Nagato carrying rice in Konoha

Chapter 347 This is Chakra
Nagato frowned and found that the amount of chakra consumed by the ritual was getting larger and larger.

Originally, he thought that the chakra possessed by seven hundred shadows would be enough to simulate part of the real ceremony and get a glimpse of it, but now it seems that it is not enough.

Just take a look at the semi-solidified chakra around you, the marks on the ground under your feet, and the floating spiritual energy in the air.Nagato understood that if he wanted to truly restart this ancient ritual, he would need some more "real" flesh and blood, a fresh and strong spirit, and a complete and healthy soul.

And these can only be obtained from living people.

"Catch hundreds of living people here and perform a hellish ceremony?" Nagato muttered to himself, then shook his head.

He considers himself not a "sentimental" person, and it is more accurate to say that he is quite cold-blooded and has no sympathy.When fighting, whether he is using ninjutsu to blast the enemy into pieces or throwing a big move to kill thousands of people, he can be calm and composed.But to kill ordinary people who are defenseless?And engaging in such a ritual that is extremely evil in nature?he can't do it...
"Forget it, this kind of thing is a bit too low-level..."

Nagato glanced at Abe and felt that he was not worthy of being compared to such a scumbag.

Although in his eyes, this cult member will die soon and is no different from a dead person now, he still will not throw him into a ritual to kill him.

It's not that there is any great reason or moral conscience that restrains him, it's just that he is disgusted with this kind of thing and doesn't bother to do it.

Nagato withdrew his gaze from Abe and returned his attention to the ceremony itself.

"Chakra is already insufficient. If you want to continue, you need more chakra..."

Nearly half of the seven hundred white shadows he left behind had disappeared without realizing it, but he had no intention of continuing to consume his chakra to maintain the simulation of the ritual.

He knew very well that by ending the ceremony hastily like this, nothing would be revealed at all! !His behavior was even worse than the rituals of the Evil God Cult.

However, there was no way. In this place that gave him a strong sense of crisis, he was unwilling to consume any more of his chakra and let his strength be diminished in the slightest.

While thinking this, the seven hundred white shadows were quickly consumed until only nearly two hundred were left.And those gray spiritual bodies that were unable to provide chakra also quickly developed cracks.

It won't be long before they return to their original spiritual energy.

"Maybe this is a good thing for you."

Nagato saw a part of the mental energy flying from Huiying's body, and then disappeared into the air. There was a cold light flashing in Samsara's eyes, but he still couldn't see where they finally disappeared.

Maybe, this is transcendence?If you can't control your own destiny, then disappearing forever may not be a relief.

With a hint of hesitation, Nagato's feet lit up with silver senjutsu chakra light.Small silver snakes emerged from the light, crawling and crawling to the position where the white shadows disappeared and intertwined together.

"I'm invincible, so why do I care about so much chakra consumption? Who, T, M, can beat me?... It's better to do something humane and simply erase all this mental energy, so as not to look disgusting!"

Nagato muttered, using these little snakes to control the power of the ritual, consciously and quickly erasing the remaining spiritual energy.

It was like a strong wind blowing through the remaining ashes piled up after the fire burned.The gray figures shattered one after another and turned into smoke and dust in the air.Before disappearing, every figure "looked" deeply at Nagato, and then looked at a certain location in the ceremony.One, two, a hundred...
When all the gray shadows made the same movements and showed the same "eyes", even Nagato, who had lost interest in the ceremony, could hardly ignore this message.He really wanted to ask, what kind of plane are you guys doing?
However, all the gray shadows are just the product of the spiritual energy that remains here. Apart from the profound instinct to perform rituals, they have left nothing behind.

So, let alone asking, even if Nagato uses the human way to withdraw his soul, it will have no effect.These things have no soul at all, what the fuck?
Nagato continued to use the power of the ritual to disintegrate the gray shadow and wipe out the separated spiritual energy one by one.

But in this process, the same "look" appeared in front of him again and again, constantly deepening a certain impression and feeling.

Slowly, some of the pictures he had seen that he had originally ignored suddenly became clear again.

Nagato suddenly realized that he had seen this kind of empty look somewhere before?
"Hey, where have I seen this before? Such a stupid look in his eyes???"

Then, when most of the gray shadows completely collapsed and turned into spiritual energy and dispersed in the air, a picture suddenly appeared in front of Nagato's eyes. It was a person participating in the ceremony in the black square. The scene of a Christian lying in a pool of blood.

At that time, all cultists would stare in the same direction with the same eyes when they were killed in the ritual.

But now, that look and the gray shadow's look overlapped in Nagato's mind.Because the information conveyed by the two looks gave Nagato exactly the same feeling.

"So, they are saying that they saw the evil god???" Nagato raised the corner of his mouth, with a disapproving smile on his face, "Then I need to explain, let alone the brain, these are not even single cells. Thing, why are you looking at me? I don’t remember what kind of evil god I am.”

The so-called cultists saw the evil god when they were about to die, so they stared in the direction where the evil god was standing. This statement is just the answer that the elders of the cult "asked" from the mouths of the crazy flying sections.

Crazy Flying Duans have never died, so how do they know what the dead think?Nagato felt that it was perfectly normal for the Evil God Cult to include private information when explaining the phenomena in the ritual, and to roundaboutly try to find evidence for their religion.

After narrowing his eyes and vaguely coming to some conclusions in his mind, Nagato simply manipulated the ritual and continued to deal with these gray shadows while "following their instructions" and standing in the position where they were "looking". Sure enough, at the end, The few gray figures no longer "looked", but just "looked" at Nagato!
"You want me to stand here and preside over the ceremony?" Nagato stood in the remaining spiritual energy, constantly comparing the eyes of hundreds of gray figures with the eyes of the followers of the Evil God Cult, looking for what they have in common. The message conveyed, "No, these gray shadows don't even have self-awareness, let alone recognize the existence of Nagato. Moreover, they cannot have such complex thoughts, and they have no IQ!... ·”

"These gray spiritual bodies, as well as the cult members who died in the ritual, at that time, the consciousness should have been occupied by the ritual, and there are only instincts related to the ritual..."

"So, if you want to talk about something in common, the two can only express one meaning." A glimmer of light flashed in Nagato's eyes, "Yes, that is, one person is missing."

"There is one missing person in the ceremony! Whether it is the cultists who participated in the ceremony or the spiritual aggregation left by the ancients who once participated in the ceremony. Although they are ordinary and have little power, they still rely on instinct to sense this connection. I also didn’t notice the fact that the ceremony is missing a key host!! After all, they died and were born because of the ceremony, and they are the ones who understand the ceremony best!!!”

Thinking of this, Nagato suddenly became enlightened.

The voice that once sounded in his ears in the wet bone forest echoed clearly in his mind again.

"This is chakra."

(End of this chapter)