I Can Connect to the Pure Land!

When Tsunade saw the lively orange cat on the ground, shock filled her eyes.

Then, thinking of her younger brother, a trace of delight appeared amid her astonishment.

Tsunade turned to Uchiha Gōka, her face full of anticipation:

"Since you can revive a dead orange cat, then you can revive my little brother Nawaki too, right?"

Uchiha Gōka gently shook his head:

"At present, the Resurrection Technique is not yet perfected."

"Although I can revive an orange cat, I still can't directly revive a dead person."

After hearing Uchiha Gōka's words, Tsunade's brows drew together, and a flash of dejection crossed her face:

"You can only revive small animals, but not dead people?!"

Many forbidden techniques had often been developed using small animals as test subjects.

Although Uchiha Gōka's Resurrection Technique could successfully revive small animals,

as a medical ninja, Tsunade knew perfectly well that reviving the dead would require a long process of experimentation, development, exploration, and testing.

And it was entirely possible that the research would ultimately fail!

At that thought, the excitement on Tsunade's face immediately faded. She sighed softly:

"Karmic Fire, is this the latest result of your Resurrection Technique research?"

In Tsunade's eyes, a research result at the level of merely "reviving an orange cat" was simply incapable of reviving a dead person.

At that moment, the hope filling Tsunade's heart instantly went cold.

Uchiha Gōka could see Tsunade's disappointment from her gloomy expression:

"This isn't the latest result of my Resurrection Technique research."

"If this were all my Resurrection Technique could do, I wouldn't have brought you to my home."

Hearing Uchiha Gōka's words, Tsunade instantly raised her head. Her depressed eyes flashed with curiosity as she looked at him:

"Hm?"

"Reviving an orange cat isn't the latest result of your Resurrection Technique?"

Looking at Tsunade's astonished face, Uchiha Gōka spoke:

"I drew on the strengths of many resurrection methods and innovated upon them."

"At present, I can already connect to the Pure Land."

Tsunade stared at Uchiha Gōka, her face filled with confusion:

"The Pure Land? You mean the place where dead people's souls exist?"

"You can connect to the Pure Land???"

Tsunade was completely dumbfounded.

Clearly, this was already beyond the scope of a medical ninja's understanding.

Although Tsunade was the finest medical ninja in the shinobi world and known as the "Medical Saint,"

she had never considered treating someone who was already dead and pulling the deceased back from the Pure Land.

Because, to any normal person, that was utterly impossible.

Seeing Tsunade's stunned expression, Uchiha Gōka explained:

"That's right. I can connect to the Pure Land."

"After entering the Pure Land, I can speak face-to-face with the dead."

"It's just that, for now, I still can't revive the souls of the dead from the Pure Land into the real world."

After hearing Uchiha Gōka's words, Tsunade frowned, still looking utterly unconvinced:

"The Pure Land, where the souls of the dead reside... what kind of world is it?"

Uchiha Gōka explained:

"The Pure Land is a mysterious sacred realm. After people die, their souls do not perish; they go to live in the Pure Land."

"Even after arriving in the Pure Land, souls can still interact with one another."

Tsunade widened her beautiful eyes and listened intently...

Uchiha Gōka's explanation of the Pure Land stirred immense curiosity in Tsunade:

"Could it be... that the souls of the dead can truly return from the Pure Land to the real world and come back to life?"

Uchiha Gōka nodded. "That's right. People can return from the dead, but it's very difficult."

Tsunade's delicate brows furrowed. "Very difficult?"

Uchiha Gōka continued, "At present, none of the known resurrection methods can revive the dead perfectly."

"For example, Impure World Reincarnation can only summon the soul of the deceased into the real world. Without a living body, they are merely puppets or zombies."

Tsunade's expression froze. She certainly did not want Nawaki to be revived only as a puppet or zombie without a physical body.

"However, I know of one person in the shinobi world who can perfectly revive the dead from the Pure Land!"

"Who?"

"That person is the Sage of Six Paths!"

"Hm? The Sage of Six Paths."

Uchiha Gōka gave Tsunade a brief introduction to the Sage of Six Paths.

Tsunade stared intently at Uchiha Gōka, her eyes filled with astonishment.

After hearing Uchiha Gōka's explanation,

Tsunade could not imagine it. Uchiha Gōka was merely a civilian, not even at the level of a genin, yet he possessed such profound insights into reviving the dead.

Tsunade had never even heard of the resurrection methods Uchiha Gōka mentioned, such as Dragon Ball, Underworld Fruit, and Twelve Labors.

Tsunade looked at Uchiha Gōka in trembling shock, breathing slightly heavily, her face full of disbelief.

Only now did Tsunade seem to slowly begin truly understanding this Uchiha civilian ninja before her—Karmic Fire.

Uchiha Gōka looked at the astonished Tsunade:

"My Resurrection Technique will likely leave no side effects on those it revives."

"In other words, it will revive the dead perfectly, just like the Sage of Six Paths."

"Perhaps it will even surpass the Sage of Six Paths."

As she listened to Uchiha Gōka's explanation, a flash of joy appeared amid the astonishment in Tsunade's eyes.

Tsunade suddenly clasped Uchiha Gōka's hand tightly:

"Karmic Fire, when will your Resurrection Technique truly be successfully developed?"

"Hmm... That's hard to say. There's no definite timeline. If things go quickly, perhaps a month; if slowly, perhaps a year."

Tsunade's beautiful eyes shimmered as she rejoiced inwardly. Even a year doesn't seem that long.

As long as Nawaki's body is preserved during that year and kept from decaying,

then one year later, my little brother Nawaki can be revived.

Besides, perhaps the Resurrection Technique might be successfully developed in just a month.

Nawaki might even be revived in a month.

As she thought, a brilliant smile suddenly bloomed across Tsunade's formerly dejected face.

Uchiha Gōka looked at Tsunade's fair hands tightly clasping his. "Uh..."

Lost in her joyful fantasies, Tsunade suddenly realized that she was pressed close to Uchiha Gōka, hand in hand with him.

Her cheeks immediately turned crimson...

Tsunade was a little shy, the atmosphere a little ambiguous, and silence lingered for several seconds.

It had to be said that Tsunade was twenty-five this year, and she had not yet begun a relationship with Kato Dan.

In other words, Tsunade had been single all her life up to this point.

After a brief silence in the basement,

Tsunade suddenly looked up at Uchiha Gōka:

"If this Resurrection Technique is successfully developed, it will break the barrier between the shinobi world and the Pure Land."

"It will connect the shinobi world to the Pure Land and revive the souls within it."

"This is absolutely a forbidden technique!"

"Why are you willing to share such a powerful forbidden technique with me?"

Tsunade stared at Uchiha Gōka with some curiosity...