You Again, Hidan!

Relatively speaking, RC Genes were not very stable and could take on different forms depending on changes in one's mental state.

In other words, if someone desired flight strongly enough, they might mutate an Ukaku. If they lacked a sense of security, they might evolve a protective Koukaku, and so on.

"This way, the varieties of Ghouls will become much more diverse."

Simu was quite satisfied with these results. With experiments, the more samples there were, the more possibilities there would be.

The more possibilities there were, the more likely he was to glimpse the world's...

Truth!

He lightly adjusted his glasses. The Sword Crow Ukaku behind him dissipated, and he turned toward the Shrine.

He was only a little over a thousand reputation points away from leveling up. Now that the experiments here had reached a stopping point, it was time to find something else to do.

In the Shrine's Blood Pool, Hidan's body continued to bob up and down.

As the research progressed smoothly, Simu gained a deeper understanding of ninjas and Chakra.

Specifically, after extracting Chakra, ninjas used hand seals to assist it through certain circuits, transforming it into ninjutsu that could then be released.

Chakra was further divided into ordinary Chakra and elemental Chakra.

Ordinary Chakra existed in everyone's body, while elemental Chakra was determined by a certain gene fragment within one's cells.

Only by training and activating that gene fragment could a ninja refine the various elemental types of Chakra.

As for how to improve that Chakra and apply it to one's own ninjutsu, that was another matter entirely.

In short, Simu had now captured the genes that determined Chakra attributes and could modify them into other people's bodies.

For now, such modifications still carried certain risks. Only someone like Hidan, who possessed an Immortal Body, could endure Simu's arbitrary experimentation.

Under his conditioning, Hidan was now capable of refining all five elemental types of Chakra.

Simu also crammed all the ninjutsu he had mastered into Hidan's body.

It was equivalent to simulating their operation hundreds or thousands of times within his body beforehand. Once Hidan woke up, he only needed a little comprehension to successfully perform them as if by instinct.

After all, Simu had not forgotten that Hidan was a complete and utter illiterate!

Teaching him some taijutsu was fine, but teaching him ninjutsu was practically asking for his life!

He could not even understand a ninjutsu scroll. How was he supposed to learn?

"Ah, I really am such a considerate, kind-hearted man."

Simu sighed, then pressed his palms together toward the Blood Pool.

"Before little Hidan wakes up, though, there's still one thing to do."

A faint smile appeared on his lips. The sacrifice at Sakamoto Trading Company had brought the Jashin Cult a huge number of offerings and reputation points. That dark, shadowy Lord Jashin was probably overjoyed by now.

Since he had made so much, he would not refuse to give his little lackey some operating funds, would he?

No way, right?

Watching Hidan float in the Blood Pool, Simu revealed a mysterious smile.

The next second, the Blood Pool began to boil violently.

[Womb of the Primordial Creator], activate!

As his own life force was rapidly consumed, countless RC Cell Kagune—second-generation Kakuhou that Simu had developed based on Shiraishi Mori's genes—began to be produced frantically.

Specks of shadow rose from the depths of the Blood Pool. Then, an enormous silhouette appeared.

"Boom!"

As the massive shadow rose, the surface of the Blood Pool shattered.

Immediately afterward, a gigantic, bizarre dark-red serpent appeared before Simu.

The reason it looked so strange was that its entire body was covered in heavy, dark-red Koukaku. It was roughly fifty meters long, and its head was a huge, savage white ghost mask, with crimson ghostfire flickering beneath it.

Unlike an ordinary snake, whose body was covered in fine scales, it was covered in pitch-black Koukaku plates as hard as steel, with sharp protrusions emerging from them from time to time.

Rather than a snake, it looked more like some kind of special lesser dragon.

This was a special life-form born from Simu's fusion of ninja genes, Kagune, and the snake genes from Orochimaru's body.

Simu named it [Evil-Faced Ghost Snake].

[Evil-Faced Ghost Snake]

Koukaku (Its body is covered in massive amounts of Koukaku, granting it powerful defense.)

Ukaku (A large number of Ukaku Kakuhou have been implanted into the gaps in its surface armor, allowing it to deploy Ukaku at any time to attack enemies.)

Evil Ghost Mask (Created from Koukaku and Rinkaku, it can fire Rinkaku to attack.)

Heart of the Five Elements (Able to use Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, and Lightning Release ninjutsu.)

Looking at the Ghost Snake obediently lying before him and sensing the terrifying aura it gave off, Simu nodded in satisfaction.

There was still room for improvement. For example, the Evil-Faced Ghost Snake could still use too few ninjutsu, and it could not combine them.

Perhaps Simu could next use the genes of other creatures to create Jashin Race creatures resembling two-headed snakes, or even hydras.

But for the moment, the Evil-Faced Ghost Snake was already the pinnacle of Simu's modification technology.

Judging by the combat strength Yugakure had displayed, unless they sent forty or fifty Chunin, they basically posed no threat to the Evil-Faced Ghost Snake.

As for Jonin, Simu had not collected enough information yet, so he could not make a proper estimate.

After all, a ninja's strength was not fixed. Even among Jonin or Chunin, the strength of ninjas from different villages could vary enormously.

The resources and capabilities possessed by small ninja villages lagged far behind those of large ones, so the ninjas they trained were naturally much weaker.

In the ninja profession, having a good teacher or a good clan was extremely important.

Some ninjutsu and secret techniques were hardly ever shared with outsiders. Ordinary people could not come into contact with them at all.

After creating two hundred [RC Kakuhou] and the [Evil-Faced Ghost Snake], Simu had no intention of stopping.

Anyway, his own blood supply had already been drained dry. What he was spending now was the great Lord Jashin's blood.

To Simu, Lord Jashin was simply an oversized health potion!

Praise Lord Jashin!

With a thought from Simu, the Blood Pool began to churn again.

This time, he created a small insect similar to the Black Beetle, called the [Explosive Bug].

As the name implied, this insect was a life-form Simu had created through his research on Fire Release and Kibaku Fuda, combined with the biotechnology he excelled at.

Although it was only the size of a thumbnail, it could unleash power greater than a Kibaku Fuda.

Before long, a dark swarm of Explosive Bugs flew out of the Blood Pool like black clouds, then burrowed into a mouth in the palm of Simu's humanoid clone.

This was also one of Simu's new designs: using the mouths in his palms to store Explosive Bugs.

Besides that, Simu created another batch of Black Beetles and stored them inside his body as well.

After evolving, these Black Beetles were smaller, like black sand, and possessed a hardness comparable to steel pellets.

On this side, Simu was spending without restraint.

On the other side, that mass of Lord Jashin began howling in agony!

Fuck, he had only just gotten fat for a few months!

He had originally thought that if things continued like this, he would regain his freedom within a few years, descend upon the Shinobi World with great terror, and show the Otsutsuki clan what for.

Who would have thought?

Today, he had been thoroughly drained dry again!

This was absolutely intolerable!

Lord Jashin once again expended energy to cast his gaze into the Divine Statue.

Thus, a man with silver hair slicked back appeared before his eyes, wearing a delighted expression.

"You again, Hidan!"