Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 21 Collapse, Pain, Coma

"You all go out and stand guard outside. No one is allowed to come in without my order."

"Yes, Lord Hokage."

The Third Hokage didn't want anyone else to know about the Spirit Transformation Technique, not even his direct subordinates in the Dark Guard.

After the two ANBU left, the Third Hokage came to the bedside and finally opened the "first aid kit".

When Li Yao turned his head and saw part of the contents of the box, his eyes instantly became bloodshot, and an unprecedented fear enveloped his entire being.

"Did you know? Ninjas have incredible endurance."

"If this were your original body, these little things would be nothing more than a tickle to you, not worth mentioning."

As the Third Hokage spoke, he picked up a thin needle, glanced at Li Yao who was trembling all over, and then smiled and said, "It's good that you just took over the body. This body has not been in battle and has a very low pain tolerance. You will definitely feel extreme pain."

"No...no no...don't."

Li Yao subconsciously clenched his fists, his head shaking as he tried to back away, his bloodshot eyes wide open in terror as he stared at the long needle in the Third Generation's hand.

Although the third generation hasn't made a move yet, Li Yao's mind is already involuntarily imagining all sorts of possible methods that the long needle can use.

He could feel his fingernails pricking him painfully.

"Lord Hokage, I'll tell you everything, please don't torture me, I really will tell you everything."

"Please, please..."

Li Yao was like a lamb to the slaughter, his eyes filled with fear and pleading as he looked at the Third Prince, instinctively begging him to spare him again and again.

"Very realistic acting!"

But it didn't work.

Although the third generation could not sense any acting in Li Yao at this time, such a physical instinctive reaction was very difficult to perform.

But it's impossible to get him to believe Li Yao's words.

In this world rife with various ninja techniques and secret arts, there is a memory-sealing ninja technique that can perfectly conceal a spy, so that the spy himself is unaware that he is a spy, and naturally there is no trace of performance.

Who knows if Li Yao in front of us has also sealed away his memories, causing him to insist that he is just an ordinary person and not a ninja?

If this is the case, and chakra cannot invade Li Yao's chakra, then no one can break the seal on Li Yao's memories.

The third generation could only inflict painful torment on Li Yao, forcing him to break through the memory seal in his mind due to his survival instinct, and then he could use the memory exploration technique.

This is a common method used in the ninja world to remove memory seals before the development of ninjutsu that could invade and unseal memories.

This was to prove that the method was feasible, which is why the relevant torture tools were left in the dark.

"I didn't act, I really didn't act!" Li Yao cried his heart out. He really didn't act.

The third generation showed no reaction, and said with a double entendre, "Only real pain can make you remember everything."

The Third Generation easily pried open Li Yao's clenched fist, grabbed his thumb, and gently touched Li Yao's thumb with the sharp tip of a long needle in his right hand.

Li Yao's whole body trembled even more violently, and the bed emitted a rattling sound like a high-speed machine gun firing.

His left arm trembled the most, but his thumb, held firmly by the third generation, was so steady it didn't seem like his own hand, yet his senses were the most sensitive.

"I...you...damn...pen, I told you it's true, don't you understand?!"

"Damn it... you Sarutobi monkey, what the hell are you talking about?"

Seeing that the third generation had no intention of letting him go, Li Yao finally broke down completely.

He launched into a tirade of curses against three generations of his family, all in Mandarin. He had no scruples left and just wanted to vent his fear.

Perhaps it was Li Yao's sudden outburst, coupled with the incomprehensible Mandarin, that left the Third Generation momentarily stunned. He paused, then frowned as he looked at Li Yao, completely unable to understand what the man was saying.

However, from Li Yao's facial expression and hateful eyes, the Third Generation knew that those words he couldn't understand were definitely not good words.

The third generation smiled, not caring. It was good that his defenses had been breached; this kind of collapse was necessary for the body and mind's survival instincts to break through the memory seals in his mind.

"Feel this extreme pain!"

The third-generation needle was slowly inserted into the space between Li Yao's thumbs.

"hiss……"

Li Yao, who was cursing wildly, suddenly shut up as an unimaginable pain surged from a small spot under his fingernail and spread throughout his body.

Li Yao gasped sharply, and his body stopped trembling violently in that instant due to the intense pain.

At that moment, the intense pain overwhelmed the psychological and physical fear.

Just a fleeting moment later.

"what!"

The agonizing screams echoed throughout the interrogation room. The bomb squad members standing guard outside the interrogation room couldn't help but tremble when they heard the heart-wrenching screams. Even though they had a high pain tolerance and could gouge out eyeballs without flinching, they couldn't help but tremble.

Inside the interrogation room, the third generation continued his actions, holding a sharp, long needle and slowly but forcefully inserting it into Li Yao's fingernails.

At this moment, Li Yao's body seemed to finally recover from the intense pain.

He began to shake with even bigger and more frantic movements than before.

He bounced up and down and twisted wildly from side to side while screaming in agony.

Bound tightly to the bed with bandages, he writhed wildly like a fish suffocating on land, but his movements showed no signs of abating.

At this moment, Li Yao was in so much pain that his mind went completely blank; he felt only pain and had no other thoughts.

For Li Yao, who screams in pain even when getting a shot, he is psychologically very sensitive to pain.

If the pain level of a long needle stuck under a fingernail is level one for other people, then the pain level that Li Yao is experiencing is level ten.

If we also consider Li Yao's own psychological sensitivity to pain, then...

The level of pain he was experiencing at that moment was 15.

While adults would be in so much pain that tears and snot would stream down their faces and veins would bulge, Li Yao felt fifteen times more pain.

Li Yao is now in so much pain that he has completely lost the ability to think.

On the bed, Li Yao's body was covered with bulging veins, like that of a centenarian.

This shows just how much pain he was in at that moment.

Finally, before the Third Generation could completely pierce Li Yao's thumb with the long needle, Li Yao fainted from the pain.

Li Yao fell into a coma, and before the three-generation long needle could be removed, he immediately formed a hand seal.

"Illusion, the art of darkness."

The familiar routine was used once again, and the illusion chakra of the Dark Travel Technique quickly entered Li Yao's body.

A few seconds later, the third generation frowned and lowered his hand.

"Still not working?"

As expected, even though he fainted from the pain, Li Yao's consciousness remained closely integrated with his chakra. The Third Hokage's genjutsu chakra was instinctively rejected by Li Yao's consciousness, and the genjutsu failed to be cast.

"This person has a very strong will!"

The third generation quickly came to a conclusion, then pulled the long needle out of Li Yao's thumb, wiped off the remaining blood with a cloth, and put it back in the first aid kit.

After glancing at Li Yao, whose veins were still prominent even after he had fallen unconscious, the Third Hokage turned and walked out of the interrogation room, without continuing to torture Li Yao.

Li Yao had been starving for a day and a night. If the pain level became too high, his body would activate a protective mechanism and he would faint, which conflicted with the purpose of the third generation's torture.

Moreover, the third generation was also afraid that if too much torture was inflicted, Li Yao might not be able to bear the pain and die directly, and then it would be too late for him to regret it.

Let's come again tomorrow night.

After leaving the interrogation room, the Third Generation instructed the Explosive Squad to take good care of Li Yao, to provide him with enough food and water, and to make sure that Li Yao would be lively and energetic by tomorrow night.

Only a healthy and strong Li Yao can feel the pain most clearly, and only then can he break through the memory seal in his mind.

Only through three generations can he obtain the perfect spiritualization technique he desires.

(End of this chapter)