I dismissed Yamato at this point much to his fusion but I did at least expin why I no longer needed his assistance. Simply put his usefulness in this regard was at it's end after I learnt the ratio since he also had no clue how to utilize that energy iionally. Given how that energy existed in every living thing I found but not the dead or inanimate things I theorized it was either pure lifeforce or vitality. trary to what many think those aren't the same thing at all and have very different implications.-

  Lifeforce is the energy of life itself and so long as something is alive it will possess this. Death occurs the instant you run out of lifeforce with no ce of recovery. Vitality oherhand refers to your ability to heal and your over all vigor and lifespan. The Senju and Uzumaki s are renowned for their incredible vitalities that allow them to live upwards of a hundred and fifty years while possessing sturdy bodies that heal much faster than normal. If you run out of vitality for whatever reason that didn't mean you were dead as you could recover your vitality with treatment and medie.-

  More often than not though you will die as that is a very desperate situation to be in. Vitality iingly enough is something that shinobi have a wide variety of ways to influence so I was fairly certain that the energy Yamato used passively to utilize Wood release was lifeforce as none of those methods I had worked on it. It also would expin why Wood release was so special and a simple elemental fusion couldn't create it. Unlike all the other Kekkai genkai that created an inanimate material Wood release creates actual living wood or trees.-

  With that in mind it became easy to uand why it would take a spark of lifeforce to create the chakra for it. It also expins how no one could figure out how to recreate the Kekkai genkai without using the first's cells. This included the sed Hokage who had no doubt ran numerous tests on his brother to uand the Kekkai genkais every detail. As far as I was aware lifeforce couldn't be sensed uality so obviously the sparks of it being used during the creation of the chakra would be missed.-

  Ironically I could roughly uand how the first Hokage might have actally discovered Wood release without realizing this energy was to bme, he had too much! While lifeford vitality weren't the same thing they were ected. It was not a stretage that the firsts vitality that was so powerful he could regee from grievous injuries in moments also made his lifeforce ridiculously robust. At that point he would just need dumb luck to create the perfect ratio of chakras to incite his lifeforto creating Wood release chakra. This also expins why when the cells were grafted onto others they went wild and created trees using the lifeford chakra of the hosts.-

  The Kekkai genkai had been all but carved into the very lifeforce of each cell the first possessed so naturally when stimuted by the grafting Wood release is what it defaults to creating. With this theory in mind I focused oing the perfect ratio of chakras before cirg it through my body in hopes of even actally ing the lifefor my body into sparking the fusion into Wood release chakra. It should be uood that my own vitality and lifeforce was at the very least equal to the firsts so if he could make Wood release acc to my theory I should be able to as well.-

  It took me over a week of near stant practice but I finally succeeded whei spark of my lifeforce fred up and hit the chakra I was cirg. Immediately the two chakras fused the instant the lifeforce was added and the rest of the chakra soon followed suit as if pressured into the transformation by that smallest amount of chakra. I grinned widely as I felt the robust and sturdy feeling chakra flowing through my body.-

  I pressed my palm against the crystallirunk of the tree in my chamber and released the chakra into it. Immediately the tree started to thi and grow taller but iingly stopped just before reag the ceiling or walls of the chamber. I didn't mind however as this was more than good enough a test for me of the Kekkai genkai. Eveer the density of natural energy skyrocketed after this boost in growth for the tree to the point the very air now hung a thin rainbow colored mist visible to even a normal eye.-

  'So this is what natural energy looks like when it's density reaches a critical point.' I thought as I zily swirled my hand through the mist.

  I no longer o worry about being able to use Wood release as I could visibly see that my lifeforce had beore active after the first successful use of the Kekkai genkai. With my new uanding of the kekkai genkai in hand I wrote it down on a separate scroll thaome for my limit colle so that my sensei could try and cultivate the Wood release before I publish my copy of the limit colle.-

  "You actually did it!?" she excimed in shock when I presehe scroll to her.

  "I will admit if it wasn't for Yamato and my eyes I would have failed to discover the secret to it as well." I said frankly.

  "Was it that hard to find?" she asked with a frown.

  "Read the tents of the scroll and you will uand the rather urouble disc the secret would normally have been." I said seriously.

  She wasted no time at all unfurling the scroll and reading it carefully and she quickly had her eyes widen in uanding.

  "Lifeforce. It makes perfect sense now." she muttered with a sigh before looking up at me again. "I would like to ask that you don't include this Kekkai genkai in the colle you publish for the vilge. Your own personal copy is fi this shouldn't be something that ever gets out that we cracked it's secrets or the other vilges will move to stop us from spreading this to our forces." she said seriously.

  I shook my head "There's o hide it, if they e I will cut them down personally." I said calmly.