Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

Uchiha Yue's wanted level was changed from A-rank to S-rank, with no upper limit, and his whereabouts disappeared without a trace, like a stone sinking into the sea amidst the yellow sand.

Deep underground, forgotten by the world, Uchiha Tsuki stood alone before the massive dragon vein sealing platform, conducting a research project that was enough to overturn the entire ninja world's understanding.

"What kind of power is this...?"

With his three-tomoe Sharingan activated, Yue's gaze pierced through the royal seal beneath Sarabu, fixed on the vast sea of ​​chakra deep underground.

As a transmigrator with a God's-eye view, Yue's thinking was not limited to the superficial concept of "chakra," but rather she set her sights on the higher-dimensional cosmic ecology.

"In the Otsutsuki clan's interstellar plundering model, the 'Divine Tree' descends upon a planet, its essence being to take root in the Earth's core, draining all life and natural energy from the planet, and ultimately bearing a chakra fruit."

Yue's mind raced as she deduced the underlying logic of the original work, her brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

"Under normal cosmic laws, once the Divine Tree blossoms and bears fruit, this planet will become a dead star, and all life will be wiped out. But... the Ninja World is an absolute anomaly!"

Kaguya Otsutsuki planted the Divine Tree in the ninja world, and it even bore fruit which she swallowed.

Logically speaking, the ninja world should have long since become a lifeless wasteland.

However, the truth is that the ninja world was not destroyed; in fact, it remained vibrant for a thousand years after Kaguya was sealed away!

The ancient monsters like the Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku and the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave, who had lived for thousands of years, were completely unaffected by that great battle.

Their essential energy is natural energy.

"The so-called 'dragon vein' is not an ordinary chakra vein at all."

It is a 'natural energy complex' that has been accumulated and gathered on this planet over countless years!

That is, the purest and most abundant source of Sage Chakra!

Because the energy density is so high and the mass is so great, when it is violently disturbed, the gravitational field it generates is even enough to distort the curvature of the surrounding space, thus creating the miracle of "time travel"!

"No wonder the future Centipede could travel through time and space, no wonder Minato and the others were caught up in it... This is not a ninjutsu at all, this is a spacetime collapse caused by extremely high-quality energy!"

Now he has grasped this power, or rather, he has the opportunity to develop it.

However, Yue was not blinded by the power.

He knew very well that with his current physical condition and Sharingan, if he rashly and forcibly absorbed the dragon vein, there would only be one outcome.

Assimilated by the violent natural energy, it became a mindless stone statue.

His vision was already somewhat blurred, and his pupil power would probably not be able to sustain him until he learned the immortal arts.

His eyes had deteriorated to this extent in just a few months.

"Compared to Sasuke, I'm just as good."

"One must eat one bite at a time. To control this power that travels through time and space, I must first master 'Sage Mode' or find a medium that can perfectly integrate with natural energy. Before that... I must first make this 'laboratory' as solid as a rock."

Chapter 12, several months

When Sarah returned to the Loulan palace from the depths of the earth that month, she was looking at a pile of urban reconstruction reports on the table with worry.

Although An Lushan died, Loulan's puppet industrial system also collapsed.

Without those tireless machines, the Loulan people, accustomed to being "domesticated" and enslaved, faced major problems even with the most basic necessities of drinking water and food in the arid and barren desert.

If the problem of survival is not solved, the ending in the original story, where Loulan becomes a dead city and Sara leads the survivors to wander around, will still be repeated.

"Are you worried about how to feed your tens of thousands of mouths, Your Majesty?"

Yue walked to the table and casually flipped through a few pages of parchment.

“Lord Yue…” Sarah quickly stood up, her expression somber. “An Lushan destroyed the oases on the surface, and the groundwater has also been polluted by the previous battles. If we don’t use the dragon vein to drive the water pumping golems, we won’t last more than a month.”

"I have said that the power of the dragon vein will belong to me from now on, and I will absolutely forbid anyone from touching it again."

The moon's voice is beyond question.

But then, he pulled a thick stack of blueprints from his black robe and slammed them down in front of Sarah.

"However, as a reward for your offering of the Dragon Vein, I also promised to make your people live a good life. I, Uchiha Yue, always keep my word."

Sarah picked up the blueprints with a puzzled look, then froze in shock.

What was drawn on it was not any kind of puppet structure she had ever seen before, but rather some extremely intricate mechanical structures and architectural sketches that she could not understand at all.

"This is……"

"Wind-powered water pumping station, deep soilless drip irrigation agricultural system, solar power station, and some tool basic structure diagrams."

Uchiha Yue pointed at the blueprints, a confident smile playing on his lips.

As a transmigrator from modern Earth, although he had almost forgotten the physics, chemistry, and basic engineering knowledge he had learned in nine years of compulsory education and university, the Sharingan's ability to delve into memories was still very profound.

In this ninja world with an extremely distorted technology tree, despite having radios and displays, they still use cold weapons and primitive agriculture. These modern basic technologies from another world are simply a case of dimensional reduction.

“We don’t need to exploit those dangerous dragon veins, nor do we need to use human lives to fill the production line. The desert has no shortage of strong winds and scorching sun. I will teach you how to obtain energy by utilizing pure ‘natural laws’ instead of ‘chakra’.”

A hint of a smile flashed in Yue's eyes as she looked at the dumbfounded Sarah.

"I will spend ten years transforming your people from slaves into engineers and scholars. I will turn this city of Loulan into an iron oasis that is completely independent of ninjas and not controlled by the five great nations."

"It will be my future opponent... never mind."

Sarah had no idea what this man had been through, nor why his mind was filled with such wisdom.

All she knew was that Loulan needed this right now.

“I understand, Lord Moon.” Sarah took a step back, placed her right hand on her chest, and performed a deep bow, the highest level of royal etiquette.

"For Loulan."

……

Time flies, and several months have passed in the blink of an eye.

The wheels of history continued to roll relentlessly forward in the main timeline, and the Third Shinobi World War came to an end in blood and fire.

Minato Namikaze, having trampled over the corpses of countless enemies and achieved illustrious feats, finally donned the sacred robes representing the highest authority in Konoha and became the Fourth Hokage.

Even after he took office, the Anbu's search order for the S-rank rogue ninja Uchiha Tsukuyomi was never withdrawn.

Minato even sent his elite secret agents to search the desert of the Land of Wind several times, but they were blocked by the endless yellow sand and the hidden barrier surrounding Loulan.

At the same time, Loulan's technology is also rapidly iterating.

The engineers of Loulan were already quite capable; to be able to build such a magnificent tower and a complex puppet production line in the ninja world, their craftsmanship and mechanical talent must have been superb.

What they lack is an inexhaustible source of energy like a dragon vein, and a correct guiding direction.

Although the current energy system is not as powerful and limitless as the dragon vein, it can sustain the city's basic operations for a year or two without any problem.

In addition to energy, some applied technologies are also developing rapidly.

A rudimentary internal combustion engine, hydroponics in greenhouse agriculture, and a more efficient groundwater circulation system...

This can be considered a complete fulfillment of Uchiha Yue's promise to the people of Loulan to "improve their quality of life".

Aside from periodically delivering those groundbreaking application technology blueprints to Sara, Uchiha Yue spent the rest of his time almost like a ghost, buried deep underground in a top-secret laboratory, conducting in-depth research on the Dragon Vein.

Once the initial concept is established and an idea is proposed, then it becomes an endless process of experimental research.

On this long and unknown path of scientific exploration, Uchiha Tsukuyomi possesses an ultimate cheat code that the entire ninja world, and even Orochimaru, cannot match.

The left eye possesses eight meanings, which can alter probabilities through pupil power.

Even without using eye power, one can know the probability of success in doing something.

Only researchers know just how incredible this ability is.

It can directly avoid routes that are impossible from the start and extract routes with higher probability.

In the dimly lit underground laboratory, a faint, cold, luminous blue light flickered.

"hiss--"

Uchiha Yue, wearing a white protective coat, stood in front of a transparent vessel covered with complex sealing techniques.

Inside the vessel, a wisp of purple dragon vein energy, carefully extracted, was frantically striking the inner wall like a raging venomous snake.

"The ferocity of natural energy exceeds expectations. If it is directly introduced into the human body's meridians, the probability of 'petrification' is 99.99%."

Yue looked at the experimental records in her hand, her brows furrowed.

The essence of science is trial and error, and when it comes to studying the violent energy of dragon veins, which is capable of distorting space and time, every "mistake" may be accompanied by the destruction of the laboratory.

If we follow the normal experimental procedures, even if Orochimaru were to conduct the research, it would take decades to figure out the chakra wave pattern of the dragon vein.

But a month doesn't need to take that long.

The endless flow of pupil power into the research on the dragon vein made his vision increasingly blurred, but the pace of the experiment also accelerated.

"Since the conventional chakra ratio cannot neutralize it... let's try to resonate with it using extreme high-frequency gravitational waves."

Yue put down her pen and slowly raised her head.

His black pupils instantly transformed into crimson Mangekyou Sharingan.

The star array in his left eye, resembling a die, began to slowly rotate.

"If I compress this wisp of dragon vein energy at my current chakra output frequency, what is the probability of triggering a miniature spacetime collapse?"

As her pupil power slightly diminished, a cold number surfaced in Yue's intuition: 0.7%.

This is a success rate so low it's almost negligible, meaning that if he acts now, there's a high probability it will trigger an explosion, shattering the vessel in front of him into pieces.

But beneath Uchiha Yue's mask, a mad smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"As long as it's not zero, that's enough."

"Snapped!"

A crisp snap of fingers echoed in the quiet laboratory.

"Eight meanings combined!"

"Maintain the gravity I currently control within the range of gravitational regulation that allows the dragon vein to warp spacetime."

The kaleidoscope in his left eye spun wildly, forcibly turning the wheel of cause and effect, brutally raising that tiny 0.7% probability to an absolute 100%!

"Om-!"

Inside the vessel, the originally turbulent purple energy, under the pressure of the weak gravitational field released by the right eye of the moon, "Heavenly Lord of the Central Realm," not only did not explode, but instead achieved a perfect frequency resonance in an extremely strange way!