This was a monk dressed as a traveling ascetic, holding a Zen staff in one hand and taking off his bamboo hat with the other.
This monk was not bald; he still had a patch of hair on his head, a small braid, and a Roman numeral Ⅳ tattooed at the corner of his left eye.
Rosen never expected to meet this person here.
Jigen! A monk who had lived for a thousand years.
Of course, he had another identity: the vessel for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
After the monk sat down, he looked at Rosen: "I see curiosity in your eyes."
Rosen knew how terrifying the person in front of him was, so he needed to treat him with extreme caution, and every answer had to be meticulous.
"I feel a powerful force within you. It's strange; I've met many Shinobi, but I've never seen anyone as powerful as you. Which faction are you from?" Rosen feigned curiosity as he looked at Jigen.
"Hmm? Are you a Shinobi too?"
"I am a Shinobi of the Nara Clan. My name is Nara Rosen, and I am a natural sensory type, especially sensitive to Chakra."
"Your sensory abilities are impressive. This is the first time someone has sensed the Chakra within my body," Jigen said. "Unfortunately, I cannot control this power, so I am destined not to become a Shinobi."
Rosen, of course, knew Jigen's half-truths. When he said he couldn't control it, he actually meant that this Physical Body couldn't bear the full power of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"That's a real shame. I was hoping to have you join our Nara Clan," Rosen said with a look of disappointment.
"You don't seem like a Shinobi. Shinobi don't easily reveal their identities, especially to a stranger."
Rosen shrugged, saying forlornly, "I'm no longer a Shinobi. I lost my Chakra in a battle and have long since retired. Now, I'm just an ordinary person."
Jigen carefully sensed Rosen's physical condition. He indeed found no Chakra aura on Rosen.
"Then what are you doing here now?"
"I plan to find a place to settle down. Currently, I'm surveying this small town. I don't want to be affected by the wars between the various Shinobi clans."
"I'm currently staying at Huiming Temple on the mountain. If you're interested, you can stay at Huiming Temple for a while."
"I can't live without women, wine, and meat. If it's just to chat with you, that's fine, but if you want me to live there permanently, I can't stand it." Rosen stood up: "Do you want to come to the inn where I'm staying and sit for a bit?"
"No, I still need to return to Huiming Temple."
This was like an insignificant encounter. Jigen felt that Rosen was holding back, but he didn't take it to heart.
After all, why would a Shinobi reveal all their information without reservation to a stranger?
Moreover, he could sense Rosen's general level. He was physically strong, likely a master of Taijutsu.
However, he indeed had no Chakra, so his strength should be between Jonin and Chunin. A Chunin would definitely not be his opponent, but he was not a Jonin's opponent either. Such strength posed no threat to him.
After Rosen returned to the inn, he leaned against the door, completely exhausted.
If that guy unleashed his full power without considering the consequences, he could destroy the entire World within three days.
This small town couldn't be stayed in any longer; that guy was simply too dangerous.
Staying near that guy, who knew when he would just drop dead.
That day, Rosen left the small town. Not long after leaving, he saw a battle involving a hundred people ahead.
Rosen decisively crouched down, waiting for the outcome of the battle. At the same time, the Shadow Demon also dispersed, ready for battle and escape at any time.
Looking at the two warring parties, they should be the Hyuga Clan, Uchiha Clan, and Taketori Clan.
The Hyuga Clan and Taketori Clan teamed up against the Uchiha Clan.
The characteristics of the three clans were very distinct: one Byakugan, one Sharingan, and one with bone growth.
The Taketori Clan was the Kaguya Clan, the most famous of whom was Kimimaro in later generations.
And the Taketori Clan and Hyuga Clan had a very good alliance during the Warring States Period.
Of course, this was partly due to them sharing the same ancestor; they were all descendants of Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
The Taketori Clan was very belligerent, which stemmed from their bloodline. The stronger the clan members, the more warlike they were, and also the shorter-lived.
Because they couldn't bear their bloodline inherited from Kaguya.
Although it had been weakened countless times, it would still cause them to suffer from a bloodline disease.
What surprised Rosen was that the Uchiha, despite being outnumbered, won this battle, though it was a Pyrrhic victory.
Of the nearly hundred combatants, only three Uchiha survived the battlefield.
Rosen immediately stealthily approached the battlefield, then used Distortion Space to collect these corpses, not letting Distortion Space devour them immediately.
The eyes of these Uchiha were all good things. He didn't hope for Byakugan, as all the fallen were members of the branch family marked with the Caged Bird Seal, and their Byakugan would be destroyed upon death.
Rosen quickly left the battlefield. After all, those three Uchiha would surely send people to clean up the battlefield after returning to their clan, and he didn't want to be caught.
Rosen kept running towards uninhabited areas, eventually reaching deep into the mountains, where he found a cave. Only then did he take out the corpses one by one.
Sharingan, dug out!
Byakugan... useless, Distortion Space devoured.
Corpse Bone Pulse... useless, Distortion Space devoured.
Just then, Rosen discovered that one of the Hyuga Clan members was actually from the main family.
This unexpected gain was beyond Rosen's expectation.
Rosen immediately dug out the Byakugan.
After all the corpses were dealt with, Distortion Space had reached 1000 cubic meters.
The harvest this time was quite good, not only 12 pairs of Sharingan and 1 pair of Byakugan.
He also obtained the Chakra Cultivation method he had been longing for, and a Ninjutsu scroll.
Rosen looked at these twelve pairs of Sharingan and one pair of Byakugan, and again fell into a dilemma.
There were two ways to preserve eyes in the Ninja World: one was using Seal scrolls, and the other was implanting the eyes into someone else's eye sockets.
The advantage of Seal scrolls was simplicity, at least for the Shinobi of this World.
However, powerful eyes, even when stored in Seal scrolls, would leak pupil power and eventually degenerate.
This was also why Uchiha Madara in later generations gave his eyes to Uzumaki Nagato for nourishment.
Currently, Rosen didn't know how to use Seal scrolls, nor could he perform the Uchiha Clan's instant-use Transfer Seal.
So, how to preserve these thirteen eyeballs became a problem, as Distortion Space couldn't keep them fresh.
Rosen suddenly thought of a method and summoned three Shadow Demons.
"Come, try to gouge out your eyeballs and replace them with high-end goods."
"Master, do you think we need to gouge them out?" Gluttony scratched his own eye, his finger passing directly through his head.
The three of them essentially had no eyeballs, or rather, Rosen's vision was their vision.
They shared vision with Rosen.
"Then try putting them on and see the effect." Rosen took out a pair of one-Tomoe Sharingan and handed them to Gluttony.
Gluttony, without a word, directly inserted them into his eye sockets.
The next moment, Rosen felt his vision seemed to have changed.
"It works!" Rosen's eyes lit up: "But this pair of eyes is only one-Tomoe, switch to Three-Tomoe."
Indeed, the Three-Tomoe eyes had a stronger effect than the one-Tomoe eyes.
Rosen selected two pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan and one pair of Byakugan.
Lust strongly demanded to have the Byakugan installed.
Under the dual effects of Sharingan and Byakugan, Rosen's dynamic vision and ultra-long-range vision were comprehensively improved. The unfortunate thing was that X-ray vision was not activated.
X-ray vision required Chakra to activate Byakugan before it could be activated. Rosen and Lust were both very disappointed.
For no other reason than not having the opportunity to see a different kind of scenery.
Combat strength increased from 550 to 850, which gave Rosen a deeper understanding of the Naruto World. It truly lived up to its reputation as an eye legend.
However, such a significant increase was also because Rosen's main combat strength was in Taijutsu, and dynamic vision provided a huge boost to Rosen's Combat strength.
Rosen suddenly felt that his magic power was slowly being consumed.
A thought stirred in his mind: he remembered that transplanted Sharingan could not be deactivated by outsiders and would continuously consume Chakra.
But for him, it became the consumption of magic power.
Although the eyes were installed on the Shadow Demons, the Shadow Demons were essentially extensions of his limbs, so it was a disguised transplant onto his body.
However, Rosen could bear this small consumption of magic power.
After all, with his main body plus three Shadow Demons constantly refining magic power, after several years, Rosen's magic power value was already quite substantial.
Rosen considered creating a fourth Shadow Demon. Sharingan couldn't be stored for long, so he operated on the principle of not wasting them.
Originally, Rosen wasn't very willing to create more Shadow Demons. Although creating one more Shadow Demon could increase his strength by a notch and speed up his Cultivation, the perverse personalities of these Shadow Demons could negate all their benefits.
So, the desire for the fourth Shadow Demon required careful consideration.
He already had Lust, Gluttony, and Greed. Among these three, Greed's personality was relatively better, at least he wasn't a chatterbox.
Rosen thought Sloth might have the best personality among the Seven Deadly Sins, but the attribute of laziness made Rosen directly abandon that idea.
So, after much deliberation, he still chose to create the Jealousy Shadow Demon.
He took out a wisp of his desire and a section of his Shadow.
Rosen rubbed his hands together, blending the desire and the Shadow, forming a black sphere.
Then he infused a strand of his Mental Energy into the black sphere.
The black sphere began to squirm, first growing a black head, then a body structure, and then limbs.
In fact, Shadow Demons had no fixed form. Whatever form Rosen thought they were, that's what they became.
Also, as Rosen's Shadows, they tended to resemble Rosen's physique and appearance, except their bodies were completely black, making it difficult to discern their facial features.
Finally, the Jealousy Shadow Demon gradually took shape. The moment the Jealousy Shadow Demon formed, it suddenly rushed towards the Lust Shadow Demon, its hands extending sharply to grab the Lust Shadow Demon's eyeballs.
Rosen and the other Shadow Demons were caught off guard by this sudden turn of events.
Lust kicked the newly born Envy junior away.
"Envy, what are you doing?"