Injecting the Gene Serum

Everyone responded in unison.

Natsu returned the report to Vallen, turned, and walked towards the lab exit. She paused at the door, glancing sideways at Setsuna, who was still lost in excitement, her tone unusually gentle. "Elder Setsuna, get some rest tonight. You'll be very busy this week."

He paused for Setsuna moment, then smiled, shook his head, and waved for him to leave.

Once Natsu's footsteps faded at the end of the corridor, he sat back down in his chair, staring at the report on the lab table that everyone had flipped through several times, remaining silent for a long time.

Outside the window, the starry sky over Origin Island was exceptionally bright, and the last light on the Training Ground had just been extinguished by the patrolling Heavenly Star Guard.

The Uchiha clan members on this island have no idea that their fate will be rewritten once again tomorrow morning.

The meeting ended that evening.

Vallen and Caesar Clown worked through the night to prepare the first batch of Light of Susanoo injections, and the lights in the Uchiha Research Institute stayed on until dawn.

Caesar Clown's sharp urging and Vallen's calm, almost indifferent corrections echoed through the corridor, occasionally interspersed with the protests of the awakened laboratory animals. Before dawn, Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha Izumi were invited to the laboratory.

One of them had been dragged out of bed by Elder Setsuna, and the other had just returned from the Training Ground and hadn't had time to change out of his training clothes yet; both of them had a slightly bewildered look on their faces.

Sitting on the lab chair, Yashiro watched as Vallen removed a vial with a pale golden sheen from the incubator, his brow furrowing slightly involuntarily.

He still felt lingering fear when he recalled how, a few months ago, he was tormented by the chaotic instincts of Susanoo tore the entire training room apart.

Vallen pushed up his glasses, gently injected the needle into his vein, and said in an almost numb tone that the side effects would subside on their own within seventy-two hours.

Just as Yashiro was about to ask about the side effects, a torrent of scorching heat exploded from the injection site, burning along the meridians throughout his entire body.

He groaned, his whole body stiffening in the chair. He felt as if the Susanoo sleeping inside him had been kicked hard by something, and it suddenly opened its eyes.

Izumi's injection was being administered simultaneously in the next room. Her reaction was milder than Yashiro's, but fine beads of sweat quickly appeared on her forehead as well.

Natsu leaned against the wall by the laboratory door, arms crossed, looking at her profile through a transparent glass window.

She didn't cry out in pain; she just bit her lip and gripped the armrests of the lab chair tightly with both hands.

A moment later, she seemed to notice his gaze, turned her head and shook her head slightly to indicate that she was alright.

Seventy-two hours later, the Yashiro successfully brought Susanoo into a semi-activated Sage Mode state for the first time on the Training Ground.

The dark red skeletal giant stood quietly behind him, no longer frenzied or out of control, like a wild beast that had finally been tamed.

He opened his eyes, feeling the extremely fine and gentle Natural Energy within Susanoo slowly flowing into his body along the soul link. He remained silent for a while, then turned to Natsu and Setsuna standing by the Training Ground and said "thank you" in an extremely solemn tone.

At that Setsuna, looking at this junior who had once held a grudge about Awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan while on the run, a rare smile of relief appeared on his face, which had become decades younger due to the Long-Lived Species.

Natsu was present when Quan broke through.

Her Susanoo finally leaped from a semi-activated state to a fully activated one. For the first time, the sky-blue skeleton actively opened its arms, greedily absorbing the Natural Energy in the surrounding air.

When the first wisp of refined Natural Energy flowed back into her body through the soul link, Quan was stunned for a long time. Then she looked up at Natsu and smiled, but her eyes were slightly red.

She finally caught up with his back, but she was no longer the one standing behind him being protected.

Natsu didn't say anything, but walked over and gently ruffled her hair.

For the next few months, the Training Ground and underground cultivation rooms on Origin Island were almost always full.

The phased injection plan, spearheaded by Elder Setsuna, was implemented as scheduled, with members of the Night Owl Guard given priority and the Nightingale Guard second.

Each batch of recipients had to stay at the research institute for seven days for observation. Vallen and Caesar Clown monitored the data throughout the process, and the archived reports filled an entire cabinet.

Of the first batch of Night Owl Guard members injected with Light of Susanoo, more than half successfully activated Sage Mode within a month;

By the end of the second month, all the injectors had reached the threshold.

Those Uchiha ninjas who had once tormented themselves to sleepless nights in the underground training chambers by Susanoo finally knocked on the door to the realm of Sages, one by one.

Ten days after injecting Light of Susanoo, Uchiha Fugaku extended the duration of his Complete Susanoo to over three hours.

He stood in the center of the Training Ground, the purple God of War behind him more refined and imposing than during the Summit War. It was no longer just a simple Chakra Armor, but had begun to resonate faintly with the surrounding Natural Energy.

Setsuna stood on the sidelines, looking at the giant that almost covered half of the Training Ground, and recalled that when they first came to this sea more than two years ago, only Fugaku and Natsu in the entire clan could barely contend with the power of Admiral-Emperor Level warrior.

Now, it's just a matter of time.

The entire Origin Island was immersed in a tense yet boiling atmosphere.

From morning till night, the Training Ground was filled with the Susanoo rising from the ground, and the underground training room was filled with the light of Senjutsu Chakra that never stopped.

The children from the Clan Academy leaned on the railing at the edge of the Training Ground, looking up at the towering giants rising one after another, their eyes filled with longing.

Uchiha Rin gripped her Tachi and said to her classmate, "I want to use Susanoo too."

None of her classmates laughed at her for boasting, because the times had changed—the power that once required risking one's life and luck to Awakening was now being lowered by the technology of the Uchiha Research Institute and the Phantom Night Prison of the Heavenly Awakening Hall.

The powers that once belonged only to the legendary Asura of the Ninja World and God of Shinobi are being mastered by the Uchiha Clan at an unprecedented speed.

Every Uchiha clansman who Awakening Sage Mode possesses strength firmly above the Admiral-Emperor Level.

After explaining the follow-up arrangements for the laboratory, Natsu lingered a little longer in the side hall of the Naka Shrine.

Fugaku sat opposite him, holding a half-cup of cold tea. After listening to him explain the purpose of the Broken Anchor, his brow remained furrowed.

After a long silence, Fugaku finally spoke, "I'm worried about you going alone. Yaoyu and Yakumi will go with you. They've both mastered Sage Mode now, so if you encounter any trouble, they can at least share some of the burden."