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"No!"
The shadow clone's spirit body had merged into the ninja's soul, but it was like water and oil. It seemed to be integrated, but in reality, they were unrelated. The shadow clone couldn't control the ninja's soul.
"Is it because of the existence of spiritual energy fluctuations?"
Kenshi thought again.
The soul pulled out by the Rinnegan eye power chakra wasn't dead. It was still alive, so it was still emitting the unique spiritual energy fluctuations of its owner.
But because it didn't have the nourishment of the body, the spiritual energy emitted by the soul was an irreversible consumption for the soul.
It was equivalent to the soul constantly dissipating, just not as fast as when someone was killed.
Spiritual energy fluctuations were like the genetic code of body cells. The shadow clone's spirit body couldn't possess the soul. Could it be because the spiritual energy fluctuations simulated by the spirit body were inconsistent, so the ninja's soul rejected the fusion of the shadow clone's spirit body?
Thinking about this, Kenshi immediately had the shadow clone's spirit body change its spiritual energy fluctuations.
"Done!"
This time, it really worked.
Kenshi sensed it. The moment the shadow clone's spirit body changed its spiritual energy fluctuations, the ninja's soul absorbed the shadow clone's spirit body, as if it were absorbing the dissipating spiritual energy fluctuations.
He could control... hmm... what's this?
"It's this person's will!"
Kenshi's expression suddenly tightened. His joyful expression froze again. This time, it had merged, but there was a will in the soul that was resisting the shadow clone's spirit body. Once the shadow clone's spirit body tried to control the spiritual energy emitted by the soul, it would be subconsciously resisted by this will, preventing the shadow clone's spirit body from controlling the soul.
Even... with the fusion of the shadow clone's spirit body, the ninja's soul was evolving, evolving from a dull soul to a spirit body with logical thinking.
"It still doesn't work!"
Kenshi was somewhat frustrated. He activated his mind and directly dispelled the shadow clone, purifying the extracted ninja's soul to prevent it from evolving.
Although the soul was dull, it had a basic will.
Kenshi's shadow clone's spirit body had Kenshi's consciousness integrated into it. It was also a manifestation of Kenshi's will.
He wanted to control someone else's soul, so he would inevitably be blocked by the instinctive will in the other person's soul.
If he didn't solve the will in the other person's soul, soul possession wouldn't succeed.
It was like possessing someone's body. You had to kill that person's soul first.
Otherwise, how could two souls coexist in one body?
Soul possession was the same. You needed to eliminate the will in the soul, and then Kenshi's will could enter the other person's soul, completing soul possession and becoming a perfect clone soul that he could independently control.
Although this experiment still failed.
But the path was clear. Now, there was only one problem.
How to solve the will in the soul?
Or how to kill the will in the soul?
If the soul dissipates, the will will naturally dissipate too.
The key problem was how to make the will dissipate without the soul dissipating.
How to do this?
Kenshi closed his eyes and thought.
The ninja world was made up of chakra.
Chakra was a magical energy. It could even turn reality into illusions. The ability to eliminate the will in a soul without harming the soul must exist.
Was there any jutsu that could do this?
Kenshi carefully searched his memory bank. He carefully filtered through all the jutsu he knew, had seen, or had heard of.
"Huh…"
Kenshi's eyes suddenly lit up. He hadn't expected... he actually found a jutsu that might work.
"Earth Grudge Fear Technique!!!"
Kenshi never thought that this technique, which he had looked down upon, would bring him hope.
Unlike the principle of possession and rebirth, the key to the Earth Grudge Fear Technique's immortality, although it also involved taking someone else's heart, seemed like the same path as possessing someone else's body.
But it was actually fundamentally different.
Possession essentially involved discarding your own body and taking a younger one that could live longer.
The Earth Grudge Fear Technique, on the surface, also seemed to involve taking a younger heart to live longer, but one was passive, and the other was active.
Possession and rebirth passively involved changing bodies. Only the soul could adapt to the body, but each body had a unique soul that adapted to it. This led to rejection reactions between the body and the soul during possession.
The Earth Grudge Fear Technique didn't have that.
It wasn't simply a crude exchange of hearts. It involved assimilating the stolen heart, using Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra to assimilate the heart into one that you could absolutely control.
Although this would make the assimilated heart only able to use one chakra attribute.
But it would also inherit all the jutsu that the heart's previous owner could use for that attribute.
Kenshi had originally looked down upon this drawback.
But now, this drawback could potentially play a key role in soul possession.
As mentioned before, chakra is a fusion of spiritual energy and physical energy.
Since Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra could assimilate the heart, controlling the previous owner's heart and related chakra attributes, it meant that it could assimilate someone else's spiritual energy, allowing the assimilated heart to continue releasing spiritual energy fluctuations.
Of course, it was also possible that Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra only assimilated the other person's heart, and the spiritual energy was still provided by the technique's user.
But no matter what, the Earth Grudge Fear Technique's effect of assimilating spiritual energy could be used for soul possession.
"Boom!"
Kenshi immediately split off a shadow clone and transformed it into a spirit body to once again possess... no, assimilate, a ninja's soul.
This time, Kenshi's shadow clone's spirit body first used Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra to assimilate the ninja's soul.
"It works!!!"
Kenshi's lips curled up slightly. He held back his joy, afraid that it would be another empty victory. He continued to observe.
Earth Grudge Fear Technique was like ink that devoured everything, turning everything it touched black.
The ninja's soul was being slowly assimilated under the Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra.
"No!"
"No!"
In a daze, Kenshi seemed to hear the will in the assimilated soul instinctively screaming.
After a while, this scream clearly echoed in the shadow clone's spirit body's ears.
This wasn't an illusion. The will in the ninja's soul was being assimilated and dissipated, but his soul body didn't show any signs of rapid dissipation.
"Is it going to work?"
Kenshi couldn't help but tremble. His eyes were filled with anticipation and anxiety.
It was just that he had thought it was successful so many times before, only to fail, that Kenshi had developed a psychological shadow.
"Crack!"
The moment the will in the soul was assimilated and dissipated by the Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra, the ninja's soul suddenly exploded like fireworks. It was like water in a balloon. The moment the balloon was punctured, it lost its shape and exploded.
"Why?"
Kenshi's heart trembled, but he quickly recovered. He had experienced failure so many times before. He already knew that soul possession wasn't easy to achieve. He just wanted to know why.
"Could it be because the soul was pulled out?"
Kenshi thought.
The soul was pulled out, without the protection of the body, and its will was assimilated and dissipated. Could it be that the soul, like water without a container to bind it, would disperse all at once?
Thinking about this, Kenshi split off another shadow clone's spirit body and possessed a ninja. He condensed Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra in the ninja's body and assimilated the ninja's soul.
"So hard!"
Kenshi frowned and retracted the shadow clone's spirit body.
If the soul wasn't pulled out, it was like the soul was wearing a thick layer of armor inside the ninja's body. The Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra's ability to assimilate souls wasn't completely ineffective, but it would take hundreds of years to succeed.
"But at least it proves that it's feasible."
Kenshi smiled again.
For a soul, the will was like an invisible force that bound and aggregated the basic soul particles together to form a soul. The body was like a humanoid container that held the soul inside.
After the soul was pulled out, without the protection of the body's container, once the will that bound the basic shape of the soul dissipated, the soul would be like the air in a balloon. As the balloon burst, it would quickly dissipate, no longer maintaining the shape of a balloon.
But if there was a body's container, it would be like the air in two balloons. Even if one balloon burst, there was still another balloon maintaining the basic shape of the air.
Similarly, the soul in the body, even if the will dissipated, would maintain the shape of the soul body and wouldn't collapse. It would just be in a daze.
The Earth Grudge Fear Technique's seizure of the heart was the same.
It used the heart to retain the dissipating spiritual energy and retain the chakra attributes in the heart.
Now, Kenshi just needed to make the Earth Grudge Fear Technique assimilate faster.
If he hadn't had Rinnegan eye power chakra before, Kenshi would have been helpless.
Now, he just needed to carefully develop the combined use of Rinnegan eye power chakra and Earth Grudge Fear Technique chakra.
So, over the next month, Kenshi would not only capture every ninja who attacked the village, but he would also run further to capture wandering ninjas to experiment with and develop the Perfect Clone Technique.
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