Once the clone infant had completed elementalization, it transformed into a streak of light and shot out of the culture dish, heading straight for Nawaki's original body.
The green light swiftly crossed several meters and entered Nawaki's original body before vanishing. The clone within the culture dish disappeared as well, leaving behind only the transparent culture fluid.
Watching this miraculous scene unfold before his eyes, Orochimaru hurriedly asked, "Nawaki-kun, how does it feel?"
After examining the condition inside his body, Nawaki nodded with a smile. "Very good! The clone has fused perfectly into my original body, as though the two had always been a single whole. And I can separate it into an independent clone at any time using the True Clone Technique!"
As he spoke, Nawaki demonstrated. A green radiance emerged from his right hand, then transformed into a tiny infant before slowly flowing back into his right hand like liquid.
"Unfortunately, the clone's cellular strength is insufficient! If it wants to keep up with the original body's progress, it has to begin cultivating from scratch!"
Nawaki carefully clenched the fair, tender right hand formed from the clone's cells and shook his head as he explained the technique's drawback. "Moreover, clone cells that have not undergone cultivation have a maximum lifespan of just over a hundred years. That's more than half shorter than the lifespan of the original body, which has been nourished by Qi cultivation. So if it does not cultivate, it is of no use whatsoever when it comes to immortality."
Hearing this, Orochimaru asked thoughtfully, "Then how effective is cultivation? Is the clone's cultivation speed different from that of the original body?"
"Limited by the strength of its meridians, the clone's cultivation speed is far inferior to the original body's. However, it will slowly catch up