"Why?"
Uchiha Itachi frowned slightly, looking at Orochimaru with confusion in his eyes. "My power has already entered the Six Paths Level. Even if my physical strength is inferior to that of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, the difference is negligible."
"How could I possibly die?"
Yet in Orochimaru's eyes, Uchiha Itachi's reaction was incredibly naïve.
"You can compare your current condition to how you were before obtaining the Tenseigan."
Orochimaru glanced at him indifferently.
Uchiha Itachi instantly understood what he meant, his pupils filled with shock.
"You mean that if I forcibly inject Claw Scum's genes, my body will reject them, just like when I forcibly obtained the Tenseigan?"
"How could that be?"
His power was no longer what it had once been.
Yet injecting Claw Scum's power would still make his body unable to bear it!
"This is the power of the God of Ōtsutsuki. It is like the difference between humans and ants."
Orochimaru explained with fervent eyes, "An ant can lift something many times its own weight and believe itself incomparably powerful. But a human only needs to use one-thousandth of their strength to crush it."
"Uchiha Itachi, you are like that ant right now."
"And the power of the God of Ōtsutsuki is the human."
"If you forcibly transplant it, your reaction will be even more severe than before. Your body may collapse outright!"
Uchiha Itachi instantly understood Orochimaru's meaning.
He could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
"The reason you created an artificial human by fusing Claw Scum's genes with mine was so that, once the genes were injected into me, my body would not be unable to bear them and suffer genetic collapse."
"Smart."
Orochimaru quickly returned to his usual calm. "Don't feel inferior. That is the most powerful lifeform in this universe."
Uchiha