Lin Ze walked to the center of the laboratory and formed hand seals.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
Poof, poof, poof, poof...!
A series of white puffs of smoke flashed past, and ten shadow clones appeared in the laboratory.
"Go investigate the Uchiha Clan's internal situation. Focus on members with extreme personalities, deep bonds, or poor reputations."
"Find targets who might have the potential to awaken the Mangekyō and have little connection to me."
"Understood."
The ten shadow clones nodded together, then turned into dark blurs and left Ascension Island, making their way stealthily toward the Land of Fire.
After dispatching his scouts, Lin Ze's original body walked into another room.
This room held only one enormous cultivation tank. Immersed inside was a clone whose face bore a seventy-to-eighty-percent resemblance to Lin Ze's, but whose aura was sharper, with faint currents of air swirling around its body-
It was the fully cultivated wind release clone!
Nonō followed him inside, a trace of worry on her face.
Lin Ze took out the Living Corpse Reincarnation scroll and slowly unrolled it.
He carefully read through its contents once more, particularly the sections concerning the soul leaving the body and merging.
Nonō watched nervously from the side. She knew what Lin Ze intended to do, and it was undoubtedly like dancing on a knife's edge.
"I'm going to begin."
Lin Ze lay down on the operating table beside the cultivation tank, said those words to Nonō, then closed his eyes.
Following the method recorded in the Living Corpse Reincarnation scroll, he began mobilizing his mental energy and condensing his soul's power.
It was an exceedingly strange sensation.
It felt as though his consciousness was gradually withdrawing from his body and floating upward.
He could "see" his original body lying below with its eyes closed, and