Chapter 238: Sasuke's Strongest Move is Declared Invalid
Haruno Sakura, through this experiment, could roughly guess what kind of impact the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai would have on her.
It could be said that the cells enhanced by Ice Style would gradually cover and replace her original cells, until her body was completely occupied by them.
This was a bit like the experiment that Root had once conducted, implanting the First Hokage's cells into experimental subjects in the hope that they would obtain his Wood Style ability. However, in the materials Sakura had seen, this experiment had only been conducted once and had been forced to stop because all 60 experimental subjects had died. Of course, there were also materials that claimed that there had actually been one child who had survived that experiment. The survivor was now still serving in the Anbu and was quite strong, but he was still a far cry from the First's abilities.
In Haruno Sakura's situation, because they were homologous cells, there would be no rejection phenomenon, and naturally, it would not cause any adverse reactions. She hadn't even noticed it herself, only feeling that her control over Ice Style had been growing very quickly recently.
During the Chunin Exams, she had not had this feeling of effortless mastery when learning Ice Style.
Her current body had not yet completed this replacement process, yet she already had a very good control over Ice Style. When the modification of her body by the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai was complete, it should be like the heart she had cultivated. She would be able to complete the nature transformation of Ice Style with a casual thought, without any special control.
At that time, her Ice Style might become an instinct of her body, just like her Water Style...
As the first generation possessor of the Ice Style in the Haruno family, it was not strange for Sakura to be able to achieve this. She had mastered the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai before the age of 12 and had therefore just in time for puberty. The power of the Kekkei Genkai could permeate deep into her flesh with the development of her body, engraving the instinct of Ice Style into her very bones!
Of course, Sakura could still say with a straight face: I don't actually care about this little improvement from Ice Style...
If all of her other ninjutsu developed smoothly.
If that final Yang God Mode could be developed... then she really wouldn't care about the title of "the second Hashirama Senju."
The source of the First Hokage's power was his Sage Mode, which had already fused with the Yang Release of his Wood Style. But Haruno Sakura, who had opened the Yang God Mode, had mastered the sun's energy herself, which was who-knows-how-many-levels higher than Sage Mode. She could even chat and laugh with the Sage of the Six Paths!
However, at least for now, she was still just a small character who had just taken a step from an elite Jonin to the Kage-level. The improvement from Ice Style was still very important to her.
But I digress.
Let's get back to the topic.
The first round of experiments had yielded effective results, which was undoubtedly very good news. After summarizing the experience and lessons learned, Sakura immediately began the second round of experiments. Time was tight. The time she could stay in the Land of Snow was only that six weeks. At most, it was only enough for three rounds of experiments. No matter what she got in the third round, she had to leave the base and return to Konoha.
Two weeks passed in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day when the second batch of experiments yielded results.
In... ahem, Sakura's laboratory.
"The results of this batch are not bad," Haruno Sakura said to herself,趴趴 on the table and meticulously inspecting the row of containers on the table. "The amount of chakra produced by most of them has already surpassed the Genin level and is even close to the Chunin level."
After absorbing the experience points from the previous failed products, the success rate of the second round of experiments had soared. This time, it was even smoother, and the results were even better. The qualification rate of the cultivated hearts was over ninety percent—only one of the ten experimental subjects' hearts had failed to develop normally due to her operational error.
Because of the improvements in the details, not only was the success rate of this batch higher, but the quality was also a notch higher than the previous experimental subjects.
As long as there were no operational errors, she was extremely confident in achieving the purpose of this trip.
When this batch of hearts was inspected, it was already the weekend of the fourth week. The two of them had been in the Land of Snow for a month.
Two-thirds of the time allowed for this mission had also passed.
After two rounds of experiments, Haruno Sakura, who had probably gained some confidence in her stem cell technology, seized the time to begin the true purpose of her completion.
To cultivate Yūgao's heart.
The trouble with this matter was that she had no way to test the quality of the cultivated heart by observing the chakra—her spiritual power and Yūgao's physical power were clearly unable to become one.
She could only make it first and take it back to Konoha for Yūgao to check herself.
The living tissue that Tsunade had given her was limited. With Sakura's current technology, she could only cultivate a limited number of hearts. The precious living tissue could not be wasted casually, which was why in the previous two rounds, Sakura could only use her own cells to do experiments and verify the technology.
The harvest was rich. At least in the future, if her heart was gone, she would have a replacement here—this was just a dark joke Sakura made to herself. To lose one's heart and still be able to get it back, there were not many people in history who could do that. This first required that after being injured, there was a person of Haruno Sakura's level by her side to keep her alive...
So the biggest use of these Ice Style hearts was to be kept as a memento of the first human experiment. The real gain was that she had preliminarily mastered stem cell technology, which was the most critical technology for cloning.
The substance of this technology was to make already differentiated somatic cells re-acquire the characteristics of undifferentiated cells, for example, to turn Sakura's own keratinocytes into embryonic stem cells, and then to re-differentiate them to form a heart. In her previous life, this required very complex operations, but in the world of Naruto, this only required the use of precise Yang Release medical ninjutsu to stimulate the cells to complete the process of de-differentiation and return to stem cells.
With this technology, the next time she came to the Land of Snow, she might be able to officially start her cloning project...
This one and a half months in the Land of Snow had been very peaceful for Sakura—she was either in the laboratory or in the wild, taking advantage of the favorable environment of ice and snow to train her ninjutsu.
The last two weeks were spent in peace.
Apart from Sasuke's increasingly proficient Super Railgun ninjutsu, which was a bit noisy.
In the last few days, Sakura had taken the time to go and see Sasuke's training.
It was a wasteland in the suburbs. Haruno Sakura had used her Ice Style to create many targets here and had helped Sasuke build a temporary training ground.
When Sakura arrived at the training ground with a Body Flicker, she happened to see Sasuke practicing the Super Railgun—
His left arm was stretched straight. Two brilliant, dazzling lightning glows leaped and condensed in his hand, and finally stabilized, forming two straight and shining light paths.
Even in the daytime, the ninjutsu in Sasuke's hand was so brilliant it was piercing, making it difficult for one to look directly at it. A huge amount of chakra bloomed with a璀璨 blue light, enveloping Sasuke's entire person in endless light, with only the vague figure of the black-haired youth visible.
"Ugh!" Sakura, who was blinded, let out a muffled grunt, quickly closed her eyes, and turned her head. The strong light had left a deep imprint on her retina, making it so that even when she opened her eyes, all she could see were overlapping shadows.
She couldn't see anything. She only heard a high-pitched, heart-stopping whistle suddenly come from Sasuke's side. Then the dazzling light gradually dimmed, and then a dull, loud bang came from the distance.
BOOM—!
Haruno Sakura rubbed her slightly red eyes and looked over. She saw a block of ice target that she had set up before, which was as big as a small hill, had been shattered by the kunai that Sasuke had shot out!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," she praised in her mouth. "As expected of a ninjutsu I came up with."
The power of the railgun was simply unbeatable.
Terrifying!
"It seems you've almost mastered this move," she said, turning her head. From now on, Sasuke had another new trump card.
I wonder what kind of stunning style it will have when this move first appears in the ninja world?
Just as she was feeling emotional, she saw the youth walking over, and Sakura's eyes suddenly widened.
What did she see? For a moment, she was almost stunned.
Haruno Sakura blinked, thinking she had seen wrong. This little brother with sunglasses that could cover half his face, is that Sasuke?
And they're very girly toad-style sunglasses...
Looking intently, alright, it really was Sasuke.
"Hahahaha!"
Haruno Sakura burst out laughing.
"Sasuke, your 'acting cool' has been broken!"
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