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The tests on Kimimaro soon yielded results. His Kaguya bloodline purity far exceeded that of ordinary members of the Kaguya Clan, reaching the clan's pinnacle. And as he grew older, that purity continued to increase at a steady rate.
The good news was that this peak Kaguya bloodline had a 99.92% compatibility rate with Hyuga Yu's Hyuga bloodline, making it fully suitable for cultivating the Hamura lineage's sage body.
At that moment, inside the Central Laboratory of the Black Tower Base...
Cold white lights gave the entire laboratory the sterile chill of an operating room. The air carried a mixture of preservative fluid and ozone. Several precision instruments lined the walls, their indicator lights blinking rhythmically.
At the center of the laboratory, a scroll sealing the "Most Ancient Kaguya Remains" lay unrolled on a broad alloy workbench.
It contained a set of remains.
More precisely, it was a single, complete human-shaped bone. All its bones were connected into one seamless whole, though it was still clear that its core had grown from a single vertebra. A faint gray sheen flowed across its surface, radiating an air of decay and desolate death.
Hiruko was bent over a microscope, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
"How does it look?" Hyuga Yu stood behind him, the microscopic structure of the remains reflected in his Byakugan. "Not good." Hiruko straightened, rubbed his sore eyes, then turned to write a complex molecular formula on the wall-mounted whiteboard. "You were right. These remains do contain gene fragments for a 'sage body.' But I've never seen genes from ancient times preserved this thoroughly. So thoroughly that-they don't look like natural remains."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean they look more like something deliberately sealed and preserved." Hiruko adjusted his goggles, his tone grave. "These