"With this much power, it's enough to serve as a trump card for strategic deterrence," the Shadow Clone murmured before releasing the technique. He knew this was still far from the Tenseigan's limit, and he looked forward even more to unlocking its legendary chakra mode.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of the quiet night, the original Toru Kujyo retrieved a scroll marked "Sasori" from his storage scroll. He had acquired it years ago in a trade with a "friend" from an underground black market.
He unrolled it. Inside were detailed records of Sasori of the Red Sands' secret technique for creating Human Puppets.
"Using living human bodies as material, preserving their original chakra properties, even their kekkei genkai... What a brilliant idea." Toru Kujyo marveled as he read. The method for creating a "chakra core" was especially remarkable: replacing a human heart with a special core capable of storing and refining chakra. To him, this technology surpassed even the Ōtsutsuki Clan's crude Puppet Techniques in some respects. The Ōtsutsuki's puppets were mostly constructs of energy, whereas Sasori's Human Puppets could perfectly inherit the combat skills and kekkei genkai they had possessed in life.
He pulled out another supplementary scroll, which detailed how to create and harmonize chakra cores of different natures.
"Sasori of the Red Sands' Human Puppets are more like an ultimate form of 'individual enhancement.' If I could combine this technology with the Six Paths of Pain's shared vision and distributed damage, or even the way Obito Uchiha used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to create Six Paths bodies..." Toru Kujyo's thoughts raced.
"The Tenseigan can control objects wirelessly over long distances, and it can replenish chakra, too. Wouldn't that make up for the Human Puppets' lack of autonomy and the enormous drain the Six Paths of Pain