an old man. He was protecting his brother-in-law as he planted trees to pave the way, and they had to increase the number of small fairy trees to ten thousand as soon as possible before they could begin to fuse the five-attribute bloodline.

In addition to the sacred trees planted by the Senju clan in other places, it took half a year to finally gather 10,000 trees. After that, Tamura Hiroshi came to the Sage Temple on Mount Myōboku in the Spirit World.

This time, no one was allowed to view the recorded data, no one else was invited, and no one was even notified.

After creating a barrier, Tamura Hao transferred the Ten-Tails out of the Origin Sphere space, and separated Black Zetsu, who was possessing Thor, and merged it into the Ten-Tails.

Princess Kaguya, heavily pregnant, floated over and was held in Tamura Hao's arms. Then, with a calm expression, she walked into the gaping maw of the little Ten-Tails.

In order to maximize the Yin-Yang Release power of Kaguya and the Ten-Tails, the best approach is to fuse and transform them within their bodies.

This fusion is of the water attribute, one of the seven basic attributes. It is the gentlest attribute and the last of the five elemental attributes.

Once fused, the five attributes can form a cycle of mutual generation and restraint within the body.

Just as the fusion of Yin and Yang can lead to transformation, they complement each other.

Although these are all just theoretical calculations, Tamura Hiroshi is very confident that he can complete them.

After making preparations, Tamura Hao integrated the chakra that had undergone water-attribute nature transformation into light-release chakra. Since it was still primarily light-release, the form and nature did not change much. The key was that he achieved a qualitative transformation.

"here we go!"

Taking a deep breath, Tamura Hao integrated the transformed five-attribute light escaping techniques into his body.

Kaguya and Black Zetsu also used the bloodline connection of their unborn child to convert Yin-Yang Release power and inject it into Tamura Hao's body, maximizing its effect and suppressing the light release chakra of the five elements.

The Light Release chakra, which combines the five basic attributes, is indeed powerful enough to rival Yin-Yang Release.

Fortunately, this was only a change in the nature of water, making it imperfect and still somewhat inferior to the Yin-Yang Escape at its limit.

Even so, Tamura Hiroshi's body collapsed instantly, leaving only a hard skeleton, and even his brain disintegrated.

The level of bloodline transformation with all five attributes was simply too great, far exceeding the body's capacity to withstand it.

Furthermore, Tamura Hao himself does not possess the Otsutsuki bloodline, and his body's compatibility and resistance to chakra are much lower, making the fusion process naturally riskier.

None of the three gave up. With the help of the energy absorbed by the World Immortal Tree and ten thousand small immortal trees, they maximized the power of Yin-Yang Escape, first completing the transformation of bone cells, and finally turning the originally white bones into bright silver. Then the periosteum grew, and finally the flesh and blood, and they were reborn little by little.

This is a very thorough transformation. Although the risks are great, the rewards after a successful transformation will be even greater.

This continued for an unknown period of time, and in the struggle against the Light Release chakra, Tamura Hao finally completed the complete regeneration of his body.

"How much time has passed?"

Once his body had completely transformed and stabilized, Tamura Hao opened his eyes and asked. He had been so focused on mastering the five elemental light chakra that his perception of the passage of time had become much weaker, but he knew that this time it must have taken a very long time.

It will take much longer than previous transformations.

"Five months."

Black Zetsu spoke, sounding very happy.

Although it was dangerous, it was a success at least, and from what I could tell, my brother... no, my father had undergone a great transformation.

It's huge!

"Does that mean she's about to give birth?"

Tamura Hao realized what was happening and quickly looked at Kaguya's abdomen, finding that it had indeed grown much larger, but she hadn't given birth yet.

"I delayed for a while."

Princess Kaguya spoke, then raised her hand and gently patted her stomach, using spatial power to remove the placenta and then the child.

As someone who controls spatial power, she naturally wouldn't experience the pain of childbirth.

Tamura Hao quickly cleaned the amniotic fluid from the baby's body and mouth, and was very happy to see the little guy's ugly appearance.

Newborn babies are all like this, after all, they've been soaking in amniotic fluid the whole time. Their skin will become smooth and beautiful after a few days.

"It's a little girl."

Black Zetsu was even happier, now that he had a little sister.

Tamura Hao looked at the little guy's clenched hands. He could vaguely see two marks, one black and one white, between his fingers. The white mark was round, and the black mark was crescent-shaped. The colors were very faint.

"The power of Yin and Yang!"

Shocked, he never expected that his daughter would possess Yin-Yang power from birth. Although the color was still very faint, indicating that it was not powerful, it was definitely Yin-Yang power that surpassed Yin-Yang Escape.

"During the previous transformation, I consumed a lot of chakra. I gained some insights from it and incorporated some of the Yin-Yang power I gained during the transformation into Tsukihime's body."

Princess Kaguya began to explain that the chakra consumed earlier was enormous, even depleting the massive amount of natural energy accumulated in the Spirit World. The World Tree and tens of thousands of smaller trees outside were also fully absorbing and converting the natural energy.

Despite such a massive expenditure of energy, she finally gained some insight, allowing the Yin-Yang Escape power to transform. Combined with the accumulation of natural energy, she finally fused the Yin-Yang power.

Their previous guesses were correct; Hagoromo Hamura's Yin-Yang power was indeed a transformation of Yin-Yang Escape and Sage Mode.

However, this transformation is not simple. It requires not only a large amount of natural energy, but also the extraction of its essence.

If this absorption hadn't consumed a massive amount of natural energy, it would have been difficult to discover this secret.

"Hagoromo was quite cautious back then and never told Ashura this secret."

Black Zetsu chuckled sinisterly, explaining that back then, Hagoromo did not pass on the secrets of Yin and Yang to Ashura, but only passed on his own chakra to Ashura, which in turn led to the creation of the Uzumaki clan.

Although Ashura also cultivated immortal arts, it was a flawed product of learning from that toad, far inferior to the pure learning of Hagoromo back then, and also inferior to the immortal arts power that Hamura directly obtained from the Immortal Talisman. Therefore, he never cultivated Yang power until his death.

Of course, it's more likely that Yu Yi was guarding against him. The power of Yin and Yang was also the source of his confidence in sealing his mother again. If he were to learn the secrets of the power of Yin and Yang, his mother, with her background, could quickly master it. At that time, it would be impossible to use the power of Yin and Yang to enhance the sealing of the Earth Explosion Star.

Unfortunately, no matter how well you preserve your feather robe, this power is not unique to you; we can still explore and cultivate it ourselves.

"That requires a complete transformation in the Yin-Yang Release technique, which is very difficult."

Tamura Hao did not underestimate the difficulty of cultivating this power. Yin and Yang attributes are inherently difficult to cultivate. Just cultivating the nature changes to the limit is very difficult. Moreover, there are many nature changes of Yin and Yang attributes. Creating form from nothingness and giving life are just two of them. Just cultivating the illusion technique is very difficult.

Kurenai Yuhi was only able to reach the limit of her illusion techniques with the blessing of the Tsukuyomi world.

Furthermore, fusing Yin-Yang Escape is even more difficult, let alone cultivating Yin-Yang Escape as a whole and undergoing a transformation. The difficulty is no less than fusing the bloodline of the five attributes and undergoing a transformation.

"We still have time."

Hei Jue is very confident about the final battle in the future. Now that the power of Yin and Yang has been verified and obtained, all that is needed next is to continue to cultivate and improve.

This way, at least they can be guaranteed not to be sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura's Yin-Yang power again, and all that's left is a direct confrontation.

"You cultivate the power of Yin and Yang, while I have cultivated the power of the Five Elements. In a thousand years, they should have also cultivated the power of the Five Elements. It's impossible for them to keep relying on the power of Yin and Yang."

Tamura Hao always held the highest level of vigilance towards the Sage of Six Paths brothers, whose ability to casually create the Rinnegan and Tenseigan demonstrated their strength.

Over the course of a thousand years, they certainly did more than just accumulate chakra; their own training must have continued as well.

The most terrifying type of Otsutsuki is one who possesses talent and knows how to cultivate, far surpassing those like Momoshiki who only know how to devour.

This is a truly high-level Otsutsuki. Otsutsuki Isshiki should also be this type. Even an incomplete Otsutsuki Isshiki could destroy Naruto's Nine-Tails and Sasuke's Susanoo. He is much stronger than Otsutsuki Momoshiki, who swallowed Otsutsuki Kinshiki.

Compared to characters of this caliber, the Fourth Shinobi World War was truly child's play.

"You should go out now; they've been waiting outside."

Princess Kaguya said something, then took the little Ten-Tails and entered the Origin Sphere, while Black Zetsu merged into Raijin's body.

This transformation of Yin and Yang power is also beneficial to him. Given enough time, he is confident that he can cultivate Yin and Yang power and make this body a true Otsutsuki.

At that time, the bloodline powers within the body will be completely integrated and perfectly utilized.

"Finally, we've taken the first step!"

Feeling the Light Release chakra flowing within his body, Tamura Hao let out a long sigh of relief, then summoned the twin dragons hanging outside, which formed armor to cover his clean body.

After they finished dressing, they removed the barrier and saw that Raikage and the others were outside, looking like they had been waiting for a long time.

"You little brat, you went and fused the five elemental bloodlines without saying a word."

The Third Raikage breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his disciple emerge unharmed, then playfully punched him in the face.

Although the kid didn't say anything at first, they quickly realized something was wrong because the Eight Thousand Spears Seal of Nawaki and the others no longer supplied Wood Release chakra, and the tree-planting plan had to be stopped.

This pause lasted for a full five months, clearly indicating a major change had occurred at the disciple's side, and the only thing that could be thought of was the fusion of the five elemental bloodlines.

"The risk was a bit high. I didn't want you to worry, and I didn't expect the integration to take so long."

With an apologetic smile, Tamura Hao truly hadn't expected this transformation to take so long; he had originally thought it would only take a few days at most.

In this respect, he underestimated the difficulty and danger involved. If Kaguya had not used the child's bloodline as a hub to maximize the effect of Yin-Yang Release on herself and suppress Light Release chakra, there would have been no chance of success.

Of course, there are also reasons why some characters don't have the water attribute themselves and need to undergo a transformation along with the water attribute, which increases the difficulty to another level.

It's not that he didn't want to improve his attributes to some extent through cell transplantation; in fact, Kakashi's cells would be the best material.

But he wanted to ensure his own purity even more. The path of cultivation could not tolerate the slightest trickery or flaw. Only by polishing his foundation to perfection could he continuously improve and eventually reach the peak.

"I'm sorry to have worried you!"

Turning to look at his wives and children, Tamura Hao apologized sincerely.

"I'll go cook for you."

Wiping away her tears, Garuda turned and left.

Mikoto Uchiha silently followed, but before leaving, she glared fiercely at a certain bastard.

That bastard is so awful; he made them worry for so long.

"Don't do that again."

Uchiha Chiri rolled his eyes; he had been on tenterhooks the whole time.

The women all rolled their eyes at her; she was such a worry.

Tamura Hiroshi smiled but did not respond.

"We won't disturb your family reunion."

The Third Raikage chuckled and said something, then left with Aya Yotsuki and the others.

There are still many things to deal with in the village, and we can't keep using shadow clones to cover everything.

Tamura Hao returned home with his wife and others, and quite a few people followed.

"You've truly fused into a bloodline of all five elements?"

Kurenai couldn't help but ask, after all, it was a bloodline with five attributes, far superior to bloodlines with three or four attributes.

"Successfully by sheer luck."

Sitting on the sofa, Tamura Hao replied while playing with his little ones.

She immediately turned to face Kurenai Yuhi, whose face was gloomy, whose eyes were fierce, and whose heart was full of resentment.

"Senior Shinku, welcome to Kumogakure."

He did indeed join the Hidden Cloud Village; it seems he still loves his daughter very much.

"I really don't want to join."

Yuhi Makoto, who had been wearing a dark expression, was very unhappy, especially after learning that her daughter's change was all because of this bastard.

Moreover, after the boy's accident, Honghong also applied to the elite academy to set up her training location outside the Miaoboku Mountain temple.

Although his daughter didn't explicitly say so, as someone who had been through it all, how could he not see that her thoughts had changed?

Damn it!

"Ignore him, tell me quickly, what are the five elemental bloodlines?"

Kurenai Yuhi was eager to know the power of the five elemental bloodline limits, as this was the first five-elemental bloodline limit in the ninja world.

Seeing this, Kurenai Yuhi couldn't help but cover her heart with her hand, feeling waves of heartache.

Did her own good daughter ultimately not escape that boy's clutches?

"Uncle Zhenhong, would you like some juice?"

Rope Tree, who was not far away, couldn't bear to watch any longer and poured a glass of juice for Kurenai Yuhi.

He can only drink fruit juice now, not even fruit wine, because Samui banned it. His own sister has also been forced to quit drinking because pregnant women shouldn't drink alcohol as it will affect the baby's development.

Breastfeeding is out of the question, and my sister and brother-in-law are really ruthless; they've almost never stopped, and now my sister's belly is big again.

So there wasn't a single drop of alcohol in my brother-in-law's house; the only place it was in was in the kitchen with cooking wine.

Despite her heartbreak, Kurenai Yuhi did not refuse. She walked over and drank the large glass of juice, her face still ashen.

"You'll get used to it. You can't beat that brat."

Uchiha Retsuyo walked over with a smile, carrying a glass of juice. He understood Yuhi Shinku's feelings very well, as he had been in a similar situation back then.

"It's normal for a girl to develop feelings for a boy as she grows up, but why that particular guy?"

Kurenai Yuhi was very frustrated and regretful. If she had known this would happen, she should have chopped that kid up in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams.

"Because he's outstanding."

Uchiha Retsuyo laughed and said, "Not to mention the current ninja world, throughout the thousand-year history of the ninja world, there has never been a genius like him. The First Hokage and Uchiha Madara have long been left behind by him."

Just like that kid said, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Having seen such an outstanding man as him, it will be hard for Hongya to find anyone else she likes in the future.

It's not just beautiful women who attract men's attention; handsome men also attract women's attention, and it's inevitable that they'll develop feelings for each other after spending a lot of time together.

"Don't be depressed. Try to think positively. If Hongyatou gets together with him, he'll have to call you Dad from now on."

This offered an alternative perspective, but Uchiha Retsuyo had already come to terms with it.

Since I can't kill that brat, I'll just enjoy being called "father-in-law" and "dad" all the time.

No matter how successful you are, you still have to call me father-in-law and dad.

Kurenai Yuhi fell silent, thinking that the feeling might not be so bad.

Thinking about it this way, my mood immediately improved, and I even felt a little more hopeful. (End of Chapter)