Naruto: I'm really not an evil scientist!

Chapter 257 Chakra Fruit

Hiruko stood in front of a pile of spoils and began to carefully count her gains in the Land of Rain.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up, making him look very pleased.

It can be said that he went there specifically for the Ten-Tails' hull and the seven tailed beasts. This trip to the Land of Rain was a great success.

While collecting research materials, he also took the opportunity to recruit a group of remnants of the Iwagakure village.

Although most of the Iwa ninja are still corpses, lying there quietly and lifeless, he has his own plans in mind.

He believed that after reviving these ninjas who hated Nagato, he could use his silver tongue to persuade them to eventually become his employees, obediently serving him.

After touching the Ten-Tails, Hiruko discovered that her transformation encyclopedia had been expanded.

Although the trunk of this divine tree, sawed by a scorpion, looks somewhat rough and incomplete, like a damaged precious work of art, this does not prevent it from easily transforming into a divine tree of an alien species.

However, even though I can change my appearance, it's still necessary to study this sacred tree that is so closely related to Princess Kaguya.

Perhaps he could use this sacred tree as a medium to perform some mysterious technique and bless Princess Kaguya in the moon to have a fourth child. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but chuckle.

As for the fact that Nagato possesses the Rinnegan and can summon the Gedo Mazo back at any time, Hiruko had already considered this matter.

First, Hiruko left his cells and the Flying Thunder God mark on the Divine Tree, which was like giving the Divine Tree a unique label.

Therefore, even if the Divine Tree is summoned away, he can immediately use the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring it back into the Divine Might Space, thus thwarting Nagato's plan.

Secondly, summoning a large object from a distant alternate dimension is no easy task; it requires a massive amount of chakra.

If Nagato did this a few more times, he'd probably be completely drained. At that point, he wouldn't even be able to stand, let alone summon the Gedo Mazo. He definitely wouldn't continue doing such meaningless things.

Third, he will go back to his hometown after a while and will no longer be in this world. At that time, even if Nagato wants to use his spirit medium, he will not be able to do so and will only be able to worry helplessly.

Turning our attention back to the Kamui Space, the seven tailed beast babies, physically unconscious by the giant hand, lay there quietly, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep.

Hiruko looked at them and revealed a very healthy smile, a smile that revealed a kind of greed and expectation.

If we add the Eight-Tails Gyūki that Sasuke obtained during his conquest of the Land of Lightning, then Hiruko would have collected all the tailed beasts except for the Nine-Tails.

If the chakra of all the tailed beasts is gathered, it can be fused into the Ten-Tails chakra, which is a special high-level energy formed after the most primordial natural energy of the planet is transformed by the Divine Tree.

Theoretically, possessing the Ten-Tails' chakra and mastering the Otsutsuki secret technique to transform it into an easily absorbed chakra fruit before completely consuming it would be essentially the same as eating a real chakra fruit.

At most, because he might not absorb enough natural energy, the effects of the fruit he eats might be much weaker than the one Kaguya Otsutsuki ate. But at least he can instantly gain the power of the Bloodline Limit and easily obtain Truth-Seeking Balls. Then, he can become the true ruler of the ninja world.

Of course, within the vast and mysterious system of secret techniques in the ninja world, there are also unique ways to improve oneself, like Momoshiki's.

Momoshiki was skilled in alchemy, using the vast and pure chakra of the tailed beasts to directly refine them into pills that emitted a strange light through a series of complex and mysterious processes.

After consuming these pills, not only can they greatly enhance the body's essence, allowing for a qualitative leap in physical strength, recovery ability, and other qualities, but they can also be used as a means to replenish chakra and unleash terrifying power in battle, as unstoppable as a volcanic eruption.

However, although Hiruko had an endless desire and pursuit for power and was constantly exploring various ways to improve his strength, he did not understand the technique of chakra alchemy.

The intricate alchemy steps, the mysterious runes and incantations, and the precise control of chakra were as incomprehensible to him as a book written in heaven.

Currently, he only knows how to condense chakra fruits through the Divine Tree.

However, the chakra fruit formed from the Divine Tree and easily absorbed is the core method used by the Otsutsuki clan to modify and evolve their genes, containing the wisdom and heritage of the Otsutsuki clan over countless years.

Compared to Momoshiki's simple and crude alchemy techniques, this method is actually more suitable for Hiruko.

Because the Chakra Fruit itself is a collection of planetary energy and the genetic factors of all the planet's organisms, it is like a mysterious jewel that gathers the essence of the entire planet.

Therefore, once Hiruko successfully devours the chakra fruit condensed on this planet, it means that he has devoured all the possibilities of this planet up to this point. Those untapped potentials and hidden secrets will all be at his disposal.

This also means that he has obtained a massive amount of energy, enough to bring about a dramatic change in his strength and allow him to reach a whole new level on the stage of the ninja world.

Of course, that refers to ordinary planets that have been completely drained of energy and turned into desolate wastelands. Odd planets like the Ninja World, which are extremely rich in natural energy and whose land is only slightly barren after the God Tree drained the entire planet, are obviously not included in this category.

After all, the Divine Tree produced a Chakra Fruit in the ninja world back then, but instead of collapsing, the planet continued to fight each other in a chaotic manner—ninja villages from various countries fought each other to the point of exhaustion, and in the end, it was the alien Kaguya who descended from the sky and ended the war with Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Later, apart from the Great Toad Sage, who was always mindful of potential dangers and risked being hunted down by the ninja world to secretly pass on the Six Paths Sage Technique to Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the entire planet didn't even develop a tense atmosphere of impending doom.

Coincidentally, Hiruko had previously used fragments of the main god to frantically extract the Nine-Tails' chakra in his original world, almost sucking the fox into a deflated balloon.

At this moment, he stared at the eight tailed beasts floating in the Divine Might Space—the first to the seventh tailed beasts were tightly bound by chains, and the eighth tailed beast, Gyūki, was frantically swinging its tentacles and crashing into the barrier. Its ferocious single eye was glowing with blood, and its roar shook the space.

"Stop struggling."

Hiruko raised his hand and formed a hand seal. The eight tailed beasts froze instantly, and dense black curse marks appeared on their bodies. "Your Nine-Tails brothers from your original world didn't even have a trace of chakra left."

He could have used this portion of the Nine-Tails' chakra as a catalyst to violently fuse it with the massive amount of chakra extracted from the eight tailed beasts—like forcibly stuffing eight different types of high explosives into the same container.

The fusion process indeed triggered a violent repulsion. The ink of the Eight-Tails, the corrosive acid mist of the Three-Tails, and the scales of the Seven-Tails exploded in the space, forcing Hiruko to activate the Tenseigan's defensive mode.

But he was prepared. He pressed his hands to the ground, and his body instantly transformed into a tall, verdant tree. The tree roots, like tentacles, pierced into the bodies of the eight tailed beasts, forcibly extracting their chakra and mixing it in equal proportions.

"At most, we'll shrink you to your juvenile form."

Hiruko's voice came from the treetop, tinged with a hint of mockery, "Just like the Nine-Tails from your original world—now even its fox tail is drooping, but it's still living just fine, isn't it?"

The eight tailed beasts roared angrily, but they could not break free from the roots' restraints.

As their chakra was continuously drained, their size gradually shrank, eventually turning into eight palm-sized tailed beast babies, floating blankly in mid-air, with the character "座" tattooed on their foreheads and three-tomoe Sharingan contact lenses—marks that Hiruko used to control them with genjutsu.

At the top of the giant tree, a shriveled chakra fruit is slowly taking shape.

Hiruko knew that this fruit was far less plump than the real Ten-Tails Fruit, but it was enough for him—as long as he swallowed it, the upgrade of the Rinnegan's abilities and the acquisition of bloodline limits such as Kaguya's All-Killing Ash Bones would all come naturally.

After all, he had already met the conditions; all he needed was a trigger.

As for the condensation of the Seeking Truth Jade? He had already figured out the method long after he awakened the Reincarnation Eye.

"The power of Yin-Yang Release..." Hiruko murmured to herself, gazing at the fruit in her palm.

Yin Dun governs the spiritual energy of imagination, capable of creating something from nothing.

Yang Dun governs life force and physical energy, and can infuse life into the forms created by Yin Dun.

The Sage of Six Paths created the nine tailed beasts using Yin-Yang Release—although the tailed beasts are ultimately derived from the Ten-Tails' chakra, their ability to develop independent consciousness is entirely due to the harmony of Yin-Yang Release by the Sage of Six Paths.

Therefore, the chakra of the tailed beasts must contain the chakra imprint of the Sage of Six Paths, just like the strange creatures he created using Yin-Yang Release—those things are real life, but if he wanted, he could make them do things that are unimaginable to ordinary people at any time by manipulating Yin-Yang Release.

"Putting ourselves in others' shoes, if we don't transform and eliminate the hidden dangers..." Beiruhu sneered and looked up at the sky above the Divine Might Space.

There, a giant Tenseigan was radiating a golden light, like a bright moon. "Directly devouring a tailed beast? The result would probably be even worse than a monster being swallowed by Sun Wukong."

After saying that, he opened his mouth and swallowed the Chakra Fruit.

In an instant, violent energy exploded within his body, and the Tenseigan automatically activated its defensive mode, with golden chakra surging into his eyes like a tidal wave.

The eight tailed beast babies let out terrified screams, but were firmly trapped by the barrier. They could only watch helplessly as Hiruko's body was gradually enveloped by chakra, eventually transforming into a giant tree cocoon that dyed the entire Kamui space emerald green.

"Divine Tree Realm descends! Spread it completely!"

"Limited-time Tsukuyomi Projection! Let dreams and reality intertwine!"

With a low but powerful shout from Hiruko, the giant tree he had transformed into seemed to be injected with a crazy gene, and began to grow wildly at a terrifying speed.

Countless thick and ferocious roots spread rapidly in all directions like serpentine snakes, completely filling and tearing the earth wherever they went. The tailed beasts were terrified by this sudden change and roared in anger, but they were unable to break free from the roots' grasp and could only watch helplessly as they were tightly bound within them.

At the same time, a crimson beam of light shot out from the top of the giant tree, directly onto the enormous Reincarnation Eye, which was as beautiful as a precious gem and exuded a mysterious aura.

In an instant, the Tenseigan, which was originally golden and as bright as the moon, suddenly appeared with rotating tomoe and was quickly stained with an ominous red light, as if it were possessed by a demon, exuding a chilling eeriness.

Perhaps Hiruko was only focused on extracting the chakra of the tailed beasts and completely disregarded their feelings.

Even in Tsukuyomi's dream, the tailed beasts could clearly feel a piercing, bone-deep pain, as if countless steel needles were stabbing wildly inside their bodies.

"Ah—!" Accompanied by a series of shrill roars and howls, the bodies of the eight tailed beasts began to shrink rapidly at a visible speed.

The monster, which was originally sixty or seventy meters tall and majestic like a mountain, kept shrinking until it was about the height of a person. But the shrinking trend did not stop. Then it became the height of a husky, and finally it became the size of a Western fantasy fairy, trembling in the roots.

Seeing this, Hiruko snorted coldly, released the tentacles that were binding the tailed beasts, and quickly formed hand seals to teleport them to another safe Kamui space for temporary storage.

He secretly planned to release them after studying their individual properties. Later, once the tailed beasts were fattened up by the abundant natural energy of the ninja world, he might be able to absorb them again. This would be a sure-fire way to make money.

He could roughly understand Kaguya's feeling of regarding the ninja world as her nursery. The ninja world did indeed have abundant natural energy, and its ecological environment recovered relatively quickly. If the energy was used gradually and steadily, it might yield greater results than a one-time, destructive exploitation.

All things grow by the sun. As Beiliu gazed into the void, a bold idea suddenly popped into his mind.

I wonder if the Otsutsuki clan's sacred tree can be planted directly on the sun?

The divine tree should be able to adapt to the harsh environment of the universe. With some modifications, it could create a Dyson sphere structure that is a certain distance from the sun but can completely envelop it. It might take a long time, but it is not impossible.

The Otsutsuki clan did not do this, which could not be due to a lack of technology. Perhaps simple energy is not what they need. Only special life-bearing planets can condense the divine chakra fruit that increases their lifespan and brings about evolution.

“It’s time to infuse the Nine-Tails’ chakra.” Hiruko stopped daydreaming, his eyes narrowed, and he directly infused the Nine-Tails’ chakra stored in the fragment of the main god into the flower bud of the divine tree that he had transformed into.

With this Nine-Tails chakra, which is closest to the essence of the Ten-Tails chakra, it is as if a soul has been infused into this fruit that is about to take shape.

He activated the secret technique of condensing the chakra fruit, and the Ten-Tails chakra he absorbed underwent a special transformation process, gradually condensing into matter. At the top of the Divine Tree, a fruit shimmering with mysterious light gradually condensed.

Chapter 258 Teasing Black Zetsu

“In this way, the Chakra Fruit is now complete.” Hiruko’s other body slowly plucked the Chakra Fruit from the body of the Divine Tree.

The feeling of watching yourself turn into a tree, blossom and bear fruit, and finally pluck the fruit from your own body is undeniably magical.

In particular, now that he was about to eat this fruit that seemed to be underdeveloped, a strange sense of tension and anticipation welled up in his heart.

"Amu~"

Hiruko opened his mouth wide, as if he could swallow the whole world, and without hesitation swallowed the entire fruit that was radiating a mysterious light in one gulp. His decisive action was as if he were tasting the most delicious food in the world.

After swallowing, he casually waved his hand, merging the enormous, strangely aura-filled body of the Divine Tree back into his normal body with practiced ease.

"The taste seems alright? At least it doesn't taste like a Devil Fruit." Hiruko muttered to herself as she savored the lingering fruity flavor in her mouth, looking like a child evaluating a delicious meal.

As he was eating, he suddenly felt an itch between his eyebrows, as if countless tiny insects were crawling on them.

With a casual wave of his hand, he conjured a crystal-clear ice mirror, its smooth surface instantly reflecting his handsome face.

His face grew increasingly fair and delicate, even to the point of being sickly and alluring, like a bewitching elf emerging from the darkness.

However, that's not the point. The point is that a scarlet light slowly bloomed between his eyebrows, and a scarlet Rinne Sharingan appeared. Its eerie color seemed to be able to see through all the secrets of the world.

As Hiruko's thoughts shifted, a special chakra surged into his eyes like a raging tide, instantly transforming them into purple-blue ring eyes—a unique feature of the Rinnegan, deep and mysterious.

However, Hiruko then seemed to be playing around, with a slight upturn of his lips and a mischievous glint in his eyes. He quickly transformed his round eyes into the azure Tenseigan, a clear blue that seemed to encompass the entire universe.

"Wuhu~"

Just as Hiruko was immersed in this wonderful change and was dancing with joy, he noticed that his reflection in the mirror was gradually becoming grotesque, and a pair of inferior bull horns made of bone-like material were growing on his head, making him look extremely strange.

Hiruko frowned, seemingly quite dissatisfied with the ugly bony bull horn. He snorted coldly and, using his powerful ability to control his body, quickly formed hand seals, erasing this feature of the Otsutsuki clan as if it had never existed.