Naruto: From Fake to Real, Deceiving the Ninja World

Chapter 561 Avici Hell

That chilling aura seeped out from the crack.

So concentrated that it almost became tangible, it condensed into a black liquid, slowly seeping out and converging from the cracks.

Finally, a drop of black liquid broke free from its restraints and fell silently onto the soul that had just been absorbed into the Pure Land.

The soul's face was serene and peaceful, its eyes slightly closed, immersed in the tranquil atmosphere of the Pure Land.

But the next second—

laugh!

The moment the black liquid landed on the soul's head, it gradually flowed downwards, spreading and enveloping it, making a sound like cold water dripping into hot oil.

The once serene soul trembled violently, its tightly closed eyes suddenly widening, revealing the most primal savagery and madness within them.

"Roar!" Its face contorted in pain, its mouth agape to an exaggerated degree, as it let out a painful howl.

Immediately afterwards, the bones in his face became deformed and protruded, and his skin quickly hardened and turned pale, and in an instant, a pale bony face with a long nose grew out.

At the same time, the black liquid that spread throughout his body dyed his entire soul a deep, dark black, and his form began to twist and elongate uncontrollably, becoming tall, thin, and inhuman.

In the blink of an eye, a soul that had just died transformed into a monster wearing a bone mask, with a long, thin, black body and eyes filled with scarlet savagery!

"What an evil aura!"

Sensing that nauseating and repulsive aura, Hagoromo Otsutsuki's expression changed, and the shock in his heart was beyond measure.

That aura can not only erode the space of the Pure Land, but also directly corrupt and distort souls, turning them into monsters filled with destructive desires?!

[Foreshadowing resolved in Chapter 537, "The Sage of Six Paths: The Stone Tablet? What Stone Tablet?", Naruto's speculation: The Sage of Six Paths has seen the power and aura of a Hollow.]

Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Yi raised her arm, aiming it at the newly formed monster.

call out!

A Truth-Seeking Ball that had been floating behind him shot out instantly, piercing the monster's chest. The monster's body, now pierced, suddenly expanded, and then—

Bang! !

Its entire body exploded, turning into a surging black mist that did not dissipate but instead merged into the surrounding pure land space.

Yu Yi clearly sensed that the degree to which the "Pure Land" was eroded and assimilated by that aura had significantly increased.

With alarm bells ringing in her mind, Yu Yi abruptly looked up at the slowly widening crack in the sky.

Inside the crack, more black liquid was gathering, ready to drip out at any moment.

"No matter what it is or where it comes from, we absolutely cannot let it erode this sacred land and the souls here any longer!"

With this in mind, Yu Yi no longer hesitated. She gripped the Six Paths Staff tightly with both hands, raised it high, and pointed the tip of the staff directly at the ever-expanding rift in the sky.

hum! !

An even more immense and vast power erupted from his body, and a majestic statue with downcast eyes appeared behind him.

The statue holds its hands together in front of its body, with a dark crescent moon engraved on its right palm and a bright sun imprinted on its left, as if it holds the reins of yin and yang.

Purple light, representing the power of Yin, and blue light, representing the power of Yang, shot into the sky. The two colors of light swirled and intertwined, transforming into a pillar of light that struck the crack in the sky.

"Seal!" Yu Yi shouted, and the light that struck the rift spread and filled the sky.

The originally fragile and unstable spatial barrier was barely stabilized under the forceful bonding and reinforcement of the Yin and Yang forces.

The rate at which the crack expands slows down to a visible rate, until it stops.

The black liquid seeping from the cracks and the surging black mist were temporarily blocked by the seal, making it difficult for them to drip.

Seeing this, Hagoromo Otsutsuki's tense mind relaxed slightly, and he subconsciously withdrew his power.

Click!

A faint, crisp sound rang out from the newly solidified sky barrier.

Suddenly, the edge of the crack, which had already stopped cracking, expanded outward a little further.

"this----"

Hagoromo's expression changed, and he instantly mobilized his Sage Chakra, sending it back into the seal.

With the replenishment, the crack that had just begun to expand was once again firmly held back, and its expansion ceased once more.

Upon seeing this, Yu Yi breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then her face darkened completely.

He realized the seriousness of the problem.

This strange erosion did not stop; it was merely temporarily suppressed by his power.

An extremely fragile balance was formed between him and that aura.

If he relaxes even slightly, withdraws or weakens the power maintaining the seal, the balance will be immediately broken, the cracks will continue to expand, and the black liquid will continue to drip and corrode.

In other words, he would probably need to maintain the Yin-Yang power in order to ensure that the newly created Pure Land space would not be eroded or usurped by that aura.

"Where did that aura come from?" Hagoromo Otsutsuki frowned deeply, staring intently at the crack in the sky.

Simply blocking it is not the solution; we must find the root cause.

He took a deep breath, concentrated his mind, and used his powerful senses to probe into the crack, trying to trace its source.

The unsettling coldness and stickiness that permeates the edge of the crack extends inward.

He saw that the cracks didn't appear out of thin air, but rather—

total darkness.

A space filled with endless darkness.

There stood a huge monument with two characters written on it.

No gaps.

"The Infernal Realm?" Yu Yi's brows furrowed even deeper, her mind filled with doubt. "Another dimension?"

What happened?

When he last discovered this unclaimed alternate dimension and left his coordinates, he carefully sensed the surroundings and confirmed that there were no other stable spaces nearby that were adjacent to or attached to it.

This sanctuary was originally isolated.

However, at this moment, in his perception, a strange space full of malice and extreme aggression was tightly, or even actively, squeezing and colliding with the barrier of the Pure Land.

That space felt to him as if it were alive.

What sent a chill down Yu Yi's spine was that as his senses continued to extend deeper into that unfamiliar space, he discovered that this space did not seem to exist independently.

Above it, there are other spaces that seem to exist, and what is impacting the Pure Land is only the one at the very bottom that is closest to the Pure Land.

"Multi-level space?"

Thinking of this, an ominous thought instantly surfaced in Yu Yi's mind.

Naturally formed alternate dimensions are all fragment-like, so how could there be such a multi-layered spatial structure?

unless----

This space is not naturally formed, but man-made, just like Kaguya's "Amenominaka".

The thought of the "Heavenly Minaka" that her mother had used made Hagoromo's eyes darken.

After a moment of thought, he tried to condense his perception into a finer, more concealed thread.

Climbing upwards along the interior of the impacted pure land, attempting to traverse its sky or boundaries to peer into the higher realms.

Then, just as his perception touched that boundary, attempting to penetrate into the past—

hum! !

In the dark sky, a huge, cold, indifferent eye suddenly opened, meeting the extended perception of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, as if their eyes were locked.

Instantly, the originally dense and lifeless black mist around them began to surge toward Hagoromo Otsutsuki's senses.

What?

At that moment, realizing what the other party wanted to do, a chill suddenly ran through Yu Yi's heart.

The owner of that eye, the owner of this "Infernal Realm," wants to transform me into that kind of monster too?!

[I'm so stuck on the script, I feel like dying. I've deleted and rewritten, rewritten and deleted again. I know exactly how to write the ending, so why is it still so difficult? It just doesn't feel like the effect I want.]

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