Resurrection

How great an advantage did it give you to master a technique that nobody else understood?

Everything else was secondary. The key was absolute control over the right to speak.

With something like the Heaven Curse Mark, so long as Orochimaru himself had not been resurrected, even if Mizuki spouted complete nonsense, no one would be able to tell.

That was the benefit of knowledge with too high a barrier to entry—knowledge that was too specialized.

Knowledge changed one's fate. That was true. If you could not do it, it only meant that the knowledge you had mastered was not enough.

Something had gone wrong with Anko Mitarashi's curse mark, and since she had come to Mizuki for answers, naturally, he could explain it however he pleased.

The phenomenon of chakra resonance was indeed quite apparent between chakra from the same source. Mizuki was not simply making it up.

Chakra resonance between tailed beasts was especially pronounced. More than three years ago, Mizuki had experienced it firsthand: when One-Tail Shukaku broke his seal nearby, Mizuki used One-Tail Shukaku's chakra as a medium to absorb natural energy and enter Sage Mode, resulting in a rampage.

There was a similar phenomenon among senjutsu chakra as well. Otherwise, Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku could not have so easily used the Combination Transformation Technique to assist Jiraiya.

Curse mark chakra, derived from Snake Sage Art, had similar properties. Back when Mizuki had not yet resolved the issue with his own curse mark, he had experienced curse mark chakra resonance with Sasuke Uchiha and Anko Mitarashi whenever they were too close. Back then, it had occurred passively. This time, Mizuki had triggered it deliberately.

With his thorough knowledge of all of Konoha, Mizuki first used temporary barriers at places Anko Mitarashi frequented to appropriately increase