Konoha: The Soul King from the Uchiha Clan

Chapter 119 Soul-Stealing and Deadly

The next morning, after completing his routine business, Uchiha Gen went to Orochimaru's usual base to find him.

As for home, it's impossible for him to be there. Orochimaru rarely spends time at home anyway, and most of the time he's at the research base.

They easily entered the research base and found Orochimaru conducting an experiment.

"Orochimaru-sensei, how is it?"

"Preliminary research does show traces of Wood Release, and the body structure is also very peculiar."

Uchiha Gen: "..."

Is that what he asked?

"Orochimaru-sensei, I mean, is there any left over?"

"I ordered six, two of which are sealed in scrolls in the lounge."

"Then I won't disturb you while you're doing your experiment, teacher. I'll go and take a look too."

"Hmm," Orochimaru replied without turning his head.

Uchiha Gen went to the lounge, picked up the scroll, put it in his pocket, and quickly left.

Instead of going home, Uchiha Gen arrived outside Konoha Village. Since becoming the captain of the Ninth Division, leaving the village was as easy as going home.

Soul perception!

Heading west, they chose a place with few humans and other creatures, since there are quite a few ways to use non-human beings as spies in this world.

Uchiha Gen took out a scroll, looked at the sealing technique, and formed the corresponding hand seals to release the seal.

With a bang, two plumes of white smoke rose up and quickly dissipated, revealing two white corpses with their eyes closed lying on the ground.

Raising his right hand, with a thought, a ball of light emitting a soft white glow appeared. Then, Uchiha Gen split off a wisp of his soul core and merged it into the white ball of light.

Perhaps due to the time travel, the Soul-Soul Fruit's power resides in the core of the soul, rather than the human heart.

Souls that split off from other regions do not have the ability to absorb other people's souls and lifespans; only souls that split off from the core of the soul do.

However, compared to the main body, the efficiency of absorbing souls and lifespan will be greatly reduced. For example, if the main body can absorb one hundred souls at a time, then the split soul cores will only be three or four at most.

However, a slightly lower efficiency doesn't matter. If successful, the White Zetsu Homies, who don't need to eat, drink, or relieve themselves and move at lightning speed, will definitely be efficient at absorbing souls and lifespans.

White Zetsu are humans who were transformed through the Divine Tree; their old selves were erased, and new selves were born.

Although the Homies were initially unconscious, new selves were born.

The two do have some things in common, which is why he wanted to try it out.

With a mix of trepidation and anticipation, Uchiha Gen tossed the white ball of light into the corpse of a White Zetsu, then stared intently at it...

There was no long waiting process, nor any twists and turns or unexpected breakthroughs; whether it would work or not depended on a single moment!

The next moment, a white Zetsu with its eyes closed suddenly opened them, did a somersault off the ground, then turned around and knelt on one knee.

"Greetings, Master!"

Upon seeing this, Uchiha Gen's tense face seemed to transform from a gloomy, rainy day to a warm, cloudless sky, and he immediately broke into a wide smile.

Haha, it worked! It worked!

Although he was inwardly laughing wildly, Uchiha Gen outwardly maintained the composure of a master. His smile quickly faded, he put his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice, "Get up."

"Yes."

Following the same pattern, Uchiha Gen awakened another White Zetsu, transforming it into a unique White Zetsu Homie.

"Greetings, Master!"

Get up.

"Yes."

After a moment's thought, Uchiha Gen said, "From now on, your name will be Bai Yichang, and your name will be Bai Erchang."

These two White Zetsu Homies will become his soul-reaping messengers. Since they are both very fair-skinned, they are named after the famous underworld deities "White Impermanence" from his previous life.

Once you catch more White Zetsu, you can arrange them in numerical order, which is very convenient and doesn't require much brainpower.

"Thank you for bestowing a name upon me, Master."

"Um."

"From now on, your duty is to travel the world and steal my souls."

"Every so often I will notify you to hand over your souls, and you will keep one-third of your lifespan for yourselves."

He can use the Spirit Transformation Technique to communicate across the ninja world through the soul cores within the two White Zetsu Homies.

Giving a horse only one-third of its lifespan is like feeding it if you want it to run; it's a form of forced pressure. It might work in the short term, but its efficiency will inevitably decrease in the long run.

He didn't grant these two Homies much lifespan; if they wanted to live longer, they had to work hard, and survival is the instinct of every living being.

"Yes, Master," the two White Zetsu Homies replied in unison.

"You can't just pick any target to take someone's life. First, choose ninjas or samurai that you can defeat, and second, choose villains or bad guys."

"If you misbehave, since I can give you life, I can take it back, understand?"

"Understood," the two White Zetsu Homies replied, a chill running down their spines.

"Even bad people have different levels. You should start with the easy things and move on to the difficult ones. Don't get yourself involved."

"We will definitely pay attention."

Hmm... its intelligence is passable, definitely much smarter than mass-produced White Zetsu.

If these two White Zetsu were to infiltrate Obito's side, they would have to pretend to be silly people obsessed with the concept of urination, otherwise they would easily be exposed.

Although there are over 100,000 White Zetsu, high-quality White Zetsu are few and far between. These two are not mass-produced White Zetsu, but their physical quality can only be described as average.

Hey, that's right. If there are more White Zetsu in the future, we can send them to Obito's side as undercover agents. Maybe they can find out some confidential information.

It's better than nothing, at least.

"You two aren't strong enough. I'll teach you some ninjutsu. Relax your minds."

"Yes."

The next moment, Uchiha Gen formed hand seals, and half of his soul left his body, splitting into two halves that entered the bodies of two White Zetsu Homies.

This is the ability to transmit information using spiritual techniques.

White Zetsu are generally more compatible with the water and earth elements, so apart from genjutsu, Uchiha Gen provided Earth Release and Water Release techniques.

Kakashi can copy thousands of ninjutsu using his Sharingan, and Gen Uchiha, a proper Uchiha clan ninja, has also copied quite a few on the battlefield.

Whether we need it or not is another matter; let's just copy it first. Anyway, we'll only make money, not lose money.

Fearing that these two wouldn't be able to learn, Uchiha Gen was still diligently teaching them in his consciousness space, even manipulating the White Zetsu Homies' bodies to form hand seals and mobilize chakra, though he didn't release it.

With Uchiha Gen's precise control over chakra, he was able to successfully unleash a water-style technique even though he wasn't proficient in it.

In fact, you can use escaping techniques even without the corresponding chakra nature.

However, without the corresponding chakra attribute and the inability to change nature or form, the released escaping techniques would be pitifully weak.

After performing the various ninjutsu techniques given to him, and confirming that the two White Zetsu Homies had learned the basics, Uchiha Genza withdrew his soul.

The two White Zetsu Homies have decent talent in Earth Release and Water Release; once they master them, even ordinary Special Jonin would be no match for them.

The two of them will later become instructors and leaders for Bai Sanchang, Bai Sichang, Bai Wuchang, and so on.

"Practice more whenever you have free time in the future."

"Yes, Master," the two White Zetsu Homies replied with delight.

"Now I'm giving you your first task."

"We'll split up and infiltrate the prisons, big and small, in the northern part of the Land of Fire, and seize the souls and lifespans of all the death row inmates when the opportunity arises."

"Those who discover your whereabouts are the same; if you can't defeat them, run away."

"Yes, Master!"

"Go."

The two White Zetsu Homies immediately sank into the ground and quickly moved towards the northern part of the Land of Fire.

The Book of Formations states that White Zetsu's transformation technique is the most powerful among all ninjas, and even those who seem to know him best or those with sensory abilities cannot distinguish it.

Therefore, there's no need to prepare any clothes or shoes for White Zetsu; they can transform themselves and be indistinguishable from the real thing.

Fortunately, White Zetsu wasn't a lecher. If he were, with his most powerful transformation technique in the ninja world, countless men and women would have been cuckolded...

As for the prisons, large and small, in the southern part of the Land of Fire, he personally took charge of them.

All the death row inmates in the Land of Fire should be enough to take that final step and awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, right?

If that's not enough, then I'll have to visit prisons in every country.

He must awaken soon!

(End of this chapter)