Chapter 448: Return
"Did you know? We are one. Our power is immense. If you join forces with me, those lowly creatures will be no match for us. Now, let go of your resistance and accept my power." Mōryō's voice buzzed around like an annoying fly.
Without much effort, Ino found Six-sensei's first love, Miss Haori.
The ancestor of the Miko clan was quite resilient.
That do-or-die spirit was much like the future Shion's.
Haori looked calmly at the monster before her, which resembled a black mist. Her silent, contemptuous attitude was getting on Mōryō's nerves.
"What are you thinking? That I'm an ugly monster? Heh, you'll soon become a part of this ugly monster. What do you think I am? An evil thought? Hehehehe, enter the depths of my soul, and then we will be one..."
"Hey, Miss Haori, don't believe its nonsense. Master Hagoromo sent me to help you!" Ino shouted from a distance.
Mōryō had not expected another consciousness to enter this spiritual world. It immediately dropped its disguise and transformed into a giant, multi-headed purple-black serpent within the spiritual world.
Compared to the frail, little-girl-like Haori, the giant multi-headed serpent was a behemoth. Mōryō let out a piercing shriek, its snake mouths opening wide, preparing to swallow Haori whole.
"Sage Art: Water Release: Water Severing Wave!" Ino was most skilled with her Water Release. She quickly formed hand seals, added natural energy, and a silver line of water sliced off the giant snake head that was hurtling toward them. Faced with snake heads emerging from all directions, even from the lava below, her Sage Art Water Severing Wave was like a game of Fruit Ninja, moving like lightning, slicing left and right, dicing the enemy from numerous angles.
The multi-headed serpent was all bark and no bite. It was far weaker than a Tailed Beast and fought without any strategy. Due to its chaotic nature, its several heads would even get in each other's way.
Ino mowed it down like grass. In less than a minute, she had cleared away all of Mōryō's evil energy.
However, this method was only a temporary fix. Haori was still alive, and the energy of the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique had not been exhausted. The key was still the sealing jutsu.
Ino created two clones. Her main body drew the Eight Trigrams Seal on the ground, which she had originally prepared for the Yin-Kurama. The two clones continued to eliminate the evil energy seeping in from the other side of the barrier.
"Eight Trigrams Seal, Seal!"
The fact was, a Yin and a Yang Four Symbols Seal was not enough to seal Mōryō's chaotic, disordered entropy.
Ino motioned for Haori to move further away.
She created five more shadow clones. Including her main body, they stood in an eight trigrams formation.
First, she used the Transcription Seal to seal away Hagoromo's Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique. The jutsu had been corrupted, and Hagoromo couldn't take it back, so Ino took it directly.
Then, Ino used the "Great Eight Trigrams Seal" to apply a higher level of lockdown.
A dense array of sixty-four trigrams was superimposed on Haori's spiritual world.
Just as Ino was feeling fatigued, a vast amount of chakra flowed into the spiritual world through her body—it was Hagoromo's chakra.
With this powerful support, a quarter of an hour later, Ino used a Yin and a Yang tomoe to complete the seal, and her consciousness returned to her body.
"How is it?" Hagoromo asked anxiously.
"It is done. The evil energy has been sealed by me, and Miss Haori's good side has been separated. She probably has about ten more years of life." As a skilled medical ninja, Ino was very confident in her judgment.
Another three days passed peacefully. Gamamaru disappeared again. Ino had helped seal Haori, considering her debt for Hagoromo's teaching repaid. The cooldown for the Treasured Tool, Plow, ended. Bidding farewell to the two brothers, she returned to her own time.
Back in the world of the dead, Ino first went to find the old fossil to report on the mission and return Plow. The old fossil casually opened a dimensional rift and tossed it in. Ino didn't even see what happened, only hearing some splashing sounds. Did he throw it in water?
She held the Sage Talisman and asked tentatively, "Master, this thing can be activated with natural energy, right?"
The old fossil smiled. Just as Ino was feeling more and more guilty, he nodded. "Yes, it's very simple."
The master-disciple relationship was finally confirmed. From now on, no one could find fault with her calling Ashura "big brother."
Ino politely bid farewell to Six-sensei. He didn't ask about the remaining Power of Six Paths, and she didn't mention it.
On the wastelands of the Land of Swamps.
Mōryō's consciousness was a single entity. The one within Yomi's body was Mōryō, and the energy within the stone soldiers was also Mōryō, the only difference being the amount of energy.
Discovering that the priestess in its hands was a fake, Mōryō used the power within the stone soldiers to reach Naruto's location and launch a frantic attack on his group.
A sharp longsword pierced through Naruto's back, but the next second, Naruto vanished in a puff of white smoke. The real Naruto kicked a stone soldier to pieces and, smiling, gave a thumbs-up to the others. The tense-looking Sakura and Sasuke both rolled their eyes.
But the next second, things took a sudden turn.
The Mōryō power within the stone soldiers suddenly converged, transforming into the giant multi-headed serpent that Ino had thrashed a thousand years ago. Its mouths opened wide as it lunged toward Shion.
Sakura and Sasuke, who were in the middle of fighting the stone soldiers, quickly turned back. Naruto's body moved faster than his brain, and he threw himself toward Shion first.
Shion's reaction speed was clearly no match for a ninja's. The energy of the same origin within Mōryō's body threw her into great confusion, leaving her in a daze.
Her presence was like an abnormally bright beacon. Mōryō transformed itself into pure energy, descending like a dark energy curtain. At the critical moment, Naruto forcefully pushed Shion away, but he himself was pierced through the heart by an arrow of dark energy.
"Naruto! Bastard!" Seeing Naruto spit blood, his eyes lifeless, thrown high into the air like a broken rag doll, Sasuke's scalp went numb. His eyes began to spin uncontrollably. The three tomoe spun rapidly, a large amount of ocular power crystallizing from his spiritual energy and flowing into his eyes, finally transforming into six oval-petal-like eyes.
Mangekyō Sharingan!
"I'll kill you!" Sasuke stared fixedly at Mōryō. A large mass of black flames appeared out of thin air on Mōryō's body and began to burn furiously.
Sakura scrambled to support Naruto, but alas, the boy was already completely breathless.
"Ino! Where are you! Come and help us!" she screamed, her voice tearing through her throat.
Obito, watching from the shadows, sneered.
Zetsu, ever the yes-man, asked him, "What are you laughing at?"
Obito said nothing.
What an ironic scene before him.
The dead-last who died in battle, the genius boy burdened with a blood feud, the kind-hearted girl caught between two boys, and the Golden Flash who was always so magnificent but never there when it mattered!
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