Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

He stood up, straightened his clothes, and his narrow eyes gleamed with ambition.

Since the two advisor elders also died mysteriously not long ago, the power structure in the village has completely lost its balance.

The Fifth Hokage, Kakashi Hatake, may not have been particularly powerful, but he single-handedly managed all the affairs of the village.

This is absolutely absurd!

"Lord Danzo's will cannot be severed."

Masahiko Shimura scoffed inwardly.

Although the two elders are dead, their family power remains, and the former subordinates who once served in the "Root" are still there.

If these three forces can be reintegrated...

He pushed open the door and strode confidently toward the reception room.

"If we can reach an agreement tonight, we can reclaim our place amidst the impending chaos!"

He walked across the courtyard, lost in thought.

When he walked to the courtyard where the reception room was located, he inexplicably smelled a strong stench of blood.

"what happened?"

Masahiko Shimura frowned, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

He quickened his pace and pushed open the door to the reception room.

"The head of the Mitomon clan? The head of the Utatane clan?"

He called out tentatively.

No one responded.

The dimly lit reception room was deathly silent.

Masahiko Shimura cautiously entered the room, and by the moonlight streaming through the window, he could see the scene on the ground.

"..."

His pupils contracted instantly.

Beside the long table, several corpses lay scattered in pools of blood.

These were the distinguished guests he was hosting tonight.

The current heads of the Mitomon and Utatane families, along with several elite guards they brought.

Everyone was killed instantly, without even a trace of resistance.

"Who...who did this?!"

Masahiko Shimura felt his legs go weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.

"What do you think?" A cold voice sounded from behind.

Masahiko Shimura suddenly turned around and stared intently at the doorway.

Under the moonlight, two figures walked slowly into the courtyard.

The leader was a young man dressed in a pure white robe, with long, silver-white hair casually draped over his shoulders.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent.

Behind him followed a man dressed in a white haori with a gentle smile on his face.

"Who are you?!" Masahiko Shimura's voice trembled.

Sasuke glanced at him indifferently, a cold smile playing on his lips.

"I never imagined that even after Danzo's death, you maggots would still be dreaming such sweet dreams."

"You...you're Uchiha Sasuke?!"

Masahiko Shimura finally recognized the face. Although his demeanor and appearance had changed drastically, it wasn't difficult to recognize him...

“The members of those three families have just died out, and now you are the only one left.”

"Wait! I am the head of the Shimura family! You can't..."

Masahiko Shimura retreated in terror, trying to use his identity to save his life.

"Clan leader?" Sasuke scoffed. "If it weren't for your status, you wouldn't even be worthy of dying by my hand."

"you......"

Masahiko Shimura's pupils contracted sharply, as he tried to make one last struggle.

But Sasuke didn't give him another chance to speak.

He raised his hand and swung the knife.

A flash of dark light disappeared in an instant.

A head flew high into the air, blood gushing out and splattering onto the door behind it.

Masahiko Shimura's body twitched twice before completely losing its life.

Sasuke sheathed his sword, his face expressionless.

The moment the body fell, a pale blue light emerged from it—it was the soul of Masahiko Shimura.

He was completely bewildered, seemingly not yet realizing that he was dead, until he saw the indifferent figure in front of him, at which point his expression twisted into a ferocious and resentful one.

"Uchiha Sasuke...!"

The soul let out a silent roar, baring its fangs and claws as it tried to pounce on Sasuke.

"Quiet down."

Sasuke glanced at him indifferently and tapped lightly with his left index finger.

"The fourth bondage method is this rope."

A golden light appeared out of thin air, coiled around him, and instantly bound Shimura Masahiko's soul tightly, rendering him unable to move.

"Ugh ugh ugh—!" The soul struggled desperately.

Sasuke raised his head slightly, his gaze fixed on the area beneath the corpse.

"They're here," he said softly.

Aizen, who was standing to the side, also keenly sensed something, and the smile on his face faded a bit.

An invisible force of gravity surged from the depths of the earth, locking onto Masahiko Shimura's soul.

"This is..." Aizen narrowed his eyes, "The power to guide the dead? It seems quite different from the Thirteenth Division's Soul Burial method."

As gravity increased, the ground began to tremble slightly, and a dark crack slowly opened beneath the corpse.

Immediately afterwards, a black sphere, no bigger than a fist, rose from the crack.

It is completely black, without any luster, yet it contains the power of all things in the universe.

Seek Tao Jade.

"Oh?" Aizen's eyes lit up. "This is... an extremely high-density energy aggregate? Interesting."

The Seeking the Way Jewel paused slightly in mid-air before crashing into the soul bound by the Binding Path.

The golden light shattered the moment it touched the Truth-Seeking Jewel, dissipating into countless spiritual particles.

Freed from its restraints, Masahiko Shimura's soul was instantly captured by the gravitational force, carried by the Truth-Seeking Ball, and plummeted towards the crack deep underground.

Sasuke watched this scene without intervening. He turned to Aizen beside him and asked, "Did you see that?"

“Hmm.” Aizen nodded, his gaze fixed intently on the space below. “This power seems to connect to a completely different space.”

“That’s the entrance.” Sasuke strode forward, heading straight for the crack. “The entrance to the Pure Land.”

"As long as we follow the trajectory of the Truth-Seeking Ball, we can find the so-called Sage of Six Paths."

After saying that, Sasuke leaped into the air, transforming into a stream of fluid and disappearing into the crack.

Aizen watched Sasuke disappear and straightened his clothes slightly.

"Then let me witness with my own eyes what a living god really looks like."

As soon as he finished speaking, Aizen's figure disappeared.

The cracks in the ground closed, and it was eventually restored to its original state.

..........

Passing through the chaos, Sasuke opened his eyes, and what came into view was a gray world.

There was no sky, only emptiness overhead, with neither sun, moon, nor stars, nor clouds or wind.

A pale light, seemingly from nowhere, evenly illuminated the space.

Beneath my feet lay an endless wasteland, covered with countless tiny gray-white particles, stretching to the horizon.

"Is this the Pure Land?"

Aizen's figure appeared beside Sasuke, his gaze fixed on the gray-white horizon in the distance.

"This is completely different from Soul Society."

Aizen offered his assessment: "Although Soul Society is a world of the dead, it still maintains the order of Rukongai."

"Although it is disgusting, it does indeed follow the laws of the Seireitei."

“But here…” his voice trailed off, “there’s nothing here.”

“There seems to be no order at all, and even existence itself seems so thin here.”

"Where are we supposed to find this Sage of Six Paths?" Aizen frowned after surveying his surroundings.

The environment here is harsh, the terrain is flat, and there are no special landmarks.

Perception is unrestricted and can be extended, just like the senses that the eyes can see; there is nothing to use as a reference.

A few kilometers... tens of kilometers...

The feedback was still nothing and repetitive.

There probably won't be much difference a few hundred kilometers away.