Looking at Yomi whose head was separated from his body, Yama frowned slightly and muttered to himself, "Is he dead?"
Although Yama doesn't take Yomi very seriously, his performance as the leader of this cult that worships Moryo has been a bit surprising. Even after they were completely eliminated the last time, but within a short period of around two years, they have already developed so much again, such an accomplishment is kind of difficult to achieve for a simple Chunin or low-class Jonin.
Therefore, Yama was a bit doubtful whether this dead body really belonged to Yomi or not?
'A Body Double? No! Then is it some special type of Shadow Clone?' – This thought flashed in Yama's mind.
The task of elimination of this cult is not a bounty task from the Black Market but a task that he took upon himself to repay Miko-Sama's favor, therefore, Yama can't afford to be perfunctory about it and has to take this very seriously.
Using the Tenseigan, he observer Yomi's corpse while looking at the information in the scroll in his hands that was given to him by Miko-Sama.
This scroll recorded a lot of information about Yomi and after multiple comparisons with the image in the scroll, Yama confirmed that the body lying before him indeed belonged to Yomi.
Finally, he glanced at the corpse to check for any Chakra reaction that might still be left but found nothing which clearly indicated that Yomi was indeed dead.
With that confirmed he thoroughly searched the entire stronghold and even after the complete elimination of the cult, Kuroto didn't find much money.
As expected, they really did store all their money in some secret place or maybe in their Black-Market Vault.
Thinking that he couldn't find any money here, Yama could only sigh helplessly.
The problem of money has been giving him a headache for quite a while.
The Water Clone creation experiment that he has carried out has consumed much of his resources, with Nutrient Solution almost out of stock, along with some other medicinal material that would soon be finished, so he must do everything he can; to get all money he needs to continue with the experiments.
Shaking his head in disappointment, Yama flickered and disappeared from the base; leaving a strange silence at the base.
If not for all the corpses still lying here, nobody would have guessed that there was a massacre in here just a few moments ago.
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High in the sky.
Hiruko, wearing a high collar black cloak with red clouds on it stood quietly on a large bird, staring into the distance with a clod gaze.
On the side, Shinno sat in a cross-legged position wearing a similar high collar black cloak with red clouds on it and asked calmly, "Did you use that forbidden technique on this Summon Beast?"
The corner of Hiruko's mouth curved and he spoke arrogantly, "What do you think of my masterpiece?"
Shinno smiled, "With this, the traveling has indeed become convenient!"
Hiruko seemed to be happy with Shinno's compliment and snorted with a triumphant look, "This is a synthetic beast I cultivated using a forbidden technique!"
Shinno's eyes flickered and he nodded in admiration, "The forbidden technique you have developed is really amazing!"
Hiruko nodded and immediately asked, "Is the guy we are looking for really as useful as you said?"
Shinno put away his smile and turned serious, "To be honest, that guy isn't very strong, in fact, his personal strength is just average, but the 'The Dark Medical Ninjutsu' he has mastered is extremely useful for both you and me!"
Shinno, who has been traveling in the Shinobi World for over a decade now; has obviously discovered many secrets of the Shinobi World by virtue of his own talent and zeal, and Yomi's 'Dark Medical Ninjutsu' is one of those secret techniques, especially because he too is a Medical Nin, therefore, he is especially aware of the Medical branch.
However, even if he knew of these many secrets, he didn't have much energy to focus on these techniques while preparing to carry out his plan because of being a solo person.
But now that he has joined the Akatsuki Organization, Shinno discovered that with the help of the Akatsuki, many of his plans that he thought he couldn't implement before are now being carried out very smoothly.
This is why he had enough time to search for Yomi's traces and look into the Dark Medical Ninjutsu.
And because of Shinno constantly advocating the Dark Medical Ninjutsu to be extremely useful, even Hiruko has become a bit interested in it.
Hiruko also knows that the Chimera Technique is quite overbearing for the physical body of a shinobi during the fusion process, therefore the caster has to bear an unusually high burden and undergo many synthetic body modifications, to become suitable for the Chimera Technique.
This is because, theoretically, a person can't carry the burden of the Chimera Technique, therefore, the Dark Medical Ninjutsu that Shinno has explained to Hiruko has piqued his interest quite a lot.
And here they are in the Land of Demon, searching for the person who is said to have mastered the Dark Medical Ninjutsu to an unusually high degree.
Before long, the flying beast landed in the stronghold where Yomi should be, as per the information they have collected.
Jumping off the beast's back, Hiruko looked around and said, "It appears that we are a step late!"
From the outside, everything looked normal, but there was a heavy stench of blood permeating the air, clearly telling a tale of some massacre.
Shinno had a gloomy face, "Damn it, who did it?"
The two nodded to each other and walked inside the cave building, on the way, they could see all the corpses lying all over the place, the more inside they go, the thicker the stench.
Not paying much mind to all the corpses, the two observed them and moved on towards the main hall only to find that the said leader of this cult, 'Yomi' too was lying in cold blood with his head separated from his torso.
Hiruko checked his state and said, "Like all the previous ones, cut off by a Kunai, Clean and neat, no use of any extra moves!"
Shinno too nodded in agreement after checking the state, "It seems that the attacker is very strong, this guy couldn't even put up a resistance and suffered heavily!"
Whether it is Shinno or Hiruko, both of them have very high attainment in the study of human anatomy and gross anatomy, and some extent of histology, so just from a rough look; they concluded the process of all the deaths and the strength of the person responsible for this massacre.
The more concerning fact is that all the corpses lying here were dressed similarly, and the method of killing every individual was also the same, that is to say, this wasn't the work of some organization or any team, but only one person was responsible for the said massacre.
However, that didn't cause them to feel sad for the killed, both were sort of disappointed that coming here turned out to be a waste of time.
While Hiruko was busy thinking somethings, Shinno picked up Yomi's head and attached it to Yomi's torso.
Hiruko was confused by this meaningless action and asked with a frown, "What are you doing?"
Shinno just smiled and said, "Well, I want to try something, and see if that's useful!"
"What are you going to do, there are clearly no signs of life in his body?" – Hiruko.
"You think so? Maybe that's indeed the case, but there is no harm in trying once, right? Besides even if he is dead, we can just take his corpse and Sasori could use it as a puppet or we can just give it to the leader Pain, and see if he can do something about him!" – with that said, Shinno used the Forbidden technique of Physical regeneration on Yomi's body, while Hiruko carefully observed Yomi.
Under the effect of the forbidden Jutsu used by Shinno, the head was again reattached to the torso, soon the heart began to pump the blood, pulse returned to normal, the chest began to expand and contract and the air began to flow through the nostrils, clearly indicating all the signs of being alive.
"Phew…" – As soon as he was conscious again, Yomi exhaled a breath of relief.
Hiruko looked at the entire process of Yomi's said, 'Ressurection from the Death' with interest and asked, "Are you Yomi?"
Yomi, who has just regained consciousness looked at Hiruko and Shinno with vigilance and asked alertly, "Who are you?"
Previously, the momentum Yama displayed was very strong, and as soon as he flickered next to Yomi, Yomi realized that he wouldn't be able to defeat or escape that monster, so at the last moment, just before he lost his head, he activated the most secret technique of the Dark medical Ninjutsu, known as the 'The Art of Fake Death,' however, because, Yomi didn't have Moryo's chakra with him, so it took a bit of time to initialize and before he could complete it, he was already in a death state.
'The Art of Fake Death' is one of the most mysterious forbidden secret techniques of the Dark Medical Ninjutsu that erases all the vital signs of the caster and the body enters a suspended state, and as long as the body isn't destroyed it would recover sooner or later.
The period of resurrection is of course quite long and may even take a few months, depends upon the mastery of the caster and his chakra level at the time of casting.
And because Yomi himself doesn't have very high Chakra Volume, so it would have taken him quite a lot of time to be back to life, and that too only if the technique was successfully cast, which was obviously not the case here because his head was already separated from his torso before he could complete the final step.
This is why Yomi was almost dead, after all, no matter how miraculous a Jutsu may be, one can't be brought back to life if his body has already been destroyed.
Therefore, if not for the coincidental arrival of Hiruko and Shinno, that helped him here, the false death would have become a real death.
But no matter how grateful Yomi may have been to the two individuals before him, he was still very vigilant of them because of nearly experiencing death.
Noticing Yomi's vigilant look, Hiruko said coldly, "Hand over the Dark Medical Ninjutsu, we might consider letting you leave!"
Since he was still in a weak state, so Yomi didn't try putting up any resistance and immediately nodded, "Okay, I will teach you Dark Medical Ninjutsu, but in return, you must ensure my safety!"
Shinno asked curiously: "Who was responsible for the massacre here?"
When he thought of the figure with the black full-body cloak and a black evil spirit mask, coupled with that cold and indifferent tone, Yomi couldn't help but shudder and said with a panic, "He… he is a demon!"
Hiruko raised his eyebrow and said condescendingly, "Huh…What demon? Just some guy pretending to be a ghost! Say what is his name? Will he be capable of fighting the 'God'?"
Yomi blankly looked at the two and muttered in a low voice, "H-his name i-is Y-Y-Yama!"
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