"Do you want to hear my idea?!"
"I want to live, but even if my soul survives, without a body, I'd still be useless!"
Mingye tilted his head back and gazed at the sky, his resolve growing firmer and firmer. If his self-destruction in his previous life had been a collapse of will born from self-awareness, then in this life, he desperately wanted to live.
"Speak!"
Ara organized his thoughts before speaking to him.
"Before ninja existed in this world, there was a group of people seeking immortality. Some chose to follow the natural order of all things, turning themselves into a part of everything. As a result, they became immortals. Mount Myoboku has many Sage Stones, and Ryūchi Cave has many as well. But another small group believed they should strengthen themselves. Their method of doing so was to deprive those ordinary people, hidden away in the unseen world, of their lives to replenish their own consumption. Whatever they lacked, they replenished. Over time, this became a system—taking the lives of others to gain a longer life for oneself...!"
Mingye was growing impatient. Ara was merely describing things without giving him any explanation or answer. He reluctantly raised a hand to stop him and demanded, "Enough nonsense. After explaining all that, what are you trying to tell me?!"
Ara smiled in a remarkably humanlike manner. Flicking out his forked tongue, he rested it beside Mingye's ear and whispered, "If you can use human essence blood to create another human body, then use it as your own body, I think that body would be able to perfectly wield Sage Method and even chakra. But there is one problem!"
"What?!"
"From birth to death, a non-ninja may only yield one or two drops of essence blood when refined. Their entire body's