Space-time power. Space-time chakra. Space-time nature transformation.
With a single glance, Yami understood the special effect of the black chakra.
Everyone knew that a ninja's chakra had seven attributes: Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Lightning, Yin, and Yang. They were the world's Yin Yang and Five Elements.
Yin and Yang were hidden attributes. You had to be born with them. They could not be obtained through training, unless some powerful external force remodeled the body.
Even the God of Shinobi, Hashirama, as well as Naruto and Sasuke in the original story, could not train Yin and Yang later in life.
The reason Madara possessed all five elements plus Yin and Yang was because he transplanted Hashirama's cells. Otherwise, his limit would have been the same as Sasuke's, at most six attributes: Yin and the five elements.
The fusion of two nature transformations created a Kekkei Genkai.
The fusion of three created a Kekkei Tōta.
That was the limit of what the ninja world believed possible.
But Yami knew that if all seven fused together, it became a Kekkei Mōra.
That was the mark of a true member in the eyes of pure-blood Otsutsuki.
Without a Kekkei Mōra, without full attributes, an Otsutsuki was just diluted blood among diluted blood, no different from the so-called lower lifeforms.
That chakra had only seven attributes was common sense in the ninja world.
Only a tiny number of people knew there was an eighth hidden special attribute.
It stood above the seven. Its lower bound and upper bound were both absurd. Some versions were not inferior to Kekkei Mōra, some were themselves a type of Kekkei Mōra, and some were even stronger than Kekkei Mōra.
That was space-time power.
Space-time abilities were actually common in the ninja world.
Storage scrolls involved space-time principles.
The Summoning Technique also involved space-time power.
But those only touched the surface through contracts and sealing. They could not be applied to one's own body at will.
That was why, when the Second Hokage, Tobirama, developed the Flying Thunder God Technique and showed the world how terrifying space-time power could be, that technique immediately became one of the strongest S-rank ultimate techniques in the ninja world.
To this day, aside from Tobirama himself, Konoha had not produced a second person who truly mastered that S-rank ultimate.
Even then, the Flying Thunder God Technique was still a support-type space-time ninjutsu.
In a thousand years of the Warring States era and beyond, the ninja world had never produced an offensive space-time ninjutsu.
Because no one could truly master space-time power, let alone transform their chakra nature into space-time chakra. Not even pure-blood Otsutsuki could do that.
Their space-time abilities, like the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kamui, were simply ways to expend chakra, or Yin Release chakra, to forcibly invoke space-time power.
Amenominaka, Yomotsu Hirasaka, Daikokuten, these were all Kekkei Mōra level abilities or divine techniques, and they were still support-type space-time powers.
Kamui, on the other hand, despite not being a divine technique, was a rare offensive space-time ability.
Even so, offensive Kamui had activation time, consumed massive ocular power, and its function was fixed. It still was not chakra being converted into a space-time nature transformation.
And now, the first existence to possess space-time chakra had been born.
So it was no wonder Yami was this excited. The fact he did not laugh out loud was already the greatest restraint a transmigrator could have.
For the past six years, no one knew how much pressure Yami had been carrying.
If he had been born in the era where the plot began, the same age as Naruto and Sasuke, then even without a bloodline limit and without a cheat, Yami would have accepted his fate and coasted through life.
With his knowledge of the story, he could easily avoid every catastrophe except the Infinite Tsukuyomi. And even the Infinite Tsukuyomi was not truly a catastrophe. It was a beautiful dream.
But of all times, Yami had transmigrated into the era of Namikaze Minato.
The Second Great Ninja War could erupt at any moment. The information revealed in the original story about this period was pitifully scarce. Yami had no idea whether Minato's generation would be sent to the battlefield.
If they were deployed, even as logistics, enemy ninja could infiltrate at any time. The kind of ninja capable of infiltrating, especially one arriving with a mission, would be at least special jōnin level.
Without protagonist luck, encountering that was certain death.
The more a transmigrator knew, the more there was to fear. Especially when living in a time period with no plot advantage at all, Yami's pressure grew day by day.
Because of that, his personal strategy guide had already prepared him to grow stronger by any means necessary.
To survive, he was even willing to become a test subject, a stitched-together monster like Kakuzu or Hiruko.
To lay the groundwork for that plan, he, as an "adult" who understood the value of connections and networks, had crafted an aloof, cold, school tyrant persona from the day he enrolled. Every day was acting.
In truth, there were many nights when Yami woke from nightmares.
He dreamed the plan failed before it even began, that his thoughts were read, his identity as an otherworlder exposed, and he became an even more miserable experiment.
He dreamed he finally obtained overwhelming power, only to be crushed with a single palm by a higher-dimensional existence, all his efforts wasted.
Those fears were invisible shackles binding him.
But now, those shackles had shattered completely the moment black space-time chakra appeared.
What had once been a path that could only lead to becoming a versatile jōnin, and even with a perfect strategy guide would at best reach a false Six Paths level limit, had become completely uncertain.
That was what made space-time so special.
Its lower bound was low. Even ordinary ninja could use space-time principles to create storage scrolls.
Its upper bound was terrifying. Even an elite jōnin like Hatake Kakashi, simply by possessing an offensive space-time technique, could harm the Ancestor of Chakra.
For Yami, who now possessed space-time chakra, his future strength also became uncertain. It would depend entirely on the capacity of this black chakra, and how he used it.
If he could develop offensive methods, then even as a first-year academy student, he could possess means to threaten a Kage, just like elite jōnin who had mastered S-rank ultimate techniques.
Even a Ten-Tails jinchūriki, with immunity to ordinary ninjutsu, would have their defenses broken if he landed a hit.
If the black chakra could not be used to attack, then Yami's strength would not change at all. He would simply become like those clans with secret techniques or bloodline limits, someone with a special ability.
Even that would already satisfy him.
Because his feet had just become intangible.
Intangibility.
That was the bug-level power that made Uchiha Obito nearly untouchable throughout the entire Naruto story.
As long as Yami could achieve full-body intangibility, then in this era, no one could kill him through anything except assassination, including that Asura of the ninja world who was still alive right now.
At this moment, he stood above other ninja.
(End of Chapter)
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