Chapter 38

With the Uchiha Bloodline Purification Technique manual as a foundation, plus the past few months of research into the Uzumaki bloodline, the efficiency was frighteningly fast.

In barely half an hour—

[Drawing on the Uchiha Bloodline Purification Technique and combining it with your understanding of the Uzumaki bloodline, you have gained immensely and successfully created the Uzumaki Bloodline Purification Technique.]

The new thing unfolded in his mind, yet Uchiha Yan showed no joy.

He frowned and muttered, "This can't go on."

There had been the Uchiha Bloodline Purification Technique before, and now there was the Uzumaki Bloodline Purification Technique. That meant he had to spend twice as much time every day tempering two bloodlines.

And that was only for now.

Later, he would surely have to develop cultivation methods for the Senju clan, the Hyuga clan... all kinds of bloodlines.

By then, just practicing bloodline purification techniques would take up a long stretch of his day.

He would not be able to do anything else. Training this alone would wear him to death.

"I need to create a ** that can fuse all bloodlines into one."

His thoughts raced.

"As long as I can twist all the bloodlines into a single rope, I'll only need to practice one bloodline purification technique each day."

Of course, he knew this would not be easy.

He still needed to gather more bloodlines and spend time thoroughly unraveling their deeper secrets.

"Take it slowly. My current speed is already terrifying enough. Don't be too greedy."

At that thought, Uchiha Yan laughed at himself. He really was a little too unsatisfied.

He stopped training, got up, took a shower, and changed into clothes a size larger.

After his Uzumaki physique reached completion, he had shot up seven centimeters, nearly reaching one meter thirty. His old clothes could no longer fit over him.

Once he was done, he left the underground laboratory and returned to the living room.

"Oh, you finally came out!" Uchiha Meixin looked up just as her son stepped over the threshold and could not help nagging him. "If you'd stayed in there any longer, I was about to drag you out myself. What were you tinkering with for so long today?"

She carried a dish fresh from the stove in her hands, and the fragrance of food had already filled the room.

Uchiha Yan walked over with a smile and gave his mother a firm hug. "I made a breakthrough in training just now, and sorting things out took quite a while." Then he craned his neck to glance toward the dining table. "Mom, what are we having for lunch?"

"Braised pork and grilled fish. Both are your favorites," Uchiha Meixin replied. Then she looked him over from head to toe and raised a hand above his head. "Why do I feel like you've grown taller again? You've been growing awfully fast these past few days."

"Yeah." Uchiha Yan nodded. "I've been cultivating the Uzumaki Sage Body lately, so it's normal for my body to grow so quickly. But today it has reached temporary completion, so I won't keep growing this wildly."

He changed the subject and took his mother's hand. "By the way, Mom, while we have the chance, I'll teach you how to cultivate the Uzumaki Sage Body and help you get started."

"This physique is quite practical. It strengthens vitality and lifespan, and it can greatly increase your chakra reserves. It'll also be very helpful when you awaken the Sharingan later."

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and added, "It would be great if I could get my hands on that brat Hashirama's original cells. I could directly cultivate the Hashirama Sage Body. That one is even stronger."

Still, he knew the Uzumaki Sage Body had plenty of advantages as well. Kagura's Mind's Eye alone was a genuinely valuable ability—sensory-type ninja were rare in the Ninja World. With such an ability, one's chances of surviving missions would increase considerably.

"Oh? You can teach it already?" Uchiha Meixin's eyes lit up as she began calculating inwardly. If it could extend her lifespan and strengthen her vitality, could it perhaps help with beauty as well? Could it make her age more slowly? She was extremely interested.

"Mm. I've already cultivated it to the peak and tested everything that needed testing. There isn't a single problem." Uchiha Yan nodded and had his mother sit down.

He extended a finger and gently touched her forehead. The cultivation formula for the Uzumaki Sage Body, along with a breath-concealing technique, flooded into her mind. He also added a layer of sealing lock within her spiritual sea—not to guard against his own mother, but against malicious people outside. With that protection in place, unless someone could forcibly break the seal he had left behind, no one would be able to touch Meixin's memories.

"Here, Mom, take this." Uchiha Yan took out a medicinal pill and handed it to her. "After this, just circulate your energy according to the method I passed on to you. I'll guide you through it once."

Uchiha Yan forced a drop of blood from his fingertip, refined it into a bloodline seed using his unique method, and brought it to his mother's lips.

This seed was not ordinary blood. It was pure Uzumaki bloodline power that he had purified from his own blood, far cleaner than using Kushina's blood directly.

"Okay."

Uchiha Meixin did not hesitate. She opened her mouth and swallowed it. Then, under her son's guidance, she began circulating the energy within her body.

Uchiha Yan waited until the bloodline seed had completely fused into his mother's heart, then used Innate Qi to help it take root before finally stopping.

"Done. From now on, just practice that breathing technique every day and slowly nurture it. It'll probably take several years."

He paused, then said, "Once I create an Innate Art suitable for all of you, you can use the Innate Qi from it to nurture it. It'll be much faster then."

It was not that he did not want to do it himself.

It simply took too much time.

Uchiha Yan still needed to research other things, so it was more realistic to let his mother cultivate it slowly herself.

Besides, there would be his father, his older brother, and Mikoto afterward.

If he had to personally ripen every one of them, he would not be able to do anything else all day.

"Mm, this is enough."

Uchiha Meixin smiled and nodded, reaching out to stroke her son's head. "Mom isn't in a hurry. I don't make a living from this. The other methods you taught me are already enough. It's fine if this is slow. Just don't wear yourself out."

Her son was good in every way, except that he pushed himself too hard.

Since childhood, he seemed to have always possessed a sense of urgency that drove him to grow desperately and become stronger desperately.

And he had dragged the entire family into becoming stronger with him.

He had dragged the entire Uchiha into becoming stronger.

He was living far too tired a life.

That was not what she wanted to see as his mother.

Not long afterward, Uchiha Senichi, Uchiha Hao, and Mikoto all returned.

Uchiha Yan taught them the cultivation method for the Uzumaki Sage Body and guided them into the basics.

He also taught them a breath-concealing technique and instructed, "For now, use this to suppress the chakra fluctuations and spiritual power around you. It'll make it easier to play the pig to eat the tiger. Once your Uzumaki Sage Body reaches a higher level, it can also conceal the aura of your life force, making you harder to detect and saving you a great deal of trouble."

The others nodded and committed it to memory.

"Don't worry, we'll be careful."

At that moment, Mikoto suddenly asked, "Xuan, this Uzumaki Sage Body came from Kushina, right? Is it really okay for us to cultivate it?"

She paused, and her voice dropped. "If we cultivate an Uzumaki bloodline, won't we become the same as Kushina? If we're together afterward, will there be any problems? Our children won't be affected, will they?"

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.

Seeing her face turn pale, Uchiha Yan could not help laughing. He raised a hand and ruffled her hair. "Relax. It's not what you think."

"Those Uzumaki bloodline seeds were all condensed from the pure Uzumaki power I cultivated myself. They have long since had nothing to do with Kushina's bloodline."

"If there's any change at all, it's simply that in addition to our Uchiha bloodline, we'll gain the physique of the Uzumaki clan."

"You're overthinking it, girl."

Mikoto froze after hearing that. Once she came back to her senses, her face instantly reddened.

She noticed that the looks in everyone's eyes had become rather strange and quickly lowered her head, focusing on shoveling food into her mouth.

Seeing this, Meixin smiled and smoothed things over. "All right, all right, stop watching the show. Eat while it's hot."

Halfway through the meal, Meixin could not help asking, "Dear, is fighting about to break out again lately? There are more and more wounded at the hospital every day. They're almost being worked to death."

Senichi set down his chopsticks, his expression darkening.