In addition to the omnipotent Shibai Space, Neiki awakened another ability—Synthesis.
However, this power felt more like an auxiliary function of Shibai Space rather than a core ability of its own.
Like Shibai Space, Synthesis consumed Byakugan Essence.But compared to Shibai Space's overwhelming demands, the cost of Synthesis was almost negligible.
Its function was simple.
Much like combining low-tier equipment into higher-tier items in online games, Synthesis provided Neiki with a stable platform to merge two objects into one, improving their quality through integration.
"If the rules governing everything in this world were visible to us," Neji murmured, recalling something his father once said,"then our task wouldn't be to describe the present…"
"It would be to summarize the future."
Insight.Analysis.Replication.Synthesis.And Shibai Space.
These were the abilities born from Neji's Byakugan.
Setting aside Shibai Space's almost mystical nature, the first four abilities formed a perfectly logical chain.
Insight was the Byakugan's innate talent—the ability to perceive flaws in specific points.
When countless "specific flaws" were linked together, they produced complete Analysis.
Once an object was fully analyzed and its structure thoroughly understood, its components could be reconstructed—giving rise to Replication.
Then came the fourth step: Synthesis.
If Insight, Analysis, and Replication described the present, then Synthesis clearly summarized the future.
"If something can be analyzed, it can be replicated."
"And if it can be replicated… it can be combined."
Neiki quickly lost interest in Synthesis after merging two ordinary longswords into a single black blade.
Although the resulting sword was undeniably stronger and harder, the cost in Byakugan Essence made further experimentation unappealing.
He wasn't even willing to spend Essence to explore removing the Caged Bird Seal—there was no chance he would waste it on weapon upgrades.
Compared to Shibai Space's near-omnipotence, the single-purpose Synthesis ability felt underwhelming.
"I'll study it later," Neiki thought."When I have surplus Essence."
Yet he couldn't shake the feeling that Synthesis wasn't truly so limited.
In the dark basement, candlelight flickered.
Back in reality, Neiki stared solemnly at the ninjutsu scroll in his hands.
The jutsu he had painstakingly created—judged by Shibai Space to be riddled with flaws—had been "perfected" beyond recognition.
What had once been a single technique was now expanded tenfold and divided into five complete sections:
Byakugan: Planting PhaseByakugan: Growing PhaseByakugan: Blossoming PhaseByakugan: Fruiting PhaseByakugan: Harvesting Phase
From the names alone, it sounded more like a cultivation manual for farming than ninjutsu.
The scroll stretched nearly twenty-four meters in length. Each phase contained one or two core techniques, supported by multiple auxiliary methods.
Most of the core techniques were only C– to B-rank in difficulty. Their designs were simple, precise, and highly targeted—focused solely on ensuring the Byakugan could grow smoothly and avoid degeneration during cultivation.
The content was astonishingly detailed.
Every flaw Neiki original design failed to account for had been corrected.Every loophole he hadn't even noticed had been sealed.
Shibai Space could perfect things to this extent.
The concept of Byakugan cultivation itself was not complicated.
The Hyuga clan strengthened their Byakugan through training—but the process was unbearably slow.
Using traditional methods, Neiki would need at least twenty years to push a second-stage Byakugan into the third stage. As for the final stage… it would likely take his entire lifetime.
Neiki refused to live as a servant of the main family forever.
So he chose a shortcut.
The Hyuga clan was exterminated.Their Byakugan became fuel.
This was for freedom.And for power.
In the end, Neiki had been lucky.
Hundreds of Hyuga fell beneath his blade, allowing his Byakugan to reach its final stage and awaken Shibai Space. But that didn't mean the orthodox path of slow cultivation was wrong.
Even without natural Byakugan, people could nurture it using a seed of Essence provided by Neji—much like oysters turning grains of sand into pearls.
One person was inefficient.
But hundreds?Thousands?Millions?
Perhaps even the entire shinobi world.
Quantity could compensate for quality.
This was the foundation of Neiki's Byakugan Cultivation Plan.
With the flawless cultivation manual refined by Shibai Space, Neiki was confident in the value humanity could generate through cooperation.
Even if people didn't wish to unite under him—
It didn't matter.
He wanted it.
And that was enough.
The omnipotent power was intoxicating.
Neiki vaguely remembered a name—
Shibai.
Among the Ōtsutsuki, there was a being closest to godhood: Ōtsutsuki Shibai.
Neiki's Shibai Space was undoubtedly connected to that existence.
What that connection meant, he did not yet know.
But he was prepared.
An Ōtsutsuki god had already transcended the universe. Crushing Neiki would be no harder than crushing an ant. The fact that Neiki still lived meant only one thing—
That being did not care.
That was enough.
Neiki might never meet Ōtsutsuki Shibai himself, but given his current path, he would inevitably encounter the Ōtsutsuki clan. When that happened, capturing one of them would reveal the truth behind his Byakugan.
Neiki was not in a hurry.
"Let's start with the Land of Waves," he whispered as he stepped out of the basement.
Fifty thousand people.
That would be the beginning.
PS :
Shibai Space - The final-stage Byakugan ability awakened by Neiki.Allows reality-level analysis, reconstruction, and perfection of techniques at the cost of Byakugan Essence.
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