This Child Is Terrifying
"Let's use this big tree to test it out..."
Lin Ke didn't rashly send his shadow out but chose a tree not far away.
Once the target was set, the strange perspective quickly disappeared. The shadow of the tree on the ground bubbled a few times, then fell silent.
"It feels very peculiar."
He could clearly feel his divided shadow, and he could even use his consciousness to perceive it like controlling a Stand—
The next second, the thought of trying to connect to the shadow arose, and the tree shadow stood up eerily from the two-dimensional plane, turning into a three-dimensional black tree.
The whole body was a deep darkness. The trunk, leaves, and shadow were exactly the same. Even when the wind blew, the leaves wouldn't move. Many details were like they had a thin layer of mosaic on them, as if someone had taken a picture of the tree shadow and then used black steel to print a 3D model.
It looked a bit terrifying.
It was very similar to a real tree, but a normal person could tell at a glance that it definitely wasn't a tree. What kind of tree doesn't have a shadow, and whose leaves don't move?
"Whoosh!" Lin Ke threw a Shuriken, which hit the tree shadow with a thud. The sound and the degree of embedding seemed to be the same as a real tree.
This thing didn't seem to move, possibly because it originated from the tree? He stepped forward, pulled out his Shuriken, and watched the wound on the tree shadow quickly heal. Looking at the original tree, there was no wound, meaning the damage couldn't be transferred from the shadow to the main body. He reached out and touched the tree shadow.
"The texture is no different from an ordinary tree..."
"Can it turn back into a shadow again?"
As soon as Lin Ke had the thought, the tree shadow collapsed back to the ground in all directions, looking like countless aggregated black waters losing support and falling down, reassembling into the state of a shadow.
But it was still separate from the main body of the tree. What was strange was that not only did he not feel any consumption of Chakra, but even the entire process of converting from two dimensions to three dimensions and restoring the poked wound didn't feel like anything was being consumed.
"Like a normal Shadow Clone, it took away half of my Chakra..."
He frowned as he looked at the tree shadow, feeling that this technique seemed to have many undiscovered unknowns, but—
"It's time to eat." Lin Ke rubbed his belly. The continuous consumption of Chakra from several Shadow Clones had exhausted him, and it was time for the hungry phase again.
It was a good opportunity to test how long the shadow could exist separately from the main body.
With that thought, he dragged his tired body and teamed up with the two who were diligently practicing nature transformation to eat ramen. He was too lazy to go home and cook. Just thinking about buying groceries on the way back, entering the house, and cooking, eating, and washing dishes alone...
Actually, cooking was okay. Sometimes it was a bit fun to make things he liked to eat, but washing dishes was really just boring.
Yuan Wei and Xia were also exhausted after releasing Chakra for an afternoon. The three of them didn't want to talk at all on the way. As soon as they sat down at Ichiraku Ramen, Lin Ke noticed a familiar gaze staring at his green vest.
Before he could see who was looking at him, he subconsciously puffed out his chest and raised his head, then realized it was Uzumaki Naruto.
The way this Child of Prophecy looked at his vest was full of shock, providing considerable emotional value.
[Thinking that the peerless genius two years younger than himself has made such rapid progress and will surely seize the Hokage's seat one day, he secretly thought, 'This child is terrifying, and must not be allowed to live...']
Well, Lin Ke provided the voice-over for Uzumaki Naruto in his mind the whole time, then waved hello and started ordering and eating.
The three slurped down their ramen, and after they were full, they went back to their respective homes. He washed and hung up his dirty clothes, sorted and packed the garbage in the room, ready to throw it away tomorrow morning.
There was no entertainment left. For him, after a day of cultivation or completing a mission, even if his physical strength recovered a lot after a full meal, the feeling of fatigue couldn't be eliminated.
Speaking of fatigue, he had to focus on the Shadow Clone technique, which in its original version would provide feedback of fatigue and memories. Heaven knows how Uzumaki Naruto endured dozens or hundreds of times the fatigue. He himself felt very tired after a day of hard cultivation—so tired that he didn't want to do anything when he got home but sleep. He slept until the next day.
"It hasn't dissipated yet." As soon as Lin Ke got up, he found that he could still faintly connect to the divided tree shadow. It hadn't dissipated all night. This endurance was a bit terrifying.
Even if it was half of his Chakra, after all, half of his Chakra wasn't much.
He ate some breakfast casually, then put on the slightly damp vest and came to the Seventh Training Ground. The tree shadow was still quietly staying in place, creating a huge difference from the other shadows facing different directions.
"Ah, why is my Chakra Earth, not Fire..."
Lin Ke irritably tugged at the slightly damp high collar. Yesterday, he was happy that the high collar had blocked the dust transformed by the Earth Dragon, but today he hated the damp high collar sticking to his neck.
The external manifestation of Chakra with Fire nature is burning. Controlling the output frequency to dry clothes was quite useful.
The external manifestation of his Earth was shattering. The original Headhunter Technique and Earth Dragon Concealment Technique both used the characteristic of Earth-attribute Chakra being able to shatter, shattering the soil to lurk underground.
Anyway, the Training Grounds weren't locked now, so he simply took off his vest and seriously began to study the divided tree shadow.
Lin Ke made the tree shadow stand up again, then began to continuously destroy the tree shadow.
Cutting, tearing, breaking...
Conclusion: When a wound is created, the tree shadow possesses a certain degree of recovery ability. When the body is cut open, the detached fragments of black mass will quickly dissipate and cannot regenerate.
When the damage exceeds 60%, the tree shadow will revert to two dimensions and will not be able to return to a three-dimensional state for a long time.
As for how long that is, Lin Ke doesn't know. In any case, he can't get the shadow to stand up again no matter how he tries to manipulate it.
The main body of the tree shadow is not affected in any way. No matter what changes occur to the shadow, it doesn't seem to affect the main body at all, but the main body doesn't grow a new shadow either.
Since the tree shadow can't stand up and can't move, Lin Ke simply canceled the ninjutsu. The tree shadow immediately shrank back to the base of the tree, and the missing parts quickly recovered under the sunlight.
Everything was as if nothing had happened.
According to what he saw in the manga, after a Shadow Clone is dispelled, the unconsumed Chakra should return, but he can't feel his Chakra returning at all; it's simply been consumed.
"It's definitely not just this little effect, right? Half of my Chakra, though it's not much..."
"Let's try splitting the shadow of an animal and see."
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