"It's more than just knowing them... The Death God and the Enma, they were both created by me using the Six Paths Power, just like I created the Tailed Beast with the Ten-Tails, using the souls left behind by the Evil God gods and demons I eliminated, to manage the Pure Land. They would take unclaimed souls to the Pure Land, and powerful souls would be left behind. If one day the Otsutsuki wanted to destroy the Ninja World, their army would be the last force. Now that I think about it, I still didn't completely erase the wildness that remained in their souls, which is why the Death God did this to steal souls."
The Sage of Six Paths sighed.
Then, the Sage of Six Paths stretched out a hand towards the ground.
Instantly, ancient runes appeared, forming a black circle that looked somewhat like Summoning Technique.
Wisps of white mist, composed of pure soul power, rose from the black circle and eventually transformed into a demon over three meters tall.
A vicious-looking demon, dressed in white, with two horns on its head.
"Tell me, what evil things did you do while I was asleep!"
The Sage of Six Paths rebuked the Death God Reaper in a stern tone.
Death God prostrated himself on the ground, pleading with the Sage of Six Paths of Sage of Six Paths in incomprehensible words, while repeatedly kowtowing to him.
He was created by the Sage of Six Paths and possessed a portion of the Sage of Six Paths 'Six Paths Yin Power. Although his soul was bound by many rules set by the Sage of Six Paths when he was created, he also had a strong suppressive effect on the souls of beings with strength below the Six Paths level.
All life in the Ninja World has its soul absorbed by Enma after death. Enma's huge mouth, which looks like a door, is essentially a passage to open the Pure Land.
In the original timeline, when Nagato used the Reanimation Rebirth Technique to revive the Konoha members who had been killed by Pain, he summoned the Enma to expel everyone's souls before using the Rebirth of the Samsara to revive them.
Enma is a soul collector, while the Death God is a soul processing station created by the Sage of Six Paths, serving as a filter.
After all the souls are collected by Enma, they will converge at the Death God. The souls of the strong, such as the Five Kage of all time, will be left behind by the Death God to form an army to fight against the Otsutsuki.
This serves the same purpose as Kaguya creating the White Zetsu army.
The remaining souls are not Death God's, but rather his handyman. He absorbs and digests souls into pure, unconscious soul power, which is then returned to heaven and earth. When new life is born, this soul power converges into a new soul. As life grows, the soul gradually becomes stronger. This cycle repeats itself, without affecting the development and expansion of life in the world, and it continuously generates powerful souls, with the rate of generation accelerating.
The Sage of Sage of Six Paths's method is far superior to Kaguya's creation of White Zetsu. Not only is the army he created more powerful, but it is also harmless and can be continuously replenished in number.
Death God has been working on this for thousands of years.
It consumed souls, but it was essentially the same as not consuming them; it could only be considered a filter. Even though the Sage of Six Paths left him with underlying rules, making him mechanically repeat these tasks, countless souls had passed through his filter over thousands of years, which caused it to acquire some of the emotions and desires carried by those souls.
It wants to devour powerful souls to make itself stronger.
Driven by desire, and given the exceptional strength and luck of the Uzumaki Clan elder who invented the Reaper Death Seal, this contract was formed.
When facing an overwhelmingly powerful enemy, the Uzumaki Clan can use the Reaper Death Seal to perish together with the enemy, and the Death God also gains two powerful souls.
The Reaper Death Seal is a forbidden technique with a difficulty S-rank. Anyone who can learn this Sealing Technique is unlikely to be weak, and anyone who can force such a person to use the Reaper Death Seal is even stronger.
Death God can collect two powerful souls at once.
However, very few people can master the Reaper Death Seal. Sealing Technique require a level of expertise comparable to that of the Third Hokage to learn, which is why the Death God) haven't collected many powerful souls.
However, if this continues, the power of the Death God will continue to grow, and the restrictions imposed on it by the underlying rules set by the Sage of Six Paths will gradually weaken, because the newly born part of the soul will be more than the original soul when the Sage of Six Paths created it.
When the proportion of newly born souls exceeds that of the original souls, that will be the day when the Death God breaks free from the Sage of Six Paths' restraints.
But now, the Sage of Six Paths knows about this.
"From this moment forward, the Reaper Death Seal will no longer exist in the Ninja World, and there will no longer be just one Death God."
The Sage of Six Paths extended a finger toward the Death God.
Death God let out a scream, and light shone from the Sage of Six Paths' hand.
Death God's belly burst open, and two blue souls flew out and floated in mid-air.
These are the souls of the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
Because it had only been a short time since the orphan grim reaper devoured these two souls, and these two souls were relatively powerful, the orphan Death God had not yet had time to digest them, and these two souls were still intact.
Devouring a soul is an incredibly long process, especially a powerful one.
It might take more than a decade to devour even one-tenth of the soul of a Kage Level powerhouse.
For a being like Death God, which has lived according to certain rules for thousands of years, time is the least valuable thing.
The Sage of Sage of Six Paths was not finished with his actions; he continued to manipulate the Death God.
Upon seeing this, Meikyō hurriedly activated his Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and began to study.
He realized that the Sage of Six Paths was using the Yin and Yang Power of the Six Paths Yin Power to create life through the Yin-Yang Release.
The Death God's screams grew increasingly piercing until they finally disappeared.
Its body, composed of souls, was also rapidly disintegrating.
The Sage of Six Paths seems to have a particular fondness for the number nine.
There were nine Truth-Seeking Orb floating behind him, nine Tailed Beast he created, and even nine Tomoe drawn on the back of his clothes.
The Death God has now split into nine parts, turning into individual green orbs of light.
Nine new Death God were born from this.
"From this moment forward, your names will be Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Happiness, Worry, Fear, Love, Hate, and Desire. The remaining emotions of your purified souls will be absorbed by each of you according to your names. You are not allowed to trade with any living being or soul. The nine of you will supervise each other. If any of you violates the rules I have set, you will be attacked by everyone else."
The Sage of Six Paths issued new orders to the nine new Death God, thus fixing the bugs left by the previous Death God.
The nine newly born Death God responded in unison, and then stood neatly behind the Sage of Six Paths.
"Regarding the resurrection of the First Hokage, I believe none of you will have any objections. However, regarding Madara... there are too many people in the village who have a grudge against Madara. Many of us have lost loved ones because of Madara. Although, according to the two sages, Madara is Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, I wonder if it is truly necessary to have Madara? Among us, there are two, no, three Uchiha who can activate the Perfect Susanoo Uchiha."
Uchiha Fugaku looked at the Sage of Six Paths and said in a deep voice.
His eldest son, Uchiha Itachi, died because of the Cursed Mark set by Uchiha Madara.
If he could, he would prefer that Madara die a more complete death.
"Only the reincarnation of Indra can perfectly bear my Yin Power. The current reincarnation of Indra has not yet been born. Madara is the previous reincarnation of Indra. He and Hashirama Senju are the most powerful generation of Indra and Asura reincarnations in the past few hundred years."
The Sage of Six Paths did not refuse, but instead presented the reasoning to Uchiha Fugaku.
"If we need Madara's power to defeat Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, I can accept that, but Madara must be under our control!"
Sarutobi Asuma lit a cigar and said.
The smoke obscured his expression, making it difficult to see clearly.
Although his Pops, Hiruzen Sarutobi, voluntarily stepped forward to perish together with the Impure World Reincarnation First Hokage, the root of the problem still lies with Madara.
He is also one of the biggest victims.
"I have discussed this with the Sage of Six Paths. I will place Cursed Mark on the two resurrected individuals, placing their lives and deaths in my hands. If they do anything out of line, they will be reduced to ashes in an instant, and even the Six Paths Power will not be able to stop them."
Meikyō interjected at this moment.
"Well... well, I agree too."
Uchiha Fugaku sighed, plopped down on the ground, and remained silent.
He and Sarutobi Asuma, the two most severely affected individuals, agreed, and the other Konoha High Command had no reason to refuse.
Although they all wanted to skin Ban alive, they were all clear-headed when it came to the greater good.
"Hagoromo- senpai, Hamura- senpai, we have a technique that can temporarily revive the First Hokage and Madara as the dead. In addition to summoning their souls, we can also create bodies that are most suitable for them, making it much easier to revive them later."
While explaining the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to the Sage of Six Paths, Meikyō gave Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze a meaningful look.
Minato Namikaze quickly used the Flying Thunder God to take Orochimaru to the Root base and retrieve the flesh and blood of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, as well as two White Zetsu.
There are many copies of Hashirama Senju's flesh and blood in Konoha, and Uchiha Madara's as well.
This was mainly obtained during a battle between Meikyō and Uchiha Madara. At that time, Meikyō extracted Indra's Chakra from a large amount of blood obtained from Madara, and then combined it with Asura Chakra from Hashirama Senju Hashirama's flesh and blood to successfully awaken the Rinnegan.
As for White Zetsu, that's even simpler.
During the previous war against the Land of Wind, Madara and Black Zetsu arranged for 30,000 White Zetsu to attack the Allied Shinobi Forces.
Most of these White Zetsu were killed, but some were sealed by the Sealing Unit of the major ninja villages for research purposes.
The Root has now created a prison made of Pure Gold, imprisoning hundreds of White Zetsu as experimental subjects. At this time, we only need to take two over.
"Sage of Six Paths, you may now return Teacher Hiruzen's soul to the Pure Land. Please also release your control over the First Hokage's soul. Now, I shall begin."
Orochimaru carved the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu around the ground and turned to the Sage of Six Paths.
The Sage of Six Paths nodded, touched the souls of Third Hokage, and sent them to the Pure Land.
Orochimaru also formed hand Hand Seals and pressed them to the ground.
"Ninja Art: Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu!"
In Setsuna, Hashirama Senju's soul moved to the head of one of the White Zetsu. Less than two seconds later, Uchiha Madara's soul was also summoned from the Pure Land and flew to the head of another White Zetsu.
A chilling scream rang out, then quickly subsided.
The two White Zetsu turned into scraps of paper and reformed, becoming two tall men wearing old-fashioned red armor.
"This is... the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu? I remember... being ambushed by that guy Zetsu?"
Uchiha Madara looked at his cracked hands with a hint of confusion on his face.
"Impure World Reincarnation again? Did you do this again, Madara?!"
Hashirama Senju's calm and authoritative voice rang out, and a powerful Chakra aura erupted from his body as he glared menacingly at Uchiha Madara.
"Hmph, Hashirama, you're still as foolish as ever..."
Uchiha Madara also unleashed his aura without any hesitation.
Although he is not in Six Paths Mode as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki now, Madara finds that he is no weaker than he was when he was alive as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
"Alright, you two, stop and listen to what we're really talking about!"
In that Setsuna, Meikyō unleashed an aura far more powerful than that of Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju, suppressing the two of them.
"Uchiha Meikyō? You're the one who resurrected us? And who are these two old guys...?"
Uchiha Madara glanced at the Meikyō, then looked suspiciously at Hamura Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
"I am Hamura Otsutsuki, known to the world as the Sage of Six Paths. Beside me is my younger brother, Hamura."
Hamura Otsutsuki remained seated and floating, looking directly at Uchiha Madara, who was standing at the same time.
"Sage of Six Paths, did you write the inscription on the Uchiha Clan's stone tablet?"
"I wrote it, but what you saw was probably altered by Black Zetsu."
Uchiha Madara closed his eyes, his composure crumbling.
Although 0 had already broken down when Black Zetsu ripped out his heart, this is just breaking down again.
"The Sage of Six Paths? He looks a bit different from what I imagined. He is indeed a rigid old man, just as I thought, but he has horns on his head and his skin is a bit whiter."
Hashirama Senju and sized up the Sage of Six Paths.
"Speaking of which, who Impure World Reincarnation? Tsunade, Fourth Hokage, can you tell me the details?"
Hashirama Senju withdrew his gaze from the Sage of Six Paths and looked at his granddaughter and grandson-in-law.
"Grandpa, in that battle, Madara was ambushed and possessed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Now Isshiki has planted the God Tree on the moon and consumed the Chakra Fruit, threatening the Ninja World. The decision to revive you and Madara was made after discussions between the two sages and the Fifth Generation Kage. They believed that you were capable of helping in the fight against Isshiki."
Tsunade said to Hashirama Senju.