Chapter 109: Resurrection Technique

When it came to research on ninjutsu, Wang Bo's first thought was of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama.

He was a genius.

A genius in ninjutsu research. Most of the forbidden techniques in the Scroll of Seals of Konoha were developed by this ninja, including the Flying Thunder God Technique, Impure World Reincarnation, Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags, and Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, all of which were created by this Hokage.

Moreover, these techniques all shone brilliantly in the storyline.

For example, the Flying Thunder God Technique made Namikaze Minato what he was.

The reason Minato was so powerful, even earning the name Yellow Flash, was largely due to the Flying Thunder God Technique.

And toward the end of the story, the Impure World Reincarnation technique shone even brighter, displaying earth-shattering power.

Admittedly, both Namikaze Minato and Orochimaru had made improvements to these two techniques.

But one had to admit that without Senju Tobirama creating them, they wouldn't even have had the chance to improve them.

After all, creating a technique from nothing was no easy feat.

Besides this genius, another talent was Orochimaru.

Orochimaru was undoubtedly a genius, though not as great as Senju Tobirama; his research on ninjutsu was also top-notch, as mastering all techniques was his lifelong dream.

For this dream, he even developed techniques like the Living Corpse Reincarnation.

Moreover, Orochimaru founded the Hidden Sound Village, where most sound-based techniques were developed by him, proving his excellence.

Thus, when Wang Bo researched and created ninjutsu, he thought of these two geniuses and wanted to recruit them to form a team.

Orochimaru was no problem. When Wang Bo unified the world, the Land of Fields where Orochimaru resided was conquered, and the Hidden Sound Village was smoothly taken over by Wang Bo.

As for Orochimaru, he didn't flee; instead, he became Wang Bo's subordinate.

So now that the Earth Alliance was established, Wang Bo could transfer Orochimaru with just a word.

Senju Tobirama, however, was a bit troublesome.

Because he was already dead.

But in Wang Bo's view, this was only a minor trouble, not impossible. He knew of several techniques that could resurrect the dead.

The first was naturally the technique developed by Senju Tobirama himself—Impure World Reincarnation.

However, this technique couldn't fully resurrect a person and had great limitations, which Wang Bo didn't like.

As for the second, it was Inorganic Reincarnation!

This was a technique used by Kabuto Yakushi after he activated Sage Mode. After Orochimaru was killed by Sasuke and Itachi Uchiha, Kabuto inherited a large amount of Orochimaru's research data and found the place where the Snake Sage lived—the Ryuchi Cave.

Inside the Ryuchi Cave, Kabuto transformed into Sage Kabuto, learning not only Sage Mode from the Snake Sage but also the White Snake Sage's technique—Inorganic Reincarnation!

This technique differed from others; it didn't require chakra as a medium and could directly act on anything, granting life to things that originally had none.

The only pity was that while this technique could give life to inanimate objects, it couldn't involve the soul.

But if Inorganic Reincarnation and Impure World Reincarnation were combined, perhaps a true resurrection technique could be developed.

Besides these, Wang Bo knew of a third resurrection technique—Life-Giving Reincarnation!

The developer of this technique was Chiyo, a former elder of the Hidden Sand Village and now a member of the Earth Parliament.

Of course, this wasn't Chiyo's achievement alone.

The Hidden Sand Village was a village that liked to play with puppets, and among them was an elite unit called the Sand Puppet Unit.

Through long-term combat, Sand puppet masters had long discovered the shortcomings of puppetry. If they could grant life to puppets, they could master ninjutsu and no longer rely on mechanisms.

Thus, the Sand Puppet Unit wanted to research and develop a technique to give life to puppets, with Chiyo leading the development. It was later forced to stop due to the high cost.

Granting life to puppets meant breaking their limitations, giving them greater combat power. But the birth of such puppets required a considerable cost—the sacrifice of the user's life.

So this kind of life-for-life trade was simply not worth it—that was Life-Giving Reincarnation.

This technique used all of the user's chakra as a medium to distribute life force to the dead.

It could be used on the living or the dead. If used on the dead, the user's chakra would convert the soul of the deceased until the user died.

In short, it was a technique that traded one life for another.

The drawback was too great.

As for the fourth, it was the most powerful resurrection technique Wang Bo knew—the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique!

But to perform this technique, there was a prerequisite.

That was the Rinnegan.

Only those with the Rinnegan could master this technique; those without it could not. In other words, it was an innate technique of the Rinnegan.

This technique could summon the King of Hell, who would stand up, open his mouth wide, and release countless souls of the dead, returning them to the deceased to resurrect them. The technique cost the user's life.

The longer the target had been dead and the more people resurrected, the more chakra was consumed. If the target was an Impure World Reincarnation, that state would be automatically undone.

This was the highest-level resurrection technique to date, and it wasn't one-to-one but one-to-many.

However, this technique still required the user's life.

Nagato died after using this technique.

Wang Bo wanted to recruit Senju Tobirama, but of course not by trading one life for another. So he decided to combine Impure World Reincarnation and Inorganic Reincarnation to create a resurrection technique that required no cost.

Perhaps in others' eyes, this was impossible.

But in Wang Bo's eyes, life and death were not so clearly divided.

There were countless resurrection techniques across the myriad realms, even many that required no cost, the most typical being the Dragon Balls.

With one wish, not just one person, but even resurrecting everyone on Earth was no problem.

So Wang Bo summoned Orochimaru, explained his idea, and asked for the summoning scroll of Ryuchi Cave, intending to visit the White Snake Sage and obtain Inorganic Reincarnation.

Orochimaru naturally didn't refuse. On the contrary, he was very interested in the resurrection technique without side effects that Wang Bo mentioned, so he readily handed over the scroll of Ryuchi Cave to Wang Bo.