Chapter 4: Sage Modification
Author note: I will try to go for daily updates this time for sure.
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With the server he wouldn't have to worry about any corrosion from getting memories worth hundreds or thousands of years, although he would have to strengthen the server before trying to get them. A simple way in which he would strengthen the server would be making another mental clone and merging it with the server effectively increasing the servers handling capacity and speed of filtering etc.
Another thing he noticed was that headache that he had during the mental clone's cloning, which had lasted for half an hour and left him somewhat hungry. This was probably his brain adapting to the strengthened mental space and now he could feel that he could hold more information about 10 years more.
This also meant he'd be eating a lot more then what he normally would, something he'll have to solve so as to not be seen as abnormal. Since he still had 10 years of information that he could currently retain, he opted for the sage mode practice before the arrival of Kaguya, since then they didn't have chakra so he could still practice sage techniques without the need for chakra being unlocked yet.
This time he did the smart thing of asking simply for a list humans who on this planet had the most nature energy in their bodies before the arrival of Kaguya. He of course didn't want to become a toad or a slug or a snake, he wanted to have his own sage mode. After going through the list of people who practiced senjutsu, he simply went for the first choice and chose to get memories of the last 10 years of the guy's life.
His thought process was simple why get the starting memories when he was a novice when he could just get the last few years of memories of sage mode when the guy was an expert at it. Essentially skipping the first few steps and going straight to being an expert at it.
And so the server began sorting through the information that the system gave me and slowly started giving me the filtered and emotionless bits of information into this sage mode practice. Surprisingly they called it sage modification at least in the language of that time it was called as such. Interestingly this allowed them to basically evolve in the direction that they wanted (at least some of the geniuses who did succeed) allowing them to become demons and longer lived beings.
The guy whose information I got happened to be one of the outstanding and brightest geniuses of the time who advanced in this path farther then anyone whilst still remaining human albeit with a more outrageous body and strength nearly comparable to the Sage of Six paths before he became the Jubi Jinchiriki. This guy was also killed by Isshiki Ōtsutsuki and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki when they first arrived on the planet along with many other demons and transformed humans.
Enough about the old guy, his technique and understanding of nature energy is what truly meets Shishui's current needs since the only ones who can detect nature energy in Konoha can be counted on one hand, meaning as long as they don't focus on him or are practicing sage mode in Konoha which is highly unlikely, they basically won't detect him practing it.
Having gotten all the filtered information of this sage modification technique, Shishui had the other mental clone, the one besides the server, try to sense the surroundings for nature energy. It was very thin compared to the era before Kaguya, which makes sense since the chakra fruit is made by draining a planet of its nature energy from its core.
No matter how thin, Shishui's mental clone still managed to perceive it and then it began making the sage modification technique run on his body using what little nature energy was extremely close to him to be absorbed by his body. This was another difference between sage mode and sage modification, while sage mode was a temporary power boost, sage modification was a permanent boost that kept norishing the body with nature energy and fusing it into all parts of the body evenly.
Just as Tsunade's Yin seal follows a similar but limited route of basically keeping her body young for a long time. This is also a modification albeit not a permanent one. This sage modification uses nature energy to permanently change the body according to the will of the practitioner. Also another one of the reasons why the guy was able to continue being human was his strong attachment to being one.
The first step to practicing sage modification was to have some nature energy in the body, which could now be considered complete. For this step he had to keep moving around since the initial absorption only happened on his body's surface. Now that he had enough of it, he didn't need to move around for him to get more, he could simply send out strands of nature energy that belonged to him outside to basically move the wild or untamed nature energy into his body. This was also the technique that guy came up with in his last few years, had Kaguya not killed him, he would have probably gotten to the planet's core and done the same as her in order to advance further.
Shishui called up his status in his mind.
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Name:Grenade/Shishui Uchiha
Age: 1 year old
Nature energy: 5
Chakra: 27(Below genin, average 1 year old has 18-20)
Chakra control: 0(Chakra network is currently not unlocked)
Skills:
Infiltration( Beginner)
Mental space manipulation( Expert)
Sage Modification( Expert)
Earth manipulation( Expert)
Nature energy manipulation( Expert)
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The nature energy that came inside his body would struggle against his own, untill it became his and was then either stored or sent to his body for strengthening it or just sent out to get more of it. A truly exponential process had started which was limited only by the current 1 year old body and mental clone. As long as this process continues passively, his body would develop faster and he could upgrade or get more clones to work on it, then his strength would only be limited by the environment which would be at a very later stage compared to before.