A strange sight, visible only to Naruto, unfolded before his eyes—the glow was not Chakra, but golden Spiritual Energy that only those with special aptitude could perceive, slowly clinging to Kushina Uzumaki's entire body.
The instant this Spiritual Energy touched the Edo Tensei body, it began transforming into a unique kind of Life Energy, continuously pouring into the framework made of dust.
Kushina kept her eyes tightly shut, carefully sensing the changes within her body. To be honest, the feeling was completely different from what she had expected.
As a member of the Uzumaki Clan, whose life force was naturally exceptionally vigorous, her perception of Life Energy had always been warm and abundant. Yet the energy flooding into her now brought an unusual pain, as though countless electric currents were stimulating nerve endings that had long since gone numb.
Is it... starting to work?
She did not know that this was an unavoidable phenomenon in the process of forcibly turning a "dead thing" into a "living thing." The dust and impurities composing her body were being forcibly reconstructed by that domineering yet miraculous Life Energy, replaced with genuine, living flesh and blood cells.
At an unprecedented speed that defied the laws of nature, the cells frantically divided, grew, intertwined, reconnected, and completed a miraculous reconstruction of life.
The process itself was not comfortable; it even came with an indescribable sense of foreignness. But for Kushina, who could barely even feel pain clearly anymore, this negligible stimulation instead filled her heart with immense hope.
Because she longed for it so desperately—longed to truly feel her son's warmth again, instead of as she did now, where no matter how tightly she held him, all that came back was cold, empty nothingness.
Had the transformation succeeded?
From the outside, the change was minuscule.