Chapter 432: Still Not Coming Out?
It had to be said—the Great Toad Sage's guess was spot on.
Li Yao truly hadn't intended to go out of his way to target the toads of Mount Myōboku.
After mastering a wide range of Six Paths-level abilities, Li Yao's Obito clone exited Kamui space and instantly created five hundred shadow clones, all teleporting across the Land of Fire.
Countless black hole spheres erupted and expanded across the nation.
Across the land, wherever humans existed, smooth, round craters of various sizes began appearing one after another.
"No!!!"
"Stop…"
Before Hashirama, a cave hiding a dozen civilians vanished in an instant, replaced by a smooth crater. He screamed madly at the Obito shadow clone hovering in the sky.
But the clone didn't even glance at Hashirama. He teleported away to the next inhabited location.
"Are you really going to kill every single person in the Land of Fire?"
Minato asked, his body trembling as he looked toward the clone in the sky.
Below him was a small crater—just one person.
The clone had personally acted to kill that one individual.
Minato understood exactly what that meant.
But even so, watching someone truly carry out the mass extermination of the entire Land of Fire right before his eyes… Minato couldn't even tell what he was feeling anymore—fear? Despair?
He couldn't understand this person.
Whoosh!
The clone vanished. At this point, his target of vengeance was the Sage of Six Paths. Minato and the others no longer even stirred Li Yao's anger. He couldn't be bothered to speak to them.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The Obito clones spread across the entire Land of Fire, busy and relentless.
No shrill cries. No furious roars. No terrified screams.
This massacre across the Land of Fire was eerily quiet. No one felt the pain of death—they didn't even realize they had died.
They… passed away peacefully.
Li Yao's clone slaughtered the people like an emotionless farming bot in a game, mechanically cutting down the "minions" of the Land of Fire.
Hashirama, Minato, Uchiha Itachi, and the others were powerless to stop it. They broke down under the weight of fear, rage, despair, numbness—emotions too complicated to name.
The Land of Fire was vast, and it had countless "minions."
By the fourth day of the massacre, only a tenth of the population had been wiped out.
But that was already enough to shatter the minds of Hashirama and the others.
Aside from Hiruzen Sarutobi, the other four's souls completely collapsed, and their Edo Tensei bodies disintegrated with them.
They were broken—utterly destroyed by the horrifying reality created by the Obito clone.
Why?
Because they suddenly recalled what the clone had said at the very beginning. At that time, they could have prevented this outcome—but they had overestimated themselves and underestimated Li Yao's capacity for vengeance.
And so, wracked with guilt, their souls shattered.
As for Hiruzen, the longest-reigning Hokage—even though he, too, was deeply shaken by the cruelty of the Obito clone—he felt no guilt or regret.
So he was personally killed by the clone.
With Hashirama and the others gone, no longer keeping an eye on him, the Obito clone continued his massacre.
Meanwhile, Li Yao's true body remained in Kamui space, sensing how the Six Paths chakra was transforming his body.
Chakra was a fusion of physical and spiritual energy, naturally strengthening both the body and the mind.
Even a five-year-old taijutsu-trained ninja could easily overpower a fully grown man without chakra. That's how immense chakra's enhancement was.
That was why wars in the Five Great Nations became battles between shinobi villages—because chakra-empowered bodies made ordinary humans irrelevant.
Victory between nations came down entirely to the outcomes of battles between ninja.
This showed just how drastically chakra enhanced the human body.
And the higher the quality of the chakra, the greater the physical enhancement.
In the original anime, Madara once said something to the effect that Ōnoki's long lifespan was connected to his Dust Release chakra.
Likewise, Madara's own longevity was tied to his Rinnegan and the chakra of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path nourishing his body.
So, the benefits of high-quality chakra included not just greater power, but also extended lifespan.
Now, Li Yao had copied the Truth-Seeking Orb chakra from the Bloodline Web, a Six Paths-level Yin-Yang Release. With such high-quality chakra flowing through him, his body was visibly evolving—his spirit too was transforming.
Li Yao could feel his mind becoming more active, his reflexes faster. The entire world felt as if it were moving tens of thousands of times slower. His thoughts operated at lightning speed.
His control over his body had also become incredibly fine-tuned. Chakra manipulation… well, that part hadn't changed.
His chakra control was still as bad as ever.
But his control over his body—down to the cellular level—had increased exponentially. He could now direct cell regeneration without even needing Wood Style chakra as a primer.
And more than that… he could feel that his cells had changed.
The sense of liberation from breaking a biological shackle made his entire body tremble with elation.
"I… have become immortal!"
Li Yao smiled as his lips curled.
The flow of Six Paths-level chakra through every cell of his body released a kind of wave that felt like a key unlocking the natural limit of cell division.
Now, Li Yao's physical cells no longer had a limit on how many times they could divide.
In other words, his body—under the influence of Six Paths chakra—had achieved immortality.
From this moment on, as long as his soul remained intact and his body wasn't destroyed, he would exist forever.
"Not bad… this trip was worth it."
The unexpected reward of immortality left Li Yao very satisfied. He had only hoped to obtain the Bloodline Web, but his harvest was far beyond expectations.
"Once my body finishes strengthening, I'll leave."
Li Yao thought to himself.
Strengthening the body wasn't instantaneous. It took time—and that time was enough for his Obito clone to wipe out all the "minions" on the planet.
One day.
Two days.
One month.
The Obito clone's slaughter had now expanded beyond the Land of Fire. The Sage of Six Paths, sensing this, understood what it meant.
"Is wiping out the Land of Fire not enough for this guy?"
"What is he trying to do?"
"Does he want to exterminate everyone in the shinobi world?"
In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths watched the scenes of the massacre reflected in the water. His lips trembled, his expression dark.
"No, I can't let him kill everyone… the Pure Land hasn't fully separated yet."
"But…"
The Sage wanted to step in and stop the clone. But when he thought of the consequences—and those cold, star-like eyes that would lock onto him—he wasn't sure he'd still have a thousand years to ascend beyond this realm.
"Just wait a little longer…"
In the end, the Sage of Six Paths still chose not to intervene. He kept watching.
Ordinary people didn't matter. As long as the ninja who had chakra spread out and hid, that kid wouldn't be able to kill them all.
The Sage could only hope that the other villages' ninja would realize the situation and run—disperse quickly, and not gather, lest they be wiped out all at once.
"Still not coming out?"
Inside the skyscraper-filled Kamui space, Li Yao was a little surprised.
(END CHAPTER)
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