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Chapter 281 The Price of Resurrection

Sasuke nodded. For people like them who had a weak concept of life and death, the so-called death was only the annihilation of the soul and the destruction of consciousness. Everything else was just going to sleep.

Of course, this is on the premise that the cost of reviving the empire is very small. In fact, the ninja world already has a revival technique, but the cost of using it is very high, almost like exchanging one life for another. Unlike the empire, which used to require sacrifices, now that the Pure Land has been incorporated into its territory, reviving people does not require sacrifices.

All you need to do is bring the soul out of the Pure Land.

However, in the Empire, resurrection is not truly without cost. To prevent people from not valuing their lives and dying carelessly, engaging in meaningless deaths such as bungee jumping without a rope, wanting to experience the feeling of hanging oneself, or verifying whether wrist-cutting really leads to death, or even jumping into a meat grinder to experience what it feels like to be cut into a thousand pieces, etc., relying on the fact that one is not dead, etc...

Therefore, resurrection cannot be truly without any cost. Although there is indeed no cost in reality, it costs money. Each resurrection requires a fee, which is not much, equivalent to a person's monthly salary.

Since there is no real cost, it's just a form of punishment. Therefore, this money isn't fixed. Regardless of income, it's always a month's salary, not something that allows you to die more times by earning more. That's impossible.

What if you don't have money? Of course, you'll work. If you die and don't have money to resurrect, or if you're bored, you can work in the Pure Land, acting as artificial intelligence to handle some tasks, or as a soul calculator to provide computing power, all of which can speed up the resurrection time.

However, there is a distinction between accidental death and intentional death. If it is an accidental death, as long as a death verification is performed, it will only cost one-third of the salary to revive you, which is still very cost-effective.

Well, actually there's no need for any verification, because there's a law governing this. With the support of Uchiha Kazuto's eye techniques, the system will automatically distinguish whether their actions were accidental or intentional.

However, not everyone who dies is punished.

Students and combat personnel are not subject to death penalties while attending school or serving in the military. They can die and be resurrected repeatedly. Of course, they cannot intentionally die. They can only die and be resurrected at will during study, training, and combat. If they intentionally die at other times, they will be penalized.

Of course, because they are students, they need to go to school, so they can't be locked up for too long, and they usually don't have much money. But it's not a big problem. They will have money when they start working. They can save this money to pay back when they start working.

This is actually the same as the death penalty at the critical moment. Because of the law protecting minors, the death penalty cannot be imposed, but he will be an adult in a few days. Well then, let's wait a few days before trying him.

Besides the above, there are some jobs that, due to their inherent danger, also have a mortality target. Of course, this mortality target doesn't mean how many people die within a certain period without consequence, but rather how many times a person can die for free.

It can be said that the Empire is still quite humane. The main reason is that Uchiha Kazuto is not a capitalist. If it were a capitalist society, there would definitely be situations where people couldn't afford to die, or even be manipulated by capital to greatly increase the mortality rate, ultimately making people unable to afford the cost of resurrection and only able to take out loans, burdened with debts they could never repay in their lifetime.

"Alright, now it's your turn, Obito Uchiha, and Black Zetsu..."

As he put the two eyeballs away, Sasuke Uchiha looked at Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu. He compressed Black Zetsu into a dumpling, and as for Obito, he simply dispelled the Impure World Reincarnation, sending Obito back to where he came from.

"We've finally found you, Divine Tree!"

Shortly after, Sasuke Uchiha stood in front of the Gedo Mazo and placed his hand on it.

External accessory detected. Connect?
A system prompt appeared.

"Yes!"

Connection initiated!
The next moment, a small amount of energy flowed from his hand into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

A flood of data rushed through Sasuke's eyes, until finally a giant thumbs-up appeared before him.

100%
Data connection successful!

Has it entered the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki form?
Yes! Confirmed!

He nodded, and the next moment, the Divine Tree began to shrink, surging into his body. An immense power began to flow, and simultaneously, the chakra seed embedded in his armor was injected into the Ten-Tails. To obtain the power of the Divine Tree, one needs the Rinnegan. Although Sasuke had just taken the Rinnegan, he hadn't yet installed it on himself.

Because he has this armor, which is specially designed to replace the armor that connects the Rinnegan to the Gedo Mazo.

Furthermore, after fusing with the Ten-Tails, this armor will not be rendered useless, unlike in the past when the amplification became dispensable. The current version of the Super Bio-Armor is already able to be compatible with the power of the Ten-Tails and even amplify it, thanks to Gastrea virus, which is like a gene amplifier that can greatly amplify the genes of organisms.

While it cannot be used on super creatures like the Ten-Tails, it is sufficient for upgrading super creature armor.

It's like combining two purple cards into one gold card.

Actually, it's not that it can't be used on the Ten-Tails, but the Ten-Tails' own gene pool is too complex and terrifying, and its gene activity is too strong, possessing a special corrosiveness. After the Gastrea virus is injected, it will be forcibly assimilated by the Ten-Tails' power, turning from a plug-in into an accessory, providing some amplification, but not much.

If we could modify and upgrade the genes of gastrovirus and design them in conjunction with the genetic sequence of the Divine Tree, we might actually be able to create a super gastrovirus that works against the Divine Tree.

However, the Divine Tree doesn't actually need Gastrea virus to amplify it. After all, the Divine Tree itself has unlimited evolutionary potential. This kind of super life form, which can absorb all the information and energy of a planet and carry out complex synthesis reactions to create chakra fruits, theoretically can allow the Divine Tree and its users to evolve without limit, as long as there are enough planets and enough life.

Even within the Otsutsuki clan, there is a case like this: Otsutsuki Shibai, the so-called god of Otsutsuki.

However, although they know that the Otsutsuki god does exist, and that they even have his remains, no one knows whether Otsutsuki Shibai is alive or dead.

The data extracted from Isshiki Otsutsuki's brain shows that a long time ago, after Otsutsuki Shibai devoured a chakra fruit, when they met again, Otsutsuki Shibai was lifeless. But was he really dead?
No one knows, but among the Otsutsuki clan, some speculate that Otsutsuki Shibakai may not have died, but rather his spirit entered a higher dimension and became a more advanced being.

After all, the Otsutsuki clan was invincible in the universe and had never encountered any powerful civilization. The most powerful civilization they had ever encountered was one that had just begun to develop space technology and was then directly destroyed by them.

In fact, based on calculations made by imperial researchers during this period, they discovered that their universe appears to be in the early stages of the Big Bang.

Damn it, the Otsutsuki clan, they're blasting fish in a fishpond!

Chakra is something that is very difficult to exist in nature. In the early stages of civilization, a civilization's understanding of extraordinary power was limited to external extraordinary power such as natural energy. Chakra can only be created when a civilization has developed to the point of interstellar colonization and has conducted sufficiently in-depth research on natural energy, life energy, and spiritual energy.

This is technology from a very late stage of development. If you had to make an analogy, it would be like the difference between an industrialized country that can manufacture and produce electricity and an ancient feudal civilization.

Damn it, they take late-game technology and go to the early-game beginner village to blast fish. Who can stand that? Those civilizations are still in a state of ignorance, and they've already been wiped out by the Otsutsuki clan with the Divine Tree and the Death Orb. How are we supposed to deal with this?

Even if you become the future world ruler, you can't withstand a kick from a useless adult when you're still a baby.

As for whether there are any hidden tricks in chakra, after this period of research and following the process of deducing the answer, researchers have been able to create new chakra through natural energy and life energy.

As for the backup plan, people who say such things are like a primitive man who suddenly gets his hands on a generator and thinks that the energy produced by this generator has a backup plan left by people from the future. As for why they say that, did you see those people wearing black clothes who were not afraid of this kind of lightning at all? They could even release lightning by shaking hands.

What else could this be but having a backup plan?
Chakra is a special kind of energy that exists in the universe but is almost non-existent in nature and can only be synthesized artificially. Just like special elements such as curium and ruthenium, it is almost non-existent in nature and can only be obtained through experimental means. Does this mean that humans have mastered this special element by synthesizing it, and can even plant hidden tricks in it?

Isn't this as absurd as saying that people who manufacture cars can't be hit by cars, and people who manufacture guns can control guns and can't be shot?

However, during their research on the Divine Tree, the researchers discovered something unusual: the Divine Tree's genes seemed to be bound to the genes of the Ōtsutsuki clan...

(End of this chapter)