All along, Uchiha Ensei had actually been afraid of this thing cloned from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's cells.
After all, the process had gone far too smoothly, and the gains had been far too outrageous.
Even now, Uchiha Ensei could not be sure whether what was sealed within the Tenseigan Clone was his own Ten-Tails or Kaguya Otsutsuki's Ten-Tails.
In this world, there were actually many abilities capable of absorbing chakra. Some could even directly absorb physical and spiritual energy from another person's body, then combine it into chakra for their own use.
Besides that, organ transplants and the like were also common.
For example, Madara Uchiha had transplanted Hashirama Senju's flesh and blood, eventually growing a face on his chest.
It appeared that there were no restrictions or hidden dangers to using another person's chakra.
But in Uchiha Ensei's eyes, this was very likely a massive landmine, the kind that could explode at any moment.
Back then, he had had no choice but to strengthen himself as quickly as possible.
But now, he wanted power that belonged to him alone, lest he accidentally replace Madara Uchiha as Kaguya Otsutsuki's vessel one day.
Looking at the white lump of flesh before him, whose growth rate he had restricted and which had undergone various experiments, Uchiha Ensei hesitated for a moment. Still, he gathered a small mass of chakra imbued with his own will in his hand and injected it into the flesh.
Sure enough, within the white flesh, Uchiha Ensei discovered scattered bits of spiritual power, like fragments of a soul, chaotic and disordered.
It seemed that if he allowed this flesh to grow freely, these scattered soul fragments would gather together and form the so-called consciousness of the Ten-Tails.
And matters like recognizing a master seemed