As the milky white liquid was injected, Asana immediately felt her heartbeat accelerate, and her Chakra suddenly became restless, uncontrollably gathering towards her eyes.
"Thump~ Thump~"
Asana's heartbeat grew louder and louder, so loud that Orochimaru, who was nearby, could hear it.
At the same time, a faint blue light flashed in Asana's white eyes.
Asana only felt her pupils burning, a stinging sensation as if something was incinerating within her eye sockets.
This sudden burning sensation made Asana let out a muffled groan, and she couldn't help but raise her hand to rub her eyes.
Seeing this, Orochimaru immediately summoned two small snakes to bind Asana's arms.
Asana also knew that Orochimaru was doing this for her own good; clearly, something was happening to her eyes, and it was best not to touch them at this moment.
Asana took a deep breath, clenched her teeth, and remained silent, awaiting the transformation of her eyes.
Unknowingly, two days passed.
Uchiha En hadn't seen Asana for these two days, and he felt something was off, but the Hyuga Clan's compound was not a place the Uchiha Clan could enter freely.
Orochimaru was as elusive as a dragon, appearing and disappearing without a trace, making Uchiha En feel somewhat restless.
Meanwhile, Asana's eyes had been tormented by a constant burning pain for two full days.
Not only that, as her eyes continued to burn, the Caged Bird Seal on Asana's forehead seemed to be triggered, causing her head to throb faintly.
Asana merely lay there motionless, yet she was drenched in sweat.
Her clothes were completely soaked with sweat, and Orochimaru, fearing Asana would become dehydrated, fed her water every two hours.
After an unknown period, Asana suddenly felt the pain in her eyes and forehead become increasingly sharp.
Waves of pain surged like a tide, nearly tormenting Asana into unconsciousness.
Finally, after more than an hour, the pain gradually subsided, replaced by a cool and comfortable sensation enveloping her eyes.
Asana could clearly feel the Dōjutsu Power of her Byakugan constantly changing, and even her body subtly underwent imperceptible shifts.
After a long while, Asana slowly opened her eyes and sat up from the experiment table.
Orochimaru, standing nearby, observed Asana's eyes with interest while handing her a mirror.
"Asana, your eyes have undergone a very interesting change."
Asana heard Orochimaru's words, took the mirror, and saw that her normally pure white eyes had indeed changed slightly.
At the center of her pupils, which were originally plain white like those of all other Hyuga Clan members, they had now turned blue.
And around the pupils, there were rings of something like electric arcs constantly emanating.
"Asana, now your Byakugan is like a living, deep blue electric orb silently blooming, truly beautiful!" Orochimaru exclaimed.
Asana didn't reply but concentrated, and the next second, her Byakugan vision unfolded.
Orochimaru's bones, meridians, and the flow of blue Chakra were instantly seen through, and more clearly than ever before.
At the same time, her dynamic vision greatly increased, and the restricted field of view due to the Caged Bird Seal was now complete. The 360° unobstructed vision gave Asana a whole new sensation.
In addition, Asana also discovered that a peculiar power resided within her Byakugan.
Asana focused her mind, and a ball of blue Chakra appeared in her hand.
Asana injected this blue Chakra into a corpse, and the next second, the corpse slowly began to move.
Orochimaru's expression grew more excited at the sight. He rushed over to carefully examine the corpse, then said with a puzzled look, "Strange, this is still a corpse, with no vital signs. How did it move?"
"Teacher Orochimaru, this should be an ability that came with my eye's evolution, allowing inanimate objects to move. I feel this ability is more suitable for controlling the Sand Ninja's puppets."
"The Byakugan can control puppets after evolving? This doesn't quite align with the Byakugan's characteristics!" Orochimaru said.
"I also find it a bit strange. Logically, the direction of Byakugan evolution shouldn't be this."
"Does your Byakugan have any other abilities besides this?" Orochimaru asked.
Asana shook her head; currently, she hadn't discovered any other uses for her Byakugan.
"In that case, let's put aside the functions of your evolved Byakugan for now. What we should be researching now is why the Byakugan evolved when it encountered Hashirama's cells?" Orochimaru said.
"I'm very curious about that too." Asana then closed her Byakugan, and all the mysterious phenomena in her eyes disappeared. Asana casually rolled up her sleeve and extended her fair, jade-like arm to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru licked his lips, took out a small knife, cut Asana's skin, and collected her blood.
After Orochimaru finished collecting blood, Asana used Medical Ninjutsu to heal her wound, then joined Orochimaru in researching the blood.
After several hours of research, Orochimaru and Asana discovered that, compared to Asana's previous blood, her current blood's DNA was significantly more complete.
In other words, Hashirama's cells had, to some extent, compensated for the deficiencies in Asana's Byakugan genes, which allowed the Byakugan to evolve.
"The genes of two completely unrelated clans can complement each other? And without any rejection reaction? Although we have greatly weakened the first hokages cells' activity, Asana, you are the first to have absolutely no rejection reaction—this is truly interesting!" Orochimaru said excitedly.
"Indeed, it's very interesting. Teacher Orochimaru, based on these gene comparison results, is there a possibility that the Senju and Hyuga Clans share a common ancestor?" Asana asked.
"That's a very novel hypothesis. We can research in that direction."
The two researched in the lab for an entire day when Asana suddenly felt her body weaken. She then realized she hadn't eaten for three days.
The powerful vitality and Chakra granted by the first hokages cells, along with the excitement of her Byakugan's evolution, made her forget hunger.
Now that her body reacted, Asana realized she needed to eat something. After bidding farewell to Orochimaru, she turned and left the laboratory.
Asana hadn't walked far from the laboratory when Uchiha En's figure appeared out of thin air before her.
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