Wood Release Bloodline Fusion Technique

Although the three guards Nawaki had chosen were his elders, they were all quite young, only around twenty. The jōnin was named Senju Hucheng, while the two Special Jōnin were Senju Lin and Senju Zhi.

Nawaki had chosen them because they not only possessed the potential for a high-grade Senju bloodline, but also had maternal bloodlines from the Ino-Shika-Cho clans.

After bringing them back to his residence, Nawaki told them that he had developed a Wood Release secret technique that could help fuse the two bloodlines in their bodies. He ordered them not to tell anyone about it. Then he spent 3,000 Wish Power to have the system fuse their bloodlines.

Since their recessive genes already contained a high-grade Senju Bloodline, the fusion greatly increased their cellular vitality and chakra reserves, and even gave all three of them five chakra natures! They would only need some time to learn techniques of each nature to become elite jōnin. They could also learn the bloodline secret techniques of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans! Unfortunately, their mothers had all come from branch families and weren't qualified to inherit their clans' core techniques, so they would have to find a way around that later.

Senju Hucheng and the other two had initially assumed their young clan leader wanted to use them as human test subjects. They hadn't believed in the secret technique at all, but out of loyalty to the Senju Clan, they hadn't resisted. They had gritted their teeth and agreed to Nawaki's request, prepared to sacrifice their lives.

But they had never imagined that the so-called Wood Release: Bloodline Fusion Technique actually existed!

After Nawaki pretended to swiftly form a series of hand seals, they saw a flash of green light. Their bodies grew warm all over, and they felt incredibly comfortable.

When the green light faded, they clearly sensed a miraculous change within them. It was as if the burdens and shackles that had always been inside them had suddenly vanished, leaving them feeling lighter than ever before.

Their bodies were brimming with vitality, and their chakra reserves had instantly increased. When they tried to gather chakra, they found that they could do so more than ten times faster than before, with no apparent limit. Even the nature transformations they had struggled to master despite all their training now came easily to them! This was the Senju Clan's high-grade bloodline—the power that only a handful of elders were qualified to possess!

"Now you not only possess the high-grade bloodline of my Senju Clan, but have also perfectly inherited your mothers' clan bloodlines. You can learn the bloodline secret techniques of your maternal clans! I'll find a way to trade with the other clans for their secret techniques in the future." Nawaki spoke weakly, his face pale and his forehead slick with sweat.

Of course, it was all an act to win their loyalty. Aside from the 3,000 Wish Power, he hadn't spent anything.

Seeing how utterly exhausted he looked, the three felt ashamed of their earlier doubts, and deeply moved. They immediately dropped to one knee and said, "We thank you for your great kindness, Young Clan Leader. We swear to serve you to the death!"

Nawaki waved a hand. "Get up. From now on, you're all my personal guards. We'll share life and death, glory and ruin. Making you stronger benefits me, too. But this technique takes too much out of me to use on a large scale right now. You must keep it secret!"

"We swear to guard the secret with our lives!" The three even exchanged glances, warning one another not to let it slip.

Actually, once he had enough Wish Power and the time was right, Nawaki would reveal the truth himself. This was bound to become public knowledge sooner or later, so it wasn't truly a secret. Since the three already knew about his Wood Release, they were sure to be loyal and trustworthy. One more supposed secret technique made little difference. He had said it this way to test them—to see whether they were loyal to him alone or to the other clan elders. Judging from their expressions, he could tentatively trust them. Time would tell whether that trust was deserved.

After confirming the effects of bloodline fusion on these three, Nawaki's confidence soared. They were elite jōnin! There were fewer than ten in the entire village, and they were the elite of the jōnin—the equivalent of Asuma Sarutobi in the original story! And the Senju Clan had over a thousand people with this kind of potential. Besides, becoming an elite jōnin wasn't the limit of their abilities.

For example, once Nawaki's three guards learned the Ino-Shika-Cho clans' secret techniques, they could work together to fight Kage-level opponents. If they advanced further and mastered all ninjutsu like the Third Hokage, they might even become Kage-level shinobi!

Unfortunately, with his current Wish Power, Nawaki could only perform a limited number of fusions. And he wasn't strong enough to fully control the clan yet. As the saying went, people feared unequal shares more than scarcity. To avoid infighting within the Senju Clan, it was best to keep this secret for now.

Besides, he needed Wish Power to increase his own strength. He couldn't put the cart before the horse and sacrifice his own interests for the Senju Clan. There was no harm in waiting to provide the clan with more fusions until his strength reached a plateau and spending three million Wish Power could no longer bring about a qualitative improvement.

Time flew by. After seven months together, Nawaki knew Hucheng and the others very well and had confirmed their loyalty. Not a single clan member had brought up bloodline fusion during all that time.

He knew how tempting a secret technique that could strengthen bloodlines would be to Senju whose bloodlines were gradually weakening. He had been overjoyed himself when he first completed the fusion and gained the Asura Bloodline. If any clan member knew about this repeatable technique with its negligible cost, they would surely ask him to use it. Yet there had been no sign of it, proving that Hucheng and the others had obeyed his order and kept the secret.

Over those seven months, Hucheng and the others had made tremendous progress. They had already been ninjutsu specialists with plenty of combat experience, but their limited chakra natures and reserves had held them back. Now that all their weaknesses had been addressed, their speed with hand seals and chakra control let them quickly master techniques of other natures. At the same time, their increased cellular vitality and recovery had greatly improved their taijutsu. Combined with their combat intelligence and experience, all three had now reached elite jōnin strength.

During those seven months, Senju Hucheng and the others had watched Nawaki train relentlessly from morning until night. He practiced ninjutsu with Shadow Clones while his real body worked on taijutsu. The intensity of his training left even these grown jōnin astonished, and they admired their young clan leader more than ever.

In the Shinobi World, it was rare to find a genius like Nawaki, who had both talent and perseverance.

Moreover, only a freakish physique like the Asura Bloodline could endure such intense training in a two-year-old body. And only a transmigrator like Nawaki could have such determination at the age of two. All these conditions had combined to create his miraculous achievement: a two-year-old Genin, unprecedented and likely never to be matched!

Not only that, but the training he had begun at one year old had laid the broadest and firmest foundation for him—a foundation strong enough to support his becoming a truly immortal god!