Sasuke activated his genjutsu, projecting the scenes he had witnessed in the future before everyone's eyes.
Blood and fire intertwined. Smoke rose in thick curtains across the horizon. Screams and wails echoed endlessly.
A flash of golden light erupted—and then nothing remained but ruins.
Even among the devastation, some of the powerful figures they recognized were present.
Uchiha Shisui struck with a single sword slash—and a hundred-meter blade of chakra tore through the battlefield.
Across the world, countless shinobi formed hand seals simultaneously, uniting to eliminate the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
From the vision, it was clear the Ninja World still retained the power to resist.
The Ōtsutsuki were not all beings at the level of the Six Paths; among them were more than a hundred individuals comparable to Super-Kage.
However, their methods were terrifying.
Each one rivaled—or exceeded—the former Nagato.
Strange, unknown races also descended, laughing as they slaughtered the people of the Ninja World.
Hundreds of thousands of shinobi were mobilized.
But the next scene made everyone's hearts tighten.
A blinding golden radiance descended from the heavens, its oppressive power suffocating.
Just as despair began to take hold, a massive Rasenshuriken burst forth, shredding the golden light.
It was Naruto.
He hovered in the void, draped in black and gold, Truth-Seeking Orbs revolving behind him.
Beside him stood Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, her face filled with worry as she stared at the mysterious enemy confronting Naruto.
Both of them floated high above the world, suspended in an endless sky.
The Ōtsutsuki powerhouse attacked—
—moving faster than the naked eye could perceive.
Only the deafening booms echoing across the sky revealed the scale of their clash.
Each casual strike shattered mountains and cracked rivers.
Their battle raged for three days and three nights.
Then, a silver-white figure suddenly flashed into the heavens, fleeing toward the outer reaches of space.
Her expression was one of pure panic.
Naruto gave chase.
A massive Rasengan, wreathed in black lightning and radiating destructive power, smashed into the fleeing foe.
Light engulfed everything—
—and the void was torn into a shapeless abyss.
The enemy was obliterated.
When Naruto returned to the battlefield, the entire world erupted into cheers.
In the days that followed, the Ninja World achieved a decisive victory.
But not long after…
A terrifying aura surged forth from the void.
A colossal hand—large enough to cover dozens of miles—descended onto the Ninja World.
Sand roared upward.
Lightning speared through the sky—
—all striking the giant hand.
But it only paused for a moment.
Then the entire Wind Capital was reduced to rubble.
The figure maintaining that massive sand barrier was Gaara—
—but even his newfound power was insignificant before the mysterious entity.
War descended once more.
This time, a single being smothered the entire world.
Naruto intervened again.
After half a day of stalemate, another Ōtsutsuki powerhouse emerged from the void, launching a divine sneak attack.
Naruto—overwhelmed at that critical moment—was sealed.
The Ninja World entered its darkest era.
Sky City was shot down.
Tailed Beasts were treated like pets—utterly powerless.
Towering giants battled endlessly, crushing wave after wave of shinobi.
But before the supreme enemies, those giants shattered instantly.
Still, the people of the Ninja World fought until nearly all were wiped out.
To preserve the world's bloodline and prepare for its resurgence, the final Sky City, under Hagane Seiji's leadership, retreated into the cosmic void.
Some survivors scattered throughout the world.
Others, led by Kakashi, hid within the Kamui dimension.
New races appeared, carving the world into territories.
The former Land of Fire was occupied directly by the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
At last, Underworld Sasuke emerged.
Using his Rinnegan, he resisted momentarily.
The Sage of Six Paths burned his very soul to buy Sasuke time, allowing him to escape.
Afterward, Sasuke wandered the ruined lands with a young Uzumaki Boruto, battling foreign invaders.
During these wanderings, he unexpectedly encountered Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, who sought to use the Ōtsutsuki time artifact to return to the past and seize Naruto's "great fortune."
Naruto's rise—from a mere shinobi to surpassing the Ōtsutsuki Clan's millennia-long accumulation in just a few decades—convinced Momoshiki that Naruto had inherited the legacy of a cosmic powerhouse.
Driven by ambition to ascend within the Ōtsutsuki hierarchy, Momoshiki attempted to activate the artifact.
But Sasuke discovered his plan and learned of the artifact's abilities.
Thus, the idea of changing the future took shape.
It was precisely because Sasuke came from that future that he was able to disable the alarms after they were triggered.
He knew this place all too well.
Sasuke understood the future—its cultivation paths, the rise and fall of power, and the fate of the Ninja World.
If that knowledge was handed to the current Naruto and the others, it could accelerate the Ninja World's growth dramatically.
Perhaps then, the tragedy of the future could be prevented.
As for Momoshiki, Sasuke had eventually killed him.
Back then, Sasuke's strength far surpassed Momoshiki's.
When the genjutsu vision reached its final moments, Sasuke exhaled lightly and said in a low voice:
"That Ōtsutsuki powerhouse who appeared in the future—his name is Ōtsutsuki God-Style."
"He is known as a Demigod. A Demigod stands between the Six Paths level and the True God level. After reaching the peak of Six Paths, one begins the path of the Demigod—nine cycles of reincarnation. Only after completing all nine transformations does one step into the realm of the True God."
"A True God is among the strongest beings in the universe. They stand at the cosmic apex, possess an infinite lifespan, and command fragments of the universal laws."
"Up until the moment of our defeat, we never once saw a True God. From their perspective, the war in the Ninja World may have been nothing more than a child's game."
"Back then, Naruto had reached Seven-Reincarnation Demigod when he was sealed. As for me—relying on the laws of reincarnation—I briefly surpassed Naruto, becoming a Demigod powerhouse myself. But he surpassed me once again. My current state… is Five-Reincarnation Demigod."
Sasuke's voice wove a bizarre, terrifying, magnificent world before their eyes—
and left everyone trembling.
They felt like frogs at the bottom of a well.
The world was unimaginably vast.
At the same time, they felt their own utter insignificance.
In Sasuke's account, wars on a planetary scale were nothing more than common, everyday occurrences in the universe.
The weak were slaughtered, enslaved, or had God-Tree seeds planted in them by the Ōtsutsuki, turning entire populations into White Zetsu.
Though the Ōtsutsuki Clan was few in number, their White Zetsu legions were effectively infinite—an indispensable army for planetary conquest.
After all, the Ōtsutsuki could not personally handle everything.
Originally, Ōtsutsuki God-Style had no intention of intervening. In his eyes, Earth was a weak, unremarkable planet. However, Isshiki was his grandson—one with the potential to ascend to Demigod level.
Unexpectedly, the Ninja World gave him a shock:
Earth possessed two Demigods.
All of this information came from what Sasuke learned through his Rinnegan, gathering intel from various extraterrestrial races scattered across the devastated world.
It was only because Sasuke survived that the Ninja World did not collapse entirely.
What shocked everyone most during the war was that the Three Great Sage Lands all revealed their hidden strength—
each unleashing Six Paths-level power.
At Mount Myōboku, the Great Stone Toad, who had previously only allowed Jiraiya to summon a fraction of his power, erupted with overwhelming Six Paths strength.
At Ryūchi Cave, the White Snake Sage transformed using a secret serpentine-dragon technique—her combat power was devastating and impossible to underestimate.
But the most unexpected figure was from Shikkotsu Forest.
The Slug Sage was actually the strongest among the three…yet not skilled in direct combat.
Instead, her life force was unparalleled—capable of dividing into countless miniature slugs, scattering herself across the Ninja World to survive.