The deathly aura of the Pure Land was lethal to the living, but the protection of mana could shield one from its harm.
This was something chakra could not accomplish. At its core, chakra was still the power of the spirit and flesh. Unless one was dead, entering the Pure Land would cause one to be tainted by the aura of death. In other words, under normal circumstances, entering the Pure Land meant certain death.
To come back out, one could only hope that someone would use a secret technique to revive them.
The world within the Pure Land was dark, filled with nothing but endless void.
What exactly was the world of the dead like?
At least in the Shinobi World, it was certainly not a pleasant place.
After entering the Pure Land, Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered that many souls existed here, but most had no consciousness and lay dormant in absolute nothingness.
Only a small portion retained self-awareness, yet even those souls remained silent in the Pure Land. There was no concept of time here, and nothing held any meaning.
The dead could only endlessly recall the events of their lives.
Of course, this place was not entirely void. Some people stared blankly at a bonfire, some sat beneath great trees with their heads lowered in silence, while others simply wandered aimlessly where they stood.
It seemed that this world also changed in different ways according to these dead souls.
What exactly was death? Even cultivators did not know the answer, but fearing death was something all people shared.
There were quite a few individuals with powerful chakra here, but after arriving in the Pure Land, they seemed to have become part of it. Otherwise, there was no way to explain why those summoned through Impure World Reincarnation possessed