Having successfully resolved the matter of Minato Namikaze, Ino secretly opened the Soul-Nourishing Wood that evening.
Chiyo sacrificed a life, while Shisui sacrificed the greater part of his soul.
After death, people can go to the Pure Land to rest.
If a soul dies again, it completely dissipates, and even Edo Tensei cannot bring it back because the soul cannot be found.
"Senior Shisui, do you regret it? Actually, if your body were found, you could be resurrected using the Living Corpse Reincarnation Technique," Ino asked.
Shisui gave a wry smile, then gently shook his head: "There's no need to resurrect an incompetent person like me. I'm already very happy to be able to do something for Konoha even after death. Thank you."
He took the Mangekyo Sharingan from his soul: "As a friend, I have one last request for you. This eye is too dangerous and should never appear in the Ninja World. Please help me destroy it."
Ino, being the typical 'went to make a point and ended up making a whole meal' type, answered very frankly: "Of course, I would have done it even if you hadn't asked."
As Shisui removed his left eye, the speed at which his soul disintegrated accelerated.
"I truly, truly wish I could return to Konoha Village. To be born, grow up, and die of old age here—how fortunate that would be. If there's a next life, I don't want to be a Uchiha again; it's just too exhausting…"
Shisui's soul completely disintegrated, scattering with the wind.
The wind tonight was somewhat boisterous. A few fragments of the completely disintegrated soul were blown towards the Sarutobi Clan. Comrade Asuma Sarutobi was currently engaged in indescribable activities with Kurenai Yuhi. At the climax of their battle, a gust of night wind caused their bodies to shiver unexpectedly, leading to an immediate surrender.
On the other side, Ino was overjoyed to finally obtain the left Mangekyo Sharingan.
The Dojutsu Power in this eye was almost exhausted. She dared not delay, using Flying Thunder God to enter underground, and nervously performed surgery, transplanting the left eye onto Kimimaro's left eye socket. At the same time, she increased the infusion of life force from the plants into the corpse. After waiting a while, when she saw the corpse provide another drop of Dojutsu Power to the eyeball, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She finally had a left eye.
Both of Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan were now complete.
After waiting three days, Ino still couldn't resist. She used the Spirit Transformation Technique to wrap the Dojutsu Power of the Mangekyo Sharingan, newly transplanted into Kimimaro's left eye socket, into her spirit body, and returned to her body with this unique Dojutsu Power.
Although very scarce, the incredibly refreshing Dojutsu Power flowing into her eyes still gave her the illusion that the world was about to change before her eyes.
The world certainly wouldn't change; what changed was her eyes observing the world.
The amount of Dojutsu Power in her left eye was very small, incomparable to the Dojutsu Power in her right eye which she had absorbed several times, but it was indispensable. This represented a genetic completion at a fundamental level.
Before, she was limping; now, she finally had two legs to walk on.
It was as if a thin film separated her from the outside world, making everything appear hazy, like looking at flowers through a fog. It seemed that with a gentle poke, a qualitative transformation could be achieved.
Ino was very resolute this time. She used Yin Release Chakra to suppress the restless Dojutsu Power. Opening her eyes now would yield too little benefit.
The Dojutsu Power of Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan was extremely pure. Even if Ino's left eye currently only had a trace of Dojutsu Power, the quality of this substance was very high, enough for her to completely modify her eye organs and activate her own Sharingan with plenty to spare.
The quality was high, but the quantity was low.
She estimated that this amount of Dojutsu Power would only result in a normal One-Tomoe Sharingan after modifying both eyes.
Then Ino would have to diligently train her eye abilities like a normal Uchiha, going through Two-Tomoe, Three Tomoe, Mangekyo, Eternal Mangekyo, and Rinnegan, all the way down the line.
According to her research on Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan during this period, the genes of ordinary Uchiha are normal; if they don't awaken their eyes, they can still be ordinary Ninja.
Once the eyes awaken, the originally perfect and healthy genetic balance will mutate accordingly. Each time the eyes evolve, the genes change. One-Tomoe changes, Two-Tomoe changes, Three Tomoe continues to change, and by the Mangekyo Sharingan stage, the genetic defects become alarmingly large.
Various bloodline diseases then appear, requiring another pair of Mangekyo Sharingan to complete the missing genes.
Once she embarks on this path, the results are irreversible. Where would Ino find siblings to transplant Mangekyo for her?
Uchiha Madara's process, as described on the stone tablet, of first acquiring Hashirama cells, then nurturing the Eternal Mangekyo into a Rinnegan for decades, cannot be said to be wrong. However, considering that Black Zetsu rewrote the content of the stone tablet, this process must have had a lot of Black Zetsu's personal additions, making it completely off-track at best.
Leaving aside the Ōtsutsuki Clan, there were actually only two people in the Ninja World who awakened the Rinnegan: besides Uchiha Madara, the other was the Six Paths Sage.
The Six Paths Sage's beloved woman was sacrificed, and his eyes awakened directly into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. When his younger brother, Hamura, was killed, he evolved directly from the Three Tomoe to the Rinnegan, completing it in an instant, without needing decades of arduous struggle.
Ino certainly couldn't compare to the Six Paths Sage. Even if she were to kill Naruto and Sasuke now and absorb all the reincarnated Chakra of Ashura and Indra, she would at most reach the level of the Six Paths Sage's sons. The ceiling for the landlord's two foolish sons is right there; no matter how much she schemes, she cannot surpass the Six Paths Sage.
She couldn't replicate the Six Paths Sage's path from Three Tomoe directly to Rinnegan. He had the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and his innate Sage Body could increase Dojutsu Power. She didn't have that advantage.
She couldn't compare to those above, but she could compare to those below.
This is like a very fair race track where everyone stands at the starting point and then runs forward.
Whether you find a teacher to teach you running techniques first, then train diligently, and finally put on full sports gear to run from the starting line, or if you run with a missing arm and a leg, it's all fine. No one restricts you. As for whether you can reach the finish line, that's unknown.
Ino would not rush forward rashly.
For her, the pit of the Mangekyo Sharingan was an objective reality. The Six Paths Sage had long legs, three, two, one, go! He could jump directly from Three Tomoe to Rinnegan, but Ino couldn't. In this regard, she was even inferior to Indra's reincarnation, Uchiha Madara; she had to fall into the pit.
Even falling into the pit requires methods, and the first step is crucial.
She needed to continue accumulating Dojutsu Power, accumulating it to its limit, and awaken her eyes with the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Afterward, she would use the Sage Body to repair the genetic damage to her eyes, and at the same time continue to accumulate Dojutsu Power to activate the relatively stable Mangekyo, which is commonly known as the Eternal Mangekyo. Finally, she would use traditional methods, relying on strong mental stimulation to activate the Rinnegan. At that time, she would certainly sacrifice a 'friend' who was crucial to her. Ino's first target was her silly friend, the Shinigami.
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