If Ino had tried this at the very beginning of her transmigration, even with the means of soul summoning, she wouldn't have dared, fearing to anger the Six Paths Sage who monitored the Ninja World. Now, with her excellent relationship with Ashura, she no longer feared him.
Kinkaku and Ginkaku caused trouble everywhere with their Six Paths Ninja Tools. The brothers were indeed descendants of the Six Paths Sage, but only descendants. Senju Hashirama was even the reincarnation of his son, and when Orochimaru used Edo Tensei on the First Hokage, no heavenly lightning descended. When Kabuto used Edo Tensei on Kinkaku and Ginkaku, no old man jumped out to stop him.
Now that Ino had a good relationship with Ashura, she wasn't afraid of his father jumping out to stop her. She estimated that the Six Paths old man didn't care about such trivial matters.
By the tenth minute of the soul summoning ritual, a fine layer of sweat had already appeared on her forehead.
She was careful with the soul summoning, using the Shinigami's aura to envelop her Yin Release Chakra, fearing to touch the Hidden Cloud Village's sensory squad's jutsu.
The price was that it grew colder and colder both inside and outside the room, and the phantom of the Shinigami slowly emerged behind her.
Choji, being broad-minded and well-padded with fat, slept quite soundly. Kiba, on the other hand, was already shivering, clutching Akamaru. Shikamaru, with the weakest constitution, would have been frozen awake if Ino hadn't blocked most of the Yin energy.
Despite continuous, uninterrupted soul summoning, Ino had no results. She was quite puzzled: where were the souls of these two brothers? Such extremely evil individuals wouldn't have fulfilled all their wishes, lost all attachment to the world, and returned to the Pure Land, would they?
If she continued, she worried about alerting the Hidden Cloud Village's sensory squad. She was tempted to give up, but also a little unwilling.
After another seven minutes, just as she was about to call off the soul summoning ritual, a mass of soul with dark red Chakra slowly drifted from afar.
"Finally!"
Ino carefully identified it. The incoming soul had long, gray, shoulder-length hair and a fierce expression. Although its form was a bit blurry, she could barely make out a large character "silver" (Silver) on the soul's arm.
It was Ginkaku.
Feeling her gaze, Ginkaku turned his head somewhat sluggishly. After seeing his appearance, Ino's heart sank.
She had seen Indra, seen Ashura, and interacted more with Sasuke and Naruto, but none of them had ever moved her.
Ginkaku's appearance made her a little uneasy, because Ginkaku had two upright horns on his head.
What did this indicate? It indicated that the Six Paths Sage's bloodline in him was extremely concentrated, so much so that it had reverted to an ancestral state.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, Otsutsuki Hagoromo (Six Paths Sage), Hamura Otsutsuki, Momoshiki Otsutsuki—these individuals, without exception, all had two horns on their heads, at most varying only in length.
Ōtsutsuki Toneri, who lived on the moon, didn't have horns in his normal state; he only grew one horn from the center of his head after entering Tenseigan Mode.
Now, Ginkaku clearly had two horns, which made Ino a little apprehensive.
If the Six Paths Sage were to appear later, should she call him "Grandpa" or "Ancestor"? Would sliding to her knees be disrespectful?
She waited patiently for a while, but no old man jumped out to chat with her.
She hesitated again. Could Ginkaku's horns be from the bloodline of Kaido, one of the Four Emperors from a different story?
Ginkaku was in a daze, attracted by the Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra. Like a hungry ghost, he gulped down the Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra as if it were the best delicacy in the world.
Halfway through his meal, he finally awakened from his long slumber.
"I remember I died, didn't I?"
He fiercely scrutinized the surroundings, finally focusing his gaze on Ino.
"Little thing, you're the one who woke me up? Kneel and kowtow three times. And if you have any wishes, tell me. Consider it payment for me occupying your body."
He spoke with an air of entitlement. Ino glanced at him but said nothing.
Ginkaku was already caught in her soul summoning jutsu, and he was still trying to act tough? What gave him such confidence? Just that bit of Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra?
She decided to wait and see how the big shot reacted.
She waited another two minutes.
The "Supreme Venerable Lord" did not appear to collect Ginkaku, and the expected soul of Kinkaku also didn't show up.
"Are you waiting for Kinkaku? You covet the power of us brothers, I'm not wrong, am I?" Ginkaku secretly gathered Chakra, trying to break free from the soul-specific summoning jutsu she had set up, while also talking to stall for time.
Ino checked her jutsu. The jutsu was fine; Kinkaku indeed hadn't come.
For this result, there was only one answer: Kinkaku must not have died in the Hidden Cloud Village. The distance was too great, which was why her soul summoning couldn't reach him.
"The records say that the Third Raikage personally killed Kinkaku to avenge his father. The fact that I can't summon his soul means Kinkaku's death location is far from the Hidden Cloud Village. The fact that I can summon your soul means you died in the Hidden Cloud Village. It seems the heavily injured Second Hokage still managed to kill you before he died. Was it at the village entrance?"
Ino shook her head repeatedly: "You really are a waste. Wielding Six Paths Ninja Tools, with the element of surprise, and having the advantage, yet facing a lone Second Hokage, you still got killed. You're truly too stupid."
Hearing the Second Hokage's name, Ginkaku became as furious as if his ancestral grave had been dug up: "What do you know!? You've angered me! You'll regret this, Konoha Ninja!"
Ginkaku clearly had no body, but his soul still stored a large amount of Chakra. Coupled with the Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra he had just devoured, his body rapidly changed. A dark red Tailed Beast cloak covered his entire body, and half-Tailed Beast transformation tails emerged one after another.
Ino almost burst out laughing. If you used any other move, I might be a little wary, after all, there were two Kumogakure brothers standing outside, and sound-proofing barriers also had their limits. But you're doing a half-Tailed Beast transformation in front of me? I've treated Naruto for two courses of treatment! A whole fourteen days!
She was too familiar with this half-Tailed Beast transformation.
Ino stretched out her right hand, and five wrist-thick branches appeared out of thin air, coiling and wrapping around Ginkaku's head and limbs, then contracting inwards.
"Wood Release! Who exactly are you?" Ginkaku was a little flustered.
Ino quickly formed hand signs. She used Wood Release to invert Ginkaku, head down and feet up, then started to shake him!
"You also have Six Paths Ninja Tools in your soul, right? Spit them out for me. If I'm happy, I'll send you to rest in peace."
Like inducing vomiting, she manipulated the Wood Release to shake him violently, while simultaneously using the soul summoning jutsu to pinpoint the abnormal Chakra belonging to the Ninja Tools, then forcibly squeezed the Ninja Tools out of Ginkaku's soul.
"Good! They're out. I see a head, what is this? A gourd? And what's this? A great sword?"
A Crimson Gourd and a seven-star sword.
She obtained two Six Paths Ninja Tools from Ginkaku's soul.
No more could be shaken out. Ino injected the anti-Edo Tensei jutsu that the Second Hokage taught her into Ginkaku's soul. Rest in peace.
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