After the Heavenly Beings Organization finished setting up the barrier,
they began intensive preparations for the second Ninja Professional League.
A year had passed since the Life Energy from the first league had been divided up.
Those who had received a share still had not used up all the Life Energy from the previous league.
Orochimaru had already made plans for the Life Energy of the second league.
The ultimate goal of his plan was to make ordinary human bodies approach the level of a body like his.
But the first step naturally had to be experiments on certain special individuals.
The most important test subject among them was Minato.
Minato had the body of an ordinary person, yet controlling the Shadow Nine-Tails placed no burden on him.
But if you had a reservoir full of water and only a tiny faucet to let it out, how could that possibly work?
On top of that, Nine-Tails Chakra had powerful regenerative properties, making Minato difficult to torment to death.
Thus, he was chosen as the first test subject. The others selected were Itachi, Yōya, Sasuke, Shisui, and Neji.
Itachi's strength was now essentially locked in place. Over the past year, aside from some improvement in senjutsu, there had been virtually no progress in other areas.
Yōya, meanwhile, was restricted by having too little Chakra Quantity. With all his abilities activated, he simply could not fight for long.
Although the Uchiha Clan's Chakra Quantity was not low, it depended on the level of jutsu used and the intensity of the battle.
Yōya's Lightning Release Chakra Mode, War God Susanoo Armor, Godspeed, and Divine Condensation were all massive chakra drains.
And... Yōya could not use senjutsu. For an Uchiha who could use Limit Break Compression, that was an especially great loss.
Sasuke was