"He left!"
Shinji answered calmly, turning to leave.
Sasuke looked blank: "Left?!"
Shinji didn't stop, instructing as he walked: "This pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was used by Itachi for a forbidden technique once, so the right eye has lost all pupil power. If you want to try recovering it, you can go find Karin to try!"
With the intensity of Karin's Yang Release chakra now, recovering an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan exhausted of pupil power due to forbidden technique activation wasn't impossible.
Of course.
The current Shinji could also do it, it was just he didn't have the energy to do these things right now.
Returning to his central training ground, Shinji sat cross-legged again.
With the fake 'Itachi Uchiha' being sealed, the Fear Hegemon's first move in the Ninja World was taken by Shinji, the 'Lampbearer'.
In this confrontation, Shinji won a round relying on the host's advantage.
But he knew this was just a beginning. A mere fear projection might count for nothing to the Hegemon at all.
"Next step, what will it do?"
Shinji tried to speculate the Hegemon's action, but shook his head quickly.
What the Hegemon would do next, he really couldn't figure out even racking his brains, because intelligence in hand was too little.
Sighing faintly, Shinji thought: "Looks like can only deal with whatever comes!"
From the Hegemon targeting 'Demon Slayer World' to 'Demon Slayer World' completely becoming the Hegemon's food, there were at least more than ten years during this period. Otherwise, Ryūhei Ubuyashiki wouldn't have time to invade the Ninja World, dragging the Ninja World to be the scapegoat.
And if 'Demon Slayer World' much weaker than the Ninja World in power level could last more than ten years, no reason the Ninja World couldn't last.
"Wrong!"
On second thought, Shinji shook his head again.
When the Hegemon released fear projection in 'Demon Slayer World', materializing a fake 'Yoriichi Tsugikuni' to chase Ryūhei Ubuyashiki, 'Demon Slayer World' was already on the brink of destruction.
So analyzing from this point, it seemed only when the Hegemon's power invaded to a certain level could the Hegemon release fear projection through spatial barriers. Otherwise, if fear projection could be released upon contact, why didn't the Hegemon release fear projection earlier to solve Ryūhei Ubuyashiki?
Therefore, the Hegemon being able to release fear projection in the Ninja World likely indicated its invasion of the Ninja World was already very deep.
"Is it because of the Demon Slayer World's invasion of the Ninja World?"
Shinji narrowed his eyes.
He was unsure now whether 'Demon Slayer World' lasting more than ten years was a normal situation of a world resisting the Hegemon, or because Ryūhei Ubuyashiki, the 'Lampbearer', did something, delaying the time of 'Demon Slayer World's destruction, such as invading the Ninja World.
If 'Demon Slayer World' lasting more than ten years was just an accident, or rather, this was the result of Ryūhei Ubuyashiki's painstaking planning, then the Ninja World probably didn't have much time.
Shinji looked down at the 'Lamp' looming at his waist. The 'Embers' contained inside were fully half left.
"Even if can't last ten years, relying on me, this 'Lampbearer', letting the Ninja World last another two or three years should be no problem!"
Shinji knew very clearly, as long as he still had 'Embers', the Fear Hegemon couldn't break through the Ninja World's spatial barrier comprehensively.
Estimating his remaining time, Shinji began to take stock of combat powers in the current Ninja World that could become his assistance again.
To face an enemy at the Hegemon's level, 'Six Paths Level' should be just a threshold.
If calculating according to this condition, in the current Ninja World there should only be four: the sealed 'Chakra Progenitor' Kaguya Otsutsuki, Isshiki Otsutsuki lurking in the Ninja World for a thousand years, 'Sage of Six Paths' residing in the Ninja World in spirit form, and Toneri Otsutsuki on the moon who might have fused Tenseigan.
Under Shinji's own command, let alone others, I'm afraid even the strongest complete form priestess Shion was also half a notch inferior.
And scrutinized carefully, even the four people who could be called 'combat power' by Shinji actually didn't fully meet Shinji's requirements.
Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed for a thousand years, in a weak period. Without a 'Six Paths Level' body for her to resurrect, she simply couldn't exert the strength of 'Kekkei Mōra'.
Isshiki Otsutsuki was even more miserable. After being sneak-attacked by Kaguya losing his body, wandering in the Ninja World for a thousand years he couldn't find a suitable 'vessel', could only drag out an ignoble existence in Jigen's body inside 'Karma' which backed up all his chakra information.
'Sage of Six Paths' was indeed strong 'Six Paths Level', but having given up the Ten-Tails, created Ninshu, and distributed chakra to everyone, no one could say well how much power he had left now.
The remaining Toneri Otsutsuki was actually not qualified to be mentioned in the same breath as the above three, even if he fused Tenseigan.
The reason Shinji also put him into 'combat power' was because he could mobilize that 'Giant Tenseigan' on the moon. Adding the two together was equivalent to a complete 'Six Paths Level'.
So among the four combat powers, Shinji could actually strive for only one and a half.
'One' naturally was Toneri Otsutsuki on the moon, and the remaining 'half' was the Sage of Six Paths in spirit state.
As for Kaguya Otsutsuki and Isshiki Otsutsuki, they were the most standard Otsutsuki, almost impossible to be subdued, so Shinji had already listed them as 'nourishment'.
And under his own command, there were actually quite a few with potential to step into 'Six Paths Level'.
Shion as a complete form priestess was the existence closest to 'Six Paths Level' among them.
Karin who opened Rinnegan, and Mumei who mastered 'Yachihoko' also possessed the possibility to impact 'Six Paths Level'.
Further down, probably only Sasuke had this ability.
This was not because Sasuke's talent exceeded Yakumo, Haku, Kimimaro, Neji and others, purely because Sasuke was Indra Otsutsuki's reincarnation, having a certain probability to receive Six Paths Power gifted by 'Sage of Six Paths'.
Similarly, Naruto, this Asura Otsutsuki reincarnation, also had a not small probability to break through to 'Six Paths Level'.
Two to three years time, cultivating a few more Six Paths Level, Shinji felt the problem wasn't big.
After sorting these out, Shinji got up and found Karin, temporarily handing over the command of the Flying Fortress to her.
Karin was somewhat worried: "My Lord, where are you going?"
Shinji said: "Don't worry, I'm just going to collect some intelligence about the Hegemon. When I'm not here, you take good care of everyone."
"Yes!"
Karin nodded heavily.
Shinji didn't alert others, leaving the Flying Fortress quietly.
Landing on an uninhabited high cliff, Shinji began to drive the 'Lamp' searching for spatial rifts. The Hegemon's intelligence couldn't be figured out sitting at home pondering, so he needed to go to other worlds to explore...