Chapter 8: Soul Obtained

The evil consequences brought about by the death of the White Fang are fermenting, yet these have little to do with Uchiha Feiyu, a ninja academy student about to graduate.

As the outsider who first discovered the White Fang's suicide, Uchiha Feiyu was released directly after being interrogated for a night.

In everyone's eyes, this matter had little to do with him to begin with. No one knows what Uchiha Feiyu actually gained from this turmoil.

Returning home, Uchiha Feiyu closed the door, excitedly extended a hand, and faint blue light spots emerged from his hand, instantly expanding and transforming into the image of Hatake Sakumo.

It is just that the body of this White Fang of the Leaf now appears translucent, with a slight sense of confusion in his eyes, looking dull.

Uchiha Feiyu had already discovered that the Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding cultivated in the Naruto World seems somewhat different from the world of Under One Person; perhaps due to the difference between chakra and Qi, the souls initially bound by Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding basically lack complete reason and thought.

However, as long as Feiyu operates the technique, after a period of time, these souls will recover their consciousness; the stronger the strength, the faster the recovery.

All along, what Feiyu possessed in his hands were only animal souls; he had thought human souls would be different, but now it seems they follow the same original laws.

With a light wave of his hand, under the operation of the Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding technique, the soul of Hatake Sakumo, which was originally floating in mid-air, instantly turned into a stream of light and merged into Uchiha Feiyu's body.

In just an instant, Uchiha Feiyu could feel the chakra in his body surge; although Hatake Sakumo did not excel in chakra, as a Shadow-level powerhouse, the chakra in his body was at least ten or twenty times stronger than the current Uchiha Feiyu.

Even though he did not carry chakra after turning into a soul body, he still possessed vast mental energy; after merging into Uchiha Feiyu's body, it was an increase of nearly two times.

When all is said and done, the chakra in Uchiha Feiyu's body now is only slightly stronger than a Chunin, which is why the increase appears so huge.

The increase in chakra is, to Uchiha Feiyu, only the most superficial benefit of the Possession ability; what can truly allow Uchiha Feiyu to be reborn is the consciousness of Hatake Sakumo himself.

But just as Hatake Sakumo's soul entered Feiyu's body, he felt his vision go black, and a massive amount of negative emotions instantly flowed into his mind!

Depression, collapse, despair, anger, worry...

The White Fang of the Leaf, who died by suicide, was clearly full of resentment; being forced to the point of suicide by some rumors and gossip, this White Fang of the Leaf could, to a certain extent, be considered mentally ill.

If Hatake Sakumo had even a bit of Uchiha blood, he would have awakened the Mangekyo by now and let those Konoha High Command see!

Under the impact of the massive negative emotions, Uchiha Feiyu's eyes turned blood-red, revealing a One-Tomoe Sharingan; the tomoe in the Sharingan rotated continuously, and after the speed reached a certain limit, it instantly split into two tomoe.

In an instant, Uchiha Feiyu felt that the quality and quantity of his own chakra had increased again; at the same time, the world before him became much clearer, and besides the increase in dynamic vision, he could also vaguely see the flow of chakra.

It is just that Uchiha Feiyu had no time to be happy now; he clutched his head for a long time before recovering from Hatake Sakumo's emotional impact.

Having recovered, Uchiha Feiyu did not say a word, closed his eyes, and projected his spirit into the Purple Mansion in his mind.

He saw that in that spiritual world, a figure emitting pitch-black smoke was standing there.

The so-called pitch-black smoke is actually the resentment from when Hatake Sakumo died; like the animal souls Uchiha Feiyu had captured before, because their intelligence was not high, the resentment was just some gray smoke.

But Hatake Sakumo not only had a powerful soul, but he also died full of resentment, so it is no wonder that in the spiritual space, he would turn into this appearance of a great demon king.

But in reality, this resentment had already dissipated by more than half after supporting the evolution of Uchiha Feiyu's Sharingan into two tomoe; in just a short moment, all the black smoke had vanished without a trace.

"I... where is this? The Pure Land?"

"Sorry, Senior Sakumo, you are not heading to the Pure Land now, but are in my spiritual space."

Hearing this slightly familiar voice, Hatake Sakumo hurriedly looked up and happened to see Uchiha Feiyu standing in front of him.

"You are... Kakashi's Uchiha friend? Uchiha Feiyu? This is your spiritual space? You bound my soul?"

A strange expression appeared on Hatake Sakumo's face; he really could not imagine that he would encounter his son's classmate.

In the eyes of this White Fang of the Leaf, Uchiha Feiyu was just an unconventional Uchiha who lacked motivation and had a somewhat clear-headed feeling about the world.

His talent was decent, but because he entered school too late, his strength was just average; no matter how one looked at it, he did not seem like someone who would bind his soul.

"That is indeed the case, Senior Sakumo. It is truly not an easy thing to find a soul as powerful as yours, Senior, so I had no choice but to be offensive."

As he spoke, Uchiha Feiyu flicked his fingers slightly, and Hatake Sakumo could immediately feel a huge sense of restraint coming from his body.

The Eight Extraordinary Techniques of the Under One Person world possess a bug-level priority in their respective fields; in the original work, even those house spirits that had cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years had no power to resist when facing a practitioner of Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding.

When Hatake Sakumo was alive, he would not have needed a second strike to kill Uchiha Feiyu, but after he died and became a soul, Uchiha Feiyu controlling him was just a matter of a single thought.

Of course, Uchiha Feiyu did not truly control Hatake Sakumo; he only revealed that he had such an ability, and then he gave up on continuing to control Hatake Sakumo's soul.

Just like the Reanimation Jutsu, compared to a strictly controlled reanimated body, a reanimated body with self-awareness—even if the hardware conditions are exactly the same—has a huge difference in strength due to software like combat experience and combat will. Uchiha Feiyu naturally hopes to have a Hatake Sakumo with self-awareness to help him.

Even so, Hatake Sakumo could still feel Uchiha Feiyu's ability to restrain him; a bitter smile appeared on his face as he said:

"To think... that even in death, I cannot have peace? Then, Uchiha Feiyu, what exactly do you want by keeping my soul?"

"It's very simple, Senior Hatake Sakumo, I hope to borrow your power!"

"My power..."

"Yes, this Secret Technique of mine can directly borrow the power carried by the souls I control; as long as I have a powerful soul to help, I can easily improve my own strength!"

"Although I can also forcibly control the souls in my hands, by comparison, it is only with your willing cooperation, Senior, that the effect of this Secret Technique can be maximized!"

(End of this chapter)