Chapter 201: Will-Purifying Chakra
Border of the Land of Rain.
At an altitude of eight thousand meters, on the back of a massive clay bird, five rogue ninjas lay motionless. Li Yao sat behind the head of one of the rogue ninjas, gripping the man's head tightly with one hand.
A dark green chakra flowed from Li Yao's hand, quickly enveloping the rogue ninja's body and penetrating deep into his flesh.
After a moment—about a minute—the rogue ninja's body suddenly trembled violently, as if struck by electricity.
Deep within the rogue ninja's flesh, his ethereal soul was being infiltrated and assimilated by the dark green chakra, gradually shifting from its original colorless state to dark green.
"Don't… get away!!"
"Kill… kill you!"
"Ah…"
"Die… die…"
"No… no…"
"Who are you… ah…"
As the originally colorless and ethereal soul was dyed dark green, it ceased to be dull and became vibrant, eventually possessing all the rogue ninja's intelligence and becoming no different from a real person.
The rogue ninja's soul let out a painful wail.
He could feel his own will and consciousness disappearing.
He was terrified, he was furious, and in the end, after a final scream, he fell completely silent.
The previously colorless and illusory soul was now entirely dark green.
Soon, the dark green hue faded, and the soul returned to a colorless, ethereal state, still radiating spiritual energy. However, this time the spiritual energy no longer carried the unique waveforms of its previous self—it had become pure spiritual energy, as if purified by Rinnegan chakra.
The soul no longer appeared dazed, but instead took the form of a fetus in the womb: neither joyful nor sorrowful, without tears or laughter. Its facial features showed no emotion at all, like a stone lacking any trace of sentience.
Boom!
On the clay bird's back, Li Yao withdrew his hand from the rogue ninja's head and, with a thought, created a shadow clone.
The clone immediately transformed into a spiritual form and entered the rogue ninja's body.
With no spiritual energy fluctuation, the soul was now like a public vehicle instead of a private one—anyone could access it, with no resistance.
The shadow clone's spiritual form quickly merged… no, fused completely with the rogue ninja's soul.
Thump... thump... thump!
In an instant, the previously expressionless and emotionless soul lit up like a toy powered by fresh batteries, instantly brimming with life again.
The emitted spiritual energy regained its unique waveform.
The body, which had been in a vegetative state due to the soul's loss of will, regained its vitality.
"It worked!"
Li Yao's lips curled into a slight smile. He stood up and exchanged a knowing smile with the now-standing rogue ninja clone.
This time, it had truly succeeded.
The rogue ninja's soul had been completely taken over by Li Yao's shadow clone spirit.
The shadow clone—no, now the rogue ninja clone—extended both hands. With a thought, a sphere of chakra appeared in his palm.
This chakra was fully under his control, without the slightest awkwardness. The chakra within the body was the same.
It felt just like in many transmigration novels: occupying a new body, with the same soul as before, but now guided by a different will.
"Excellent. The clone technique is complete. Only one final step remains before I achieve the perfect clone!"
With a thought, Li Yao stepped forward and pressed his hand on the rogue ninja clone's forehead. The dark green chakra once again enveloped the clone's body, penetrating deep into the flesh and reaching the soul.
At this moment, the soul of the rogue ninja clone was quite lively—just one short of a full mahjong table.
Three will fluctuations surged within the clone's soul.
The dominant will belonged to Li Yao.
The other two, though faint, still contested for control over the clone's soul.
One of these belonged to Uchiha Madara. The other belonged to White Zetsu—or rather, Black Zetsu.
Half a month ago, Li Yao had an incredible stroke of luck: he unexpectedly discovered the fusion node between Rinnegan chakra and the Earth Grudge Fear secret technique chakra.
Once this fusion node was found, it was like a chain catching onto a gear. As long as it kept turning, the entire chain would mesh with the gear step by step.
With the fusion node located, Li Yao could systematically combine the two chakra types to form a new chakra.
This new chakra greatly enhanced Li Yao's perception of the soul.
Even before fully completing the fusion, Li Yao was already able to sense three distinct will fluctuations in his own soul using this new chakra.
Two of them, naturally, belonged to Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu.
Li Yao had been shocked.
It was one thing to have Madara's chakra signature in his own chakra—it made sense, since White Zetsu's cells had fully integrated with his own.
But to find that Madara's will was also embedded in his soul—that was something he never expected.
Even more surprising was Black Zetsu, who had hidden so deeply that even his will had left a trace in Li Yao's soul.
"How did they even do this?"
When Li Yao first sensed the presence of Madara's and Black Zetsu's will in his soul, he was not only shocked but also confused.
He had always believed his soul had mutated, making it highly sensitive and resistant to external intrusion.
For instance, ever since his consciousness had merged with chakra, he had never encountered a genjutsu-type chakra that could invade his.
All of this, he attributed to the mutation of his soul.
Li Yao had always thought there was nothing wrong with his soul.
In the end, it turned out someone had marked his soul—and he hadn't even realized it.
If it hadn't been for the coincidental fusion of Rinnegan and Earth Grudge Fear chakra boosting his soul perception, he might not have discovered the anomaly until he eventually mastered Kekkei Mōra chakra.
"How did they do it?"
Puzzled, Li Yao cast a soul-memory investigation technique on himself, reviewing what had happened during the year after White Zetsu had rescued him.
Then he understood why Madara and Black Zetsu were able to leave traces of their will in his soul without his knowledge.
Back then, Li Yao's soul will faced a life-or-death decision: either accept the fusion with White Zetsu's cells and Madara's and Black Zetsu's will, or die.
The instinct for survival led Li Yao's soul to subconsciously accept the fusion.
Because it was an instinctive, willful acceptance on the part of Li Yao's soul, after the fusion, Madara's and Black Zetsu's will were treated as allies—just like his clone's spirit after possessing the rogue ninja's soul.
Since the soul treated them as its own, Li Yao naturally couldn't detect any abnormalities.
If it hadn't been for the enhanced soul perception from the newly fused chakra, he still wouldn't have noticed anything unusual.
Fortunately… it was discovered early, and there happened to be a solution.
Li Yao now felt incredibly relieved.
The dark green chakra was the new chakra formed from the fusion of Rinnegan and Earth Grudge Fear chakras.
The earlier demonstration had already proven that this new chakra could purify foreign will fluctuations from the soul.
Li Yao named it Will-Purifying Chakra.
Now, he was going to use it to purge the remnants of Madara's and Black Zetsu's chakra from the clone's soul—and see if it worked.
Very quickly, the dark green chakra re-entered the clone's soul and, under Li Yao's control, began purifying Madara's and Black Zetsu's will fluctuations.
Hiss!
To Li Yao's surprise, Madara's and Black Zetsu's will traces vanished swiftly, like wisps of smoke under the purification of the Will-Purifying Chakra.
"So it really was just a trace of will."
Li Yao thought to himself.
The will traces left by Madara and White Zetsu in his soul were like the natural spiritual energy emitted by a soul—not their actual consciousness. Purifying them was easy.
The real challenge was discovering their presence in the first place.
Once discovered, removing them was simple.
(END CHAPTER)
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