The "Formula" of All Creation

On a mountain road far from Konoha, Lie Yang continued flipping through Orochimaru's materials.

Every few pages he turned in the dossier, the blank spaces gained a mass of annotations.

Orochimaru recorded the experimental phenomena.

Lie Yang supplemented the chakra principles.

Orochimaru speculated on cellular changes.

Lie Yang directly pointed out the relationship between Yin Release, Yang Release, and the Chakra Seed.

From a higher vantage point, those once-scattered experimental results had already formed a complete picture.

The Shinobi World's understanding of chakra still remained at the level of usage.

What Lie Yang saw, however, was the full truth of how it parasitized, altered life, and connected the mind and body.

When the group entered towns along the way, more than half the streets were already empty.

Local great clans, nobles, and officials had received word in advance and fled overnight.

The gates of one lavish mansion after another stood open.

Valuable belongings had been hastily taken away.

Only a few finely dressed young girls remained, standing stiffly before the courtyard gates.

They had clearly been deliberately left behind.

Some people hoped to please Lie Yang with beauty.

Others wanted to use them to test his attitude.

Lie Yang did not even slow his pace.

His gaze remained fixed on the dossier, as though there were nothing at all on either side of the road.

The girls watched him leave, relieved yet somewhat lost.

That was until a young nobleman, accompanied by guards, blocked the middle of the street.

It was not as though he did not know Lie Yang's identity.

But his uncle was a high-ranking official of the Land of Fire.

Before leaving, his uncle had clearly told him that Konoha would not allow Lie Yang to casually slaughter Land of Fire nobles.

That judgment became the confidence