From Hokage to Visionary

"Sorry……"

Mikoto bit her lip lightly, like a child who had made a mistake.

“Everyone who comes here has their own pursuits.”

Adam spoke in a gentle and steady tone, his eyes sweeping across both sides of the bronze table. “And I will just give them a push when necessary, and guide them onto the path they want.”

"The others...are they Orochimaru and White Fang?"

Mikoto also noticed the seats on the bronze table. Now it seemed... they should be other members, like Orochimaru and White Fang.

"Yes."

Adam said calmly, "The Twilight Hermitage is a gathering I organized. I can't give you what you want here directly. Everyone comes here for different reasons, whether it's seeking eternal life, or seeking to break free from the shackles of fate, or seeking change by peeking into the horror of the future. What I can do... is to give you a chance."

"what chance?"

Mikoto asked, looking slightly stunned.

"A chance to change your destiny."

Adam tapped the tabletop lightly with his index finger. Deep in his pale golden pupils, ripples and whirlpools rippled. “Take the path to God, transcend the levels and dimensions of life, and become… God!”

Become a god?

For others, the temptation to become a god is great.

But for Mikoto, these are not what she cares about. With clear eyes, she looked at the tall, hazy figure and said softly, "But... I just want to revive Uchiha Munetsuki."

...Madam, are you okay in your mind?

Adam's brows twitched wildly. He ignored the great temptation of becoming a god and instead was obsessed with Uchiha Sogetsu!

Fortunately, Mikoto seemed to have come to her senses and asked carefully: "Excuse me, can the divine path you mentioned... revive Uchiha Munetsuki?"

"can."

Adam nodded slightly and said, "But if you want to revive a person, there are many factors involved, such as the soul, thoughts, ideas, etc. So to really implement it, you have to at least be close to the level of God to be able to do it."

"Close to... God?"

Mikoto was stunned for a few seconds, but soon, her eyes were filled with determination again: "I can do it!"

"It seems that you understand."

Adam breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that Mikoto was even more difficult to deal with than Orochimaru and Ōnoki. One could only say that women who are love-brained are really scary.

"Excuse me...can I join you?"

There was a hint of caution in Mikoto's eyes, fearing that she would be rejected.

"can."

Adam said calmly, "Since you can step into this church, it means that you have already escaped from the trajectory of fate to some extent. Welcome to join the Dusk Hermitage. You can call me Adam like everyone else here."

It was a strange name, but Mikoto didn't dwell on it too much. Instead, she asked, "Mr. Adam, thank you for allowing me to join the Twilight Hermitage. So, may I ask... what is the price I need to pay?"

All gifts from fate have already been secretly marked with a price, haven't they?

"You are the price itself."

Adam smiled lightly and said meaningfully: "I want to see where you will go after breaking free from the shackles of fate, Uchiha Mikoto."

Now, he was really curious.

Now that the plot has been completely messed up, where will the future of Naruto go?

The most important thing is, in what form will the chakras of Ashura and Indra come?

Let’s not talk about Naruto’s situation for now.

As for Sasuke...it seems that Uchiha Mikoto probably has no plans to have a second child.

"Let's stop here today."

Adam's deep voice announced the end of this meeting.

“Looking forward to seeing you next time…”

Uchiha Mikoto lowered her head obediently, her heart cheering. Although she failed to resurrect that person, at least... she had found the direction!

Looking at Mikoto's fading figure, Adam... no, it should be Uchiha Sogetsu, the island of his mind suddenly shook, causing a storm to rage and roar, and lightning roared.

The next second, the island of the mind returned to calm.

Uchiha Sogetsu's pale golden eyes revealed a hint of amusement, as if he didn't care about the abnormality that had just occurred on the island of mind: "Interesting... Was the virtual personality that entered the Pure Land directly erased?"

The virtual personality that used the Impure World Reincarnation to quietly sneak into the Pure Land was suddenly wiped out... It seems that it was the Six Paths Sage who took action.

At this moment, a line of faint subtitles appeared in his eyes.

[Side Quest: Pure Land is Not Pure Land]

[Your virtual personality that tried to sneak into the Pure Land was directly destroyed by the Six Paths Sage. Obviously... he is hiding the secrets of the Pure Land. Go explore the deeper secrets of the Pure Land! ]

[Reward: Open low-sequence material store]

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 230 Goodbye Obito

After experiencing many turbulences, Konoha finally calmed down completely.

However, the subsequent impact of the adverse incident is far from over, and is even showing signs of intensifying.

At the inauguration ceremony of Hokage, Orochimaru openly announced his treason against the village and committed an unforgivable sin, making the entire Konoha Village a complete joke in the eyes of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and other major countries.

A large number of mission commissions were cancelled, the Fire Nation's aid funds were reduced, large tracts of forest resources were burned... and a series of problems followed one after another.

What is even more troublesome is that the cohesion of the people and ninjas of Konoha has been greatly shaken, and the will of fire that was previously promoted has now become more like a joke.

Judging from the results, Konoha is the winner of the war.

But...from a long-term perspective, Konoha is the one that loses the most.

The position of the Fifth Hokage remains vacant.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, in the name of the former Hokage, temporarily took over the duties of the Hokage and managed the current Konoha. At the same time, he issued the highest level of wanted order to the entire ninja world, demanding the traitor Orochimaru to be killed without mercy.

The Second and First Hokage announced to the outside world that they had returned to the Pure Land, but in fact they went out of the village as Anbu to investigate the "Aurora Society".

It is worth mentioning that due to his outstanding performance and achievements in the Third Ninja World War, and after passing the assessments of several jonin, Kakashi was officially promoted to jonin.

This year, he just turned 11 years old!

After receiving the official appointment, Kakashi accepted everyone's congratulations and left alone.

Coming to the street, he stopped in front of a flower shop. He was silent for a moment and walked forward: "Please give me a bouquet of flowers."

"Oh, what a handsome little brother~"

The store manager was a beautiful older sister with long hair. She was attracted by Kakashi's cool temperament at first sight. She came up to him with peach blossoms in her eyes and said affectionately, "But, little brother, you can't buy random flowers. If you don't mind, can you tell me who you want to give the flowers to?"

"No need. Please give me a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, thank you."

Looking at the older sister approaching, Kakashi took a half step back silently as if it was nothing.

"Uh, white chrysanthemum? I see. I see."

The store manager's smile faded. With a heavy heart, he picked out a few pure white chrysanthemums, framed them, and handed them to Kakashi: "Little brother, please accept my condolences."

"Ah."

Kakashi took the bouquet and turned away silently.

Looking at the boy's back, the store manager felt that he looked familiar. After a moment, he tapped his head and said, "I remember now. He has silver hair. He is Hatake Kakashi, the genius who was promoted to Jonin at the age of eleven!"

Kakashi walked through the crowd, holding a bouquet of white flowers, towards the Konoha Cemetery.

Although it was destroyed once, it has basically been restored to its original state after repairs. The bodies of the ninjas who died fighting for Konoha are buried here.

However, shortly after entering the cemetery, Kakashi, who was about to visit Nohara Rin and confide his troubles, was suddenly stunned for half a second. It turned out that in addition to him, there was another stranger in a black robe standing in front of Rin's tombstone.

Noticing the gaze behind him, the man slowly turned around.

On his face, he wore a spiral pattern mask, and through the hole where his left eye should be, he was also looking at Kakashi.

"who are you?"

Kakashi frowned slightly, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

"Me? Haha, just a dead person."

The masked man's voice was hoarse, as if his throat was damaged, and full of gravel-like friction, extremely unpleasant to the ear.

"If you're a dead person, why are you here in Konoha Cemetery?" Kakashi stared at the other person. He felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

"she."

The masked man pointed at Lin's tombstone, then tilted his head to look at Kakashi and said, "I want to take her away."

"She? Lin!" Kakashi heard this, and a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes: "Why did you take Lin's body away?"

"Haha, it has nothing to do with you."

The masked man sneered and said.

"I will never let you take Lin's body away!"

Although he didn't know why this guy took away Lin's body, Kakashi was not going to let him go, so he half-crouched and drew the short knife from his waist.

"Haha, you can't stop me."

The masked man's voice was full of sarcasm, and he even hooked his finger: "Come on, aren't you a genius from Konoha? Let me see how capable a genius who can be promoted to Jonin at the age of eleven is."

Whoosh whoosh!

Almost as soon as the words fell, three kunai flew towards the masked man.

The masked man turned his head slightly and easily avoided the kunai. But just as he was about to continue to taunt him, he caught a glimpse of Kakashi dragging a short sword and rushing towards him at a faster speed. The sharp blade cut through the air and slashed fiercely.

White tooth sword technique!

The short knife drew a sharp trajectory in the air, the edge and angle were almost perfect, as if dragging a thin light shadow as thin as silk.

The masked man's left eye shrank slightly, and his feet burst out chakra, and he suddenly retreated backwards.

Swish!

The dagger was half an inch away and passed across the masked man's face.

The mask was instantly chopped into pieces by the sword energy, but the masked man was able to distance himself and retreat to more than ten meters away.

The broken mask fell from his face, and the masked man covered his cheek and raised his head gloomily.

However, when that familiar face came into view, Kakashi's pupils gradually shrank, and then turned into shock, as if he couldn't believe it, and said in a trembling voice: "Is it you? Obito, is it really you! "

"Long time no see Kakashi."

Covering his injured face covered with old scars, Obito looked sinister: "It's me, of course it's me, why? Are you surprised to see me?"

"So, you're not dead?!"

Kakashi was still in shock. He thought Obito was dead, but unexpectedly, he was still alive!

"Haha, of course I'm alive, and I'm living well!"

Obito slowly stood up with a hideous sneer on his face: "You didn't expect it, are you disappointed? Not only was I not killed, I also struggled to survive from hell. Not only do I want to stay alive, I also want to take revenge on you hypocritical guys!"

"Wait, Obito, there must be some misunderstanding here!"

Looking at his once sunny and cheerful companion, whose eyes were now filled with hatred and anger, like a devil who had fallen into hell, Kakashi suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Misunderstanding? Hahaha."

Hearing this, Obito seemed to have heard something ridiculous, and laughed while covering his head: "No, there is no misunderstanding, I just saw the truth of the ninja world."

"Obito, what happened during the time you disappeared?" Kakashi had a serious expression on his face, and he noticed keenly that something was not right with Obito's condition at the moment. He was like a prisoner who had escaped from prison and was almost consumed by crazy desire.

"what happened?"

Suddenly, Obito seemed to be stunned, with a trace of confusion in his eyes: "I I don't remember."

He only remembered that he escaped from a prison, but he had no recollection of what happened before that. His mind was completely blank.

At this time, a dark figure appeared nearby and said sinisterly, "Obito, why are you talking so much nonsense to him?"