Chapter 67: Impure World Reincarnation

Almost immediately after the thought crossed his mind, Sato swiftly formed a hand seal and created a Wood Clone.

He left the Wood Clone at home to serve as the main body while he activated Transparency to become invisible. Sato then grabbed his backpack and quickly departed from the balcony.

Silently leaping across rooftops, Sato soon arrived at Konoha's cemetery. It was nighttime, and apart from the guards, no one else was present.

Sato activated his Sharingan, putting a guard in a genjutsu from a distance, and stealthily entered the cemetery. Before long, he located the tombstone of the Third Hokage.

"Earth Style: Earth Shore Return!"

Skillfully employing the technique of grave robbing, Sato made a massive stone slab rise from the ground. He opened the coffin to inspect the body of the Third Hokage, closed it again, and then retrieved a blank storage scroll. Sato stored the coffin within the scroll.

After completing these tasks, Sato used Earth Style to close the large stone slabs, became invisible once more, and swiftly made his way outside Konoha.

Assisted by the techniques of Transparency and illusion, Suisheng easily left Konoha.

Half an hour later, Sato arrived at the nearest town to Konoha. He activated his Kagura Mind Eye to determine if any ninjas were present.

Ultimately, Sato discovered seven Konoha ninjas using his Kagura Mind Eye. However, he did not recognize any of them.

Without hesitation, Sato selected the six ninjas with the weakest Chakra fluctuations from the group of seven. He then used his Sharingan to hypnotize and eliminate them. The remaining ninja met a merciless fate at the hands of Sato.

With a one-handed seal, Sato created six Wood Clones. He led the seven dull-faced ninjas out of the small town to a remote location.

After placing the six ninjas on the ground, the Wood Clones quickly spread out, activating their Byakugan and Kagura Mind Eye to monitor the surroundings.

Meanwhile, Sato calmly opened his backpack and retrieved several storage scrolls. However, instead of immediately opening the scroll containing the Shinigami mask, he first opened another scroll and extracted some tissues belonging to Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Mito.

Sato skillfully used Wood Style to fashion two kunai, engraving spells with Chakra, and placed the tissues on the two ninjas. He then took a few steps back and performed seals on the ground, uttering, "Impure World Reincarnation!"

As the tadpole-shaped runes spread like a snake, white dust materialized out of thin air, enveloping the bodies of the ninjas. The bodies of the two ninjas wearing Konoha forehead protectors transformed into mummified forms beneath the white dust.

Gradually, the bodies, originally belonging to two men, transformed into those of two women. These women, bearing cracks and long red hair, were none other than the wives of the First Hokage and Fourth Hokage—Uzumaki Mito and Uzumaki Kushina.

Summoning the souls of the two Hokage wives back to the real world. He then grabbed their necks one by one, sucking them into the space within his mysterious beads for refining.

As the two bodies of the Impure World Reincarnation entered the refining space, they disintegrated into four parts. Two parts strengthened Sato's body and soul, while one part became a floating memory film within the refining space.

The final part traversed into the Nirvana space and transformed into a tombstone awaiting the user's call.

The primary purpose of this absorption was the acquisition of their souls.

After digesting all their memory films, Sato gained knowledge of all the ninjutsu and sealing techniques they possessed, enabling him to perform them effortlessly without training.

Sato retrieved another storage scroll from his backpack.

This storage scroll was one of the two treasures he seized from Orochimaru, containing information on the previous generations of Hokage.

To be precise, it held the cells of Hashirama Senju, as well as those of Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze.

Sato had obtained these cells before Orochimaru's rebellion, when Konoha was on the verge of collapse. Orochimaru had intended to summon the three Hokages, but due to Minato Namikaze's soul being within the Shinigami's stomach, only the First and Second Hokages could be summoned.

After retrieving the cells of the previous Hokages, Sato retrieved the coffin containing the Third Hokage's corpse. However, he suddenly had a moment of inspiration and halted his actions.

Standing there, hesitating.

Sato is unsure whether to perform Impure World Reincarnation on Namikaze Minato.

If Minato's soul didn't contain half of the Nine-Tails, Sato wouldn't hesitate and would devour him with Impure World Reincarnation.

However, there is indeed half of the Nine-Tails with Yin attributes within Minato's soul.

Similarly, if Sato didn't possess a body comparable to Ōtsutsuki Ashura, he would still proceed with Impure World Reincarnation on Namikaze Minato, devouring him and the Yin Nine Tails together to obtain Tailed Beast-level Chakra directly.

But now, with the powerful Ashura-like body, Sato finds himself hesitating.

Will devouring half of the Nine-Tails prevent him from attaining the complete Ten Tails?

Alternatively, if he devours half of the Nine-Tails first and then consumes the Ten-Tails along with the eight other-tailed beasts, would there be any difference?

After a brief moment of hesitation, Sato reaches a decision.

He chooses not to devour Namikaze Minato just yet.

He realizes that there is a significant gap between an imperfect and a perfect Ten Tails, as demonstrated by Uchiha Obito with only seven complete-tailed beasts and Uchiha Madara with the complete Ten-Tails.

Only by consuming the complete body can one fully harness all the abilities of a Ten Tails Jinchūriki.

Given the unparalleled refining ability of the mysterious bead, it is impossible to complete the incomplete Ten Tails by first devouring half of the Nine Tails and then consuming the Ten-Tails alongside eight other-tailed beasts.

Therefore, Sato decides against devouring Namikaze Minato.

Apart from Yin Nine Tails, Minato doesn't hold much value for Sato.

As for the Flying Thunder God Technique, he can simply devour Senju Tobirama.

Sato already possesses both the Sealing Techniques and Rasengan.

Furthermore, once he devours Senju Hashirama, he can directly acquire the perfected version of Sage Art, easily enter Sage Mode with a simple clap, and surpass Naruto and Namikaze Minato by leaps and bounds.

In this manner, the only value Minato holds for Sato is being the Jinchūriki of half of the Nine Tails.

Therefore, Sato gathers all the scrolls containing Minato's body and retrieves the storage scroll that holds the Shinigami mask.

As he looks at the Shinigami mask in his hand, a smile forms on Sato's lips, and he suddenly conceives a daring idea.

He plans to devour the Shinigami!