Over the next month, the Gods Alliance gradually settled into a steady rhythm.
The latest batch of Inner Disciples received instruction from each village's elite, who passed on their knowledge and the key principles behind their villages' Ninjutsu research.
As for the Hyuga Clan and Uchiha Clan's development of ocular techniques, Yechen had compiled some insights and occasionally offered guidance in person.
Although his Sharingan and Byakugan had evolved through point allocation, he had still gained some understanding of their mysteries and properties. Passing that knowledge on to the two clans' disciples greatly helped them grasp the basics quickly.
Then, one day three months later...
Orochimaru emerged from seclusion, bringing an extraordinary breakthrough.
Several months earlier, Yechen had asked him to focus on the problem of extracting tailed beasts. After nearly half a year, Orochimaru finally developed a viable method.
He immediately sought out Yechen to discuss it. After all, this was only a preliminary validation, and it still required further research and verification.
For the stretch that followed, Yechen's original body joined Orochimaru in the laboratory to verify the method together.
According to Orochimaru's method, the first step was extraction.
Using Sealing Jutsu as his foundation, he devised a Soul-Splitting Formation. Through Yin-Yang Release, it separated the resonant frequencies shared by a jinchūriki and their tailed beast, like untangling two intertwined tuning forks. It preserved the frequency of the jinchūriki's own soul while extracting only the frequency of the tailed beast's energy.
Had it only involved such a simple extraction, Orochimaru would not have spent so much time researching it. After all, the Gods Alliance provided him with the finest resources, and with his own scientific expertise, he had verified the first step long ago.
But that was not all he intended to do. He had an even more