Chapter 400 Death
"More than just knowing each other... The God of Death and Hades, both of them were created by me using the power of the Six Paths, just like I used the Ten Tails to create the Tailed Beasts. They used the souls left behind by the evil gods and monsters that I cleared out to manage the Pure Land. They will take the ownerless souls to the Pure Land, and the powerful souls will be left behind. If one day the Otsutsuki want to destroy the Ninja World, the army they form will be the last force. Now that I think about it, I still haven't completely erased the wildness left in their souls, which is why the God of Death did such a thing of stealing souls."
The Six Paths Sage sighed.
Then, the Six Paths Sage stretched out a hand towards the ground.
Suddenly, ancient runes appeared, forming a black circle that looked somewhat similar to the art of psychic communication.
Strands of white gas composed of pure soul power rose from the black circle and eventually turned into an evil ghost over three meters tall.
An evil ghost with a ferocious face, wearing white clothes and having two horns on his head.
"Tell me what evil things you did while I was asleep!"
The Sage of Six Paths scolded the God of Death in a stern tone.
The God of Death was crawling on the ground, babbling some incomprehensible sentences to the Sage of Six Paths, while constantly kowtowing to him.
He is the creation of the Six Paths Sage and possesses a portion of the Six Paths Yin power of the Six Paths Sage. Although his soul was bound by many rules set by the Six Paths Sage when he was created, he also has a strong suppression on the souls of creatures whose strength is below the Six Paths level.
All lives in the ninja world will have their souls absorbed by the King of Hell after death. The King of Hell's big mouth, which is like a door, is essentially a passage to the Pure Land.
In the original time and space, when Nagato used the Samsara Technique to resurrect the people of Konoha who were killed by Pain, he summoned the King of Hell to spit out the souls of everyone, and then performed the Samsara Technique to resurrect them.
The King of Hell is a soul collector, while the God of Death is a soul processing station created by the Six Paths Sage, which serves as a filter.
After all the souls are collected by the King of Hell, they will gather at the God of Death. The souls of the strong, such as the five successive Kage, will be kept by the God of Death as an army to fight against the Otsutsuki.
This serves the same purpose as Kaguya creating the White Zetsu army.
The remaining soul is not the god of death. He is just a handyman. He absorbs souls and digests them into unconscious pure soul power, and returns them to the heaven and earth. When new life is born, these soul powers will gather into a new soul. As life grows, the soul will gradually become stronger. This cycle will repeat over and over again. It will not affect the development and expansion of life in the world, but will also continuously generate powerful souls, and the speed of generation is accelerating.
The Six Paths Sage's move is much more powerful than Kaguya's creation of White Zetsu. Not only is the created army more powerful and harmless, it can also be recycled sustainably with no limit on the number.
And the god of death has been working in this process for thousands of years.
He ate the souls, but it was equivalent to not eating them. He could only be considered a filter. Even though the Six Paths Sage left him the underlying rules and asked him to repeat these tasks mechanically, countless souls had passed through his filter over thousands of years, which made it also contaminated with some of the seven emotions and six desires carried by these souls.
It wants to devour those powerful souls to make itself stronger.
With the desire, and the fact that the predecessor of the Uzumaki clan who invented the Shiki Fuujin was both powerful and lucky, such a contract was made.
When facing an enemy that is too powerful, the Uzumaki clan can use the Demonic Sealing Spell to die together with the enemy, and the Grim Reaper also gains two powerful souls.
The Shikigami Fuujin is a forbidden technique that reaches the difficulty of S level. Anyone who can learn this sealing technique cannot be weak, and if one can force such a person to use the Shikigami Fuujin, his strength will be even stronger.
The Grim Reaper can collect two powerful souls at once.
However, there are too few people who can learn the Shiki Fuujin. One has to at least reach a proficient level like the Third Hokage to learn the sealing technique. Therefore, the God of Death did not collect too many powerful souls.
But if this continues, the power of the God of Death will continue to grow, and the restrictions of the underlying rules set for it by the Six Paths Sage will gradually weaken, because the newly born souls are more than the souls when the Six Paths Sage created it in the first place.
When the new soul accounts for more than the original soul, that is the day when the God of Death will break free from the shackles of the Six Paths Sage.
Only now, the Six Paths Sage knew about this.
"From now on, there will no longer be a Shiki Fuujin technique in the ninja world, and there will no longer be only one god of death."
The Sage of Six Paths pointed a finger at the God of Death.
The God of Death suddenly let out a scream, and a light appeared in the hands of the Six Paths Sage.
The Death's stomach burst open and two blue souls flew out, floating in the air.
These are the souls of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and the First Hokage Senju Hashirama.
Because the time since the two souls were devoured was relatively short and they were relatively powerful souls, the orphan god of death had not had time to digest them, so the two souls were still intact.
Devouring a soul is an extremely long process, especially for a powerful soul.
It might take more than ten years to devour even one tenth of the soul of a Kage-level warrior.
For a creature like the God of Death who has lived according to certain rules for thousands of years, time is the least valuable thing.
The Six Paths Sage's actions had not yet ended, and he continued to operate on the God of Death.
Seeing this scene, Mingjing hurriedly opened the Six-Magneto Samsara Eye and began to study.
He saw that the Six Paths Sage was using the Yin and Yang forces of the Six Paths to create life using the Yin-Yang Escape.
The screams of the Grim Reaper became more and more shrill, and finally disappeared.
And its body, which was composed of souls, was also rapidly collapsing.
The Sage of Six Paths seems to have a special liking for the number nine.
There are nine truth-seeking beads floating behind him, nine tailed beasts he created, and even nine magatama painted on the back of his clothes.
Now the God of Death was split into nine parts and turned into green balls of light.
Nine new Death Gods were born from this.
"From now on, your names will be Joy, Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Worry, Fear, Love, Hate, and Desire. The remaining emotions of the purified souls will be absorbed by each of you according to your names. You are not allowed to trade with any living beings or souls. The nine of you will monitor each other. If anyone violates the rules I set, they will be attacked by the others."
The Six Paths Sage issued new orders to these nine new Gods of Death, which made up for the bugs left by the previous God of Death.
The nine newly born Death Gods responded in unison, and then stood in a neat row behind the Sage of Six Paths.
"You all probably won't have any objections to the resurrection of the First Hokage, but as for Madara... there are too many people in the village who have hatred towards Madara. Many of us have relatives who died because of Madara. Although according to the two sages, Madara is an indispensable force to fight against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, I wonder if Madara is really necessary? There are two, no, three Uchiha among us who can activate the Complete Susanoo."
Uchiha Fugaku looked at the Six Paths Sage and said in a deep voice.
His eldest son, Uchiha Itachi, died because of the curse set by Uchiha Madara.
If possible, he hoped that Madara could die more completely.
"Only the reincarnation of Indra can perfectly carry my Yin power. The current reincarnation of Indra has not yet been born. Madara is the previous reincarnation of Indra. He and Hashirama Senju are the most powerful generation of Indra and Ashura reincarnations in the past few hundred years."
The Six Paths Sage did not refuse, but put the truth in front of Uchiha Fugaku. "If you have to rely on Madara's power to defeat Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, I can accept it, but Madara must be under our control!"
Asuma Sarutobi said as he lit a cigar.
The smoke obscured his expression, making it difficult to see clearly.
Although his father Sarutobi Hiruzen took the initiative to stand up and die together with the First Hokage of the Impure World Reincarnation, the source of the problem still lies with Madara.
He is also one of the biggest victims.
"I have discussed this with the Sage of Six Paths. I will place a curse on the two resurrected people. Life and death will be in my hands. If they do anything out of line, they will be reduced to ashes in an instant, and the power of the Six Paths will not be able to stop them."
Mingjing interrupted at this time.
"Well... I agree too."
Uchiha Fugaku sighed, sat down on the ground and said nothing.
He and Asuma Sarutobi, the two people who suffered the most, agreed, and the other Konoha high-ranking officials had no reason to refuse.
Although they all wanted to skin Ban alive, they were still clear-headed when it came to justice.
"Hagoromo-senpai, Hamura-senpai, we have a technique that can temporarily revive the Shodai and Madara as dead. In addition to summoning their souls, we can also create the most suitable bodies for them. It will be much easier to revive them when the time comes."
While Ming Jing was introducing the Impure World Reincarnation technique to the Six Paths Sage, he signaled to Orochimaru and Namikaze Minato with his eyes.
Minato Namikaze quickly used Flying Thunder God to take Orochimaru to the Root base to obtain the flesh and blood of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, as well as two White Zetsu.
There are many backups of Hashirama Senju's flesh and blood in Konoha, and there are also quite a few of Uchiha Madara's.
This was mainly obtained during a previous battle between Ming Jing and Uchiha Madara. At that time, Ming Jing also extracted Indra Chakra with a large amount of blood obtained from Madara, and added Ashura Chakra in the flesh and blood of Hashirama Senju to successfully open the Rinnegan.
As for White Zetsu, it’s even simpler.
In the previous war against the Wind Kingdom, Madara and Black Zetsu arranged 30,000 White Zetsu to attack the Allied Ninja Forces.
Most of the White Zetsu were killed, but some were sealed by the sealing teams of several major ninja villages for research.
Now the Root has built a prison made of pure metal, imprisoning hundreds of White Zetsu as experimental subjects. Now you just need to pick two of them over.
"Six Paths Sage, you can return Sarutobi Sensei's soul to the Pure Land. Please also release your control over the First Hokage's soul. Next, I will begin."
Orochimaru carved the area around the Impure World Reincarnation Technique on the ground, turned his head and spoke to the Six Paths Sage.
The Six Paths Sage nodded, pointed at the souls of three generations, and ordered them to go to the Pure Land.
Orochimaru also formed seals with his hands and pressed them to the ground.
"Ninja Technique: The Art of Reincarnation in the Dirty Earth!"
In an instant, the soul of Hashirama Senju moved to the head of one of the White Zetsu. Within two seconds, the soul of Uchiha Madara was also summoned from the Pure Land and flew to the head of another White Zetsu.
A terrifying scream rang out and then quickly subsided.
The two White Zetsu turned into confetti and reassembled into two tall men wearing old-style red armor.
"Is this... the Impure World Reincarnation Technique? I remember... I was ambushed by that guy Zetsu?"
Uchiha Madara had a look of confusion on his face as he looked at his hands that were full of cracks.
"Is it the Impure World Reincarnation technique again? Is it you who did it again this time, Madara?"
Senju Hashirama's calm and majestic voice sounded, and a powerful chakra aura burst out from his body. He stared at Uchiha Madara with a fierce look.
"Hmph, Hashirama, you're still so stupid..."
Uchiha Madara also released his aura without hesitation.
Although he is not in the Six Paths Mode as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki now, Madara finds that he is no weaker now than when he was alive and before he became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
"Okay, you two, stop and listen to our business!"
At this moment, Ming Jing's body burst out with an aura far more powerful than that of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, suppressing the two of them.
"Uchiha Mingjing? You resurrected us? And these two old guys are..."
Uchiha Madara looked at the mirror, then looked at Otsutsuki Hamura and Otsutsuki Hagoromo suspiciously.
"I am Otsutsuki Hamura, the world calls me the Sage of Six Paths, and the one next to me is my younger brother Hamura."
Otsutsuki Hamura was still floating cross-legged, looking straight at Uchiha Madara who was standing.
"Six Paths Sage, was it you who wrote the Uchiha clan's stone tablet?"
"I wrote it, but what you saw must have been tampered with by Black Zetsu."
Uchiha Madara closed his eyes, feeling a little depressed.
Although 0 had already collapsed when Black Zetsu had his heart dug out, he was just collapsing again now.
"Six Paths Sage? He looks a little different from what I imagined. He is just a stern old senior, just like I thought, but he has horns on his head and his skin is a little whiter."
Senju Hashirama looked very intelligent, and sized up the Six Paths Sage with his chin lowered.
"By the way, who brought us back to life? Tsuna, Yondaime, can you tell me the details?"
Senju Hashirama withdrew his gaze from the Six Paths Sage and looked at his granddaughter and grandson-in-law.
"Grandpa, in the original battle, Madara was secretly possessed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Now Isshiki has planted a sacred tree on the moon and swallowed the chakra fruit to threaten the ninja world. The two sages and the fifth generation decided to revive you and Madara after discussing it. They believe that you have the ability to help in the fight against Isshiki."
Tsunade said to Senju Hashirama.
(End of this chapter)
