Uchiha Shunichi had not expected that he would actually create a brand-new life. The Ten-Tails was alive; there was no doubt about that.
Although the Ten-Tails had not displayed sufficient intelligence in the original story, it was indeed a living being.
Unlike the nine Tailed Beasts that had split off from it, the Ten-Tails existed to serve the Ōtsutsuki Clan, so it rarely possessed a personality of its own.
"Ten-Tails... no! God Tree... You are a newborn life. Will you recognize me as your master? And can you still bear the God Tree's fruit?" Uchiha Shunichi asked as he looked at the God Tree before him.
"The meaning of my existence is to serve you. As long as I have sufficient energy, I can bear a God Tree Fruit!" The God Tree swayed its branches and leaves, sending a thought into Uchiha Shunichi's mind.
Uchiha Shunichi was quite delighted by this development.
Originally, he had thought he would create a counterfeit Ten-Tails, something like the incomplete Ten-Tails that had first appeared in the original work.
But it seemed that the Tailed Beast Chakra he had provided did not contain the Tailed Beasts' wills, while the original God Tree branches had been refined and modified by him, turning them into a new life-form.
Though the steps were similar, what Uchiha Shunichi had done was more akin to cloning. By disassembling the essence beforehand, reassembling it, and then nurturing it, a new life could be produced.
Just like a cloned sheep...
"Congratulations. It looks like you succeeded!" Queen of Roran looked at the God Tree in surprise. She could sense that it was a living being, an exceptionally unusual living being.
"It is not truly complete yet. Though I do not wish to admit it, the God Tree I created is merely