Cultivation

A secret base in Konoha.

This place has become the base for the Spark Society. Kimura Takuya used Earth Release to conceal the entrance once more; one must use Earth Release to enter or exit.

At this moment, Kimura Takuya is inside the base, observing Orochimaru and Sasori.

At this point in time, Orochimaru has not yet defected from the Akatsuki, and he is still teamed up with Sasori.

In the early stages, the Akatsuki remained very low-key, with members traveling around merely to gather intelligence on the various ninja villages.

They were not causing trouble everywhere yet, still in a phase of stealthy development.

Occasionally there were war-related missions, but they never directly clashed with the Five Great Nations.

This was quite clever; after all, even if the members were all at the Super Kage level, the core personnel were too few, and most were schemers like Orochimaru.

Even Itachi was an undercover agent.

If one really counted, perhaps only Nagato, Konan, and Kisame were the ones truly working for the organization.

The others were either harboring ulterior motives or were just clowns.

This group remained a dangerous factor, and Kimura Takuya wanted to use this opportunity to see if he could extend his reach into the Akatsuki.

I'll add a little something to their plate first, make these two work for me, hehe.

Immediately, Kimura Takuya manipulated the soul energy within Danzo's body, releasing negative energy and attaching it to the junction between Danzo's head and the pig's body.

This way, once the two of them discovered it, they would assume this negative energy was the key.

By then, not only would they be unable to crack his medical ninjutsu, but he would also harvest their research results.

Kimura Takuya was quite confident in his Flesh Substitution Technique and was not afraid of the two of them breaking it.

Because he had tried teaching this ninjutsu to Shizune, but even with her talent, she could not learn it.

When Tsunade heard about it, she also came to learn, but the result was that Tsunade could not learn it either.

Even the True Transformation Technique was beyond the reach of both of them, let alone the Flesh Substitution Technique applied to others.

They both understood the principles clearly, but that did not mean they could master it.

Kimura Takuya guessed that it might be related to his own abilities.

Perhaps the essence of this technique was actually the mobilization of his own soul's Immortality.

That was why neither of them could learn it.

Therefore, Orochimaru and Sasori were destined to work for Kimura Takuya for free.

However, perhaps with Orochimaru's genius, he might make some other discoveries, but those were destined to be Kimura Takuya's!

The old schemer stopped paying attention to Orochimaru's side and began to focus on his own affairs.

Although his current strength had already surpassed the average Kage level.

He still could not surpass the Sannin, at most fighting to a draw.

Furthermore, the Sannin each possessed secret techniques; once they fought for their lives, the final outcome remained unknown.

Although such strength was already worthy of praise.

It was still not enough; in front of true powerhouses, he was still like a child.

The current problem remained the issue of his chakra volume.

Although he had already inscribed the Yin Seal, the Yin Seal could not increase the chakra limit; it only stored excess chakra from daily life.

Tsunade once said that this technique required at least three years of storage before it could be utilized.

Only then would the chakra within the Yin Seal stabilize; otherwise, if used prematurely, it would only dissipate instantly, rendering all previous efforts futile.

Half a month of accumulation was clearly not enough to be of any use.

And absorbing other people's chakra could not raise his own mana cap.

Absorbing it was useless; it could only be used when his own reserves were empty.

When he first discovered that the Reverse Rasengan could absorb others' chakra.

Kimura Takuya was incredibly excited, thinking he could perform something like the North Dark Divine Art or the Star-Sucking Great Skill.

He ended up discovering that the human body in the Ninja World had a limit on how much chakra it could store.

An average person's mana bar was of a fixed length; no matter how much chakra you absorbed from others, you could not store it.

Moreover, even if one wanted to store it into the Yin Seal, it was impossible; the nature of different people's chakra varied, and they could not be fused at all.

Even if the chakra appeared to have the same attribute, there were still subtle individual differences, which meant they could not be fused like blood of the same type.

And when Kimura Takuya absorbed others' chakra to use, he had to keep it separate from his own.

Just like when a Jinchuriki used Tailed Beast chakra, they generally would not use their own chakra simultaneously.

So, wanting to practice the North Dark Divine Art in the Ninja World was purely wishful thinking.

It wasn't just Kimura Takuya who had thought too much; Orochimaru had also thought too much in the past.

In the original story during the Chunin Exams, wasn't there a background character who fought Sasuke?

That extra had a chakra absorption technique that nearly drained the Second Pillar dry, forcing him to rely on the power of the Cursed Seal.

That extra was on the same team as Kabuto, meaning he was one of Orochimaru's men, just like that fat guy from the Sound Four who also nearly drained Shikamaru's pursuit squad dry.

"It seems Orochimaru once faced the same predicament I am in now."

"No wonder that extra in the original story remained just an extra; no matter how much a normal person can absorb, they remain a normal person."

"And that Jirobo who could drain an entire squad, the fat guy with orange-red hair from the Sound Four, he seems to be from the Uzumaki Clan; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to absorb so much."

"So, was Orochimaru's final solution to simply discard the mortal body of a normal human?"

"Is Living Corpse Reincarnation not just a technique for immortality, but also a means to increase one's chakra capacity?"

Kimura Takuya felt a sudden wave of discouragement as he thought this through.

It felt as though every problem he encountered, Orochimaru had already faced—and failed to truly resolve.

Whether it was the bloodline disease or the issue of chakra volume.

But Kimura Takuya only sighed softly before regaining his confidence.

"Just because Orochimaru couldn't solve these problems doesn't mean I, Kimura Takuya, can't!"

This wasn't boasting, nor was it the blind arrogance of a transmigrator.

It was because he had already found a line of reasoning.

Whether it was the bloodline disease or the chakra volume issue.

He had a path forward for both.

It was just difficult, and the number of problems he wanted to solve was simply too great, far too great.

It went far beyond just these two issues.

"There isn't enough time. Forget it, I'll keep using Multiple Shadow Clone Technique."

Kimura Takuya raised his hand and manifested over a dozen shadow clones.

He had already used them twice before, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

Doing it twice a day was already taxing enough, and now he had to do it again.

Kimura Takuya felt a dull ache in his liver; the side effects of long-term training and research using shadow clones weren't just headaches, but the immense pressure on his soul caused by the massive influx of information being written back.

Given his current soul strength, even he found it somewhat unbearable.

But he had to endure it; if you want too many things, you have to work twice as hard, right?

"Takuya, many people in Root have already joined the Fifth's Anbu. Should we join as well?"

"Tell everyone there's no need to ask me. If they want to join the Anbu, let them join; those who don't want to can have their identities cleared."

"Just like the remaining Root members who didn't join, they can become squad-leading Jonin."

"Widely disseminate the philosophy of our Spark Society to fundamentally change the mindset of Konoha's ninja."

The philosophy of the Spark Society didn't contain anything particularly radical.

It was simply adding a few ingredients to the foundation of the Will of Fire.

Things like the concept of equality, de-clannization, and ninja pragmatism.

Starting to cultivate this among Genin who had just finished their Ninja Academy education was the perfect time.

This kind of change was like a spring breeze moistening the earth—extremely subtle, not some radical reformism.

It required no conflict, no bloodshed; it only required time.

He believed that in a few years, this world should become better and better.