Before Neji split it apart, the Ten-Tails' Rinne Sharingan had six tomoe. Now, his own Ten-Tails fragment had only three.
Leaving his Ten-Tails' Mindscape, Neji went over to Sasuke and found the same situation there.
"Its eye only has three tomoe, three fewer than the original Ten-Tails," Sasuke said.
"It might be short on chakra," Neji said. "We still haven't used one piece of the nine-tails chakra flesh we cultivated earlier. I'll bring it over for them to absorb and see what changes."
After cultivating three pieces of flesh from the Nine-Tails' whiskers and creating two Seven-Tailed Foxes, they had one piece left.
At the time, Neji had divided it into three portions, intending to keep cultivating it.
The results were clear: their subsequent cultivation had failed, and the Nine-Tails' flesh had not grown any further.
There seemed to be an invisible limit.
After their souls left the Ten-Tails' Mindscapes, Neji brought the three pieces of the Nine-Tails' flesh over.
The moment the Nine-Tails' flesh arrived, both Ten-Tails flesh spheres reacted.
Each extended a fleshy tendril and plunged it straight into a piece of nine-tails flesh.
In an instant, the Nine-Tails' flesh turned into crimson chakra, flowing along the tendrils directly into the flesh spheres.
Within just a few minutes, all three portions of the Nine-Tails' flesh had been absorbed.
Neji and Sasuke exchanged a glance, then each used the Spirit Transformation Technique to enter his Ten-Tails' Mindscape.
"Six tomoe now. It really was a lack of chakra. Looks like the Nine-Tails' chakra really is the closest to the Ten-Tails'," Neji said, nodding slowly after seeing the Ten-Tails' current appearance.
At least now, outwardly, they looked the same as the original Ten-Tails.
Even so, Neji felt there were still some differences. After all, they had evolved from only portions of