Successful at Last!

Inside the secret laboratory.

Beep, beep.

In the silence, only the instruments' steady beeping could be heard.

On the operating table in the center of the lab, Shinji lay with his eyes closed. If not for the faint rise and fall of his chest, he might have been mistaken for a corpse.

No one knew how much time had passed when Shinji suddenly opened his eyes.

He glanced at the instruments and murmured, "Has a whole night already gone by?"

After slowly sitting up on the operating table, he stretched his stiff body and sensed the changes within him.

There was no doubt about it: the First Hokage cell transplant had succeeded!

The operation had gone even more smoothly than he'd expected. Once he'd unleashed all his Dojutsu, he'd quickly suppressed the domineering Yang Release Chakra contained in the First Hokage cells.

The Yin-Yang fusion, which should have happened passively, had instead become an active process under his guidance.

And as the fusion unfolded, he sensed for the first time the pure Ōtsutsuki Ashura Chakra hidden within the First Hokage cells!

As the Yin-Yang fusion progressed, he gradually came to understand just how extraordinary Ōtsutsuki Ashura's Yang Release Chakra was.

In terms of Chakra strength alone, the First Hokage's Yang Release Chakra was already at the pinnacle of the Shinobi World.

Shinji now possessed a pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and had mastered a pair of Rinnegan and a pair of Red Dragon Eyes. Even his Yin Release Chakra was slightly weaker by comparison.

And the First Hokage's Yang Release Chakra was clearly inferior to Ōtsutsuki Ashura's.

It could be said that the strength of Ōtsutsuki Ashura's Yang Release Chakra far exceeded the limits that ordinary shinobi in the Shinobi World could reach.

"No wonder Ōtsutsuki Ashura and Ōtsutsuki Indra,