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What good is Chapter 140 if we have it?

Is the essence of humanity not the physical body but the soul?

He should have realized this sooner. Although he had already developed the soul transfer technology and was vaguely aware of it, the awareness was not strong; he was blinded by his own involvement.

"It's a pity that the teacher is completely dead, otherwise I could have tried to resurrect him."

Orochimaru regretfully realized that the resurrection technology he had obtained required basic physical biological tissue. If a person was burned to ashes or their biological tissue completely lost its activity, it would be impossible to create a physical body and resurrect them.

The technology he obtained was not complete. In the Land of Fire, there are technologies that can reshape the body by extracting information from the soul, and can also regenerate the body by forcibly activating the dead biological tissues through ninjutsu.

Orochimaru only has the Soul Summoning Technique, Soul Input Technology, and Rapid Biological Cultivation Technology, and that's it. The White Snake Sage is useless if he had memorized all the technologies from the Land of Fire...

But what's the use of being resurrected?
Hiruzen Sarutobi is a rogue ninja in Konoha. He's already sitting at the same table as Tsunade and Jiraiya. He'll probably turn into a screaming corpse as soon as he's resurrected.

After perfecting the resurrection technique, Orochimaru turned his attention to his two companions.

He had an idea.

Shortly after, Orochimaru extracted Tsunade and Jiraiya's souls and released them.

As their souls vanished, the two bodies gradually calmed down, their stiff muscles began to relax, and Tsunade and Jiraiya were considered dead.

Orochimaru then summoned their souls back and revived them using a resurrection technique. Soon after, Orochimaru was disappointed; Jiraiya and Tsunade had not escaped their state of despair despite their deaths, and they had been marked.

Unless Uchiha Kazuma was confirmed dead before becoming Hokage and the supreme ruler of the Land of Fire, and then resurrected or appeared in the ninja world, in this state, as long as he does not actively violate the laws of the Land of Fire, any previous violations will not be a problem.

However, if Uchiha Kazuto were to undergo this method of resurrection after becoming Hokage and the supreme ruler of the Land of Fire, he would not be able to escape the legal constraints of the Land of Fire.

There is only one way to break free from Uchiha Kazuto's restraints: one must be of a sufficiently high level, so high that even if Uchiha Kazuto exhausts all his eye power, he cannot restrain him. However, if one reaches that level, one can almost instantly kill Uchiha Kazuto in one move.

"Tsunade, Jiraiya, I'm sorry, I couldn't save you..."

Orochimaru looked at the two with regret. Although he couldn't see their expressions, he knew how desperate and painful they were. It was a living hell. If it were him, he would have wanted to die long ago.

Sometimes, he was grateful to Hiruzen Sarutobi; if he hadn't been expelled from Konoha and become a rogue ninja, he would be in the same situation now.

"Kill me, Orochimaru, kill me!"

Jiraiya roared madly in his heart. He didn't want to live anymore. He couldn't go on living. Just now, he had experienced death. That tranquility, emptiness, the feeling of not having to think about anything and not having to endure pain, fascinated and intoxicated him.

He's going to die, he's definitely going to die, he doesn't want to live anymore.

Unfortunately, he couldn't even blink now. Orochimaru ignored Jiraiya's intentions and left, leaving Jiraiya and Tsunade lying on the bed, enduring endless torment.

...'The Land of Water, Uchiha Obito...'

The White Snake Sage smoked a cigarette, pondering her plan. The Land of Water was the most suitable force to unite with. She discovered that this man named Uchiha Obito harbored deep hatred for Konoha and Uchiha Kazuto. His reason for forming this force was to destroy the Land of Fire and kill Uchiha Kazuto, and he also had other plans.

However, she didn't care; it was none of her business. All she wanted was to kill Uchiha Kazuto.

The White Snake Sage's abilities have limits. She couldn't sense Black Zetsu's presence, nor did she know about the Uchiha clan's so-called plans. After all, they didn't discuss their plans all the time, and they rarely revealed them. The White Snake Sage's omniscience didn't reach the level of truly knowing everything. If she had truly reached that level, she wouldn't be the way she is now; she would have long since become an existence beyond planets.

True omniscience is not that weak.

Soon, Orochimaru found out the current mastermind behind the Land of Fire through various means.

"You say you have a way to kill Uchiha Kazuto?"

Obito Uchiha looked at the figure in front of him and asked in confusion.

Kill Uchiha Kazuto? Isn't that what they're doing? As long as they keep squeezing the country's resources and building up their army, they'll definitely be able to destroy the Land of Fire eventually.

"That's right. Everything you're doing now is in vain and meaningless. Even if you have several times more soldiers than the Land of Fire, you still can't destroy the Land of Fire."

Orochimaru nodded and said seriously that if it were before, he would have thought the same as these people, believing that forming a truly massive ninja alliance would definitely destroy the Land of Fire. However, after learning that the Land of Fire possessed resurrection technology, he no longer thought so.

"Ha, what a joke, how could that be..."

Upon hearing this, Obito Uchiha burst out laughing. "Has Orochimaru gone mad?"
No matter how strong the Land of Fire is, or how fearless its soldiers are, its population is only so small. Behind them is the entire ninja world. If a real war breaks out, they can eventually destroy the Land of Fire. How could they possibly fail?

Has Orochimaru gone mad?

Uchiha thought to himself.

"What if I told you that the Land of Fire possesses resurrection technology?"

Orochimaru said.

"Even if they did, so what? Resurrection comes at a price; it can't be used lightly. Even if the Land of Fire possesses resurrection technology, they can't use it many times. We have the numerical advantage; with prolonged attrition, we can definitely destroy the Land of Fire."

Just then, Payne, who was standing to the side, stepped forward and spoke.

'This...this isn't the legendary Rinnegan? I never imagined someone from the Land of Water would possess the legendary Rinnegan. Too bad...how can a mere Rinnegan compare to the Mangekyou Sharingan?'

Orochimaru's pupils contracted as he looked at Pain's sudden appearance. He sighed inwardly, thinking that if it were before, he would have been extremely envious and even tried to steal those eyes from him, but now...

(End of this chapter)