Now it seemed that the cognition accumulated during the purple stage had not simply evaporated after the sacrifice, but had instead been preserved in another form. Those understandings that had already piled up beyond the threshold of purple had become nourishment for the green talent Proficient in Lightning Style.
Although it would be impossible in the short term to rely on these residual accumulations to charge back to purple quality, at least the amplification of the green rank had been preserved, and he would still be able to enjoy a certain degree of enhancement when tempering his neural reactions in daily training.
However, Shinichi very quickly had no mind left to dwell on that relief.
The section where the Clone talent was located suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling brilliance, and then the entire line of text shattered violently amid intense trembling, and countless purple motes burst across the panel, reassembled, and took shape, finally forming an entirely new line of text that settled firmly into place.
[Incarnation Level 1 (Purple): You may replicate a portion of your own origin, perfectly fuse the biological genes of one primary bloodline and one secondary bloodline, and create two independent, permanent, continuously growing incarnations. The incarnations share consciousness and memories with the main body. The primary bloodline of an incarnation determines its basic attributes and core abilities, while the secondary bloodline provides only secondary talents and additional potential. An incarnation may inherit two occupations and 60% of the main body's talent attributes (Rounded down), and among these, at most two may be Purple Level 2 talent. The specific talents may be allocated and reallocated freely through physical contact with an incarnation.]
[Note: The cognitive effect external parties have toward incarnations is increased to 60%, and all cognition effects generated will directly feed back to the main body. By sacrificing one Purple Level 2 talent possessed by the main body, this talent can be upgraded to Purple Level 2 quality. This is the only upgrade path.]
[The main body may actively reclaim an incarnation, thereby perfectly absorbing the portion of its origin contained within that incarnation to strengthen itself. Once an incarnation is reclaimed or dies, it cannot be restored.]
[Entering the World: When generating an incarnation, you may embed it into the history of the world and weave for it a complete origin and identity background. This origin must be based on a person or thing that truly existed, but it cannot directly replace a specific existing person known by others. Once the identity is engraved, it becomes an objective truth of this world. No matter what means are used to investigate it, its background will be verified as credible.]
[Manifestation: The main body and incarnations, or incarnations and other incarnations, may actively summon one another to their side in manifested form. A manifested form possesses all the occupation and talent effects of the one being manifested. Once Manifestation is activated, the manifested party's body will fall into deep slumber, unable to perceive the outside world and unable to move on its own.]
[If, during this slumber, the manifested party's true body suffers any form of active attack or is affected by any hostile action, the Manifestation will immediately be interrupted, and the manifested form will dissipate accordingly. Manifestation may only proceed in one direction and does not support simultaneous two-way Manifestation. Each individual may maintain only one manifested target at a time. This technique cannot be used continuously; after each Manifestation ends, a certain interval must pass before it can be activated again. The interval depends on the duration of the Manifestation: the longer the Manifestation lasts, the longer the interval.]
[Current Incarnations: Clone One (Isshin), already exists. Clone Two: Vacant, awaiting creation.]
"Good. Very good. Thankfully, it really can create one more clone."
Shinichi's gaze swept over the description of the newly upgraded talent again and again, and he felt thoroughly satisfied.
First of all, all the original characteristics had been improved to some extent, and the clones' combat power would undergo another enhancement. There was no need to elaborate on that.
Among them, the most noteworthy point was the line, "Perfectly fuse the biological genes of one primary bloodline and one secondary bloodline."
This meant that whether it was Isshin, who had already fused with the bloodline of the Monkey King Enma, or the soon-to-be-created Genjo, whose core would be the first Hokage's cells, both could still fuse with an entirely new auxiliary biological bloodline and gain additional potential and talents.
For Isshin, the choice of this auxiliary bloodline was not difficult to deal with; he could take his time and look for one in the future.
But for Genjo, the position of this secondary Kekkei Genkai was absolutely crucial.
If the clone's body was built with the first Hokage's cells as its main body, then, if it could later integrate Uchiha blood, the convergence of Dark and Light would create an opportunity to awaken the Rinnegan.
Of course, the best Uchiha bloodline would naturally be Madara Uchiha's own.
After all, his strength stood on equal footing with the first Hokage's, and he was also the reincarnation of Indra from the same generation as the first Hokage. Among all the Uchiha alive in the current era, there was no bloodline more suitable than his.
The problem was that, at this point in time, Madara Uchiha was still hiding somewhere in the depths beneath the Village Hidden in the Grass, lingering on with his life barely intact.
Shinichi neither knew his exact location nor could he gauge how much of the old tiger's lingering might remained. Even if he found him, obtaining his bloodline would still be a major problem.
But on second thought, Shinichi seemed to remember something else.
That was the battle at the valley of the end back then, after which Madara Uchiha had faked his death, or perhaps actually died.
At the very least, during that period of time, he had genuinely died. It was only because he had set up Izanagi in advance before the battle that he ultimately reversed reality and revived himself.
Madara Uchiha's corpse had been personally examined by the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and taken to some secret place for burial or preservation. Perhaps the second Hokage had wanted to do something with Madara Uchiha's corpse, perhaps research it?
But at that time, the first Hokage was still alive, and Tobirama Senju, out of consideration for his elder brother's feelings, could not directly do anything to Madara Uchiha's remains.
Then, after the first Hokage died, the first Shinobi World War immediately broke out, and the second Hokage was overwhelmed with too many matters to attend to and had no energy left to concern himself with this affair.
Naturally, he never discovered that Madara Uchiha's corpse had long since disappeared. Because of this, the fact that Madara Uchiha had returned from the dead remained unknown to the world.
But had the second Hokage really been so honest back then?
Even if he had been unable to directly do anything to Madara Uchiha's corpse out of deference to his elder brother, would he perhaps have casually drawn a bit of blood, taken a few hairs, and conducted some small-scale preliminary recording and research?