Forbidden Arts? Not of This World!

It is worth mentioning that for some unknown reason, after sending out Hannya, that old dog Danzo made no further moves, which gave Uchiha Chiba some time to grow.

"Chiba, I... I can't get in." Katsuzuki turned her body sideways, looking toward Chiba.

Uchiha Chiba looked up.

He saw that Katsuzuki's body was wedged in the rock crevice; her pair of mountain peaks were stuck in the stone. She sighed, shifted her body, and backed out.

"Forget it, I'll wait for you outside." Katsuzuki waved her hand, having done her best.

The corner of Chiba's mouth twitched slightly.

Then, he turned around.

It was very dark here. The faint light he had seen earlier originated from a moldy wooden table. Uchiha Chiba walked toward it and saw that the source of the light was actually a scroll.

Chiba picked up the scroll.

Hum!!!!!

A wave of dizziness made Chiba clutch his head.

"There wasn't even a trace of chakra, could it be that the contents of this scroll are what affected me?" Uchiha Chiba muttered to himself. He had specifically checked for traces of chakra or traps before taking action, and other than a few fingerprints long since covered by dust, there was nothing else.

He opened the scroll.

The distorted characters seemed to come alive, crawling onto Uchiha Chiba's palms before swimming toward his heart.

Hum!!!!

An invisible giant hand squeezed Uchiha Chiba's heart!

Thump-thump! Thump-thump! Thump-thump!

"What... is this?" Uchiha Chiba collapsed to his knees. A technique that made him break out in a cold sweat was constantly surfacing in his mind. He could no longer feel the pain in his heart, as his consciousness was submerged within the technique itself...

After a long while, Uchiha Chiba slowly opened his eyes. He reached out, braced himself against the wall, and stood up trembling.

A terrifying technique.

"This technique... it doesn't seem to be from this world... Could it be that this technique was prepared specifically for me? No, but then again... it seems that besides me, no one in this world should be able to understand it..."

"The question now is, why did Danzo want this technique? Could it be that there is another soul-transmigrator in Konoha like me? No, that seems unlikely. In this era of war, if there were other transmigrators, they would have become famous long ago. That means there is another motive... I must go to Konoha, whether because of this technique or the possibility of another transmigrator..." Uchiha Chiba covered his eyes, panting heavily; it seemed that accepting this technique was extremely draining.

Hum!!!

His pair of two-tomoe Sharingan slowly rotated.

"Forbidden Technique: Blood Scar"

Squish, squish... squish, squish...

A deep crimson spread beneath Uchiha Chiba's feet.

Then, a kusarigama still dripping with blood appeared in Uchiha Chiba's hand.

This was a technique that could create miracles. It could absorb the chakra of those killed by a weapon imbued with blood. Even if they weren't killed by the weapon, as long as Uchiha Chiba was within ten meters of the deceased, he could absorb a certain amount of chakra and simultaneously increase his own strength. When there was enough blood, he could even control everything about another person through their blood, though not their soul.

Hum!!!!

A flash of blood-red light.

BOOM!!!!

"Chiba? Why is there an explosion inside?" Outside the rock crevice, Katsuzuki asked loudly, sounding puzzled.

"It's nothing, just experimenting," Uchiha Chiba put away the blood-red scythe. While this technique possessed such immense power, it also had a fatal side effect: its activation required blood. If there were enemies, it was manageable; as long as he absorbed blood within an hour of use, there were no restrictions. If there were no enemies, the technique would drain the blood from Chiba's own body. Losing a large amount of blood in a short time would lead to shock, or even death in severe cases. Therefore, blood became Chiba's top priority.

"It looks like I have no choice but to head to the battlefield. However, I cannot expose this technique yet; it would be very troublesome if it were discovered..." Uchiha Chiba looked around.

Aside from the scroll for this technique, there was a bottle, a book, and a pile of white bones bound by chains. It didn't seem like a pleasant place; perhaps those bones belonged to the ninja who had practiced this technique.

Uchiha Chiba picked up the bottle.

Pop!

The bottle shattered instantly, and countless amounts of blood surged into Chiba's fingertips. After a long moment, a blood-red rose pattern appeared on the back of his hand.

"This blood is so concentrated; it's enough to last for three days of continuous use. Is this a gift from nature?" Uchiha Chiba touched the rose pattern on the back of his hand.

There was nothing unusual.

Next, Chiba picked up the book.

Most of the book was so stained with blood that nothing could be made out, but at the very end, three pages remained intact. They contained three techniques, all of which seemed to correspond with the Blood Scar technique.

Blood: Thorn Shatter. This technique leaned more toward silent assassination. Casting it once required about one-tenth of his current blood reserves. This technique involved transmitting his own blood into the enemy's body through touch or a weapon, causing blood-red thorns to bloom from their blood vessels to their organs and finally to the surface of their skin, eventually condensing into a blood fruit.

"This... feels like something I could use to show off." Uchiha Chiba's Sharingan flickered; this was a rapid memorization method used to commit these techniques to memory.

Chiba turned to the next page.

Blood Domination: allows the user to control an enemy through blood splatter. With Chiba's current limit, he can control at most two people. This technique has a prerequisite: the user must bleed. Furthermore, after forcibly seizing control, the user must cast a genjutsu on the target and enter their inner world to shatter their inner demons; only then will the target be willingly dominated. Each use drains the user's blood reserves, so it is rarely necessary unless absolutely required.

He turned to the next page again.

Blood Clone: uses blood to create a clone. Once the clone dissipates, it turns back into blood and returns to the user's body. It seems like a simple clone technique, but it is better than nothing. After all, it is an auxiliary technique developed from a forbidden jutsu, so its strength is still up to par.

Suddenly.

Drip! Drip! Drip!

The moment Chiba finished reading, the book turned into blood and dripped onto the ground.

"Is this... a one-time-use book? What a pity. Aside from this blood technique and a few auxiliary ones, there shouldn't be anything else here. I might as well head out." Uchiha Chiba walked toward the exit.

"Oh! Chiba, you finally came out. My father sent me a message via his salamander telling us to go back and stay away from the battlefield; things haven't been peaceful lately... If you ask me, Father is just making a mountain out of a molehill. How about we head to the flank of the battlefield later and kill a few Konoha ninja?" Katsuzuki's tone was indifferent. It seemed she had long grown tired of listening to Hanzo the Salamander, and even her father could not change her stubborn personality.

"Sure," Chiba replied, slowly stepping out from the rock crevice.

Behind Chiba, the blood that had once been the book unexpectedly congealed on the ground into the pattern of a blood-red rose.