Naruto: Starting With Creating A Genius Persona

But the moment Morihara Hayato completed his final hand seal, a sudden change occurred.

The deathly silent Box of Ultimate Bliss seemed to have finally caught the scent of its prey. The human faces on all four sides abruptly opened their eyes, which instantly glowed with crimson light like four blood-red lamps, their beams shooting straight into the surrounding fog.

In an instant, the surrounding earth was stained with an eerie crimson glow, and even the mist seemed to have been soaked in blood.

The Seven-Tails Jinchuriki’s body suddenly convulsed.

The next moment, immense quantities of visible chakra surged out of his body like seawater bursting through a broken dam, drawn by an invisible force as they frantically poured toward the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

"Hm? Could it be that the Box of Ultimate Bliss really does..."

Witnessing this scene, Gari could not help feeling somewhat uncertain, only for the eyes on all four human faces of the Box of Ultimate Bliss to close again moments later, returning it to its previous deathly stillness.

"Why was it only that little?"

Seeing this, Gari was immediately filled with disappointment. The Box of Ultimate Bliss had indeed absorbed a considerable amount of chakra, but it was nowhere near enough to drain the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki dry.

And if the Box of Ultimate Bliss became saturated with only this much chakra, how could it possibly grant wishes?

’I knew I shouldn’t have expected anything from this thing.’

’Only a bunch of country bumpkins like Village Hidden in the Grass would treasure something like this.’

Gari shook his head inwardly, and he wasn’t the only one disappointed; everyone from the Village Hidden in the Grass, especially its upper echelon, was greatly disappointed and began doubting whether the Box of Ultimate Bliss was genuine.

At that moment, however, Mui seemed to think of something and suddenly exclaimed, "Teacher, we’ve succeeded! We’ve already satisfied the Box of Ultimate Bliss’s chakra requirement! Hurry and begin the ritual!"

Mui was right; the Box of Ultimate Bliss had indeed absorbed only part of the Seven-Tails’ chakra, but before this, it had already absorbed the chakra of generations of Kusagakure ninja, accumulating it over countless generations until it had reached an unimaginably enormous amount.

At this moment, the portion of the Seven-Tails’ chakra was merely the final straw that broke the camel’s back, the last key needed to open that forbidden gate.

By then, Morihara Hayato also seemed to realize this. He immediately formed another hand seal, and in the next instant, another dramatic change occurred.

The four human faces of the Box of Ultimate Bliss simultaneously opened their eyes once more.

A pillar of white light shot toward the sky from the top of the box, piercing straight through the impossibly dense gray mist above Gray Mist Valley before stabbing into the clouds and vanishing in a flash.

Then, an endless torrent of icy, baleful chakra surged wildly out of the Box of Ultimate Bliss, completely staining the surrounding gray mist black.

The darkness in the sky seemed to solidify at that instant, layer upon layer intertwining together, becoming darker and lower, as though the entire firmament were slowly collapsing to swallow the earth whole.

At the same time, a mournful wail and a nightmarish voice like a howling winter wind softly echoed in the hearts of everyone present, its tone filled with irresistible temptation.

"Brings forth with Satori, actuates with Satori, and ends with Satori."

The instant this nightmarish voice echoed in everyone’s hearts, inexplicable emotions of joy, sorrow, anger, and happiness welled up within them.

Some ninja with weaker resolve had already been unconsciously infected by those emotions, and their faces twisted into expressions of manic ecstasy, unbearable grief, furious rage, or foolish laughter, making them appear indescribably eerie in the pitch-black surroundings.

"Something’s wrong!"

Gari, Roshi, and Kakuzu, the three strongest ninja present, also sensed those inexplicable emotions.

However, the three of them were ultimately battle-hardened veterans with wills as unshakable as bedrock. Their chakra erupted violently, instantly driving those strange emotional disturbances from their hearts.

"Gari, it looks like this Box of Ultimate Bliss might actually have something to it."

Roshi folded his arms across his chest, his tone unusually grave. "Go and carry out the old man’s mission."

Gari nodded without another word. His figure flashed, disappearing from where he stood.

The next second, he appeared before the Village Hidden in the Grass group. Under the dissatisfied yet wary gazes of the Kusagakure ninja, he shoved Morihara Hayato to the ground with a single push.

"Gari-sama, what is the meaning of this? Didn’t we agree that we would..."

The Village Hidden in the Grass higher-ups all turned pale, yet none of them dared step forward rashly out of fear of the Village Hidden in the Stones’ strength.

Gari paid them no attention whatsoever. Instead, he raised his head toward the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which was emitting ever more intense waves of sinister, filthy chakra, and loudly declared, "Box of Ultimate Bliss! Grant my wish! Give the Village Hidden in the Stones the power to dominate the entire Shinobi World!"

As mentioned before, from top to bottom, the Village Hidden in the Stones had never truly believed in the legends surrounding the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

Although they harbored a sliver of hope that it might be real, no one had seriously considered beforehand what wish they would actually make.

As the commander of this mission, Gari had no time to deliberate after everything happened so suddenly, so he could only blurt out what he believed to be the safest wish: To grant the Village Hidden in the Stones the power to dominate the Shinobi World.

After making his wish, Gari stared fixedly at the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

However, to his disappointment, the box continued releasing those dark, foul chakra fluctuations. The four human faces remained as silent as ever, and the box itself did not move in the slightest, showing absolutely no intention of responding to his wish.

"Why? Why didn’t the Box of Ultimate Bliss grant my wish? Could it be that making wishes is nothing but..."

Gari suddenly turned his head, his gaze as sharp as lightning as it shot toward Mui and the twelve Kusagakure advisors. Before he could finish speaking, however, he was interrupted by a burst of laughter.

"Hahahaha..."

A low, hoarse laugh, thick with mockery, drifted over from the ground nearby.

It was Morihara Hayato.

Lying on the ground, Morihara Hayato braced himself with both hands and slowly struggled back to his feet.

"Gari-sama, the matter of making wishes is, of course, real, but..." Morihara Hayato chuckled while coughing, leaving the second half of his sentence unfinished.

"What do you mean?"

Gari’s brows furrowed sharply while killing intent flashed through his eyes, but Morihara Hayato no longer paid Gari any attention. Straightening his back, he faced the Box of Ultimate Bliss that was spewing endless darkness, spread both arms wide, and shouted in a frenzied, fanatical, devout voice: "Box of Ultimate Bliss! Grant my wish! Bestow upon me an immortal body with infinite power!"

The moment his words fell, under Gari’s uncertain gaze, the eyes on all four human faces of the Box of Ultimate Bliss suddenly snapped open. Four pairs of scarlet pupils lit up simultaneously in the darkness like four blood-red lamps rising from the depths of the abyss, staring fixedly at Morihara Hayato.

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