Chapter 206: The True Path of Evolution
"How is this possible?!"
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo stared at the black blade of light in Izayoi's hand, his eyes filled with disbelief.
The principle of that black blade of light was still the fusion of Chakra Orbs and the Sword of Nunoboko.
Although they were combined into one, the power of this black blade of light was still far inferior to Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's Sword of Nunoboko.
Because Izayoi had only recently mastered the Sword of Nunoboko. Even if his talent surpassed Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's, without long periods of arduous training, he simply couldn't reach Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's level.
That's why, for the past half-month of fighting, Izayoi had never used the fused black blade of light. He had always attacked Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo with Kekkei Mōra such as Eighty Gods Vacant Attack and All-Killing Ash Bones, or the strongest ninjutsu and natural disasters created by Truth-Seeking Orbs and Chakra Orbs. He even dared not approach Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo within a certain distance, always keeping the fight at range.
Now, after half a month, Izayoi once again unleashed the fused black blade of light, astonishing Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
Because he felt a familiar power within the black blade of light in Izayoi's hand.
That was the power of thought manifestation, which could only be achieved by developing Yin-Yang Release to an extremely high level, allowing one to infuse and compress the mysterious power of belief into it.
The power of thought manifestation can also be called the power of miracles.
When people face desperate situations or critical moments, they can always unleash incredible, inconceivable power that defies common sense.
In Izayoi's previous life, this power was called adrenaline.
In the world of anime, it was called power-up or bursting.
During such bursting moments, the protagonist, facing adversity, always manages to turn the tide and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
However, such bursting moments only appeared when the plot required them.
The reason Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, with stats far inferior to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's, was able to seal his mother, the Rabbit Goddess, and even make Ōtsutsuki Isshiki wary enough to remain hidden, was precisely this power akin to bursting.
When a person's will and belief can become weapons, the destructive power of their attacks becomes an unknown variable.
One such strike might not even kill a chicken.
Another such strike might be more than the world can bear.
Ordinary people possessing such power generally couldn't make much use of it; their beliefs had limits.
When such power is wielded by extra-dimensional powerhouses, it truly becomes the power to create and destroy worlds.
Of course, the prerequisite is to have enough chakra to support that belief.
In his prime as the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo was an omnipotent existence.
Aside from his lifespan being inferior to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's, he was more like a god than his mother.
But now, merely using an ability similar to White Karma to reside in his descendant's body, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's current Sword of Nunoboko could only interfere with space-time and connect his soul to the Pure Land, allowing him to use Six Paths Sage Mode and borrow the chakra of the deceased.
There was still a certain gap compared to his peak as the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki.
Yet now, he felt a power no less than his peak.
Or rather, it was as if he was looking in a mirror, seeing his former self.
Because Izayoi's technique was simply... identical to his own from back then.
Suddenly, a flash of insight struck Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's mind.
Then he widened his eyes, staring at Izayoi with trembling eyes, and asked, "Could it be... that your eyes can do more than just see the past and future?"
"You guessed right, but no prize," Izayoi grinned. "From the moment you couldn't instantly kill me, your fate was sealed."
"You know what? The stronger you are, the happier I am."
"Because you're giving me a big gift package, making me even stronger."
"I've completely mastered the power of the Sword of Nunoboko, thanks to your and Ōtsutsuki Hamura's joint development. Let me show you the power of the Chakra Orb's creation ability combined with the Sword of Nunoboko's destructive power!"
Izayoi flicked his wrist, and the black blade of light detached from his palm, then he softly whispered, "Shatter, void..."
No sooner had he spoken than the black blade of light shattered like glass falling to the ground.
These fragments, like Chakra Orbs seizing control of an alternate dimension, melted into the void and disappeared.
Seeing this, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's eyes widened, and he instinctively tried to escape.
But before he could act, his body became immobile.
Because his body, too... was splitting apart!
White and black cracks, large and small, appeared on Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's body, rapidly spreading until they covered him entirely.
The same happened to the surrounding space, where cracks of varying sizes and colors appeared.
There were white ones, beautiful and exquisite space-time cracks.
And black ones, emitting the same chaotic, devouring power as a space-time anomaly.
"Space-Time Slash!"
When Izayoi uttered the name of this ultimate move, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and the surrounding space instantly collapsed.
The space-time power that even the Progenitor of Chakra couldn't resist, and the devouring power that could easily destroy an alternate dimension, instantly tore Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's body to shreds, devouring him completely.
Without even a chance to scream, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo completely disappeared from this world.
Not only Uchiha Madara's body, which he had possessed, but also Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's soul vanished.
This Space-Time Slash was not just a space-time ability.
It also contained the power of Truth-Seeking Orbs, which possessed the power to destroy all creation. Anyone hit by this attack would truly be reduced to nothingness.
Not just people, but this space as well.
The shattered space once again drew in a space-time anomaly.
Terrifying gravity surged out from the space-time anomaly, causing the entire alternate dimension to vibrate violently.
Countless pieces of land floated into the air.
Countless cracks rapidly spread throughout this alternate dimension, causing the space-time anomaly's volume to grow larger and larger.
Fortunately, Izayoi had seen this future in advance and had already escaped this alternate dimension before the space-time anomaly appeared.
Otherwise, at such close range, and with that seemingly terrifying gravity, which was actually also chaotic space-time power, it might have prevented him from using Amenominaka and Yomotsu Hirasaka.
"Such terrifying power, even more exaggerated than a Kekkei Mōra."
Returning to the real world from the alternate dimension, Izayoi, sharing the perspective of his Wood Clone in the alternate dimension, wore a look of awe.
A week ago, Izayoi had already learned, by observing the past, how Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo used the Sword of Nunoboko to interfere with space-time. He also learned that the power of thought manifestation was essentially a way to use Yin-Yang Release, turning intangible things into tangible weapons.
After successfully learning this technique, Izayoi did not immediately use it to fight Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
Mastering this technique only gave him the power to contend with Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's Sword of Nunoboko; his slashes and the Sword of Nunoboko would not be easily shattered.
To achieve an instant kill, Izayoi still needed his Sword of Nunoboko to possess power superior to Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's.
Without the Tenseigan, even if Izayoi possessed the Ten-Tails' chakra and several of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's Kekkei Mōra, he could at most fight Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo to a draw.
There was even a high probability he would be at a disadvantage.
After all, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo could extract the chakra of souls from the Pure Land for his own use; his chakra reserves were not much weaker than Izayoi's.
Moreover, if Izayoi were to be touched by him, he would be sealed by Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei.
Izayoi had not yet experienced that ultimate sealing jutsu and didn't know if he could be sealed by it, but he wouldn't be foolish enough to gamble on it.
It was at that moment that Izayoi once again felt incredibly fortunate that after obtaining Uchiha Sasuke's Sage's Eye (Red) and Uchiha Bloodline (Purple), he immediately chose to decompose the Uchiha Bloodline and still pursue the Tenseigan path.
No matter how powerful Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo was, he only possessed the Rinnegan and had developed the powers of the Rinnegan and Immortal Body to their extreme.
He did not possess the Tenseigan, nor could he possess Chakra Orbs.
Therefore, he was destined to be unable to simultaneously use the powers of creation and destruction.
Izayoi, on the other hand, possessed the Rinne Tenseigan, a Kekkei Mōra-level dōjutsu, allowing him to simultaneously use Chakra Orbs and the Sword of Nunoboko, and fuse their ultimate powers, achieving a Kekkei Mōra-level Dual Extremes Convergence.
Compared to that "hodgepodge" ultimate move, the rainbow orb of light, which had a very obvious wind-up time, like an expanding Truth-Seeking Orb, and was quite useless to someone who mastered space-time abilities, this Space-Time Slash had almost no wind-up time. The moment the black blade of light shattered, it meant that the surrounding space and everything within it would instantly die. This was Izayoi's true ultimate ougi.
His body floated in the air of the real world, where it was still night.
While waiting for the results, Izayoi fully utilized the Rinne Tenseigan's long-range vision and X-ray vision, covering the entire Shinobi World like an invisible net.
Combined with the perception of Six Paths Sage Mode, whether it was the "zongzi" hanging from tree branches or animals unaffected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, all these life and energy fluctuations were reflected in Izayoi's eyes.
Humans trapped by the Infinite Tsukuyomi had identical auras, making them very easy to distinguish.
The life fluctuations of animals were also the same.
Conversely, the reanimated dead, who were also unaffected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, had auras completely different from the former two.
Aside from these reanimated dead, if anyone at this time hadn't been affected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Izayoi could find them at a glance.
Unfortunately, Izayoi scanned the Shinobi World several times but found no aura unaffected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Clearly, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was not in the Shinobi World.
Back when he first mastered Six Paths Sage Mode, Izayoi had already detected Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's presence.
Now, in addition to Six Paths Sage Mode, Izayoi also possessed the Rinne Tenseigan and Rinne Sharingan. With Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's current strength, he simply couldn't evade Izayoi's perception.
Izayoi wasn't surprised; after all, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had used Infinite Tsukuyomi multiple times and still hadn't discovered that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was still alive.
That guy was clearly very knowledgeable about Infinite Tsukuyomi and also extremely cautious.
Seeing that he couldn't lure him out, Izayoi felt no regret.
In this battle, Izayoi had already gained the greatest treasure.
With ten rainbow-tier attributes on him, aside from his chakra reserves still being inferior to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's main body, he was already the second Progenitor of Chakra.
Having also eliminated the millennium-old schemer, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, and mastered the Space-Time Slash ultimate move, Izayoi now feared no one from Shippuden or Boruto, except for Ōtsutsuki Shibai, who was suspected of having transcended the world.
He was now completely invincible in this world.
As long as he dealt with the remaining troubles, Izayoi had only one goal left: to surpass himself, break free from the limitations of lifespan, and ultimately... transcend the world!
Swish—
Just then, several beams of light suddenly flew into Izayoi's vision.
These beams of light appeared out of thin air and were only visible to Izayoi. They were attribute beams that ignored spatial limitations and accurately found Izayoi.
As the beams entered his body, a series of notification sounds echoed in Izayoi's mind.
"Ding! You have obtained the talent attribute [God of Ninjutsu (Rainbow)]. It overlaps with your existing talent attributes. Fuse or decompose?"
"Ding! You have obtained the talent attribute [God of Sealing (Rainbow)]. It overlaps with your existing talent attributes. Fuse or decompose?"
"Ding..."
Among these attributes, there were only two rainbow-tier ones; no Rinnegan was dropped.
Izayoi did not possess these two attributes; he only had their weaker versions.
It was these two attributes, along with the Rinnegan and the Immortal Body, that gave Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo power second only to the Progenitor of Chakra.
Even Uchiha Madara, after becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, was far from Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's match.
Undoubtedly, the potential of these two attributes was astonishing.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's ability to develop so many incredible ninjutsu and ninja tools, and even sealing jutsu that could seal the Progenitor of Chakra, must have largely been due to these two attributes.
As long as he fused them, Izayoi would become the God of Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu.
However, Izayoi hesitated for only a few seconds before unhesitatingly saying, "Decompose all."
In an instant, Izayoi's points soared from over five million to over eight million.
"I made a profit," Izayoi chuckled, then began spending points to upgrade the purple-tier Ninjutsu Master and Sealing Master attributes to the rainbow-tier God of Ninjutsu and God of Sealing.
With his strength taking a huge leap in the extra-dimensional domain, the system had already become Izayoi's greatest cheat.
As long as he decomposed a rainbow-tier attribute, he would get a minimum of seven-figure points.
However, upgrading a white-tier attribute to a rainbow-tier attribute only required 1,111,104 points.
Unless it was the base one million, Izayoi would always make a small or significant profit by decomposing a rainbow-tier attribute.
Undoubtedly, the system had become Izayoi's "God Tree," and those with rainbow-tier attributes were the "planets" with powerful life energy. As long as he extracted their attributes and decomposed them into points, Izayoi could continuously upgrade low-tier attributes to rainbow-tier attributes, progressing further and further in the extra-dimensional domain.
If attributes above rainbow-tier could be upgraded again, then Izayoi's speed of transcending this world would be even faster than Ōtsutsuki Shibai's, who was suspected of having transcended this world but still left his body behind, and whose fate (whether dead or alive, failed or successful) was unknown in the original story.
Compared to consuming Chakra Fruits and pills, this was Izayoi's true path of evolution!
If he pursued both avenues, Izayoi would, in just a few years, far surpass Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had consumed an unknown number of pills, and the pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki who would arrive in this world in the future.
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