With the Gobi away from the battlefield, Ryo killed a few of the Hidden Rock’s Ninjas, before using [Summoning] to bring Gamahiro to the battlefield.
With the warrior toad on their side, the Sand Ninjas who already had the advantage of the battlefield found themselves having a great edge over their opponents, and soon, the Rock Ninjas were defeated.
There was another battle however, one taking place in midair between the Rasa and Onoki. Like everyti, the Kazekage was the one losing, but Onoki’s face showed so pain. Rasa did manage to take him off guard at so point, and he could hit his vulnerable back this ti around.
Upon looking down, Onoki’s face showed even more pain at the sight of his troops being crushed! Looking around, he did not find the Gobi. When noticing that, he was shocked, and ordered his troops to retreat.
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In the Rock’s camp, Onoki’s face was gloomy, as he had just received news from his troops about the Gobi being frozen by Ryo and sent sowhere unknown.
“How co Ryo Yamanaka is here? How about the Hidden Cloud? Did we get no news from them?” Onoki was in rage!
“Tsuchikage sama, I think we have been deceived by the Hidden Cloud, and that they left us on our own, not informing us of their defeat. I believe they would want us to suffer more loses just like they did at the hands of Konoha!” said a Rock Jonin.
“Those bastards! We’ve lost this ti, and we could only retreat!” said Onoki helplessly.
“But, Tsuchikage sama, what should we do about Han?”
“We’ll send a few tracking Ninjas around to try to locate him. But for now, we must retreat. Otherwise, if the rest of Konoha follows Ryo Yamanaka, we might not walk out of this battlefield alive.”
“Yes, Tsuchikage sama. I will imdiately inform the troops.”
After the Jonin left, Onoki sat on the ground and sighed: “It seems that I have really gotten too old!”
In the afternoon, the Hidden Rock began to retreat. Upon receiving the news, Ryo promised Rasa of giving the Sand a part of the Cloud’s compensations as expression of Konoha’s gratitude.
Now that all threats were gone, the Sand had no more reasons to stay in the desert. The next morning, Rasa took his troops back to the Sand Village.
Pakura however, joined Ryo, along with the 1,000 Ninjas platoon and his dical team that arrived late to the battlefield. All went back to Konoha, and she was with them as representative of the Sand to receive their share of the compensations.
After reaching the village, Ryo took her with him to directly et Sakumo. There, he imdiately proposed to give the Sand a share, and Sakumo, who was already glad that the village ca out of this ordeal relatively unscathed, agreed imdiately. Ryo proposal was to actually benefit Konoha, as it would solidify its relationship with the hidden Sand.
When hearing Sakumo’s response, Pakura was also overjoyed, as this should greatly benefit her village as well.
Over the course of the next few days, Ryo took Pakura around the Fire Country to have so good fun until the reception of the Cloud’s compensations was completed.
The fun ca to an end however, when Sakumo finished dividing the compensations, and dispatched a small Anbu team to accompany Pakura to the Sand and deliver their share to Rasa.
This whole deal took over half a month, and Ryo did not sense the ti passing. By now, Orochimaru should have already completed making Yahiko’s clone.
Upon rembering this, Ryo teleported to the Sound Country. When he entered the lab, he saw Yahiko lying on a bed.
“Ryo kun, you ca right in ti! I’ve just finished making this clone!”
Upon examining the clone, Ryo was very satisfied.
“Ryo kun, if I rember correctly, this kid should be the one from the Rain Country, one of that idiot’s three disciples he had there!”
“It is him indeed! I didn’t expect that you would rember him after so many years Orochi san!”
“I just felt he was familiar. Well, Ryo kun, we should start experinting!”
Ryo nodded, and his consciousness entered the Ice World.
Yahiko had been sleeping in his igloo for over four years now. After Ryo awakened his soul, he found that his last mories were of the day on which he fell asleep.
After giving Yahiko a brief explanation of the situation, Ryo taught him the secret of Orochimaru’s [Living Corpse Reincarnation].
The technique, while hard to co up with, wasn’t complicated in concept. However, it required a great level of control over one’s soul. Nevertheless, with Yahiko remaining in soul state for so long, this was no problem for him.
Therefore, he quickly mastered this technique.
The next step was the most important: Yahiko had to use Living Corpse Reincarnation to control his soul into his new body.
Yahiko was already dead; his soul could be preserved in the Ice World, but Ryo feared that sothing might happen to it as soon as he went outside.
Therefore, he specially reminded him of using the technique as soon as he reached the outside world. Seeing the serious expression on Ryo’s face, Yahiko solemnly nodded.
After taking a deep breath, Ryo took Yahiko’s soul out of the Ice World.
When out, Ryo lent so of his Chakra to Yahiko, which allowed him to use Living Corpse Reincarnation, and control his soul into the clone safely.
The clone was identical to Yahiko’s original body, which made it have an affinity to his soul. Very quickly his soul was rged with the new body, and the clone which had its eyes closed was finally awakened!
However, just like Ryo feared, there was sothing wrong! Although Yahiko’s soul was integrated with his new body, he couldn’t control it at all. Besides opening and closing his eyes, he couldn’t even move a finger.
Imdiately, Ryo began to examine Yahiko with his Mangekyo, just to find nothing wrong with his body’s neural system.
Ryo then established a telepathic link with him and asked: “Yahiko, how do you feel now?”
“I can feel my body, but I can’t control it!”
After so though, Ryo condensed an Ice Scalpel saying: “Yahiko, I’ll be conducting so experints on you, and you tell how you feel!”
After finishing his words, Ryo proceeded to cutting the skin on Yahiko’s hand!
“It hurts! Ryo, you’re cutting too deep!” Yahiko imdiately complained.
“Too much! Sorry, sorry!” Ryo turned the Ice Scalpel into a small ice hamr and very gently tapped Yahiko’s knee.
“I feel no pain!” As he said that, Yahiko kicked forward.
Ryo stopped the experint and he frowned. Yahiko’s senses and reflexes were normal. Why wouldn’t he be able to control his body?
“Ryo, could it be that this body is too old for my soul?”
“Too old? What do you an?” Ryo asked.
“Well, yeah! I have been dead for four years, and this body seems to be over 20 years old. I wasn’t that old when I died. Could that be the reason?”
Yahiko’s words made Ryo realize: Yahiko’s soul’s age, or in other words, his spiritual power, was not enough.
He had been relying on Ryo’s Ice World to maintain his existence for so long. Perhaps the whole deal was lack in Spiritual Power.
Ryo called Korin, and the two together supplented Yahiko’s soul with Spiritual Power.
Obviously, she was sowhat dissatisfied with this, as her power was being harvested by one person after the other, and she grew uncomfortable with giving it away.
However, looking at the anxious look on Ryo’s face, she could only cooperate with him.
With their help, Yahiko’s Spiritual Power gradually grew, and he slowly beca able of controlling his body.
After his hands and feet beca flexible, Ryo and Korin stopped the process...
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