A palm-sized fruit actually condensed nearly one-third of a planet's energy. For a moment, Shinji didn't know whether to marvel at the wonder of this Chakra Fruit or marvel at the Otsutsuki clan's terrifying means of plundering energy.
However, since current technology couldn't research the Chakra Fruit, Shinji simply let it go, then glanced at the fruit in his hand and swallowed it bite by bite.
Gulp... gulp...
After swallowing the Chakra Fruit, a strange sound came from Shinji's stomach. Immediately after, he furrowed his brows, feeling a massive chakra reaction surging within his body, as if trying to break free from restraints and rush out of his body.
"What kind of joke is this!"
Shinji's gaze focused.
The Chakra Fruit he had spent so much effort to finally obtain, how could he allow the chakra to drain from his body.
Thus, he sat cross-legged directly on the ground, held his breath and concentrated, digesting the Chakra Fruit in his belly.
Unknowingly, ten days passed.
When Shinji opened his eyes again, the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan in his eye sockets had changed from deep purple to crimson like the Sharingan.
His Six-Tomoe Rinnegan was initially pale purple like ordinary Rinnegan.
And as his pupil power continued to improve, especially after driving Otsutsuki Isshiki's Kokugan during this period, the color of his Six-Tomoe Rinnegan became deeper and deeper, slowly changing from ordinary pale purple to deep purple.
After he swallowed a Chakra Fruit, the color of his pupils changed again, turning from deep purple to the same crimson as the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan at the center of his brow.
He looked at his hands, feeling the changes in his body, and murmured: "Is this... is this Kekkei Mora?"
After sealing the Ten-Tails and advancing to Six Paths Level, Shinji discovered that relying solely on cultivation, he had no way to continue improving his strength, so for a long time, the focus of his busyness was on improving his subordinates' strength.
The only relatively obvious improvement in strength recently was the increase in pupil power obtained by driving Otsutsuki Isshiki's Kokugan after he defeated Otsutsuki Isshiki, so he was very clear about exactly how difficult it was for a Six Paths Level powerhouse to improve their strength further.
But with a Chakra Fruit down his stomach, he found his strength advancing by leaps and bounds.
No!
Using the term 'advancing by leaps and bounds' to describe it is obviously inappropriate; this is a leap in level, a simultaneous improvement in quality and quantity, and definitely not an ordinary quantitative change.
If he were to confront Otsutsuki Isshiki with his current strength, Shinji felt he wouldn't need the assistance of Toneri, Karin, and Hikari at all; relying on himself alone, he could sweep away Otsutsuki Isshiki.
Only now did Shinji deeply realize the reason why Otsutsuki Kaguya could still maintain Kekkei Mora after giving birth to the two Six Paths Level beings, Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura. The power of a Chakra Fruit is simply unimaginable.
Slowly standing up, Shinji raised his hand, and a flame appeared in his palm.
Staring at the blazing flame ignited in his palm, with a thought, the original flame instantly transformed into a cloud of mist!
Then, the mist turned into lightning, and the lightning turned into soil...
"Chakra nature transformation!" His expression became solemn, thinking to himself: "I have already mastered all nature transformations of Yin, Yang, and the five elements. As long as I wish..."
Seemingly verifying his thoughts, the soil in his palm suddenly turned back into lightning, only unlike the blue lightning from before, the lightning in his palm at this time was black.
Undoubtedly.
The black lightning in Shinji's palm at this time was precisely the Hidden Cloud's secret technique of single Lightning Release chakra nature transformation, Black Lightning.
...
Shinji had not mastered this secret technique before; now after swallowing the Chakra Fruit, with just a thought, he stimulated Black Lightning.
Not only Black Lightning, as he felt playful, the Purple Electricity developed by Kakashi in the original timeline, the niche Bloodline Limit Crystal Release, the Kekkei Tota Particle Release that Onoki relied on for fame, etc., were all displayed by him effortlessly.
After experiencing the various nature transformations of chakra, Shinji then comprehended the increased chakra amount after swallowing the Chakra Fruit.
Roughly feeling it, he felt his total chakra amount had at least increased tenfold, or even more. It was just that because the chakra amount was too abundant, for a moment even he himself couldn't accurately estimate how much the chakra amount had specifically increased.
"A single Chakra Fruit offsets over a decade of my past efforts; no wonder the Otsutsuki are all obsessed with planting trees in the universe!"
After making a teasing remark, Shinji opened a space-time gate, then stepped in with one foot.
The next instant, Shinji appeared inside the original Kara base.
Seeing Shinji appear, Orochimaru and Amado, who were discussing Shinjutsu in the base, were both startled and hurriedly stood up to bow.
Shinji waved his hand: "These empty formalities are unnecessary!"
Amado nodded and secretly observed Shinji.
In his eyes, 'A' was a very mysterious existence, so much so that even now that Otsutsuki Isshiki was defeated, he still hadn't figured out who 'A' actually was.
Unlike the restrained Amado, Orochimaru was much more relaxed when facing Shinji.
However, his expression soon became solemn, because his intuition told him that 'A' in front of him seemed to have become much stronger again.
If before he could still roughly judge 'A's realm, then now, he had completely lost the ability to judge 'A's strength.
Ignoring Amado and Orochimaru, Shinji walked straight around Amado's laboratory.
As a researcher who also possessed his own laboratory, Shinji was not unfamiliar with the various instruments before him. Even if he couldn't recognize specific models or functions of some instruments, he could roughly guess their uses.
Generally speaking, this laboratory of Amado was more high-end and comprehensive than his laboratory inside the flying fortress.
However, this was only natural. What Shinji researched before was mostly within the scientific scope below Six Paths Level, while Amado needed to research Otsutsuki Shibai's remains. If the instruments in this laboratory weren't advanced enough, Amado couldn't have modified the siblings Eida and Daemon who possessed Shinjutsu.
After touring the laboratory, Shinji came before Amado. He didn't scrutinize him up and down, nor did he speak to beat around the bush, but said very directly: "Orochimaru should have already told you my meaning; I need your help!"
Amado, somewhat overwhelmed by Shinji's directness, smiled bitterly: "You aren't joking, are you?"