Different ways to beat Edo Tensei

Summary

• Close your souls to stop Zombie ninjas in Edo Tensei.

• Communicate and close your free souls.

• Use Genjutsu to control the user and release EDO Tensei.

Invocing: the unclean world reincarnation, more often known as Edo Tensei, is one of the most fascinating and dangerous jutsu in Naruto. This jutsu allows its users to temporarily resurrect and control dead people. This Jutsu was developed by the second hocage, Tobirama Senja, and improved Orochimar and Kabuto.

Kabuto uses this jutsu to bring back the powerful ninjy from the grave to fight for his party during the 4. Great Ninja War. Although it in itself is already very impressive, the biggest thing about Edo Tensei is the fact that it is relatively easy to perform Jutsu and will continue to be active until the user personally releases Jutsu. This means that the user's killing will not stop Edo Tensei. So there is no way to stop Edo Tensei? As it turned out, there are several ways to face this jutsu.

Violent removal of the soul from the body

Seal your soul, stop zombies

The easiest way to deal with the 4th big problem of infesting the Great War Ninja War is the sealed their souls. Edo Tensei is at his core simply Jutsu, who ties the soul of a dead person into the body of a living person. This means that if you can seal their soul, the body will also stop working immediately.

This is the solution that the third hocage used during the invasion of Orochimar into Konoha, when Orochimaru summoned the three previous hocage to fight for him. At that time, the third hocage was sacrificed and used what the dead demon consumed the seal, the strongest sealing of the Uzumaki jutsu to seal the souls of the previous hocages. Similarly, Itachi also uses his blade totsuka to seal the Nagato's soul.

Because this is the most reliable solution against the Kabut zombie, the Ninja Alliance creates a sealing group and assigns its members to each team fighting on the first line. Needless to say, before you can seal them, you must first stop them, which is extremely difficult against these top zombies of the Ninjas. But once you can skip over this obstacle, it should not be difficult to seal zombies. Therefore, the sealing group is undoubtedly unknown heroes 4. The Great Ninja War.

“It's totsuka Blade. You will soon be closed. Any last words? ”

—Itachi Uchiha, chapter 551

The closure of the soul

Let the soul go to the afterlife

Another way to face Edo Tensei is to really speak with reincarnated ninjy and give them some closure. The reincarnated ninja has no control of his actions, but if Kabuto intentionally does not close his mind, these ninja zombies can think and communicate just like a living person. In fact, they still retain their memories and personalities.

But like all warriors who fell on the battlefield, they have guilty and regret that tied their souls to the world of life. By talking to them and giving them some proper closure, their hearts can give up those feelings of guilt and regret behind them, allowing them to pass on the afterlife in peace.

The best example is when Sasori speaks to Kankur. It helps Sasori to realize that the way to achieve true immortality is through the puppets and the technique he has passed on to the next generation. As long as his techniques and his puppets are still used, Sasori's name will live forever. Thanks to Kankurou's words, Sasori finally receives the right closure and is ready to go to the afterlife. This strong feeling interrupted Kabutoin's binding to his soul and emphatically released Edo Tensei.

“Your art, the puppets you created will live forever. As long as the future generations of puppet lords will inherit the soul that lives in them!”

Using Genjutsu to urge the user to release edo tensei

Control users, control Jutsu

As mentioned earlier, only the user can fully release EDO time and send the soul back to the underworld. This means that if a user dies before he gets a chance to release Jutsu, Edo Tensei will be active forever. Because there is no way to voluntarily relax their largest weapon, an obvious solution is to control Kabo through Genjuts and make him release Jutsu.

This is exactly what Iitachi intends to do when he fights the Kabut at the end of 4. The Great Ninja War. Unfortunately, Kabuto's sage regime allows him to move and fight without having to open his eyes, making Itachi Sharingan unnecessary. Or at least Kabuto thinks.

In the midst of their struggle, Itachi activates one of the Uchihu clan forbidden Jutsu, Izanami. Izanami captures Kabut's mind in a loop that makes his body still. Now that Kabuto has lost access to his body, Itachi simply uses Sharingan on Kabuto and tells him to release Edo Tensei. And so the battlefield is finally liberated from Zombie Ninjů.

“I will be trapped, so it is easier for me to throw my usual genjutsu on him. Now I'll stop Edo Tensei Jutsu. ”

—Itachi Uchiha, chapter 587

Using Genjutsu to overwrite user commands

Takeover check from the user

As mentioned above, Kabuto can fully control the movement of zombies while still thinking and free to communicate with others. In this state, the only thing that prevents them from going or attacking Kabuta, a talisman who puts them into their bodies. Think about it as a new set of rules and commands that they must follow no matter what.

So technically, if you can somehow rewrite these rules and commands, you can break zombies without Kabuto. And that's exactly what Itachi did. He redraws Kabuto Talisman with a new command using Mangeyou Sharingan Uchiha Shisui. This legendary sharing activates Genjutsu, which forces Itachi to protect Konoha. This makes itachi without Kabuto. Although this method seems quite simple, only a powerful Genjutsu, such as Shishui's Mangekyou Sharingan, can pull out such performance.

“Easy, I'm no longer controlled. I used a new genjutsu against the enemy of Jutsu. Edo Tensei is returned. ”

—Itachi Uchiha, chapter 550

The revived corpse will cancel the contract

Work only if you are Uchiha Madar

Last but not least, the method that is equally crazy, not if the use of Shishui's mangoes Sharingan. This method allows the zombies itself to reduce Kabut's control and gain their independence. The only one who can pull this incredible trick is none other than Madar.

According to Madary, if one knows the signs of weaving and the method for Edo Tensei, then the reincarnated ninja can interrupt the contract from their end. And that's exactly what he did. In fact, it is a method that allows Zombie Madar to stay in the human empire even after Kabuto released Edo Tensei. As already mentioned, given that even the second hocage, the one who created Edo Tensei could not pull it, probably more than Madara released.

“As long as one knows that the sign to weave can actually revive the dead person to cancel the summons of Edo Tensei from their end.”

—Madara Uchiha, Chapter 591

Itachi once said that every jutsu had a weakness. No matter how powerful or complex it can be, if you carefully analyze it, there will always be a gap that you can use. The same can be said of the seemingly undeveloped Edo Tensei. Certainly, some of the above methods can only be performed by some people or rely strongly on certain conditions, but this does not change the fact that there are five different methods that can be used to interrupt EDO Tensei.

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