In his secret laboratory, Shinji looked at the dazzling array of toxins and poisons on the workbench, feeling deeply apprehensive.
Some of the toxins and poisons on the table were quite common, while others were extraordinarily rare.
Shinji had gone to great lengths to collect them. He had not only mobilized the full strength of Kusagakure, but had even used Utatane Koharu's authority to access part of the village's reserves.
After classifying all the toxins and poisons by their properties and ranking them according to their effects and potency, Shinji opened his notebook.
After the previous live-subject experiment had failed, the potion team—or rather, the entire research group—had thrown themselves back into their work with renewed intensity.
Soon, a variety of optimization plans emerged.
At a meeting chaired by Tsunade, the flawed plans were eliminated one by one. In the end, only one remained: an optimization plan proposed by Tsunade herself, called "Neurotoxin Hybrid."
Under this plan, the future Type Three Aging Potion would retain its ability to stimulate rapid cell division while also gaining a neurotoxin component to paralyze the target's body.
Because stimulating cell division would itself accelerate the target's metabolism and temporarily enhance their physical attributes, stimulating the body while suppressing it at the same time was an arduous approach with little to show for it.
Tsunade's reasoning was simple. Since it was difficult to suppress cell activity while stimulating cell division, they only needed to prevent the target from gaining any boost in strength from that cell activity. Thus, the "Neurotoxin Hybrid" optimization plan was born.
But settling on an optimization plan did nothing to reduce the research group's workload.
The main problem lay in the proportions of the various toxins. Neurotoxins in particular were less stable than other toxins, and the slightest deviation in the