Fate had favored Uzumaki Naruto once again. He had succeeded. At least for now, he no longer needed to plot something like stealing the Rinnegan.
Kushina Uzumaki had truly "come back to life." She was no longer a cold Edo Tensei body driven by a forbidden technique.
However, few things in this world went entirely smoothly. Using Impure World Reincarnation as a foundation and supplementing it with Golden Experience's infusion of Life Energy ultimately failed to produce a flawless miracle of resurrection.
One unavoidable limitation emerged—time.
Naruto quickly discovered that if he merely created a body with no soul inhabiting it, like crafting a lifelike statue, the Life Energy within it could remain stable for several years.
But once a real soul took residence and controlled that body, the situation became completely different. Every instinctive function that sustained the simulated life—heartbeat, breathing, neural transmission, even the faintest emotional fluctuations—continuously and increasingly consumed the Life Energy initially infused into it.
By rough estimate, the limit was around seven days. After seven days, Kushina would clearly feel the sensations in her body slowly fading away like a receding tide.
First, her sense of taste would grow dull. Then she would no longer be able to smell anything. Her sense of touch would gradually blur, and in the end, even pain would quietly vanish. The neural network supporting her senses would be silently stripped away thread by thread, returning her to that body of dust—conscious, yet trapped in a cage.
Fortunately, as long as Naruto was nearby, that unique Life Energy could be considered an "unlimited refill."
He could use his ability again, restoring vitality to his mother's body and turning her back into Kushina Uzumaki—a living, breathing woman who could laugh and cry. Yet this discovery also thoroughly proved that relying on