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"Think of something, fast!" In that instant, Kenshi's mind raced at lightning speed, as if time had slowed down ten thousandfold. He rac
"Think of something, fast!"
In that instant, Kenshi's mind raced at lightning speed, as if time had slowed down ten thousandfold.
He racked his brain, desperately searching for a way to connect himself with the dragon vein's power.
Dragon vein power!
Time-space power!
Time-space!
Time… that's it.
"Edo Tensei!"
With a thought, Kenshi instantly formed the Edo Tensei jutsu array. A faint trace of time-space power from the Edo Tensei technique began to spread.
In an instant, the dragon vein's power-originally separated from Kenshi by an entire world-resonated with his body through a time-space connection.
Riding the surge of the dragon vein's power, Kenshi's body broke through the world barrier and was swallowed up, vanishing in an instant.
"Uncle!!!"
Little Yayuki's face changed drastically as she screamed in shock.
However, Kenshi had already disappeared into the dragon vein's power, but she did not vanish with him.
Soon, the dragon vein's power completely dissipated, the Loulan ruins mirage vanished, and Kenshi's figure disappeared along with them.
On the desert surface, only little Yayuki remained, alongside Kenshi's shadow clone not far away.
"Uncle…" Yayuki's chakra erupted as she punched the desert ground, trying to dig out the Loulan ruins from beneath.
"Don't worry, the original body is fine."
At that moment, Kenshi's shadow clone flew over and stopped the frantic Yayuki.
"Uncle!"
"Are you okay, Uncle?"
Only then did Yayuki realize Kenshi's clone was still here. She quickly grabbed the clone's hands tightly, anxiously asking.
Kenshi's clone said, "The original body has entered another world. It's fine."
Yayuki nervously asked, "Will you be able to come back?"
The clone sensed briefly and replied, "Yes, but it may take several years."
"As long as you can come back, that's good."
Yayuki released the clone's hands. Several years was bearable, as long as it wasn't forever.
…
"Ugh…ugh…"
On the grass, Kenshi suddenly appeared, kneeling and vomiting violently, his stomach churning and stars flashing in his mind.
What does time-space travel feel like?
This time Kenshi truly experienced it.
His whole body felt like being tossed into a washing machine spinning at five times the speed of sound, wildly tumbling tens of thousands of times.
His body suffered no real injury.
Only his spirit was tormented severely.
Actually, Kenshi could have passed out, but to perceive the sensation of time-space travel, he forced himself to stay awake.
Then… he underestimated how uncomfortable time-space travel was. Tortured to the brink of death, he had no mind left to comprehend its mysteries.
Sizzle… several puppets flew in from the distant sky.
Kenshi, still dizzy and faint, hurriedly used his black hole space corporealization to sink underground, arriving in a sealed ruin space.
Just after Kenshi left, several puppets dropped from the sky, scouted the surroundings, found no one, and left.
"Are those Konoha people following?"
In a secret chamber, a man named Hyakushoku-now An Lushan-whispered softly from a chair made of countless flesh-colored tubes. His face showed no panic; he had already gained the dragon vein's power and feared no enemy.
…
In an underground ruin space, Kenshi rested for an hour, finally fully recovering his spirit.
"Finally inside!"
"Haha… Senju Tobirama, truly a legacy enough to keep Orochimaru busy for a lifetime!"
Sensing around, Kenshi laughed loudly. His chakra sensing told him he had arrived in the Loulan transition world inside The Lost Tower. Under the highest tower, surging dragon vein chakra poured forth, completely different from the mirage sensation.
He had indeed traveled through time and space to this Naruto world where Loulan still stood.
All thanks to the Edo Tensei technique developed by Senju Tobirama.
Originally, separated by a world's time-space, Kenshi could never have been pulled here by the dragon vein's power.
At the moment of his mental breakthrough, Kenshi suddenly thought of Tobirama's Edo Tensei and its infinite chakra time characteristic.
By resonating the time characteristic of Edo Tensei with the time-space characteristic of the dragon vein's power, Kenshi's body became a time-space signal source in the vast time-space, allowing the dragon vein's power-originally separated by a world-to pull him in.
Thus, he broke through time-space and arrived in this world.
Yayuki, not knowing Edo Tensei, was not marked by the dragon vein's power and stayed in the original world.
One must admit, Tobirama's talent for ninjutsu development was truly terrifying.
"Maybe it can be like this…"
Kenshi suddenly had a thought. It was a shame Tobirama's mind wasn't used more for developing ninjutsu.
But not now-he'd wait until he returned.
Boom!
Kenshi created a shadow clone on the spot.
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
The clone immediately used chakra to perform Flying Thunder God Technique and return to the original Naruto world.
Kenshi's perception of his clone in the original world remained intact.
His chakra-or consciousness-was indeed special.
Even separated by a world, his and the clone's consciousness remained clearly connected, just as if they were in the same world.
So, the Flying Thunder God mark he left in the original world was still perceptible.
Boom!
The clone exploded and vanished.
But the Flying Thunder God Technique had failed.
"Not that simple after all!"
Kenshi shook his head. The Flying Thunder God Technique had indeed failed, but there was no need to worry about returning.
The failure was simply due to insufficient chakra.
Actually, the chakra cost of Flying Thunder God Technique depends on the material energy being transferred, not much on distance-at least within the same world.
It's like summoning a powerful toad; the stronger the toad, the more chakra needed, regardless of distance.
If moving with the Nine-Tails using Flying Thunder God Technique, the chakra cost would be much higher.
But clearly, using Flying Thunder God Technique across a world's distance exceeded normal limits, making the chakra cost terrifying.
The clone had just vanished because its chakra was drained by Flying Thunder God Technique.
Now Kenshi had two ways to leave this world and return to his own.
One: seal the dragon vein. Without the dragon vein's time-space influence in this world, Kenshi would be rejected by this world and return to the original.
Two: slowly accumulate chakra with his Devouring Seal Array, or directly absorb large amounts of dragon vein chakra, then use Flying Thunder God Technique to return.
He could do either anytime.
With his sealing jutsu skills and Flying Thunder God Technique, seeing the sealing jutsu array Minato set using Flying Thunder God Kunai as a base, Kenshi could replicate a similar time-space seal and reseal the dragon vein.
He could also absorb dragon vein chakra.
However, his purpose here was not to return, but to study the time-space properties of the dragon vein's power.
Transforming his body into black hole space, Kenshi flew out from underground, used invisibility to conceal himself, and flew toward a tall tower.
Loulan's architecture resembled the Land of Rain's cities-tower-like buildings-but here built of stone.
In midair, black pipes connected the towers, shooting chakra threads connecting to stiff puppets below that looked human from afar.
Looking around, Loulan appeared bustling with people, but they were all puppets.
Kenshi's soul sensing detected fewer than five hundred living humans.
A large city with only a few hundred living people.
Where were the others?
Sensing faint soul traces in some humanoid puppets below, Kenshi had his answer.
That guy hiding underground was apparently Hyakushoku.
His human puppetry had surpassed Sasori's.
Those humanoid puppets below were all transformed living humans.
Hyakushoku was clearly experimenting with human puppetry in Loulan, turning himself into a puppet with a soul.
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