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"Our Water Shadow is the master of the dead!"

"The Lord of the Dead...?" Middle-aged Sasuke paused, his pupils contracting rapidly. "Could it be...!"

“Yes, that’s exactly what you think.” Fugaku Uchiha looked at Sasuke’s handsome face, which was full of fatigue, and patted him on the shoulder. “So, rest assured and leave these things to us.”

"What you need to do right now is to heal your injuries from fighting that Otsutsuki. You can even try out our power system. In short, all you need to do is conserve your energy. Leave all the other stuff to us, Sasuke!"

Fugaku Uchiha tried to grab Sasuke's hand, but missed. The empty arm made Fugaku's heart clench again.

"But……"

"No buts!"

Fugaku grabbed Sasuke's only remaining hand with a firm grip and pulled him toward the Mizukage's office.

"You say I left you when I was young, so in this era, let me fulfill my responsibilities as a father as much as possible. I will negotiate and arrange these things with Kirigakure to the best of my ability. All you need to do is to recuperate, rest well, and take a good look at this different world!"

"Father……"

The scene of a loving father and filial son was unknown to the people in the Hidden Mist Office, but most of them could guess what it would be like.

On a normal day, they might have teased Fugaku a bit, but now they weren't in the mood.

At this moment, they must find a special treasure that is small and looks like a toy in the entire ninja world in the shortest possible time.

Fortunately, just as Fugaku said.

If we had to say what's most outstanding in the ninja world right now, it would be combat power and manpower.

"Go! Find it as quickly as possible!" Minazuki Akira ordered in a deep voice. "Also, once you discover any trace of the Otsutsuki from another world, be sure to send the information over immediately."

"They just wandered into our world, so we have to give them a surprise!"

Chapter 345 Two Eras

"Is this the most powerful village of this era?"

Looking at the bustling, prosperous, and ever-flowing streets before him, a look of bewilderment appeared on the face of middle-aged Sasuke.

It's hard to believe this is Kirigakure. Even Kirigakure in his time couldn't compare to this village. In the entire ninja world, only Konoha could probably reach such a level.

This requires more than just peace; it also requires the support of various economic and social statuses to achieve.

"This is still Kirigakure, which has been overthrown several times." Fugaku Uchiha stood beside the middle-aged Sasuke, sighed softly, and said with envy in his eyes, "You know, just a few months ago, Kirigakure was destroyed and wiped out."

"It recovered to this extent in just a few months?!"

The middle-aged Sasuke was extremely shocked. He knew that in his world, even the most powerful Konoha would need to spend a lot of manpower and resources to rebuild after the war, and it would also take a lot of time.

But the Hidden Mist before us has actually managed to achieve this level of skill in just a few months...

The Hidden Mist Village of this era has already surpassed the Hidden Leaf Village where they live!

“It’s simply…unbelievable,” the middle-aged Sasuke exclaimed.

"There's no way around it, that's the charm of Minazuki Yoru. He's not only the strongest of this era, but also the uncrowned king of the entire ninja world. Although he doesn't have a nominal kingdom to rule, in everyone's hearts, he is someone who can completely compare to, or even replace, the Sage of Six Paths."

"Because of strength?"

“That’s the foundation, it all comes down to his character and conduct.” Fugaku Uchiha shook his head. “From what I’ve told you, I understand everything you and Naruto did after becoming the strongest ninja in the world. I don’t know how to evaluate Minato’s kid, should I say he has the spirit of the First Hokage, or that he is kind-hearted.”

"But no matter what, under your guidance, that era did not move in the better direction we expected. War and turmoil still existed, and ambitious people emerged one after another. The ninja world was still the same ninja world."

"……Yes."

The middle-aged Sasuke sighed. Fugaku was right. Even if they won the Fourth Shinobi World War, even if he and Naruto were the strongest in the shinobi world, the peace lasted for far too short a time. The shinobi world was basically no different from before.

They weren't even as good as the First Hokage... At least when the First Hokage was reborn, the ninja world was still peaceful, while their era was plagued by cholera outbreaks.

Artificial humans, chakra weapons, and so on are all catastrophic events capable of causing chaos in the ninja world.

Not to mention the Otsutsuki clan.

However, in this world, apart from the Otsutsuki clan, no one dares to provoke Mizukiyo.

“Perhaps I shouldn’t always let Naruto have his way…” The middle-aged Sasuke looked somewhat dazed, still remembering how, right after the Fourth Shinobi World War ended, his thoughts were even more violent and extreme.

He controls the nine tailed beasts and uses absolute force to intimidate the five great nations, forcibly bringing peace to the entire ninja world under his power.

Although Naruto shattered that thought with a single punch back then, now, seeing the ninja world under the oppressive aura of Mizuki Yoru, compared to the world he inhabits, Sasuke's chin, which Naruto had flattened with a single punch, seems to be becoming sharp again.

The Uchiha bloodline seemed to be rekindling when Fugaku Uchiha, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up.

"How are the Uchiha clan members from that world doing?"

Within the illusion provided by Sasuke, there are numerous images and information, many of which are even Sasuke's own memories.

What puzzled Fugaku was that there were not many members of the Uchiha clan among them.

Sasuke himself is a member of the Uchiha clan. As one of the two most powerful clans in the ninja world, how is it possible that, apart from Obito and Madara, there are not many Uchiha clan members in the future?

Even at this point in time, he, Itachi, and Shisui have all awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan. Given the strength of middle-aged Sasuke's world, the three of them should at least be able to make an appearance.

and……

"The Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, I don't possess these eyes myself, but Shisui and Madara both had them." Fugaku Uchiha said in a low voice, "Those are the eyes that can only be awakened by taking the Mangekyou Sharingan of a close relative."

"Given your personality, you would never kill Itachi for power... In your future, did something extraordinary happen between you, Itachi, and the entire Uchiha clan?"

Fugaku looked at the middle-aged Sasuke and wondered if it was just his imagination, but he actually saw a hint of regret and sorrow on Sasuke's face.

"What exactly happened in your world?"

"In the future... there will be no more Uchiha."

Sasuke's slightly deep and hoarse voice caused Fugaku's expression to freeze completely.

"In my world, the Third Shinobi World War will not end with a great victory for Kirigakure. Although the losses are heavy, the ultimate winner will be Konoha."

"The victory in the Third Shinobi World War brought the power of the Hokage lineage to its peak. Originally, thanks to your relationship with Naruto's parents, the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the village could be somewhat eased. However, the Nine-Tails attack completely shattered that."

Sasuke said with a sigh, "Obito Uchiha used the power of the Sharingan to control the tailed beast and destroy Konoha. This is an indisputable fact. Even if the Uchiha clan can prove afterward that the person who controlled the Nine-Tails was not a member of the clan."

“Without the Fourth Hokage speaking up for us, we had no way to influence the decisions of the higher-ups. And as expected, the higher-ups, who were already hostile to the Uchiha clan, made the other people in the village even more hostile and alienated from the Uchiha clan. The Uchiha even moved their clan territory to the southern corner of the village because of this.”

"Under these circumstances, the conflict between the Uchiha clan and Konoha intensified to the point where it could not be salvaged by individual efforts. A violent conflict was bound to erupt between the two sides to determine who would be the leader of Konoha."

"finally……"

"The conflict broke out, and the Uchiha were wiped out by the higher-ups?" Fugaku's expression was somewhat somber. As the head of the Uchiha clan, he knew very well what Sasuke was talking about.

Even if the conflict between the world's higher-ups and the Uchiha clan hadn't reached that level, there were already significant signs of it during the Third Shinobi World War.

"Do not."

The middle-aged Sasuke shook his head, opened his mouth, and finally told everything that happened on that bloody night in that world: "Although the conflict between the higher-ups and the clan intensified, the final conflict did not break out... It was Nisan who was deceived by Danzo and the Konoha higher-ups and finally obeyed their orders, cooperating with Obito to kill everyone in the clan."

"And you, Father, ultimately chose to fall under Nisan's blade. Only I was spared by Nisan and became one of the few remaining descendants of the Uchiha clan."

Fugaku's face was blank; he couldn't even believe his ears.

The middle-aged Sasuke naturally understood how huge the impact of these things was on Fugaku, but he did not stop and continued to speak: "After that, Nii-san used hatred to guide me, trying to make me unleash the maximum power of the Sharingan. He even personally directed a scene of the younger brother taking revenge on the older brother in order to unleash my Mangekyou Sharingan... I really can't imagine how much Nii-san endured at that time when the three tomoe shattered the Mangekyou Sharingan."

"After that, I awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan. Later, my eyes developed problems due to frequent use, and under Obito's guidance, I received a transplant of Nii-san's eyes, eventually awakening the Eternal Eye..."

Before he could finish speaking, middle-aged Sasuke was already unable to utter a sound. Fugaku's strong arms tightly embraced Sasuke's body in front of him. They could both feel each other's trembling body and their grief-stricken hearts.

"You must be very tired, Sass..."

"...It's all in the past now, Bean Paste."

"No, I won't let you go back like this, or let you bear all that alone." Fugaku Uchiha looked at the middle-aged Sasuke in front of him with a serious expression. "The power you possess is still chakra, right... Although I don't know if things will change after entering the parallel world... Never mind, come with me!"

"Wha, what?"

The middle-aged Sasuke followed Fugaku with a puzzled look on his face. Before long, the two arrived at a heavily guarded secret room.

The room was filled with various complex and expensive scientific instruments, and figures were carrying out their tasks in an orderly manner.

Even when Fugaku and middle-aged Sasuke arrived, these people didn't show much emotion, but the shock in Sasuke's eyes intensified.

If I'm not mistaken, the items on the research vessels just at the entrance include numerous invaluable bloodline chakra treasures such as 'Hashirama cells', 'Tailed Beast Chakra', 'Sharingan', and 'Byakugan'.

As they went deeper, they encountered more and more human experiments and chakra tissues. In the end, the middle-aged Sasuke even felt an extremely familiar sensation.

That is……

"Ten-Tails?!"

Staring at that small section of tissue that resembled withered wood, and the pale figure draped in a white coat, middle-aged Sasuke's eyes widened. He even activated his Eternal Eye, and growled in disbelief, "You're even researching the Ten-Tails?!"

"Now that you have defeated Kaguya Otsutsuki, you should understand the true nature of the Ten-Tails, right? Aren't you afraid that doing this will bring forward the Otsutsuki threat by decades?!"

"The threat of the Otsutsuki has existed in the ninja world for a long time."

Looking at Uchiha Fugaku and middle-aged Sasuke in front of him, Orochimaru said in a hoarse voice with a sinister smile, "I didn't expect you to have time to come here. It's been a long time, Fugaku-kun."

Fugaku nodded slightly: "It's been a long time, Orochimaru."

Orochimaru's gaze did not linger on Fugaku; instead, it fell directly on the middle-aged Sasuke, and he revealed a playful smile.

At this point in time, almost no one in the ninja world still used chakra; everyone had either become a Quincy or a Shinigami (death god).

Orochimaru sensed an extremely large amount of chakra from the person in front of him, and this chakra, in both quality and quantity, had reached the pinnacle of the ninja world!

Moreover, this aura of chakra reminded Orochimaru of the Mizukage order issued by Mizuki Akira not long ago.

"I never imagined that there would be such a powerful living Uchiha in this world... Uchiha Sasuke from another world."

"Take your eyes off me, Orochimaru!" Fugaku Uchiha sneered. "Where is Lady Yumi?"

"Looking for Uzumaki Yumi? Interesting, Fugaku-kun. Do you want your son from another world to experience the charm of spiritual power?"

Fugaku Uchiha snorted coldly and said nothing more.

Indeed, Fugaku Uchiha came up with the idea of ​​letting Sasuke Uchiha master spiritual power.

He understood Sasuke at this moment. Sasuke at this stage could be considered a Six Paths level fighter. Although his physical body had not yet reached the Six Paths realm, his strength had actually reached the pinnacle of chakra manipulation.

To go further, one can only rely on some special techniques to complete the transformation, such as using Oni-Garuru, or becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, etc.

However, these methods might improve Sasuke's strength in his middle age, but the extent of the improvement would be limited.

Furthermore, Fugaku was well aware of one point: no matter how much he improved his chakra power, he could never be a match for the Otsutsuki.

The greatest threat in the world that middle-aged Sasuke lived in was the Otsutsuki!

Fugaku's idea was simple: whether he transformed into a Shinigami or a Quincy, he could gain an extremely powerful boost through spiritual energy and use that power to fight against the Otsutsuki and avoid the occurrence of the 'reversion' of chakra.

"You really have courage, Fugaku-kun. It seems that your magnanimity has changed since becoming Hokage."

Orochimaru chuckled, while the middle-aged Sasuke beside him snorted softly, his cold gaze falling on Orochimaru, causing his snake-like eyes to involuntarily contract. But then, the smile on his face became even more unrestrained.

"I like your personality, Sasuke. Your name is Uchiha Sasuke, right?"

"No matter which world you're in, you're just as detestable, Orochimaru." Uchiha Sasuke sneered. "It's just unexpected that someone like you would join someone else's ranks... also for research data and resources?"

"Orochimaru-kun is now truly committed to joining us."

The abrupt voice interrupted the sarcastic conversation, and a figure that startled Sasuke emerged from the laboratory on the side.

"Karin?!"

“Excuse me, my name is Uzumaki Yumi.” Uzumaki Yumi looked calmly at the middle-aged Sasuke in front of her, and nodded after sizing him up for a moment: “It is indeed a bit troublesome to directly convert chakra of this strength, but it’s not a big problem.”

"Ok?"

"What I mean is, are you ready to feel the greatness of spiritual power, Sasuke Uchiha from another world?"

Chapter 346 The Sage of Six Paths: "I am the Kami of this era!"

"You are a living being. Under normal circumstances, all the chakra in your body will be converted into spiritual power, thus making you a Quincy."

Inside the secret laboratory, Yumi Uzumaki operated the instruments in her hands while looking at the middle-aged Sasuke in front of her and said, "But with the amount of chakra in your body, if we were to directly transform you into a Quincy, the spiritual power required would be extremely large, and the increase in your power would not be too obvious."

"But if I were to make you the Grim Reaper, the first thing I would do is kill you and then transform your soul into the Grim Reaper."

Yumi Uzumaki paused slightly, looking at the slightly changed expression on middle-aged Sasuke's face: "Even if you can accept this, you'll probably still have some reservations in your heart."

"It seems you have a different plan?"

“You Uchiha people are always so clever.” Yumi smiled calmly and handed a scroll to the middle-aged Sasuke.

Sasuke curiously opened it, and with just one glance, his brows furrowed, and he even subconsciously noticed the Eternal Eye.