Chapter 388: Perfect Body and Gray Eye
Energy fluctuations grew increasingly violent. Lightning and thunder already flashed through the sky.
Bolt after bolt descended from heaven—like tribulation lightning striking Hiruko's body—yet like mud oxen entering the sea, unable to stir even a ripple.
His body's surface manifested minute energy patterns resembling circuit boards, instantly absorbing and conducting lightning's energy, converting it to his use.
Thunder became supplements instead.
This was the qualitative change fusion brought.
The Ōtsutsuki clan's natural affinity and control characteristics toward energy began manifesting on him.
Even without fusing Dark Release, he spontaneously acquired similar—even more efficient—energy absorption and conversion capabilities.
This marked him escaping "human" categorization, ascending toward higher life forms.
As time passed, energy fluctuations surrounding Hiruko had already become as violent as natural disasters. Yet he still continuously absorbed external energy endlessly.
But energy replenishment speed had long since failed meeting his demands. Surroundings were nearly drained to vacuum appearance. Yet Hiruko's "hunger" grew stronger. Fusion progress—due to insufficient energy—began destabilizing, approaching collapse.
This was transformation transcending mortal boundaries, also gambling walking destruction's edge.
"As expected, fusing an Ōtsutsuki clan member still proves too forced?"
Yasushi sighed, extending his hand. A vast crimson chakra torrent—vast as stellar seas yet carrying both destruction and creation's dual aura—like opened star river gates, surged forth, precisely injecting into Hiruko's nearly dried "energy furnace."
Ten-Tails' power became this heaven-defying fusion's final and most critical "fuel."
After obtaining this extra powerful assistance, Hiruko's fusion ceremony finally crossed the last crucial step.
From Hiruko's body, an invisible crisp sound seemed to ring—like the boundary between human and divine was broken. Though tiny, it overwhelmed all external sounds.
The energy storm stopped abruptly. Everything slowly returned to calm winds and still waters.
Hiruko's body slowly descended from midair. His tissues began rapidly updating and iterating.
The ugly mouth originally hidden beneath his mask regrew and reorganized. Body modification's needle-and-thread suture traces completely vanished, returning to normal human appearance.
Both sides of his forehead began protruding outward. Two small curved horns revealed themselves—precisely the Ōtsutsuki clan's mark.
A long strip-shaped, partially diamond-patterned facial marking appeared on his cheeks—connecting eyebrow tips above, entering neck below. Clearly the Karma seal, but judging by this minimal area, it definitely wasn't fully unsealed.
But Yasushi still felt uneasy. He hurriedly approached, asking vigilantly:
"How is it? How do you feel?"
Hiruko closed his eyes, adjusting momentarily before smiling and opening them. He spread both hands, grasping emptily several times.
"Never felt this good before!
"So this is Bloodline Encompassing?"
Yasushi stared at him for several moments. After confirming his eye expression still belonged to the previous Hiruko, he finally relaxed, shaking his head.
"Probably far from it still.
"You don't have the Rinnegan now. No Six Paths Mode either. Much less Truth-Seeking Orbs. At most, you're just an elite Ōtsutsuki clan member's level.
"Did all-encompassing power generate within your body?"
Hiruko concentrated, extending his hand. A black receiver condensed within his palm.
"Very good. This is the qualitative change between human and divine. You've obtained immortality technique's foundation."
Yasushi tested carefully with Hiruko again, finally confirming that under the celestial phenomenon's action, Hiruko had successfully fused Jigen into his body, completing the Chimera Technique's final piece, achieving a perfect body.
Within the newborn perfect body, all-encompassing power also generated inside Hiruko, stimulating his original Three-Tomoe Sharingan—directly evolving into new eyes.
But these post-fusion new eyes proved neither Mangekyo Sharingan, nor Rinnegan, nor Tenseigan, but a somewhat grayish-white new eye type.
Hiruko named it "Gray Eye."
However, because he'd inherited Isshiki's Black Eye, Hiruko's dual eyes became one Black Eye and one Gray Eye.
The Black Eye's dojutsu remained. The Gray Eye also produced an additional dojutsu named "Myriad Phenomena Return."
This dojutsu's function proved very singular: fusion.
It could fuse other creatures' bloodline advantages into his own body, constantly evolving. It could also fuse different chakra natures.
"You're joking, right? How can such an ability exist in this world?" Yasushi spoke with extreme envy.
"One could say this ability exists naturally for Bloodline Encompassing.
"As long as you continuously evolve, it's almost certain you'll definitely achieve Bloodline Encompassing eventually.
"I'm seriously questioning now—who's actually the protagonist!"
"Hehehe..." Hiruko smiled proudly, speaking with slight boasting: "You should see what level materials my Chimera Technique's final fusion bloodlines were.
"One Sage Body. One Sage Bone. Two Sage Eyes. Plus one complete Ōtsutsuki direct clan member.
"With so many materials, synthesizing this kind of dojutsu is reasonable, right?
"Besides, not even achieving Six Paths level like this already greatly disappoints me, okay?"
"Disappointed my ass?" Yasushi rolled his eyes irritably. "The reason you didn't achieve Six Paths level—on one hand, your Chimera Technique should still be imperfect. Though its concept is lofty, its grade is too low, unable to support your fusion level.
"On the other hand, everything in this shinobi world fundamentally is chakra. Your chakra's quality and quantity both fall far short of standards.
"If I hadn't helped you at the end, you'd most likely have failed ultimately due to insufficient chakra quantity.
"From this perspective, the Divine Tree's Chakra Fruit truly is terrifying. One fruit can let people directly ascend in one step."
Hearing Yasushi's tone, Hiruko immediately knew what scheme he was plotting.
"So you want to release Princess Kaguya, feed her to the Divine Tree, then produce another Chakra Fruit, right?"
"Hahahaha..." Yasushi burst into loud laughter after hearing this. "One who knows me is Hiruko. As expected, we two should be clan members!
"Hmph!" Hiruko cold-snorted arrogantly, saying nothing further. Only frowning:
"Actually, just thinking about it shows achieving Bloodline Encompassing still isn't that easy for me.
"My current body's quality is already extremely high. To advance further, ordinary materials probably won't help much.
"But where in this world are there so many high-quality materials for me to absorb?"
After hearing this, Yasushi laughed heartily.
"Haha, rest assured. Ōtsutsuki clan members will arrive successively in the future to feed you!!
"You only need to worry about indigestion, not insufficient food."
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