The light in the Secret Chamber dimmed, and the temperature dropped several degrees. A gloomy wind howled, while ghostly cries wailed like mournful sobs.
But after a few minutes, the strange scene slowly faded away.
Yes—
It vanished. Everything settled down!
Kabuto Yakushi, the caster, was ashen-faced and drenched in sweat.
Hao Shuai and Orochimaru's expressions changed drastically. They were so familiar with the Impure World Reincarnation that they immediately knew it had failed.
Under normal circumstances, a phantom river of the underworld should have appeared out of thin air at that moment, and Bi Xiuxin's soul should have been pulled from it and placed into the body on the ice bed.
But none of that had happened. The only explanation was that the Impure World Reincarnation had failed.
"Hao Shuai, did it... fail?!"
Shi Qingxuan and the others saw the look on Hao Shuai's face and immediately grew anxious.
"It's fine! If the Impure World Reincarnation doesn't work, I'll try the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique with the Rinnegan," Hao Shuai reassured them.
In the blink of an eye, Hao Shuai's eyes became a pair of concentric rings. He brought his hands together and formed a seal, then spoke a phrase in a language Shi Qingxuan and the others couldn't understand. "Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique!"
As the words fell, a wondrous power burst from Hao Shuai's ringed eyes and spread in every direction.
And then nothing happened.
Clearly, the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique had failed too!
Hao Shuai had already expected this outcome.
After all, although the Dual Dragons of the Great Tang spoke of Shattering the Void, there had never been any mention of souls in an underworld or nether realm. Both the Impure World Reincarnation and the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique were jutsu that