Chapter 54: Chapter 55: Hyuga Kumo: I Am Your Ancestor
Hyuga Neji wasn't some kind of fool who couldn't tell good from bad.
At that moment, he understood that Hyuga Kumo wanted to knock him awake.
"Kumo-niisan, please, tell me."
Hyuga Neji's voice was hoarse, as he spoke calmly, "What should I do?"
Hyuga Kumo didn't answer his question, but instead looked up at the distance and slowly said, "When we were handing over the body to Kumogakure, we encountered a monster."
"He was really strong, terrifyingly strong."
"He easily killed Magnet Release Toroi, and he also slaughtered nearly a hundred Kumogakure ninja."
"Even the Byakugan couldn't see his appearance, all we could see was that pair of brilliant, dazzling blue eyes…"
Hearing this, Hyuga Neji was stunned, and the figure from his dream suddenly flashed through his mind. He blurted out, "What did you say?"
Brilliant, dazzling blue eyes?
How was that possible? Wasn't that just a dream?
"Find some time to take a look at the clan's ancestral shrine library."
Hyuga Kumo lowered his eyes and looked at him deeply. "I247.5, L632, go take a look at that book, you'll understand a lot."
Hyuga Neji lay on the ground, blankly looking up at Kumo's figure. But when Hyuga Kumo lowered his gaze and their eyes met, those white eyes seemed to be plated with a heavenly glow.
Hyuga Neji saw the blue rising in those eyes, like melting snow covering a clear lake under the sun.
But when he focused his eyes and looked closely, he found that those eyes were still pure white, almost like snow, as if everything was just his illusion.
"Remember." Hyuga Kumo said meaningfully in a soft voice, "He who cannot obey himself, must obey others."
As soon as the words fell, his figure disappeared before Hyuga Neji's eyes, leaving only the words still faintly echoing in his ears.
"..."
Hyuga Neji lay blankly on his back in the snow, the white, listless eyes gradually becoming focused.
Beneath those calm, ice-like white eyes, lurked a deeper longing and hatred.
"Ancestral shrine library?" he murmured.
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Fire Shadow Building, inside the underground space.
Hyuga Kumo followed the guidance of the scroll and walked over, and soon saw a door at the end of the corridor.
There was no one guarding outside the door, but he could sense the existence of seals and barriers. Even if a mosquito flew in, it would instantly trigger alarms and defense measures.
It was hard to imagine how, in the face of such tight seals and barriers, Uzumaki Naruto managed to steal the Book of Seals under the instigation of Mizuki.
But thinking that Orochimaru had also broken into this place before, and that Mizuki, as a chess piece planted in Konoha by Orochimaru, might be able to break through it using the preparations left behind by Orochimaru.
Hyuga Kumo didn't need to go to such trouble.
As he took out the scroll given by Sarutobi Hiruzen from his arms, the feeling of being sealed and suppressed instantly dissipated, and he reached out and gently opened the door to the Forbidden Technique Archive.
Click.
Stepping into the silent Forbidden Technique Archive, the dust on the ground was stirred up by the wind, and the candles in the room automatically lit.
The surrounding walls had no windows. In front of the walls were rows of towering bookshelves.
Neatly arranged on the shelves were clean and tidy scrolls, each of which was marked with its level and sealed. In the swaying candlelight, they looked ancient and dull.
"It seems that the Third-sama, who is known as the 'Professor of Ninjutsu,' often comes to browse."
Noticing that the bookshelves and scrolls, although ancient, were not dirty, Hyuga Kumo understood in his heart, and at the same time felt a sense of being spied on.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's Telescope Technique?
This ninjutsu uses a special crystal ball as the core medium. It analyzes chakra fluctuations through precise chakra control to achieve image transmission, and monitors targets from a distance. Sarutobi Hiruzen often used it to conduct "protective observation" on Uzumaki Naruto.
The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku had also used a similar technique, but its monitoring range clearly broke through conventional geographical limitations.
"Although it is used for non-combat reconnaissance purposes, this ninjutsu is really convenient."
Hyuga Kumo lamented in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. When his gaze swept over the bookshelf, he even showed a look of surprise and joy, like a country bumpkin entering a grand garden.
He randomly pulled out a scroll from the bookshelf next to him and unfolded it. The fabric texture was smooth, and the scroll was filled with dense writing in ink, as well as a few drawings.
It was a ninjutsu called Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning, just an ordinary B-rank Fire Release ninjutsu.
Of course, this "just" was in Hyuga Kumo's opinion.
After all, the difficulty of learning techniques is divided into six stages: "E-rank" is the entry-level of the ninja school, such as the Body Replacement Technique, Clone Technique, Transformation Technique, and so on. In addition, there are Invisibility Technique and Escape Technique, but these two are more like techniques than ninjutsu.
D-rank is the level of genin, and the Binding Technique is the only D-rank ninjutsu that ordinary ninja can learn during the ninja school. C-rank is the level of chūnin. At this level, the difficulty of learning is actually not low, such as the Summoning Technique and Puppet Technique are C-rank ninjutsu.
B-rank ninjutsu is already the level of jōnin. Even in the five great ninja villages, they are considered valuable. Even the Lightning Release Armor used by the Raikage is only at this level, so placing this technique here is not an exaggeration.
Hyuga Kumo just roughly scanned it once, and didn't seem to be interested in this ninjutsu, and soon put the scroll back on the bookshelf.
He continued to browse through the contents of a few scrolls, most of which were B-rank Wind Release ninjutsu and taijutsu.
For example, Front Lotus, Wind Release: Shuriken, Wind Release: Great Sickle Weasel Technique, Wind Release: Pressure Damage, Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere…
"The intention is too obvious, isn't it?"
The corner of Hyuga Kumo's eye twitched slightly, he simply glanced over it and directly put it back on the bookshelf.
Only a very few techniques made him stop and his eyes flickered slightly, such as the Summoning Technique: Rashōmon, Adamantine Sealing Chains, and Shadow Strangulation Technique.
"The old guy didn't leave me a single forbidden technique, but he didn't take away the secret techniques of other ninja clans either. It seems that he's determined that I won't be able to learn them?" Hyuga Kumo couldn't help but smile in his heart.
In fact, it was normal to think this way, after all, the difference between secret techniques and Kekkei Genkai was very blurred.
Like the Nara clan's Shadow Technique and the Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains, although they weren't directly inherited through bloodline like Kekkei Genkai, it was difficult to master them without achieving a special "talent."
For example, the Nara clan was born with stronger spiritual energy than ordinary people, and the Akimichi clan was born with stronger physical energy than ordinary people, so they were able to master the clan's secret Shadow Technique and Multi-Size Technique.
The Uzumaki clan was the same.
According to what Uzumaki Mito said to Uzumaki Kushina in the original work, the reason why Uzumaki Kushina was chosen to become the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki was because she had a special talent that others didn't have.
Clearly, some individuals of the Uzumaki clan also possessed special talents, and only these few people could learn the Adamantine Sealing Chains, who were naturally able to restrain tailed beasts and were suitable to become Jinchūriki.
These secret technique ninja clans gave people the feeling like they were one level above the Kekkei Genkai ninja clans.
Because they had always followed the tradition of intermarriage within the clan, they began to purify the Ōtsutsuki bloodline in their bodies, and then screened out those with higher bloodlines through war, resulting in stable inheritance of special physiques, and they developed special ninjutsu based on this physique, becoming a secret clan.
If they continued to intermarry for hundreds of years, maybe they would really become a Kekkei Genkai, and they could use it without learning.
So, unfortunately.
Hyuga Kumo's body, in terms of blood relations, was the ancestor of all ninja clans.
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