The Second Ring: The Kekkei Tōta Ring

Shazo's voluntary stripping of his power was too ruthless.

The Konoha Jonin went from initial excitement to growing unease, and eventually became filled with fear and trepidation.

Even an idiot like Shisui Uchiha noticed the problem and began to worry that the Fifth Hokage's power was too small to manage the vast Konoha.

It wasn't until Shisui, under Shazo's repeated prompting, noticed that the Konoha Jonin who had benefited from the departmental reforms had undergone Nature Transformation in his attitude towards Shazo; the respect and obedience in his eyes were clearly visible.

Shisui Uchiha was finally relieved.

[As expected of Lord Shazo, even though I don't understand anything, judging from the Clan Leader ' attitudes, I can tell that your decision is incredibly brilliant.]

At this moment, the Staff Department Shikaku Nara, Security Department Head Inoichi Yamanaka, Intelligence Department Shibi Aburame, Police Chief Hyuga Hiashi, and Tingting Department Kakashi Hatake, were filled Jonin surprise.

They began to take the initiative, submitting numerous suggestions to the conference for discussion and voting in order to protect their department's authority and work.

Shazo wasn't interested in the specifics of the job, and for a time, he became an outsider.

He sat down nonchalantly, placed his straw hat on the table in front of him, and took out a test tube from his pocket. The white flesh floating in the test tube was wriggling on its own.

It was on the Uchiha Clan Massacre Night that Shazo cut off Hashirama's flesh and blood from Obito Uchiha's body.

He had treasured the flesh and blood of Hashirama Uchiha for three whole years, waiting for the day when he would complete all ten Kekkei Genkai and lay a solid foundation.

Right there at the Konoha Jonin Assembly Meeting Hall, Shazo began fusing with the first type of Kekkei Tōta.

He poured the Hashirama and blood from the test tube into his palm, letting it fuse with his skin.

According to the description in "The <Five Spirits Battle True Interpretation>", Hashirama and blood are the catalyst for the fusion of Kekkei Tōta.

Kekkei Tōta is a fusion of the three attributes of Chakra Nature Transformation. Although it is not an unsolvable problem like the Three-Body Trajectory, the possibility of errors occurring during the fusion is still too high.

It is said that the Dust Release of Iwagakure uses the most extreme training method, forcibly fusing Dust Release at the cost of Oblivion one's own Lightning Release and Water Release attributes.

The absence of the two basic Chakra properties disrupts the Chakra property cycle, causing two problems.

First, the Dust Release can no longer reflect genes and cannot be passed down through bloodlines.

Secondly, the power of Dust Release has an upper limit, and its application is limited to encircling Cosmic Cube or cylinders before imploding and pulverizing them.

The solution that the Five Spirits Fairy came up with was to use flesh and blood as a guide, and to use the flesh and blood that had been Luck Kekkei Tōta by luck as a guide in their own fusion process.

As Hashirama and blood merged into his body, Shazo also guided his Water Release Chakra, Earth Release Chakra, and Yang Release Chakra to undergo Nature Transformation in turn.

Shazo was adept at the Nature Transformation of Water Release and Earth Release, but the direction of the Nature Transformation of Yang Release was not vitality, but the midday sun.

This was incredibly difficult. Shazo concentrated and tried more than ten times before finally completing the Nature Transformation of Yang Release Chakra into sunlight.

He carefully controlled the three types of Nature Transformation Chakra, moving them toward the Hashirama and blood of Hashirama that were frantically eroding his right arm.

The moment the three intertwined, Nature Transformation Chakra came into contact with Hashirama and blood, they seemed to have found a template reflecting their own future, and surged forward wildly.

Hashirama's flesh and blood encountered their natural enemy.

No, they can't be called natural enemies.

It must have been a corpse that was not stiff enough to die, which encountered a vibrant new seed and was absorbed as nutrients.

Inside the unremarkable skin of Shazo's right arm, Hashirama and blood were being devoured by three types of Nature Transformation Chakra, which then served as a template to generate a completely new type of Chakra.

This is Hashirama's version of Wood Release Chakra.

It roamed within Shazo's body, exhibiting a hundred times the activity of his original Wood Release Chakra, and possessing a corrosive power that sent chills down Shazo's spine.

As Hashirama's flesh and blood were completely devoured, the new Wood Release Chakra within Shazo's body grew to the point where it began to cover the original Wood Release Kekkei Genkai.

But Shazo soon discovered that the original Wood Release had not disappeared; it was not a cover-up but a graft.

The Hashirama version of Wood Release Chakra uses Shazo's Wood Release Kekkei Genkai as the Root system, absorbing its energy to reflect the bloodline at a higher level and imprint complex information on the genes.

While the Jonin of Konoha were arguing over the interests of 15 departments, Shazo completed the fusion of Wood Release Kekkei Tōta and entered the process of automatically altering his body's genes.

He could finally relax, feeling the changes within his body while watching the power struggles among the Konoha Jonin.

It's a very strange feeling.

Shazo is constantly growing stronger, reaching higher levels of power.

Others, however, are trapped at a lower level, struggling for meager gains.

He inevitably develops illusions such as feeling isolated from the world or being the only one sober while everyone else is drunk.

Yes, this is just an illusion, an illusion caused by the rapid increase in power.

To truly surpass the level of Ninja, one must at least reach the power level of the Sage of Six Paths, and ideally, complete the fusion of the Kekkei Mōra to achieve true divine or Buddha-like power.

To Shazo's surprise, after Hashirama's version of Wood Release took root, it actually grew upwards to his chest.

Influenced by the rotation of the Kekkei Genkai Ring, the original Wood Release caused the new Wood Release to begin rotating, revolving around the heart and vaguely forming a new wheel - the Kekkei Tōta Ring.

Based on current indications, the new Wheel of Reincarnation should consist of five Kekkei Tōta, which matches the number in "The <Five Spirits Battle True Interpretation>".

Indeed, numbers that involve the laws of the world are often matched together.

The path he was about to take had become clearer, which made Shazo extremely happy.

He was happy all night.

The Konoha Jonin Assembly discussed more and more matters, and the meeting time kept extending until the early hours of the next day, when the Konoha Jonin finally ended all the discussions with great enthusiasm.

At this moment, the 15 Konoha Jonin who had assumed the positions of Department Head no longer felt the initial excitement of receiving their posts; their hearts were filled with bitterness and pressure.

After a whole night of thinking, discussion, and debate, they finally saw the true nature of the 15 Department Head positions.

The Fifth Hokage Shazo, did not actually relinquish power.

He simply delegated the specific tasks to the 15 newly established departments, while simultaneously shirking all responsibility.

Starting today, the Fifth Hokage Shazo, will no longer be in charge of any specific tasks, but will instead become a pure supervisor and urger.

These 15 Department Head, on the contrary, were burdened with heavy workloads and unlimited responsibilities, turning into mere beasts of burden.

As we all know, there's no such thing as a good job.

Making mistakes is inevitable; the more you do, the more mistakes you make. The only way to avoid making mistakes is to do nothing.