Naruto: In Konoha Village, I awakened Wood Release at the start.

Parallel Ninja World.

The void was like a curtain being forcibly torn open.

Chiba stepped out of the dark spatial rift and reappeared above the Forest of Death.

The imperial ninjas guarding the perimeter all knelt on one knee in unison, their armor clanging together with a crisp sound.

"His Majesty!"

Nara Shikagi quickly stepped forward and bowed in greeting.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he was clutching a thick stack of scrolls in his hand.

Chiba waved his hand to indicate that he should get up, and his gaze swept over the surrounding military camps.

"How's the situation outside?"

Nara Shikajo quickly unfolded the top information scroll and spoke rapidly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty."

"The five great ninja villages, as well as the core areas of major powers such as the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning, have been completely taken over by the Imperial Army."

"The original resistance forces have all collapsed, and the leaders of the major ninja clans are also extremely cooperative."

"only……"

"The Empire has too few personnel accompanying them across borders this time."

"These two hundred or so elite soldiers are simply not enough to fill the administrative vacuum across the entire continent."

"The small ninja villages in the Land of Waterfalls, the Land of Grass, and the Land of Frost have been secretly probing and even robbing the Empire's supply lines these past two days."

"Your humble servant dares to suggest that at least three thousand administrative officials and security forces should be transferred from the Empire as soon as possible to relieve the garrison."

"..."

Chiba listened without showing the slightest change in expression.

"Granted."

"Go and inform Orochimaru."

"Open up cross-border channels to allow the first batch of reservists to be directly deployed to the capitals of various provinces."

"Any small forces that dare to put up a stubborn resistance need not be taken prisoner; they can be wiped off the map directly."

The chilling command caused the surrounding air to suddenly cool down.

Nara Shikajo accepted the order with a stern expression.

"Your Majesty understands, I will take care of it immediately!"

Chiba dismissed the crowd and walked alone to a clearing in the forest.

He closed his eyes, releasing all his senses from the perfect immortal body.

A gentle breeze rustled through the treetops.

Chiba's brows furrowed slowly.

Not right.

Hagoromo and Hamura have been completely destroyed, and even locked away by the rules of the Pure Land.

Logically speaking...

The natural energy that they have intercepted and monopolized for thousands of years should be immediately returned to the present world.

But the natural energy of this land is still pitifully scarce!

The air was filled with a foul, oppressive, and deathly atmosphere, with absolutely no sign of life returning.

"Tsk."

"Those two brothers aren't the only insatiable parasites."

Chiba sneered, opened his eyes, and his six-tomoe mirror slowly rotated.

The Otsutsuki brothers were merely thieves in name only.

In the dark side of this world, several other blood-sucking ghosts lurk.

grim Reaper.

Evil god.

These remnant souls at the sixth level, born from ancient times, have already gnawed away at the very origin of this world, leaving it riddled with holes!

just.

Just now, while scanning the main space of the Pure Land...

Chiba didn't find any trace of them.

These old monsters are even more slippery than the Otsutsuki brothers, hiding in the blind spot between the mortal world and the underworld, feigning death.

"Since you refuse to come out, then please come out."

Chiba's hands flew, forming a series of complex and ancient hand seals.

Si-hai-wei-mao-xu-zi-you-wu-si!

He suddenly clasped his hands together!

"Forbidden Technique: Corpse Demon Sealing!"

Boom!

A chilling, bone-deep cold suddenly erupted, and the surrounding vegetation withered and turned black at a visible speed.

The void behind Chiba twisted violently.

A huge white figure with disheveled hair and a ferocious face appeared.

It had a short knife in its mouth, and pale white prayer beads hanging from its long robe.

grim Reaper!

It had just appeared.

The greedy ghostly eyes stared intently at the living soul before it, its scarlet tongue frantically licking between its fangs.

It descends in accordance with the rules of the contract, ready to devour the spellcaster's soul as a sacrifice.

however.

When Death's distorted face saw Chiba's face clearly, his movements suddenly froze.

Chiba turned around, and his Six-Tomoe Wheels emitted an eerie purple light.

An unimaginably immense pressure of causality crashed down like an invisible divine mountain!

Click!

The soul-slaying dagger that Death was holding in his mouth shattered into dust on the spot.

"Waaah—"

A piercing, mournful cry was squeezed from Death's throat.

It was horrified to discover that the chains of rules beneath it were spreading in reverse, pinning it firmly to the spot!

This is no ordinary person!

The size of this being's soul is far greater than all the souls it has consumed over thousands of years!

"It was really hard to find you."

Chiba stepped toward the Grim Reaper hovering in mid-air and raised his right hand to make a loose fist.

"Takamikami".

The concept of cause and effect arrives directly.

The Grim Reaper's enormous, illusory body began to twist.

The power of death, which originally belonged to the level of gods, was forcibly stripped away!

"Awooo!"

Death struggled frantically, its pale, ghostly claws reaching for the void, attempting to escape back to the rift in the realm of death.

However, under the absolute suppression of the Rinnegan, all struggles are in vain.

The world's essence that it had stolen from its body was gradually drained, and pitch-black runes spread from its chest to its entire body.

deprivation!

Annihilate!

boom!

Accompanied by a dull thud.

The massive remnant soul of the Grim Reaper completely disintegrated, transforming into pure energy spots that dissipated into the air.

The biting coldness between heaven and earth instantly dissipated.

Chiba clapped his hands, his expression completely calm, as if he had crushed an insignificant fly.

There's one left.

The space distorted slightly, and Chiba's figure disappeared directly from the high platform.

next second.

Inside the temporary underground prison in Konoha.

At the end of a dark, damp corridor.

Hidan was bound tightly with specially made chakra chains and suspended in mid-air.

His scythe was thrown in the corner, his body covered in bloodstains, yet he was still shouting wildly, oblivious to his own mortality.

"You bastard!"

"You otherworldly scum, how dare you lock me up here!"

"When the evil god unleashes his divine punishment, I will rip out your hearts one by one and offer them as sacrifices! Hahahaha!"

hum!

Chiba appeared out of nowhere inside the prison cell's iron gate.

Hidan's maniacal laughter abruptly stopped, and his crimson pupils suddenly contracted.

Those six-tomoe Rinnegan eyes merely swept over indifferently.

Hidan felt as if his brain had been hit hard by a heavy hammer!

"What...what do you want to do?"

"The evil god will definitely curse you!"

Hidan roared through gritted teeth, but his body trembled violently uncontrollably.

Chiba couldn't be bothered to waste words with him.

An irresistible illusory eye power instantly pierced Hidan's mental sea.

Hidan's frenzied and ferocious face froze instantly, and the whites of his eyes rolled upwards.

Click!

The special chains binding Hidan automatically detached.

Hidan landed straight on the ground like a marionette.

He picked up a kunai from the ground and pierced his wrist without hesitation.

Fresh blood gushed out.

Hidan, expressionless, dipped his foot in his own blood and drew a dark, eerie circular array on the damp ground.

A circle encloses an equilateral triangle.

Evil God Sacrifice Ritual!

Hidan stood in the center of the blood array, kneeling on both knees, his hands in a strange prayer gesture, and a sharp, bizarre chant emanating from his throat.

hum-

The temperature in the entire dungeon suddenly plummeted!

A foul, greedy ancient will pierced through the dimensional barrier of nothingness and descended upon the blood array.

This will is extremely well hidden.

Even if an ordinary ninja has their soul drained, they will never be able to detect its source.

But in Chiba's Rinnegan, a dark red thread, barely visible to the naked eye, appeared in the void!

One end of the thread was connected to Hidan's body, while the other end was firmly embedded in the deepest blind spot where the mortal world and the Pure Land meet.

"Gotcha, you rat."

Chiba snorted coldly.

He raised his hand and slapped Hidan away, sending him flying into the wall and knocking him unconscious.

Followed by.

Chiba formed his right hand into a claw and grabbed the dark red causal thread in the void, pulling hard!

boom!

The spatial barrier in front of them was brutally torn open, leaving a large hole.

Chiba's figure blurred, and he directly crossed the boundary and entered along the silk thread!

Endless silence and nothingness.

This is the darkest, most obscure part of the Pure Land, where even the dead do not drift.

The extremely dense crimson fog churned and surged, with a huge, ugly, tumor-like monster perched in the center.

Countless distorted faces wailed and pleaded on the surface of the tumor.

Those are the remnants of souls of all living beings that have been sacrificed and devoured over thousands of years!

"roar--"

They noticed the intrusion of strangers.

The tumor suddenly split open, revealing countless blood-red giant eyes, and emitted a deafening mental roar.

"How dare you, lowly mortals, disturb the slumber of the gods!"

A terrifying wave of cursed blood surged toward Chiba.

Every drop of blood contains a vicious rule that robs one of lifespan.

Chiba didn't even bother to activate his protective chakra.

The Yata no Kagami (a mirror) in the right eye trembled slightly.

boom!

The cursed blood wave, powerful enough to corrode even a Shadow Realm expert into bones, vanished silently as if it had struck a high wall of absolute concept.

"Gods?"

Chiba's eyes were filled with contempt.

"Those who cling to life on the blood sacrifice of mortals, how dare they presume to call themselves gods?"

"Takami!"

The six-tomoe Sharingan burst forth with a dazzling divine light that tore through the void!

The rules of the entire blood-red blind spot were instantly rewritten.

The countless wailing faces on the tumor-like monster froze.

It was horrified to discover that the evil god's law that enabled it to maintain its immortality was being forcibly erased by an extremely domineering force!

"No!"

"That's impossible!"

"I am immortal!"

"I am the dark master of this world!"

The monster let out a sharp, mournful cry.

His massive body began to disintegrate rapidly, like melting snow.

The natural energy and remnant soul essence that it had imprisoned and devoured for thousands of years gushed out wildly from the wound.

"Let it all vanish into thin air."

Chiba's eyes were indifferent as he lightly pressed his palm down.

Boom!

The supreme rules swept down.

The monstrous tumor of the evil god, which blotted out the sky, was completely wiped out of existence, leaving not even a trace behind!

With the demise of the last parasite, the entire shadowy blind spot instantly crumbled.

Click!

Click!

The once silent and lifeless Pure Land suddenly erupted in an unprecedented and violent tremor.

The Otsutsuki brothers were crippled, the Shinigami was annihilated, and the Jashin died!

Four malignant tumors that stole the world's essence were uprooted on the same day!

The natural energy that had been suppressed for thousands of years was completely freed from all constraints and shackles.

With roars and cheers, they frantically poured back into the real world of the parallel ninja world through the cracks in the Pure Land!

……

Chiba tore through space and returned to the ninja world.

boom--

A deafening roar resounded simultaneously from all directions!

The natural energy that had been forcibly seized and extracted over thousands of years was transformed into the visible rainbow aurora, which then flowed back into the earth!

however.

The envisioned peaceful scene of everything reviving and brimming with vitality did not last long.

Sudden.

The sky over the entire ninja world was covered with countless black cracks!

Click!

Click!

That was no ordinary spatial rift.

That was the barrier of the world's rules, unable to withstand the impact of the origin, and is undergoing irreversible and complete shattering!

The earth was wailing madly.

Mountains collapsed, rivers flowed backward.

A terrifying tsunami, thousands of feet high, erupted from the vast ocean!

"What's going on?!"

The headquarters of Konoha.

Fugaku Uchiha led his clansmen to the rooftop, staring in horror at the shattering sky above them.

The entire sky resembled a shattered mirror, with large fragments of space peeling away and disappearing.

"end……"

"This is the end of the world!"

Large numbers of civilians and ninjas knelt on the ground, crying out in despair.

The Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Wind, the Land of Water, and all the major ninja villages were plunged into unprecedented panic!

The sky collapsed and fire erupted from the earth.

Chiba stood suspended in mid-air, his brows furrowed tightly.

Logically speaking...

The return of natural energy will only nourish the heavens and earth, and will not cause the entire planetary dimension to collapse.

unless……

The rules and structure of this parallel world have long been drained.

now.

A massive source was suddenly injected.

It's like pouring molten iron into a dry, fragile piece of porcelain, causing it to burst!

Just as Chiba was preparing to mobilize his forces to forcibly stabilize the spatial barrier.

The cross-border communicator at his waist suddenly emitted a rapid alarm.

Chiba raised his hand and wiped it.

Orochimaru's phantom image was projected instantly.

"His Majesty!"

"Something terrible has happened!"

"A strange change is happening in our world!"

Chiba spoke in a deep voice.

"Explain yourself, what's wrong with being local?"

On the other end of the communication.

Orochimaru was breathing rapidly, and even his voice was trembling.

"That's incredible!"

"This is simply a miracle!"

"Just now, the empire's territory is expanding outwards at an alarming rate!"

"On the edges of the four major provinces, countless new lands and plains sprang up out of thin air!"

"The ocean is expanding, and what were once small hills barely a hundred meters high have risen to towering peaks!"

"What's even more exaggerated is the concentration of natural energy."

"The natural energy in our native land is increasing exponentially!"

Chiba's gaze suddenly sharpened.

Orochimaru spoke rapidly, his eyes filled with fanaticism and awe.

"His Majesty."

"I speculate..."

"The parallel worlds are not being destroyed, but rather being swallowed up and assimilated by our empire!"

"Because you have eradicated all the parasitic remnants of this world and liberated the core essence of the world."

"The establishment of the interdimensional portal, like a straw, forcibly dragged this ownerless and nearly destroyed world towards the more powerful imperial world!"

"Two worlds are merging into one!"

Hearing Orochimaru's words.

Chiba lowered his head, looking at the crumbling earth and mountains beneath his feet.

really.

Those seemingly vanished spaces and landscapes have not truly disappeared.

They transformed into countless streams of light, flowing continuously towards the Empire through the interdimensional teleportation channel of the Death Forest!

It turned out to be the case.

It's not destruction, it's fusion!