That scroll, which contained a large number of Ninjutsu and Forbidden Technique, actually had a specific name: "Root Book." It was clearly the style of Tuanzang Old Thief.
Among the Ninjutsu, in addition to the common Five Release Ninjutsu, there were also a large number of Wood Release Ninjutsu and several S-rank Water Release techniques from Senju Tobirama.
Among them was the Hard Vortex Water Blade that Ling had been longing for, which would make developing Wind Release: Compressed Spiral Storm Gun much simpler.
Then there were the Water Dragon Bullet Technique with four hand seals, and S-rank Water Severing Wave, Water Formation Wall, and the like. Ling had no idea how Tuanzang Old Thief got them.
He couldn't possibly own these Ninjutsu just because he was the disciple of the Second Hokage, could he? Tuanzang Old Thief couldn't use Water Release.
However, no matter how he got them, they were all beneficial to Ling now. It was a pity that the Wood Release Ninjutsu didn't include the fusion ratio for Wood Release Chakra.
Otherwise, it would be much simpler for Ling to create Wood Release or a degraded Paper Release. At that point, getting hundreds of millions of Exploding Tag would be effortless.
Creating something like the Interlocking Exploding Tag, like Shisui's or Konan's sea of Exploding Tag, would be feasible. If Old Man Madara wasn't dead, Ling would arrange a proper send-off for him at the Mountain Graveyard.
Once Old Man Madara died, Ling would have complete control over how to plot for the Rinnegan. As for Black Zetsu, if he dared to appear before Ling, he would experience the same treatment as a Tailed Beast.
At that time, Ling would create a Black Zetsu Jinchuriki, and perhaps even be able to use Yin-Yang Release. However, Ling wasn't sure if the Eight Trigrams Seal, formed by stacking two Four Symbols Seal, could seal Black Zetsu.
It took over ten minutes to memorize all these Ninjutsu. Once the Shadow Clone learned the two Genjutsu and Nine-Style Illusionary Sword Technique, Ling could assign them these new skills.
Ling had achieved the feat of exploiting Shadow Clone more than anyone except Naruto. It was a pity that Tuanzang Old Thief's Ninjutsu scroll didn't contain the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu; otherwise, Ling's cultivation speed would have soared.
In terms of Forbidden Technique, Ling was surprised to find the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique, a Sealing Technique that sealed a large bridge, and the Orochi Tongue Seal, the core Forbidden Technique Danzo used to establish Root.
Ling wasn't sure if the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique could be used by physical Shadow Clone, but it definitely couldn't be used by regular Shadow Clone.
The physical Shadow Clone originated from the combination of Escaping Rabbit's ability and Shadow Clone; they possess flesh and blood but can still disappear directly upon dissolution. The principle behind this is currently unclear.
And as for the Orochi Tongue Seal, hehehe, with this technique, Ling could establish her own Root, but it would have to wait until wartime, when there would be more orphans.
As for the Konoha orphanage, Yakushi Nono had already been targeted by the Third Hokage, who wanted her to join the Anbu intelligence system.
Yakushi Nono was only sixteen or seventeen at this time, but she had already become the director of the orphanage. Previously, she had planned to join Root to obtain funding, but she didn't expect to be approached by the Third Hokage after Danzo's downfall.
It just goes to show, as expected of the Third Hokage. As Danzo's close friend, both of them desired sufficient spy personnel, and their first target was the orphanage.
Yunyan-醬 had told Ling this information. Previously, Ling used dried fish to have Yunyan-醬 recruit most of Konoha's cats as informants, which now proved useful.
At this time, Danzo was quite poor; he hadn't even obtained a copy of the Scroll of Seals, nor did he have a single Sharingan. Besides a piece of Hashirama's flesh tissue, even a dog would shake its head at his possessions.
If Danzo knew of Ling's behavior, eating from his bowl and then cursing him, he would surely be furious.
If it weren't for Danzo, obtaining so many experimental instruments and Ninjutsu Forbidden Technique in Konoha would likely require a long wait and significant achievements.
With nothing else to do, Ling placed the previously acquired cell tissues from Wood Release Ninja and Danzo's Hashirama cells arm into the life-support research machine.
Then, Ling extracted portions of the Wood Release Ninja tissue, Danzo's Wood Release arm tissue, and Hashirama's flesh tissue to create three slides.
First, Ling observed them under the laboratory's optical microscope. Since all selected tissues were muscle cells, no differences were visible under the microscope.
If it weren't for Chakra perception being able to distinguish the dense cellular energy of the three types of cells, one might have thought they were cells from the same organism.
Since the optical microscope was ineffective, Ling could only resort to Ninjutsu technology and its impressive capabilities, directly transforming the Telescope Technique into a Microscope Technique.
This time, during observation, clear differences could be found, allowing for the distinction between Hashirama's cells and Danzo's cells.
This was because Hashirama's cells exhibited a completely different level of nutrient uptake and invasiveness compared to the stagnant cells of Danzo and the Root Ninja.
Ling spent an entire afternoon observing and concluding that this abnormal activity was due to a special substance produced by Hashirama's cells that could affinity Natural Energy.
Ling was also fortunate enough to extract a solution of this special substance. This special substance was completely different from other small organic molecules.
This special substance was not composed of chemical bonds and hydrogen bonds, but rather a special type of Chakra, somewhat similar to Yang Release Chakra, but even more powerful and full of vitality than Yang Release Chakra.
The final conclusion was that the Yang Release of Hashirama's cells was completely different from that of ordinary people. This Yang Release could combine with Wood Release Chakra, allowing Wood Release to possess abilities beyond a Bloodline Limit.
Ling injected a small amount of this extracted substance, named ashura material, into Danzo's cells, instantly killing them.
However, Ling, with her astonishing dynamic vision, noticed that the ashura material seemed to directly attempt to twist the structure of Danzo's Chakra upon contact.
This then led to the phenomenon of Danzo's cells shattering. Finally, from Danzo's shattered cells, Ling observed a tiny trace of Wood Release Chakra.
No wonder those Root Ninja could use Wood Release after using something called 'Zero Cell Extract'; it was clear that it contained this ashura material.
It's just that there were other substances that inhibited the activity of the ashura material, allowing these Root Ninja to use Wood Release instead of directly turning into a large tree.
The science of the Ninja World seemed to have significant differences from Ling's previous life at the microscopic level, but Ling knew this was caused by the unreasonable existence of Natural Energy and Chakra for Ninja.
As a result, it appeared not to strictly adhere to objective physical and chemical laws. The instability of Natural Energy and Chakra caused too many variations at the microscopic level of the Ninja World.
Any substance with extraordinary elements could be formed, and Chakra could even influence gene expression or directly influence the directional mutation of genes.
At night, Ling cleaned the laboratory. After more than half a day of research, she could confirm that Orochimaru and Danzo's research was still at the cellular stage, at most involving special extraordinary molecules.
However, Ling was certain that Danzo and Orochimaru could not conduct fundamental research by studying the molecular structure of extraordinary molecules.
They only knew about these extraordinary molecular substances and understood their macroscopic properties, but they could only conduct low-level research on inhibition or promotion based on these extraordinary molecules' properties.
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