Was something wrong here?
Or was there another "fake White Zetsu" besides Yūshin?
This wasn't scientific.
Seeing the cooked duck fly away, Yūshin's mind went blank—he even unconsciously began pacing in circles.
Yūshin didn't understand much about White Zetsu's birth history, but if expectations were correct, White Zetsu were born in batches. Could it be that different batches had quality differences, causing the current situation?
Some White Zetsu were willing to help Yūshin, while others weren't? If that were true, then Yūshin's planned thousand-plus experience packs might face serious numerical reduction.
This was bad news.
No matter how Yūshin thought about it, he couldn't determine why one White Zetsu was a defective product. He scratched his head and could only temporarily set aside his doubts, refocusing on the changes in himself after receiving the generous contributions of three White Zetsu.
With a rough assessment, Yūshin understood this harvest was quite bountiful.
If he considered his original physique and chakra quality's combined score as 100, then now this score was around 120—meaning the three White Zetsu had brought him approximately 20% improvement in basic attributes.
Although this batch of White Zetsu hadn't taught Yūshin new nature transformations, he felt the "experience" provided by those two ordinary White Zetsu seemed specifically allocated to his basic attributes. While these changes weren't as obviously combat-enhancing as new chakra natures—which could dramatically increase fighting power and diversify combat methods—they were equally important.
As everyone knows, basics are the foundation of everything. They're largely determined by innate conditions and difficult to enhance through later means. In a sense, chakra nature transformations can be learned, but physical condition and chakra level are hard to train... Even using secret medicines for forced growth, weak saplings can hardly compare with towering trees through hormone injections alone.
Yūshin's ability to strengthen his physique through White Zetsu was definitely an unexpected joy.
Thanks to these White Zetsu's chakra, even his injuries were recovering at accelerated speed.
Beyond this, that White Zetsu with remote information transmission capability enhanced Yūshin's chakra control and perception.
On one hand, he could control his chakra more precisely—the simplest manifestation being that he could now achieve the same ninjutsu effects with less chakra.
On the other hand, he now possessed short-range chakra sensing ability. Although he couldn't become one of those long-distance sensor ninja who could gather sufficient intelligence from positions far from battlefields, this allowed him to judge enemies' chakra flow more accurately in close combat, thus "predicting" their next actions to some degree.
Yūshin's sensing ability had a range of roughly thirty meters, but this was sufficient for ninja combat—surely no one could snipe him from beyond thirty meters.
After roughly organizing his gains, Yūshin's mood, which had been bewildered by events exceeding imagination, finally regained some joyful excitement... To a considerable degree, this was no different from "Deep Blue stat allocation."
Thanks to Uchiha Madara—he truly was delivering White Zetsu from a thousand miles away, light on sentiment but heavy on gifts.
Subsequently, Yūshin took out a scroll and recovered the four White Zetsu corpses... Previously, when he dealt with White Zetsu, he chose to burn the bodies because he had no other disposal methods—he couldn't exactly carry White Zetsu corpses around in sacks.
Now the situation was different. After learning scroll sealing techniques from the Fūma Clan, many things became much more convenient. Yūshin also understood that White Zetsu were excellent experimental materials, so he couldn't possibly abandon these corpses—that would be too wasteful.
After completing this, Yūshin prepared to return to Kikyō Castle.
Originally, he planned to return to the organization's base before Shichimi Uchiha, but due to this minor unexpected incident, he could no longer be faster than Shichimi.
...
One night passed, the sun rose as usual, as if nothing had happened the previous night.
Yūshin had officially established a mission reception department, though so far no civilians from Kikyō Castle had come to assign missions. This was normal—new things always need time to gain acceptance.
On another front, he reorganized the Fūma Clan's production department.
The "Fūma Brand" ninja tool shop, famous throughout the shinobi world, reopened. Eight Fūma ninja and a considerable portion of ordinary Fūma Clan members resumed small-scale trial production of ninja tools.
However, Yūshin's long-anticipated education plan remained on paper. He had somewhat underestimated the difficulty of systematic education. Teachers, textbooks, concise and efficient teaching methods—all of this wasn't something a small ninja organization could handle.
Currently, the mainstream ninja training method involved hands-on teaching on battlefields. Though the elimination rate was high, it was absolutely concise and efficient... Just fight a few battles and survive, and the ninja had a chance to succeed.
Yūshin's envisioned school education was somewhat unsuitable for this era.
Near noon, Shichimi Uchiha found Yūshin. Yūshin quietly observed her expression but detected nothing unusual. Although last night's Uchiha family drama had occurred, Shichimi seemed unaffected.
Though this was only appearance.
Shichimi Uchiha had previously suspected Yūshin of "tailing activities" last night, but now she didn't mention this embarrassing topic.
Even if Yūshin had actually conducted tracking surveillance, she couldn't find fault—after all, she was a semi-insider meeting with external ninja in secluded corners, which was inherently suspicious and warranted surveillance measures.
What she wanted to discuss was far more important than these trivial matters.
"After spending so much time with everyone, I think it's time to make an important decision about staying or leaving... I've decided to officially join The Fireflies organization. I hope to receive your permission."
Regardless of Yūshin's subjective thoughts, in several dangerous operations, to ensure other organization members' safety as much as possible, his choices were always to lead the charge and take risks alone. This responsibility and commitment was even stronger than clan leaders with long histories.
This perception had considerable discrepancy with the actual Yūshin—he wasn't that selfless. But admittedly, Yūshin's heart wasn't corrupt to that degree either.
Shichimi Uchiha was considerably important combat power traveling with the organization. Yūshin had always been considering when she would choose to leave, which would mean losing extremely important combat strength. He just hadn't expected that what he ultimately heard from Shichimi wasn't farewell, but an application to join.
"This... is good."
Yūshin thought briefly, then nodded in agreement to Shichimi Uchiha's application.
Originally, he was worried that White Zetsu might take action against Shichimi Uchiha in the future. Considering he had inadvertently brought her great trouble, he felt somewhat uneasy.
However, if Shichimi Uchiha stayed in the organization, then he could help resolve threats that White Zetsu might bring.
Seeing Yūshin agree, Shichimi Uchiha's face showed a brilliant smile.
Admittedly, even if only by coincidence...
There are many ways to obtain Sharingan power, and Yūshin had unknowingly used the most sophisticated method.
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