Chapter 41: Sharingan Cultivation Method, Ishihara: You Wasted the Sharingan

Boom!!!

The earth trembled wildly.

A pillar of lightning shot skyward.

Thump! Thump!

Several figures plummeted from the sky, crashing onto the ground.

Ishihara walked out from the depths of the passage, somewhat surprised that it hadn't collapsed.

"Orochimaru's construction quality is impressive."

Although he had come out during the past six years, it seemed a long time had passed since his last outing.

As sunlight fell upon his face,

Ishihara still squinted, somewhat unaccustomed to it.

"The air outside is still so good."

He stretched, then fixed his gaze on the several figures lying not far away and walked over.

Jugo's injuries were severe.

Besides the grievous wound inflicted earlier by Kakashi's Lightning Cutter, he had also been caught in the lightning cascade.

Ishihara stepped before him, watching Jugo struggle with hands and feet, his bloodied body trying to rise.

"Rest well!"

Saying this, he directly cast the Five Elements Release Seal to remove Jugo's seal.

Watching Jugo enter the Cursed Seal state as his injuries rapidly healed, Ishihara breathed a sigh of relief.

Although his Sage Body cultivation method had already been completed,

future experiments after Sage Transformation would still require Jugo as a test subject.

After finishing this, he finally looked at Kakashi and Itachi beside him.

When the lightning cascade erupted just now, Kakashi had used the Lightning Cutter he had already cast to shield himself and Itachi.

As for the others, they were all dead!

Kakashi looked at his trembling hands, fear still lingering on his face.

Even with all his strength, he had merely managed to barely protect himself and Itachi.

And this was a secret technique Ishihara had developed in the blink of an eye after seeing his Lightning Cutter just once.

What kind of monster is this!!

Kakashi and Itachi shakily rose to their feet, watching Ishihara approach as if facing a great enemy.

Ishihara laughed helplessly and said calmly:

"No need to be tense. If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead."

He certainly wasn't sparing the two because they were important characters.

He was keeping them because they were useful.

Hearing this, Kakashi and Itachi breathed a sigh of relief.

But they also felt immense disappointment and anger.

Did Ishihara not even have the interest to kill them?

Although they didn't want to die, this thought made them feel utterly humiliated and unwilling!

Ishihara walked to the two, staring calmly into their unwilling, angry eyes:

"Not bad eyes!"

"But even better is this eye technique!"

Hearing this, Kakashi and Itachi's hearts skipped a beat instantly.

"What do you want to do?"

Itachi, sensing a dire omen, asked with rapid breathing.

"Of course, to study the legendary eye technique, the Sharingan."

Ishihara carefully sensed the Sharingan and eye technique chakra within the two bodies, answering calmly.

"Bastard!"

Itachi's face changed drastically.

Although the future Itachi would harbor extreme hatred for his clan,

the current him felt immense pride and arrogance regarding the Sharingan!

Ishihara's words were nothing short of trampling his pride and self-esteem, and trampling the entire Uchiha clan!

"The Sharingan is not a secret technique that can be created; it is a Kekkei Genkai!"

Itachi said through gritted teeth.

"This chakra feels a bit strange to me; it's like Yin Release, yet feels like it's mixed with something else."

Ishihara acted as if he hadn't heard, continuing to stare at the Sharingan, studying it.

His brows furrowed slightly as he thought inwardly:

"It seems I need to find an opportunity to study eye techniques specifically. Without powerful insight, it is impossible to see the flow paths of chakra."

Currently, he could only analyze the essence of the chakra within the Sharingan through his perception analysis ability.

This efficiency was too slow, making him, who had always comprehended secret techniques at high speed, somewhat unaccustomed.

Ignored, Itachi was so angry his teeth ached.

Usually, he appeared very calm, even cold-bloodedly so, because he knew everyone was inferior to himself.

In reality, he was proud to the bone, believing no one could match him.

Naturally, he looked down on everyone.

But after encountering Ishihara, a genius even more terrifying than himself, he could not ignore any of Ishihara's actions.

Let alone tolerate Ishihara ignoring him!

Just as he himself ignored everyone else!

Because that meant the other party truly did not regard him as worth noticing in the slightest.

Ishihara muttered, "From what I know, the three basic abilities of the Sharingan are insight, hypnotic genjutsu, and replication!"

"The other two abilities have no solution for now, but genjutsu can serve as an entry point."

Although he had never studied dōjutsu.

He had, however, studied genjutsu in depth—one could even say he was one of the foremost experts on genjutsu in the shinobi world.

Based on his brief observation just now, combined with his foundation in genjutsu, a spark of inspiration had already begun to flicker in his mind.

Ishihara's spirits immediately lifted.