Chapter 40: Breakthrough on the Caged Bird Curse Seal
Time passed, and friction continued in the Ninja World, with increasingly frequent clashes between the Five Great Nations. Even Hyuga Mirai encountered Rock Ninja and Sand Ninja once during his missions.
Although Hyuga Mirai was engrossed in his research and experiments, he still diligently fulfilled his duties as a Chunin.
However, the number of his missions was a bit fewer, and most of the time, it was only when Hyuga Kiyomi and Kurenai Yuhi requested more difficult missions that Hyuga Mirai occasionally went to the Hokage Building to accept B-rank missions.
Konoha's Yellow Flash had already gained some renown outside the village. After Minato Namikaze clashed with Cloud Ninja Village's AB, the title of Yellow Flash would be thoroughly established in the Ninja World.
Although Hyuga Mirai spent a long time in the Konoha Hospital's laboratory, he still cared about village affairs.
Today was his thirty-sixth experiment. After comparing dozens of sets of cell gene references, Hyuga Mirai finally understood the principle of the Caged Bird Curse Seal.
It is rooted in both brain tissue and the soul, a curse mark specifically targeting the Byakugan, and can also be considered a relatively crude Six Paths technique.
Because it involves Yin-Yang Release, Hyuga Mirai has not yet fully researched the soul-based curse mark; however, it is possible to make the Caged Bird Curse Mark's effect on the Byakugan disappear by rewriting the gene sequence.
"The Caged Bird Curse Seal disappears when a branch family member dies, which is ridiculous. Only the Yang Release curse mark on the physical body disappears; the Caged Bird Curse Seal on the soul still exists. Is this a curse mark that means 'even after death, one is still a slave'?"
Hyuga Mirai vaguely remembered that during the Fourth Ninja World War, Hyuga Hizashi was Edo Tensei by Yakushi Kabuto, but the Edo Tensei Hyuga Hizashi still had the Caged Bird Curse Mark on his forehead.
Yakushi Kabuto wouldn't need to expend so much effort on an Edo Tensei Jonin from the branch family. According to the Edo Tensei technique, Hyuga Hizashi should not have the Caged Bird Curse Mark.
"First, I'll break the Caged Bird Curse Mark that targets the Byakugan. As for the soul-based curse mark, I'll need to research it further before attempting anything."
After making his decision, Hyuga Mirai began to develop an injection that would rewrite some gene cells using his own cell genes. While this would temporarily cause him to lose his Byakugan ability, once the curse mark was released, Hyuga Mirai would immediately recover, and what he recovered would be a Byakugan without weaknesses.
"For now, this is all I can do. If Orochimaru makes a breakthrough, I can also incorporate some hashirama cells gene sequences."
Whether it's the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, or Kaguya Clan, they are all bloodline branches passed down from the Otsutsuki Clan. Logically, the genes of these Cell Lineage families should have complementarity and compatibility.
Bang bang!
Two sounds suddenly came from the ground. Only Orochimaru's communication snakes could reach the lowest level of the Konoha Hospital's laboratory using Earth Release Ninjutsu.
"Release!"
Hyuga Mirai temporarily unsealed the sealing runes around the laboratory. Then, a white snake emerged from the ground using Earth Release, spit out a scroll, immediately dispelled its Summoning Technique, dispersed into a cloud of smoke, and returned to Ryuchi Cave.
"This method of communication, while convenient, is really hard to accept..."
Hyuga Mirai said with a twitch of his mouth. He then picked up a handkerchief, wiped off the mucus from the scroll, and opened it to read.
After finishing, Hyuga Mirai smiled faintly. This was Orochimaru's good news scroll.
Ever since Orochimaru learned the scientific experimental method of cell genetics from Hyuga Mirai, his research on hashirama cells had accelerated significantly. In less than a year, Orochimaru was close to thoroughly researching the gene sequence of hashirama cells.
The message Orochimaru just gave him was to inform Hyuga Mirai that he had successfully extracted the characteristics of hashirama cells and applied them to different test subjects, with a success rate as high as thirty percent.
At the end of the message, Orochimaru also invited Hyuga Mirai to his laboratory to see the results.
"It's good to go and see. I can also bring up the matter of the trade with Orochimaru."
Hyuga Mirai took out the cloning and cultivation technology he had prepared earlier. It could perfectly cultivate an identical clone based on the gene sequence. Hyuga Mirai even modified this technique to cultivate the consciousness of a clone through Sealing Jutsu, making the clone a true Shadow Clone.
However, cloning humans is extremely expensive. Hyuga Mirai calculated many times that, with the current conditions in the Ninja World, cloning a perfect version of himself would cost at least tens of millions of ryo and take over four years.
The high cost, long time, and need for his own exclusive territory meant that Hyuga Mirai, who was in Konoha, only owned a thirty-square-meter residence, and whose laboratory wasn't even his own, had no conditions to cultivate his own clone.
Many of Kinnos's research indeed had practical utility, but the technological environment of the Ninja World could not quickly replicate Kinnos's experimental results.
However, Orochimaru would certainly be interested in this. He had already expressed his desire for immortality to Hyuga Mirai; to pursue the truth of the world, long life was a necessary condition.
As long as Orochimaru developed the Impure World Reincarnation, combined with cloning technology, he could truly achieve immortality.
During his time dealing with Orochimaru, Hyuga Mirai obtained many good things from him.
Barrier Ninjutsu, Eight Gates, and Sealing Jutsu, etc. Hyuga Mirai had learned almost all of Konoha's Sealing Jutsu, except for the Reaper Death Seal.
However, Orochimaru had never seen the Reaper Death Seal either, so Hyuga Mirai couldn't learn it from him.
In Orochimaru's view, what Hyuga Mirai demanded was disproportionate to what he gave. Although the Eight Gates was a forbidden Ninjutsu recorded in the Scroll of Seals, no one had ever successfully mastered it, possibly because it was too dangerous to train, which is why the Eight Gates was recorded in the Scroll of Seals.
As for the other Barrier Ninjutsu and Sealing Jutsu, in Orochimaru's opinion, they were completely incomparable to the genetic research methods Hyuga Mirai taught him.
Without Hyuga Mirai, Orochimaru might not have made such a significant breakthrough with hashirama cells for several more years.
"This time, I can use cloning technology to trade with Orochimaru for the Ryuchi Cave Summoning Scroll and the Spiritualization Technique. I wonder if he can get that Ninjutsu."
Hyuga Mirai pondered for a moment and felt that there shouldn't be any major problems.
Orochimaru's supporter was Danzo, and with the power of Konoha's assistant Hokage, he certainly had the ability to look at the Scroll of Seals.
Subsequently, Hyuga Mirai left the Konoha Hospital laboratory. On the way, he changed his appearance, activated his Byakugan to confirm no one noticed his whereabouts, and then headed towards Orochimaru's experimental location.
Currently, Hyuga Mirai needed a low-key environment to successfully remove the Caged Bird Curse Mark, so he would not let others know about his association with Orochimaru. Otherwise, Hyuga Mirai could easily get embroiled in Konoha's power struggles.
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