Chapter 349: Ocular Power at its Limit
Orochimaru was also quite depressed. Anyone would be depressed to see their own corpse turned into a human puppet by Sasori.
He could already imagine the scene of that pervert Sasori sawing his thigh while cackling coldly.
Fortunately, he was now a transgender person and didn't care too much about these things.
The corpse was just a container that he could change at any time. The body modified by Sasori was a female corpse, which was not a big problem.
This matter was an unexpected joy for him. Having retrieved his soul from the Shinigami, and having gotten an inch, he naturally wanted to take a yard and retrieve his former corpse, taking back the chakra within it.
Ino handed the human puppet over to Jiraiya to handle. Jiraiya thought about it and still gave the human puppet to Orochimaru.
On the one hand, he hoped that his former best friend would return to a normal state. On the other hand, the current Konoha was strong enough to completely suppress a lone Orochimaru under surveillance.
Orochimaru absorbed his own chakra from the human puppet, then found that his chakra had not returned to its peak.
This human puppet had been hit by the Wood Human's palm and was completely shattered at the time. After the battle, Ino didn't look closely, just packed it up with a "snip-snap." She herself didn't know how many parts she had brought back or if anything was left behind.
Orochimaru grunted and puffed as he absorbed for a long time, only recovering about fifty percent of his peak chakra. Konoha wouldn't let him go to the Sand Village for "archaeology." He could only think of a way, to try and see if he could get a little more back from Ino's side.
Cleaning up the battlefield was a required course for ninjas. He believed that Ino might still have fragments of his human puppet.
Ino asked, "Do you understand Sasori's puppetry?"
Orochimaru answered with certainty, "I haven't specifically studied it, but in Akatsuki, Sasori and I were partners for a period of time. I believe I have some understanding."
Ino thought for a moment. "Alright then, let's go to your research lab."
A quarter of an hour later, Ino opened three sealing scrolls in Orochimaru's research lab.
These were all gains from the battle with Sasori.
She had picked up about fifty or sixty human puppets from the Performance of a Hundred Puppets, along with a large pile of miscellaneous parts. Among them were parts of Hiruko, Sasori's real body, some fragments of the Third Kazekage, and most likely Orochimaru's "parts" as well.
In his own research lab, Orochimaru took off his mask.
Seeing so many human puppets, he licked his lips excitedly.
He picked up Hiruko's tail and examined it carefully.
He was very wary of Sasori. A skilled puppeteer plus the Third Kazekage human puppet—this combination was not just strong. Not to mention the Performance of a Hundred Puppets, this S-rank puppetry that could destroy a country by one person was truly terrifying. He had secretly studied Sasori's weaknesses and was no stranger to the art of human puppetry.
Now, seeing such a pile of parts, he was secretly pleased. See? I'm still alive. You were so awesome, but you're already dead!
Like someone finding a treasure, Orochimaru squatted on the ground, searching for his "parts" from the large pile of human puppets.
As he searched, he explained the knowledge of human puppetry he had mastered. Ino recorded it seriously and then joined the team to help him search for "parts."
"Is this hip joint yours?"
"No."
"What about this rack of ribs?"
"No."
"This molar?"
"No."
After searching for three days, Orochimaru's chakra recovered to about sixty percent of its former peak.
The rest really couldn't be found. There was some loss in the process of creating human puppets from corpses. Ino had shattered the human puppet with her Wood Human Technique. Although she had shoveled up the ground, it was inevitable that some "parts" had splashed far away. To recover sixty percent was already very difficult.
On the fifth day of her return to the village, Ino used Earth Release to go underground and absorbed all the Mangekyō Sharingan ocular power that had accumulated in Kimimaro's body for nearly two months.
"Ouch!" After absorbing the ocular power, her eyes hurt as if they were being pricked by needles.
Besides the stabbing pain, she felt her eyes were incredibly heavy, as if there was a thousand-pound weight inside her eyelids.
Ino did a set of eye exercises, but it was useless!
She returned to the surface. The moment she opened the door, she was almost blinded by the sunlight. She felt that the current sunlight was like countless sharp swords, stabbing fiercely at her eyes.
Returning underground again, the dim environment made her eyes slightly more comfortable, but they were still extremely uncomfortable.
She knew that her accumulation had reached its limit. The ocular power in Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan was too pure. To accumulate any more would be overdoing it. Today, she had to awaken her eyes!
Ino closed her five senses, held her breath, and waited for herself to completely calm down. Then, she gradually released the constraints on her eyes, allowing her chakra pathways to connect with the ocular power.
After awakening the Sharingan, it was a bit of an exaggeration to say it was plug-and-play, but overall, it was a semi-independent organ.
The eyes stored ocular power and had their own unique chakra pathways.
Using her Flower Art ability to provide energy to the Mangekyō Sharingan through Kimimaro's corpse, and after absorbing it through the Spirit Transformation Technique, this was Ino's own ocular power, and the chakra pathways were also her own. There was no problem with the two fusing.
Releasing the restrictions, Ino's chakra and ocular power merged. Just like when she had enhanced Hinata's ocular power, a portion of her Yin Release chakra was immediately and forcefully converted by the extremely domineering ocular power.
This portion was the last straw. The ocular power, accumulated to its limit, began to physically transform her eyes.
The ninjas of the Uchiha clan inherited the Kekkei Genkai of their ancestors. Now, Ino was equivalent to the progenitor of a Kekkei Genkai on another path of the Sharingan. She had created a Kekkei Genkai unique to her own bloodline with her own power. At most, her Kekkei Genkai had no innovation; it was just a copy-paste of Indra's.
Normal Uchiha clan members needed to awaken their eyes through mental stimulation. Ino, as the creator, had accumulated enough. The ocular power from Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan was very pure. Using this level of ocular power for the step of awakening the eyes was a complete dimensional-reduction strike.
Even after the eye organ transformation, the remaining ocular power was still terrifyingly large. One tomoe was no problem, two tomoe was also enough. Whether she could awaken to the level of three tomoe, Ino couldn't guarantee.
She sat cross-legged on the ground, letting the ocular power transform her eyes. A part of her own genes was also optimized in this process, becoming more suitable for storing ocular power and making it easier to use the Sharingan's abilities.
Transplanted eyes didn't have this step; the body had to accommodate the eyes, like a blind marriage.
Her genes and ocular power were now coordinating with each other. This was like a relationship based on free love, with a foundation of affection, where they could slowly adjust after marriage…
The transformation continued. Vaguely, she felt her consciousness arrive in another space.
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