However, Dan Katō shook his head.
"No."
Dan Katō sounded certain. "Judging by my chakra sensing and the traces left behind, that Wood Release seemed more like the Sixth Hokage's."
The enormous ninja beasts on both banks of the Sanzu River had put Dan Katō under tremendous pressure. Even now, recalling them left him shaken.
"The Sixth?" Jiraiya's brow furrowed even more deeply. "You mean it was Naruto's Wood Release?"
How could Naruto's Wood Release appear in the Pure Land?
Although Naruto had mastered Wood Release, he was clearly still alive in the world of the living, leading Konoha into battle on all fronts. How could his power reach across the boundary between life and death, let alone restrain those ninja beasts that sounded so bizarre?
Countless questions churned through Jiraiya's mind, but he had no time to investigate them now.
I'll ask Naruto when I get back. I have to tell him what Dan Katō learned.
Dan Katō continued recounting his harrowing journey:
"After crossing the Sanzu River, I arrived somewhere even stranger."
"There was a great river there, its water a murky yellow.
But the strangest thing was that no matter which side you stood on, the river always flowed toward you."
Whether you stood on the left, in the middle, or on the right, you would see the river flowing in your direction.
"The way it flowed defied all reason."
"While I was hesitating, the Sage of Six Paths appeared."
A hint of gravity entered Dan's voice.
"He told me it was 'Yomi,' the final barrier separating life from death. Chakra cannot be used in Yomi, and only when someone dies are they permitted to cross it."
Impure World Reincarnation was also a type of Summoning Technique, so souls summoned through it did not need to go