Nagato carrying rice in Konoha

Chapter 346 Spiritual body connection

According to the methods of the Evil God Cult, before performing the ritual, "spells" need to be used to create and extract chakra from the believers participating in the ritual.

But Nagato doesn't need to do this, because he already has an extremely large amount of chakra, and he still makes a fool of himself?
Nagato carefully looked at the carvings left by ancient rituals on the ground, and after finding out where the "ancient believers" were standing, he appeared in one of them, then raised his right foot, his figure was like lightning. , appearing and leaving in an instant where nearly a hundred ancient people once stood.

White figures appeared one after another at these positions, standing there like "religionists" one after another.

These white shadows created by Nagato may look like clones at first glance, but they are actually very different from normal clones.First of all, they have no facial features, only a rough outline, no clothes on their bodies, and no thoughts.Secondly, they only consume a very small part of Nagato's chakra, unlike the Shadow Clone Technique, which divides the main body's chakra equally.Therefore, for Nagato, even if hundreds or thousands of them are produced, it is not worth mentioning at all.

These figures stand where the ancients once stood, and their only function is to provide a simulated energy supply for the upcoming "ritual".

To do this, all it takes is a little bit of senjutsu chakra control skills.Of course there is no problem for someone like Nagato.

After Nagato reached the sage level, his body's speed reached "divine speed". In the blink of an eye, nearly seven hundred white shadows were standing at predetermined positions, ready to be activated at any time.

At this time, a red light lit up from deep underground, flowing on the carvings on the ground, and instantly lit up the semi-solid chakra stuck to the stone pillars and stone walls.

At the same time, the remains of ancient rituals in the hall seemed to be activated. Gray mist filled the air, with a sense of coldness and despair, as if the door to the Nine Netherworlds had been opened.

Nagato's expression changed, his figure flickered, and he instantly exited the scope of the ceremony, his eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.

I saw hundreds of gray figures, following the thick fog, suddenly appearing at the location where the "believers" were required to stand during the ceremony, as if they were cooperating with Nagato in holding the ceremony. They stood there exactly, and their eyes followed the long The movement of the door gathered together, and they all "stared" at Nagato through the thick fog.

Nagato didn't know why, and blinked his eyes. He had no idea what kind of "cutes" these hundreds of figures were.Why do they appear here at the same time, and how do they appear here?

Hundreds of gray figures remained silent, "looking" at Nagato, standing motionless in the diffuse smoke. Nagato adhered to the principle of "if the enemy does not move, I will not move" and silently chanted in his heart, "All reactionaries will not move." It’s a paper tiger.”

Even Abe noticed the changes in the ceremony. The old man was so shocked that he seemed to have forgotten the pain on his face. He stared blankly at the white and gray shadows, which totaled more than a thousand. He looked so stupid. , as many reactionaries as there are, they are the ones who must be eliminated at first glance.

Nagato curled his lips, knowing that asking Abe would be in vain.Due to the interference of the mist, his Samsara Eye was temporarily unable to function and was hindered... At this time, he suddenly found that he still had Byakugan, so he quickly reopened the closed Byakugan and discovered something strange. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, that is, there is no chakra in these gray figures.

"This is unscientific. Are these just illusions? Even resentful spirits have chakra in them."

After a stalemate for a while, Nagato decided to take the initiative. To hell with this "I won't move until the enemy can't move".He walked directly into the middle of the thick fog. Amid the "powerful onlookers" of hundreds of figures, he stretched out his hand and pressed on a figure. After activating the power of the human world, he felt a bunch of extremely messy and chaotic emotions, and finally managed to condense them. It has become a consensus that it is a "ritual".

"It turns out..." A flash of understanding flashed in Nagato's eyes, and he sighed, "It's just an aggregation of chaotic spiritual energy."

Without any hindrance, his hand penetrated the figure, and then withdrew it again.

The figure stood there, unconscious.In its body, among the chaotic remnants, only two words echoed, "ritual".

"Is it the activation of chakra residue that activates the remaining spiritual energy nearby?"

Nagato looked at the gray figure's pitted face, which was even worse than Abe's, and the abstract body that seemed to have been blasted by radiation. It was difficult to tell how many people's mental fragments were used to piece together such an "alien".

"Even though you bastards are dead, you are still addicted to this online game called Ritual..." Nagato snapped his fingers, controlled nearly [-] shadows belonging to him, and began to go to the ceremony. Injecting chakra, "Then, I will help you."

According to his calculations, although the total amount of chakra possessed by his seven hundred shadows was a drop in the bucket compared to himself, it was still much more than the seven hundred ordinary people who were born without chakra. of.

As more and more chakra is continuously output into the ritual from seven hundred locations, the traces of the ancient ritual left on the floor, stone pillars, and stone walls become increasingly "brighter".In the mist, the mixed blood color became more and more obvious.

"It does feel like this." Nagato recalled the evil cult ritual he had seen in the Black Square before, and compared it with the "simulated ritual" in front of him. He found that although the two were very different in scale and complexity, overall, they were very different. That said, its internal logic is pretty much the same so far.

At this time, at the center of the ceremony, the symbol of the Evil God Cult - "a triangle inside a circle" - suddenly lit up.After the bloody circle buzzed softly, the light it emitted slowly rose from the ground, darkened, and then suddenly expanded, covering all the shadows in the ceremony, whether it was Nagato's The shadows and the remaining spiritual bodies are all connected together.

Nagato also took this opportunity to see the terrible truth of the ancient rituals that happened here again and again through the "reenactment" of the rituals.

"You guys have been torn apart."

Nagato looked at these gray deformed mental bodies with a somewhat complicated look.

For some unknown reason, someone created a ritual here, which connected the spiritual energy of ordinary people through the power of the ritual.This, perhaps with good intentions at first, resulted in an absolute disaster.

Because the human spiritual body is an extremely complex thing that has no fixed shape and coexists with the physical body.

Generally speaking, even if you stay safely in your original body, it is easy to cause problems due to impact.And once it is connected to a certain number of other people's spiritual bodies, inevitable disasters and mutual "spiritual infection" will occur.

Everything was deduced in front of Nagato's eyes. Due to the connection, he saw the entire process and the problem.

The human soul is like a group of liquids with different colors in different "bottles".A pair of invisible hands "mixed" them together, making them indistinguishable from each other.Although it didn't take long for the liquid to be separated and put back into the original bottle.But they can never go back to the past, never change back to their original color.

When a person's spirit is transferred from his own body to another person's body, there is not only the problem of whether the spirit and the body match (compared to a woman's spirit entering a man's body), but also the problem of adapting to another person's body. Whether I can no longer adapt to the problem of my own body.

Rapidly transferring the body thousands of times in an instant, the terrible mental damage caused will cause unnecessary mental residues in another part of the human body, thus affecting everyone at the same time! !
In addition, the mental body of ordinary people is repeatedly changed by different physical bodies, resulting in phantom limbs, phantom pain and other mental conditions. The superposition is enough to drive anyone crazy.Except for the "strange species" of Fei Duan, there is no exception! !

In this process, the psychological problems caused to ordinary people include but are not limited to:
A certain memory is not only mine, but also his. It is a real memory just like my own personal experience. So, is this memory his or mine?

My spiritual body just felt his physical body, so is his physical body his or mine?

Now, I can still feel part of his body (spiritual residue). So, am I split, or am I becoming incomplete? Do I want to take back that part?
My view on something was originally that way, but now, I am influenced by his spirit, and my idea has completely changed. Am I still me?

Now I can still feel the feeling of being spiritually connected with everyone.At that time, I lived in everyone's body, possessing their bodies and minds. But now, I have been split. I have become a person. Am I really just a person?
My memory, everything about me, is connected to others. I am a transparent person. I... I want to regain my memory, the part I lost.

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Even the most innocent people will inevitably have such thoughts during such a crazy process, and some people with inherently unhealthy thoughts and strong desires will cause even more problems.

These questions roared in their brains, entangled together, and could drive them crazy in an instant.Strong "self-doubt" and "confusion of understanding" eventually evolved into a brutal fight for "self".

But the coldest and cruelest truth is that it was the ritual that turned them from ordinary people into terrifying monsters, but many years after they died, because their "normal memories" ended with the ritual, their most unforgettable memories The "impression" also remains in the ceremony.

Even if the shadows formed by their remaining spiritual power know nothing and remember nothing, they still have the instinct to perform "rituals".

This... is so cruel.

(End of this chapter)