Analyzing the Ninja World Starting from Konoha

Chapter 281 Orochimaru's User Manual

The Island of Oblivion.

When Aoba brought Utakata and Hotaru back to the island, Orochimaru was in his laboratory fiddling with his bottles and jars.

Hearing the noise, Orochimaru slowly turned his head.

His eyes lit up instantly when he saw the two unconscious "trophies" behind Aoba.

"Oh?"

Orochimaru put down the reagent in his hand, stuck out his tongue to wash his face, and his eyes gleamed with undisguised curiosity.

"Sparashi, Aoba-kun has brought back some incredible spoils this time."

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Orochimaru highly valued Aoba's judgment; anything Aoba brought back must have extremely high research value.

See for yourself.

Yu Gao and Hotaru were placed on the experimental table respectively.

Orochimaru circled the experimental table, his pale fingers gently pressing on Utakata's abdomen. Sensing the restless chakra beneath the seal, the corners of his mouth curved into a wider smile.

"A Jinchūriki? I see. So this is Aoba-kun's goal—to become the next Sage of Six Paths?"

"This is just the first step. Without the strength of the Six Paths level, how can we face monsters from outer space!"

"Six Paths level? Is that your assessment of their combat strength? How interesting. Even you are so cautious now. I can't imagine how strong the monsters you're talking about really are!"

As he spoke, Orochimaru's gaze shifted to the unconscious Hotaru beside him, his golden pupils suddenly contracting.

Orochimaru, being one of the legendary Sannin of Konoha, sensed an extremely dangerous aura emanating from this girl.

"interesting----"

Orochimaru's expression turned serious. "It seems that something extraordinary is sealed within this little girl. Although it's not as powerful as a tailed beast, it's still extremely dangerous!"

"Orochimaru-senpai's senses are as sharp as ever."

Aoba walked to Xiaoying's side, turned her over, pulled down her clothes, revealing a strange spider seal on her back.

"That's the forbidden technique of the Tsuchigumo clan, 'Raging Heaven,' a technique that can absorb natural energy to trigger a large-scale explosion, theoretically capable of creating explosive power comparable to a Tailed Beast Ball."

"Absorbing natural energy?"

Orochimaru immediately became interested and placed his hand on her back to analyze her technique.

After a moment, Orochimaru withdrew his hand and shook his head. "A very crude technique. You can see some of the creator's thinking in the technique. The idea is good, but the skill level is too poor. What a pity!"

"More than that little girl, I'm curious about your purpose in bringing the Jinchūriki back."

"Given your personality, it's impossible that you simply want to use the power of the tailed beasts."

Aoba nodded noncommittally. "Orochimaru-senpai, what's your current view on the Tailed Beasts?"

Upon hearing this question, Orochimaru was slightly taken aback, then turned to look at Utakata, a hint of pity and disdain flashing in his eyes.

Before meeting Aoba, Orochimaru might have been extremely interested in the Tailed Beasts, these biological weapons with enormous chakra, and might have even tried to find ways to possess their power.

But now it's different.

Ever since Aoba "educated" him about the true history of the ninja world, telling him the truth about the Otsutsuki clan, the Ten-Tails, and the Sage of Six Paths, the tailed beasts are now nothing more than aggregates of chakra to Orochimaru.

"If I really have to say what I'm interested in, I'm more interested in the complete Ten-Tails Divine Tree. As for these fragmented pieces—Aoba-kun, you went to the trouble of capturing him, it couldn't have been just for that little bit of chakra, could it? Do you have a different opinion about the Tailed Beasts now?"

Orochimaru knows Aoba too well.

This man has a strong sense of self-discipline in everything he does, and he will never do anything in vain.

Aoba's lips curled up slightly, revealing an appreciative smile.

Sure enough, it's so much easier to talk to smart people; Orochimaru understood his meaning after just a brief mention.

"Senior, haven't you realized that the very existence of the Tailed Beasts is a tremendous miracle?"

Aoba's voice echoed in the laboratory, seemingly carrying a certain allure.

"They can switch seamlessly between 'pure chakra' and 'real physical entities'."

"When they are sealed within a Jinchuriki's body, or compressed by a sealing technique, they are a pure mass of chakra energy. However, once they are released—"

Aoba raised her hand and gestured in the air.

"They can instantly coalesce into a gigantic, physical monster! They possess independent biological consciousness, emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and even—real flesh and blood!"

boom!

Aoba's words struck Orochimaru's mind like a thunderbolt!

Orochimaru's body jolted violently, and he stood frozen in place.

As the top scientist in the ninja world, Orochimaru's intelligence and comprehension are absolutely top-notch.

With just a slight hint from Aoba, Orochimaru instantly understood the details he had previously overlooked.

This is the "obstacle of perception," or the darkness under the lamp.

Some common but unreasonable things become taken for granted after seeing them so often.

As the top scientist in the ninja world, Orochimaru's thought process is incredibly fast.

The moment Aoba broke through this barrier, countless inspirations and experimental data collided wildly in his mind.

He suddenly turned his head to look at Yamashiro Aoba, remembering Aoba's signature secret technique—the immortal body of magma!

Orochimaru knew that Aoba's secret technique was a variant evolved from the Hozuki clan's water transformation technique.

In essence, it is an alternative method that completely "chakra-izes" the real physical body. As long as the chakra is not exhausted, the body can be infinitely reconstructed and become immune to most physical damage.

It is similar to his snake-type ninjutsu, which he developed through physical modification, but it is also different!

"Freely switching between body chakra transformation and chakra materialization —"

Orochimaru's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and his voice trembled with extreme excitement.

"This is practically like two sides of the same coin in life!"

"They were clearly just a mass of energy separated from the Ten-Tails by the Sage of Six Paths, yet they were able to create something from nothing, evolving into the thoughts and physical bodies of living beings! This is the ultimate transformation of energy into matter!"

"If we could unlock the secret of the Tailed Beasts' 'chakra materialization'—"

Orochimaru took a deep breath, a sickly flush rising on his pale face.

"Does that mean we can completely break down the boundaries between matter and energy, achieving true immortality?!"

Seeing Orochimaru in a frenzied state, Aoba smiled and nodded.

This is exactly the result he wanted.

Of course, immortality is a bit of an exaggeration, or rather, tailed beasts alone are not enough, since even the Sage of Six Paths could not live forever.

Orochimaru's research ability is beyond doubt. As long as you point him in a direction, he can unleash unimaginable creativity.

The most important thing in research is "interest".

What Aoba is doing now is to get Orochimaru to agree with him. Otherwise, if the two of them keep doing their own research, it will not only waste resources but also waste time.

This is the standard Orochimaru user manual.

Seeing Orochimaru engrossed in scientific fanaticism, Aoba didn't disturb him, because his own heart was not at peace either.

What he told Orochimaru may have already come true for someone!

And this person is none other than the Sage of Six Paths—Hagoromo Otsutsuki.

How did the Sage of Six Paths appear in the later stages of the Fourth Shinobi World War in the original story?

Madara Uchiha was cut in half at the waist by Sasuke, and the Sage of Six Paths emerged from Madara's lower body in a state that was neither a soul nor a physical entity.

This is very likely a manifestation of "chakra materialization" and "body chakra transformation"!

How could an ordinary soul possibly possess such a terrifying ability to interfere with the present world?

Not only was the Sage of Six Paths able to bestow the power of Yin and Yang upon Naruto and Sasuke respectively, but in the end, he was also able to summon the souls of all the village kage from the Pure Land through his own power, and together they performed a super-large-scale summoning jutsu, forcibly summoning the nine tailed beasts and the four members of Team 7 back to the ninja world from Kaguya's Origin Sphere!

This exaggerated amount of chakra and its methods are even more outrageous than those of Kaguya Otsutsuki, the progenitor of chakra!

Where did this old man, who has been dead for over a thousand years, get such a massive amount of chakra?

This involuntarily reminded Aoba of some plot points in the later stages of Naruto, in Boruto.

Later, Amado, a scientist from the Kara organization, mentioned a god-like being called "Otsutsuki Shibakai".

Otsutsuki Shibai was an individual who truly achieved a life leap. By constantly absorbing chakra fruits in the universe and continuously evolving, he ultimately completed the leap from "Otsutsuki" to "God".

According to Amado's speculation, Ōtsutsuki Shibai has abandoned his physical body, evolved to a higher dimension, and left the current dimension.

Abandoning the physical body, existing solely as energy or soul —

Isn't this strikingly similar to the current state of the Sage of Six Paths?

A chill ran through Qingye's heart.

Why is there no "underworld" or "hell" in the traditional sense, but only a so-called "pure person"?

However, the Rinnegan can summon Yama, the King of Hell!

What's even more chilling is why the "Impure World Reincarnation" invented by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, could recklessly squander chakra?

Where did that chakra come from? Did it really appear out of thin air?

While the law of conservation of energy is completely suppressed by chakra in this world, it is absolutely impossible for something to come from nothing!

But if we look at it from a conspiracy theory perspective—

All living beings in the ninja world cultivate chakra during their lives, and their souls return to the Pure Land after death.

Could this so-called "pure land" actually be a giant "chakra culture dish"?

Each departed soul enters the Pure Land carrying with it the chakra they condensed during their lifetime. Aren't they like miniature, unique "chakra fruits"?

The Sage of Six Paths has been residing in the Pure Land for thousands of years. Is he really silently protecting the ninja world?

Or is he using a method far more sophisticated than Kaguya Otsutsuki's tree-planting to harvest the souls and chakra of the entire ninja world, thus completing his own evolution into a "god"?

Was the Sage of Six Paths, no, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, really as kind as he was portrayed in the anime?

Thinking of this, Qingye couldn't help but gasp inwardly.

"call----"

Aoba exhaled a long breath, forcibly suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

He shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.

That's thinking too far ahead.

With his current strength, he's probably just a slightly stronger ant, at best a high-level cannon fodder.

In the words of my past life, this is called "taking a monthly salary of three thousand and worrying about the billionaire's debt of tens of billions."

You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to go step by step.

The most urgent task now is to thoroughly study the mysteries of the tailed beasts, resolve Orochimaru's soul problem, and incidentally improve one's own strength.

A week has passed since Yugao was brought back.

Aoba and Orochimaru spent almost every day in the laboratory, conducting a comprehensive examination and analysis of the Six-Tails Jinchuriki's body.

On the experimental table, Utakata's body was covered with tubes connected to sealing techniques, and dark red tailed beast chakra surged uneasily within the tubes.

Orochimaru stood in front of the lab table, his pale fingers moving rapidly across the instruments, his golden vertical pupils fixed on the constantly fluctuating data on the screen.

"They cannot be separated."

Orochimaru's face showed a rare hint of seriousness.

"If I try to sever the deep connection between the Six-Tails' chakra and his life force, his cellular activity will plummet in an irreversible way."

Aoba turned to look at the other data on the screen, but his face did not show any surprise.

"That's normal, Orochimaru-senpai. If tailed beasts could be separated so easily without damage, then all the major ninja villages would have used Jinchuriki as removable batteries long ago. Why would they bother to cultivate perfect Jinchuriki?"

Aoba stepped forward, her gaze falling on Yugao.

"Sealing the tailed beasts into the human body is not just an injection of energy, but more like a conceptual parasitism and symbiosis."

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The bottle shouldn't break when water is poured out.

But reality is just that unreasonable.

Once the Tailed Beast is extracted, the Jinchuriki will die, even those from the Uzumaki clan with slightly stronger vitality.

The reverse is also true: if the Jinchuriki dies, the Tailed Beast will also temporarily "die" and will need several years to re-form somewhere.

This makes no sense at all!

Orochimaru revealed a wicked smile. "This is what I can't understand. From a biological and energetic perspective, this is completely illogical. Tailed beasts are clearly just aggregates of chakra, so why are they so deeply bound to the life essence of humans?"

"This isn't a simple parasitic or sealing relationship at all; it's more like a forced binding at the life level!"

"Orochimaru-senpai, have you ever thought about this?"

Aoba countered, "How were the Tailed Beasts 'created'?"

Orochimaru turned to look at him.

"Yin-Yang Escape?"

The Yin-Yang Escape Technique is a combination of Yin Escape and Yang Escape.

It is the art of creating all things from nothing and giving life to forms.

In ancient times, the Sage of Six Paths, the founder of the Ninja Clan, used Yin-Yang Release to create the Tailed Beasts. Naruto used Yin-Yang Release to create an eye for Kakashi. It can be said that Yin-Yang Release is a technique that creates all things.

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