Konoha: Starting with a sign-in for Hashirama cells

Seeing that Naruto was still conscious and could control his body without any hindrance, Ino breathed a sigh of relief.

"The half-hour time limit is a limitation for my soul outside. If there is a place to reside, will there still be a pull that resembles the underworld?"

"If not, I can live inside you and go with you to save Sakura without becoming a burden."

Chapter 97 Longevity and Longsight

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

"No pulling sensation? It really works! That's great!" Ino exclaimed happily.

"I never imagined that combining the Spirit Transformation Technique with your family's secret technique would have such an effect," Naruto murmured, rubbing his face.

"Simple spiritification techniques cannot possess or control a target."

“Simply passing down secrets is difficult to sustain.”

"The combination of the two allows one to use another person's body as a dwelling, and the duration can be extended."

"This is a battle at the soul level, and has nothing to do with actual combat strength. In other words, those whose soul strength is not as strong as yours cannot resist your possession and control."

"If there were no time limit and it could go on indefinitely, then you would be practically the same as achieving immortality."

"Immortality!" Ino was stunned. "Is that even possible?"

"The person who attacked the village before was called Orochimaru. The immortality technique he created is similar to soul possession, taking over the body of another person to achieve immortality," Naruto said.

“What you’re doing is a little different from possession. You’re just possessing and controlling the target, without erasing or devouring their soul and consciousness.”

"You have the potential for mutually beneficial cooperation, while Orochimaru's approach is pure plunder."

"By the way, is it possible to control corpses using secret techniques?"

“No, it must be a living person, someone with consciousness,” Ino said.

“In that case,” Naruto said.

"Before your body dies, your soul leaves your body and resides in the body of another person. When that person is about to die, your soul leaves your body again and seeks to reside in the next person."

"Repeating in a cycle."

"The lifespan of the body is only a few decades, while the lifespan of the soul is an unknown quantity."

"If you don't want to die before your soul perishes, you can achieve immortality through this method."

"..." Ino.

"Of course, that's on the premise that you can maintain the possessed state. Otherwise, once the soul leaves the body, it won't last an hour," Naruto said.

"Then you can say goodbye to the world."

“Yes, you can,” Ino said.

"The secret technique is that the spirit leaves the body, but my soul is still inside the body. This is why my own body is also injured when I attack someone I possess."

"Spiritualization allows my soul to leave my body completely."

"Spiritual energy is the power that originates from the soul."

“Like me now, I can’t control you for a long time, because that would consume a lot of mental energy. Just maintaining possession consumes very little energy.”

“Then there’s no problem. Putting aside your body, just considering your soul, you are already an immortal being.” Naruto said, touching Ino’s body to check her temperature.

"Slightly below the normal range."

"It seems that the limitations of the Spirit Transformation Technique are not only limited to the soul, but also to the body."

"I don't want to die young, I don't want to abandon this body, so I must be very careful about the time my soul leaves my body."

"Alright, test over, go home."

"Oh," Ino responded, her soul separating from Naruto and returning to her own body.

It was clearly visible that her fair skin first turned slightly red, as if it had been infused with heat, and then her body adapted to the heat and returned to normal.

Naruto watched Ino run home without saying a word, paused for a moment, then turned and left.

Immortality, indeed, is quite tempting.

Once I learn the Spirit Transformation Technique, defeat Madara Uchiha, and Kaguya Otsutsuki, I'll have more time to sign in, so I can transfer the Yamanaka family's secret techniques to them.

Don't worry about whether you need it or not, the first thing is to have it.

It's a pity that using this method means giving up your body and losing most of your strength except for knowledge, and having to start all over again.

"Why go through all that trouble? Just sign in to Hidan's immortality, and you'll retain your body's power, right?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"It doesn't seem to work. Hidan's immortality seems to have significant limitations."

In the story, Hidan never used ninjutsu, and he didn't seem to be very smart.

If Hidan's immortality comes at the cost of his intelligence and many uses of chakra, then it's no different from self-harm.

Stop thinking about immortality and bring your attention back to Sakura.

Naruto pondered for a moment, then said to Kurama, "Stop supplying chakra to the shadow clones on the back mountain and give me all the chakra."

“Many of the shadow clones existed for two months. Without my chakra support, they would all disappear. With so many memories, you…” Kurama said.

"It's alright," Naruto said calmly.

the other side.

When Ino returned home, she felt as if she were in a dream.

Telling her suddenly that she could achieve immortality would indeed feel like a dream.

"Now is not the time to think about these things." Ino patted her face, quickly brushed her teeth, washed her face, and then put on a face mask.

While her body remained lying in bed, her soul departed from her body once more.

Soon, relying on their spiritual senses, they found Naruto's true form in the back mountain.

"What is this?" Ino wondered to herself, "Is he using Shadow Clone Technique?"

Without keeping Ino waiting long, Naruto suddenly formed hand seals, and a large amount of smoke billowed from his body.

The newly created shadow clones dispersed as quickly as possible to make room for subsequent shadow clones.

It flows endlessly, seemingly without end.

At first, Ino kept track of the quantity, but gradually she became numb to it; there were just too many, too many to count.

Conservative estimates suggest the number will be no less than 50,000, and it has not stopped; it is still ongoing.

Like a tidal wave, shadow clones surged across mountains and walls, leaving Konoha one after another, and the patrolling ninjas couldn't stop them at all.

Two shadow clones went to Jiraiya and Tsunade, claiming that they were sending the shadow clones out to train while the real body stayed at home and wouldn't go anywhere.

With these two powerful backers, there's no fear of getting into trouble, and no chaos can arise.

The reason for acting first and informing later is that there is a certain probability of being rejected.

First, use up all the chakra transferred from Kurama, then use your own chakra.

When his chakra was almost exhausted, Kurama sent out a portion of his chakra through the Bagua seal in the sealed space, which Naruto took and used without hesitation.

This process was forced to stop only when no more chakra could be extracted to form a shadow clone.

Naruto swayed precariously, his vision blurred and he couldn't see clearly. To make matters worse, the memories of his shadow clones flooded back, shattering his resolve.

With a thud, he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Ouch! My chakra meridians hurt so much! This is too reckless!" Ino possessed Naruto, experiencing pain in all five senses, and her face changed color.

"This minor injury is nothing to him; the real trouble is yet to come," Nine-Tails said.

Ino was startled. Her consciousness turned around and, through the blur, she vaguely saw a giant beast lying down, its imposing presence terrifying.

"A flood of memories will come over him, and he will be in a coma for a period of time."

"Given his training intensity, if he misses a day, his physical fitness will decline; if he misses a month, all his previous efforts will be in vain."

Chapter 98 Acting

"Huh! You can still hold on? Then I don't need to go and keep Hinata company in your place."

One of the shadow clones, who had deliberately stayed behind, saw the original body getting up in pain and assumed the original body was alright. After saying this, it disappeared in a flash and followed the original body out of the village to search.

"..." Ino.

“You are…” Ino.

"People call me Nine-Tailed Fox." Nine-Tailed Fox.

"Naruto's monster nickname is because of you, isn't it? You were the one who first drove me away with your roar." Ino.

“That’s right.” Nine-Tails.

"Why didn't you expel me just now, or even now?" Ino asked.

“You pose no threat to Naruto, so I have no reason to expel you,” Kurama said.

"You were able to approach Naruto in spirit form, proving you had no intention of harming him, no killing intent, otherwise..."

"Without Naruto's knowledge, his passive instincts will definitely be triggered."

"What is passive instinct?" Ino asked, but Kurama did not answer.

"What are all these shadow clones doing here? Don't they need to go?" Ino endured the pain and came to the tree, sitting down with her back against the big tree.

“These are shadow clones used for cultivation; there are nearly a thousand of them,” Nine-Tailed Fox said.

"The oldest batch has been there for more than two months. Naruto must have had his reasons for keeping them."

"What?" Ino asked.

“Absorb and digest their memories. The memories won’t return until the shadow clones disappear,” Nine-Tails said.

"The changes in the nature of wind and fire are the icing on the cake, but the most crucial thing is... the Flying Thunder God Technique."

“Flying Thunder God…” Ino suddenly realized.

“Naruto usually has his shadow clones learn ninjutsu that doesn’t require the main body to participate,” Kurama said.