Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

The bug replied, “Not yet.”

The squad leader frowned: "Shouldn't it be?"

Chong himself was also puzzled. Although the number of insects he released was not large, he was afraid that if there were too many, they would attract the enemy's attention.

But with Xiao Hei's sensitivity to chakra, if there were any chakra threads around, he should have been sensed long ago.

However, the reality is that the insect has not yet received feedback from the black people about the presence of chakra threads.

"Isn't he a puppeteer?" The squad leader frowned: "But that doesn't make sense!"

In addition to puppeteers who can control the dead, there is also a type of ninjutsu that can super-control the dead.

Could it be the second-generation master's forbidden technique, Impure World Reincarnation?

No, no.

Impure World Rebirth is a forbidden technique. No one in Konoha knows it except the Second Hokage, so it is impossible for him to use the Impure World Rebirth.

Moreover, the little ghost's face did not have the cracks that were created by the Impure World Reincarnation, so he was definitely not a dead person summoned by the Impure World Reincarnation.

Then the problem is coming.

What is the current situation of the target?

"Captain, let me let Xiao Hei take a bite."

Chong suggested: "If we only bite the hair, the enemy will be controlling it from a distance and should not be able to sense the change."

Even if the hair is bitten, people will not feel it. It is the same as the nails, but unlike the nails, there are cells in the hair, and the cells contain chakra.

Since chakra cannot be sensed from the outside, it means that the body cells must contain chakra.

As long as Xiao Hei absorbs the chakra from the target, he can follow this chakra to sense the chakra threads that remotely control the target, and thus find the spy who controls the target.

"No."

The squad leader rejected the suggestion of the insect and said: "You continue to sense the chakra of the target."

After that, the team leader left and came to a team member. After describing the current situation, he ordered: "Ye, go report the situation here to the Hokage. There is something wrong with the target and he may be dead."

"Yes." Ye left quietly, and the remaining three continued to monitor Li Yao.

Chapter 7: The Art of Spiritualization, The Art of Possession

The Hokage's office was filled with smoke.

The third generation leaned back in his chair, one hand on the desk, and the other hand holding the pipe in his mouth. He listened to the report of Anbu Ye while puffing out smoke.

When he heard that the squad leader speculated that Kimura Yao had most likely been killed and made into a human puppet, Sandai, who was about to smoke, paused, and then took a deep puff of cigarette. A hint of surprise flashed in his calm eyes, followed by anger that was hard to conceal.

The third generation had actually anticipated Kimura Yo's death.

In fact, after listening to Minato's story with Kimura Yo, it became clear that there was a high probability that Kimura Yo's child had been killed.

After all, if it was just illusion control, there was no need for a kid who was still attending a ninja school to obtain any valuable information.

Only by disguising yourself as a child and using this as a springboard to infiltrate the Konoha ninja system can you obtain valuable information.

So the person Minato met today was not Kimura Yo, but a spy who used a special transformation technique.

However, what the third generation never expected was that Kimura Yao was not a spy, but was made into a human puppet and controlled by someone after his death.

And he continued to go to Ninja School with a swagger.

This was simply a provocation to him and Konoha.

He really doesn't take Konoha's Hokage seriously.

Unforgivable!

Once the spy is found, the Third Generation will make him experience the power of the Konoha Anbu interrogation room, so that he can get rid of the hatred in his heart.

Just as the Third Generation was thinking this, Ye then told him the various possibilities of why Mushi could not find any chakra threads around Kimura Yao, and why Baku was in such an abnormal situation with Kimura Yao's body. Finally, he asked the Third Generation whether he should continue to search for the spy or just capture him directly.

After hearing this, the third generation's brows suddenly became serious.

He believed in the ability of insects. No matter how thin the chakra thread was, it could not escape the perception of insects that specialized in consuming chakra.

If it is a human puppet controlling it, there cannot be no chakra threads.

If there is no chakra thread, it means it is not a human puppet.

If it's not a human puppet, then there are only two possibilities.

Or maybe the current Kimura Yo is still a spy using transformation techniques.

Either Kimura Yao is indeed dead now, but is being controlled by unknown means that are not from a puppeteer.

In both cases, if it is the first one, it is fine.

If it's the second one, then it's troublesome.

The ability to control the dead easily reminds people of the forbidden technique of Impure World Tensei.

If the enemy masters this forbidden technique similar to the Impure World Seal, the threat to Konoha will increase dramatically.

It was revealed that Kimura Yo's body is very cold and he seems to be dead.

Secondly, the bug could not sense any chakra naturally emanating from Kimura Yao, which basically ruled out the possibility that Kimura Yao was a living person.

No matter what kind of special transformation technique it is, as long as the person is alive, it is impossible for chakra to leak out naturally.

Therefore, it is very likely that Kimura Yao is a corpse now.

In other words, the situation has come to the second possibility that the Third Generation least wants to happen. The enemy uses unknown means to control the already dead Kimura Yao.

Using this unknown method, the Third Generation first ruled out his own Impure World Reincarnation.

This forbidden technique was created by the Second Hokage. Only Konoha has it and it is kept by him now. Anyone who has seen it knows that Kimura Yao could not have been born from the Impure World Tenshin.

In addition to the Impure World Tensei, the Yamanaka clan's secret technique of mind transformation can also control the bodies of the dead, but it can only control bodies that have just died, let alone control a body to live for more than seven days.

So it couldn't be a secret technique like mind turning.

In addition to the mind-turning technique, is there any other secret technique that can control corpses? It can control the corpse to move and condense chakra like a living person, and it can also possess the corpse's memories before death.

"Hmm...wait a minute, there really is a secret technique that can do that."

"The art of spiritual transformation!"

In an instant, a secret technique that was once famous in the Warring States Period appeared in the mind of the third generation.

This secret technique was collected by the second generation Lord Tobirama and has been inherited by Konoha to this day. It is not surprising that other people in the ninja world have inherited it.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Kimura Yao was probably under the control of a secret technique similar to the Reincarnation Technique. (PS: The Reincarnation Technique was invented during the Warring States Period and was not exclusive to Konoha.)

The art of spiritualization can materialize a person's soul, and then perform a series of secret techniques targeting the soul.

Killing other people's souls, taking over other people's bodies, and reading other people's memories through the ability of soul reading are just the basic abilities of the spirit transformation technique.

The art of possessing another's body is the strongest manifestation of the spiritual art, and it is also the ability that the ninja who created this secret art most desires to achieve.

The art of taking over another person's body, as the name suggests, is a technique of achieving immortality by taking over another person's body with one's soul, thereby keeping the body forever young.

If it is the soul-taking technique of the spirit transformation technique, all the abnormalities of Kimura Yao now can be explained.

Kimura Yao is indeed dead, but only his soul is dead, his body is not dead. Now the one controlling his body is a spy soul in the dark.

The reason why Kimura Yo's body is cold is because the soul of the spy in the dark is adapting to Kimura Yo's body, so it feels as cold as a dead person.

This is a side effect of the spirit transformation technique.

Before the soul fully adapts to the body, the body will remain very cold, like a dead person.

As for the inability to sense the overflowing chakra, this may be a side effect of the soul-snatching technique.

The third generation did not know the art of spiritualization, and there were very few people in history who knew the art of spiritualization, so there is little detailed information.

No... there are still a few loopholes that cannot be explained clearly.

First, the body possessed by the soul will not be able to condense chakra at a high load for a long time during the adaptation period, otherwise it will aggravate the rejection between the body and soul, resulting in a prolonged adaptation period.

However, Minato said that Kimura Yao maintained a state of high-speed chakra concentration all day long, which was obviously inconsistent with the adaptation period of the soul possession in the Spiritualization Technique.

Secondly, the art of soul possession can take over another person's body and continue to live.

But they will also be completely imprisoned in the body that has taken over, and will not live long.

Because there will be a great rejection between the body that is taken over and one's own soul.

This kind of rejection is irreversible. The longer the time, the stronger the rejection. The final result is that the body will collapse and die due to the rejection, and the soul will naturally disintegrate and disappear.

Historically, during the Warring States Period, several ninjas who performed the art of soul possession died within a year due to body rejection.

This is also the point that the third generation couldn't understand. What value did Kimura Yao have that was worth a strong man who was proficient in the art of spiritualization to sacrifice his life to take over someone else's body?

You know, a ninja who can perform secret techniques such as the Spiritualization Technique must be at least an elite jonin level strong man.

And he is different from other elite jonin.

Even if a strong person who knows the art of spiritualization faces an elite jonin of the same level, he will be killed instantly if he cannot withstand the soul attack.

Throughout history, powerful people who were proficient in the art of spiritualization were all famous and feared in the ninja world.

Such a strong man used his life to take over a child, just to exchange for a maximum of one year of life.

does it worth?

Possessing the ability to transform into spirits, whether it is the ability to kill enemies or gather intelligence, it is much better than possessing the body of a six-year-old child.

why?

The Sandai put down his pipe, frowned, and was confused.

Put yourself in his shoes. If it were him, he would not exchange his life for a year of Kimura Yo's time.

It would be okay if it was a famous ninja, such as his disciple, who might still be worth possessing. But a six-year-old child has no access to Konoha's core secrets.

Even his disciples didn't have much contact with it.

So not worth it at all.

Unless you won’t die after taking over another’s body...well, you won’t die!

The third generation muttered to himself, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he thought of a possibility.

Perhaps the art of spiritualization and possession of another's body will no longer have the side effect of body rejection, and will achieve true immortality.

Maybe someone has really perfected the ability of the spirit transformation technique to possess another's body.

This is not impossible. The third generation never dared to underestimate the creativity of the geniuses in the ninja world.

If... No, he must have really perfected the art of soul possession.

Otherwise, it would be incomprehensible that a powerful person with the ability to transform into spirits could take over the body of a six-year-old child whose parents had both passed away and who had no special talents.

Therefore, the art of possessing another's body must have been perfected, and there will no longer be any risk of body rejection and death.

Thinking of this, the third generation's eyes became brighter and brighter.

Who wouldn't desire the art of immortality?

Chapter 8 Kimura Takuya's Ninjutsu Research Notes

"Notify the police, capture the target as soon as possible and bring him to the interrogation room."

The third generation specifically warned: "Remember, don't make too much noise."

Anbu Ya nodded and then used the body-flash technique to leave.

The Sandaime suddenly stood up, frowned, thought about it, and felt uneasy. He called out to his Anbu guard captain and his son Kari behind him, and the group quietly left the Hokage building and headed towards Kimura Yao's house.

At this point, the appearance of a spy in Konoha is actually a small matter. The most important thing is to confirm whether Kimura Yao has really been possessed by someone using the spirit transformation technique.

If his guess came true.

Then this is a good opportunity to gain the art of immortality.

Even if I can't achieve eternal life by then, at least I can live into the next life.

As long as he is given another lifetime, the Third Generation is confident that he can completely transform Konoha into his own shape.

The position of Hokage will always remain in the hands of his Sarutobi clan.