The End of Forbidden Jutsu Is Tobirama

Since he could neither stabilize the Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy inside the bird nor sense and synchronize their output, he would use himself instead.

Using himself as the vessel, he transferred his own weight to a Shadow Clone.

That way, while he still could not stabilize his own Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy, he had a chance of synchronizing the transformation.

As long as the Shadow Clone maintained a continuous synchronized connection with him.

Then the Shadow Clone's Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy could remain synchronized with his own.

Maintaining synchronization was, in effect, equivalent to stabilizing his own Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy.

Following this line of thought, Kimura Takuya continued developing the Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

Perhaps this time, he had found the right direction.

This time, Kimura Takuya used only ten pages of notes to figure out how to stably transfer his own weight to a Shadow Clone, creating a unique Solid Clone.

"It worked!"

Kimura Takuya was thrilled when he reached this point in his research.

Li Yao could feel Kimura Takuya's joy through the words in the notebook. It was the joy of finding the right direction and being on the verge of achieving the Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

Li Yao continued flipping through the notebook.

Page after page.

Sure enough, Kimura Takuya's path became much smoother afterward.

After stably transferring his weight to the Shadow Clone, Kimura Takuya synchronized and stably transferred his body's temperature to it as well.

This gave the clone the same sense of temperature as his own body.

Then came his heartbeat, blood, skin, hair, internal organs, until finally even his consciousness could be stably and synchronously transferred to the Shadow Clone.

It seemed... the Perfect Transformation Jutsu was getting closer and closer to completion.

In the notebook, Kimura Takuya grew more excited by the day.

Even Li Yao's heart gradually began to race as he read.

Sure enough, on the next page, Li Yao saw words that thrilled him beyond measure.

"My Perfect Transformation Jutsu finally has hope!"

These were several large words Kimura had written with heartfelt pride. They stood prominently at the very top of a fresh page.

Li Yao eagerly read on. He had originally thought he would need to research the Perfect Transformation Jutsu himself, but judging by Kimura Takuya's progress, Kimura Takuya might already have completed it.

The greatest hurdle before material transformation had already been overcome.

All that remained was to transfer every biological trait—body temperature, heartbeat, and so on—to the Shadow Clone, turning it into a truly living person.

Then, using that as a starting point, he could derive a perfect bird clone, and from there further derive a Perfect Transformation Jutsu that could turn himself into a bird.

The hardest and most critical point had already been broken through. What remained was merely a matter of time.

He continued reading the notebook.

After Kimura Takuya synchronously transferred everything about himself to the Shadow Clone, he obtained a clone identical to himself.

It not only possessed all his memories, but even its thought processes and consciousness were the same as his. Only such a clone could be called a true clone.

It possessed a human's temperature and the texture of skin. Pressing against its chest, one could even hear a real heartbeat. It would even grow excited upon seeing a naked beauty.

Even its breaths carried real air.

It could feel pain.

It could use every ninjutsu he knew.

When the clone walked outside, no one could tell it was his clone. He had deliberately sent it to stroll before the gates of the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan, yet no one saw through it.

A clone that even the Byakugan and Sharingan could not see through was enough to prove that it was completely identical to him—a perfect clone.

Next, he only needed to use the perfect clone as a starting point to derive a perfect bird clone, then go one step further and derive a genuine Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

In the notebook, Kimura Takuya was filled with hope for the Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

Li Yao was as well.

Yet when he turned to a new page, all he saw was a single self-mocking sentence from Kimura Takuya, brimming with helplessness.

"Hehe... so that's how it is. The so-called Perfect Transformation Jutsu simply doesn't exist. My perfect clone is nothing more than the Shadow Clone Technique that Lord Second Hokage Tobirama created long ago!"

What did that mean?

Li Yao felt as though his head had suddenly split open, his mind filled with enormous question marks.

Why had he suddenly said that the Perfect Transformation Jutsu did not exist?

Hadn't the previous page been full of hope?

How had the very next page become so dejected and despairing?

Li Yao immediately flipped ahead. Every page was blank. All the way to the end, there was nothing.

It was certain that Kimura Takuya had given up researching the Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

"Hadn't he already broken through the hardest hurdle?"

"Why did he suddenly give up?"

"Why?"

Li Yao frowned deeply, unable to make sense of it no matter how hard he thought. At the same time, he felt a little unwilling to accept it.

He desperately needed a life-saving ninjutsu like the Perfect Transformation Jutsu for critical moments. How could Kimura Takuya just give up so easily?

Li Yao went back and reread the last sentence Kimura Takuya had left behind.

"A perfect clone is a Shadow Clone?"

"What does that... hmm, wait."

Li Yao's expression suddenly froze. He immediately turned back to the previous page and carefully examined Kimura Takuya's description of the perfect clone's effects.

Then... Li Yao was utterly dumbfounded!

It seemed... the perfect clone Kimura Takuya had painstakingly researched and developed really was the Shadow Clone Technique created by Tobirama.

Li Yao recalled everything he knew about the Shadow Clone Technique.

A Solid Clone with half the original body's Chakra, capable of independent thought and able to use every ninjutsu the original body could use.

Not only could the Byakugan not see through a Shadow Clone.

Even Kaguya Otsutsuki, a powerhouse on the Six Paths level, could not see through a Shadow Clone.

With all those traits and effects, wasn't it exactly the same as the perfect clone Kimura Takuya had developed?!

"This..." Li Yao was speechless. In the end, he sighed. "Sure enough, in the ninja world, the end of forbidden jutsu is Tobirama."

Though he did not know what blow Kimura Takuya had suffered upon discovering that his perfect clone was merely a Shadow Clone, causing him to conclude that the Perfect Transformation Jutsu did not exist and abandon his research.

Li Yao could understand Kimura Takuya's despair.

It was like a designer burying himself in work, racking his brains to come up with an ingenious idea.

Then, after painstakingly creating what he believed was an unmatched, one-of-a-kind design concept.

Someone told him that someone else had already come up with his idea.

And had achieved even better results than he had.

That crushing sense of intellectual defeat could indeed easily leave someone dejected from then on.

All he could say was that Tobirama truly was Tobirama.

Countless forbidden jutsu in the ninja world were connected to Tobirama.

He was the first to develop the Space-Time Ninjutsu, the Flying Thunder God, through ninjutsu alone without relying on eyes.

He was also the first to develop the Impure World Reincarnation, which brought the dead back to life through ninjutsu alone without relying on the Rinnegan.

The Shadow Clone Technique, the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, and other secret and forbidden techniques were all his as well.

Tobirama was unquestionably the ninja world's master inventor of ninjutsu.

Even Orochimaru, the scientist ninja hailed as the ninja world's foremost research fanatic, spent his entire life living off Tobirama's legacy.

That alone showed just how formidable Tobirama's talent for developing ninjutsu was.

Faced with an opponent of such unprecedented stature, Li Yao could more or less understand Kimura Takuya's disappointment and dejection.

But understanding did not mean agreeing.

At any rate, Li Yao would not give up on the Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

He would continue researching it.

At this moment, countless possible directions for further experimentation with the Perfect Transformation Jutsu were already flashing through his mind.

Li Yao took the notebook back to his room and sat down, preparing to record his inspirations in it so he could continue his research later.

He picked up his pen and was just about to write when he suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back of his neck, like an insect bite. He instinctively reached back to swat at it.

Before he could hit anything, while his hand was only halfway raised, a wave of dizziness struck him. With a smack, Li Yao slammed face-first onto the table.

"What's going on?"

That was the only thought that flashed through Li Yao's mind before he lost consciousness.