Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Xu Duo was filled with gratitude for the person who had helped him survive in that life-or-death moment. If the other person ever needed his help in the future, he might actually lend a hand.

However, in the system's backend rating, Xu Duo's personality data rating parameters are very low. If judged according to the common levels of A, B, C, and D qualifications, he would probably only be at the lower level of C.

Because his every move was monitored and recorded by the system, his experiences in his two previous lives were also recorded. In those two reincarnations, he appeared relatively selfish and indifferent. This was especially evident in his time in the Naruto world, where he showed no particular affection for the ninjas of his own village. His decision-making style, prioritizing self-interest above all else, greatly reduced the likelihood of him being bound by emotions.

Furthermore, his decision-making ability is rather limited, and even when he has an initial advantage, he often makes mistakes that put him at a disadvantage. He can't be considered a genius. Therefore, his ranking in the evaluation is not very high.

The Ghostly Demon Lord offered him the chance to be resurrected once and return to the point in time when he first experienced all of this.

So he was resurrected and returned to the past, when he had just transmigrated into a child. His experience and memories were preserved, which made him quite powerful on the day of the Nine-Tails' rampage. Unfortunately, he had not yet started cultivating, so even with a certain level of combat strength, he could not participate in the affairs of the village.

Having been given a second chance, he quickly became a super genius among the younger generation thanks to his foresight and his previous understanding of the world. He even used this opportunity to earn the qualification to train at Mount Myōboku.

In his previous life, he only learned later that there were Sage Techniques more powerful than ninjutsu, but he didn't have time to learn them then. This time, he learned them ahead of time, and although his talent wasn't particularly high, his advantage lay in his young age and ample time. Although the training was difficult, he successfully mastered them and greatly increased his strength through the mental fortitude honed over a long period.

Later, the village was invaded by Orochimaru again, but he didn't intervene that time. Having gradually learned about the course of history, he believed this invasion was unlikely to pose a real threat. It was even possible that the village deliberately let it go, in order to awaken a sense of crisis among the village's ninjas.

Later, perhaps by chance, or perhaps because he had planned to do so, this guy somehow managed to get into Konoha's Watermelon Head group. He was actually half a generation younger than Guy, and as a result, he became one of Guy's first students.

This was a path Xu Duo had always intended to take. The martial arts he learned from real life, as seen in martial arts novels, had proven effective. Especially those purely skill-based techniques that didn't rely on internal energy; even against powerful enemies, their effects were still quite strong. The Dugu Nine Swords and Lingbo Steps, in particular, relied on the exquisite techniques to be effective in actual combat, even against enemies powerful enough to instantly destroy a city block or even a larger area.

These techniques, which don't rely on internal energy, often depend on stamina and physical attributes. Therefore, he simply set aside ninjutsu for now and focused on training taijutsu. His experience in ninjutsu from his previous life was already sufficient. Lacking a special bloodline, he had no advantage in this area, so he naturally chose a different path.

To his surprise, he learned the Eight Forms of Escape Technique and unexpectedly discovered that this skill had some similarities with the martial arts he had learned in the world of martial arts.

Combined with the Tai Chi he learned at Wudang Mountain in the martial arts world, it surprisingly produced a synergistic effect, without a significant increase in power. However, the side effects seemed to be greatly reduced.

This discovery thrilled him. Since the physical techniques whose names sounded similar to the martial arts he learned in the martial arts world could be connected to each other to some extent, he might be able to achieve unexpected results by continuing to learn similar physical techniques or ninjutsu.

So he shamelessly went to the Hyuga clan again, insisting on learning Baguazhang. Everyone knows that without the Byakugan, learning it is useless. Without the ability to see through things, one cannot see the energy flow within the opponent's body. The 64 Baguazhang, or even the 128 Baguazhang, are nothing but empty shells.

He was completely shut out from the beginning. Even with his great strength, it was meaningless against such a top-tier family. How could a single person in the village dare to threaten the entire family?
But this guy was shameless and insisted on learning no matter what. He was also extremely strong, so even when the family head intervened, he couldn't gain the upper hand. They couldn't drive him away or shake him off. In the end, they figured that since he didn't roll his eyes at them, it wouldn't make much difference even if they learned the moves.

Finally, unable to resist his persistent pleading, he taught him the palm techniques. And indeed, as the Hyuga family had said, without being able to see the flow of energy within the opponent's body, the Bagua Palm's effectiveness is extremely limited, or even impossible to use properly.

However, Xu Duo still practiced very diligently because he discovered that this thing was indeed related to the martial arts techniques he had learned in his previous life, especially the secret teachings of the Wudang School.

Given his prior knowledge of the human body, and his expertise in medicine and anatomy, even without visualizing the internal structure of the human body, he could still manage to perform this technique based on his understanding of human anatomy and meridians.

Combined with the martial arts skills he had learned last time, he actually developed a palm technique that was quite powerful even in this world.

Compared to his previous life, his strength was significantly greater than others his age. By the time he truly came of age, he could already activate Sage Mode, and his chakra reserves were almost at the level of an elite Jonin. In terms of actual combat, he was already one of the top figures in the village, and some even compared him to the legendary Sannin, believing that his strength might have reached that level.

In this life, the day of the Heavenly Dao's invasion has arrived once more. In his previous life, he didn't survive this day, but this time he finally made it through, and he didn't choose to flee prematurely. In fact, if he had enough intelligence, even he, in his previous life, would have had a chance to defeat Pain.

This time, there was absolutely no suspense. After discovering the intruders dressed in black with red clouds, he acted swiftly and decisively. He first eliminated the one that could open its mouth wide, swallow people, and resurrect them.

Now, he is constantly surrounded by blue flames during battle, a characteristic of the Eight Gates Formation at its seventh level. With the aid of the Tai Chi mental technique, he reduces the damage to his body, allowing him to maintain this state for a considerable period of time.

In this state, the power of the Dugu Nine Swords is extremely terrifying. Even though Hell Path itself has considerable combat strength, it was instantly killed in one move.

Having lost their means of resurrection, the combined strength of the Six Paths of Pain was only slightly stronger than a Kage-level opponent. With his body engulfed in blue flames, Xu Duo activated Sage Mode. A faint red eyeshadow appeared on his face, and his attack power finally reached a level sufficient to easily break through the defenses of opponents at this level.

A torrent of blood erupted from one hand, summoning five Six-Pulse Divine Swords. The immortal Six-Pulse Divine Swords attacked separately, restraining the demonic path skilled in summoning and the human path skilled in mental attacks, while his own sword charged straight at the mechanized Asura path. In this state, his speed was almost invisible. He tore his opponent to pieces in a single exchange.

Even gravity and repulsion have little effect on him now. With sufficient speed and strength, the Universal Pull cannot compete with his physical strength, and its impact on him is greatly reduced.

With all these factors combined, the remaining few had almost no power to resist, and it seemed that Heavenly Dao was about to follow in the footsteps of the others.

This guy finally decided to unleash his ultimate move, summoning a black hole-like core that released extremely strong gravity, attracting everything around him towards the sky. It was the Chibaku Tensei, which could even trap tailed beasts.

This powerful attack exceeded the limits that a normal Shadow-level expert could handle, thus forming a giant stone sphere with a radius of hundreds of meters in the sky.

Xu Duo almost fell victim to this move when he first saw it, but fortunately he used his lightness skill in time, the Ladder Cloud Leap, which is the legendary anti-physics lightness skill that allows one to step on the right foot with the left foot and fly into the sky.

Relying on his powerful physique and agile movements, he stepped on boulders flying backwards into the sky, daringly weaving through the crevices of countless rocks, and managed not to be buried.

This is a very rare and special method to break through the Earth Explosion Star. As long as you can accurately dodge every oncoming boulder and use those boulders that have been attracted to the core as stepping stones, you can theoretically run out step by step.

However, this requires extremely high physical fitness and agility. Fortunately, Xu Duo had even learned the Immortal Mode, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to dodge this move on the first encounter.

When he successfully ran out of the rubble and stood on the surface of the giant rock sphere in the sky, even the usually expressionless Tiandao couldn't help but show a look of astonishment.

Before he could even speak, his head was severed by a golden sword aura. The Six Meridians Divine Sword, which had just slain the Demon Path and the Human Path, had not yet dissipated and flew over to deliver the final blow. Although the Divine Luo Heavenly Conquest, which was originally meant for self-defense, was successfully triggered, it failed to deflect the almost weightless sword aura. It allowed the sword aura to destroy the Six Paths, while the sword aura itself was almost unharmed.

After this battle, Xu Duo's prestige greatly increased. He originally planned to stay in the village, relying on his current high reputation, hoping to one day succeed the Hokage. With power, influence, and strength, he would then have a chance to contend for world domination.

Based on past experience, only by reaching the level of a world overlord can he have enough energy to uncover all the hidden powers in this world, thereby finding a way to escape from this world, or perhaps a way to achieve immortality.

Of course, he didn't know that he could never achieve immortality in this illusory world. After all, immortality was something even the Ghostly Demon Lord sought. If immortality could be obtained in the soul world, he would have tried long ago. Even the Ghostly Demon Lord, who created all of this, couldn't achieve immortality. In these illusory worlds, the so-called ability to live forever was nothing but a mirage. Once the physical body that constructed these spiritual worlds was damaged, then the so-called immortality would come to an end, and one wouldn't even know how they died.

Xu Duo naively believed that staying in the village would give him a chance to succeed as Hokage. Unfortunately, this world seemed no different from other worlds. While it didn't have the extreme requirement of the eldest son to inherit the throne like an emperor, succeeding without being a true member of the ruling family was simply a pipe dream.

Take Tsunade, for example, who is now the Hokage. She is actually a descendant of the First Hokage. If she knew that Naruto, the protagonist who later became Hokage, was also a descendant of the Fourth Hokage and had to marry the Hyuga clan's little princess and form a marriage alliance with the largest family in the village to make it legitimate, she would probably have realized long ago that she, a commoner with no status, had no chance of inheriting the position.

After some time, he realized that he was unlikely to inherit the position, so he faked his death during a mission to escape and went to Otogakure to find Orochimaru, intending to make his own way in the world and start his own business.

When he arrived, he found the person gone, leaving only a pile of charred snakeskin. It seemed something had gone wrong during the experiment. However, this situation conveniently allowed him to secretly take control of the uncontrolled Sound Village, preparing to use this opportunity to establish his own village. Then, he planned to develop advanced technology and gradually unify the world.

Under normal circumstances, staying at home to farm and focus on development is perfectly fine. In most worldviews, as long as internal affairs are handled well and development is prioritized, one can easily become one of the powerful forces.

The problem was that he didn't understand the plot, which led him to focus on developing the game for a long time, only to find that a world war had suddenly broken out and the five villages had suddenly united to deal with a terrible organization.

He originally intended to use this opportunity to lie low and conceal his strength, and under normal circumstances, he certainly had the ability to do so, since his strength already surpassed that of the Kage of the various villages. However, he was forced by a group of experts to take action and join the allied forces. As a result, the situation deteriorated rapidly from the start. He thought his strength was already considerable, but one of his opponents casually summoned a blue Gundam hundreds of meters tall, and none of his techniques, except for the Six Meridians Divine Sword, could penetrate its defenses. Even if he could break through, the damage would be negligible.

It completely crushed him, who hadn't kept up with the version updates. He was forcibly thrown into the next cycle.

His rating in the Ghost Demon Lord's system backend only improved from lower grade C to middle grade C. Although he had tempered his mind to a certain extent in this life, he still did not do a good job of utilizing the advantage of rebirth. His ability to gather intelligence was still relatively weak. Therefore, he only got another chance to start over, but did not receive special training.

If Lanno knew the methods the Ghost Demon Lord used to cultivate these souls in this soul world, he might be able to roughly guess what this guy was planning to do.

[To be continued]

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