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Chapter 198, in the process of transformation...

Theoretically speaking, to destroy or gouge out Uchiha Kazuto's eyes, all of his ocular power would have to be exhausted. Unfortunately, such a setting is just for show; it does require the consumption of ocular power. Although with Uchiha Kazuto's current total ocular power, even if he stood here and had someone bombard his eyes for hundreds of years, it would not damage his eyes in the slightest.

However, it is ultimately not safe. Although his eyes now seem to be part of his power and extremely difficult to lose, they are ultimately just a plugin. Once lost, they cannot grow back.

This is a terrifying drawback. Uchiha Kazuto never aspired to so-called immortality. If he obtained the magic lamp and could only make one wish, he certainly wouldn't choose wishes like immortality or invincibility in the universe.

He's just an ordinary person, an ordinary person without any lofty ambitions. After all, even if he really made a wish to be invincible in the universe, the genie lamp might not be able to fulfill it. It would probably only be invincible for a short time, and it would probably be like that again when the version is updated.

Uchiha Kazuto had only one incredibly small and simple wish: to completely integrate those eyes into himself, nothing more.

Unfortunately, he didn't have a magic lamp. Fortunately, he now had the life form transformation technology, so he could finally stop being human. However, it's not necessarily true that he was no longer human. In the so-called human category, besides physical humans, there are also psychological humans. Uchiha Kazuto felt that even if he had transformed his life form from a simple material life to a hybrid of energy and matter, as long as he considered himself human, he should still be considered human.

Deep underground, in a space that is heavily guarded, encrypted, and untraceable by anyone.

"It's time to start."

Uchiha Kazuto looked at the shadow clones around him. He had not allowed anyone other than himself to participate in this life transformation ritual. As a participant and researcher of this technology, Uchiha Kazuto had a very deep understanding of it.

I know what to do.

Soon, he lay down on a metal platform, on which was an extremely complex magic circle that made people dizzy just by looking at it.

After countless experiments and modifications, this life transformation technology has evolved from initially requiring artificial surgical operations to forcibly modify the life structure to gradually allowing the raw materials to actively transform themselves, with external means playing a secondary role.

Now, it has become very simple.

Transparent chakra threads emerged from the machine at the edge of the platform and pierced Uchiha Kazuto's body, providing him with chakra to stabilize his physical condition. Then, the huge magic circle beneath him began to wriggle slightly, and a pale blue light shone from it.

The incantations wriggled and climbed, as if they had come alive, crawling onto Uchiha Kazuto's body, surging into his body, drilling into his soul, cells, and memories, spreading and eroding wildly.

The next moment, Uchiha Kazuto raised his hands, which began rapidly forming hand seals. His chakra, ocular power, soul, and physical body, connected by the incantations flowing into his body, underwent a subtle and miraculous transformation as he continued to form these seals. This transformation was not rapid; rather, it was like a gentle, silent rain. This was the ultimate version of the life form transformation technology, completely different from the initial version. The initial version simply involved placing a person on an experimental table for hours of modification by researchers, with a certain probability of failure.

Failure means the soul and body will be completely reduced to a mass of pure energy and vanish.

Later, through continuous verification by the researchers, it was found that the success rate was completely different when the experimental subjects actively cooperated and when they were unconscious or extremely resistant. When they actively cooperated, the success rate was 80%, while when they resisted or were unconscious, the success rate was only about 30%.

So they changed their research direction, shifting from external intervention to a research program primarily based on the actions of the experimenters themselves.

Of course, this also involves the will of Uchiha Kazuto himself. After all, although the latter seems to have a higher success rate in the early stages, the former is faster. Once the technology is upgraded and the success rate increases, it can be mass-produced on an assembly line.

Unfortunately, what Uchiha Kazuto needed from the beginning was not the popularization of this technology. He was using it for himself, so a little trouble was fine. As long as the success rate was high and the technology was perfected quickly enough, that would be enough.

This technology eventually emerged.

However, this technique is conditional. The most important condition is that the user must have a massive amount of chakra. Furthermore, once started, the user must perform hand seals to guide their body to change, merging all the power within them to achieve a complete sublimation.

The number of hand seals is not large, only about five million. In this process, each seal must be formed completely and without error. Once a mistake is made, it will lead to the collapse of the body and the disintegration of the soul.

During the experiment, the researchers used memory modification to stimulate the subjects' motivation. Then, they used external devices to continuously input chakra into the subjects' bodies. Through remote brainwave manipulation, they used a wet-device computer to take over the individual's chakra and arm nerve control, and then performed hand seals.

Otherwise, although forming five million hand seals is not an exaggeration, it is unimaginable for an ordinary person, or even for most ninjas, not to mention that not a single mistake can be made in the process.

Furthermore, in order to ensure the experiment could proceed, medical ninjutsu had to be continuously applied to the subject's hands to maintain their stability.

Only in this way can a complete transformation be carried out. The success rate of this transformation is almost 100%. Apart from being a bit troublesome and being unusable without the support of the corresponding equipment, this technology can be said to be almost perfect.

The only pity is that after the transformation of life form, the transformed individual does not have the ability to grow. The growth potential here refers to the ability to grow infinitely once transformed. Well, even the tailed beasts themselves do not have this ability.

(End of this chapter)