"Really can't do it?"
Yūshin felt somewhat disappointed.
"Really can't. Even genjutsu-type Sharingan are only strong at invasion and control, not direct brain reading."
Uchiha Shichimi shook her head. You couldn't use her as an interrogation ninja. Against living targets, perhaps she could occasionally guest in that role, but against dead targets, the difference between them was very obvious.
"Alright then, let me think if there are other methods."
Yūshin felt regretful, but he hadn't given up yet. As they say, you don't know the price of oil and salt until you run a household. Even considering the organization's overall interests, he couldn't simply abandon such a powerful secret technique.
"Just throw it away. I advise you not to waste time."
Anyone who could easily say such harsh words was obviously from a wealthy family background.
"I'll throw it away after it passes its expiration date."
Yūshin's penny-pinching attitude was very much like an old mother who had lived through hard times. He said he'd throw it away after the expiration date, but in reality, he wouldn't throw it away even then.
The useless Uchiha Shichimi soon left this place, leaving only the deep-thinking Yūshin to continue wasting time.
Although he maintained the principle of not wasting anything, Yūshin actually had no feasible ideas about what to do next.
Since there were no other methods anyway, he simply decided to go all out and conduct "experiments" following the most simple and crude approach.
The black tendrils of Earth Grudge Fear were just like real hair, with flesh buds growing at the bottom inside the caster's body, much like hair follicles to hair.
Yūshin first extracted some tendrils along with the flesh buds behind them from the corpse, placing them one by one to the side... This showed his experimental level—he didn't even need professional tools, directly using a kunai as a surgical knife.
After thinking briefly, he took out another scroll and extracted a White Zetsu corpse from it.
Then he tried transmitting his own chakra to this corpse and felt a slight bit of activity... White Zetsu was a species that was wood-like but not wood, capable of living for a thousand years. This phenomenon of being dead but not rigid didn't exceed Yūshin's imagination.
After confirming these basic conditions, Yūshin then transformed into a botanist and genetic engineer, beginning simple and crude "seedling cultivation" work.
He cut a small slit in one arm of the White Zetsu corpse, then planted some Earth Grudge Fear flesh buds inside, and continued injecting chakra into this area afterward.
You could see Yūshin's research approach was overly rustic, basically at the level of Apple + pen = Applepen.
He happened to have one Earth Grudge Fear corpse and several White Zetsu corpses in his hands. If you looked at them separately, they were all useless. Since that was the case, he might as well make use of waste and combine the two—maybe he could turn waste into treasure?
Of course, his doing this wasn't without any theoretical basis. After all, he could fuse Kekkei Genkai through a White Zetsu body, so perhaps Earth Grudge Fear flesh buds could also regain activity through White Zetsu.
After grafting and injecting a considerable portion of chakra, Yūshin had finished everything he could do. Next, he needed to wait for a period of time, then...
Leave it to fate.
He recovered the Earth Grudge Fear corpse, because sealing scrolls could create a state of stasis, making corpses stored inside less likely to decay.
The White Zetsu serving as the grafting body was displayed on the morgue slab. Anyway, White Zetsu corpses were like being soaked in formalin—they naturally had a long shelf life.
After recovering the corpse, Yūshin turned and left.
He didn't need to worry about exposure problems, because his current tent was right at the door of this crude "laboratory." His limited sensing ability could just encompass the entire building.
If anyone became interested in his secret laboratory, he would discover the signs immediately.
That kind of contingency basically wouldn't happen, because people might be interested in laboratories, but basically wouldn't be interested in morgues.
As for the masterminds behind the shinobi world? Dead White Zetsu wouldn't produce signals attracting their kind, and those guys focused on big schemes—how could they possibly shift their attention to this godforsaken place?
Shouldn't they prioritize paying attention to Uchiha Madara? The White Zetsu group around Madara had been wiped out—shouldn't that warrant investigation? Wouldn't it arouse suspicion?
Quietly, Madara left, incidentally taking away the White Zetsu collective's attention.
One could only say that if you paid careful attention, you'd find the shinobi world was full of good people everywhere.
...
Yūshin conducted his plant-animal grafting experiments while working hard to recover his body. Every day he would inject chakra into the White Zetsu corpse on schedule—more stable than some web novel authors' updates.
However, for seven consecutive days, his experiments yielded no positive feedback. Those strands of Earth Grudge Fear flesh buds grafted onto the White Zetsu corpse remained as wilted as ever.
It seemed Yūshin's chakra had all been wasted.
After another day passed, Yūshin's severely injured body finally completely recovered. Even his arm that had been heavily damaged by Lightning Release was restored to its original state... except for temporarily looking as pale as fresh wood core, there were no functional deficiencies remaining.
Yūshin had completely recovered his combat ability. He felt every cell in his body was rejoicing.
Moreover, the good news wasn't limited to this one thing. When Yūshin went to his laboratory again, the Earth Grudge Fear grafted into the White Zetsu body had finally undergone changes.
The original Earth Grudge Fear tendrils were very much like withered black hair, but now they had not only recovered their toughness—they even seemed full of luster, as if treated with a whole bottle of hair conditioner.
Yūshin leaned over to carefully observe the base of the tendrils, then discovered that the tendrils had grown a new small section. Different from the original black color, this newly grown section of tendril showed a milky white color, making it very obvious.
To be honest, white Earth Grudge Fear tendrils were much more disgusting to look at than black flesh buds, but at this moment Yūshin only felt a wave of joy. The chakra he had saved during his injury recovery period hadn't been wasted.
White Zetsu truly lived up to being a breeding ground for disasters—it could cultivate any disgusting thing.
"This actually works?"
Yūshin was first incredulous, then began to sigh with emotion:
"Bloodline awakening, truly worthy of being called bloodline awakening..."
He wasn't sighing about the role played by the White Zetsu corpse, but rather about the awakening of certain genes deep in his bones.
Farming bloodline—terrifyingly powerful!
Next, he found some bamboo poles from outside, tied them together in pairs to form "人" shapes, and erected them on both sides of the White Zetsu corpse... People who had grown cucumbers or loofah-type crops should understand what he was doing.
He was preparing climbing frames for the vines.
Since he had already achieved phased results, regardless of what to do next, Yūshin first planted more Earth Grudge Fear flesh buds on this corpse.
His tinkering made the so-called laboratory particularly resemble the corpse workshops in some gore films. From inside to outside, everything revealed a perverted atmosphere.
After various tendrils and flesh buds filled the climbing frames...
Earth Grudge Fear?
This was clearly a Cursed Grudge film set.
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