Konoha: Offer your heart to the Hokage!

In the future, Orochimaru's Heavenly Curse Seal will also cause changes in the experimental subjects' bodies, and this is already evident in the grafted curse seal at this moment.

Shen Er remained calm as he carefully recorded the changes in his body's data.

After regaining their senses, the test subject, under Shen'er's coercion and enticement, obediently cooperated with the subsequent tests.

First, there's his night vision ability. Even in complete darkness, he can clearly distinguish numbers from hundreds of meters away, even those indicated by fingers. Next, there's his sense of smell. Again, at a distance of hundreds of meters, he can accurately distinguish the smell of each liquid when placed in a container.

What does this equate to?

He immediately thought of the Inuzuka clan in Konoha, renowned for their inhuman senses and beast-like battle instincts. The Inuzuka clan was described as follows: when a ninja possesses both human intelligence and beastly abilities, their combat power becomes astonishing…

For a member of the Inuzuka clan to reach that level of skill, he must train for many years while living with ninja dogs.

Shen'er's cat charm allows the user to skip this long process and immediately gain abilities close to those of the Inuzuka clan.

With night vision and a sense of smell, the user of the Cat Charm will be granted unparalleled nighttime reconnaissance abilities, which is quite exaggerated.

But what will be the cost?

He remained silent, observing the physical changes of the test subject directly in front of them.

Under his gaze, the test subject felt a chill and became increasingly agitated.

Five minutes later, the test subject showed signs of pain and instinctively released the cat charm form.

"Change back immediately."

Even so, his tone was cold, and his face revealed murderous intent.

"Yes……"

The psychological pressure inflicted on the test subjects far outweighed the physical pain.

The test subject shuddered, suppressed the discomfort, and entered the cat-spell state again.

This time, he only lasted for less than five minutes. His body began to convulse uncontrollably, switching back and forth between human and cat-human forms. Finally, he vomited a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

ten minutes.

Even so, this key metric was recorded.

There is no rejection reaction between ninjas; their eyes are hot-swappable.

But there are differences between species.

The essence of talismans and seals is to construct a stable pathway that allows the ninja bloodline to collide and temporarily merge with the bloodlines of other races, thereby acquiring the innate abilities of those other races.

To put it bluntly, it means becoming Fu Rui.

This is intolerable to the People's Alliance.

After enduring for 10 minutes, an ordinary genin suffered severe injuries and fell into a coma due to the collapse of the talisman channel caused by the clash of bloodlines. It is unknown how long he will need to recover before he can use the power of the talisman again.

It's uncertain how long even higher-ranking ninjas can hold out.

This is the price to pay for skipping the cultivation process and forcibly seizing power.

This spell system still has a lot of room for improvement.

However, he has absolutely no talent for developing the cursed seal, which can only be left to Orochimaru in the future.

Shen Er wrote down his conclusions, with no immediate plans to use the power of the talisman on himself. He couldn't accept the mutated and deformed state of his body, which he felt was beneath his dignity and elegance.

At the same time, the patterns of the curse mark need to be adjusted accordingly depending on the type of blood being fused.

If a dog is used as the medium, it becomes a dog charm; if an ant is used as the medium, it becomes an ant charm; if a bird is used as the medium, it becomes a bird charm, and so on.

If someone had a Kowloon physique like Arnold Schwarzenegger, capable of withstanding the side effects of numerous talismans, it wouldn't be impossible to artificially stack them into a shadow using technology.

The above describes the effects of animal blood.

The bodily fluids of special individuals, such as Libra Jugo, can be used to create the Heavenly Curse Seal, granting ninjas temporary access to Sage Mode powers.

Ordinary animal seals can be used to mass-produce grunts. But with Shen'er's current level of power, he no longer cares about such basic seals.

His real focus is on organisms like planarians, starfish, hydra, and geckos, which possess the ability to regenerate severed limbs, repair organs, and regenerate indefinitely.

If the characteristics of such creatures were incorporated into the spell system...

Within ten minutes, he will gain a self-healing ability that surpasses even Hashirama's.

If they could obtain Hashirama's heart and take over his physique, and combine it with the dual regeneration abilities of unmarked healing and self-healing spells, their survival endurance would reach its peak.

He is virtually immortal; there is no way to kill him except through sealing techniques.

No matter how many people come, it's the same.

She even realized that she had so many trump cards to protect herself in the future that she was almost running out of options.

A sinister laugh echoed from the basement: "Orochimaru, don't disappoint your master, hehehe..."

Chapter 97 Even on our grand wedding, we're all in pure love (6K)

Some time passed.

Major news has come from the Uchiha clan: Uchiha Chisato, known as the Purple Reaper, is feeling unwell and is preparing to step down as clan leader, seeking a talented young ninja from within the clan to become the new leader.

Shen Er already knew about this, so it wasn't surprising.

Zhili's resignation as clan chief means he's not far from getting married.

To this end, he has been cleaning up the traces of the underground laboratory in the Zen temple and setting up barriers and seals throughout the clan.

Whether it's getting married or adopting Orochimaru.

Their lives will inevitably become intertwined.

He needed to be absolutely certain that he could keep all his dark secrets hidden from Chiri and Orochimaru. At least for now, that was the plan; when he felt the time was right, he would gradually "reveal" his secrets to them.

On an ordinary night, Shen Er finished all his work.

At that moment, the gate of the clan's territory was knocked on.

The visitor was none other than Tobirama Senju.

Shen Er probably guessed his purpose, but pretended not to know and led him into the clan's territory with a blank expression.

"There's no need to go to the reception room. Come with me for a walk in the clan's territory."

Seemingly noticing that Jin was in a bad mood, Tobirama spoke up, saying that the worse Jin's mood was, the better his mood became, because his chances of successfully staining Jin black had increased...

The two walked together in the courtyard and soon arrived at a bamboo grove.

"So, you buried that disciple in the clan?"

"Yes." Shen Er nodded slightly. "Bury him in the cherry blossom grove."

Several years ago, he had already planted a large number of cherry blossom trees on the land of the Zen Temple.

It's truly a case of corpses being buried under cherry blossom trees now.

However, it is clear that Matsumoto Waka's body was not actually buried there; this statement was merely a deliberate attempt to create a romanticized image in front of outsiders.

Cherry blossom trees, disciples, the place of eternal rest—a profound sense of melancholy pervades the air.

Shen Ergui added, "Matsumoto Waka loved cherry blossoms most in her life, and being buried here after her death is a perfect and fulfilling ending."

"Ugh……"

Cherry blossoms drifted down before Todoroki's eyes.

Tobirama sighed, clearly enjoying the tone, and felt his chances of persuading Shinji had increased.

Taking advantage of the situation, Tobirama spoke up: "What, do you still remember what I told you ten years ago?"

"Ten years ago?" Shen Er frowned slightly, but secretly laughed to himself.

As expected, all of Tobirama's actions were within his expectations. Once someone important to him passed away, Tobirama began to take advantage of the situation, trying to persuade him to develop the Impure World Reincarnation together.

These two brothers with a thousand hands are really something... one is a pure and simple person, and the other is a monster who is good at manipulating human nature.

"The Impure World Reincarnation Technique".

With a calm expression, Tobirama uttered the word that Hashirama considered taboo, and began to preach his profound principles to Jin: "Jin, you must be in great pain, right?"

“My disciple passed away at the young age of 21. I understand the pain of a parent outliving their child. I had two younger brothers who died in battles during the Warring States period.”

“If your disciple were in good health, he should have lived much longer and should not have died so young. I believe this is a curse imposed on ninjas by fate.”

"A ninja is someone who defies fate. We should break this curse of destiny."

After his previous attempt at persuasion failed, Tobirama changed his strategy this time. He shifted from "protecting the peace of Konoha" to "changing the injustice of fate." He repackaged the war-oriented nature of the Edo Tensei (Reanimation Jutsu) as a beautiful forbidden technique to fulfill his dreams.

The ninja will surely triumph over heaven—such a grand narrative.

Shen Er neither refused nor agreed, but after a moment of contemplation, he said slowly, "She... is no longer my disciple."

The subtext of those words is quite obvious.

If she were still his disciple, he wouldn't mind actually developing the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

Tobirama's eyes lit up; he sensed Shinji's awkward thoughts from the air and thought to himself: He's finally showing a weakness, Shinji...

On the surface, he softened his tone and said, "Yes, Matsumoto Waka broke a taboo and was not tolerated by the village. But she has already paid the price with her life, hasn't she?"

"She has already died once. If she can be resurrected using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, all her past sins will be buried with her under that cherry blossom tree. From now on, she will be reborn."

"She can also accompany her own child and spend a complete childhood."

She even closed her eyes, her expression full of pain, as if she were going through a violent inner struggle.

After a long silence, he finally spoke, his voice heavy: "I cannot do that. I cannot toy with the souls of the dead. Ninjas should follow the will of Heaven; going against it will only bring greater calamity."

But this time, his tone was much weaker than it had been ten years ago.

That resolve had long since crumbled.

It gives the impression that with just a little more effort, he could completely change his mind.

Tobirama Senju once again understood Shinji's thoughts.

A drop of jet-black ink had already settled firmly on his pure white haori. The grief of his disciple's passing would slowly ferment with time; and that drop of ink would, along the fabric's texture, gradually spread and diffuse...

When that time came, the haori was stained with ink over a large area, and Shen'er's heart was filled with anger at the injustice of fate and sorrow for the early death of her disciple.

Then I only need to visit him again to persuade him, and he will definitely not refuse again.