〖Year Nine〗
With the successful fusion of your Mangekyō Sharingan, your eyes have officially evolved into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
Your Ocular Power is now progressing in a direction that even surpasses the Rinnegan.
During this time—
You've remained on the Floating Island, conducting research on the Five-Tails, while also preparing for the synthesis of the Kekkei Genkai Boil Release.
Surrounding you are flames of all kinds:
There's your own meticulously refined Fire Release, the ever-reliable Flame of the Infested that once saved you in battle, a poisonous fire wreathed in deadly smoke that kills on contact, a dark blue flame acquired from Matatabi—the Two-Tails—and finally, the pitch-black flames of Amaterasu.
Encasing all of this on the outer layer is a vivid, water-steam-infused membrane of brilliant blue.
Your goal—
Is to amplify your Water Release to the point it can rival your Fire Release. At the same time, your control over all these flames must be perfected.
Only then can the opposing forces of fire and water be twisted into a single cord—A synthesis strong enough to meet the requirements of a Kekkei Genkai!
At last, inspiration strikes—you discover the precise equilibrium point. Without hesitation, you lift the barrel of bloodline essence at your side and drink it down in one gulp.
Flames and mist begin to interweave and merge.
A terrifying blast of steam erupts. Even the Tailed Beast Absorption Array, modeled after the Ten-Tails and capable of absorbing ninjutsu, trembles under the strain!
Fortunately, you manage to suppress the explosion in time—
Preventing the Floating Island from being blown apart beneath your feet.
Still, you had been careless…
You completely forgot that Boil Release comes with monstrous strength. Caught off guard, a single surge of power sends your blood racing, forcibly opening every chakra pathway in your limbs and body in an instant.
The Strength nearly slips out of your control.
You rein in your presence, and the world around the Floating Island slowly regains its calm.
With the mighty physical potential of the Ōtsutsuki flowing through you, and now enhanced by Boil Release—further stabilized by your Body Activation Technique to prevent self-inflicted damage—
You suddenly get the illusion… that your physical strength might even surpass that of a complete Susanoo.
Of course, that's impossible.
Susanoo is a technique whose strength is deeply tied to bloodline purity, chakra reserves, Ocular Power, and physical fortitude. The stronger the body, the more powerful the Susanoo becomes.
Thinking this through, you feel as though you're bursting with endless energy. Your whole body is itching with restlessness—
You have the overwhelming urge to try out the Eight Gates.
With the Body Activation Technique and your Ōtsutsuki constitution, you could reduce the side effects of the Eight Gates to nearly zero.
If you were to open the Eighth Gate... the destructive force might rival the simultaneous detonation of a Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb and a Truth-Seeking Orb!
...
However, training in the Eight Gates is a grueling ordeal.
It's the kind of ninjutsu that anyone can begin to practice, but only those who reach the very peak can actually use. No wonder it's classified as a forbidden technique.
Even though you instantly understood its theory, without rigorous physical training, you can't even open the First Gate!
To make matters worse, your current Ōtsutsuki body renders ordinary workouts completely ineffective. Unless you were to shoulder an entire mountain and run laps around the planet's equator, it wouldn't qualify as a proper workout.
No wonder the Ōtsutsuki clan always disdained technique-based training.
To them, a mortal could train for a lifetime and still never match the power an Ōtsutsuki infant is born with.
Why bother grinding through painful effort when devouring a fruit can yield the same strength?
Even so, you've found a place where you can train effectively—
The prototype Divine Realm inside Kamui.
Though you haven't yet grasped the power of Rule Fusion, the Divine Realm remains a hazy, fog-covered world. But your Sharingan functions within it without restriction.
So, within that realm, you've cast an illusion world using Tsukuyomi.
In this illusion, you can control time, space, gravity, and even the flow of various elemental affinities—
Though it's all illusionary, you can actively enter the realm and use the ocular technique Fugaku, converting what occurs within the illusion into physical reality.
In other words, you can simulate real training.
After some experimentation, you created a training program with three gravity settings:2x, 5x, and 10x normal gravity.
Within each setting, you run three escalating levels of weight training:
From simple lifting, to transporting heavy loads, to performing complex movements like running and jumping while carrying them.
Whenever you hit a plateau and your body stops progressing, you unlock the next Gate of the Eight Gates to further enhance your power.
Eventually, you use your ocular ability to accelerate time within the Divine Realm's Tsukuyomi to 100x the normal flow.
Even now, maintaining two Mangekyō abilities at once, along with the intense physical strain of ninjutsu, is beginning to weigh on you.
Still, the training is paying off—within a matter of days in the real world, you've already opened the Third Gate.
And your body—tempered by countless rounds of simulated training within the illusion—can now move mountains and reshape landscapes with pure Strength, even without opening the Eight Gates or using chakra!
However, this kind of training puts massive strain on both body and mind.
Inside the illusion, only the physical strain is transferred—not the recovery.
So, you're forced to take a break, replenishing your energy by drinking more of the bloodline essence like a sports drink.
But even in this utterly exhausted state, your heart still races with the same agitation as before.
It puzzles you.
Then—
A ripple stirs within your Sharingan. That faint sliver of the void's Rule that resides within your eye begins to react, like a resonating frequency—
Another Rule?
The moment this thought crosses your mind, your eyes activate the Mangekyō Sharingan on their own. Instinctively, you unleash a blaze of Amaterasu.
And in that instant—
The Rule of Fire begins to condense!
You finally understand.
You extract all of the chakra flames within your body: your Fire Release, the Flame of the Infested, the poisonous fire, the blue-black flame of the Two-Tails—
All of them.
Five vividly different flames slowly begin to orbit each other in midair.
Faster and faster they spin.
The temperature in the area climbs ever higher, until even the Tailed Beast Absorption Array, designed to mimic the Ten-Tails and absorb energy, shows signs of collapse!
It's coming.
Your heartbeat accelerates wildly, as if an invisible fire had been ignited within your chest, burning you away from the inside out.
Your Spirit is on the verge of depletion.
Yet still, the spinning disc of five flames in the air is missing something. It hovers just shy of full completion—unable to coalesce into its final form.
"I get it now. It's the Inner Flame!"
Suddenly, you reach out your hand, fingers curling into a claw, and tear into your own chest.
You grab hold of the limitless flame burning within and hurl it into the disk of fire!
In an instant—
The six flames merge into one, forming a single, searingly brilliant prism of color:A multicolored crystal, radiating unimaginable heat.
It's complete!
You know, without a doubt, that this crystal is the condensed form of the Rule of Fire.
At that same moment—
All across the land:
Civilians in the Land of Waves thousands of miles away, shinobi standing guard on distant ships,
All suddenly feel a strange compulsion.
They look skyward, unknowingly gazing toward the Floating Island. Some with weak wills begin running uncontrollably—some even diving into the sea—despite having no knowledge of the island's existence.
Even the fish beneath the ocean and the birds in the sky begin flocking toward it.
And then—
The phenomenon ends the moment you swallow the Rule of Fire crystal whole.
It vanishes like it never existed.
In its place, a purifying, radiant power flows through every fiber of your being.
You shine so brightly that light pours from your skin, unstoppable.
"I… am the sun!"
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