Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3568954-20160718112245/@comment-4912646-20160719082031

Omnibender wrote: Hidan's immortality does not require him to perform the rituals regularly. The one thing he needs to remain alive is nutrition, he can be starved to death. This is literally the first sentence on the immortality section of the ability section in his article. He was still considered to be alive by the time of the Fourth Shinobi World War. It's unfortunate, because Hidan maintaining his immortality through ritualistic killing would've been a way better explanation than "he's slowly dying from lack of nutrition" when the man's been buried underground with no means of eating for months and yet apparently hasn't died by the war. Does anybody know where that whole thing about him killing to extend his life came from in the first place? Was it just inferred from that line mentioned above, or was it a fake translation of Sha no Sho or something? I remember reading that somewhere way back when that databook was relatively new, and it was a common misconception for a while, alongside stuff like Itachi transferring his Mangekyō powers to Sasuke.