Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

Chapter 171 The Six Paths Immortal Appears

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Faced with the overwhelming [True Thousand Hands of Might], with thousands of arms wielding a giant sword of deep blue chakra, Uchiha Yue did not choose to engage in a head-on clash.

He voluntarily unleashed the complete Susanoo.

Faced with such a wide-range attack, he estimated that he could only escape using the Flying Thunder God Technique, but that would mean his defeat.

Since this wasn't a life-or-death battle, he didn't want to lose.

Kamui is a good choice, but it only lasts for five minutes, and it's not the kind of stimulation he's looking for.

"Sage Art: Wood Release: Top Transformation Buddha: Mighty Slash!"

Hashirama and Madara roared in unison.

Thousands of giant arms covered in Susanoo armor crashed down on Yue with ear-piercing sonic booms that tore through space!

This was a devastating blow that transcended the realm of human comprehension!

But Uchiha Tsuki, who was in the center of the sword rain, was like a ghost dancing on the edge of death.

"Heavenly Lord of the Middle Kingdom - Repelling the Flow of Power!"

"Eight meanings combined."

Instead of directly confronting it, Yue compressed the gravitational and repulsive forces onto the surface of Susanoo, forming an extremely smooth "distorted field".

With the absolute prediction of [Hachishin-sama], every deep blue greatsword that was about to strike him would be "slid away" or "deflected" with exquisite precision the moment it came into contact with the gravitational field.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless deflected giant swords crashed into the earth, cleaving the riverbed of the End Valley into bottomless chasms.

"A cunning fellow!"

Madara saw through Yue's tactics. His Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly, and the chakra lightsabers in the hundreds of giant hands of the Buddha suddenly changed their trajectory. Instead of slashing, they converged from all directions, trying to firmly grasp Yue's Susanoo in their palms!

"Gotcha!" Hashirama shouted.

Just a fraction of a second before the encirclement was about to close in.

"Flying Thunder God Formation - Super Large Jade Spiral Wheel!"

The moon's form transformed into a golden lightning bolt, narrowly piercing through the gap in the lightsaber. During the teleportation, it even condensed several jet-black Rasengans infused with Yin and Yang Release techniques in its hands and slammed them hard onto the Buddha's body!

"Bang bang bang-!"

The violent explosion shattered several of the Buddha's arms.

"It's useless! Such destruction is futile against the life force of Wood Release!"

Hashirama laughed loudly, and a massive surge of Yang Release life force caused his shattered wooden arm to instantly regrow and recover, while the deep blue Susanoo armor once again covered it.

"Let's see if your recovery is faster, or if my chakra is more!"

This epic battle, worthy of being recorded in the legends of the ninja world, has completely sunk into the most brutal quagmire of attrition!

One day...one night.

Lightning tore through the sky, flames burned the earth, and gales whipped up torrential rain. The terrain of the entire mountain range was flattened by these three monsters by tens of meters!

Hashirama's Wood Release technique is endlessly regenerating, while Madara's Susanoo is indestructible.

But to their astonishment, they discovered that whether Susanoo was shattered or he was driven to the brink of despair, Tsuki could always unleash an even more ferocious burst of chakra in the next second, instantly repairing all his injuries and armor!

"This guy... does he have no limit to his chakra?!"

After forcing Yue back with his sword net once again, Madara stood on the top of the Buddha's head, breathing heavily. His Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan even felt sore from the prolonged high-pressure output.

Even a demon has his limits when it comes to energy!

The immortal mask on Hashirama had also faded. He knelt in the wooden dummy, panting heavily, his whole body soaked in sweat.

"No, Madara... the True Several Thousand Hands technique is too taxing. My chakra is almost unable to keep up with the recovery speed."

In contrast, Uchiha Tsukihime was in mid-air.

Although his face was equally pale, his mind was stinging from the prolonged impact of the chakra from the parallel network.

But! His blue bar is still half full!

As long as the [Ming Seal] remains intact, and as long as those "batteries" still have energy, his chakra will not be completely depleted!

"It seems I am the winner of this endurance race."

Tsuki raised the giant chakra sword in his hand high, and the dark red Susanoo unleashed its final, earth-shattering sword beam, slamming it fiercely into the Buddha's chest!

"Snap—!"

The deep blue Susanoo armor, already at its limit, finally let out a mournful cry of despair and shattered with a crash.

Immediately afterwards, the enormous Buddha statue with thousands of hands was split in two by the sword light, turning into countless withered wood chips that scattered across the ruins.

"Thump, thump."

Having exhausted their last bit of chakra, Hashirama and Madara fell from mid-air and crashed heavily to the ground.

"Cough cough... He really is... he really is an unreasonable monster."

Hashirama lay sprawled on the pile of rubble, watching the dark clouds gradually dissipate in the sky. Although he didn't even have the strength to lift a finger, a hearty and gratified laugh bloomed on his dusty face.

"Even the two of us working together managed to outlast you, Brother Yue... I can rest assured that you'll shoulder the burden for the future."

Madara lay not far from Hashirama, saying nothing, but staring intently at Uchiha Tsuki.

After a long while, this ninja world demon finally let out a cold breath:

"Hmph... I've lost. I acknowledge your strength."

"Thank you for your kind offer, both of you."

Uchiha Tsukuyomi deactivated Sage Mode and Susanoo, landing in front of the two.

He rubbed his temples, which were throbbing from the mental strain. Although he was physically exhausted, the fervor and excitement in his eyes were even more intense than during the battle.

He turned around, not to help the two people on the ground, but to look into the void above the ruins.

"No need to hide it anymore, I know you're there."

Yue suddenly spoke, but her words were not directed at Hashirama or Madara.

Upon hearing this, both Hashirama and Madara, who were lying on the ground, were stunned.

"Moon, who are you talking to?" Madara frowned, trying his best to activate his senses, but he was completely out of chakra and couldn't detect anything at all.

Yue ignored Ban's question; his left eye, which shimmered with starlight like a die, was fixed on that unknown dimensional node.

Quiet.

The entire world fell into a deathly silence the moment Uchiha Tsuki uttered those words.

The wind stopped, and the fallen dust remained suspended in mid-air.

Under the horrified gazes of Hashirama and Madara.

The void that the moon was watching suddenly rippled!

An image of an old man, dressed in a white robe with six Paths of Revelation and nine black magatama pendants around his neck, hovered silently in mid-air, holding a tin staff in both hands.

The old man's face was weathered yet imposing. In the center of his forehead was a scarlet Rinne Sharingan, while the pair of purple Rinne eyes below him were quietly watching Uchiha Tsuki.

"This...this is..."

Sensing the suppression originating from the depths of their bloodline and soul, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha's pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size.

"Hagoromo Otsutsuki... or rather, the Sage of Six Paths."

Chapter 172 Bloodline: Both a Gift and a Curse

"In the future, there will be a blue-eyed boy who laughs and calls out the name of the nine-headed beast. He will sever the thousand-year-old karmic bond between Indra and Asura, and guide this world toward the final transformation..."

Hagoromo's gaze passed over the exhausted Hashirama and Madara below, finally fixing on Uchiha Tsuki in mid-air.

"This fate, Gamamaru and I have rehearsed countless times over the years, but now, it has gone astray."

The Sage of Six Paths gripped his staff tightly, his deep Rinnegan eyes narrowing slightly, revealing a hint of solemnity:

"Outsider, who...who are you?"

"Outsider? That's a fitting term."

Uchiha Tsukuyomi casually dispelled the remaining Sage Chakra around him. Meeting the gaze of the Sage of Six Paths, he did not answer directly, but instead asked, "If you can answer one of my questions first, I can tell you my identity."

"Oh?" Yu Yi looked at him quietly.

"As far as I know, the Otsutsuki clan is born with an extremely long lifespan, almost to the point of immortality. And you, as the biological child of the goddess of the rabbit who devoured the chakra fruit, were born with the Sage Body and the Rinnegan, and later became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, so you can essentially be considered half a 'god'."

"Then, with such great power, why did you only live for a little over a hundred years before aging like an ordinary person, eventually letting your physical body decay into mud?"

Upon hearing this, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, who were lying in the ruins, were suddenly jolted!

yeah why?

Whether it was Hashirama's immense vitality or Madara's pursuit of ultimate power, they both deeply understood the close connection between chakra and the origin of life.

How could someone as powerful as the Sage of Six Paths possibly die of old age like an ordinary person?

Faced with this question, the Sage of Six Paths remained silent for a long time.

A bittersweet feeling, spanning millennia, welled up in those purple eyes of reincarnation. He didn't hide it, but let out a long sigh.

"Outsider, your insight is astonishing."

Yu Yi slowly raised her head, gazing up at the boundless sky above:

"Since you know about the Otsutsuki clan, you should know about the 'Karma' of the Otsutsuki clan, right?"

"It's a backup of the soul and genes. When an Otsutsuki is on the verge of death, he compresses himself into a 'wedge' of data and forcibly inserts it into the body of another creature. As time goes by, the host's personality is completely erased, and the Otsutsuki is resurrected in that body... which is what is called becoming the 'vessel' for the Otsutsuki's descent."

"Wedge?" Ban frowned deeply; the word made him instinctively feel uneasy.

"This is the method the Otsutsuki clan uses to invade and prolong their lives, but what you don't know is..."