"It worked."
Shinji let out a soft breath.
Relying on the overwhelming power of his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, he had forcibly fused the two pairs of Ketsuryūgan with the Susanoo Lamp. At last, he had combined them into a single pair of brand-new Ketsuryūgan.
As luck would have it, a Blood Pool lay within his sight. He fixed his gaze on it and tried to activate his new Ketsuryūgan.
Splash, splash, splash.
In an instant, the Blood Pool began to boil, as if lava beneath it were erupting!
"I didn't use any blood. Just looking at it was enough to make the Blood Pool stir?"
He was a little surprised.
Before, he had been able to control the Blood Pool because he had dripped his own blood into it. Now, he was only watching it from a distance, yet it had begun to stir, almost as if it were alive and responding to him.
No—more accurately, it was responding to the brand-new Ketsuryūgan he wielded!
There was no doubt about it.
The Ketsuryūgan fused with the Susanoo Lamp had taken its blood-manipulation ability to a whole new level!
Suddenly, an idea struck Shinji. He lightly bit his finger, smeared the blood over both hands, then raised them and began forming Hand Seals. "Shadow Clone Technique!"
Poof!
Amid a cloud of white smoke, another Shinji appeared.
Shinji's original self walked up to the Shadow Clone, took up a Kunai, and slashed straight across its forehead.
"Huh?"
His pupils contracted, and a look of surprise and suspicion appeared on his face.
Normally, when a Shadow Clone was damaged, it disappeared at once, and its remaining Chakra carried the memories it had gathered back to its original self.
But after the Shadow Clone before him was injured, it didn't disappear. Instead, blood ran