With the 'Mars' plan passing in the meeting, the Research Institute mobilized swiftly. Dozens of groups and hundreds of researchers began tense preparations day and night.
The scientific research advantage of a powerful department that could mobilize nearly all the resources of the shinobi world was manifested at this moment. For a plan of the scale of 'Mars', if prepared by a single organization, it would take at least several years, or even longer.
But under the powerful propulsion of the Research Institute, it only took a short two weeks to complete all preliminary preparations, waiting only for the appropriate celestial phenomenon to appear to officially start.
While the Research Institute was urgently preparing the 'Mars Plan', Shinji had already planted the God Tree in World No. 2.
As he expected, after successively swallowing World No. 1 and World No. 4, the Hegemon targeted World No. 2 without stopping.
Similar to the previous situation, the Hegemon had secretly polluted World No. 2, so as soon as the erosion began, World No. 2 immediately fell into a precarious state. Therefore, Shinji dared not delay and immediately planted two God Trees in World No. 2.
Although not physically in the shinobi world, Shinji still maintained regular communication with it. So when everything for the 'Mars Plan' was ready, the Research Institute sent him a request for permission to start the plan.
This was the rule!
All large-scale plans of the Research Institute must be nodded by Shinji before they could officially start, although Shinji had never rejected the Research Institute's requests.
"So urgent..."
Shinji, who received the permission request from the Research Institute, was slightly surprised.
He didn't expect the Research Institute to conduct the second ritual so quickly, but he also wanted to see if the Research Institute's ritual could really mass-produce 'Six Paths Level' combat power. So after a brief hesitation, he agreed to the Research Institute's request.
Shinobi World, Research Institute.
Hiruko hurried to Amado's office and asked: "How is it, did the higher-ups agree?"
Amado nodded: "En, I have already obtained permission. The 'Mars Plan' can be started at any time."
"Great!"
Hiruko rubbed his hands excitedly.
Although he disliked organizations like the Research Institute that required meetings and requests for instructions, he had to admire the Research Institute's energy.
One must know that for this ritual arranged for himself, whether in scale or in detail, it far exceeded the one arranged for Orochimaru. Moreover, it absorbed many lessons from Orochimaru's ritual. After all, although he craved power, he was not stupid. In this kind of experiment that could threaten his own life, he would not leave any loopholes.
Amado asked: "Is the date for the celestial phenomenon set?"
Hiruko smiled: "It was set long ago. The moment Mars is lit up is when I start the ritual!"
He discovered this celestial phenomenon only recently.
According to his estimation, in about three days, a dazzling comet will shine on Mars, and once Mars is lit up, he can use the power of the celestial phenomenon to activate the ritual.
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, the day when the celestial phenomenon was about to happen arrived. Everyone from the Research Institute came to a suitable mountain peak again and set up the ritual site.
Sure enough, compared with Orochimaru's ritual, the scope of this ritual site expanded by nearly 50%. Not only that, the ritual site also underwent all-around solidification treatment. The ground was covered with hard stone slabs, various formulas were carved on the stone slabs with special materials, and there were a large number of barriers protecting the periphery of the ritual.
Standing in the center of the ritual, Hiruko looked around at the six sacrifices imprisoned at the ritual site, and finally nodded with satisfaction.
These six sacrifices were carefully selected by him. Whether it was chakra attributes or chakra intensity, they all fit perfectly with his ritual.
Periphery.
In front of the rows of instruments in the observation area, Amado asked the assistant beside him: "Is everything ready?"
The assistant hurriedly replied: "The site has been set up, the ritual can be started at any time!"
Amado nodded, then looked at the crowd on the side.
In the observation area with him, besides Orochimaru who successfully survived the ritual last time, there were also Tsunade, Sasori, and other research group leaders. They also put a lot of effort into Hiruko's 'Mars Plan' this time!
Tsunade crossed her arms: "Orochimaru, do you think Hiruko has a high chance of success?"
"Heh!"
Orochimaru smiled contemptuously.
Tsunade frowned: "What are you laughing at? You don't look favorably on this ritual?"
"Of course!"
The corners of Orochimaru's mouth rose.
Tsunade asked: "Could it be that there are still some loopholes in this ritual?"
The group leaders beside them cast their gazes at Orochimaru one after another.
Orochimaru laughed: "Speaking of loopholes, I did discover one!"
Amado immediately asked: "What loophole?"
Orochimaru pointed at Hiruko standing in the center of the ritual: "The biggest loophole of this ritual is Hiruko himself!"
Sasori asked: "What do you mean?"
"The arrangement of the ritual is indeed important, but I think you might have misunderstood!" Pausing for a moment, Orochimaru said with a face full of self-importance: "The core, the most critical point of this ritual is not the arrangement, nor some secret technique, but the person presiding over the ritual! So the biggest loophole of this ritual is nothing else but Hiruko! He's not good enough!"
The crowd was speechless for a while.
Who could explain this kind of thing clearly? Anyway, as long as there were no problems with the ritual arrangement, then they could only wait for the result.
Just then, a star suddenly flickered in the starry sky under the night curtain.
"Mars is lit up!"
Amado whispered.
Everyone in the observation area stopped chatting and looked at the ritual site together.
And Hiruko, in the center of the ritual, activated the ritual the moment Mars was lit up, launching the enhanced version of the 'Chimera Technique'.
For a time, colloidal 'Chimera buds' swarmed out from Hiruko's body, surging towards the surroundings like a flood bursting a dam.
The six sacrifices bound at the ritual site all looked terrified seeing the colloidal 'Chimera buds' surging towards them, but they were imprisoned and unable to move, only able to watch helplessly as they were swallowed by the 'Chimera buds' in one gulp.
No exclamations, no wailing. The six sacrifices were all swallowed into the stomach by the 'Chimera buds' just as planned.
In the shinobi world, the ritual proceeded smoothly, while on the surface of the moon, Toneri Otsutsuki was also attracted by this ritual of the Research Institute and was observing the ritual situation remotely through the giant Tenseigan.
Just then, he suddenly looked up and found that the comet that just lit up Mars, dragging a long tail, was actually flying straight towards the shinobi world.
Toneri frowned slightly: "That is..."
Rumble...
Almost in the starry sky directly above Toneri, that comet exploded without warning!