Breaking Fate, Minato's Heart Turns to Ash as He Gains Yin-Nine-Tails!

Deep into the night.

Sasuke, lying in his crib, opened his eyes.

Turning his head slightly to ensure Itachi Uchiha was fast asleep in his bed, he focused his intent.

'Extract Yang-release and merge it with the Uzumaki bloodline!'

'Ding!'

'Merging in progress!'

As the prompt sounded, Sasuke felt a mysterious sensation, realizing his genes were slowly being restructured.

There was no discomfort; instead, he felt exceptionally warm, as if wrapped in a gentle current that left him feeling refreshed and invigorated.

'Ding!'

'Merging complete!'

With the chime, the warmth faded. Sasuke could feel that his genes had been significantly optimized, and his level of vitality had been elevated!

While sensing the changes in his body, he discovered a peculiar energy within. Within that energy, a certain will was constantly invading his mental world, attempting to subtly alter his own consciousness. Unfortunately for it, it was blocked by his Soul Space and could not make any headway!

'What is this?'

Sasuke frowned instinctively.

'Could it be the original body's underdeveloped mind?'

He thought this, but quickly dismissed it.

'No!'

The existence of the Soul Space made him realize he hadn't possessed another's body, but had been reincarnated.

It was simply that the arrival of the Soul Space had restored his memories of his past life.

Therefore, it was impossible for the original Sasuke's soul to exist within this body.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and his pupils constricted!

'Indra!!'

He realized that this special energy was the reincarnated chakra of Indra!

And the will within it was the so-called Fate Mark, which could attract and force conflict with the holder of Asura's reincarnated chakra!

'This will must be erased!'

Although the Soul Space acted as a barrier, preventing this will from invading his mental world or influencing him, having such a thing inside his body left him uneasy.

Fortunately, the Soul Space possessed the ability to wipe out such a will!

After all, as the host and sole master of the Soul Space, it naturally would not allow any unknown will to influence its master.

Acting on the thought, Sasuke focused his intent, commanding the power of the Soul Space to concentrate on the Fate Mark within Indra's chakra.

'Erase it!'

'Ding!'

'Erasing... Erasure successful!'

Excellent!

Sasuke felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders, and his entire being felt refreshed.

'So, this so-called fate had been influencing me even before the Soul Space arrived...'

This left him feeling a lingering fear, yet also a sense of relief!

He was glad he hadn't been too arrogant, choosing not to simply ignore it just because it couldn't penetrate the Soul Space, but instead choosing to decisively erase it!

'No, I need to look at something more pleasant.'

With a thought, the images from the Soul Space immediately surfaced in his mind.

He saw that Kushina seemed to have given up; her eyes were vacant, and she sat huddled in the corner, knees to her chest, lost in thought.

On the other side, Minato Namikaze looked deeply worried, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the screen, as if every expression of Kushina's—every smile, every frown, every flicker of emotion—tugged at his nerves.

'Heh, what a romantic fool...'

'He clearly had many ways to deal with the Nine-Tails, yet he chose to spout grand rhetoric about the nation and its people. I suspect it was just to die alongside his love...'

'Hm!' At this thought, he shifted his intent, and his figure entered Cell No. 1.

Noticing something, Minato Namikaze shifted his gaze away from the screen, looking at the Warden who had visited once again with a puzzled expression.

Sasuke said with a meaningful tone, "I am truly sorry to disturb you, but I have come this time simply to share a piece of information."

"Information?" Minato asked, confused.

"Yes," Sasuke nodded. "It concerns the jinchuriki..."

Jinchuriki? Thinking of Kushina and Naruto, Minato Namikaze said, "Please, Warden, speak."

Sasuke revealed a strange smile. "You didn't know, did you? In truth, if a Tailed Beast is extracted from a Jinchuriki's body, as long as it is sealed back in before the Jinchuriki's life force completely fades, the Jinchuriki will not die..."

Just seal it back in...

The Jinchuriki wouldn't die...

Minato Namikaze's breath hitched abruptly!

"If you don't believe me, you can ask the Nine-Tails inside your belly."

Having said that, Sasuke glanced at his abdomen, and then his figure vanished.

This piece of intelligence was something only the Tailed Beasts themselves knew.

Since the birth of the first Jinchuriki, only a short forty-plus years had passed.

Konoha's first Jinchuriki, Mito Uzumaki, had only extracted the Tailed Beast to pass it on when her life had reached its natural end; naturally, there was no need to reseal it.

Without ever having experimented, Konoha could not have obtained information regarding this aspect.

The intelligence that a Jinchuriki would die upon the extraction of a Tailed Beast was merely a rumor spread by other villages.

Their Jinchuriki were not of the Uzumaki Clan and lacked powerful life forces; they would die the instant the Tailed Beast fully detached.

Even if one or two did not die on the spot, influenced by previous cases and fearing that the Tailed Beast would die along with the Jinchuriki—thereby causing the village's deterrent power to decline—the high-ranking officials of those villages would naturally never risk losing a Tailed Beast to attempt a resealing.

To them, the Tailed Beast was the foundation, while the Jinchuriki was merely a tool that could be replaced at any time.

Lacking sufficient experience, Konoha could only rely on the experiences of others, rigidly applying them to their own Jinchuriki.

The result was that even Kushina herself had believed she was doomed to die.

Minato Namikaze, equally worried about the loss of the Tailed Beast and the subsequent decline in the village's deterrent power, had missed the only chance to save his wife's life due to a twist of fate.

"Damn it, who exactly are you, and how could you know this!"

Listening to the Nine-Tails inside his belly blurt out the truth...

Recalling the scene where Kushina, holding onto the idea of taking the enemy down with her, had requested that the Nine-Tails be sealed back into her body, only for him to refuse...

Minato stared blankly at the lonely figure in the projection, his heart turning to ash...

'Ding!'

'Detected intense emotional fluctuations from Minato Namikaze. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Yin Nine-Tails!'

!!!

It was actually the Yin Nine-Tails?

Sasuke was stunned, his breathing becoming rapid.

He knew this information would deal a massive blow to Minato Namikaze, causing him to experience extreme emotional fluctuations and trigger a skill drop.

But he had not expected the drop to be the Yin Nine-Tails!

One had to know that among the most precious things Minato Namikaze possessed—the three items mentioned earlier—the one Sasuke wanted most was this half of the Nine-Tails!

Not only that.

As mentioned before, the method of obtaining abilities in the Soul Space was not plundering, but replication.

Aside from ninjutsu, other things like bloodlines and Tailed Beasts would undergo a certain degree of modification during the replication process to eliminate any unfavorable factors.

As the notification sound for obtaining the Nine-Tails rang out, information regarding the differences between this Nine-Tails, modified by the Soul Space, and the original version flooded into Sasuke's mind.

First, this Yin Nine-Tails was one hundred percent loyal to Sasuke.

Its chakra signature was also vastly different from the original Nine-Tails; based on the signature alone, even a ninja familiar with the Nine-Tails would not discover the connection.

At the same time, this Nine-Tails did not need to be sealed within a body. One only needed to open a dedicated Tailed Beast Space within the Soul Space to replace the Jinchuriki's sealing space, allowing for the ability to take whatever was needed—well, chakra—at will.

Because the Nine-Tails resided in the Soul Space, this fundamentally prevented the leakage of Tailed Beast chakra or the possibility of it being detected by powerful sensory-type ninjas.

Of course, because the chakra signature was vastly different from the original, it wouldn't be impossible to keep it outside.

As long as it didn't reveal its nine tails and remained masked by the Soul Space, even a ninja proficient in sensing would be unable to detect the massive chakra contained within her.

'In other words, this Nine-Tails can be treated exactly like an ordinary summoning beast and kept outside!'

After understanding the detailed information about this Yin Nine-Tails, Sasuke was naturally ecstatic!

He was already impatient to see this Nine-Tails that belonged exclusively to him!