The Essence of the Escape Technique Bloodline

"Single-attribute nature transformation is, in fact, the most basic form of Kekkei Genkai. It conforms to the characteristics of bloodline inheritance, where descendants can learn and utilize it.

However, this manifestation is not obvious because humans are more or less born with all seven attributes; it is merely a matter of how many they can develop later on!"

Orochimaru spoke at length, his voice raspy.

"So, does that mean inheriting multiple attribute bodies allows a descendant to possess a Kekkei Genkai?

Hehe, of course, it is not that simple!"

Ahhh, my brain is going to explode!

Everything Orochimaru was saying had completely touched upon a blind spot in Uchiha Chen's knowledge.

Therefore, even when Orochimaru paused for a moment to hear Uchiha Chen's insights, Uchiha Chen simply waited with an expectant look for Orochimaru to continue his explanation.

"The composition of a Kekkei Genkai is far more intricate than that of a single attribute body."

Orochimaru had fully entered the state of a teacher giving a lecture.

Even a person as emotionally detached as him had always hoped to show off his great discoveries to someone who could actually understand them.

"Even for a ninja who has mastered five attributes, the reproductive cells they carry still only contain various 'single attribute bodies' to varying degrees.

What a Kekkei Genkai inherits is a 'chimera' where two attribute bodies are fused together like puzzle pieces."

Orochimaru walked into the side door of the laboratory carrying a test tube.

Under the laboratory lights, Uchiha Chen saw a black-haired young man restrained by a Sealing Technique behind the door, his body almost entirely devoid of a single patch of intact flesh.

"This observation requires the freshest samples possible for the best results!"

After processing the flesh and blood of the black-haired youth from the test tube, Orochimaru placed it on the observation stage.

"In the human body, attribute bodies only exist within the Chakra meridian cells.

Once the cells lose their vitality, the attribute bodies dissolve rapidly, making them much harder to observe than reproductive cells.

Chen-kun, this is a member of the Yuki clan I captured on the Eastern Front battlefield; he possesses the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai. Look at his Chakra meridian cells!"

Peering through the microscope, Uchiha Chen, relying on the Sharingan's exceptional observational prowess, quickly distinguished the Chakra meridian cells within the flesh and adjusted the lens to observe the interior of the cells.

Under Orochimaru's guidance, Uchiha Chen soon counted the attribute bodies representing 'Wind' and 'Water' within the cell.

"Not this cell, try the next one!"

After checking several cells, Uchiha Chen finally observed the chimera Orochimaru had described.

The outer membranes of two different attribute bodies had fused, and the matrix within the Wind attribute body had flowed into the outer membrane of the Water attribute body.

"When a person's meridian cells contain organelles with a Wind→Water structure, they can refine Ice Release Chakra.

Another Kekkei Genkai composed of Wind and Water Chakra is Transparency Release, and that must be a Water→Wind structure!

The essence of ninjutsu-type Kekkei Genkai is just that simple!"

Orochimaru's voice was indescribably smug.

He certainly had the right to be proud and complacent; regardless of the Ninjutsu Sect era, for the hundreds of years since the Warring States period, no one had ever discovered this.

With five types of Chakra attribute bodies pairing up, there are ten possible combinations, and each combination has two possible directions of cytoplasmic flow.

Therefore, there are a total of twenty types of ninjutsu-based Kekkei Genkai.

In the macroscopic world, powerhouses like Sarutobi Hiruzen, who have mastered multiple attributes and can split mountains and divert rivers, would have to go through countless trials and errors to fuse a single Kekkei Genkai, most likely returning empty-handed.

Yet, in the microscopic world, the essence constituting Kekkei Genkai inheritance is actually just the fusion of organelles within a cell.

"Orochimaru-sensei, have you tried it?"

Uchiha Chen's lips were a bit dry, and his hands clenched involuntarily, crumpling the documents in his grip. He could clearly hear his own voice, and it was filled with greed:

"Transplanting organelles from one cell to another is nowhere near as difficult as gene sequencing or gene editing."

Nuclear transplantation technology had already matured in the 1950s of Uchiha Chen's previous life; the difficulty of organelle transplantation would not be much higher than that.

"It can't be done that quickly! The current precision of the instruments is simply insufficient, and I only have one Ice Release test subject on hand. Many hypotheses and deductions are difficult to verify."

Orochimaru's tone was somewhat helpless, his golden snake-like pupils flickering with dim, eerie light:

"That is why I must rely on you, Chen!"

You aren't asking me to jerk off and provide you with Sharingan research materials, are you?

Don't even think about it, I'm only sixteen, that's very bad for my health!

Uchiha Chen's face was full of shocked refusal; he would never hand his "little tadpoles" over to Orochimaru. God knows what kind of things Orochimaru could cook up.

Fortunately, that was not what Orochimaru meant.

"You know about my laboratory on the Eastern Front; the equipment there is very new and complete. It will be yours to use from now on!"

Orochimaru's fingers moved nimbly as he tidied up the experimental bench. "There are many Mist Ninja with Kekkei Genkai. Once you go to the Eastern Front, find a way to collect a few more!"

So that's what he meant!

Uchiha Chen breathed a sigh of relief, understanding Orochimaru's implication.

War was coming again, he would definitely be sent to the Eastern Front, and since Orochimaru was no longer the commander there, he wouldn't be able to look after him directly.

"Fine, go ahead! By the way, here is that collection of books from the Senju Clan!"

Orochimaru opened his blood-red maw and spat out a damp scroll, handing it over to Uchiha Chen.

On the slightly yellowed surface of the scroll, there was a line of elegant, tiny script.

It read:

History of Warring States Sealing, compiled by Mito Uzumaki.

On the way back to the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Chen's thoughts were in turmoil, and he walked very slowly.

Attribute Body, Kekkei Genkai Chimera, organelle transplantation.

He swore that when he first guided Orochimaru to research intracellular structures, boasting about things like gene scissors to improve traits and gene editing to create artificial Kekkei Genkai, he never expected Orochimaru to produce results so quickly.

How many years had it even been?

Clearly, just a few years ago, the Shinobi World's understanding of cells was only at the level of the eighteenth century!

Shouldn't the development of science and cognition rise in a spiral? How was it that Orochimaru was moving as if he were riding a helicopter!

Of course, in today's conversation and instruction between Orochimaru and Uchiha Chen, there were inevitably reservations.

It was impossible for Orochimaru to have no interest in dōjutsu or physical Kekkei Genkai, and impossible for him to have no research into Yin Release and Yang Release beyond the Five Elements, yet he had not mentioned them in front of Uchiha Chen.

Originally, Uchiha Chen had come for the History of Warring States Sealing, but now he had no interest in studying the book at all.

Orochimaru had shown Uchiha Chen a new track.

From five single-attribute ninjutsu to twenty types of Kekkei Genkai, and later, it could even extend to Kekkei Tōta.

If one were to add Yin Release and Yang Release to that, it would be the path of the 'Truth-Seeking Ball'.

[By mastering the power of Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements, one can obtain the ultimate power that returns all things to nothingness -- The Scroll of Arrays]

Uchiha Chen pressed a hand against his eye and looked up at the crescent moon in the sky.

This Prosthetic Eye allowed him to be much stronger than his clansmen with ordinary Mangekyō.

But this strength was powerless before Kaguya Otsutsuki, who was sealed in the moon, and before the Sage of Six Paths and the Otsutsuki clansmen in the cosmos.

Should he just wait for Naruto to save the world while he did nothing?

What he had learned since he was a child was that 'man can conquer nature'!

Under the caress of the cold moonlight, Uchiha Chen made up his mind.

However, there was still a thick fog in his heart that made him feel uneasy:

This path is fraught with thousands of dangers; can I reach the other side?