Another month passed.
Inside the remote Secret Base, Madara firmly pressed his hands together.
“Wood Release: Wood Clone!”
A sturdy mass of wood rapidly gathered beside him, organically forming a clone perfectly identical to himself.
After his intensive research during this quiet time, Madara could now skillfully wield Wood Release.
Although his overall proficiency still fell well short of Hashirama’s, it already easily surpassed that of Yamato, the much later Wood Release user.
As Hashirama’s cells rapidly spread throughout his body, his ocular power heavily increased.
He could clearly feel his Sharingan rapidly evolving toward the true Rinnegan.
*Rumble…*
A sudden tremor accompanied by a series of loud crashes echoed over.
Madara quickly looked toward the sound and saw a heavy rhinoceros covered entirely in tough crocodile skin trip clumsily over a thick tree root.
That armored beast was called a Croco-Rhino, a unique Chimeric Beast created by literally stitching together a large crocodile and a rhinoceros.
That tree root wasn’t ordinary either.
It was the successful product of Yang boldly combining Hashirama cells with trees, Treant, a literal living tree.
During this time, as Kakuzu’s Synthetic Biology Technology grew far more mature, the number of Chimeric Beasts he reliably manufactured increased.
The Three-Headed Wolf, the Croco-Rhino, and Treant were only a small portion of them.
“I still cannot see the use of these Chimeric Beasts.
They are far too weak.” Madara frowned.
Yang was actively studying Yin-Yang Release under him, a highly complex discipline, yet he still deliberately distracted himself with making Chimeric Beasts.
It was simply a massive waste of time.
Moreover, these creatures were absurdly weak.
“You treat the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox as a mere Summoning Beast, so you naturally think they are completely weak.” Yang rolled his eyes.
“But in reality, if they were actively put on the market, countless ninja would pay very high prices to buy them as Ninja Beasts or Summoning Beasts.
Those wealthy nobles and Daimyo would also rapidly buy them to keep as flashy pets purely out of vanity.”
He had accidentally stumbled upon another highly lucrative way to make money.
Perhaps he could successfully use this to open a massive pet shop.
“Right, Madara, give me some Nine-Tails fur.”
Surprise briefly flashed through Madara’s eyes.
“Don’t tell me you want to explicitly use the Nine-Tails to make a Chimeric Beast?”
Yang nodded.
“Kumogakure has two highly capable individuals Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
They are said to be descendants of the Sage of Six Paths.
They were once swallowed entirely by the Nine-Tails, and after heavily eating the Nine-Tails flesh and blood, they acquired a portion of the Nine-Tails Chakra.”
“So you definitely want the Chimeric Beasts to securely possess Nine-Tails Chakra as well.
Highly interesting.” Madara smirked as he swiftly cast the Summoning Jutsu.
*Boom!*
Accompanied by a massive cloud of white smoke, a giant orange fox the size of a small hill completely appeared.
His nine massive tails, far more massive than his own body, loudly proclaimed his true identity to the world, the strongest among the Nine-Tailed Beasts, the Nine-Tailed Fox! This chapter is updated first at novelping.com.
The Chimeric Beasts rapidly sensed a creature incarnating natural disaster itself.
They cowered instantly, scrambling wildly into their deep dens and daring not to emerge.
“Damn Uchiha…”
Geavy rage heavily rumbled from Kurama’s huge mouth.
But before he could even finish, Madara glared with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
As silence decended on the secret base.
Poor Kurama never even drew a fresh breath.
His vast mind immediately snapped under control, his massive body freezing in place like a mountain of stone.
Yang quickly stepped forward to collect his biological samples.
With the great Nine-Tailed Fox completely helpless, he saw no reason to pluck just a few meager hairs.
Instead, he aggressively carved out a solid chunk of living flesh and strode back into the laboratory, visibly elated.
Seeing Yang secure Kurama’s flesh and blood, Madara released the Summoning Jutsu, swiftly returning the beast to its sealing scroll.
Passing the laboratory door, Madara quietly watched Yang bustling inside and breathed a sigh of relief.
‘Even though he is a time traveler, he is certainly not omniscient,’ Madara thought.
When Yang first boasted of being a time traveler, he confidently acted as if everything cleanly unfolded according to plan, as if he literally knew all.
That sheer arrogance had stirred an inexplicable fear in Madara.
Everyone securely guards dark secrets, Madara was no exception.
Yet keen observation clearly revealed Yang was not all-powerful.
Though Yang actively researched Yin-Yang Release alongside him, his Yin Release remained purely theoretical.
Yang could not use Yin Release at all.
‘True, a time traveler is ultimately still just human.’
The clear realization significantly eased Madara’s mind.
What he did not know was exactly why Yang had learnt only Yang Release.
It was definitely not inability.
The heart securely inside Yang’s chest strictly generated only Yang-nature chakra, the Yin-nature heart resided with Kakuzu’s main body.
Armed fully with the Yin Release data Yang carefully extracted from Madara, the main body Kakuzu’s Yin Release ability rapidly advanced at an absolutely astonishing pace.
Tailed Beasts are truly ancient, highly unique entities.
A thousand years ago, the Sage of Six Paths completely divided the Ten-Tails massive chakra into nine portions, effectively using Yin Release to mold their huge bodies and Yang Release to grant them actual life.
Thus, Tailed Beasts smoothly shift freely between a pure chakra state and a biological state.
Kakuzu treated the new Kurama cells exactly like the Hashirama cells.
He carefully divided them into several equal portions for separate, controlled development.
Their sheer vitality perfectly matched Hashirama’s, providing sufficient organic nutrients to keep them alive posed little real difficulty.
The final goal was a continuous, stable supply of Kurama cells, but the true massive challenge lay in effectively fusing them with ordinary living creatures.
Yang ordered his subordinate Chimeric Beasts to rapidly capture over fifty healthy foxes.
He carefully selected ten.
He seamlessly implanted Kurama cells into each, yet not a single attempt fully succeeded.
Every single fox completely died within exactly ten days.
“It truly seems the corrosive nature of Kurama cells wildly exceeds even that of Hashirama cells.” Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
No matter how incredibly powerful Hashirama’s cells were, they remained fundamentally human cells and were inherently gentle.
Kurama cells, however, were the literal flesh of a Tailed Beast, just as violently volatile and aggressive as Kurama himself.
‘If I add Hashirama cells to neutralize it…’ Kakuzu thought.
Wood Release naturally possessed a powerful inhibitory effect on the Tailed Beasts.
Using Hashirama’s cells as a stabilizing buffer between ordinary animal cells and the Kurama cells just might actually work.
All talk and no direct action would never yield solid results.
The very moment the idea clearly surfaced, Kakuzu acted.
He took ten more healthy foxes and rapidly performed dual transplants of Hashirama cells and Kurama cells.
Another massive failure.
The Hashirama cells and Kurama cells violently clashed.
The ordinary foxes weak bodies could not withstand the intense conflict, they all rapidly ruptured and completely died within three days.
“This line of active thinking strictly shouldn’t be wrong.
Could it be a delicate issue with the exact ratio?”
–**–**
Two grueling months later, repeated brutal experimentation had killed every single fox test subject.
Kakuzu, however, finally arrived at a highly satisfying answer: when the delicate ratio of Hashirama cells to Nine-Tails cells was exactly 1:99, ordinary animals could actually survive Kurama cell transplant.
But even the specific foxes that successfully received the transplant were ultimately killed.
“Susanoo!”
Madara activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and instantly summoned his Susanoo, slaying the lunging, rabid fox with a single, sweeping sword strike.
“Yang, Nine-Tails cells absolutely have no research value whatsoever.” Madara spoke, puzzled.
Every fox that had successfully undergone the complex transplant completely ignored Yang, yet went completely mad and violently charged at him the exact moment they laid eyes on him.
Yang calmly observed a distinct pattern in the slaughtered foxes’ behavior.
“No, the biological experiment was actually a success.
The main problem lies with the test subjects themselves.”
Kurama was a thousand-year fox.
From his initially mascot-like appearance at birth, over a millennium heavily tempered by human malice, he had rapidly transformed into a cataclysmic behemoth, entirely filling his massive chakra with pure hostility.
Kurama cells were tightly formed from the Kurama’s chakra and carried that exact same hostility, a deep-seated hatred specifically for Madara.
If not for Madara, Kurama would still be slumbering away in some forgotten corner of the world, rather than being forcefully sealed inside a dark, highly cramped scroll.
“I clearly see.
So these foxes fully inherited the Nine-Tails deep hatred.”
Listening to the logical explanation, Madara looked cleanly at the fox carcasses on the ground.
Every single one violently glared at him even in death.
“The easiest thing for humans to successfully inherit is neither love nor deep loyalty, but pure hatred.
It truly seems the exactly same securely holds true for beasts.” He murmured softly, as if suddenly grasping a universal truth, and rapidly fell into deep thought.
Since Kakuzu entirely could not actively separate the hostility from Kurama cells, he had to temporarily halt his research on them.
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