Mind Disturbance Body Technique Ineffective?

"How is that possible?"

As Inoichi Yamanaka stared at Li Yao in disbelief, a deep wariness flashed through his eyes.

"What happened?" The Third Hokage stepped forward, frowning as he asked.

Inoichi Yamanaka turned around and stepped back to the Third Hokage's side. Looking at Li Yao again as though he were some unbelievable creature, he said in astonishment, "Lord Hokage, my Chakra can't invade his Chakra to use the Mind Disturbance Body—Memory Probing Technique."

"How is that possible?" The Third Hokage froze for a moment, then sharply turned to Inoichi Yamanaka, his face full of doubt.

The Mind Disturbance Body Technique was the Yamanaka Clan's most prized secret technique. Even he could fall victim to it if he was careless, yet now Inoichi was telling him that someone incapable of resistance had blocked the Mind Disturbance Body Technique.

How was that possible?

Still unconvinced, the Third Hokage stepped forward several paces. He pressed his joined index and middle fingers, gathered with Chakra, against the back of Li Yao's neck. Instantly, dense black Sealing Jutsu Formula patterns emerged across Li Yao's skin.

After confirming that the Sealing Jutsu Formula on Li Yao's body was still intact, the Third Hokage's expression turned grave, and his brow furrowed even more deeply.

"The Chakra in his body has been sealed by the Four Symbols Sealing Technique."

The Four Symbols Sealing Technique was a powerful sealing technique capable of sealing the Nine-Tails' Chakra. Not only could it seal and restrain the soul, but it could also completely seal and confine Chakra.

Once someone was sealed by the Four Symbols Sealing Technique, they could not mobilize even the slightest bit of Chakra and could only be slaughtered at another's mercy.

In such a situation, it was like tying up someone's hands and feet and pinning them in place, then telling someone to kill them—only for that person to say they could not kill them and had even been repelled.

The Third Hokage could not understand it. He looked at Inoichi Yamanaka, somewhat suspicious that the man was doing this on purpose, but there was no reason for that.

The Yamanaka Clan had been close allies of the Sarutobi Clan since the Warring States era and were also his staunchest allies in securing his position as Hokage.

He had even trusted the other man with the secret of the Immortality Technique known as Soul Possession, entrusting him to read the relevant intelligence.

That alone showed how much he trusted Inoichi Yamanaka.

Inoichi Yamanaka had no reason to deceive him.

Yet the Third Hokage simply could not fathom how someone who could not mobilize even a trace of Chakra had managed to block the Mind Disturbance Body Technique.

"Lord Hokage, I really didn't lie to you!"

Seeing the suspicion in the Third Hokage's eyes, Inoichi Yamanaka hurriedly explained.

"Lord Hokage, the Chakra in this person's body possesses an extremely strong self-awareness. Not only can it easily distinguish my Chakra, it also makes his own Chakra like a seamless steel rope. My Chakra is like flowing water—no matter how I try to seep through, I can't penetrate it."

"Unless..." Inoichi Yamanaka looked at the Third Hokage and tentatively asked, "Can he die?"

"He can't die." The Third Hokage immediately shook his head. Until he obtained the improved Spirit Transformation Technique, this person could not die.

"Then there's nothing I can do." Inoichi Yamanaka shook his head.

The reason the Yamanaka Clan's Mind Disturbance Body Technique was a secret technique, one that other ninja could not learn even if they witnessed the hand seals, was because it worked by infiltrating an enemy's Chakra with the special Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra they condensed. This allowed them to transfer another person's consciousness into animals or specific objects, then invade that person's body with their own consciousness and take control of it.

The key was condensing the special Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra capable of infiltrating another person's Chakra.

Without this special Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra, even if one knew the ninjutsu seals for the Mind Disturbance Body Technique, they could not activate it.

This showed just how special Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra was.

Its special quality lay in its powerful penetrating ability.

Once it infiltrated an enemy, the Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra could flow along with the enemy's Chakra to their brain, allowing it to read their memories.

That was the origin of the Mind Disturbance Body—Memory Probing Technique.

Of course, if the target was dead, things were much simpler and more direct. They could simply use Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra to invade the dead person's brain and read the memories left behind within it.

That was also why Inoichi Yamanaka had asked the Third Hokage whether the target could die.

But he did not know that the child before him had been possessed through the Spirit Transformation Technique. The Third Hokage had not told him.

If Kimura Yao died, the possessor's soul would dissipate. Then, even if they read Kimura Yao's brain memories, they would only obtain Kimura Yao's memories, not those of the possessor.

Only if Kimura Yao remained alive could they infiltrate the possessor's Chakra and read the possessor's relevant memories.

Therefore, Kimura Yao had to stay alive.

But if they wanted to read the enemy's memories while ensuring the enemy did not die, they could only infiltrate the enemy's Chakra. They could not directly force their way into the enemy's brain.

Otherwise, they would clash with the enemy's Chakra.

The result would be the enemy's brain getting churned into mush like tofu, killing them.

The problem now was that the target's Chakra had too strong a self-awareness. Before Inoichi Yamanaka's Chakra could even infiltrate it, the target's Chakra had thrown it back out.

The key was that he had no way around it.

He could sense that the Chakra in the target's body seemed to have come alive, possessing powerful self-awareness and clearly detecting his Chakra's invasion.

With that being the case, he could not use the Mind Disturbance Body Technique.

It could be said that this person was the natural enemy of the Yamanaka Clan, immune to the Mind Disturbance Body Technique.

At that thought, a flicker of killing intent passed through Inoichi Yamanaka's heart.

Such a person... is far too dangerous.

We have to find out how he made his own Chakra possess such powerful self-awareness.

Inoichi Yamanaka thought to himself.

After Inoichi Yamanaka's explanation, the Third Hokage believed him, but his mind was still filled with too many unanswered questions.

Chakra possessing powerful self-awareness?

How was that accomplished?

Could Chakra with powerful self-awareness possess all sorts of wondrous abilities, using instinct alone to block an elite jonin of the Yamanaka Clan's Mind Disturbance Body Technique even while the Chakra itself was restrained?

Could that be the secret behind his ability to continuously condense Chakra at high speed?

But... through special means, one could make a portion of Chakra condense into a Chakra clone like a clone, giving it an independent clone consciousness.

But that was merely an application effect of the Shadow Clone.

And it required a massive amount of Chakra to gather together.

Yet according to Inoichi, every portion of the target's Chakra possessed powerful self-awareness.

Only then could it detect and block the infiltration of Mind Disturbance Body Technique Chakra.

But how could a human possibly achieve that?

Could it be that the improved Spirit Transformation Technique had greatly strengthened the soul, allowing every portion of one's Chakra to possess powerful self-awareness?

Perhaps that really was the case.

As he thought, the Third Hokage's eyes suddenly lit up.

Why had the ninja who used the Spirit Transformation Technique to possess others during the Warring States era ultimately never lived longer than a year?

It was because after possession, the soul and body were incompatible. During the process of adapting, the soul suffered great wear and consumption.

As a result, every ninja who used the Spirit Transformation Technique to possess another person's body and be reborn ultimately died within a year because their souls were excessively worn down during the adjustment period.

But if the improved Spirit Transformation Technique could greatly increase the strength of spiritualization, making the soul's wear during the adaptation period negligible—or even strengthening it—then after possession, there would be no need to worry about soul wear shortening one's lifespan.

It might even allow one to continuously possess new bodies and be reborn because the improved Spirit Transformation Technique could continue strengthening the soul, thereby achieving true immortality.

That's right!

That had to be it!

The more the Third Hokage thought about it, the more certain he became that he had discovered the secret of the powerful person who had secretly possessed Kimura Yao.

He had to obtain this secret.

With that thought, the Third Hokage said to Inoichi Yamanaka, "Inoichi, try using genjutsu to induce him."