Bloodline Limit Experiment

You're joking, right? Why would I give up my carefree life to work myself to the bone for you?

Doichi Hyuga quickly waved a hand to cut him off.

"Then do you have any desire to become Hokage? If you're interested, the clan can begin preparing right away! Once you come of age and have built up enough prestige, the clan should be ready too. Then we can try running for the position!"

"Hokage? Chained to the Hokage's Office every day like a workhorse? If you've run out of things to say, I'm going back to rest!"

"..."

Hyuga Hiashi was somewhat speechless.

Your reaction is a little extreme! How many people dream of becoming Hokage? Why did it sound like livestock when it came from your mouth?

"If you don't want the Hyuga Clan to end up like the Uchiha Clan, I suggest you abandon that foolish idea. The clan head's future successors should also never entertain such thoughts!"

Doichi Hyuga smiled strangely and offered a casual reminder.

Hyuga Hiashi shuddered, cold sweat instantly beading across his forehead.

The Hyuga Clan was already, in practice, Konoha's foremost great clan!

Neither the Hokage nor the other ninja clans would tolerate the Hyuga Clan laying claim to the Hokage's position.

The moment they stepped forward, they would immediately become the next Uchiha Clan, targeted by everyone until they died.

And by Hokage, he meant more than just Hiruzen Sarutobi. It included the other Hokage and Konoha's higher-ups. No matter who became Hokage, none of them would allow a major clan like the Hyuga Clan to challenge for the position!

No ruler with any sense would tolerate such a situation. And an idiot could never become Hokage.

"Hehe! You're right. I got carried away!"

Hyuga Hiashi gave a bitter smile.

"I want to entrust Hanabi Hyuga to you. Please, you must agree!"

Hyuga Hiashi bowed as he made the request, his sincerity unmistakable.

Again?

"This is the last one! I don't have that much time to look after a bunch of brats!"

Doichi Hyuga said helplessly.

"I understand! Thank you so much, Dao Yi!"

Over the past year, Hyuga Hiashi had watched Hinata Hyuga and Neji Hyuga spar many times.

Hinata had gone from lasting two or three minutes three years ago to holding out for half an hour without losing now. Her improvement was obvious. Though her old habit remained—she still disliked taking the initiative to attack.

Tai Chi's defensive principles suited Hinata's personality very well. It also had much in common with the Gentle Fist, and her Gentle Fist had improved considerably along with it.

Tai Chi's offensive power was no weaker than the Eight Trigrams Wandering Palm, but unfortunately, Hinata was unwilling to use it.

Neji's progress had also been rapid. The Eight Trigrams Gentle Fist's peculiar force-generating method was difficult to deal with. When Hyuga Hiashi had first served as his sparring partner, he had been left scrambling for quite a while before adapting. The Eight Trigrams Gentle Fist's method of deflecting attacks had also opened Hyuga Hiashi's eyes.

The Gentle Fist's destructive power had increased even further, leaving Hyuga Hiashi both delighted and frightened.

Traditional Gentle Fist used chakra to attack an enemy's meridians, acupoints, and internal organs, rapidly robbing the opponent of their fighting ability.

The improved Gentle Fist not only used chakra, but its peculiar force could directly injure internal organs.

Moreover, chakra could not defend against this strange force. That was rather terrifying!

Originally, the Gentle Fist had been in an awkward position. It was difficult for it to work against ninja with strong chakra control. This directly raised the Gentle Fist's upper limit by a great deal.

"Also! Three days from now, I'm holding a clan assembly. I hope you can attend and help me deal with the elders!"

"Alright! I understand!"

After returning home, Doichi Hyuga tossed a Shadow Clone Technique onto the bed.

With a whoosh, his real body vanished from the spot.

When he appeared again, he had already arrived in an underground space.

What Doichi Hyuga used was precisely the Flying Thunder God Technique!

More than a dozen machines operated before him, while several Shadow Clones in white lab coats busied themselves.

This was Root's base. It had already been designated a restricted area by Hiruzen Sarutobi, which happened to make things convenient for Doichi Hyuga.

During his last raid on this place, Doichi Hyuga had gained enormously.

The Uzumaki Sealing Arts and Soul Transformation Technique aside, there had even been the Flying Thunder God and the Fourth Hokage's notes on his cultivation experience.

Danzo had looted the Fourth Hokage couple's inheritance! All he could say was that Danzo truly lived up to his name—he was downright crafty!

Aside from those, the most valuable things were the various experimental records Danzo had left behind.

Wood Release, Sharingan, the secret techniques of various ninja clans, and experimental records and materials for bloodline limits—everything was there.

What concerned Doichi Hyuga the most were some experimental records left behind by Orochimaru. Their reference value was extremely high.

Of course, he had not spared Danzo's experimental equipment either. He had taken part of it away, and now he had returned it to this laboratory.

"How are the experiments progressing?"

"By comparing the original body with the First Hokage Cells, we discovered that the original body's chakra quality is higher, while its cellular activity has already approached Hashirama Senju's!"

Although the First Hokage had Sage Jutsu, the Natural Energy he absorbed and utilized was only a small portion of it. He could not be considered a true Sage.

The types of Natural Energy Doichi Hyuga had absorbed already accounted for roughly half of all Natural Energy between Heaven and earth. The remaining half, in terms from his previous life, should have been the baleful aura of Heaven and earth that was harmful to the human body.

Yin and yang coexisted in the world. Where there was energy beneficial to the human body, there was naturally energy harmful to it as well.

Doichi Hyuga did not want to lose his sense of self and have his body transform into some monstrous form.

Natural Energy encompassed all things. Everything in Heaven and earth was a creation nurtured by Natural Energy.

Within an ecosystem, only green plants could convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis and store it in organic matter.

This organic matter then became food for humans and other animals. Thus, the energy humans and animals needed for all life activities ultimately came from sunlight.

Just as the energy behind human and animal movement was essentially solar energy, sunlight, cosmic rays, and planetary energy were all part of Natural Energy.

Therefore, the chakra refined within a ninja's body was also, in essence, a small part of Natural Energy.

Ninja consumed all kinds of plants and animals, replenishing solar energy and other nutrients their bodies required to grow and strengthen themselves, while also refining chakra in the process.

The amount of chakra refined by Doichi Hyuga's body was not much. It was basically used as a catalyst, serving as a bridge for his body to absorb Natural Energy and nourish itself in turn together with that Natural Energy.

"What were the results of the Uzumaki Clan cell experiment?"

"Their cellular activity is somewhat worse than the First Hokage's cells, but their gene fragments are relatively close! They are distant relatives, after all!"

Another Shadow Clone raised his head and replied.

"What about Ice Release?"

"Ice Release cells are highly genetically isolated from other bloodline limits and have the highest rejection rate!"

It seemed Ice Release had no blood relation to the Ōtsutsuki Clan!

The Ice Release and Uzumaki Clan cells had been taken from Haku and Karin respectively. To obtain them, Doichi Hyuga had even made a special trip to the capital of the Land of Fire.

"Have there been any results from the fusion experiments involving the Sharingan, Byakugan, First Hokage Cells, and Uzumaki Clan cells?"

"The Sharingan and First Hokage Cells have the least genetic isolation! A low-grade, weakened version of the First Hokage Cells has already successfully fused with Sharingan cells! The Byakugan has rather severe rejection with all other cells."

To perfectly solve the issue of fusing the Byakugan with the cells of other Ōtsutsuki descendants, the simplest and most direct method was to marry and have children!

"The original body needs to obtain cells from the Takeori Clan and Otsutsuki Toneri!"

"As for that... we'll see what fate brings!"

Doichi Hyuga recalled the Shadow Clones and began sorting through the experimental data he had received in his mind.

He split off another group of Shadow Clones and joined them in the experiments...