My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 182

Your research into Inorganic Reincarnation didn’t stop there.

Leveraging your dragon bloodline’s adaptability to snake-style immortal arts, combined with your Ōtsutsuki bloodline’s affinity for various elements, you boldly applied Inorganic Reincarnation to yourself, successfully turning yourself to stone and then reverting back.

Furthermore, by drawing inspiration from Orochimaru’s ninjutsu and layering the rule of void, you achieved a new application: petrifying your physical body and simultaneously hiding a soul clone within it. While not incredibly powerful, it was enough to save your life in critical moments!

Of course, if this physical body petrification technique were used on others, it could cause irreversible transformation, somewhat similar to the appearance after failing to cultivate Myōboku Mountain’s immortal arts. However, your method was more convenient, capable of direct activation through your dōjutsu. But if the opponent also possessed the ability to absorb natural energy, the effect would be significantly weakened…

With Inorganic Reincarnation thoroughly researched and new applications developed, you had completed your final training. After a brief spar with the White Snake Sage, you discovered that your strength in your normal state was almost on par with theirs. Perhaps it was due to having both Ōtsutsuki and dragon bloodlines simultaneously; their combined effect seemed to rival the White Snake Sage’s millennium of arduous cultivation, their physical body, and the rules they had mastered.

However, if you went all out, fully activating the Eight Inner Gates and abandoning self-repair, and the White Snake Sage also unleashed all the rules they controlled at once, the ultimate outcome would remain unknown…

[Year Sixteen]

Just as you had grown accustomed to your strength and were preparing to return to the ninja world, the phone in your pocket suddenly vibrated.

Yes, you always had a phone. Amado had given it to you for communication the second time you met him. It had never been used until now.

You quickly answered, only to hear Amado tell you that this might be their last communication. He was calling to report on the progress of Nagato’s grand unification of the ninja world:

Originally, the Ghost Mask Organization, led by Nagato, had been advancing at a very stable pace. First, they spent several years establishing laws, appointing administrators, and consolidating their rule and public support in their previously controlled territories. Then, they recruited and trained ninjas from these controlled areas. Coupled with Nagato’s own formidable combat power, they had conquered half of the ninja world with little bloodshed.

In the past year, among the two most stubborn nations, the Land of Lightning and the Hidden Cloud Village had both accepted becoming affiliated forces of the organization. However, the advance into the Land of Fire had been slow and difficult. For some unknown reason, the ninjas of the Hidden Leaf Village were all unimaginably strong, repeatedly raiding the towns built by the Ghost Mask Organization, causing massive casualties and posing a huge obstacle to the organization’s progress.

Even more so, Naruto Uzumaki had somehow acquired an ability called Truth-Seeking Orbs, and combined with Flying Thunder God, multiple high-ranking members of the organization had been assassinated…

Furthermore, with the Land of Fire’s Daimyō…

Nagato seemed to be losing his patience and wanted to personally launch a decisive battle against the Hidden Leaf Village to secure the final victory!

Finally, Amado expressed his gratitude to you. If not for the Ghost Mask Organization assembling the strength of almost the entire ninja world, his daughter’s condition, though not fully recovered, had at least been successfully prevented from further deterioration, giving him ample time to think of new treatment methods… For this, he was eternally grateful to you. He couldn’t say more, as his base was about to be overrun by Hidden Leaf ninjas…

You hung up the phone, feeling your Flying Thunder God coordinates in the ninja world.

It was time to settle things with the Hidden Leaf!

Just as you activated Flying Thunder God, suddenly, the Toad Sage burst out from the Ryūmyaku, seemingly intending to lead the Myōboku Mountain forces in a full-scale assault on Ryūchi Cave!

On one side was the ninja world, with the possibility of Naruto turning the tables, and on the other, the precarious Ryūchi Cave. Moreover, you had a grudge against the toads!

In an urgent situation, you unleashed a barrage of Sage Art Truth-Seeking Orbs at the surging Gamamaru. Then, without waiting for the explosions, you activated Flying Thunder God, flashing into Amado’s base. You casually swept your gaze over the Hidden Leaf ninjas attacking the base, instantly turning them into stone statues.

You waved your hand, shattering a stone statue and extracting a golden chakra from it. You immediately recognized it as the chakra of the Yang Nine-Tails, also containing the power of Sage Mode chakra!

It seemed Naruto Uzumaki had improved considerably… This ability to split chakra itself could easily elevate ninjas who gained Sage Fox Chakra to Jonin level in terms of physical prowess and reaction speed. No wonder the Ghost Mask Organization’s advance was stalled and even met with counterattacks!

You used Flying Thunder God to transfer all the researchers in the base, including Amado and his daughter, to the Land of Rain, under Nagato’s protection. You then explained the current situation to Nagato.

Nagato was also aware of the matter and was extremely enraged by the deaths of the innocent people, despising the Hidden Leaf’s actions. He declared that he would immediately initiate a decisive battle!

You agreed with this idea. Naruto gaining Truth-Seeking Orbs was abnormal in itself, and coupled with Myōboku Mountain’s toads attacking Ryūchi Cave at this specific time, it indicated that the Sage of Six Paths had already intervened. Delay would only lead to complications; success or failure rested on this one battle!

After you left, you clasped your hands in the air, wielding a giant flaming sword in one hand and a pitch-black sickle in the other. As you traversed with Flying Thunder God, you incinerated all the Hidden Leaf personnel attacking the base, and transported all important individuals among them to Nagato’s command, preparing for the coming decisive battle.

And after completing these tasks, an unprecedented war in the ninja world since the birth of ninjas began to brew.

On one side was Nagato, the Child of Prophecy, who had gathered the strength of the entire ninja world, representing the peace ideals of the vast majority of people.

On the other side was Naruto Uzumaki, also a Child of Prophecy, pushed to the brink but still able to rise up and fight back with friendship and bonds.

There cannot be two suns in the sky!

The clash of their ideals had now transformed into a battle that would determine the future fate of the ninja world!

Would it be the creation of a world for the majority, completely ending the era of mutual conquest and moving towards unification?

Or would it be the creation of a world whose nature even he didn’t know, forged by the passion of the Child of Prophecy, relying on friendship and bonds?

And behind all this, an invisible pair of hands secretly manipulated all these changes…

Just as the Divine Tree’s fruit needed guardians when it was about to ripen, now, the owner of those invisible hands sat in the Pure Land, closely monitoring their own ripe fruit! And protecting it…

With memories and experiences from your previous life, you saw no possibility of failure in Nagato. You only saw that the power of faith gathered within him carried the beliefs and hopes for peace of countless people. In their eyes, though they had never met him, Nagato was the god who had liberated them from the depths of aristocratic oppression…

Once, you had questioned whether the power of the masses had any meaning in a world where great power was concentrated in an individual. However, after witnessing Nagato acquire the power of faith and instantly ascend to a demigod, you no longer thought that way…

And Ryūchi Cave being in peril was also to settle the grudge with Myōboku Mountain from the previous simulation!

You ultimately chose to return to Ryūchi Cave to utterly annihilate Myōboku Mountain, fulfilling the promise you had once made!