"Was I competing with the Sage of Six Paths for people again?"
The special creatures created through this method possessed an extremely high degree of immortality.
Generally speaking, nothing could kill them, but once they died, their souls would scatter and vanish.
Even three ordinary beasts could successfully mutate under Hinata's cultivation.
And those battle-hardened, strong-willed, powerful shinobi could mutate successfully as well.
But that meant that after those shinobi died, their souls would not go to the Pure Land of the Underworld.
Would the Sage of Six Paths have any objections?
After all, the Sage of Six Paths was now practically half the administrator of the underworld.
"Wait!"
The underworld's... administrator...
Hinata suddenly seemed to realize something.
She seemed to understand why the Sage of Six Paths had allowed the Shinobi World's wars to continue for a thousand years.
"High-quality... souls...?"
War was the finest crucible for producing the strong!
Over the past thousand years, ever since the Sage of Six Paths had distributed Chakra among ordinary people and founded the Ninja Creed—
After his death, war had never ceased.
Over those thousand years, countless powerful people had died, and their souls were now all in the Sage of Six Paths' hands.
At a critical moment, the souls of those powerful people would unleash unimaginable strength!
"...This was far more useful than White Zetsu."
Although the Sage of Six Paths and his younger brother had rejected their mother, Otsutsuki Kaguya, and staged a touching display of filial devotion by sealing her away—
That did not mean they had taken their concerns about Otsutsuki Kaguya lightly.
Clearly, the Sage of Six Paths had always been guarding against "enemies from the stars."
Otsutsuki Kaguya wanted to create White Zetsu weapons, while the Sage of Six Paths harvested the souls of the