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Chapter 131 Round Two: The Bloodline Elimination Ring

Xia Zuo's voluntary stripping of his power was too ruthless.

The Konoha Jonin went from initial excitement to growing unease, and eventually became filled with fear and trepidation.

Even an idiot like Uchiha Shisui noticed the problem and began to worry that the Fifth Hokage's power was too small to manage the vast Hidden Leaf Village.

It wasn't until Shisui received repeated hints from Natsume that he noticed the Konoha Jonin who had benefited from the departmental reforms. His attitude towards Natsume underwent a qualitative change, and the respect and obedience in his eyes were clearly visible.

Uchiha Shisui was finally relieved.

[As expected of Lord Xia Zuo, although I don't understand anything, judging from the clan leaders' attitudes, I can tell that your decision is incredibly brilliant.]

At this moment, the veteran Jonin, including Chief of Staff Nara Shikaku, Security Chief Yamanaka Inoichi, Intelligence Chief Aburame Shiki, Police Chief Hyuga Hiashi, and Listening Chief Hatake Kakashi, were filled with surprise.

They began to take the initiative, submitting numerous suggestions to the conference for discussion and voting in order to protect their department's authority and work.

Xia Zuo didn't care about the specifics of the job, and for a time he became an outsider.

He sat down nonchalantly, placed his straw hat on the table in front of him, and took out a test tube from his pocket. The white flesh floating in the test tube was wriggling on its own.

It was on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre that Xia Zuo cut off Hashirama's flesh and blood from Obito Uchiha's body.

He had treasured the flesh and blood of Hashirama and Uchiha for three whole years, waiting for the day when he could complete all ten bloodline limits and lay a solid foundation.

Right there at the Konoha Jonin Tournament venue, Xia Zuo began fusing with the first type of bloodline elimination.

He poured the flesh and blood from the test tube into his palm and let it fuse with his skin.

According to the description in "The True Explanation of the Five Elements Battle", Hashirama's flesh and blood are the catalyst for the fusion of bloodstains and elimination.

Bloodstained Elimination is a fusion of the three attributes of chakra undergoing a qualitative change. Although it is not an unsolvable problem like the Three-Body Trajectory, the possibility of errors occurring during the fusion is still too high.

It is said that the Dust Release technique of Iwagakure uses the most extreme training method, forcibly fusing the Dust Release by annihilating one's own Lightning Release and Water Release attributes.

The absence of the two basic chakra properties disrupts the chakra property cycle, causing two problems.

First, Dust Escape can no longer reflect genes and cannot be passed down through bloodlines.

Secondly, the power of Dust Escape has an upper limit, and its application can only be limited to encircling cubes or cylinders before imploding and pulverizing them.

The solution that the Five Spirits Fairy came up with was to use flesh and blood as a guide, and to use the flesh and blood that had been successfully eliminated and fused by luck as a guide in her own fusion process.

As Hashirama's flesh and blood merged into his body, Xia Zuo also guided his Water Release chakra, Earth Release chakra, and Yang Release chakra to undergo qualitative changes in turn.

Xia Zuo was adept at the qualitative changes of Water Release and Earth Release, but the qualitative change of Yang Release was not in terms of vitality, but in terms of the midday sun.

This was incredibly difficult. Xia Zuo concentrated and tried more than ten times before finally completing the transformation of Yang Release chakra into sunlight.

He carefully controlled the three types of qualitatively transformed chakra and moved closer to the flesh and blood of Hashirama that were frantically eroding his right arm.

The moment the three intertwined, transformed chakras came into contact with Hashirama's flesh and blood, they seemed to have found a template reflecting their own future, and surged forward madly.

Hashirama's flesh and blood encountered their natural enemy.

No, they can't be called natural enemies.

It must have been a corpse that was not stiff but still alive, which encountered a vibrant new seed and was absorbed as nutrients.

Inside the unremarkable skin of Xia Zuo's right arm, Hashirama's flesh and blood were being devoured by three types of qualitatively transformed chakra, which then served as a template to generate a completely new type of chakra.

This is Hashirama's version of Wood Release chakra.

It roamed through Xia Zuo's body, exhibiting a hundred times the activity of the original Wood Release chakra, as well as a corrosive power that terrified Xia Zuo.

As Hashirama's flesh and blood were completely devoured, the new Wood Release chakra within Xia Zuo's body grew to the point where it began to cover the original Wood Release bloodline limit.

But Xia Zuo soon discovered that the original Wood Release had not disappeared; it was not a cover-up but a graft.

The Hashirama version of Wood Release chakra uses Xia Zuo's Wood Release bloodline limit as the Root system, absorbing its energy to reflect the bloodline at a higher level and imprinting complex information on the genes.

While the Jonin of Konoha were arguing over the interests of 15 departments, Xia Zuo completed the fusion of Wood Release Kekkei Tota and entered the process of automatically changing his body's genes.

He could finally relax, feeling the changes within his body while watching the Konoha Jonin vie for power.

It's a very strange feeling.

Xia Zuo is constantly growing stronger, reaching higher levels of power.

Others, however, are trapped at a lower level, struggling for meager gains.

He inevitably develops illusions such as feeling isolated from the world or being the only one sober while everyone else is drunk.

Yes, this is just an illusion, an illusion caused by the rapid increase in power.

To truly surpass the level of a ninja, one must at least reach the power level of the Six Paths, and ideally, complete the fusion of the Bloodline Limits to achieve true divine or Buddha-like power.

To Xia Zuo's surprise, after the Wood Release of Hashirama took root, it actually grew upwards to his chest.

Influenced by the rotation of the Bloodline Limit Ring, the original Wood Release caused the new Wood Release to begin rotating, revolving around the heart and vaguely forming a new wheel—the Bloodline Limit Ring.

Based on current indications, the new Wheel of Reincarnation should consist of five bloodline eliminations, which matches the number in "The True Explanation of the Five Elements Battle".

Indeed, numbers that involve the laws of the world are often matched with each other.

The path he was taking next had become clearer, which made Xia Zuo extremely happy.

He was happy all night.

The Konoha Jonin Conference discussed more and more matters, and the meeting time continued to be extended until the early hours of the next day, when the Konoha Jonin finally ended all the discussions with great enthusiasm.

At this moment, the 15 Konoha Jonin who had assumed the position of department head no longer felt the joy of having obtained the position; their hearts were filled with bitterness and pressure.

After a whole night of thinking, discussion and debate, they finally saw the true nature of the 15 ministerial positions.

The Fifth Hokage, Natsu, did not actually relinquish power.

He simply delegated the specific tasks to the 15 newly established departments, while simultaneously shirking all responsibility.

Starting today, the Fifth Hokage, Natsuzo, will no longer be in charge of any specific tasks, but will instead become a pure supervisor and urger.

These 15 ministers, on the contrary, were burdened with heavy workloads and unlimited responsibilities, turning into mere beasts of burden.

As we all know, there's no such thing as a good job.

Making mistakes is inevitable; the more you do, the more mistakes you make. The only way to avoid making mistakes is to do nothing.

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