Yin-Yang Release
Under the dim light, Yemo stared at the five pictures on the half-unrolled scroll, his brow furrowed and his face deep in thought.
The scroll was incredibly mysterious. He had only seen half of it, yet countless questions were already echoing through his mind. Who had made it? Why was it here? How had its creator known the things recorded on it? The many doubts lingered over Yemo for a long time.
"Forget it. I'll read the rest first. Maybe I'll find some answers." After some thought, Yemo decided to look at the second half of the scroll first.
He reached out and slowly unrolled the rest. The contents were no longer presented as pictures, but in writing. The first things that caught his eye were two lines of large characters.
The power of Yin, sourced from the spiritual energy that governs imagination, creates form from nothing!
The power of Yang, sourced from the physical energy that governs life, grants life to form!
This is Yin-Yang Release!
Yemo was shocked. He had thought the rest would be like the first half, recording matters concerning the origins of Ninjutsu and the Ōtsutsuki Clan. He had never expected it to describe Yin-Yang Release.
As everyone knew, Chakra had seven nature transformations: the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as Yin and Yang. The five elements reinforced and countered one another, but Yin-Yang Release stood above them. It was more mysterious and possessed even greater power.
As those two lines summarized, Yin Release controlled spiritual energy and could create the shape of an object from the intangible. Yang Release controlled physical power and could grant life to an object. Together, the two could create all things.
Yemo was naturally familiar with Yin-Yang Release. The Nine Tailed Beasts, from One-Tail to Nine-Tails, had been created by the Sage of Six Paths using Yin-Yang Release. It would be no exaggeration to call someone a creator if their mastery of Yin-Yang Release reached a certain level.
And that was not all Yin-Yang Release could do. Chakra energy was formed from physical and spiritual energy, while Yin-Yang Release governed spiritual energy and natural energy respectively.
For example, the Sharingan of the powerful Uchiha Clan had inherited the power of Yin Release. The Senju Clan's powerful physical energy, and the Uzumaki Clan's powerful life force and vast Chakra reserves, had inherited the power of Yang Release.
With diligent practice, one could master multiple nature transformations among the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Some geniuses could even master all five, but Yin-Yang Release was exceedingly difficult.
In the current world of Naruto, the use of Yin-Yang Release was mostly limited to secret family techniques. For example, the Nara Clan's Shadow Technique was Yin Release, while the Akimichi Clan's Multi-Size Technique was an application of Yang Release.
If one could master the five elemental nature transformations of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as Yin-Yang Release, one could be called another Sage of Six Paths.
When one could perfectly fuse all seven nature transformations together, one could unlock Kekkei Mōra, which was more powerful than Kekkei Genkai and Kekkei Tōta. Its power had reached the realm of the gods, an ability beyond common sense and logic.
In short, the power of Yin-Yang Release could not be explained so simply. If it had to be summed up in plain words, mastering Yin-Yang Release gave one the ability to create all intangible things and living things.
Once Yemo had unrolled the entire scroll, everything recorded on the mysterious scroll lay before him. It was divided into two parts. The first half recorded matters concerning the Ōtsutsuki Clan in pictures, which were of little use to Yemo.
The second half, however, was immensely useful to him. It contained details about Yin-Yang Release and how to train in it. Its value was enormous, almost impossible to measure.
Not only that, the Yin-Yang Release recorded on it was completely different from the version known in the ninja world today. The current method was to master Yin Release and Yang Release first, then combine them into Yin-Yang Release. The scroll described the opposite: master Yin-Yang Release, then separate it to master Yin Release and Yang Release.
After reading the entire scroll, Yemo had some rough guesses about the many questions he had earlier. First, given the Yin-Yang Release training method recorded on it, whoever had made the scroll was certainly not from the ninja world. Like the Ōtsutsuki Clan, they had most likely come from beyond the stars.
Whatever the case, the contents of the scroll were indescribably useful to Yemo. If he trained according to its method and mastered Yin-Yang Release, his combat power would be terrifying.
"I never thought a scroll like this was hidden under the table in my own home!" Yemo felt as though he were dreaming. It all seemed so unreal, yet it had truly happened before his eyes.
"Forget it. Whatever the case, I absolutely can't pass up this Yin-Yang Release training method."
Unable to figure out what the scroll was all about, Yemo could not be bothered to dwell on it. In any case, he was absolutely going to practice the Yin-Yang Release training method recorded on it. Rather than spend so much energy pondering questions with no answers, he might as well devote that energy to training.
At that thought, Yemo's gaze sharpened slightly, his face expressionless. He gently rubbed two fingers of his right hand together, and a tiny flame burned between them, its faint light illuminating his face.
The next moment, Yemo lifted the scroll high and quickly swept his gaze over it. After making sure he had missed nothing, he brought the flame beneath the scroll. He was going to burn it.
The tiny flame climbed onto the scroll, then spread rapidly like a spark setting a field ablaze. In the blink of an eye, the bottom of the scroll was engulfed, and the flames climbed up it like playful children.
Before long, the entire scroll was engulfed in flames. The pictures turned to ash in the blaze, and everything was swallowed by fire.
Yemo watched without moving his gaze. What the scroll recorded was too astonishing; it should not exist in the world. It was enough for him alone to know of it, and its contents would remain in his mind forever.
In the blaze, the entire scroll turned to ash. Only the solid wooden rods at its two ends remained undestroyed by the flames.
Yemo was slightly surprised that even the flames could not destroy the rods, but he did not pay it much mind. Some trees in the world were impervious to fire. He had originally intended to throw the two rods away, but after some thought, he kept them instead.
He glanced out the window. At some point, it had grown late into the early hours of the morning. Even the streetlights outside had been switched off, and everything was quiet.
But Yemo's heart could not settle. He was still incredibly excited. What the mysterious scroll recorded was simply too precious; fortune had fallen from heaven.
His older sister probably had no idea that a mysterious scroll had been hidden under the dining table where they ate every day, much less that it recorded something so astonishing.
As for why no one had discovered the scroll hidden under the table, Yemo had a guess. The person who hid it had most likely used Genjutsu to make it invisible, and Yemo could see it because the Genjutsu's time had likely run out, revealing the scroll.
Since someone had placed a Genjutsu on the fifth picture in the scroll, and he had fallen for it, it was not hard to accept that the scroll had been concealed with Genjutsu as well.