NOVEL NEXT Chapter 135: Transformation
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As the chakra of the Ten Tails began to circulate inside Hiruzen's body, his chakra levels shot up drastically.
A cocoon of chakra formed around him, drawing in natural energy from the surroundings.
The clone guarding the area, noticing this, quickly opened a small portal to allow an even greater flow of natural energy to be transferred inside.
Within a minute, the transformation ceased.
Hiruzen stood up, sensing the changes in his body and carefully assessing them. With a wave of his hand, an ice mirror materialized before him.
Observing his reflection, he noted subtle yet distinct alterations—his once fair skin had turned pale white, and his long black hair had shifted to a snowy hue.
His eyes and body remained unchanged, but two small horns had grown out from the sides of his head rather than his forehead.
A vertical slit had also appeared in the center of his forehead.
As he focused on it, the slit slowly opened, revealing a purple Rinnegan with a nine-tomoe pattern.
Taking in these changes, Hiruzen nodded to himself. He willed his clothes to change, and a white chakra garment with a tomoe pattern appeared on his body.
Testing his control over it, he altered its design several times until he was satisfied.
He then turned his attention inward and muttered, "My Rinnegan seems to have space-related abilities, granting me control over space, teleportation, and space peering."
Inside the barrier, several of his clones arrived and assimilated into him, sharing their knowledge.
He then began practicing his newly acquired abilities, starting with the Six Paths Techniques.
One by one, he executed each ability, testing their effects and learning to control them.
"So, the Six Paths abilities remain the same as I remember," he murmured. "And there's also the Rinne Tensei, but I'll leave that for later."
Activating his comprehension ability, he analyzed his powers further. "Raphael, analyze the changes in my body."
A mechanical voice responded:
Analysing! ....Analysis complete.
Your chakra level has increased by ten times.
Your physical power has increased by ten times.
Your spiritual power has increased by ten times.
You have gained super regeneration.
You have gained Six Paths abilities: attraction, repulsion, soul extraction, chakra absorption, summoning, and mechanical evolution of the body.
You have gained resurrection ability.
You have gained spatial sensing, spatial control, and spatial movement.
Analyzing… A foreign energy detected inside body. Analysis complete.
You have gained additional chakra reserves, increasing total chakra capacity tenfold.
Seeing the flood of notifications, Hiruzen reviewed them one by one, gaining a better understanding of his abilities.
Soon, a new prompt appeared:
Some abilities have been merged for optimization.
Spatial abilities have merged into Spatial Manipulation.
Rinne Tensei has merged with Reanimation Skill, forming Resurrection.
Chakra Absorption has merged into Energy Manipulation.
Soul Manipulation ability unlocked.
With his newfound abilities fully assessed, a confident smile spread across his face.
"I've almost touched the level of the Sage of Six Paths in his prime only 100 kilometer behind him," he smiled.
"I just need time to master these powers and further my comprehension."
He sat down and began assimilating the Ten Tails' chakra and Rinne-Sharingan fully into his body.
As the process continued, his chakra reserves, which had already increased tenfold, surged once more, reaching an astonishing hundredfold increase compared to his previous levels before transformation.
As his body adjusted, the external physical transformations receded—his Rinne-Sharingan closed, the vertical slit on his forehead sealed itself, and his pale skin tone returned to normal.
Even the horns disappeared entirely as the Ten Tails' chakra fully devoured into him.
Ten minutes passed, and Hiruzen stood once again in his original form, his power now entirely assimilated.
Smiling, he created a thousand shadow clones and commanded, "Each of you, focus on one ability and train it to the absolute limit."
The clones nodded and immediately dispersed from the barrier to begin their training.
Meanwhile, Hiruzen concealed his overwhelming chakra, suppressing it back within himself.
Stepping out of the training ground, he contemplated his next move.
"Should I assimilate Kaguya's ability as well?" he mused. "Her abilities would bring me to the pinnacle of the Six Paths level.
The Ash-Killing Bones and Yomotsu Hirasaka are a must… As I love Space abilities.
And the Kekkei Mora technique, Rabbit Hair Needle, would complement me perfectly. I've kept my hair long for that reason only."
He scoffed, shaking his head. "I don't care about the Byakugan, Rinnegan, or any other special eyes.
What I want are their exclusive techniques and the jutsu that come with them. If I can get them, I don't want Other eyes in my eye socket."
He then glanced at his closed Rinne-Sharingan. "Even this eye… it's centered around space abilities and possesses seven exclusive techniques of Rinnegan, among them are three laws type skills.
It's definitely overkill. Once I master everything, all that's left will be training."
With that, he exited the training ground and returned to his office.
Sitting at his desk, he opened his Rinne-Sharingan, combining it with the Sage Eyes technique he had developed.
With his three eyes active, he peered across the entire Elemental Nations.
His gaze landed on three different locations—three holy lands existing in separate dimensions yet connected to the ninja world via hidden channels.
"So that's how the energy from Ryūchi Cave leaks into the world… That must be the home of the Jōgo clan," he observed.
"The amount of natural energy present there is very good, it's enough to support a Super Kage-rank Sage Mode transformation.
If this much energy is leaking into the world, the internal reserves must be unimaginable."
Channeling sage chakra into his Rinne-Sharingan, he activated his space abilities in resonance with the natural frequency of the world.
Within moments, he slipped into the dimensional space of Ryūchi Cave.
"Whoa… I never thought the technique I developed alongside the Rinne-Sharingan would be this powerful," he muttered in awe.
Before him lay a landscape covered in dense fog, but this wasn't ordinary mist—it was pure natural energy, so concentrated that it had formed a tangible, fog-like state.
His eyes locked onto a vast pond within the cave, shimmering with liquidized natural energy.
"What an enormous amount of natural energy, its the scene you would have heard when reading cultivation novel, like spiritual energy so dense that its condensed into fog, and next will be the liquid state.…....
It's like the entire ninja world has been plundered to concentrate so much into one place."
He shifted his gaze to Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest, along with other hidden regions abundant with natural energy, each existing within their own dimensions.
"What in the world is this…?" he whispered, his expression serious.
The sheer volume of natural energy present in these hidden realms was far greater than he had ever imagined.
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