Chapter 585 - 583: The Strongest Biotechnology in the Shinobi World

Chapter 585: Chapter 583: The Strongest Biotechnology in the Shinobi World

After obtaining Deidara’s cell samples, Kagami found a secluded spot and switched back to his Yin Release true body. He then directly entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode and flew at full speed, swiftly returning to the aerial fortress above the sea east of the Land of Fire.

"Lord, welcome back!"

As soon as Kagami returned to the fortress, Gaara and Karin came out to greet him, bowing respectfully.

Kagami’s expression shifted slightly. In a flash, he appeared directly in front of Gaara and threw a punch at him.

Gaara instinctively leaped backward, while the special sand he had been continuously practicing controlling moved to shield him, intercepting Kagami’s incoming fist.

Bang...

The fist struck the mass of sand, producing a deep, muffled thud.

"Mm..."

Kagami was slightly surprised. When his fist struck the sand, it felt as though he had punched a solid wall, his momentum abruptly halted.

Retracting his fist with a smile, Kagami praised Gaara, "Very good. Looks like you haven’t been slacking off these past few days!"

In that punch just now, Kagami had used roughly ten percent of his physical strength, equivalent to an attack from an ordinary chunin.

Gaara’s reaction had been excellent. Almost the instant Kagami launched his attack, Gaara’s body responded accordingly. This showed that he had maintained a fairly high training intensity. Otherwise, his body would never have developed such sharp reflexes.

What delighted Kagami even more, however, was that Gaara’s speed in controlling his sand had clearly improved by a considerable margin compared to before.

One had to remember that Shukaku, the One-Tail sealed within Gaara, had already been completely sealed away by Kagami.

In other words, although Gaara was still the One-Tail’s jinchuriki, he could no longer draw upon even the slightest bit of Shukaku’s chakra.

Yet despite this, his sand manipulation speed had not declined. Instead, it had improved significantly, proving that he had genuinely put in considerable effort during this period.

Gaara, who rarely received praise, blushed and said somewhat shyly, "My lord, you... you flatter me."

Kagami smiled and silently assessed him.

"With Shukaku sealed away, Gaara has lost the ability to go berserk, and his destructive power has plummeted. His combat strength should only be around the chunin level now. If he encounters an experienced chunin, his chances of losing are probably over eighty percent. If he were to fight Sasuke right now, Sasuke might actually have the better chance of winning."

Even without Shukaku’s power, Gaara was still among the handful of outstanding talents of his generation.

However, after experiencing events such as his defeat at Kimimaro’s hands and his abduction by Akatsuki, Sasuke’s growth had been extraordinarily rapid. He simply could not be compared to Sasuke at the same point in the original timeline.

Therefore, if Gaara and Sasuke were to fight now, Kagami would actually favor Sasuke.

At this moment, Kagami shifted his gaze toward Karin, who was standing nearby.

Seeing Kagami look her way, Karin hurriedly said, "My lord, just look at how skinny I’ve gotten! You can tell I haven’t been slacking off!"

Kagami was amused by her words and laughed.

"Keep training hard. In a little while, I’ll find you some opponents your own age so you can see what true geniuses are like!"

Gaara immediately declared, "My lord, I definitely won’t disappoint you!"

Kagami nodded without saying anything further. He walked past the two children and headed straight into the laboratory.

Strolling through the laboratory, Kagami surveyed the dazzling assortment of new equipment and instruments surrounding him, feeling a surge of genuine delight.

Including the fifty million he had earned from his transaction with Danzo involving the Chimera Technique, as well as the two hundred and sixty-five million that Konoha would gradually pay him, Kagami had earned more than three hundred million during this period.

With such an enormous sum of money—more than an ordinary person could spend in several lifetimes—Kagami immediately began spending lavishly.

After all, due to his previous financial difficulties, the vast majority of the instruments in his laboratory had been secondhand goods purchased from the black market. Many were on the verge of becoming obsolete, while others were missing certain functions.

Now that he had money, and Kamigami’s reputation had spread far and wide, he also had access to considerably more procurement channels.

Naturally, Kagami had no intention of continuing to deprive himself. He immediately embarked on a comprehensive overhaul of his laboratory.

As money flowed out like water, brand-new, advanced instruments began arriving in his laboratory one after another, instantly raising its overall standard by two or three levels.

Although his laboratory still could not compare to the large laboratory at Danzo’s Root base in terms of scale, it was now every bit its equal in the sophistication of its equipment.

At least in the field of biotechnology, it could undoubtedly be considered one of the most advanced laboratories in the entire shinobi world.

Arriving at the cell cultivation room, Kagami performed some preliminary processing on the piece of Deidara’s flesh he had just obtained.

He then collected cell samples from it and began cultivating and activating the cells using his newly purchased cultivation equipment.

Through his research, Kagami had modified his previous cell fusion procedure.

Instead of directly conducting cell fusion experiments, he now first cultivated the cells to enhance their vitality. Only when their activity reached its optimal state would he begin attempting cell fusion.

This change alone could increase the success rate of cell fusion by at least three percent.

One should never underestimate that three percent increase.

When experiments were conducted hundreds or thousands of times, a three percent success rate often meant that, regardless of how severe the incompatibility between two groups of cells might be, there would inevitably be cases where fusion succeeded through sheer luck.

Not only could this substantially reduce the financial and time costs of cell fusion, but it could also improve the vitality of the fused cells, allowing the resulting clones to possess more perfect physiques.

And the better a clone’s physique, the less difficult it would be for Kagami to develop it.

For example, the Type-A Wind Release clone he had unexpectedly obtained, which exhibited an atavistic phenomenon, had practically reached his requirements without requiring much development on his part.

In fact, it had even exceeded his requirements, forcing him to go back and enhance the strength of his previously developed Water Release and Fire Release clones in order to restore the balance of power among his clones.

"A four percent estimated success rate for cell fusion, huh..."

Looking at the figures displayed on his newly purchased cell compatibility analyzer, Kagami frowned slightly.

The new fusion procedure could increase the baseline success rate by three percent, yet the final success rate estimated by the instrument was a mere four percent.

This undoubtedly meant that Deidara’s cells were not particularly compatible with Kagami’s own cells. Their compatibility was only marginally better than that between Uchiha cells and his own.

However, this was perfectly reasonable.

After all, Kagami’s cells—or rather, the cells of the Hyuga clan—contained large amounts of relatively gentle Yin Release chakra. It was perfectly normal for them to be incompatible with the excessively violent Fire Release and Earth Release chakra.

Fortunately, with his new cell fusion procedure and equipment providing a baseline success rate, Kagami would no longer have to repeat the seemingly endless failures he had experienced when attempting to fuse Uchiha cells back then...