Chapter 64: Bloodline Supplement Plan

The Land of Hot Water, Underground Secret Base

Large medical tanks lined up in a row, with the bodies of the Hyuga clan immersed in a preservative solution.

The air was filled with a strange smell—a mixture of chemical reagents, treated blood and organs, metal instruments, and rubber. It was eerie and silent, perfect for playing Gothic organ music in the background.

Shinosuke Hyuga's corpse lay on a metal bed, his eye sockets still hollow. However, thanks to Yuto Hyuga's meticulous work, Shinosuke's body was now intact, no longer as horrifying as it had been when hung in the Forest of Bones.

"Actually, you look quite fine."

Yuto stretched lazily, muttering to Shinosuke's corpse.

He loosened his neck, then turned his back on the metal bed and the tanks, continuing to examine the two precious Byakugan.

Extracted whole, these Byakugan were priceless treasures, worth more than gold.

The Byakugan of the branch family would automatically destroy themselves upon extraction, unlike the main family. However, the main family's small numbers and elite protection made capturing one alive almost impossible. Tracking and even ambushing a reconnaissance master with long-range vision was an extremely costly endeavor.

Yuto placed one hand over Shinosuke's extracted Byakugan and the other over his own eyes, channeling equal amounts of chakra into both, carefully discerning their differences.

After a while, he lowered his arms, playing with the eyeballs and thinking deeply.

His own eyes were "deformed."

This wasn't about shape or size but a deeper deformity—density of optic nerves, chakra transmission speed, chakra utilization efficiency...

The branch family, marked with the Caged Bird seal during childhood, had their Byakugan's abilities constrained during crucial developmental periods. To say this had no effect on the body was impossible.

The branch family lacked more than just a "degree of vision."

Yuto placed the two Byakugan in a small glass jar and set it back on the table. He then moved Shinosuke's body into a tank and neatly arranged the five branch family members' corpses on a large metal table.

Next, he began calibrating and cleaning various bizarre instruments.

If Tsunade were here, she would recognize the set of medical instruments for treating certain blood diseases. Their function was to draw blood, treat it externally, and then return it to the body.

However, Yuto had added many components to this medical setup, far exceeding its original design.

Not only could it draw blood, but it could also crush bones and grind flesh!

After completing the adjustments, Yuto placed a Hyuga chunin's body into the funnel-shaped entrance of the instrument.

"The greatness of new technology lies in innovation and experimentation..."

This thought crossed Yuto's mind as he watched the body being consumed by the machine.

He didn't remain idle but moved to the side, monitoring real-time parameters and continually channeling chakra with one hand.

In the shinobi world, the pinnacle of medical technology inevitably involved chakra.

Yuto aimed for "purification"—temperature, rotation speed, acidity, buffering solution composition, chakra ratio, the sequence and timing of each purification step... every detail was meticulously considered by him.

Having received a comprehensive science and engineering education in his previous life, Yuto's understanding of "experimentation and technology" surpassed 99.9% of people in this world.

An hour later, the machine stopped. At the end of the process, a cylindrical container, the size of a fist, was slowly released.

Inside the cylinder was a mass of amber-colored viscous liquid.

All the essence of the Hyuga chunin had been condensed into this form—blood, bone, flesh, meridians, and nerves—all transformed.

This condensed viscous liquid was less than 30 milliliters.

Yuto placed this precious liquid into a sterile container and rested for a long time, waiting until his chakra was 80% restored before continuing.

He then replaced the power source and loaded another body into the machine.

Yuto was purifying, extracting all the essence from the Hyuga corpses.

He aimed to supplement his own bloodline!

Breaking free from the Caged Bird's bondage required immense power.

Now, having studied under Tsunade, created his own S-rank ninjutsu Lion's Fang Bite, and practiced the Yin Seal, Yuto was certain he would eventually master the Strength of a Hundred Technique. With hard work, Yuto believed he would reach Kage-level combat power.

But even Kage-level strength wasn't enough.

In his past life, reading manga gave him a clear understanding: even among Kages, the power gap could be greater than the gap between a Kage and a genin!

No one would ever compare Hashirama Senju with the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.

Even if he acquired the combat power to become a Kage, the difference between barely passing and breaking the ceiling was immense.

But Yuto was not an ordinary shinobi.

Flowing in his veins was the same blood as the ancestor of chakra.

The Byakugan, the eyes of the ancestor of chakra, held enormous potential.

The Hyuga name, traced back many generations, is "Otsutsuki."

A kekkei genkai organ was powerful! The theoretical level of chakra that the body could refine was extraordinary! Combining these two aspects...

Every time Yuto thought of this, even he found it hard to believe: how did the Hyuga clan, with such a powerful start, end up like this?

However, Yuto didn't care about the Hyuga clan's decline.

Knowing that "supplementing and improving the bloodline could make the body lean towards Otsutsuki" was enough.

The "Bloodline Reversion Plan" had been on Yuto's mind for many years. Only after becoming Tsunade's disciple did he learn enough, and after extensive deliberation and preparation, he finally found enough materials to attempt implementation during the first week of the Third Shinobi World War.

Four chunin and one jonin, an elite configuration capable of executing S-rank missions—this was strength that even some small ninja villages couldn't muster.

These Hyuga corpses were enough for Yuto to initiate the first step of his bloodline supplementation.

After an unknown amount of time, apart from Shinosuke, all five branch family members' bodies had been processed and converted into viscous liquid.

Yuto carefully collected this precious liquid.

He then added pre-prepared items into the culture dish filled with his own stem cells.

"Ex vivo cell culture," another technique Yuto mastered after refining his medical ninjutsu skills.

"Eat well," he said, placing the large culture dish in a constant temperature environment.

"Hope you bring me some surprises when you return to my body..."

TN: "Ex vivo cell culture" refers to a form of in vitro cell culture that uses cells or tissue freshly collected from a living organism. In this process, living cells or tissues are taken from an organism and cultured in a laboratory apparatus under sterile conditions, with no alterations, for up to 24 hours.

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