"How is it progressing?"
Lin Ze's original body asked.
The Youying clone's voice came through the device's communication system. "Everything is normal so far, but progress is extremely slow."
"At the current rate, it will take at least another ten years."
Lin Ze's original body frowned. "As expected."
He had originally planned to fuse the Rinnegan slowly, but the appearance of Itachi and Ryōta, along with the threat of the Akatsuki, had made time pressing.
Although he was confident he could take the Two-Tails with him and hold out until he attained kekkei mōra, Itachi and Ryōta were different from him. They would not suppress their hatred for over a decade, especially when those years might be spent fleeing in disgrace.
The Youying clone continued, "The Rinnegan requires Six Paths power, and we currently have no source of it."
Lin Ze fell silent.
He had considered this problem long ago.
Moreover, one question had always puzzled him-how exactly had Madara Uchiha obtained Six Paths power back then?
In the original story, Madara had only awakened the Rinnegan shortly before his death, but the source of his Six Paths power had been left vague.
Had it come through the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path? Or through some special ritual?
Lin Ze did not know.
But he knew that the Rinnegan required Six Paths power, and there were only three sources of it:
The first was the Sage of Six Paths himself, but that old man had long since become chakra wandering the shinobi world. Finding him was a matter of chance, and even if Lin Ze did make contact, he might not give him Six Paths power.
The second was Princess Kaguya, but she was still sealed inside the moon, completely beyond his reach.
The third was... Nagato's Rinnegan.
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