Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-1458758-20171229124917/@comment-734582-20180101171026

Hawkeye2701 wrote: Well I'm not actually sure the extent by which the Six Path techniques and the Rinnegan are interconnected. Well, i've spent some time trying to find answers there and there aren't many straightforward ones. But the control over the Paths, while done via the Receivers, was likened to the Yamanaka clan technique. So there's that. It seems to me that Nagato, to some degree, used the Rinnegan to learn and improve on existing techniques to make the paths. Hawkeye2701 wrote: Anyway, while I would really like to dive in depth with this, it is rather straying from the topic, so let's at least try and keep it steered towards Ao and his relationship with Kara and Ninja Tech. Well, like i said, the Ashura path body would be a source of advanced technology for Konoha.

Although the Kote isn't based on Preta Path. Rather, it uses Minato's barrier seal in a more industrial manner.