My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 177

[Year 11]

You spent a long time studying scientific knowledge and experimental techniques with Orochimaru.

However, your greatest gains were not the powerful experimental results, but Orochimaru’s inquisitive and questioning investigative mindset, and his endless innovative drive.

This reignited the vitality in your heart, which had been pursuing strength and becoming stronger, and had even begun to feel a bit lost.

After a period of time, you suddenly had an inspiration: to leave this place temporarily.

You went alone to the ruins of Rouran in the Land of Wind, found the Flying Thunder God kunai that Minato Namikaze had left behind, and successfully unsealed the Dragon Vein. Facing this strange natural creation, you felt even smaller than an ant.

If the power of the Dragon Vein could be fully unleashed, it would be incomparable even to the power of the Ten-Tails!

Even with Ōtsutsuki bloodline, even with two rule powers!

But the more powerful it was, the more you understood the power it contained!

The power of the Dragon Vein compelled you to bow down and revere it!

Even the power of space-time was merely a puzzle piece within this power, neither too much nor too little…

It truly was worthy of being the creation that could nurture the fruit of the God Tree.

You couldn’t imagine what kind of immense power the Dragon Vein in the ancient era of the ninja world, before it was absorbed by the God Tree, truly contained.

If the story the Evil God told you was true, then it was not strange for the ancient ninja world to have given birth to gods!

On the contrary, this incredibly powerful Dragon Vein and the ninja world were the truly strange creations in nature!

Of course, you came here not to travel through time.

Because the more one possessed rule power and the more sensitive one’s perception, the more one would know how powerful and unstable the space-time power within was!

A slight oversight could lead to being torn to shreds by space-time power, or even reduced to dust.

Even though your physique and spirit had been tempered by rules and had long since transcended the mortal dimension, the rule power contained within the Dragon Vein was incredibly complex and violent.

Such a traversal was merely a stroke of luck favored by destiny…

You didn’t want to gamble on being that lucky one…

You came here to utilize the extremely abundant natural energy to synthesize the Dust Release kekkei tōta and integrate it into your body.

This would allow your strength to advance further.

Although it still couldn’t reach the level of kekkei mōra, obtaining a kekkei tōta would also bring significant improvements to your physique.

According to this deduction, the improvements brought by kekkei mōra would only be greater!

As you drank the accumulated bloodline essence in your hand, the completely different attributes of wind, fire, and earth rapidly fused with the help of the extremely abundant chakra and the large amount of natural energy absorbed from the outside world…

The Dragon Vein outside also became extremely violent, continuously spewing out natural energy, which then transformed into nourishment for your bloodline evolution, integrating into the newly formed kekkei tōta!

Gusts of massive dust storms were raised by the aftershocks of your bloodline evolution and the impact of natural energy. However, as the two canceled each other out, there were no other major disturbances besides the dust storms…

Although a large amount of natural energy was absorbed during this process, this amount of natural energy was negligible for you, who possessed an Ōtsutsuki body and had your physique tempered by rule power.

Not only did it not cause side effects such as petrification or mutation, but it could also be converted into chakra with just a little more time.

Moreover, you had a red and white energy orb inside your body as a safeguard, condensed from the chakra of the nine Tailed Beasts.

Once natural energy went out of control, it could simulate the God Tree, instantly absorbing and converting natural energy to replenish itself!

As the fierce wind dissipated, you successfully fused the three attribute powers, obtaining the kekkei tōta named Dust Release. You opened your eyes, gently waved your hand, and erased whatever it touched.

You could unleash it from your mouth like Wind Release, turning everything in its path to dust!

You could also create a Dust Release barrier like Earth Release, completely nullifying long-range attacks!

Furthermore, you could activate it out of thin air with just focused eye power, like Amaterasu!

It was far stronger than ordinary Dust Release.

If the complexity of the rule imprints within it was not enough to give birth to divine power, it was still not much different from a Truth-Seeking Orb!

With a thought, nine grayish-white translucent spheres naturally floated out from behind you.

Then, you condensed a much larger fireball with Scorch Release, hanging it directly behind your body. The nine “Truth-Seeking Orbs” formed by Dust Release orbited this incredibly hot “Great Sun” like planets.

Your body also flew into the air with Magnet Release, soaring several circles in mid-air before finally stopping.

Whether it was a Truth-Seeking Orb or not didn’t matter; being cool was for life!

You were just fourteen years old this year, at the prime of your youth. How could a young person not be spirited!

Of course, the improvement brought by integrating Dust Release was also immense.

Not to mention the power that could turn everything into ashes, this overlapped with your Scorch Release ability derived from the rule of fire.

The only two differences were that Dust Release had no high temperature and its cutting was more precise. Whereas Scorch Release was a change in rules and could directly clash with Truth-Seeking Orbs!

The biggest improvement was in your physical strength. After integrating Dust Release, your physical abilities further improved.

If you had to find a reference point, it was gaining the equivalent of one more gate of power than before.

In simple terms, you had previously trained yourself to the point of being able to open the Fifth Gate by converting genjutsu and reality in the nascent divine domain using Tsukuyomi and Fugaku.

At that level, you could fly by rapidly stepping on the air or unleash air punches with just your physical body.

Now, you could do all of that by only opening the Fourth Gate!

And after opening the Fifth Gate, you could even push your pure physical strength close to that of Eight Gates Guy!

In fact, at this point, physical strength was far more important than mastering some ninjutsu.

This was also why you spent time acquiring a kekkei tōta, even though you knew it was impossible to obtain kekkei mōra in a short time, or even before this death…

After completing Dust Release and gaining physical improvements, you returned to Orochimaru’s base.

Soon after, you received a reply from Ryūchi Cave from Orochimaru.

The letter was personally written by the White Snake Sage.

It stated that she had not seen anyone from the Ōtsutsuki clan for a long time and welcomed you to Ryūchi Cave for senjutsu training.

Between the lines, there seemed to be a hint of rivalry with Mount Myōboku, stating that she was the best holy land in the ninja world.

Seeing this, you smiled knowingly.

Was Ryūchi Cave trying to emulate Mount Myōboku and train you to be a new “Sage of Six Paths”?

But these holy lands were strange. Was it because their own abilities were limited and they couldn’t do anything, or did they need to use someone with Ōtsutsuki bloodline to wage some kind of “proxy war” without shedding blood?

It couldn’t possibly be out of sudden benevolence or impulse…