After returning to Sunagakure, Shiraishi entrusted Kikyo to Unohana Retsu's care, allowing her to become familiar with this era first.
Compared to Ace and Unohana Retsu, the era Kikyo came from was somewhat out of touch with the current Sunagakure, which was practically a semi-technological metropolis; thus, Kikyo needed to adapt first.
As for Kikyo's future arrangements, she would naturally head to Sunagakure's Sealing Team and Barrier Team. Having such a heavyweight grandmaster of seals and barriers could make up for Sunagakure's shortcomings in the sealing and barrier department.
Due to her unstable state, Kikyo was resting with her eyes closed to adjust her spiritual energy.
Fortunately, her soul was completely intact now, so there was no immediate need to summon the Soul Collectors to forage for dead souls to replenish herself.
However, to maintain the duration of the Impure World Reincarnation, Kikyo would still need to collect a certain amount of dead souls in the future.
"To completely resurrect Kikyo, the Gedo Art: Rinne Rebirth must be used."
The ultimate resurrection technique of the Rinnegan was, as far as Shiraishi knew, the highest level of resurrection ninjutsu to date. It was a forbidden jutsu of the Sage of Six Paths—an Ultra-S-rank forbidden jutsu that only an owner of the Rinnegan could utilize.
By forming the Snake seal for a few seconds using this technique, the light of rebirth would radiate around the deceased target and resurrect them.
This jutsu did not require a living human sacrifice like the Impure World Reincarnation, and once the deceased was resurrected, they would have flesh, blood, and consciousness just like when they were alive.
When a large number of the deceased needed to be resurrected, the caster could summon the King of Hell from the underworld to the mortal realm, releasing the souls of the dead from its mouth to bring them back to life. The price for utilizing this ninjutsu was the caster's life.
In the original history, Obito, who used this move, temporarily escaped death because he had been the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, was possessed by Black Zetsu, and possessed Hashirama's cells, which prolonged his life.
Furthermore, according to Sakura, he was already beyond saving at that point, showing that it would inevitably lead to death.
Otsutsuki Ryushiki, who had previously appeared at the base and launched a sneak attack, similarly possessed the Rinnegan. Therefore, Shiraishi was naturally calculating the feasibility of a plan to capture Otsutsuki Ryushiki.
Upon hearing about the Rinne Rebirth Technique, Unohana Retsu naturally shared the same thought as Shiraishi: "Will he still bite the bait?"
"The thing he values is nothing more than the power of the Chakra Fruit. I'm afraid we are bound to encounter him again in the future regarding this point."
The two sides were inherently in conflict and opposition. Even if Shiraishi didn't go looking for him, Otsutsuki Ryushiki would appear once more.
As the two chatted, the aura on Kikyo's body gradually stabilized. She cast a curious glance toward Shiraishi's direction but didn't say much.
Seeing Kikyo so quiet, Shiraishi nodded: "Sister Hana, I'll trouble you with this then."
"Hehe, I will take good care of her, but there are still some things you need to pay attention to."
The smiling Unohana Retsu's tone gradually grew serious: "The way you get along with this newly arrived priestess must be different from how you interact with me and Ace, after all. You cannot deceive her too much."
Kikyo was, plainly speaking, a pure-hearted priestess whose thoughts were not complicated, but that did not mean she was a fool.
If she was fooled too much and found out, Shiraishi might be the one suffering the consequences in the end.
As an old monster who had lived for an unknown number of years, Unohana Retsu, under normal circumstances, possessed experiences far richer than Shiraishi's. Thus, she could judge what kind of person Kikyo was at a single glance.
"Yes, I understand and will pay close attention in the future. Kikyo is, after all, an Onmyouji with a very strong sense of responsibility."
To put it bluntly, he himself was built on the template of a major villain boss, yet he insisted on roping in a priestess brimming with a sense of justice.
If it weren't for the fact that Kikyo saw Shiraishi had saved her and didn't consider him a thoroughly evil person, she would have long loosed a Sacred Arrow to purge him.
As for those speeches about ending the chaotic era, hehe...
Those who aspired to unify a chaotic era were generally ambitious, formidable figures—how could they be purely righteous individuals?
They were inherently two different types of people who just couldn't mix smoothly.
After casting a deep look at Shiraishi, Unohana Retsu led Kikyo, who was still resting with her eyes closed, away from Shiraishi's line of sight.
Next up was unlocking the card...
The golden card that Unohana Retsu had snatched from Otsutsuki Ryushiki took twice as long to unlock compared to ordinary golden cards. Therefore, only after Shiraishi finished explaining various matters to Unohana Retsu and Kikyo did the card successfully unlock.
This was clearly somewhat incredible, and what was even more incredible was that this golden card had not completely turned into scrap metal; on the contrary, it still remained intact in Shiraishi's hand.
Psychic-type Skill: Photon Geyser!
It condensed one's own mental power into a pillar of light. The moment the pillar of light launched its attack, it would negate the target's ability.
This was similar to Core Enforcer, but the key lay in the fact that this move would adjust its damage based on the opponent's defensive stats.
If their physical defense was high, Photon Geyser would deal special damage; if their special defense was high, Photon Geyser would deal physical damage instead.
The Glasses System's explanation of this move was in a semi-blurred state. It was very obvious that, compared to other skill cards, the mastery and utilization of Photon Geyser were still in a semi-developed stage.
Even the video tutorial merely elaborated briefly on the principles. Compared to ordinary skill cards that required a localized seal sequence and method after modification, the introduction of Photon Geyser was remarkably rudimentary.
Perhaps the Glasses System itself had not fully mastered the move Photon Geyser...
The most critical part was that upon this successful unlock, this card did not directly turn into scrap metal like ordinary cards normally did, but retained its original appearance.
Gripping this unique golden card before him, Shiraishi clearly felt that along with the successful unlock, a trace of unique energy fluctuations was gradually generating inside the golden skill card.
Did the skill card still hide other secrets?
As the round pupils of Shiraishi's eyes flared with light, combining his own telekinesis to investigate the golden skill card thoroughly, a burst of unique dark light suddenly erupted from the card, enveloping Shiraishi's entire body.
An illusion?
Inside a unique illusory world of consciousness, Shiraishi found himself within a bizarre, dark realm...
Suddenly, the light of a cross-star illuminated this dark world. Sensing danger, Shiraishi rapidly retreated. In the process, countless light particles condensed into a pillar of light and crashed down.
A pillar of light?
Is this Photon Geyser?
Unlike the video simulations of ordinary skill cards, was this a real combat illusion within his consciousness?
Thinking of this, the Ancient Crane Sage Seal condensed in Shiraishi's hand. The moment it successfully blocked the Photon Geyser, a terrifying dragon roar erupted from the heavens.
Looking at the crack in the sky, a pair of terrifying eyes stared down at Shiraishi while pitch-black particle light projected across the realm.
Its massive hands possessed three claws, with a white crystal protruding from the back of each hand. Its small legs bent backward, each having three toes. On its shoulders sat a pair of small, hook-shaped wings.
As the golden light particles shone, the colossal dragon beast—which looked holy on the surface—actually radiated an extremely violent and bloody aura all around it.
"I always feel like the original master of the Glasses System didn't have a very good relationship with this monster that mastered Photon Geyser."
Before Shiraishi could finish complaining, he saw the monster in front of him blast an astonishing laser light, as if it wanted to rip this entire world apart!
The massive protrusion connected to the head of the ferocious beast before him was actually its tail.
When absorbing light, the deep gray star symbol at the tip of its tail would light up. Its dragon-shaped head grew spikes on the sides and the top of its tail.
While the light illuminated this world, the symbol on its tail-head shone exceptionally bright, indicating that it was transforming the light it had just devoured into attacking energy!
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