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Chapter 44: Wood Release Chakra

Lab Zero.

Staring at the test tube, now filled with vibrant green fluid, Danzo couldn't hide the excitement on his face.

Li Yao's cells and chakra had been completely devoured by Hashirama's Wood Release chakra.

With the aid of a pre-installed chakra-sensing barrier, Danzo had sensed the moment when Li Yao's chakra was disrupted—breaking the unique state that made it immune to genjutsu intrusion.

In other words, Hashirama's Wood Release cells could disrupt the special state of Li Yao's chakra, allowing Danzo to use chakra memory-probing techniques on him.

Danzo understood exactly what that meant.

He walked to the container that housed the cultivated Hashirama cells, opened the unit, and extracted a full syringe of original Wood Release cell solution.

Lab Two.

Li Yao, floating in the glass tank, sensed Danzo entering with a syringe emitting the same terrifying devouring chakra as what had consumed his split-off chakra fragment earlier.

He knew he had only two options now.

First, stay still and passive.

Danzo was clearly planning to inject those devouring cells into his body to consume his chakra.

Li Yao had two counters.

One: reveal his ability to use sealing-type chakra and bind the foreign chakra inside his body before it could devour his own.

Two: allow brief contact with the invading chakra, sense its nature transformation in that instant, and replicate it to block its effects.

The previous fragment had no soul fusion and weak perception, so it couldn't analyze the foreign chakra.

But now, with direct contact, Li Yao was confident he could decode its properties and recreate it in time.

So the first option was viable—it offered a chance at survival.

But many variables remained.

He didn't know whether using chakra in front of Danzo could be hidden.

If not, he'd certainly face harsher surveillance afterward—possibly beyond what he could withstand.

If he chose the second option—active resistance—it would mean a desperate fight for his life.

But his available jutsu were far too limited.

Without his perfected Adamantine Sealing Chains, his sealing arts likely couldn't restrain Danzo.

And his only genjutsu—Demonic Illusion: Darkness Technique—was a technique Danzo himself knew, and with a Mangekyō Sharingan in his right eye, Li Yao's genjutsu wouldn't land.

So resisting would most likely result in death.

He considered all this in an instant and made his choice: stay still and observe.

Danzo opened the glass tank and removed Li Yao's body.

Carrying him back to Lab Zero, he placed Li Yao on a specially made chakra-metal table.

Clang, clang… Heavy cuffs forged from chakra metal locked Li Yao's wrists, ankles, waist, chest, and neck.

The bed and restraints were etched with unique sealing formulas.

These formulas extended to a massive chakra-metal sphere buried beneath the lab floor, forming an enormous sealing array.

The array had a single purpose:

To devour large amounts of chakra and funnel them into the underground sphere for storage.

"A new kind of sealing formation…"

Li Yao immediately sensed the layout of the bed and underground sphere and the immense chakra stored below.

He didn't know the full effect yet, but that didn't stop him from analyzing the new sealing chakra's nature transformation.

Though not in direct contact, the proximity allowed him to fully decipher the chakra's nature in half a day.

Once Li Yao was restrained, Danzo formed hand seals and lifted the Eight Trigrams Seal from his body.

The next experiment couldn't be run while that seal was active.

Danzo jabbed the needle straight into Li Yao's artery—no sterilization, no hesitation.

Immediately, Li Yao felt a terrifying chakra with overwhelming devouring ability, and cells bursting with vitality, invade his bloodstream.

That chakra began devouring his own chakra instantly.

Li Yao perceived the invading chakra's nature on contact.

"It's too high-level… too complex!"

His heart trembled. The quality of this chakra was higher than even Mangekyō-level—and the intricacy of its transformation was immense.

Even with cellular contact, it would take him 30 minutes to fully decode and replicate it.

But in that time, his chakra would be gone.

Even the chakra in his acupoints wouldn't hold up against that level of devouring.

And his body—his cells were being dissolved as well. In his condition, he couldn't last thirty minutes.

His only option: expose the existence of his acupoint chakra.

Li Yao concentrated and summoned his Acupoint Chakra to bind the invading chakra, preventing it from spreading.

A miracle.

Even the acupoint chakra trapped by natural internal forces had failed to resist the devouring chakra earlier.

But the Acupoint Chakra he'd developed from those forces—managed to restrain it entirely.

Undeniably, sealing jutsu was the true peak of the shinobi world.

No wonder the Uzumaki Clan was so feared by all nations.

Sealing techniques were nearly unbeatable.

Without the devouring chakra's help, the aggressive foreign cells also quieted, no longer attacking Li Yao's tissue.

"Hm… it's suppressed!!"

Danzo had already prepared his hand seals, waiting for Li Yao's chakra to be drained—at which point he'd cast the chakra memory probe jutsu.

But this sudden development stunned him.

Then he realized what had happened—and was practically ecstatic.

"He resisted the Hashirama cells and Wood Release chakra!!"

Danzo's eyes went wide with shock and excitement.

For years, not one person had resisted the devouring of the First Hokage's cells.

And this wasn't even a diluted version—this was the raw, unrefined essence, the most potent Wood Release chakra.

In the past, even powerful Senju had failed against the diluted cells.

But this child had withstood the real thing…

No—he had to be sure.

Danzo knew exactly what it would mean if Li Yao had truly resisted. He forced himself to calm down.

It had to be sustained resistance, not just momentary.

Time passed.

Thirty minutes later—

In one of Li Yao's chakra acupoints, a new chakra began forming—one with the same terrifying devouring power as what had invaded his blood.

"No… even greater life force!"

After fully analyzing the invading chakra's nature transformations, Li Yao replicated it immediately.

What he discovered left him awestruck.

Not only did this chakra have a monstrous ability to consume other chakra—it radiated an astonishing life force.

Just creating a small amount caused every cell in his body to crave it.

"This must be… Wood Release chakra!"

(END CHAPTER)

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