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"It's not necessary for now. Growing up in Konoha might be better for him."

Although Mount Myōboku is protected by toads, it's full of frogs and toads. In Konoha, Naruto can find a suitable environment to grow up in.

"Then I'll leave first."

Fukasaku, the toad sage, glanced at the Grim Reaper fighting fiercely in the sky and the Nine-Tailed Fox beside him, and whispered, "Take care, you two."

With that, it clasped its hands together and vanished on the spot with a bang.

Minato Namikaze glanced at the sky. The fierce battle between two Grim Reapers allowed his soul to remain in his body for a short time, but his injuries caused his life to ebb away.

Time is running out; we must seal away the Nine-Tails!

"Next, it's time to use the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique... I will do my best to seal the chakra within Naruto. Kushina, it's time to part ways with Naruto. If you have anything to say, say it now..."

Kushina's gaze never left Naruto from beginning to end. No matter how intense the battle on the horizon was, her attention remained on Naruto.

She looked tenderly at Naruto on the altar, a smile unique to mothers appearing on her lips. Her voice was low, as if she were chatting casually, as if afraid of waking her sleeping child.

"Naruto, you can't be a picky eater from now on. You have to eat your fill every day so you can grow up strong and healthy."

"Remember to take a hot shower every day, and don't stay up late. Make sure you get enough sleep every night. Also, make friends, but it's okay if you don't have many. A few trustworthy friends are enough..."

"Oh, right, there's one more thing to remember, it's about the three prohibitions for ninjas..."

"First of all, don't borrow money casually. Remember to save your mission rewards carefully. You can only drink alcohol when you're twenty. Drinking too much is bad for your health, so remember to do it in moderation..."

"And then there's the last of the three prohibitions, 'women.' Because Mom is a woman herself, I don't really understand it. In short, there's only the distinction between men and women in this world. You'll eventually become interested in women. I'm just worried about getting entangled with strange women. I want to find an outstanding woman like Mom..."

Kushina's voice grew weaker and weaker, but even at this moment, she maintained her smile, while tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Naruto... You will encounter a lot of heartache and pain in the future. You must keep your own pace... You must also keep your dreams in your heart, and then put your dreams into reality. You must have confidence in yourself."

"I still have... so many things I want to say to you, I still want to live with you, I want to watch you grow up... Naruto... when your father and mother are no longer by your side, you must be strong... Finally, I love you... Naruto..."

Sobbing, tears fell onto the altar. Young Naruto frowned slightly, as if he could sense Kushina's feelings, and a pained expression appeared on his face.

"I'm sorry, Minato, I got carried away..."

“It’s alright.” Minato shook his head, turned his body to the side, and said gently, “Naruto, what Daddy wants to say is the same as what your nagging Mommy says… You must become an excellent ninja in the future.”

He gently closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

"Gossip seal!"

A powerful sealing technique was unleashed, and sealing patterns appeared on Naruto's abdomen, rapidly spreading. The immense power condensed the Nine-Tails into chakra, which was then thrust into Naruto's body.

"Damn Fourth Hokage, you'll regret this!"

The nine-tailed fox roared, but the sealing spell had already been cast, and no matter how much it struggled, it was to no avail.

The Nine-Tails was sealed inside Naruto's body. Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki leaned on each other, looking at their child and waiting for the end of their lives.

Suddenly, a shadow blocked the moonlight. Minato Namikaze struggled to open his eyes, looking at the masked Mizuki Yoru, a bitter smile appearing on his face: "It's embarrassing to say this, but if possible... I hope you can look after Naruto a little..."

“Of course.” Night nodded. “But there’s no such thing as a free lunch. You’ll have to pay a price.”

"you say……"

"It's hardly a price to pay; it could even be considered a blessing."

A strange smile appeared on Mizuki Yoru's lips: "The Second Hokage just told me that your wife reached an agreement with him. In view of the protection provided by the Nine-Tails' attack, your wife agreed that her soul would be at my disposal after her death."

"Don't make that face, Minato Namikaze. If I could, I'd even like to snatch your soul from that guy's hands."

“A soul experiment, huh…” Minato Namikaze paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, “Fine, since he’s already dead, I might as well get one more promise from you. I hope you can really take care of Naruto.”

"So, deal done?"

"Deal done!"

The Mizukage and Hokage reached an agreement, but in mid-air, the battle between the two Shinigami continued.

The spiritual energy surged forth like a violent storm, blasting the entire mountaintop into dust.

However, the rule of Prince's Battle Technique is that there is no harm in the smoke. This kind of crazy and chaotic attack looks fierce, but from the ruins filled with smoke and dust, a gray-white figure suddenly emerged. The ghostly figure moved forward in the endless spiritual power and flashed behind Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon in an instant.

The ashen hand of death, gripping a short blade, suddenly slashed down at Hozuki Gengetsu's neck.

Its speed is so fast that it arrives in an instant, even exceeding the limits of nerve reflexes.

Before Hozuki Gengetsu could react, the dagger in the Grim Reaper's hand had already fallen.

But at this critical moment, the pure white mist that should have been on Hozuki Gengetsu's wrist strangely spread behind him, blocking the incoming attack!

"Um?!"

Death's狰狞 face clearly froze for a moment, while the corners of Hozuki Gengetsu's mouth under his pure white mask turned up slightly.

The pure white mist that lingered behind it changed shape, like a shield.

A few breaths later, the mist shield split open, like endless mist shackles, binding the short blade in Death's hand.

"Illusory Mirage Shield Armor".

"Seal it off, Mirage!"

The mist spread, its seemingly light mist turning into substance, gradually clinging to and spreading onto the body of the Grim Reaper. Hozuki Gengetsu countered with a Six-Staff Light Prison, the pillar of light overlapping with the Mirage's seal, further strengthening its binding power.

"At the edge of a thousand hands, the supreme hand cannot reach the darkness, the archer of the heavens cannot illuminate..."

"What!?"

The chanting words rang out from Hozuki Gengetsu's mouth, and Uchiha Shisui's pupils, who was already startled by the change in the form of Hozuki Gengetsu's Zanpakuto, suddenly contracted.

Releasing such a level of demonic power in such a place would almost certainly kill everyone present, except for Minazuki Yoru and himself.

Uchiha Shisui subconsciously looked at Mizuki Yoru, only to see her calmly raise her hand and cover the infant Naruto's body with a layer of ice crystals, after which she made no further moves.

Uchiha Shisui's expression darkened, and he instantly appeared beside the Third Hokage, who was still reeling from the battle with the Shinigami.

"you……"

"Konoha cannot be without a leader..."

The familiar voice reached Hiruzen Sarutobi's ears, causing the Hokage to widen his eyes: "You, you are..."

Before Hiruzen Sarutobi could speak, Shisui Uchiha grabbed his armor and vanished from the spot in an instant.

When they reappeared, the two were already under the Hokage Rock.

Shisui tossed aside Hiruzen Sarutobi and vanished instantly. A few breaths later, several elite Konoha ANBU were thrown over.

"and many more!"

After doing all this, Shisui prepared to leave, but the Third Hokage called out to him from behind.

Zhi Shui paused slightly in his steps.

"You didn't die... then why..."

"There's no need for meaningless words. The Fourth Hokage is already dead. Konoha has suffered heavy losses tonight. If we lose another Hokage, Konoha will be wiped out of the ninja world by tomorrow's sunrise."

Uchiha Shisui's voice was incredibly calm, revealing no emotion whatsoever. After speaking, his figure vanished.

“Uchiha…Shisui…”

Hiruzen Sarutobi opened his mouth, but the call he was about to utter was abruptly cut off.

Before he could even ponder why Uchiha Shisui (Danzo's mission report), who had already died in the Third Shinobi World War, had been resurrected and joined the Seireitei, becoming a member of Mizuki Yoru's ranks, he was caught off guard.

His gaze was already drawn to the distant sky.

The surging spiritual energy shook the sky, and the world, which had been exceptionally bright under the blood moon, became gloomy once again.

Dark clouds loomed over the city, threatening to crush it. At this moment, the entire sky seemed to be shrouded by an incomparably vast and powerful force!

"Light Bullet, Eight Bodies, Nine Stripes, Heavenly Scripture, Swift Treasure, Great Wheel, Gray Turret..."

The low chant gradually rose in pitch, and as the vast spiritual energy condensed, countless cones of spiritual energy appeared around Hozuki Gengetsu, their brilliance like shooting stars streaking across the night sky, ready to be unleashed under Hozuki Gengetsu's guidance.

With their appearance, the whole world seemed to be illuminated by this light and color.

The chanting has ended.

Hozuki Gengetsu looked at the Grim Reaper bound by the mirage and grinned.

"Hado Chapter Ninety-One..."

"Thousand-Handed Sky-Piercing Cannon!"

hum! ! !

The moment the words fell, all the beams of spiritual energy shot out simultaneously, blasting towards the Grim Reaper.

The spiritual energy erupted, and countless Thousand Hands Heavenly Cannons, like stars falling from the sky, rained down. Each one that struck Death unleashed an unimaginable burst of terror, and when all the light cones had fallen, the whole world seemed to tremble.

Countless Konoha citizens, sheltered in the Hokage Rock, instinctively looked towards the outside world. The light generated by the energy burst was like the sun, illuminating the entire sky of Konoha and attracting countless eyes. However, it was so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it.

"This level of outburst... are you kidding me..."

"Is it a Tailed Beast Ball...?"

"The Fourth Hokage, and the Nine-Tails... what exactly happened there?"

Among the ninja guards at the shelter, Danzo gripped the railing tightly, while the Konoha ninjas beside him looked utterly horrified and couldn't help but swallow hard.

Others may not know, but Shimura Danzo, who was quite familiar with the Nine-Tails, knew very well that this explosion was not the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball, and the energy within it... was not even chakra.

If an explosion of this magnitude were to occur within Konoha, the damage it would cause would be no less than, and perhaps even greater than, the tailed beast ball released by the Nine-Tails.

As the most powerful of the tailed beasts, Kurama's status in the ninja world is unquestionable and unique, so it is understandable that it possesses the power to easily destroy an entire Konoha.

But what released this explosion at this moment...

Danzo Shimura clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. His gaze suddenly fell on the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was under the shelter, and he quickly walked towards him.

"Hiruzen!" Danzo roared, "What exactly happened in the Forest of Death? Where is Kurama? Where is Eternal Girl?!"

"Danzo..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze was complex, and he sighed deeply: "Let's seal off the Forest of Death first. Until the battle over there is completely over, no one is allowed to enter the Forest of Death!"

"A battle? Who? Is it Eternal Girl and Nine-Tails?"

"No... there will be no more Eitai-chan." Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression was grave: "Eitai-chan used the Reaper Death Seal to seal the Nine-Tails into her child, and now, over there, she's fighting..."

"It's Death!"

"Wha, what?"

……

at the same time.

In a desolate world, a temple radiating an inexplicable glow of chakra stands quietly atop a mountain peak.

Inside the temple, there was an elderly man sitting cross-legged, suspended above the ground.

He has two horns on his head and a blood-red reincarnation mark on his forehead. He wears a white robe with six black magatama-shaped patterns on his chest and a red vortex-shaped mark on his back, below which are magatama engravings arranged in a nine-square grid.

Behind him, a jet-black scepter floats, one end representing the sun and the other the moon.

Suddenly, the black scepter emitted a faint, clear tremor, and the elderly man slowly opened his eyes. The pale purple Rinnegan was in his eye sockets, eerie and mysterious.

“Brother, the servant you used to guide the spirits suffered extremely serious injuries in the ninja world.”

The moment it opened its eyes, an elderly figure, also dressed in white and with two horns on its head, slowly stepped into the temple and said in a low voice, "Even its very essence has suffered some damage."

The Sage of Six Paths, who was addressed as the elder brother, remained silent, seemingly deep in thought. After a long while, he slowly spoke: "The chakra of the ninja world cannot shake the spirit servant I created, and that person has no chakra aura. He is not a member of my mother's clan."

"They might be natives of the ninja world. They can use natural energy, soul energy, and spiritual energy to do certain things... What are you going to do? Indra and Ashura's souls have only been reincarnated for a short time, are you just going to leave them alone?"

"The matter of the ninja world's souls is of great importance. We don't know when Mother's clansmen will descend. Before that, it's our plan to gather as many 'subjects' as possible." The Sage of Six Paths said calmly, "The plan cannot have any unexpected events. Besides, Ashura and Indra's reincarnations also need a certain amount of time to grow... It's better not to take such a risk."

As he finished speaking, an indescribable surge of immense chakra rose from his body…

Chapter 161 A Blow from the Sage of Six Paths!

A magnificent aura filled the sky, as if a faint and sacred song was being sung, praising the existence of an unparalleled immortal.

A vast and sacred chakra surged into the sky from the Sage of Six Paths, and the once gray and desolate Pure Land of the Underworld was suddenly illuminated at this moment!

Under the radiant light, countless souls and spirits emerged from the gray world. Their forms were no different from humans, except that they were covered by an invisible membrane of soul power.

The magnificent chakra illuminated the world, and also lit up the faces of these souls.