Konoha: Starting with a sign-in for Hashirama cells

"King Mu..." Sakura, who was staring blankly at the Five-Tails, suddenly sensed something was wrong and turned her head to look.

Then we saw the enormous chakra that Naruto had transferred to Orochimaru, which had formed a chakra cloak, disappear.

"Does he not trust me and insist on killing me?" Orochimaru thought to himself.

He formed a hand seal, preparing to erase Sakura's consciousness, and then, before dying, implanted a talisman into Sakura's body.

Control Sakura to descend into the depths of this alternate dimension, where she will remain dormant forever.

Even if Naruto finds this alternate dimension, he won't be able to find Sakura.

This was one of the few times he was able to retaliate.

Just then, a slight pain came from his face, and from the scratches and writing on his face, he understood Naruto's new plan.

Orochimaru didn't stop. As he had planned, he erased Sakura's consciousness and buried the talisman.

Instead of death, he was met with another kind of chakra, different from Naruto's.

Orochimaru calmed down.

From the shared portion of eye power, they found the ability Naruto mentioned—the ability to travel between different dimensions.

After a moment's thought, Orochimaru chose to activate his power.

As the ability was activated, a point that triggered resonance was vaguely sensed.

"Is this the mark Naruto mentioned? It allows us to return directly to Earth?" Orochimaru pondered.

Without rashly taking risks, he created a shadow clone and rushed into the spatial portal that had opened out of thin air. Soon, the shadow clone disappeared, and his memories returned.

"It's the forest of the Land of Fire!"

After digesting these few memories, Orochimaru didn't hesitate any longer. He crossed the spatial portal and went to the other side, while controlling Sakura to follow.

Standing on the land of the ninja world, breathing the fresh air of Earth, and seeing birds, squirrels, and caterpillars that don't exist in other dimensions.

Orochimaru chuckled: "It's easy, not difficult at all. Why didn't you do it this way before?"

"Why?" Naruto, who had rushed over immediately after sensing the Flying Thunder God mark he left on Sakura, breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Sakura and Orochimaru, but complained at the same time.

“Those are Rinnegan eyes. How can I get them back once they're in his hands?”

Orochimaru was confused.

Naruto offered no explanation, instantly appearing in front of Sakura, pressing her head down with one hand, and forcibly extracting her soul.

It was freed from the constraints of this body reborn from the Impure World.

Seeing this, Orochimaru's pupils narrowed slightly, and he said with a forced smile, "How should I put it, I deserve some credit for being saved this time."

"You wouldn't kill me just to vent your anger over a small argument, would you?"

“I have never underestimated you. On the contrary, I have always considered you to be a very dangerous person,” Naruto said.

"Oh dear, should I say it's an honor?" Orochimaru said with a subtle smile, surprised.

"Your power is beyond my comprehension. With all the information I have and all the factors combined, it is beyond my reach."

"I'm just an ordinary rogue ninja. My hobbies are nothing more than doing some scientific research. It's really not worth you taking it so seriously."

“First, you are immortal,” Naruto said.

"Secondly, you are cold-hearted and treat life like dirt."

"Third, you love exploring the unknown, which is what we call science."

"Given these three reasons, if left unchecked, it's impossible to predict how far things will develop."

"I believe that if you were given the opportunity, or if you had the means and ability to do so, you would be happy to use me and the people around me as guinea pigs."

"If you're not in danger, who is?"

Orochimaru was speechless.

“I’ll give you two choices,” Naruto said. “Either you die, or I’ll use Kotoamatsukami again to take control once more.”

"Is this even a choice?" Orochimaru was speechless.

"Why not?" Naruto asked, puzzled. "Isn't dying freely or living under control a choice?"

~~~

"Where's Sasuke?" After dealing with Orochimaru's fate, Naruto returned and, not seeing Sasuke, asked in bewilderment.

“He left as soon as you left,” Hinata said.

"Is he afraid I'll steal his eyes again?" Naruto asked strangely.

As the divine tree itself, it did not blossom, resulting in the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan lacking any eye techniques.

However, one's own Rinnegan, Tenseigan, and time-space travel have absolutely nothing to do with traversing different dimensions.

In fact, Naruto reduced the terrifying destructive power of his own chakra and Kaguya's chakra, so it wouldn't obliterate Hidan's body or harm Sakura.

In addition, there's his own Rinnegan power, Tenseigan power, and Sasuke's Rinnegan power.

Everything was passed on to Sakura and Orochimaru through Hidan.

Based on data from practice, Sakura and Orochimaru can only use Naruto's abilities, but they cannot use Kaguya or Sasuke's abilities.

It can't even sense anything.

Orochimaru refused to undo Sakura's Impure World Reincarnation and demanded that he be rescued as well. Naruto knew that he couldn't do it alone.

Only Ino's Yomotsu Hirasaka, Sasuke's Rinnegan eye technique, and the space portal can satisfy Orochimaru's conditions.

As for Yomotsu Hirasaka, since there is no marker, it must search through one alternate dimension after another. Heaven knows how long it will take before it can return to the ninja world.

The only one that truly meets the requirements is Sasuke's eye technique.

Since Obito had already stolen Isshiki's Ten-Tails, there was no point in keeping the space portal, so Naruto returned the Rinnegan he had taken from Sasuke.

Let Sasuke use Hidan as a medium to transfer power to Orochimaru.

As it turns out, only Sasuke can perfectly utilize the Rinnegan that belongs to him.

Similarly, by transmitting the power of those Rinnegan eyes, Naruto was unable to enable Sakura or Orochimaru to use Sasuke's Rinnegan abilities or Kaguya's abilities.

"Sasuke, it doesn't matter anymore," Ino said anxiously. "Where's Sakura? How is Sakura?"

“Here it is.” Naruto reached out and summoned Sakura’s soul, which was temporarily stored in the King of Hell.

"That's great!" Ino breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Sakura's soul with her own eyes.

Knowing what was about to happen—that her mother Kushina and father Minato would once again use the life-consuming Rinne Rebirth to revive the dead—Hinata hesitated to speak.

Naruto, who could tell what Hinata was thinking from her conflicted expression, smiled.

"I am now a divine tree. Even without this identity, the lost life force can be slowly replenished, so it's fine."

The offering was a White Zetsu that we captured alive a few days ago.

The medium was the few fingers that Sakura had cut off and sent to her by Obito.

Most importantly, it's Sakura's soul.

Unsure whether Orochimaru had tampered with Sakura's reanimated form, Naruto decided to start over himself, just to be on the safe side.

Chapter 250 Reborn

Sakura's finger is used as a medium.

The White Zetsu were sacrificed as offerings.

Impure World Reincarnation, activated.

An inexplicable attraction pulled Sakura's soul back to its rightful place, merging it with her Edo Tensei body.

At the same moment the soul arrived, this reanimated body rapidly changed, its form beginning to resemble Sakura's, until finally, they became identical.

Sakura opened her eyes, revealing the deathly stillness characteristic of an Edo Tensei (impure world resurrected) individual, with some cracks on her skin.

If you don't pursue perfection, this is actually equivalent to resurrection, except that you don't have the need to eat, drink, excrete, or sleep, you don't have blood, and you don't feel pain or itching.

He was a living dead, a walking corpse.

After checking and confirming that Sakura was unharmed and had no problems with her soul, and that there were no worries about the future, Naruto immediately put his hands together in prayer.

The power of the Rinnegan was like a flood, and the chakra was like a tsunami, being consumed and lost at an extremely exaggerated rate.

"The art of reincarnation and rebirth."

呲!

A large amount of steam was generated from Sakura's body.

Nourished by immense vitality, it undergoes a transformation from death to life.

On the surface, Naruto's hair had only returned to its golden color at the beginning of this year, with some silver-white hair added.

The unseen part is Naruto's soul, which is showing signs of depletion.

Naruto was wrong.

The forbidden technique of Reincarnation doesn't have a fixed consumption amount; rather, it varies depending on the user's condition.

Simply put, it's a percentage-based consumption.

It integrates and unifies vitality, chakra, ocular power, and the soul—energys lacking data and understanding—into a single energy.

Assuming you have 100 energy, the energy consumed by using Reincarnation will be between 60 and 80.

Assuming your energy level is 1000, your energy consumption will rise to between 600 and 800.

Similarly, if your energy reaches 100,000, reincarnation will consume 60,000 to 80,000.

It doesn't mean that if you become stronger, using Reincarnation will become easier.

On the contrary, the greater one's strength, the greater the price one will pay for violating the laws of life and death under the natural order.

Of course, such terrifying consumption, almost to the point of death, does have its benefits.

The life force, chakra, eye power, and soul energy consumed were transformed into nourishment for the resurrected person's body.

The phrase "completely transformed" is the most apt and appropriate way to describe it.