$ Chapter 298 Soul Society Orochimaru, Come On!

"I'm dead, right?"

Orochimaru did not ask Luke directly about his purpose. After a moment of silence, he asked a rather simple question.

"From a physiological point of view, you are quite dead."

"I will cut off all the chakra in your body. Without the stimulation of the main chakra, this will cause the curse seal to be unable to be triggered, and the divided soul will gradually decline due to the lack of support from the main chakra."

Luke then added.

"In other words, there is no possibility of physical resurrection for you now."

Under normal circumstances, Orochimaru would change his body through reincarnation to achieve immortality.

But there are also special circumstances. Just like today, his body has been killed before he can reach the interval of reincarnation.

At this time, Orochimaru will use the curse seal implanted in his subordinates as a basis for his resurrection.

The power of the curse seal not only strengthens the host's power, but also contains Orochimaru's split soul.

As long as all his cursed seal bodies are not killed in battle, Orochimaru will be able to rise up sooner or later.

He is the immortal snake.

However, there is a major premise that must be adhered to in all of this.

That is he must have chakra.

Chakra is the bridge between the spirit and the body. Without a supernatural source, any mysterious technique is just a rogue.

After hearing this, Orochimaru had some guesses before, but when he actually heard it, his expression froze.

Death.

For Orochimaru, it was the only thing that could ever scare him.

But when Orochimaru understood the mysteries of soul and body, this fear completely disappeared.

However, when I heard the person in front of me say that my body had completely lost the possibility of recovery.

Orochimaru's familiar feeling of emptiness returned.

After the death of Rope Tree, he realized the fragility of life.

For this, an unimaginable price was paid.

He thought he would succeed and was on the road to success.

But fate seemed to be deliberately mocking him. Just when he thought he was about to succeed, Luke appeared.

Just two of his subordinates shattered his decades-long efforts.

"This is really a dream."

Orochimaru was filled with emotion.

Facing the reality that he was dead, Orochimaru did not act ugly, but instead looked like he was enlightened.

Zabuza snorted coldly.

"Mysterious."

He didn't believe that such a monster with an extremely terrifying will to survive could calmly let go of its obsession after being "resurrected".

Orochimaru smiled. The "snake" who had always been sinister and cold seemed somewhat gentle at the moment.

"Living has no meaning, but as long as you live, you can find interesting things."

"But you are dead now."

Luke reminded with a smile.

"But I found something more interesting than death."

Orochimaru replied with the same smile.

The wisdom of the number one scientist in the ninja world is really not just a boast.

In just a few minutes, he had already figured out his general situation.

The sentence I just asked was just to support my guess.

"I have studied where a person's soul goes after death."

Orochimaru changed the subject.

"At that time, I was limited to certain perceptions, believing that ninjas would go to the Pure Land after death."

"The dead who were reincarnated from the dirty land once told me that the pure land is a very beautiful world. You can see your former friends and family there, and you can also experience anything you wanted to do but failed to achieve during your lifetime."

When Orochimaru said this, he paused.

"But you think that's false, right?"

Luke added.

Orochimaru nodded.

"After a person dies, he cannot control the whereabouts of his soul, so how can he control his own cognition?"

"A ninja can obtain salvation after death. This sounds like an innocent fairy tale."

Orochimaru scoffed.

Zabuza and Haku couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

If they had not been rescued by adults, who knows where they would be suffering now.

The duo of Zabuza, one is a ghost who kills without blinking an eye, and fights his way out of Kirigakure Village, and the other is a subordinate who has considered himself a "tool" since he was a child.

The total number of lives on their hands was eight hundred, if not one thousand.

Executioners like them can enjoy heaven-like treatment after death.

Who believes this?

Why don't you say let the genin save the ninja world?

Whimsical!

"Later, I also did some research on the Pure Land, but due to the incompleteness of the data, I could not confirm its authenticity."

"But one thing is certain, the Pure Land will not receive all human souls."

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes.

When he came to this conclusion, Orochimaru immediately ended his research on the Pure Land.

The Pure Land has selection requirements for souls.

In other words, there are "people" behind the Pure Land.

How can a pure land controlled by "people" be a harmonious paradise!

Orochimaru had already inadvertently touched the restricted area.

Since then, his research on the soul has been limited to the reincarnation of the filthy earth, the reincarnation of the immortal body, etc.

Under the premise of uncertainty, he would only choose to pull people from the Pure Land instead of sending himself to the Pure Land.

"Then what?"

Zabuza couldn't help asking.

Orochimaru got stuck after saying "The Pure Land will not accept all human souls".

This kind of riddle-making behavior of leaving half of the words made Zabuza very unhappy.

Orochimaru's face twitched.

Originally, he thought he could pretend to be big, but he didn't expect that there was still an "illiterate" now.

All of a sudden, the Pure Land, which was horrifying when thinking carefully, became a "baby bus" in a sense.

Do you still need me to patiently explain the reason to you?

However, fortunately, Luke and Bai, two smart people, met Orochimaru's "electric waves" and did not let him fall into a completely embarrassing situation.

"Do you think that this is another Pure Land?"

"A Pure Land that can maintain the consciousness of the living and allow the living to return to the world."

Orochimaru nodded modestly.

Yes, that's what he thought.

Only a part of the souls in the ninja world will go to the Pure Land, so the rest will not all be stranded in the ninja world, right?

So, if there is one, there must be two.

It is quite reasonable that there is another "Pure Land".

And judging from Zabuza's appearance, this "Pure Land" must be much better than the Pure Land he knows.

After all, most of the dead summoned by the Impure World Reincarnation asked to return to the Pure Land as soon as possible, and they did not have much nostalgia for the human world.

Obviously, there are still their relatives, descendants, and friends in the world.

If one or two people think that the dead should not interfere with the world, it can be regarded as a coincidence.

But if every dead person summoned thinks so, there will be a big problem hidden in it.

Is it some kind of illusion that can modify will?

Or is it the imprisonment of the dead?

Orochimaru didn't know, but he knew that the "Pure Land" he found must not be a good thing.

Otherwise, with the violent temper of the previous generation of ninjas, how could they be "imprisoned" in one place honestly.

In a sense, Orochimaru's guess is actually quite correct.

From a functional point of view, the Pure Land is indeed not much different from the newly born Soul Society, but the purposes of the two are different.

The former is to defend against the military base established by the Otsutsuki clan in the universe, and the latter is an experimental base built by Luke to seek the opportunity to awaken the microcosm.

"You think so, in fact, it's almost the same."

Luke touched his chin with one hand.

Orochimaru seems to have nothing wrong with thinking so.

"So, sir, what tasks do you want to give me to do?"

Orochimaru asked.

This sir's "Pure Land" is very different from the Pure Land he imagined.

He does not focus on good and evil, but on ability as a criterion for judgment.

Luke pulled him over, so he must have some needs.

It's good to have needs.

It's not like Orochimaru has not been invited to join the organization before.

Like back then, in the early days of his defection, Orochimaru, who had no capital chain, had joined the Akatsuki organization.

At first, he thought that if someone was willing to pay, he would work hard, as long as Akatsuki didn't let him die.

Wherever Orochimaru worked, it was not considered working?

Later, he found that Akatsuki had many talents, and each of them had extreme ideas. They were either traitors, murderers or cultists.

Moreover, the leader was an old middle schooler with a bit of cerebral palsy, thinking about bringing pain to the world all day long. No matter how he looked at it, Akatsuki seemed like a street-beating organization that was about to be destroyed.

Moreover, snakes like shade, and wearing such thick clothes on a hot day really made my uncle hot.

So he chose to run away and start his own business, and then there was the Sound Village.

But now it seems that starting a business is too risky.

If you are not careful, you will lose everything.

Sure enough, you still have to find a "sucker" to bear the consequences.

Orochimaru's eyes were fiery and his face was full of expectations.

"Your mission."

Luke paused.

Orochimaru looked forward to it.

"Just take good care of your body!"

"?"

A question mark slowly appeared on Orochimaru's forehead.

"Your soul is too weak. Although I have supplemented you with some spirit energy, the essential deficiency cannot be filled by simple energy."

"It will take a long time, or you have to find a way to heal it yourself."

"But."

Orochimaru wanted to say more.

But Luke waved his hand.

"It's best to go back and absorb the split soul before your split soul disappears completely, otherwise you may not live to the day when I assign you a task."

Orochimaru was stunned.

"At present, your reincarnation can make you immortal, but in fact it is squeezing the lifespan of the soul."

"The lifespan of the soul?"

Orochimaru repeated.

"Does the soul also have a lifespan?"

He was keenly aware of the point Luke wanted to express.

Looking up, he saw Luke nodded at him.

"Yes, the soul also has its limits."

"If there is no talent that can absorb a large amount of spirit energy, most ordinary souls will dissipate within a few decades to a hundred years after death and turn into pure spirit energy."

"As for the gifted souls, take Zabuza and Haku for example, even if they do not practice, their current lifespan is at least more than three thousand years."

Three thousand years!

A time that covers the history of the ninja world.

Thousands of years ago, Kaguya Otsutsuki was born, hundreds of years ago, the sons of the Six Paths Sage founded the Ninja Clan, and decades ago, Hashirama Senju founded the Ninja Village.

This is just what happened within a thousand years, and this long career is only a part of the future lifespan of the two people in front of him.

Orochimaru was a little dazed for a moment.

The path to immortality that he pursued seemed to be achievable in another form of existence.

It is difficult to regard the current Zabuza duo as dead souls.

They can taste the delicacies of the present world, touch the things of the present world, and do whatever they want in the present world.

Rather than saying that they are the dead, it is better to say that they are a life with a more unique form of existence.

Will I also have such a long time?

Orochimaru turned his gaze to Luke.

"Orochimaru, you are one of the talented ones, but the premise is that you must be complete."

"Your soul is too incomplete now. Let alone absorbing spirit energy to strengthen yourself, as long as you leave Soul Society, you will soon be "suffocated to death" because of the lack of spirit energy."

"So, you must complete yourself, otherwise you may reach the limit of your lifespan in a dozen years, and your soul will collapse and turn into spirit energy."

A dozen years, three thousand years.

The gap between the two can be distinguished even by illiterate tailed beasts.

Orochimaru nodded solemnly.

"Okay."

Luke showed a satisfied smile on his face.

Sure enough, Orochimaru who died once is very different from Orochimaru in the Chunin Exam stage.

Orochimaru who died once, after the collision with Nisukeko, gradually realized his true philosophy.

In other words, he felt that he should be a human being.

And now that Orochimaru has discovered another way to eternal life, he obviously won't do things that dig his own grave.

At least, he won't do it now.

Don't look at Orochimaru's appearance as a good gentleman now, in fact, the nature of the venomous snake has not changed at all.

It's just that he chose to put away his fangs for a while because he couldn't grasp the gap between the enemy and us.

But what's the harm?

What Luke needs is the top scientist in the ninja world to help him deduce the path of the god of death.

His purpose is just to make the Soul Society alive, and then use the power of the small world to stimulate the small universe.

Orochimaru is just a tool after all. If he obeys and does as he is told, he will have a place as the captain in the future.

If he crosses the line, he can just press it to death.

The entire Soul Society was created by him, and everything about Orochimaru is under his control.

If this can be reversed, then Naruto Luke will directly exit the mist space.

Although his current position is to create the Soul King of the Soul Society, there is no need to restore the plot too much, especially in this aspect.

"By the way, your Konoha collapse plan can be carried out as usual, Zabuza and Haku will help you complete the plan."

Luke snapped his fingers.

Send Orochimaru out. (End of this chapter)