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"Who's your dad!" Maki said, somewhat displeased. "I'm Dad's only daughter!"

"Oh, just kidding. Master is like a father, after all."

Tsunade dared not continue her foolishness and immediately deactivated the transformation jutsu, reverting to her original adult form.

Chiri sighed helplessly, "Sigh, Tsunade, you really are..."

She never had a temper with her goddaughter and let her do whatever she wanted in daily life, but she still had to make things clear on serious matters.

"Why did you bring Maki to the casino again?"

“Making money is nothing to be ashamed of. Little Zhenxi has always been very lucky. Every time she comes, I can earn millions of taels of silver, which I can use as funding for the research institute. My advisor works so hard to make money for the village, and I want to help him share some of the burden.”

As the sun set, the scene before him involuntarily brought back memories of six years ago.

……

Konoha 26th year.

What you keep in mind will eventually come to pass. Through Shen'er's unremitting efforts, Zhili finally became pregnant.

The birth of life is truly wonderful.

Shen Er had this thought in his heart from the bottom of his heart: when people have constraints, their ambition will fade a lot, and even Shen Er is no exception.

Looking at Chiri's increasingly protruding belly, he even considered giving up and becoming a good Hokage, living a peaceful life with his family. However, he quickly dismissed this thought as soon as it arose.

To stop now would be to betray the self that has come all this way.

If this ninja world ultimately needs someone to unite all forces and stand above the heavens, then that person can only be him.

The plan to plunder tailed beasts and acquire bloodline limits will not waver.

...

In the 27th year of Konoha, Jiri and Jinji's child was born.

Even before she was born, she had already been named Zenin Maki.

The birth of Zenin Maki was shrouded in mystery.

First, the level of secrecy involved far exceeded that of any Jinchuriki in the history of the ninja world. The entire process was personally overseen by Jin, and apart from Tsunade, who was invited to assist with the delivery, no one else knew about it.

In addition, there is the ritual of passing on the original chakra. Just as Minato Namikaze sealed half of the Nine-Tails' chakra into Naruto's body when he was born, Shinji and Chiri made the same choice.

Before giving birth, the couple conducted several experiments to confirm that it would not have a negative impact on the child before they began to practice it on Maki.

Chiri released the primordial chakra accumulated over many years within the Yin Seal and, guided by the Four Symbols Seal, sealed it into Maki's body. This primordial chakra will be her greatest asset in awakening her Sharingan once she becomes a qualified ninja.

Tsunade watched this process with bated breath. She didn't know what the original chakra meant, but she could see that the Yin Seal tattoo and the Mangekyou Sharingan on Jiri's body were lighting up.

This gave them a new understanding of the Zen couple's audacity, and also helped them understand why the Second Master often said, "The Uchiha are all crazy."

It must be that wicked woman, Sister Zhili, who egged the advisor on to do such a dangerous thing...

If anything goes wrong in any of these steps, or if the baby's constitution is slightly weak, the infant will definitely die because they cannot withstand the force.

...

The banquet for Maki's birth was very grand, even surpassing the scale of Tsunade's birth fourteen years ago.

The ambitious and proud Shen Er would not compromise himself in such a matter. Putting aside the smaller ninja clans, as the intermediary between the Senju and Uchiha clans, Shen Er undoubtedly had immense influence. Respectable ninjas from both clans had to give him face and were invited to attend this grand banquet.

In a sense, the Senju and Uchiha clans achieved a historic reconciliation.

at the banquet.

Shen Er sat in the main seat and looked around.

He was the one who "had a daughter late in life," but apart from him, everyone else was truly old.

Compared to more than a decade ago, the representatives of each ethnic group sitting in the main seats are almost all new faces.

Uchiha family.

Uchiha Kagami, Uchiha Kenji, and Uchiha Sosuke, as the three giants of the Uchiha clan in the present day, sat at the front of the banquet. The new generation was led by Kenji's son, Uchiha Fugaku, along with the Eighth Hokage, Tetsukata, and others—all of whom would become the main force of the future police department.

On the Senju clan side, Mito and Senju Momoka were still in charge.

Mito looked much older than before. Now in her sixties, her once vibrant red hair had lost its shine, and the wrinkles on her cheeks had become more pronounced.

When Shen Er saw Mito, the first thing that came to mind was that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki might be about to be replaced.

He needed to create or choose a suitable new vessel before Kushina Uzumaki was sent to Konoha. Faced with this problem, Shen realized that becoming the Four-Tails' jinchūriki was somewhat ill-considered.

In the following years.

With nothing else to do until he made a new breakthrough at the Root Research Institute, he devoted more of his energy to his daughter.

Shen Er, who was always diligent in his duties, was absent from work more and more often. To outsiders, especially Zhili, this was a manifestation of his fatherly love.

Only Shen Er himself knew that while paternal love did occupy the majority of his time, there was also a mix of thoughts of "surveillance" and "research."

Although the Earth Grudge is a spirit life form, after decades of integration, it has long since become one with him, and it is not wrong to say that it is a bloodline limit, just as he initially claimed.

Before this, there were no valuable reference cases, and it was impossible to determine whether the children born to such a special individual would inherit certain traits.

Concern can cloud judgment. In the past, before deciding to have a child, Kakuzu, who was in Akatsuki, would have definitely ordered a woman to bear him a child as a test.

With no precedent to follow, we could only treat Maki as an object of observation and continuously record the changes that occurred during her growth.

The result was completely unexpected...

When I was three years old.

While handling official business at the Hokage Building, Chiri also personally served as a tutor at home, guiding Zenin Maki in refining chakra.

At the moment she successfully refined chakra for the first time, the Earth Grudge appeared.

Twisted black lines spread from all over her body, and Maki burst into tears on the spot. It wasn't until Shinji also unleashed her own Earth Grudge Lines that the child's crying stopped. The Earth Grudge Yu within her seemed to have come to understand human nature, and sensing the intimidation of the ancestor of Earth Grudges, it was so frightened that it shrank back into Maki's body.

The Earth Grudge Yu Zhen was refined into a bloodline limit, which can be passed down along with the bloodline.

In this way, all future generations will be immortal beings, able to live a long life as long as they are willing to continuously replace their hearts.

This is a good thing.

Just when Shen Er thought it was over, what shocked him even more was yet to come.

The Earth Grudge Line shrank back into Maki's body, leaving only her right hand sticking out as a pointed tip.

When she pinched the chakra test strip with her left hand, "grass" began to grow on it.

Grass... that's a sign of Wood Release!

The temporary bloodline limit obtained through the plunder of the Earth Grudge Demon was also passed on to his descendants.

His situation is only temporary, but the child has become permanent?

Greatly shocked, Shen conducted another test and confirmed that Maki only possessed Wood Release and Fire Release bloodlines. She did not inherit Water Release, Storm Release, or Lightning Release.

Wood Release originated from him, and Fire Release originated from Jiri.

Therefore, Shen Er could only conclude that he had been marinated in the heart of the Wood Release, which contained the power of the Divine Tree, and turned into a "vegetative state".

His Wood Release technique is weaker than Hashirama Senju's, and Maki's Wood Release is weaker than his own. By the next generation, the remaining power of the Divine Tree will likely be diluted to almost nothing.

However, only time and experimentation can confirm the truth.

Chapter 209 Use the thread in your left hand to protect the grass in your right.

The prophecy of Wood Release, which Hashirama Senju placed high hopes on, did indeed come true, and it did so twice.

However, it did not appear in the Senju bloodline on either occasion, as if it had been replaced by another species and stolen by this outsider, Shinji.

Maki's childish voice pulled Shin back to reality: "Daddy, what's this?"

He glanced at the ashes of the test paper in her left hand and the exposed lines of resentment, then at the test paper in her right hand where grass and trees had sprouted, and placed both hands on her shoulders, saying:

"Maki, promise me. No matter what, you must use the 'fire' and 'thread' in your left hand to protect the 'grass' in your right hand! Forever!"

"Never use the 'grass' of your right hand in front of anyone unless it is a matter of life and death."

Zenin Maki was very clever and immediately understood: "Does that include Mom?"

"……include."

Even the fact that Maki possesses Wood Release is still kept secret, let alone revealing Maki's Wood Release to the public.

With him around, Zenin Maki won't have the chance to face a "life-or-death situation." It's not too late to reveal the origin of Wood Release to the outside world after the truth has been cleared up.

"And what about this line?"

“This is called the Heavenly Compassion Line.” Shen Er stroked her head. “If you’re not afraid, you can use it freely. The same goes for Fire Release.”

Maki nodded.

She was too young to understand the special nature of Wood Release, nor did she grasp the meaning this ability represented. But she unconditionally believed in and obeyed Shen's instructions. She might occasionally rebel against her strict mother, but she was always obedient to her kind father.

At this point, Shen Er had a clearer understanding of the theory of bloodline, and unsurprisingly, each generation was stronger than the last.

Maki was able to independently refine chakra at the age of three, clearly inheriting Jiri's ninjutsu talent.

The Sharingan hasn't manifested yet due to his young age, but the original chakra sealed within his body by the Four Symbols Seal will subtly influence him as he grows. Even without strong stimulation, awakening the Sharingan in the future is highly probable.

In addition, she inherited Wood Release from Jin. With innate Wood Release and a natural Sharingan, her potential is even higher than Jin's; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her a sage.

Maki is only one piece of the puzzle—chakra—to become the perfect hexagonal ninja. At least so far, from Shinji's observation, Maki's chakra level isn't exceptionally high compared to ordinary children.

Having an innate chakra reserve that isn't excessive isn't a problem; it can be completely compensated for later through training in the Yin Seal.

If she doesn't master the Yin Seal, he would go to heaven and earth to retrieve the Sunagakure Dragon Vein and the Zero-Tails from the Sky Fortress, and seal them into her body as a chakra charger.

As Shinji's daughter, Maki has lived in Rome since birth.

The Hokage, a loving father, had already paved the way for her entire future.

Since his daughter, relying on bloodline theory, stood at the end of countless ninja paths from birth, it wouldn't be an unacceptable mistake for her to be a little lazy in her training.

In the ninja world, having a wonderful childhood is an extremely precious thing.

Especially for Maki, who possesses the Uchiha bloodline, her childhood was of great help, both in healing her life and in awakening her Sharingan through mental shock and stimulation.

Speaking of the Uchiha bloodline, there are still some conservative old-fashioned people in the Uchiha clan who believe that the bloodline should not be lost to outsiders.

They argued that Maki should revert to the Uchiha surname.