As early as the early days of Pain's invasion, the ninjas of Konoha discovered the strangeness of these enemies.
One Anbu Jonin used all his strength to pierce Human Path's heart with Kunai. The blade came out from his back, but not only did the opponent not fall down, he didn't even pause in his movements. He grabbed Anbu's head and fingertips with his backhand. It exerted force and directly sucked away his soul. The ninja also used Explosive Tag to blow up Animal Path's body to pieces. But not long after, King of Hell summoned by Naraka Path repaired the damaged body and rejoined the battle.
"No! These people are not alive at all!" The ninja who escaped by chance faced Shikaku at the temporary command point, with unconcealable fear in his voice, "It's okay if the heart is pierced or the head is blown. They have no pain at all and no vital signs. They are just six moving corpses!"
"I recognized it! The body of Animal Path is the ninja who disappeared during the Amegakure civil war a few years ago. He has been confirmed dead long ago!"
"I also have an impression of Human Path's face. He is an interrogation ninja who disappeared at the border of Land of Fire. He has been missing for almost two years!"
This discovery made Konoha Ninja, who was already in despair, even more chilling. What they faced were not six living enemies at all, but six controlled, immortal puppet corpses. As long as the controller behind them was still there, no matter how many times they smashed these corpses, the opponent could repair them or even replace them with new corpses to continue fighting. Their desperate fight was simply useless.
Shikaku took Nara Clan's remaining think tank and analyzed the fragmentary information collected with red eyes.
"Six corpses, each one corresponds to a unique ability, corresponding to different powers of Six Paths. The vision is completely shared, the actions are highly synchronized, there is no pain, no fatigue, Chakra has a strange origin." Shikaku's fingertips traced across the information board, and his brows knitted into knots, "They all have those black Chakra rods inserted into their bodies. They probably rely on this thing to receive the Chakra and instructions from the controller behind them."
"But here's the problem." Jonin next to him looked confused, "Chakra's remote transmission has a limit distance of only a few kilometers, and the loss is huge. It can accurately control six corpses from such a distance, and still It is completely unreasonable to be able to deliver Chakra to them that is enough to release high-level Ninjutsu. Even a strong Kage Level cannot achieve this level of ultra-long-distance control."
They guessed the nature of the puppet, but they still couldn't figure out how the operator behind it achieved this almost impossible remote control, let alone a way to crack it. They didn't even have a clue where the operator was hiding, and could only watch their companions desperately injure Pain again and again, and then watch the opponent being repaired, falling into an endless cycle of despair.
The problem that Konoha High Command couldn't figure out despite racking his brains has been clearly understood by Rinto through the sensing nodes throughout the village.
From the moment Six Paths of Pain entered Konoha, Rinto's global perception system had already conducted a full-dimensional in-depth scan of the six corpses. His perception nodes could penetrate the surface tissues of the corpses and clearly capture To the internal structure of the corpse, the circulation path of Chakra, the distribution position of Black Receiver, and even every action, every Ninjutsu release, the whole process of Chakra signal transmission behind it.
In the laboratory, the three-dimensional modeling of the internal structures of six Pain corpses is displayed on Rinto's sensory light screen. The embedded position of each Black Receiver, each modified Chakra meridian, and even the modified status of the corpse cells are all clearly visible and every detail is displayed.
He had already confirmed through scanning data that these six corpses were all completely dead ninja bodies. The cells had long lost their independent vitality, but were forcibly transformed and maintained by Rinnegan's special Chakra. They would not rot or lose their functions, and could even withstand Chakra shocks that were far beyond those of ordinary people. Each corpse's internal body, several Black Receiver are embedded in different positions. These Black Receiver are like signal receiving antennas, and they are also energy conversion nodes. They receive Chakra and control instructions from far away, and then transmit Chakra to the whole body of the corpse, driving the body to move and releasing Ninjutsu.
"Interesting, it's not Shinobi World's conventional puppet control technique at all." Rinto's fingertips crossed the model on the light screen, his eyes full of interest in exploring, "The conventional Puppet Technique is to use Chakra Threads to control the joints and mechanisms of the puppet at close range, and This system transforms the corpse itself into a Chakra receiving and executing terminal. Black Receiver is the receiving antenna for signals and energy. It converts the remotely transmitted Chakra into the power to drive the body and releases the energy of Ninjutsu."
His perception system accurately captured the signal frequency band received by Black Receiver. It was an extremely special and highly encrypted Chakra signal with extremely strong penetrability and extremely low loss during propagation. Even if it was tens or hundreds of kilometers away, it could be accurately transmitted to everyone. On a Black Receiver. What surprised him even more was that the synchronization of this signal was extremely high. Six corpses were scattered in different locations in the village, but they were able to coordinate their actions with almost zero delay. The operator behind the scenes had reached the ultimate level of precision in controlling the Chakra signal.
At the same time, he also completely dismantled the ability allocation logic of Six Paths of Pain through cross-validation of multiple sets of data. Deva Path is the core, carrying the core gravity and repulsion control of Rinnegan. It is also the one with the largest amount of reception among the six corpses, Chakra; Asura Path uses Yin-Yang Release completely transforms the corpse's body into a mechanical weapon, which can generate missiles, blades, and artillery at any time, completely ignoring the physiological structure of the human body; the core of Animal Path is that a large number of Summoning Technique contract imprints are engraved in the body, and it can channel multiple contracted psychic beasts without Hand Seals or blood contract, and even connect the body of the psychic beast., is also embedded with Black Receiver, which can receive control signals simultaneously; Human Path's ability is the ultimate application of Yin Release for the soul and memory, which can directly extract the soul and read the memory in the brain; the core of Preta Path is a set of Chakra swallowing and transformation configurations solidified in the body, which can swallow several Almost all types of Chakra and Ninjutsu can even absorb Senjutsu Chakra; Naraka Path can summon King of Hell, which can not only read the memory, execute the target, but also repair or even resurrect the destroyed Pain corpse. The essence is the application of life energy and soul rules.
These seemingly completely different abilities are essentially the powers of Rinnegan, but they are assigned to different corpse terminals, forming six combat units that perform their own duties and coordinate perfectly. Rinto even accurately found the core of this system through sensory data. Mental weakness: All actions and abilities of the six corpses rely on the remote signals received by Black Receiver. Once the signal transmission of Black Receiver is cut off, or Black Receiver is destroyed, these corpses will completely turn into a pile of incapable of action.
Of course, he still only recorded this fatal weakness in his encrypted research notes, without any intention of telling Konoha. He was not interested in how to defeat Pain. What he was interested in was the underlying logic of this remote puppet control system, Chakra's ultra-long-distance, low-loss transmission mechanism, and the technical principle of using Yin-Yang Release to transform the dead body and maintain its functions.
He even reproduced the remote control model in the laboratory's simulation array based on the complete data collected. In the end, he found that the core of this system did not lie in the transformation of the corpse, but in the special Chakra of Rinnegan, and Nagato's Demonic Statue of the Outer Path supplies power. Without the special Chakra frequency band of Rinnegan, even if Black Receiver and corpse transformation technology are perfectly reproduced, such ultra-long-distance precise control cannot be achieved.
At the same time, he also compared the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu that he had seen from the Second Hokage forbidden technique manuscript before and made a detailed comparative analysis. Impure World Reincarnation is a combat unit that recalls the souls of the dead and binds them into a body reshaped with clay to achieve immortality; and Six Paths of Pain directly controls a soulless corpse and is driven by the remote transmission Chakra. Although both control the dead to fight, the underlying logic is completely different. One is control at the soul level, and the other is pure remote control of Chakra signals and energy.
Rinto disassembled and compared the underlying logic of the two techniques, perfected his research system on "Chakra drives the inanimate body", and even derived an optimization plan - if he were to design this puppet system, he could reduce the transmission loss of Chakra by another 80%, and the signal synchronization and anti-interference properties could also be improved several times.
On the battlefield outside, Naraka Path hid behind again and again, repairing the corpse of Pain that was beaten to pieces by Naruto. The results of Konoha Ninja's hard work were instantly wiped out. They tried their best, but they couldn't even stop the opponent, let alone find the manipulator behind it.
Rinto didn't care at all about these despair and struggles. He didn't even pay attention to how many people the six Pain killed or how many buildings they destroyed. He only cared about whether the movements of these corpses, the flow of Chakra, and the transmission of signals could provide more detailed data for his research.
He did not step out of the laboratory during the entire process, and did not touch any of Pain's corpses. He completely dismantled Six Paths of Pain's puppet system and figured out the entire mechanism of Chakra's remote transmission by relying solely on remote sensing scanning.
When the last set of Chakra circulation data for Naraka Path to repair the corpse was recorded, Rinto archived all the data with satisfaction and put it together with the previous Rinnegan technique data. All of Six Paths of Pain's abilities, from the core offensive and defensive techniques to the underlying logic of the puppet body, have been completely dismantled by him.