Under the microscope, Obito's cells and the White Zetsu cells were not completely fused together; they were in a state of being encapsulated.
These two types of cells were unbalanced; the White Zetsu cells were too strong, and Obito's cells were too weak.
That is, the White Zetsu cells encapsulated Obito's cells; if Obito were to move too vigorously, the White Zetsu cells in his body would break down.
The solution was to either wait for Obito to reach adulthood and for his cells to become more mature, or to find a power with attributes opposite to the White Zetsu cells to suppress their activity.
The only thing Orochimaru could think of was the Sharingan.
Orochimaru frowned; even weakened Hashirama cells were not something an ordinary person could withstand.
In that case, how could the fusion rate between the White Zetsu cells and Anko's cells be improved?
Anko's cells were even weaker than Obito's; Obito, after all, was a member of the Uchiha Clan, and his Chakra was stronger than that of a normal person.
Orochimaru wanted to improve the fusion rate technically.
Looking at the fusion of Obito and the White Zetsu cells, it was a crude fusion, like putting two strangers in a secret room and forcing them to find a way to establish a relationship.
You can't even be sure if the pair inside is a man and a woman.
They were simply being forced to fuse together.
Knowing autumn from a single leaf, Orochimaru could see from Obito's cells that Madara understood nothing about science at all.
That makes sense; if he understood science, how could he execute such a ridiculous plan as the Eye of the Moon Plan?
Did he not even go out to the streets to investigate how many people actually wanted to go to an illusionary world?
Did he not visit the grassroots to see how many people were living in misery?
It was purely—I think people's lives are too bitter, there are too many conflicts, so it's better not to live! Everyone, go to the illusionary world and daydream!
Opinionated and headstrong, an extreme lunatic detached from reality.
If he weren't Madara, he would have been dragged to a psychiatric hospital by now.
Orochimaru stopped thinking about that lunatic Madara's hysteria; even if he was a lunatic, he was a lunatic who possessed the Rinnegan.
The cell fusion technique Orochimaru thought of was Hiruko's Chimera Technique.
The Chimera Technique is an S-rank Forbidden Jutsu; its core principle is the forced fusion between cells, allowing one to seize the abilities of Summoned Beasts and even Kekkei Genkai.
This technique was countless times more sophisticated than Madara's forced fusion.
"Come, Anko, lie down. Sensei is going to give you a shot!"
Orochimaru had Anko lie down and then took out a syringe containing a green reagent.
Anko looked at Orochimaru, not a single hint of doubt in her eyes.
The only person she could trust was Orochimaru.
In the original work, Anko didn't hate Orochimaru for defecting; what she hated was that Orochimaru abandoned her and didn't take her with him.
She hadn't even gotten on the bus yet, hey?!
"Teacher, I don't want the surname Senju; I want to share your surname."
Orochimaru pinched Anko's face and smiled softly: "Silly child, Teacher is a commoner and has no surname."
Anko shook her head: "I don't care! From now on, I am Orochi-Anko!"
"Fine, fine, Orochi-Anko! We'll call you Orochi-Anko!"
Orochimaru cast a Genjutsu to put Anko into a deep sleep, then slowly injected the White Zetsu cell gene liquid into her.
Orochimaru was not entirely without emotion; Anko was his cute disciple, so how could he casually treat her as a mere experimental subject for fusing White Zetsu cells?
To ensure a 100% success rate, Orochimaru added Ryūchi Cave's white snake cells on top of the White Zetsu cells.
The white snake is a creature of extreme Yin and cold; Orochimaru wanted to use the white snake cells to replace the Sharingan and suppress the activity of the White Zetsu cells.
If there were still an accident after this, Orochimaru would change his name to O-Rice-Cake-Maru!
"Anko, take a nap. When you wake up, you will have completely sublimated into a dragon."
Immediately after, Orochimaru had Hiruko use the Chimera Technique to fuse the foreign cells into Anko.
Amegakure.
Ryou prepared everything in the laboratory and then had the spore clones set up a barrier to guard the surroundings.
He looked at the busy Candy and shouted, "Candy, are you ready yet!"
Candy nodded: "Ready, all 50 White Zetsu have been captured!"
The cells Ryou wanted to fuse were not just Hashirama's cells; they were Madara's cells fused with Hashirama's, equivalent to the cells of a son born from their combination.
Or perhaps the cells of their ancestor, the Sage of Six Paths.
Although Madara and Hashirama were not the first generation, Madara had already awakened the Rinnegan, and his power surpassed Indra, making him the existence closest to the Sage of Six Paths.
As for Hashirama, in the manga, Asura did not have the Wood Release setting; Asura's Wood Release was a creation of the anime.
Strictly speaking, Wood Release is exclusive to Hashirama; he is the most special reincarnation of Asura's Chakra in a thousand years.
Even Naruto, the child of prophecy, is not as special as Hashirama.
Hashirama's cells were mutated, making them the cells closest to the God Tree, the origin of Chakra.
The cells they fused together were Six Paths cells; no, even more special than the Sage of Six Paths, because the Sage of Six Paths could not use Wood Release.
Ryou felt these were the God Tree cells that bore the Chakra Fruit.
But then he felt they weren't that divine; if they were truly cells close to the source of Chakra, Madara would not have died of old age.
He should have been immortal like Ōtsutsuki Kaguya!
Essentially, the Madara-Hashirama cells were close to Kaguya, yet could not surpass her.
However, they were, after all, powerful cells of the four-bloodline-limit level.
Fusing such powerful cells naturally carried risks; Ryou had Candy go to the warning lines around Amegakure to capture White Zetsu beforehand.
In any case, White Zetsu is not human, so there was no need to feel sympathy for it.
Having made all the preparations, Ryou took out the cell tissue Madara had given him that day.
He made a cut on his own chest and then activated the Chimera Technique to fuse them.
The spore clones had been working day and night for the past few days, not only studying the Madara-Hashirama cells but also deducing version 2.0 of the Chimera Technique.
In these few days, both the technique and the cell research were fully prepared.
Ryou did not let himself fall asleep; he was afraid that the fusion would fail if he slept, so he had to ensure his consciousness remained clear.
He used his own will to crush the Chakra will within the Madara-Hashirama cells and conquer them.
He was not a puppet of Madara and Hashirama; he was his own master.
"Aaah—"
Before long, Ryou began to howl; the cell fusion was destroying his own genes and recoding them.
When he had fused White Zetsu cells before, Ryou could use the Chimera Technique to exempt himself from the effects, but the Madara-Hashirama cells directly exceeded the authority of the Chimera Technique.
"Candy, hurry and play the video! I want to watch while I fuse the Madara-Hashirama cells."
Candy was helpless; who watches a video while undergoing surgery?
Candy turned on the projector.
"Ah Ah~"
As Ryou watched the video, his attention was immediately diverted, and it wasn't as painful anymore.
This was the Great Art of Diversion and Distraction Ryou had prepared beforehand.
As for the issue of the projector?
The technology of the Ninja World is quite abstract.
During Obito's generation's Chunin Exams in Konoha, there were already monitors and computers, but transmitting information still relied on shouting.
The people in the video were in pain, and Ryou was in pain along with them.
Candy was somewhat worried: "Is it really that painful?"
Ryou pointed at the Black man in the video and explained, "I'm talking about the big Black guy from the Land of Lightning. I can't bear to ride my bicycle, yet he's standing up to pedal it!"
"And these white people are really something, afraid of both the dark and ghosts, and when the two combine, they start drooling."
"Truly elegant without losing poise, beautiful without losing dignity, like the name Ouyang without its radicals."
"(≧д≦ヾ)."
Candy broke into a cold sweat; it shouldn't have expected anything from Ryou.
Not long after, the Madara-Hashirama cells fused into Ryou's chest began to riot, and the balance within his body could no longer be maintained.
The Hashirama cells rioted, and Ryou was instantly drained.
In his critical state, Ryou quickly burned the life spores in his body, using his powerful physical body to fuse the Madara-Hashirama cells.
After repeating this several times, the Madara-Hashirama cells achieved balance within Ryou's body.
Ryou's power was rising on an exponential curve; he began to sublimate into a dragon.