I've come for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and those hundred thousand White Zetsu. Will you hand them over?

In a sense, Code was not a true living being.

Perhaps that was why Ōtsutsuki Isshiki could not resurrect through Code's body.

After all, resurrection through "karma" required a complete person—a living human with a soul, self-awareness, and certain other qualifications.

After so many years of cloning experiments, Uchiha Ensei could clearly distinguish between a puppet and a genuine cloned human.

The clones Uchiha Ensei currently used could only be considered tools. Even with faint souls, they did not qualify as true humans.

The one experiment in which Uchiha Ensei had tried to create a genuine human had ultimately failed because Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's vital characteristics differed from those of normal humans.

"Does something like you even count as human?"

Uchiha Ensei temporarily placed a seal inside his own body, absorbing the vast quantities of chakra stripped from the Ten-Tails.

The Illusory Dragon Nine Consuming Seals was powerful, but Uchiha Ensei had made a fundamental mistake.

Namely... the Ten-Tails was not a being made purely of chakra. He was a biological weapon of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, a tree capable of absorbing natural energy.

Although he could merge into a person's body, the Ten-Tails was not simply chakra.

The Phantom Dragon Nine Seals, however, was a sealing technique specifically designed to strip away chakra.

That meant the Illusory Dragon Nine Consuming Seals Uchiha Ensei was using merely stripped away the Ten-Tails' chakra, without actually extracting the Ten-Tails himself.

"Human? Of course I'm not human. I am the one who inherited Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's will, the being who will become a god!"

Upon hearing Uchiha Ensei's question, Code actually still had the leisure to answer him.

"Don't talk about inheriting his will. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki isn't dead yet."

"You're just a puppet someone created. You have no will of your own."

"Or does Ōtsutsuki Isshiki