"Have you ever noticed the flaw in the Body Replacement Technique?" Hao Shuai suddenly asked.
"Uh..." Orochimaru didn't know how to answer.
After all, the Body Replacement Technique did have a flaw, but he hadn't quite figured out what it was.
"Every time you use the Body Replacement Technique, your soul must be damaged. And whenever you use a cursed seal, you split off part of your soul. That leaves your soul incomplete. That's why, when you fought Itachi Uchiha, he defeated you with a single glance and a genjutsu. Of course, that's not even the most terrifying part."
"What's the most terrifying part?" Orochimaru asked impatiently.
"Surely you've never considered it? You're using the Body Replacement Technique to achieve immortality. But have you ever thought about how you have to keep devouring other people's souls every time you reincarnate? In the process, your soul is bound to be influenced by the original host's soul. If you keep doing that, will the person who survives through reincarnation still be Orochimaru himself?"
"Or will you become a collection of countless devoured souls? To put it more simply, will you still be you? Will you still be Orochimaru?"
"Uh..." Hao Shuai's words left Orochimaru drenched in cold sweat, his clothes soaked through. He looked as if he'd been hauled out of a river.
It wasn't that Orochimaru was a coward, nor was Hao Shuai exaggerating. What he'd said was very likely to happen.
The Body Replacement Technique, a forbidden S-rank jutsu invented by Orochimaru, allowed him to transfer his consciousness into another person's body and thereby gain eternal life.
It was somewhat like the soul-seizing techniques of cultivators, in which they took over another person's body for their own use.
The difference was that cultivators generally trained both body and soul, making