[Hyuga Clan Grounds]
[Clan Head Courtyard]
This place was originally Hyuga Hiashi's residence, but after the successful implementation of the New Bud Plan, all members of the main family except Hinata and Hanabi had died.
Now it was used for office work.
Hyuga Neji knew that Aoto, the acting clan head, worked here, so he came to the courtyard alone.
"Lord Aoto, this is Neji."
"Neji, come in. I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Neji pushed the door open and walked in. The moment he saw who was inside, his pupils instantly shrank.
"Lord Koshin? Lord Sota?"
There was disbelief in Neji's voice. Two people who had died years ago were now standing alive right in front of him.
But their physical age looked somewhat younger. Neji unconsciously activated his Byakugan, only to find that their chakra felt completely familiar. It was unmistakably those same two people from back then.
"It's us, Neji. You've grown up."
When Koshin died, Neji had still been in the ninja academy. In the blink of an eye, Neji had already become a jonin.
His physique had also changed greatly, he was already an adult now.
Neji's eyes were filled with shock.
"This… what exactly is going on?"
Sota gave Aoto a look, and the two of them left together.
Only Koshin and Neji remained in the room.
"The Fifth Hokage, together with Orochimaru and Tsunade, has developed a forbidden method to revive the dead."
"The Fourth Hokage was also revived through this."
"My and Sota's revival came from Aoto and the others exchanging all of the main family's Byakugan for two slots."
Neji stood there in a daze for several seconds before gradually accepting this shocking fact.
He frowned tightly, but didn't question why there wasn't a slot for his father.
Hiashi had died many years ago. The Hyuga clan's current freedom was entirely due to Koshin and Sota.
Neji didn't feel any imbalance. His tone only carried a trace of regret, and his expression dimmed slightly.
"So there were only two slots."
Back then, Hiashi had died in such a humiliating way, and Neji had hated the main family for many years because of it.
It was only later that the branch family's revolt succeeded, and the main family was wiped out.
He naturally missed his father, but he had never imagined something like bringing the dead back to life.
As for what happened with the Fourth Hokage, Neji actually didn't know the details.
In his view, it must have required an enormous price.
Now that Koshin and Sota had been revived, Neji realized that the threshold for revival might be lower than he had imagined.
At this moment, Koshin spoke again, "The main reason we called you here is about Lord Hiashi."
Neji's eyes lit up as he looked at Koshin with expectation.
Koshin said, "The process of our revival was…"
He then explained the entire procedure, human cloning, the Impure World Reincarnation, and how Rengoku personally carried out their revival.
Naturally, these things were considered confidential, but Koshin laid everything out to Neji without holding back.
Neji's face was full of shock. Orochimaru's ability to regenerate severed limbs was already known throughout the ninja world.
But he hadn't expected cloning technology to have become so mature as well.
And from the entire process, Neji had already realized that if any step were missing, the dead could not be brought back.
And…
"Has Lord Rengoku returned?"
When Rengoku rose to prominence, he had been the ninja academy principal and had created the elite class system, which was still in use today.
Neji's instructor back then had also been from the Uchiha clan.
He understood what Rengoku's return meant for Konoha.
Koshin nodded, "Whether Lord Hiashi can be revived depends on you going to request it from Lord Rengoku."
Neji showed a thoughtful expression, "Me?"
Koshin confirmed, "Yes. As a son wanting to revive his father, it's completely justified."
"And you were part of the first elite class, with an Uchiha instructor."
"Many of your classmates are also from the Uchiha side. If you go to ask Lord Rengoku, it will be easier to talk."
There was nothing wrong with Koshin's reasoning. After all, the Hyuga clan had just revived two people, and now they wanted to revive Hiashi as well, it would seem a bit greedy.
But Neji's identity made things more convenient.
Even if it didn't work out, he wouldn't face any serious consequences.
Although there was some calculation behind it, it was still worth trying.
Neji wasn't foolish. He could roughly tell, but he didn't mind.
After all, the person they wanted to revive was his father. No one was more suitable than him.
"I understand. I'll go right now."
Neji responded, already eager to find Rengoku.
"Wait."
Koshin stopped him.
"You just got back. Don't leave immediately. Stay in the clan and rest for a night, then go tomorrow."
Going right away versus going after a day, unable to hold back, were two different impressions.
Even though these were small psychological tactics, Koshin still wanted to increase the chances of success.
"When you go tomorrow, you should also be mentally prepared. Lord Rengoku may not agree."
"But you also need to understand what kind of price must be paid to accomplish this."
Neji took a deep breath, suppressing the urgency in his heart.
"I understand, Lord Koshin."
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[Uchiha Rengoku's Home]
"Haa…", Rengoku rubbed his brow as he leaned back.
The scroll Orochimaru gave him on modifying sage techniques was extremely long. Rengoku had to read while simultaneously experimenting on himself.
These past two days had left him mentally drained.
For others, modifying the inherent energy pathways of sage techniques was extremely troublesome.
Without someone else who also knew sage techniques nearby to help channel out unstable sage chakra at any time, it was very easy to get injured.
But Rengoku had pupil clones, so he didn't have this problem.
Even if something went wrong, at worst he could just blow up and start over.
Over the past few days, Rengoku had been training at full capacity.
No one knew when the Otsutsuki from beyond would descend. If his strength wasn't enough by then, it would be ridiculous.
At first, Rengoku had only planned to test chakra nature transformation, but the progress turned out to be faster than expected.
So he simply pursued both directions at once.
It just meant he was a bit more tired every day.
"So tired, can't train at all."
Rengoku spoke as if he'd completely given up, but his body honestly sat back up again.
After all, several of his pupil clones were training, and a bunch of shadow clones were developing water-attribute chakra nature transformation.
He hadn't even started studying Tsunade's Strength of a Hundred Technique yet.
Now that he was getting tired of sage technique training, maybe it was time to switch things up.
Rengoku spread out the scroll for the Strength of a Hundred Technique.
But he didn't start studying it immediately, because he remembered that he still hadn't claimed the Bond Star reward from Tsunade.
If he drew the Strength of a Hundred Technique, then he wouldn't need to train it at all.
Rengoku narrowed his eyes, his attention already shifting to the Bond Star.
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