After getting a large basin of "tadpoles", the next thing Hanyu has to do is to further "hatch" this thing.
It is impossible to completely simulate Samehada's original living environment. After all, Konoha does not have the Three-Tailed, and it is impossible to release them into the wild.
Fortunately, Hanyu has the chakra of the Two-Tail, a substitute for the Three-Tail.
He then purchased a batch of sealed glass as "experimental equipment". He then asked the friendly Orochimaru to produce a batch of special nutrient solution. After pouring the nutrient solution into the containers, he stuffed a samehada larva into each container.
However, it is not really important whether or not there is nutrient solution or something like that. The most important thing is to supply these things with sufficient chakra of guaranteed quality.
So, in the end, those containers were densely placed next to the slug that stored the Two-Tailed Chakra, and then connected to the slug's skin through pipes.
Three times a day, morning, noon and evening, Katsuyu will deliver chakra to each container. With such feeding, the "nutritional supply" of these young bodies can be guaranteed.
I just don't know if the milk flavor of the two tails is different from that of the three tails, and whether they can serve as a complete substitute. Anyway, Hanyu's cultivation experiment began.
He was also a little nervous, and just hoped that he wouldn't lose money after investing so much of the Two-Tails' chakra.
However, no one can guarantee the success rate of such an experiment, so Hanyu is just taking a small gamble... maybe he can ask Tsunade to come over and put some pressure on him, if for no other reason, just for the sake of good luck.
With the chakra of the two tails as the main nutrient, the mass-produced Samehada larvae grew very quickly. Although they were just clones, these larvae seemed to be abnormally healthy and energetic, and their survival rate was somewhat terrifying.
With such vitality, it's no wonder that this special species can always accompany Sanna.
Just two months later, the shark muscle larvae grew to half a meter in length, and the scales on their bodies began to transform into spikes. Judging from this change alone, it can be said that these cubs have a high probability of growing into living weapons.
However, living weapons are not Hanyu's goal. After all, these things are big and heavy, and they are definitely not as useful as a kunai for ordinary ninjas. Hanyu's goal is to make these mass-produced versions of Samehada retain the ability to absorb chakra.
However, there is no way to confirm this point now. After all, unlike the main body of Samehada, these young ones are raised by their stepmother, not their biological mother.
They were even surrogate mothers of snakes.
As Hanyu's aquaculture experiment was going on, the winter of that year passed unknowingly and the spring of the new year arrived.
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Looking back from the roof of Hanyu's house, you can see that a new neighborhood has been completed over there. Although all the buildings look brand new, it is a quiet neighborhood full of life.
The streets, buildings, pedestrians, smoke from cooking, stalls and stores are no different from normal Konoha streets.
The only problem might be that the "neighbors" in this block are not very good...there is a world of bright lights and nightlife just across the street.
The bustling atmosphere over there does not match the quiet temperament over here. What's more important is that some of the cultural atmosphere over there may corrupt the children here... There is no way, after all, the former is a place for business, and the latter is a place where normal people live.
But these things are not very important. After all, some children take the initiative to settle down in such a place. In the end, won't he grow up to be a person who is free from vulgar interests?
On this day, when Hanyu was inspecting the shark muscle larvae that had developed into very ferocious forms and were growing more and more like sea cucumbers, he suddenly received an important summons.
"Lord Hanyu, Lady Mito wants to see you." Shiko, who had just arrived at Shadow Stream, conveyed this message to Hanyu.
"Lord Mito?" Hanyu didn't understand why Mito wanted to talk to him about this time.
He hadn't seen Mito for a while, and now she was a completely reclusive character.
To be more precise, during these few years, Hanyu had only seen her once when Mito inspected the Uzumaki clan's settlement area, and had never seen her again - although Hanyu was closely connected with the Uzumaki clan, and so was Mito, the two rarely contacted each other.
So when Mito wanted to see him, it meant that something important had happened.
Is it because of that Kyuubi's plan?
At this time, the only reason Hanyu could think of why Mito would summon him was probably something about the Nine-Tails Plan.
It's just that now is not the time to prepare to implement the plan...
"I understand. I will go see Mito-sama now."
Hanyu nodded to Uzumaki Shiko and stopped talking nonsense. He prepared to go directly to meet Mito... There was no need to guess, everything would be clear after meeting each other.
As he spoke, Hanyu left the Shadow Stream's base and went to the house where Mito lived.
After Shiko entered the Shadow Stream, Mito did not live alone. In fact, Shiko had always lived in this yard. In addition to Shiko, there were other Uzumaki clan members there, so Mito had been well taken care of for a long time.
But even so, she already looked older.
The traces of time are something that no one can deny, even if that person is the most powerful ninja.
"Mito-sama."
When Hanyu arrived at the yard, Mito was pruning the branches of plants planted in a flower bed. He believed that these plants would bloom soon.
By this comparison, Hanyu seems to have retired early. The only difference between him and Mito is that one raises fish and the other raises flowers.
"Hanyu, you're here."
Seeing that Hanyu had arrived here, Mito put the scissors in her hand aside and motioned Hanyu to follow her.
The two walked to a small pavilion in the courtyard. After sitting down, Mito rested for a while before saying to Hanyu, "We called you here this time because of the Nine-Tailed Fox plan... We think it's almost ready to be implemented."
Is that really the case?
"Mister Mito, according to the timetable originally planned, it seems a bit urgent now. And... given your current physical condition, can you withstand the second seal?"
"It is indeed a little earlier than planned, but... there is a reason. Although my chakra is also weakening, in my current state, I can suppress the Nine-Tails. However, it may be difficult to do so later. Fully utilizing my strength will definitely help the success of the plan."
It was a correct judgment to implement the plan while Mito could still maintain the strength of his chakra. After all, with Mito's help in suppressing the Nine-Tails, then this most powerful tailed beast could be cut however he wanted.
On the other hand, if Mito's chakra is too weak, things might go wrong.
Although losing the tailed beast means death for the jinchūriki, this does not hold true for Mito because the plan itself is to split the Nine-Tails into many. After Mito frees the Nine-Tails, some people will use sealing techniques to split it, and one of the Nine-Tails will be re-sealed into Mito's body.
Practically speaking, this approach would help prolong Mito's life. After all, as she gets older, her chakra would increase and decrease, and one day she would not be able to suppress the Nine-Tails. But... if it was one-eighth of the Nine-Tails, then that would be a different matter.
"Another point is that, after all, there must be sacrifices when the Nine-Tail is split, and this kind of thing is not left to young people, so some old guys who are about to reach the end of their lives are willing to take on such a responsibility... The problem is that they may not be able to wait that long."
Mito's words made Hanyu silent for a while. After all, some parts of this plan would require the Uzumaki clan to sacrifice their lives, and Hanyu was the one who proposed this plan. In a sense, he needed to be responsible for those lives.
The lives of our own people, which we are willing to sacrifice, and the lives of our enemies, which we can take without hesitation on the battlefield, have essentially different weight.
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