Chapter 521: Kekkei Tota
"So have you thought of an answer?"
The next morning, in the Hokage's office, Tsunade looked at Haruno Sakura who came to see her early in the morning and said.
"Answer?"
Haruno Sakura blinked, thought for a moment, and finally recalled the "assignment" Tsunade gave her.
She had been busy with her own things yesterday and completely put this matter behind her.
She instantly gave two dry laughs.
"Um... Master, I haven't completely thought it through yet."
The Fifth Hokage glared at her.
Haven't completely thought it through, actually means haven't thought about it at all, right? She had also been through it, having been the Third's disciple, she knew Sakura's little thoughts.
"What did you do with all your time?" She twirled the pen in her hand and said grumpily.
Said she went to find Sasuke.
Rushing so urgently to find Sasuke, what exactly did she want to do?
"Ehehe," Haruno Sakura scratched her hair, looking up at the ceiling awkwardly, "Um..."
When she came out of the office, she left in such a hurry and didn't take this matter to heart. Her mind was full of the clone she left at Sasuke's house.
After getting the scroll, Haruno Sakura went straight to her small secret base, tossed and turned there for half a day, carefully inspected herself with the clone's Sharingan, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming there were no signs of being hit by a genjutsu or even a suggestion.
However, regarding the Sharingan clone, she still wanted to keep it a secret for now.
Haruno Sakura thought for a moment, glossed over this matter, and said: "I went to the training ground outside the Forest of Death and experimented with a new power."
"New power?" Tsunade put down the pen in her hand and asked curiously, "What's going on?"
Haruno Sakura's trip to the Land of Lightning wasn't for training, so where did the new power come from?
"It's the nature transformation of Yin Release." The girl said seriously.
In that genjutsu in the Land of Lightning, apart from fright, Haruno Sakura also harvested a breakthrough in her Yin Release.
—Could use Yin Release nature transformation to condense willpower crystal rods.
However, that kind of deep blue crystal rod condensed by willpower, belonging to the advanced nature transformation of Yin Release, didn't have much practical significance for Haruno Sakura.
Crystal rods could be used to destroy the structure of Yin Release ninjutsu, rendering genjutsu and Yin Release secret techniques invalid.
Theoretically, this is a very practical auxiliary secret technique.
But with Haruno Sakura's genjutsu resistance, apart from the Limited Tsukuyomi that day, it's hard to imagine any genjutsu that could force her to the point of having to use crystal rods to break the deadlock.
As for the Limited Tsukuyomi...
If a jutsu of this strength could be used casually, that masked man would have trampled the five villages and unified the ninja world long ago. Why would he need to sneakily play conspiracies and tricks?
What if she used the crystal rod itself as a sword weapon?
Things constructed with Yin Release as the main body inherently don't excel in physical properties. That is to say, in terms of sharpness, hardness, and toughness, that thing isn't considered particularly excellent.
She might as well honestly condense an ice sword.
Haruno Sakura's Ice Release is already very strong now.
In fact, the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai formed by mixing Wind and Water attributes, after adding the nature transformation of Yin Release, faintly showed signs of evolving into a super Ice Release Kekkei Tota fusing Wind, Water, and Yin attributes.
The difference between Ice Release Kekkei Genkai and Ice Release Kekkei Tota could probably be described as the gap between the First Hokage's Wood Release and Yamato's Wood Release.
The First Hokage's Wood Release, besides the dual attributes of Water and Earth, also added the pinnacle Yang Release power inherent in his Sage Body, forming the Wood Release Kekkei Tota. And Yamato's Wood Release Kekkei Genkai is merely a mixture of Water and Earth; compared with it, the power cannot be mentioned in the same breath. If the First Hokage's Wood Release power is compared to a towering giant tree, then Yamato's Wood Release, described graphically, would be a small blade of grass under the tree, right?
Of course, Haruno Sakura's Yin Release nature transformation is still far from reaching perfection like the First Hokage's Yang Release.
However, being able to condense crystal rods of this form shows that she is getting closer and closer to the First Hokage's level.
"...Ice Release Kekkei Tota?"
Tsunade rubbed her smooth chin and pondered.
"Hn." Haruno Sakura nodded and continued to explain, "After adding the Yin Release attribute, the duration, power, hardness, and toughness of Ice Release have all greatly improved."
It's a bit like adding a certain amount of fiber to ice blocks can greatly improve its hardness and toughness. Even on Earth in her previous life, someone whimsically wanted to use ice blocks to build an aircraft carrier—after adding cotton or sawdust to ice blocks, its hardness and stiffness are greatly improved, able to resist wind and waves and small artillery shells, meeting the requirements of an aircraft carrier.
This operation is some of Haruno Sakura's undisclosed Ice Release little tricks.
And the effect of adding the Yin Release attribute is much more significant than this rough method.
Especially after this diplomatic mission to the Land of Lightning, Haruno Sakura's Yin Release made a breakthrough, taking another step towards Ice Release evolving into Kekkei Tota.
Now her Ice Release is already a world of difference from two years ago!
Theoretically, after upgrading to Kekkei Tota, Ice Release should also change its name; but for the sake of secrecy, retaining the original name is also beyond reproach.
What Tsunade cared about was not the issue of naming and secrecy, she just had a feeling that Haruno Sakura seemed to have omitted some things she didn't say.
Before experimenting with Ice Release, she should have done something else.
Tsunade's sharp gaze looked over, failing to see any guilty emotions on Haruno Sakura's face.
Alright... the disciple also has her own little secrets now.
After all, she's still a little girl, thin-skinned.
The Fifth Hokage smiled relievedly, feeling there was no need to pierce the girl's little thoughts, waved her hand and said: "Alright, is that all you did?"
Of course not just that.
Haruno Sakura also experimented with the new changes of Susanoo.
Susanoo was originally a powerful Yin Release secret technique. With Haruno Sakura's deepening mastery of Yin Release nature transformation, Susanoo naturally also grew compared to its previous form.
However, regarding the Sharingan, she still wanted to keep it as secret as possible for now.
"Hmm..."
Without talking about this, Haruno Sakura had nothing more to say.
"Nothing much after that." She spread her hands and said.
"Alright." Tsunade pondered.
"Regarding the Kekkei Tota, you must ponder it more when you go back, Sakura." The Fifth Hokage exhorted, "If you have any insights and understandings, it's best to record them down and let me see."
It could be seen that Tsunade attached great importance to this matter.
Konoha's Kekkei Genkai had always been limited to the two major ninja clans possessing organ mutation-type Kekkei Genkai. Like this attribute Kekkei Genkai mixing two attributes, there were actually only Yamato, Haku, and Sakura. As the (self-proclaimed) head of the five great ninja villages, this was indeed too few.
So Master wants to promote her experience and create more Kekkei Genkai ninja. Haruno Sakura saw through Tsunade's thoughts very clearly.
She wasn't averse to this kind of thing.
Unlike some people who would feel this infringed on their rights and insist the Hokage give some compensation.
Besides, the compensation or reward the village could give, she mostly wouldn't care for.
The girl didn't hesitate either and readily agreed: "Okay."
The blonde woman smiled slightly and nodded.
"As for that question... you still have to go back and think about it carefully, and come over tomorrow to tell me your thoughts." She said.
"Ah? Really have to think?" Haruno Sakura was stunned.
"Of course!"
Tsunade didn't care about the girl showing favor and pleading submissively, making a rare charmingly naive and cute posture. She forcefully knocked on the table and emphasized: "I don't care if you're interested in this or not, anyway you have to treat it as a mission and complete it seriously for me, hear me!"
Although Haruno Sakura didn't seem to care much about politics, the Fifth Hokage still didn't give up on cultivating her.
After all, although both were of the Hokage lineage, Naruto was Jiraiya's disciple, ultimately not as close to her as Sakura. Even a person as deeply righteous and impartial as Tsunade couldn't help but be influenced by personal likes and dislikes at such times, leaning more towards her own disciple.
Of course, Haruno Sakura, whether in terms of strength or status, or the maturity of her thoughts, or even her external image, was very excellent, much stronger than Naruto and Sasuke.
This was the main reason why Tsunade chose her.
"Yes, yes, yes..."
The girl muttered, responding weakly.
Tsunade smiled mockingly, ignored Sakura's weird expressions, and asked again: "The topic went far. Speaking of which, what exactly did you come to find me for?"
Haruno Sakura frowned.
After talking so much, she almost forgot the reason she came to find Tsunade.
"It's like this." The girl thought for a moment and said, "Didn't I say before, Killer B said they have a Waterfall of Truth that can help Jinchuriki practice."
"The reason why Killer B could become a perfect Jinchuriki is because of that thing, right? Cloud Ninja's two Jinchuriki seem to control it quite well."
Tsunade nodded.
"You want to..."
"Hn, I was thinking, could we discuss with the Raikage and let our Naruto also go there to practice?"
Haruno Sakura became exceptionally serious.
"About this matter—" Tsunade was about to speak when she suddenly stopped, her gaze turning outside the door.
Haruno Sakura also looked back, the corner of her mouth curling up slightly.
The doorknob of the office door turned, and someone was pushing the door open from outside.
Before the figure arrived, the voice came first.
"I seem to have heard my name?"
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