External Incarnation

Hane suppressed the excitement in his heart, slowly returned to his bed, and carefully sensed his improved cultivation.

The Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown slowly unfolded. At this moment, Hane felt that he had formed a faint connection with this world.

From now on, he no longer needed to worry about insufficient spiritual power. Through this Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, he had built a bridge to this world. Even in battle, Hane would be able to continuously replenish his spiritual power.

It was just that this bridge was still somewhat narrow. In the future, he would need to gradually widen it until he reached the realm of unity between man and heaven—the realm known as Refining Spirit into Void.

Once he completely reached the realm of Refining Spirit into Void, Hane would no longer need to worry that his spiritual power recovery could not keep up with his output. By then, all heaven and earth would be his source of spiritual energy.

At the same time, Hane discovered that he now possessed Divine Sense. Even with his eyes closed, he could observe the world through it.

Moreover, Divine Sense offered all-around observation, more detailed and clearer than vision. Its range was just rather pitiful—only a radius of one thousand meters.

However, that was only for all-around observation. If he condensed his Divine Sense into a single line, its range could directly cover half of Konoha's diameter.

Hane's panel had also undergone new changes.

Uchiha Hane

Realm: "Refining Qi into Spirit"

Cultivation Art: "Azure Nether Art: Spirit-Refining Chapter" Yellow Rank +2

Technique: "Five Elements Ninjutsu"

Fire: "Mastery" Lightning: "Mastery" Wind: "Ordinary" Water: "Ordinary" Earth: "Ordinary"

"Artifact Manipulation Art" Mastery "Basic Fist, Body, and Movement Technique" Mastery "External Incarnation" Beginner

"Artifact Refinement" Ordinary "Alchemy" Ordinary "Planting Art" Ordinary Formation Art "Ordinary"

Gratitude Points: 9000

Malice Points: 12000

Looking at the Gratitude Points that had returned to four digits, Hane felt nothing. After all, this improvement had been great enough. He turned his gaze to External Incarnation, the newly appeared skill.

In an instant, Hane understood why he had been unable to learn techniques such as the Clone Technique and Shadow Clone before. It was not because he was too stupid, nor because the system could not convert them. It was because he had lacked Divine Sense at the time.

After all, External Incarnation in Dao Arts was closely related to the spirit and Divine Sense.

If one's mental strength was insufficient to split off an External Incarnation, it was easy to turn oneself schizophrenic. Without Divine Sense, a clone could not remain connected to its main body. If things went wrong, such a clone would become another person entirely.

Furthermore, External Incarnation in Dao Arts could not simply be summoned from thin air with spiritual energy. It had to be borne by a magical artifact or treasure. The higher the quality of the artifact or treasure, the greater the strength the External Incarnation could carry.

Hane's five low-grade magical artifacts were perfect for use as External Incarnations. Although they could currently only possess thirty percent of Hane's own strength, Hane's External Incarnations were not low-grade products like Shadow Clones that burst apart after one hit.

Not only could External Incarnations learn and cultivate independently, they were also Hane's external brains. As long as they remained connected through Divine Sense, Hane could split his consciousness into six at any time and perform six different tasks. It was an excellent way to train the spirit and Divine Sense.

Their offensive power was not lacking either. Connected by Divine Sense, if their human forms could not defeat an opponent, they could transform into magical treasures. What did that mean? Sitting at home, Hane could seek out an enemy a thousand miles away, transmit spiritual energy through Divine Sense, unleash the artifact's original power, and take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away.

After understanding the abilities of External Incarnation, Hane upgraded it to Ordinary without hesitation.

He then hurriedly summoned the Five Emperor Swords, branded each of them with his Divine Sense, and formed a hand seal. Spiritual energy surged rapidly within him and poured into the five longswords. The swords slowly emitted halos of light, and five figures identical to himself appeared before him. As his consciousness connected with them, their originally stiff faces immediately came to life.

There was no talk of meeting the original body. Hane felt as though his thoughts had split into six parts. The five people were all him; compared to them, however, his main body carried the primary consciousness.

In truth, his spirit had not genuinely separated. It was instead firmly connected by Divine Sense, as though the main body had grown five tentacles.

Every movement of the incarnations could be conveyed to the primary consciousness through those five tentacles at any time.

Moreover, this connection was one-sided. Hane could sever it whenever he wished.

Incarnations with independent consciousness were far beyond what a cultivator at Hane's still-mortal level could achieve. Even if he could achieve it, they would be uncontrollable.

As for the Shadow Clones in Naruto, their information would only return when the clone burst apart. In the cultivation world, such a method was extremely dangerous. If a demonic cultivator skilled in curses were involved, they could place a curse through your clone and curse you to death the moment it burst apart.

After all, you could not actively sever that connection.

Not to mention that when a clone had not burst apart, and the original body was not actively observing it, one would know nothing about what the clone was doing. Such clones were completely beyond one's control.

Only in a world like Naruto, where Dao Arts did not exist, would these ninja dare to use such techniques so recklessly. Try using this kind of technique in the cultivation world, and you would probably not even know how quickly you died.

Thinking of this, a sinister smile crept onto Hane's lips. Such methods did not exist only in the demonic path; the righteous path had them as well. Techniques that imprisoned or cursed a person's soul were not mainstream, but neither were they nonexistent.

"Heh heh, once I master techniques like that, those guys who use Shadow Clones to wander around everywhere will have a rough time."

But he needed to find a way to obtain Konoha's Book of Seals. Without this world's ninja techniques as a foundation, Hane had no way to learn Dao Arts out of thin air.

And within Konoha's Book of Seals, whether sealing techniques, various five-element ninja techniques, or the spatial Flying Thunder God, all were things Hane urgently needed.

"Should I find a way to kill that old Third Hokage bastard and put my father in power? Or I could take the position myself. Forget it, there's no use thinking about this now!"

Hane cast aside the many thoughts in his mind and began cultivating quietly.

Hokage Building.

Sarutobi looked over the document Fugaku had handed him. As he flipped through it, his expression darkened slightly.

"Fugaku, are these the demands of your Uchiha Clan?"

"Yes, Lord Third. The clansmen are extremely angry about moving away from our current clan grounds. This is the proposal we reached after much discussion!" Fugaku answered without changing expression.

"Mm, I understand. Go back first. I will discuss it with the Elder Council and give you an answer tomorrow!" the Third said, his tone carrying slight displeasure.

"Yes, Lord Third!" With that, Fugaku left the Hokage Building directly.

Before long, Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura entered the Hokage Building.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Sarutobi tapped the ash from his pipe and handed them the document in his hand. "Take a look. These are Uchiha's demands."

As Danzo read the contents of the document, his expression grew increasingly dark. "Hmph! As expected, Uchiha are ungrateful white-eyed wolves. They actually want the village to provide relocation compensation at market price. How is that possible!"

"The situation at the Land of Lightning border is becoming increasingly serious. The village barely has any funds to begin with. They're dreaming!"

Danzo heavily slammed the document onto the Third's desk, his tone exceedingly sharp.