Chapter 44: Stripping, Natural Selection, and Takeoff (Please Read!)
Tian Xiaoen's consciousness fell into the soul body, and the soul body slowly opened its eyes.

The feeling of controlling the soul body is no different from controlling your own body, but as the power of the soul increases, the strength and reality of the soul body becomes stronger and stronger.

The last battle doubled his soul power, bringing the total to thirty-one.

but……

"It has to be consumed again."

Sean whispered, and the soul power began to gather in the soul body's hands.

After consuming ten portions of soul power, a knife condensed from soul power appeared in the soul body's hand.

Soul Blade is an essential tool for ability stripping. The Soul Blade can be in various shapes, and the reason why it is a knife is because Sean is most familiar with this shape.

Practice with skills you are familiar with first.

A thought flashed through Sean's mind, and a light spot representing Sabretooth's ability appeared in front of him.

The Soul Blade lightly touched the light spot, and Sean felt an epiphany in his heart.

As long as he uses the Soul Blade to cut, he can remove one of the enhancements in this ability.

Sean didn't hesitate. He swung the Soul Blade lightly, and the claws were peeled off, while the other enhancements remained.

And after stripping away his unnecessary claws, the soul power required for loading capacity was reduced.

There was a flash of surprise in Sean's eyes.

He looked at the several abilities he currently had loaded.

Nightcrawler's teleportation, Silver Fox's mental hypnosis, a mutant's electric current release, and the breath of thunder.

As the Soul Blade touched these abilities one by one, Sean raised an eyebrow.

Some abilities cannot be separated because they consist of a single structure.

The Breath of Thunder can be stripped off, but it is not necessary.

After practicing for this period of time, he has basically mastered the Breathing of Thunder without loading, which saves him five parts of soul power.

The saved soul power can be loaded with new abilities to further enhance his strength.

The emergence of the stripping function allows Sean to strip off a complex ability at will.

The issue is……

"How far can one's abilities be stripped away from a person?"

Sean was curious and gently hooked his finger at a ball of light in the distance, and the ball of light floated over.

This is Sasuke's ability from the Naruto world.

Sean pointed the Soul Blade at the ball of light.

Fire escape, lightning escape, chakra, ninja tool control, physical skills...

This character's ability covers too many aspects, and Sean needs a lot of soul power to load this ability.

If you strip it all off...

I saw spots of light flying out of the ball of light, and the ball of light was getting smaller and smaller.

After a moment, Sean paused.

He stripped Sasuke's abilities into pieces, and the large and small spots of light were like a scattered yet closely connected star cluster, quietly floating in front of Sean.

Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Six Magatama Samsara Eye...

Sean looked at the ability he wanted to load and felt it quietly.

The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan contains 15 soul powers, and the Six-magatama Rinnegan contains 25 soul powers.

Sean's mouth twitched.

Even if the abilities were stripped to this extent, the soul power required to load these two abilities was still too much.

"Can we continue peeling?"

When Sean placed the Soul Blade on this ability of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, he whispered in surprise.

He perked up and continued peeling.

Strip away the pupil skills contained within, strip away the personal imprint, strip away...

After a moment, Sean looked at the faint light in front of him and let out a long breath.

But the soul blade in his hand became a little blurry.

The Soul Blade is consumed during the stripping process.

but……

"Worth it!" Sean whispered, looking at the light in front of him.

Sharingan (original), 3 soul powers.

The Sharingan in this state is weak but pure.

As Sean continued to peel off, he got something far beyond his expectations.

A pair of Sharingan that will belong entirely to him once loaded, without any mark of anyone else.

"Stripping seems to work better than I thought."

"If I load the current Sharingan and then open it again until it evolves to the Mangekyō, will the amount of soul power required increase?"

Sean whispered and thought he could give it a try.

But... there's still a problem.

The use of Sharingan consumes chakra. If you have Sharingan, do you need to load chakra?
Sean frowned.

"I'll tell you after I open my eyes."

Sean murmured, pulling his consciousness out of his soul body, loading the Sharingan onto his body, and then using teleportation to disappear on the bed.

The next moment, Sean appeared in front of Professor X.

"Professor, help me!"

Sean looked at Professor X seriously and said, "Use your ability to give me strong emotional stimulation. The more stimulation the better."

Professor X: “?”

A moment later, in Professor X's shocked gaze, Sean's eyes turned blood red, and in those blood red eyes, a black magatama slowly rotated.

"Your eyes?"

Professor X pointed at Sean's eyes questioningly.

Sean touched his eyes excitedly. He could clearly feel the changes in his eyes.

"Thanks, Professor!"

Before he finished speaking, Sean disappeared again.

Professor X was confused.

Sean, who returned to the room, couldn't help but cheered out loud.

Things went even better than he had imagined.

Professor X's ability is perfect for opening eyes.

You can feel any emotion and experience any scene, and you can be immersed in it.

But that's not what Sean is most excited about.

What excited him most was the hidden function of his mutant ability that had always existed but that he had not noticed.

Sean called it natural selection.

That is, the ability to load. When a certain energy is needed to use it, this energy will be replaced by the energy that Sean has the most (including but not limited to physical strength, mental strength, magic power, etc.).

And currently Sean's most energy is physical strength.

Take the Sharingan he just obtained as an example.

The Sharingan that was installed originally required chakra to use, but after it was installed, due to the effect of natural selection, it consumed physical strength.

Learn, load, peel off, natural selection.

This is the full picture of his mutant abilities.

In addition, what makes Sean happiest is that after opening the Sharingan, it is equipped with the ability of three soul powers.

"Is it because this ability no longer has the mark of others, and therefore belongs to me?"

A thought flashed through Sean's mind, and he looked at his remaining soul power and smiled happily.

It's time to upgrade himself, after all, he has mutated twice.

As for asking Professor X for help to upgrade the Sharingan to the Mangekyō, Sean was looking forward to it but not in a hurry.

When the Sharingan becomes a Mangekyō, the resulting eye technique will be in line with the user's area of ​​expertise.

Sean plans to upgrade and update his abilities before opening the kaleidoscope.

"Hey, Kaleidoscope, pupil technique."

Sean smiled and whispered, sinking his consciousness back into his soul body.

(End of this chapter)