Tailed Beast Clone Jinchuriki

On the fourth day, Tamura Hiroshi was secretly brought by Lord Dodai to the Research Department, located in a mountain hollow, still wearing a mask to avoid exposing his identity.

"So that's the Eight-Tails' tentacle?"

Looking through the glass window at the massive sealed tentacle inside, Tamura Hiroshi found it hard to understand the Eight-Tails' form.

This kind of octopus-tentacle lower body couldn't provide solid support—its structure was far too unreasonable.

"The Third Raikage was able to suppress the Eight-Tails, cutting off its tentacles multiple times during battle. Those tentacles have all been sealed and stored here.

Our village once produced two geniuses—the most heinous criminals, Kinkaku and Ginkaku. They devoured the flesh of the Nine-Tails and gained its power. We tried to replicate that, but we've never succeeded."

Lord Dodai sighed beside him. Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been too strong back then. If the Third Raikage hadn't mastered Hell Stab, he might not have been able to break through their Tailed Beast Cloaks.

"Lord Dodai mentioned that the use of tailed beasts imitates the First Hokage's wife—sealing a tailed beast inside a powerful ninja with sealing jutsu. But our village's sealing jutsu isn't advanced enough to seal a whole tailed beast.

A complete tailed beast is too strong and hard to seal, but just a part of one shouldn't be that difficult, right? That's definitely safer than directly devouring tailed beast flesh."

Staring at the giant octopus tentacle, Tamura Hiroshi offered his thoughts on the matter.

This wasn't really his idea either. In the future Fourth Great Ninja War, Kabuto Yakushi would seal the Eight-Tails' horn, cultivated by Orochimaru, into Fukai, unleashing tailed beast power.

Then there was that False Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from the Temple of Fire. Relying solely on collected Nine-Tails Chakra to become a jinchuriki proved this line of thinking was viable.

"Slap!"

"Why didn't we think of that?"

Lord Dodai froze for a moment, then slapped himself and grew excited.

Right. A complete tailed beast was hard to seal and hard to bear, but just tailed beast flesh wouldn't be nearly as difficult.

"This token will let you move freely through the research institute."

Taking out a token and handing it to Tamura Hiroshi, Lord Dodai rushed off excitedly to report this to the Third Raikage.

If this idea succeeded, Kumogakure would hit the jackpot.

"Give me a piece of the Eight-Tails' flesh."

Tamura Hiroshi said to the Anbu ninja guarding the door of the room where the Eight-Tails' tentacle was sealed, showing great interest in the tailed beast's flesh.

That Anbu ninja had seen Lord Dodai's attitude toward this person earlier, so he didn't say much. He opened the door and took out a specimen from the already-cut tentacle flesh, handing it to Tamura Hiroshi.

"So this is tailed beast chakra?"

Looking at the crimson chakra emanating from the flesh inside the bottle covered in sealing jutsu formulas, Tamura Hiroshi understood that this was the Eight-Tails' chakra.

"Where are the Sharingan stored?"

Sealing that bottle into the sealing scroll he'd brought, Tamura Hiroshi asked the Anbu ninja about the Sharingan's storage location.

"Follow me!"

The Anbu ninja formed hand signs to create a clone, signaling Tamura Hiroshi to follow, and led him to the laboratory where the Sharingan was being researched.

The researcher in charge of that area saw that the person was brought by an Anbu and held the Raikage's Assistant's Order, so he didn't object.

"Are there any discarded Sharingan for research?"

Flipping through the research reports on the Sharingan in the lab, Tamura Hiroshi asked for discarded Sharingan.

He knew the key to the Sharingan lay in its Dojutsu Power; the eye's structure was secondary.

And Kumogakure had already figured out the eye's structure, so there wasn't much to gain there.

"There are!"

Seeing that Tamura Hiroshi only asked for discarded Sharingan, the researcher breathed a sigh of relief. He took several bottles from a nearby preservation cabinet, inside which four dissected Sharingan were soaking.

"Give me a quiet room."

Taking those bottles, Tamura Hiroshi stated his request, wanting to try something.

The researcher didn't say much and led Tamura Hiroshi to a nearby break room.

"Hope this works."

Murmuring to himself, Tamura Hiroshi took out one Sharingan and held it in his hand, refining chakra to envelop it and activating the Chakra Absorption Technique.

The Chakra Absorption Technique wasn't rare; many ninjutsu had the property of absorbing an opponent's chakra, especially Earth Release and Water Release.

For example, Jirobo of the future Sound Five's Earth Style: Earth Prison Dome of Nothingness, and Kisame Hoshigaki could directly absorb an opponent's chakra.

Of course, Tamura Hiroshi's Chakra Absorption Technique was low-level, obtained earlier from Lord Dodai.

And its focus was on absorption, with poor refining capability. Without Water or Earth Release to boost it, its effect was even worse.

Under the Chakra Absorption Technique's effect, the already damaged Sharingan couldn't withstand the pressure and shattered. The Dojutsu Power inside was wrapped and absorbed by Tamura Hiroshi's chakra, quickly tingeing the pale blue chakra with a shade of crimson.

But this was merely a simple mixture, not fusion or refinement, because the Sharingan's Dojutsu Power was far too high-level, vastly surpassing Tamura Hiroshi's chakra.

This was the flaw of the Chakra Absorption Technique—it couldn't absorb chakra of a higher quality than one's own.

Still, this was enough. Tamura Hiroshi hadn't expected to refine the Sharingan's Dojutsu Power with his own strength—that was unrealistic.

For this, he had to rely on his Golden Finger.

Taking a deep breath, he decisively slapped that mass of crimson chakra onto his forehead, using the chakra of his own within it to guide and pull it into the spiritual world where his Golden Finger resided.

Sure enough, the Sharingan's Dojutsu Power was immediately scanned by the Golden Finger, which instinctively treated it as an external invader and suppressed it for decomposition.

Soon, four branded phantoms were separated out—still the same four as last time, with the final one being the most blurred and illusory.

Tamura Hiroshi glanced at the four phantoms, then used the power of the Fragmented Jade Piece to grind down the Sage of Six Paths, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and the fourth phantom. He then pushed the ground-up essence of those brands before the Ōtsutsuki Kaguya phantom.

As he had guessed, the Ōtsutsuki Kaguya phantom instinctively began to devour them, with the branded fragments of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the Sage of Six Paths being consumed the fastest, followed by the final brand.

That last brand was the most deeply hidden and of the highest rank, and the Kaguya Phantom struggled greatly to devour and refine it. However, since it had already been ground down by the Fragmented Jade Piece's power into basic nourishment, it lacked the strength to resist.

As she devoured the three brands, the Kaguya Phantom solidified slightly. Then Tamura Hiroshi pushed the Sharingan's Dojutsu Power toward her, and she instinctively devoured that as well, after which a faint blood light appeared on her brow.

"Guess was correct—Chakra can be used to awaken and strengthen Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's will and power, and the Chakra obtained from the bloodline descendants left by the Sage of Six Paths carries the strongest will."

Looking at the blood light on the Kaguya Phantom's brow, Tamura Hiroshi confirmed a previous speculation.

This was a guess he had formed based on Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's resurrection and the Sage of Six Paths' corpse-reviving appearance during the Fourth War. Both had left their own wills within their Chakra, which was why Princess Kaguya said she was taking back her own Chakra rather than seizing or harvesting it.

This proved that it was originally her Chakra, not merely a simple source.

Thus, anyone in the ninja world would find it nearly impossible to resist Princess Kaguya—even more so than facing Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and others. It was a suppression rooted deep in bloodline and the very essence of Chakra, unless one could reach the Six Paths level.

And this was precisely what he valued, which was why he had chosen the branded phantom of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.

Of course, the most important thing was that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was the only female among the four, and she seemed a bit naive. Even if this Kaguya Phantom gained sentience in the future, she would be much easier to fool.