When Chiba removed the sealing scroll from the severed arm, his fingers brushed against the snake-pattern sealing array on its surface. A chill remnant of chakra crawled half an inch up from his fingertips before the Wood Release life chakra coating his body forced it back down.
"Everything that old snake owns is poisonous. He even put an anti-theft seal on the scroll casing."
Anko squatted beside him, watching Chiba deal with the seal on the scroll while crunching on the bamboo skewer between her teeth.
"Boss, be careful. That bastard Orochimaru loves tampering with his belongings. Back when I was under him, he even put tracking snake insects in the cups I drank from."
"Relax. His little tricks are no different from paper mache in front of my Wood Release life chakra."
A layer of emerald radiance spread across Chiba's fingertips. Wood Release chakra seeped into the snake-pattern seal on the scroll's surface, and like hot water poured over ice, it steadily dispersed every trace of the cold snake-like chakra.
With its chakra supply cut off, the sealing array released itself, and the scroll snapped open.
Chiba unfurled it. Moonlight fell across the parchment, which was covered from edge to edge in densely packed writing and diagrams.
Anko leaned over for a look, and her expression changed.
"These are... experimental records?"
Chiba's eyes swept rapidly over the scroll, and the smile at the corner of his lips gradually deepened.
The first half of the scroll documented improved data for Impure World Reincarnation, including stability parameters for soul summoning, chakra compatibility requirements for living sacrifices, and methods of using specific sealing arrays to raise the combat limits of reincarnated bodies.
The data was far more detailed than Chiba had expected. Orochimaru had clearly invested tremendous time and effort into this