"Living Corpse Reincarnation: Split Technique!"
Orochimaru pressed his hands together, and a transparent spirit—an exact duplicate of his own soul—burst out of his body!
In an instant, it plunged into the blood-red snake.
The little snake's flesh swelled abruptly, growing rapidly like a proliferating virus until it became a body identical to Orochimaru's.
Then the split Orochimaru opened his eyes, exuding the same cold aura as the original!
Meanwhile, the original Orochimaru was panting, drenched in cold sweat and utterly spent.
The Living Corpse Reincarnation: Split Technique was a derivative Ninjutsu Orochimaru had created based on Living Corpse Reincarnation.
Orochimaru deliberately split his own soul, then attached it to rapidly regenerating flesh, creating a genuine clone outside his body that was identical to the original!
The development of this flesh had come from the blood Orochimaru obtained from Fujin and Raijin four years earlier.
Unlike other Clone Techniques, which were fragile and lasted only a short time, this kind of clone could persist for years and possessed seventy percent of the original's strength!
No one could even tell the clone apart from the original.
Of course, while this technique was bizarre and powerful, it had its own drawbacks.
First, there was the agony of splitting one's soul. The way Orochimaru had been left utterly spent made it clear that few people could endure it.
Second, after the soul was split, the original's strength also fell to seventy percent, and his soul was left with only half its former strength, making him extremely vulnerable to mental Genjutsu.
If the split lasted too long, the souls of both the Living Corpse Clone and the original would become unstable and could even collapse.
Setting those drawbacks aside, the Living Corpse Clone was still extremely useful as a strategic tool in certain situations.
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