Dragon Life Rebirth Technique.
Rengoku, who was prepared here, put both hands into Miroku's body.
Orochimaru was monitoring Rengoku's borrowed body of Miroku.
Because a person's soul is only one, when the original body begins to revive, the soul's changes are also of great research value.
As Rengoku injected life force, the Miroku soul on his borrowed body slowly faded.
With Miroku's body's heartbeat sounding, the Miroku soul on Rengoku's borrowed body completely vanished.
Rengoku also quickly perceived that Miroku's soul had returned to her own body.
Miroku had been prepared; the moment she returned to her body she instantly opened her eyes.
Orochimaru immediately stepped forward to ask, "How did your soul return to your own body?"
Miroku thought for a moment, "I don't know either, but when I was in Rengoku's body, I felt my body calling me, and the next moment I appeared in my body."
Beside them, Rengoku's hands were glowing as he was using the Mystical Palm Technique to treat the bite marks on Karin's hand.
But the Mystical Palm Technique simply wasn't taking effect.
Rengoku's bite marks did not dissipate.
Karin smiled mischievously, "It's okay, Master, it'll go away on its own later."
Seeing Karin covered in sweat, Rengoku dotingly patted her head.
"You go wash up and rest first. Tomorrow I'll take you out to play."
"Yay, then I'll go now!"
Karin hopped off and bounced away.
Rengoku then asked Orochimaru, "How much taller will Karin grow this time?"
Orochimaru was asking Miroku about the soul situation; hearing him, he glanced at the records nearby.
"Last time it was about two years; this time it should be four years."
Rengoku thought for a moment. Karin is ten now; add four years and she'll be fourteen. That should make her about 1.6 meters.
Right now Naruto and Sasuke haven't started developing; their heights are still under 1.4 meters.
Looks like Sasuke won't be able to keep being that tall senior brother anymore.
Nearby, Shisui had already learned everything that happened after his death.
His mouth opened and didn't close.
The pressure he'd put on Itachi before he died, and the Third Hokage's brainwashing, it actually nearly caused Itachi to slaughter the entire Uchiha clan.
If not for Rengoku's sudden appearance, decisively stopping Itachi, then he truly would have been the Uchiha's sinner.
Although Rengoku had changed a lot now, after so many years and with Rengoku now the clan head, he was completely different from before.
Shisui stammered his way to Rengoku's side, "Clan head…"
Rengoku turned back, annoyed, "You know everything?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, Clan Head."
Shisui was a very rule-abiding person and respected Rengoku, even though Rengoku had once been his friend.
Rengoku hadn't contacted Shisui for several years, and now he didn't particularly try to restore that closeness.
After all, Shisui's naive mind hadn't changed; he would be hard-pressed for great responsibilities in the future.
"Do you know why you're a useless coward?", Rengoku shot Shisui a glare and asked.
Shisui lowered his head, "I shouldn't have killed myself."
"Idiot!", Rengoku scolded.
"When Danzo ambushed you and took one of your Mangekyo Sharingan, why did you run?"
"Do you think one Sharingan couldn't kill Danzo?"
"When you couldn't kill Danzo, didn't you think to seize Danzo?"
"He had already plotted to usurp our Uchiha's bloodline limits."
"You, useless coward, only knew how to run away."
"You ran away and that would have been bad enough, but you went and killed yourself, throwing away our reason to fight back."
"With so many shinobi clans in Konoha, would they let someone who plots to usurp their bloodline limits become leader?"
"Our Uchiha clan's prestige is earned through killing, not retreating."
"If Danzo used your Kotoamatsukami to control Fugaku, do you want our entire Uchiha clan to become Root's dogs?"
Rengoku unloaded a torrent of abuse at Shisui.
Fugaku and Taiko watched their noses and hearts, not daring to breathe.
After all, they hadn't done much better back then either.
If they opened their mouths to plead, they'd probably be scolded too.
Having finished scolding Shisui, he'd likely leave them alone.
"I'm sorry, Lord Clan Head, I know I was wrong," Shisui's face was covered in sweat.
Rengoku's scolding was justified, all the accusations were true.
"I stopped Itachi and led the whole clan to strike; then what? Would Konoha dare fight us?"
"What, is Konoha's life a life, but the Uchiha's lives not lives?"
Shisui opened his mouth but had no room to argue.
His original intention hadn't been like that, but afterward Itachi indeed prepared to annihilate the clan.
And a large part of that was originally caused by his cowardly suicide and the enormous pressure he put on Itachi before his death.
"If you have ideas like that again, I'll personally send you to hell," Rengoku stared at Shisui.
"Clan head, please rest assured, I absolutely will not be so cowardly again."
Shisui hurriedly admitted his fault.
Rengoku snorted coldly, "Get up."
After Shisui stood up, Rengoku continued, "I'm giving you a mission now."
"Yes! Clan head, please order it, I guarantee to complete it," Shisui quickly pledged loyalty.
"You, go beat Itachi up."
Rengoku's words left Shisui stunned, "Isn't Itachi already returned in loyalty?"
Rengoku rolled his eyes, "That's exactly it. Although I pulled Itachi back, our Uchiha clan was delayed quite a bit of time."
"In my eyes, Itachi's guilt is already gone."
"But to you, he distorted your words and nearly destroyed the clan, shouldn't you do something about that?"
"When he intended to annihilate the clan, he said even you would understand him. Do you understand?"
"Uh, um, I understand what you mean, Clan head."
Shisui twitched the corner of his mouth. He didn't understand at all; he didn't understand a thing.
"Fugaku."
Fugaku shuddered, "Clan head, I'm here."
"Has Itachi returned?"
Fugaku said, "Itachi has already returned; he should be at home training Sasuke now."
Rengoku nodded slightly, then the corner of his mouth curled into a mischievous smile, "Don't let others know about your revival for now. Go back with Fugaku."
"Yes!"
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Border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water.
Following Kazuma and the others, Yomi suddenly felt a thick chakra burst out of him.
This chakra carried a deep purple-black color; just looking at it made one feel disgusted and oppressed.
Yomi was both surprised and delighted, "Lord Moryo, have you recovered?"
The low voice of the Moryo came, "The shrine maiden's power has recovered."
"Strange, could the shrine maiden's successor be so young and already inherit the shrine maiden's power?"
Yomi knew the Moryo and the shrine maiden's inheritance were two sides of the same coin.
After the previous generation shrine maiden Miroku died, the shrine maiden's power had been without an inheritor (Shion was too young).
The Moryo's recovery had been slow, so it only slowly restored by absorbing the dark energies formed from people's resentful hatred before death.
Now the power suddenly surged, only one possibility: the shrine maiden's power has been inherited.
"Lord Moryo, do we head to the Demon Country now?"
The Moryo thought for a moment, "No, continue cooperating with that Uchiha for now. We'll gather some intelligence first."
"The shrine maiden is not in the direction of the Demon Country; she is to the south."
Yomi looked back in that direction, 'That direction is Konoha.'
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