Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

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"boom!"

The door to the highest secret chamber of the Tower of God was blasted open by the adult Konan using her Paper Release technique.

"Nagato! How are you...?"

Xiao Nan rushed anxiously into the secret room, but when she saw what was inside, she froze on the spot.

In the center of the secret room, Nagato remained seated in that cold, mechanical chair, unharmed.

However, his purple Rinnegan eyes lost focus, and two lines of clear tears were continuously sliding down his cheeks.

Before Nagato, the young Yahiko knelt on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

Between the two men, a man wearing a black trench coat stood quietly.

"What did you do to Nagato?!"

The adult Xiao Nan roared angrily, and tens of millions of explosive tags instantly condensed around them!

Young Nagato and young Konan, who were following closely behind, felt a chill run down their spines when they saw this scene.

“I didn’t do anything. They wanted to understand each other, so I just let them ‘see’ each other’s world.”

Uchiha Yue ignored the adult Konan's murderous intent.

He slowly turned his head, his kaleidoscope looking at the three people who had just rushed in.

"Now that everyone's here, let's all come in and experience it together."

"what?"

Before the three could react, the starlight in Uchiha Tsukuyomi's eyes shifted.

"Buzz—!!!"

In an instant, the adult Konan, the young Nagato, and the young Konan were all pulled into the mental illusion that had already been constructed!

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Within the illusion, time and space intertwine.

The consciousness of the adult Xiao Nan was gently thrown into a sun-drenched city.

She "saw" it.

She saw that familiar yet unfamiliar orange-haired boy, sitting unceremoniously in the spacious and bright classroom, arguing with a few idiots his age about whose ninjutsu was better.

She saw the red-haired boy, no longer suffering from the oppression of the Rinnegan, eating hot roasted meat with a rosy complexion under the nourishment of the [Ming Seal].

She saw her younger self on a bustling commercial street, holding a paper flower and handing it to a gentle female ninja, calling her an angel.

There was no cold rain, no desperate killing.

Everyone here is creating a hopeful dawn with their own hands.

"This...this is the [Dawn] established by Yahiko and Obito..."

The adult Xiao Nan's soul trembled violently in the illusion.

On the other side...

The consciousnesses of young Nagato and young Konan were also mercilessly dragged into the darkest river of fate in this time and space.

They felt it!

They felt the same heart-wrenching pain that the adult Nagato felt when he watched Yahiko die right before his eyes, a pain that seemed to destroy the entire world!

They sensed the despair of the adult Konan, who, in countless lonely days and nights, forced herself to close her heart and bury all her emotions with blank sheets of paper in order to protect Nagato and to preserve the corrupted "Akatsuki" for Yahiko!

They felt the unfathomable malice of this world:

Hanzo's betrayal, Danzo's scheming, the power struggles among great nations...

"So... if we stay here, we'll experience this terrible hell..."

The young boy, Xiao Nan, covered his mouth, tears already streaming down his face.

Young Nagato's Rinnegan trembled violently. He finally understood why his future "self" would say, "People don't understand pain."

Because that kind of pain is something that you can only imagine if you haven't experienced it yourself!

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"Tick."

In the real world, the light of the illusion slowly faded.

Inside the sealed room, five people, five souls from different times and spaces, were all in tears.

The explosive tags that were poised to detonate behind the adult Xiao Nan scattered and fell to the ground.

She stared blankly at the kneeling boy, Yahiko, her lips trembling, but she couldn't utter a sound.

Young Nagato and Konan also stepped forward and stood quietly behind Yahiko.

Having experienced this empathy that transcends time and space, they have completely understood their counterparts in that other time and space, and they understand this pain.

Only you can truly empathize with yourself.

"Sorry……"

In the silent, secret room, the boy Yahiko slowly stood up.

This time, Yahiko didn't utter those empty slogans like "We will bring peace."

Because he has truly experienced the inadequacy of words when all hope is crushed by reality.

“Nagato, Konan. You are right. People in this world do not understand pain, and they are indeed incapable of understanding each other.”

"Because before today, even I didn't know that my self-righteous sacrifice would bring you such a terrible hell. I thought my death could bring peace to Amegakure, but I left all the sins and despair to you to bear."

"I was too selfish."

Yahiko stretched out his hands, one on the left and one on the right, and grasped the hands of adult Nagato Shiba and the fingers of adult Konan.

“We feel every drop of blood and every tear you shed in the rain.”

“You have carried this pain for long enough.”

Yahiko raised his head, and the light in his eyes, beneath his orange hair, rekindled.

"But I still want to tell you that even if the world is full of malice, even if fate has arranged the most desperate script for us... hope is real."

Yahiko grinned, revealing the same radiant smile he had shown years ago when he sought shelter from the rain under the awning:

Let's start over!

The adult Nagato looked at the outstretched hand of the young Yahiko, then shook his head: "Too late... Yahiko is already dead!"

Chapter 207 Yahiko's Resurrection

"No matter how wonderful your world is, the changes in this world cannot be erased overnight."

"My hands are stained with blood. I have personally slaughtered Hanzo, countless Amegakure ninjas, and even those innocent rebels. I have become a 'god' in this village and even in this world. And a god cannot be weak or retreat!"

"Our world has fallen into utter darkness, there's no turning back. Your naive dreams cannot save this hell that's been soaked in hatred; only extreme pain can..."

"Alright, I don't have time for debate."

Uchiha Yue picked at his ear and slowly walked out from behind the three boys.

"Your so-called 'cannot go back,' your so-called 'people don't understand pain,' in the final analysis, isn't it just because he died?"

"As long as the dead cannot be brought back to life, the knot in your heart will never be untied, so you can only numb yourself with madness and paranoia, right?"

Nagato gritted her teeth: "The dead cannot be brought back to life, you..."

Uchiha Yue remained silent.

"Spiritual communication!"

Uchiha Yue clasped his hands together, without even needing to bite his fingers, and used pure chakra to directly draw intricate spatial jutsu in mid-air!

"Bang--!!!"

As a huge cloud of white smoke exploded in the center of the sealed room, an incubation chamber radiating a cold metallic luster appeared before everyone!

Inside the transparent glass of the incubation chamber lay a lifeless backup body of the [Fourth Calamity].

"Teacher Yue, this is..." Both the young Yahiko and Nagato were stunned.

Uchiha Yue ignored them, his left eye instantly transforming into a kaleidoscope pattern of starlight dice, his gaze fixed intently on the adult Nagato.

Or rather, the corpse of Yahiko beside him.

In Uchiha Yue's understanding, life and death are not an absolute chasm.

The underlying principle of the Impure World Reincarnation technique developed by Tobirama Senju is to use the DNA of the deceased as a medium to establish a coordinate in the present world, thereby ignoring the long time since death and forcibly summoning the soul from the Pure Land.

The conditions before us are a thousand times more perfect than the Impure World Reincarnation!

With just a slight improvement, keeping only the step of summoning souls, the rest is quite simple.

"Yin Technique: Soul Restraint!"

"Eight meanings combined!"

A trickle of blood instantly seeped from Uchiha Yue's left eye socket, but he didn't care at all, and his eye power exploded at full power!

"Increase the success rate of forcibly pulling the soul of 'adult Yahiko' from the Pure Land in this timeline and perfectly integrating it into the Fourth Calamity's body to an absolute 100%!"

"Buzz—!!!"

A surge of Yin Release chakra, like an invisible giant hand, followed the connection of Pain's Deva Path, directly tearing apart the dimensional boundary between life and death, and fiercely probing into the depths of that ethereal Pure Land!

As for the Sage of Six Paths who controls the Pure Land in this world, he doesn't care about the Impure World Reincarnation, so naturally he won't care about this resurrection.

"What?" The adult Nagato and the adult Konan stared wide-eyed. They could clearly feel a warm and familiar chakra fluctuation belonging to Yahiko, which actually came from the void!

"Come back here!"

Yue pulled down sharply with one hand!