Konoha: Offer your heart to the Hokage!

"I plan to seal away the forbidden techniques he is researching and destroy the laboratory as well, so that he won't have any more evil ideas in the future."

"It's just that many of the experimental instruments inside look very valuable, and it would be a waste to destroy them directly."

Hashirama looked at the two of them:

"Shen'er, Zhili, go and take inventory. Move away anything usable from the hospital and ninja school, and I'll destroy the rest."

"Yes!"

A corpse collector?

No, it should be called a professional store closure worker.

As Shen Er and Zhi Li entered the laboratory, a cold and decaying atmosphere wafted towards them.

Chiri unconsciously held her breath: "People who stay in a place like this for too long will probably really degenerate."

Environment can change a person.

Shen Er nodded in deep agreement: "That's right."

His underground laboratory, aside from the fact that no one has died yet, is in no way inferior to this place in terms of its eerie, oppressive, and terrifying atmosphere.

Fortunately, Shen'er will not be changed by the environment.

Because he himself is the most depraved type.

...

Although their actions at that moment were somewhat undignified.

But now it's like a mouse falling into a rice granary.

Zhi Li selected a number of relatively basic equipment, but Shen Er went straight for those high-tech devices that even he, who embezzled hospital funds, was reluctant to acquire.

"Tobirama Senju truly deserves to be called the number one inventor in the ninja world; he's incredibly wealthy."

He then took away all the equipment he had his eye on.

As he walked, he came to the experimental table and immediately saw the unprocessed corpse.

Shen Er's gaze sharpened as he noticed the psychic marks remaining on the surface of the corpse.

Hashirama did not explicitly state what forbidden technique Tobirama was researching.

However, based on Shen's understanding of Tobirama, of all the forbidden techniques he will master in the future, only the Impure World Reincarnation requires human experimentation during its development.

Impure World Reincarnation is essentially a spirit summoning technique.

However, in Shen'er's memory, the final version of the Impure World Reincarnation would not leave any marks. It is only in its embryonic stage that such obvious traces of the technique are left.

The pillars did not destroy these marks.

I don't know if it's because I'm oblivious or because I trust too much.

And naturally, they will not betray this trust.

"A pleasant surprise."

Thanks to the double Yin Escape technique, Shen'er's memory far surpasses that of ordinary people, making him able to remember everything he sees.

He quietly memorized the set of psychic marks.

Perhaps after the experimental notes were destroyed, even Tobirama, the designer, might not have had a very deep memory of this prototype technique.

Shen Er stood by the experimental table and began to study it.

This string of psychic marks is equivalent to the underlying structure of the Impure World Reincarnation. As long as the logic of the technique connecting to the Pure Land is deciphered on this basis, one can summon the dead to fight for oneself.

The theory is not difficult.

However, its actual development is not simple at all. The key lies in the "space-time talent," which requires the ability to sense the existence of the Pure Land of the Ninja World.

Then I thought that there are related abilities in many Japanese films and television works, and the one most similar to Edo Tensei is probably the "Heroic Spirit Summoning" from the neighboring Type-Moon series.

The spirits of the fallen correspond to the dead, and the Hall of Heroes corresponds to the Pure Land.

"Can we use mantras instead of hand seals?"

"Appear beyond the Wheel of Suppression, guardian of Konoha."

With a touch of wicked amusement, he thought, "This could be a viable development direction. Who knows, maybe the Sage of Six Paths might overhear the spirit-summoning incantation."

Because of his intervention, Tobirama's Impure World Reincarnation research was forcibly interrupted, and the relevant experimental data will be completely destroyed by Hashirama.

With his rudimentary summoning technique in hand, he was theoretically at the forefront of Edo Tensei development.

This forbidden technique required the combined efforts of three generations—Tobirama, Orochimaru, and Kabuto—to finally complete.

How far can he go and what kind of brilliance can he radiate on his own?

"Impure World Reincarnation..."

Shen Er stared at the corpse before him, his eyes flickering with uncertain light.

...

Outside the laboratory.

Hashirama asked, "Have all the things been taken away?"

Shen Er reported, "Yes, all the usable equipment has been moved. The high-tech instruments have been sent to the Gospel Hospital, and the ordinary equipment has been sent to the Ninja Academy as teaching aids."

"Alright. In that case, Tobirama didn't completely do anything wrong. At least the mistakes he made can help the patients and students."

Hashirama sighed, trying to find humor in his predicament, and then said in a deep voice, "You two, step back a bit."

Having already witnessed Hashirama's strength, Shinji immediately led Chiri away to a safe distance.

Immediately afterwards, Hashirama clapped his hands together: "Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique!"

The surrounding trees grew wildly, coalescing into a small wooden figure, no smaller than a first-tier Susanoo, with ferocious wooden dragons coiled around its body. Under Hashirama's control, the wooden figure entered the underground laboratory and began indiscriminately destroying everything.

A moment later, seeing that it was mostly dismantled, Hashirama clapped his hands again: "Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees!"

A clear tremor came from the ground.

Countless tree roots were uprooted and swept away, instantly pulverizing the entire underground laboratory, transforming the area above ground into a lush forest park.

The level of secrecy is comparable to first crushing it with a shredder and then burning it to ashes.

In short, Tobirama's laboratory completely disappeared from this land.

Shen Er looked at Zhu Jian's back and buried her longing deep in her heart.

The captivating Wood Release technique of the God of Ninjas.

"And that concludes the discussion."

Hashirama sighed, turned to the two of them, and said, "You two have had a hard day."

"Please don't spread this matter. Tobirama has gone astray, and I will teach him a lesson when we get back. Please, this is my request as an older brother."

After saying this, Hashirama bowed deeply to the two of them.

"Yes! Lord Hokage!" Chiri was moved by Hashirama's sincerity.

And even so...

I was basically moved.

Hashirama clearly channeled all his talent into combat, leaving him with virtually no political acumen. If he truly didn't want these two outsiders to know about this, he simply wouldn't have brought them to the scene in the first place.

But the "simple and honest" villagers of Konoha were very fond of Hashirama's sincerity.

Just as they also consume their own sincerity and kindness.

The group went their separate ways.

He educated his younger brother in the Hui Muslim village; he distributed teaching materials to the Zhili Huiren School; and he even went back to the basement of the Zen temple to set up the newly acquired high-tech instruments.

...

dusk.

Confined by Hashirama to the gate of the clan's territory, he gazed wistfully at the setting sun.

Senju Momoka, unaware of what her husband had been through, simply stayed quietly by his side. Tobirama glanced at her, gently put his arm around her shoulder, and the two watched the sunset in silence.

There is someone important by your side to rely on.

Tobirama's mind gradually returned, and he thought about many things along the way.

Did I really do something wrong?

Despite being severely beaten by his older brother and having his childhood memories brought back to life, Tobirama didn't feel he had done anything wrong.

He did not resent Hashirama.

He knew that the two brothers shared the same initial intention: to protect those around them and the newly established village.

It's just that the paths are different.

The elder brother walks in the light, while he must sink into the darkness to build a defense line for Konoha that cannot see the light of day.

For this purpose, sacrificing the lives of a few criminals is necessary!

Having figured everything out, Tobirama suddenly felt enlightened and secretly made a decision in his heart:

The development of the Impure World Reincarnation technique must continue.

Chapter 25 Lend Me Your Power

However, if the experiment is caught by the older brother again, it will probably not be as simple as a beating and three months of confinement.

What should we do? How can we ensure that the Impure World Reincarnation can be successfully implemented in secret?

Although he still retains the relevant memories of the summoning jutsu hand seals, it will take a considerable amount of time to reconstruct them. Moreover, in Konoha, he no longer has any channels to obtain experimental materials or any room for error.

Outside the village, there was no stable experimental environment.

Suddenly, a figure flashed through Tobirama's mind.

Even so.

The elder brother trusts Shen Er, and Shen Er has his own insights into the development of ninjutsu.