

Uchiha Madara's plan A for his revival was to make Uzumaki Nagato use
Rinnegan's revival jutsu (Gedo Rinnei Tensei no Jutsu). However, when Nagato
used this jutsu to revive everyone in Konoha, he mentioned that he cannot
revive everyone. He can only revive those that only recently killed as shown
in the picture below.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zs4Hc.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zs4Hc.jpg)

Another version of the translation is more clear in that there is a time limit
to how long someone can die before he is brought back to life using this
jutsu.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZBVA7.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZBVA7.jpg)

Which means that if one died long time ago, it would be impossible to brought
back using this jutsu. This also fits the fact that he didn't use the jutsu to
revive Yahiko. Because he can't.

After he used it, everyone was revived to the state right before they died.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dPYdV.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dPYdV.jpg)

Madara died of old age. If Nagato revived him using that jutsu, wouldn't
Madara be revived as the old Madara that's about to die? Is this a miss on
Madara's part? What is the logic behind Madara's revival plan? Why do Madara
think that his plan A is a perfect plan (or the better plan), as shown when he
complained to Obito about being brought back to life using Edo Tensei?


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What is the logic behind Madara's plan A for his revival?


On the [wiki
page](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_Path_%E2%80%94_Samsara_of_Heavenly_Life_Technique)
they say

> The deceased individuals' souls may be recalled from even the crossroad
> between life and the afterlife, returning to their **rejuvenated** bodies.

So Madara could have been revived with his young body


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The complete limits of the Rinnegan have never been shown. Nagato did not
actually say he could only revive the recently dead, just that he was not too
late to revive Konoha. The best guess is that it takes more chakra to revive
someone who has been dead a long time, and Nagato was very low on chakra after
his fight with the village and Naruto. He consumed all of his remaining chakra
when he used Rinne Rebirth and died because of lack of chakra. The full limits
of rebirth were never actually given and the jutsu was only used twice in very
different circumstances. When the King of Hell was used to revive the Asura
Path (mechanical) when it was in pieces, it was put back together.

Edit: Also note, Obito used the jutsu and had all 9 Tailed Beasts extracted
from him in less than an hour, but still survived and was able to fight not
long after that.

Also, I do not know how to link images, but if I did, I would post one that
should be on the same chapter as the first ones you linked, a few pages
earlier, which has Konan specifically talking to Nagato, saying something
about using the Rinne Rebirth jutsu at his current chakra levels. The specific
words are based on the translation, but they all heavily imply that he did not
have enough chakra to both use Rinne Rebirth and live. We know chakra
exhaustion will kill a Shinobi directly from Kakashi, who used Kamui and
exhausted his charka. He still lived after that for at least a few panels to
accept his coming death before he actually died. Nagato had just fought an
entire village almost alone, then blew it up, and then fought the Nine Tails
and barely lost. He for certain had used up a massive amount of chakra, and
reviving tens of thousands of people probably costs a ton of chakra as well.
He was still alive after the jutsu was done for a little bit before his death,
same as Kakashi.


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