Orochimaru was exactly the kind of talent Uchiha Madara needed.
More than a month later, Orochimaru lived up to Madara's expectations and proved his worth.
"Lord Madara."
Orochimaru obsequiously handed a scroll to Uchiha Madara and introduced it. "I have completed the task you assigned me.
Following your requirements that neither your body nor soul be altered, with everything else unrestricted, I spent a month using the Yin Seal, a technique only women can cultivate, as a template to develop this technique: [False Death, Rebirth Technique].
This technique can restore your body to a state twenty years younger, or even thirty to fifty years younger. This applies to both your mental and physical strength.
Its only two drawbacks are that it requires an enormous amount of chakra—life force—to use, and the younger you wish to become, the more chakra it consumes to restore your youth.
Also, this technique cannot extend your theoretical maximum lifespan.
When people enter this world, they absorb its impurities and filth. Someone who dies at seventy might theoretically have lived to one hundred and twenty.
This technique cannot allow you to break that limit."
Though Orochimaru usually seemed aloof and ruthless, before monsters like Madara and Senju Tobirama, he was just a little brother.
With his high emotional intelligence and intellect, Orochimaru knew very well how to adjust his attitude when dealing with different people.
"That will be enough."
Madara took the scroll. After examining it and finding no major issues, he nodded slightly. "Orochimaru, you truly are the most outstanding scientific genius in the entire Ninja World."
Madara possessed exceptional talent. Though he was not the sort of researcher who could develop bizarre new techniques, his knowledge of ninjutsu was still profound.
Moreover, he possessed inspiration unrivaled throughout the Ninja World. Madara could tell whether