Chapter 152: Madman
In the dim chamber, only candlelight flickered.
Yu stood before the formation, expression grave.
Impure World Reincarnation and Rinne Tensei—this was the combination he'd repeatedly calculated.
The latter came from Nagato's memories—the Rinnegan's true forbidden power, capable of returning the deceased to the living world.
Such heaven-defying forbidden techniques naturally carried heavy costs.
The caster must expend vast life force and chakra. Any carelessness meant complete exhaustion.
But Yu didn't care. If he could bring back his adoptive parents, what did sacrificing this life matter?
This was the debt he owed.
The true obstacle was time.
His adoptive parents had been gone too long. Their souls had long left deep imprints in the Pure Land's depths. Rinne Tensei alone could barely summon them back.
For this, he had no choice but to use Impure World Reincarnation—first using this technique as a guide, letting part of their souls temporarily attach to mortal vessels, then following this thread deep into the Pure Land to find their true essence.
His Mangekyo manifested as the Kamui dimension slowly unfolded.
A man bound by genjutsu appeared in the formation.
This person was a wanted criminal across nations, his evil deeds numerous. His death wouldn't be regrettable.
Yu observed the sacrifice expressionlessly, his heart without a ripple.
For that goal, he'd long stopped caring whether methods were righteous. He'd used this technique countless times.
"We'll meet again soon..."
He murmured, hand seals changing. Impure World Reincarnation officially began.
As the final seal completed, the sacrifice's body jolted violently.
Dust rose without wind, coiling upward like living creatures, gradually gathering into a vague human silhouette.
Fugaku's form gradually clarified, but those eyes remained vacant and lifeless—Impure World Reincarnation bodies were ultimately just vessels, retaining only pre-death combat instincts and fragmented memories.
Yu's expression unchanged as he formed seals to release the technique.
The just-condensed form instantly collapsed, returning to scattered dust.
Just as soul fragments were about to dissipate, Yu focused intently, precisely capturing that trace of faint connection.
His consciousness followed this soul's trajectory toward that realm beyond ordinary mortals' reach—deep into the Pure Land.
This time, he'd prepared thoroughly. Mental power at unprecedented intensity and depth extended toward souls' destination.
Darkness surged like tides as Yu's consciousness continuously descended through emptiness.
Countless blurred light and shadow swept past—residual memory fragments of other deceased, flickering uncertainly like candles in wind.
He firmly grasped that thread of Fugaku's soul connection, like gripping a lamp in darkness.
Unknown time passed before two familiar chakra auras finally faintly appeared ahead. Those warm, intimate fluctuations were precisely the soul marks of his adoptive father Fugaku and mother Mikoto.
Yu's heart stirred as he urged his consciousness forward—
Just as he was about to touch that radiance, invisible tremendous force suddenly pressed from all directions.
The entire Pure Land seemed to come alive. The power of rules began violently backlashing, attempting to completely expel this intruder who shouldn't exist.
Surrounding resistance grew stronger, as though the entire Pure Land rejected this living being. Each step forward multiplied the oppression on his soul. Yet Yu still didn't stop.
Five hundred thousand horsepower of mental power flowed around him, forming an invisible barrier that forcibly withstood this realm's law suppression. He gritted his teeth, gaze locked dead ahead—those two familiar soul lights appeared and vanished in the torrent.
Just then, an aged yet majestic figure slowly manifested.
The Sage of Six Paths appeared once more, deep concern between his brows. He'd warned before, knowing such wanton disturbance of Pure Land order would inevitably trigger unpredictable consequences.
"Let go." The elder's voice echoed on the soul level. "The departed are gone. Why cling to one obsession, disturbing their rest? This is merely your solitary delusion."
Yu didn't acknowledge him.
His entire mind concentrated on those two soul auras, still silently and resolutely advancing through the surging soul torrent.
Each step was extraordinarily difficult, yet his eyes never changed—
That determination to never turn back, even if opposed by the entire world.
As Yu continuously penetrated deeper, those two familiar soul fluctuations grew increasingly clear, like lighthouses in darkness guiding him.
Right now, nothing could stop his steps—neither the Pure Land's rejection nor the Sage of Six Paths' dissuasion.
Surrounding wandering souls seemed to sense this living being's intrusion, beginning to gather from all directions. Countless semi-transparent tendrils attempted to entangle his consciousness. Whispers and illusions circled around him, wanting to forever keep him in this land of the dead.
Yet these methods proved completely useless against Yu.
His mental realm had long transcended common reason. These illusory spirits' interference was like breeze brushing stone—unable to shake him in the slightest.
Closer and closer.
Yu focused all his mind, reaching toward where light shone brightest—
Just as Yu's fingertip was about to touch that warm radiance, the entire Pure Land suddenly shook violently.
The Sage of Six Paths' sigh seemed to come from far away. "Outsider, don't you understand yet? Once the boundary between life and death breaks, the price to pay far exceeds your imagination..."
Before words finished, those originally gentle soul lights suddenly turned violent.
They gathered into surging torrents, no longer simple obstruction but transforming into sharp impacts, fiercely striking Yu's consciousness core.
Yu grunted but his outstretched hand remained steady.
"No one can stop me."
He finally spoke, voice trembling slightly from resisting tremendous pressure.
His fingertip finally touched that familiar radiance—
Yet the next moment, his pupils contracted sharply.
At the soul essence's deepest point, what he saw wasn't the anticipated reunion but dense cracks covering his adoptive parents' souls.
Those cracks were slowly healing under Pure Land rules, yet his forceful intervention was causing these cracks to reopen.
"Do you see?" The Sage of Six Paths' voice carried compassion. "Forcibly awakening souls long departed only causes them greater suffering."
Yu's hand froze mid-air, showing hesitant expression for the first time.
The people he'd yearned for day and night were within arm's reach. Yu couldn't bear to give up regardless.
He gazed at those two crack-covered soul auras, sensing this entire Pure Land's rule operation—countless souls like slumbering embryos, wrapped gently yet firmly by this pure white space. Their existence had deeply merged with the Pure Land.
Those fine cracks were marks left when souls fused with Pure Land rules.
Forcible separation was tantamount to tearing up deeply-rooted plants by the roots.
"Fusion..." Yu murmured, sudden resolve flashing through his eyes. "Since I can't take them away..."
He actually voluntarily released his mental defenses, allowing his own soul to begin assimilating with the Pure Land.
Five hundred thousand horsepower of mental power no longer resisted rules but instead began imitating, merging into this heaven and earth's essence—
"What are you doing?!" The Sage of Six Paths showed alarm for the first time.
Yu's hands simultaneously reached out, left and right grasping Fugaku and Mikoto's soul lights.
Simultaneously, his own soul began burning violently, transforming into purest energy, actively filling into the positions his adoptive parents originally occupied in the Pure Land.
The Pure Land seemed to sense this unprecedented "delicacy." Rule power frantically surged toward Yu, tearing and devouring his completely defenseless spiritual body.
Intense pain swept through his entire being, yet he gritted his teeth, gathering all power into a barrier firmly protecting the two warm auras in his hands.
He roared, forcibly pulling Fugaku and Mikoto's souls toward reality's direction.
The Sage of Six Paths watched Yu gradually dissolving in the rule torrent, murmuring:
"Madman..."
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