The Broken Understanding

Under the Laboratory's cold lights, Minamoto Takuya injected the final portion of chakra energy belonging to the Six-Tails into a specially made container.

As the container's seal emitted a faint hum, he slowly raised his head and swept his gaze across the nine neatly arranged containers before him.

Deep blue, crimson, emerald... Tailed Beast Chakra of every color flowed slowly within them, radiating heart-stirring energy fluctuations.

"Finally... they're all gathered."

At this moment, he theoretically held the key to awakening the Ten-Tails. He only needed to let the slumbering Little Ten-Tails absorb this Tailed Beast Chakra, and he would likely take the crucial step toward becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

Yet there was no fanaticism or impatience in Minamoto Takuya's eyes.

He stared at the still-small Little Ten-Tails lifeform within the Cultivation Tank and rejected the thought of acting immediately.

The time had not yet come.

The Little Ten-Tails was still too small. The total amount of Tailed Beast Chakra it could bear was far too limited. Even if he succeeded now, its chakra would only amount to roughly a tenth of a normal Ten-Tails'.

Even that tenth would stand at the peak of the Shinobi World, and even Minamoto Takuya's current chakra reserves could not compare to it, but...

Minamoto Takuya was not comparing it to himself, nor to the current Shinobi World, but to those of the Six Paths!

So it was still not enough!

More importantly, he himself was not yet ready.

It was not a matter of insufficient strength. Judging by the Original Work, his power had basically surpassed Obito Uchiha before he obtained the Ten-Tails' power.

The true obstacle was that his bloodline fusion through the Chimera Technique had yet to be fully completed.

Though the Chimera Technique he had painstakingly developed had successfully pieced several