Chapter 166 Pillar cells

"In fact, they are just some ordinary little experiments. The only ones that might interest you are probably the ones about immortality and the first generation of cells."

He looked at Lu Lin and told him the experiment that he thought would most interest Lu Lin:

"Eternal life concerns me personally, so..."

"It doesn't matter. You don't have to tell me."

Lu Lin said that he was not interested in Orochimaru's immortality or even eternal life. After all, what Orochimaru had researched seemed to require tearing his own soul apart.

But your soul is only so big, and after splitting many times, your will will become extremely fragile. This is why in the original work, Orochimaru is no match for Itachi at all, and why he was easily defeated by Sasuke.

There was no other reason. As two geniuses of the Uchiha clan, even if Sasuke was not good at illusion techniques, he could easily confuse Orochimaru, whose soul had been torn apart many times.

So Lu Lin naturally didn't want to have his combat power weakened by such things. Moreover, in terms of lifespan, the Otsutsuki clan seemed to be able to live for quite a long time.

It is also possible that they swallowed the fruit of the sacred tree, but this is not a big problem. Lu Lin still has a long life, so he does not need to worry about these things.

Orochimaru was relieved after getting Lu Lin's answer. If Lu Lin really insisted on asking for his secret of immortality, it would be troublesome.

How could a person with his personality tell others the secret that concerns his life safety?

"Tell me about the cells of Senju Hashirama that you studied. I'm quite curious about it."

Orochimaru nodded and slowly began to narrate:

"Regarding the first generation of cells, it was the Second Hokage who started the research. He wanted to know why among all the Senju clan, only the First Generation could use Wood Release.

And because Konoha was full of enemies at that time, the Second Hokage also wanted to study the cells of the First Hokage thoroughly and try to see if he could reproduce the First Hokage's style.

It's a pity that the Second Hokage had never studied it thoroughly before his death, but fortunately, some results have been achieved.

It wasn’t until I entered the roots, came into contact with these things, and took over the results left by the second generation that I discovered, as the experiments progressed, that babies were the most suitable for the first generation of cells.”

Seeing that Lu Lin just frowned and didn't say anything more, Orochimaru was relieved and continued:

"After countless babies died, I finally succeeded in fusing a baby with the cells of the first generation and made him survive. He also mastered Wood Release. Unfortunately, for some reason, the power of that baby's Wood Release was not much different from that of ordinary ninjutsu."

Orochimaru smacked his lips. If he could reproduce the power of the first generation, he, Orochimaru, would definitely be able to achieve immortality with this power.

"So, this is the only successful case?"

"There is another one, which is considered half successful."

After thinking about it carefully, Orochimaru said:

"The arm of Danzo that has always been wrapped in bandages was synthesized with the cells of the first generation, and through experiments, it was found that any ninjutsu released through that arm is much more powerful than the ninjutsu of the other arm.

Unfortunately, with Danzo's strength, he can only control an arm's worth of primary cells at most. If he controls more, he will be backfired and die."

Stroking his chin, Lu Lin nodded thoughtfully. He was thinking that he possessed the Yamato version of Wood Release. Although the power of Wood Release was greatly increased after the lottery, it was still far from the power of Hashirama. If he transplanted Hashirama's cells, could he reproduce that kind of power?

After thinking for a long time, he decided not to do so, because he suspected that the reason why Hashirama's Wood Release was so powerful was partly because of Hashirama's strength, and on the other hand, it was because he had the soul power of Ashura in his body.

The combination of the two formed the wood escape technique that could destroy the world.

Seeing Lu Lin lost in thought, Orochimaru did not ask him, but just drank sake silently.

As for recommending to Lu Lin to fuse Hashirama's cells? Don't be ridiculous. Even with Lu Lin's strength, it is very likely that more than half of his body can be replaced with Hashirama's cells. But with Lu Lin's own strength, how could he allow these things to be fused?

Besides, Lu Lin is still very young, only 25 years old, and he has a long way to go. Orochimaru doesn't believe that Lu Lin's strength will remain stagnant at this stage.

"I am quite satisfied with what you told me."

After figuring it all out, Lu Lin looked at Orochimaru with satisfaction. What the other party said was no different from what he knew. It seemed that even if Orochimaru had not sincerely joined the Tea Kingdom, at least his attitude was very good.

"From your description, it seems that you are quite good at cell research."

The second generation Tobirama was such a smart man, and he created countless forbidden techniques, but his research on the first generation cells was still not as in-depth as Orochimaru's.

Lu Lin didn't believe it. As Tobirama's elder brother, Hashirama would refuse if his younger brother asked him for some skin cells or blood.

So even with such good conditions, there is still no research result. It seems that Tobirama is not as talented as Orochimaru in cell research.

"Well, as you know, the land in the Tea Country is not as easy to cultivate as that in the Fire Country, and the yield is not as good as that in the Fire Country, so I hope you can improve the land, or you can improve the grain seeds, how about that?

Don't worry, you don't have to put all your energy on this. The current grain output is still enough for the entire Tea Kingdom to consume. You can still take some time to conduct your own experiments. I don't care about these things. As for if you need anything, you can ask Mingyan.

If he can't decide, you can come to me. As for the research time limit, this thing does not exist for me, so you can fully display your own talents, how about it?"

"Even if it's for human experiments?"

This thing is strictly prohibited in Konoha, and Orochimaru is not sure whether Lu Lin has any thoughts on this thing.

"Naturally."

Lu Lin nodded and said that since he unified the Tea Kingdom, he had captured too many bandits, robbers, spies from other villages, or ninjas from other villages who came to the Tea Kingdom to take advantage of the situation.

Those who behaved really badly were either killed on the spot or sent to work in dark factories. Those who behaved generally badly but were also unforgivable were locked up in dungeons.

After all, he doesn't have so many factories yet to fully absorb these people, so he can only keep them for the time being.

Now that Orochimaru is here, these people will naturally become consumables.

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(Happy weekend, brothers! Free gifts are available)