[Congratulations, the simulation was successful. Calculating the bloodline abilities of your offspring—]
Ryun let out a long breath; this simulation had been successfully completed without major issues.
Although there was the huge unexpected event of Rasa not dying midway, and he also had to face the perilous situation against the Six Paths of Pain, at least he managed to resolve these troubles smoothly.
Now, it all came down to seeing the talent data for this batch of offspring.
However, Ryun didn't hold out too much hope for the data itself.
His current stats and talent were already very high. Before improving the talents of the female characters, he estimated it would be difficult to achieve any breakthroughs on his status panel through them.
As expected, the offspring with Anko and Yūhi Kurenai didn't provide Ryun with any new breakthroughs.
Instead, it was Ino, whose stats were now so low compared to Ryun's that they were almost unremarkable, who provided him with a new talent called Mental Amplitude.
This made Ryun's eyes light up slightly; just from the name, he knew this talent was related to mental energy, which also fit the Yamanaka clan's characteristics.
Ryun had already benefited more than once from Sakura's mental energy talent. He would need to check later exactly what this new talent did.
Finally, there was the key to this simulation: the gains Moegi brought him.
[Your offspring with Kazamatsuri Moegi, Nojuro Yuwa, has largely inherited your combined bloodline talents. He shows some aptitude in Wood Style and Yang Release chakra, possessing the potential to become a Jōnin. His detailed status panel is as follows.]
[Ninja Eight Categories: Ninjutsu 7, Taijutsu 7, Genjutsu 7, Intelligence 6, Strength 6, Speed 8, Stamina 7, Hand Seals 8, Total 56 points. Advanced Yang Release Chakra, Intermediate Earth, Water, Yin Release Chakra, Low-level Wood Style Talent.]
Ryun suddenly sat up straight – Moegi had given him a huge surprise!
Advanced Yang Release Chakra Talent!
Compared to Yin Release chakra, which Ryun didn't use much yet, he was already very proficient in using Yang Release chakra.
Not only was it commonly used in medical ninjutsu, but he could also use it to massage the kunoichi and help them recover their stamina.
Now that his Yang Release chakra had reached an advanced level, Ryun estimated that even if he stood still, non-fatal injuries would heal quickly.
Moreover, now that Ryun possessed both Advanced Yang Release and Advanced Yin Release talents, he wondered if he could try combining them into Yin-Yang Release?
However, Ryun thought this was most likely a fantasy.
The power of Yin-Yang Release probably involved deeper mysteries; it couldn't be created simply by combining Yang and Yin releases. The gap between them might even be as vast as a chasm.
But still, having the hope wasn't nothing, right?
As for the remaining Intermediate Earth and Water Release chakra talents, and the Low-level Wood Style talent, these were within Ryun's expectations.
Even though Ryun had used up his five simulation attempts focusing on them, since the system mentioned randomness, getting nothing much would have been the normal outcome.
Moegi having yielded an Advanced Yang Release chakra talent for him was more than enough to satisfy Ryun.
Afterwards, Ryun took a deep breath and chose to begin the bloodline feedback.
As usual, he split off a shadow clone to stand guard.
He initially thought this round of bloodline feedback wouldn't cause much of a stir, because even though he had left behind four offspring, the only things that could potentially feedback to him were the Yang Release chakra talent and the Low-level Wood Style talent.
But to Ryun's astonishment, as soon as the feedback began, every cell in his body seemed to become active.
Even his Yin Seal unsealed itself directly, and the chakra stored within flowed rapidly towards his body's cells, then integrated into them, as if being devoured by the cells.
The reason Ryun was shocked wasn't because he didn't understand what was happening, but because he was very clear about what was occurring within his body!
Way back when Ryun was researching medical ninjutsu hoping to master the Yin Seal, he had already attempted to integrate Yang Release chakra talent into his medical techniques.
The result was barely managing to develop a budget version of the Healing Resurrection Technique, which only let him scratch the surface of converting between Yang Release chakra and life force.
But this conversion was too impractical; it couldn't use Yang Release chakra to nourish his own body in return, only converting life force into Yang Release chakra to replenish others. This wasn't what Ryun wanted.
But now, the effect Ryun had been persistently pursuing had manifested automatically!
After his cells devoured the chakra, they had clearly grown stronger.
In the past, for Ryun to achieve a similar level of strengthening, he would have needed to train for at least three days.
If he had to summarize Ryun's current condition, he could only describe it as—Cell Activation!
That's right, just like the First Hokage's Cell Activation!
As everyone knew, the First Hokage's cell activity was abnormally high, almost like cancer cells.
Not only did they never die, but people who received transplanted cells were almost always devoured by them, turning into trees.
To suppress the First Hokage's cell activity, Danzo needed to embed ten three-tomoe Sharingan in just one arm.
Among the human experiments conducted by Orochimaru, only Yamato survived the First Hokage's cell activation, thus becoming Konoha's only current Wood Style expert.
However, the original work never clearly explained what the First Hokage's Cell Activation actually was.
But now, Ryun seemed to understand.
In summary, only by possessing Advanced Yang Release, Advanced Yin Release chakra talents, plus Intermediate Earth and Water Release talents, along with Low-level Wood Style talent, could one initially activate this kind of Cell Activation!
At this moment, the cells in Ryun's body were like living plants that had come to life, absorbing nutrients from chakra to grow.
Crucially, this growth wasn't uncontrollable like when others transplanted the First's cells. Instead, it was a controllable and gentle process, occurring under Ryun's subconscious direction.
This meant Ryun wouldn't have to worry about the consequences of Cell Activation in the future. Or rather, Ryun had now assembled all the conditions for a living being to evolve upwards.
The rest depended on how much chakra Ryun could provide for himself, and how high he could raise his talents.
Slowly, the bloodline feedback concluded.
The phenomenon of Ryun's internal cells devouring chakra also gradually ceased, and the Yin Seal automatically contracted back into a diamond-shaped seal.
The Yin Seal had automatically unsealed earlier because it detected that Ryun seemed to be in a severely injured state.
Ryun clenched his fist and tried a few taijutsu movements.
The surging power within him told him that his physical fitness had improved slightly in that short span of time.
The only pity was that his talent still limited him now.
Ryun felt that once he improved his Earth Release, Water Release chakra talents, and Wood Style talent further, this Cell Activation phenomenon would become very pronounced.
By then, Ryun might not even have enough chakra of his own for the cells to devour, and he would need to rely on external chakra sources to supplement the requirements of Cell Activation.
Which brought to mind—Tailed Beasts, or perhaps—Natural Energy?
Ryun's eyes sparkled. He suddenly understood why the First Hokage had said that capturing the Nine-Tails would lead to casualties.
That man could even treat the Nine-Tails' chakra as food. Why would a hunter fear the prey on the chopping block?
This also explained why the First Hokage possessed such absurdly high stats.
Though he appeared to be just one person, his life form was in the midst of evolution.
If his talent had been even higher, or if he had lived a few decades longer, perhaps the First Hokage could have evolved based on his foundational stats, regressing back to approach the threshold of the Six Paths level.
Ryun slowly calmed his excited heart.
For now, Cell Activation was just a training accelerator for Ryun, a small means to enhance his medical ninjutsu and recover the girls' training fatigue faster.
As for the more advanced stages of Cell Activation, although Ryun could currently activate them by improving his Wood Style talent, he estimated he wouldn't have enough chakra to sustain it.
Unless Ryun himself targeted the Nine-Tails—well, finding a chance to extract some tailed beast chakra didn't seem impossible, did it?
Never mind. He should first take stock of other gains.
Ryun then sat cross-legged and began to perceive the Mental Amplitude talent.
As expected, it was a mental energy talent.
Its effect was also simple: it allowed Ryun to control his mental power exponentially for a short time, but the cost was entering a period of weakness afterward.
This talent could only be described as useful, but Ryun would need to think further about how exactly to use it.
Next, what needed testing was, naturally, Wood Style.
Ryun's main body used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave Konoha, arriving at a deserted corner.
He unsealed his Yin Seal and, following the knowledge he had gained during his experience as a Hokage advisor, began forming hand seals, then performed his first Wood Style ninjutsu.
Wood Style: Birth of Dense Tree World!
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