Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 320 Uchiha Touko Returns, Yin Sage Mode

The stalemate in the three-way battle continues. Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji, like the most cunning peregrine falcons, constantly weave through and disrupt the two powerful figures' tumultuous attacks.

Sasuke's Amenotejikara (Heavenly Hand Power) was unpredictable, always managing to redirect attacks at the most crucial moments, causing Kaguya and Isshiki's killing moves to repeatedly miss or be forced to cancel each other out. Naruto, on the other hand, used his immense Yang Power and Truth-Seeking Balls to launch powerful blocks and counterattacks, forcing both of them to acknowledge his presence. Neji's Tenseigan, however, provided a comprehensive view, continuously delivering precise long-range strikes with his sharp Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike and Truth-Seeking Balls, thus restraining the movements of the two.

Isshiki Otsutsuki's face was terribly grim; he had never felt so frustrated. These "ants" in his eyes were like annoying flies; although they couldn't inflict fatal damage, they greatly hindered his progress in suppressing Kaguya and reclaiming the fruit. His attacks grew increasingly ferocious, black cubes and spatial cuts pouring down like a torrential rain, but they were always cleverly neutralized or deflected by that strange spacetime eye technique and the golden Truth-Seeking Ball barrier.

Kaguya Otsutsuki was equally agitated and furious. Black Zetsu shrieked incessantly from her sleeve, urging her to break free of the entanglement, but the dense Indra and Ashura chakra emanating from Naruto and Sasuke, and their formidable teamwork far surpassing that of previous reincarnations, made it impossible for her to concentrate her power against Isshiki, let alone capture them. Even her All-Killing Ash Bones were being teleported back by Sasuke, forcing her into a frantic state.

"Damn Indra! Damn Ashura!" Kaguya roared inwardly, her hatred for the chakra reincarnations of her two unfilial sons reaching its peak.

Just as this intense, chaotic battle, in which neither side could completely prevail, reached a critical point—

An unexpected change suddenly erupted within Kaguya Otsutsuki's body!
"Ugh—!"

Kaguya Otsutsuki suddenly let out a muffled groan, a mixture of pain and horror! Her massive body stiffened abruptly in mid-air, her movements completely frozen! Even the surging chakra around her fluctuated violently and unnaturally, like boiling water!
"Mom?! What's wrong with you?!" Black Zetsu screamed in terror, sensing a terrible change occurring within its mother's core!

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki also keenly sensed his opponent's unusual behavior, but being cautious by nature, he did not immediately launch a strong attack. Instead, he observed the situation from the sidelines and increased his vigilance.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji also immediately retreated, looking at Kaguya who suddenly froze with surprise and uncertainty.

“That chakra…” Sasuke’s Rinnegan stared intently at Kaguya. He sensed a familiar yet somewhat different chakra that was awakening and expanding from the deepest part of Kaguya’s body with extreme dominance!

"It's Touko-sensei?!" Naruto sensed it too, and his face showed an incredulous surprise.

Kaguya Otsutsuki's exquisite face began to distort, and within her Rinne Sharingan on her forehead and her Byakugan, the illusory images of another pair of Rinnegan, even more profound and complex, simultaneously appeared! It was as if two consciousnesses were fiercely vying for control of her body!

"No...impossible! How could you...still exist?!" Black Zetsu screamed in terror, his voice distorted. "Your soul and power should have been completely assimilated by Mother!"

A calm and familiar voice, seemingly resonating from every cell in Kaguya's body, responded to his horror:

"Assimilation? Black Zetsu, you underestimate me. Don't you think it's a bit too much of a coincidence that your seal was broken at the same time I became the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki?"

It was Uchiha Touko's voice! Absolutely clear!

"You think I devoured the Ten-Tails just for power? No, it was more to get closer to the core of the Divine Tree, to feel the origin of Yin-Yang Release, and thus take the step of leaping to a higher level of life on my own."

As he spoke, Kaguya's body trembled even more violently, and countless blue runes seemed to flicker and flow beneath her skin!
"Let us turn back... the flow of Yumuta!"

Uchiha Touko's voice was like a final declaration!

Om-! ! !
An extremely strange spacetime fluctuation suddenly erupted from Kaguya's body! This was not a technique that affected the outside world, but a time reversal that affected Uchiha Touko's own existence!

This was once an exceptionally talented genius of the Uchiha clan. It was the last insurance left by Uchiha Asahi for future generations when practicing Sage Mode. It was a one-time transcribing and sealing eye technique that Uchiha Touko regarded as his last trump card after he obtained it. At this moment, it reversed his own state back to the moment before he was devoured!

This is not a simple resurrection, but a fundamental denial of the fact that he was "devoured by Kaguya"!

"No!!!" Kaguya Otsutsuki let out a desperate scream. She could feel a complete, independent, and more powerful consciousness being forcibly torn away from her origin and reshaped!
Under everyone's shocked gaze, the most concentrated chakra at the center of Kaguya Otsutsuki's enormous body suddenly collapsed and reshaped!
Kaguya's body became ethereal and unstable, like a poorly signaled image.

And another figure stepped out from that illusory image!
He still wore that white robe adorned with magatama, still had those nine jet-black Truth-Seeking Balls, and the Rinnegan in his eyes remained as eerie as ever. But what was different was that his gaze was no longer Kaguya's indifference and madness, but rather the absolute calmness and profundity of Uchiha Touko. His aura was more refined and powerful than when he had become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.

Uchiha Touko, relying on his own strategy and forbidden eye techniques, reversed the situation within Kaguya Otsutsuki's body and made a powerful comeback!
He hovered in the air, slightly moving his wrists as if adapting to his more perfect body. He glanced at Isshiki Otsutsuki, whose face was extremely pale and who looked as if facing a formidable enemy, and then at Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji below, who were dumbfounded.

Finally, his gaze fell back on Kaguya Otsutsuki, who was gradually reforming but whose aura had weakened considerably, her face filled with shock and anger.

"Thank you for the 'hospitality,' Princess Kaguya." Uchiha Touko's voice was calm and even, yet it carried a chilling aura. "Your clan's bloodline is indeed quite remarkable, as you have managed to engrave the ability to control Yin-Yang Release into your DNA as an instinct."

As Uchiha Touko spoke, he actually withdrew from the Sage of Six Paths mode and returned to human form. At the same time, the vast natural energy between heaven and earth began to converge on him.

"However, we are not the same race. This way of controlling Yin-Yang Release poses a considerable threat to us humans in the ninja world."

"so……"

The natural energy gathered around Uchiha Touko's body began to undergo earth-shattering changes.

"The form of power should not stop at imitation and inheritance." He murmured to himself, as if he were talking to himself, or as if he were making a declaration to the world.

The vast, boundless Ten-Tails chakra surrounding him began to vibrate at a strange frequency, not agitation, but a deeper resonance. His Rinne Sharingan on his forehead slightly opened, revealing a glimmer of light seeking the origin. "The power of the Divine Tree originates from the life of the planet; natural energy exists between heaven and earth. Chakra is a product of the Divine Tree's fruit, sharing the same origin as the natural energy of this world, yet flowing differently." His consciousness sank into his body, transcending the Ten-Tails' roar, transcending the flow of chakra, probing into the depths of the most fundamental, omnipresent natural energy that constitutes the world.

"Yin-Yang Release, the power of creation and destruction. Kaguya and Isshiki possessed power, but only knew how to use it, not why. The Sage of Six Paths founded the Ninja School, but he stopped at the transfer of chakra."

"And I... want to go even further."

With the power of the Ten-Tails empowering him, his spiritual power began to forcefully organize, guide, and even control the vast, yet chaotic, natural energy around him with unprecedented intensity and precision!
This is a more domineering, more direct, and more dangerous attempt—using its own powerful will and the power of the Ten-Tails as leverage, and with a profound understanding of the essence of Yin-Yang Release as a blueprint, it forcibly incorporates natural energy into its own control system!

"Yin Dun governs imagination and gives form to things."

"Yang Dun, governs life and bestows vitality."

"And natural energy... is the most primitive and purest 'material' in this world!"

Om-! ! !
The space around Uchiha Touko began to distort violently. This was not a space-time ninjutsu, but a phenomenon caused by the extreme concentration, compression, and even alteration of the physical laws of natural energy! His white magatama robe fluttered without wind, and the nine Truth-Seeking Balls behind him were no longer just black spheres. Their surfaces began to flow with dazzling yet dangerous gray-white energy patterns, like nebulae—a brand-new product of the combination of highly condensed natural energy and Yin-Yang Release!
He suddenly opened his eyes!

Those Rinne Sharingan had undergone a dramatic transformation! The original purplish-red ripple base had turned into a deeper, darker color, seemingly capable of swallowing all light. The ripples themselves, however, shone with a cold, silvery-white light, like stars. Around the corners of his eyes, mysterious and complex patterns outlined by grayish-white natural energy appeared, extending all the way to his temples, adding to his divine indifference and majesty.

A terrifying pressure, completely different, more ancient, and closer to the origin of the world, suddenly spread out from him! This pressure even made Otsutsuki Isshiki and Otsutsuki Kaguya feel instinctively uncomfortable and wary!

"What...is this?!" Kaguya's pure white eyes were filled with confusion and astonishment; she had never seen power in this form before.

"Hmph, playing tricks!" Yi Shi sneered, but his eyes became even more serious as he sensed a fundamental increase in the opponent's aura.

Uchiha Touko slowly raised one hand, palm up, fingers slightly spread.

He didn't draw upon the Ten-Tails' chakra, nor did he use the Rinnegan's abilities. He simply used his own new will, a will that combined natural energy with his understanding of the essence of Yin-Yang Release, to gently grasp the void.

"Representation."

As his cold voice fell, matter seemed to be "created" directly from nothingness in the space above his palm!
It is no longer a transformation of the Seeking the Way Jade, but a true, spontaneous creation of matter!
First came tiny metal particles, which then rapidly converged, shaped, and extended... In an instant, a longsword, entirely black with a nebula-like sheen flowing across its blade and a slight distortion in space at its edge, was born out of thin air!
This sword is not a materialized form of chakra, but a real sword with a physical form! It contains the ultimate Yin Release annihilation power and the perfect combination of natural energy!

Uchiha Touko gripped the sword hilt and casually swung it forward.

There were no earth-shattering explosions, no dazzling light effects.

Only a thin, black line, seemingly capable of cutting through space, flashed by.

The next moment, a mountain peak in the distance, half-flattened by the aftershocks of Kaguya and Shiki's battle, vanished silently along with the remaining portion of it and the vast space around it, like a painting erased by an eraser! There were no rubble, no dust; it simply turned into nothingness completely, as if it had never existed!
Creation out of thin air! Annihilation in a single thought!
This is the new realm that Uchiha Touko created, uniquely his own, based on natural energy and guided by Yin-Yang Release.

Yin Immortal Mode!
In this mode, his control over Yin Release reached an unprecedented level. He could create objects out of thin air with his thoughts, using natural energy and Yin Release power, or he could reduce everything to nothingness with a single word. His power and his level of mastery have already surpassed the scope of a simple Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, touching the edge of true Yin Release authority! Just like what the ancestors of the Otsutsuki clan did back then.

He looked coldly at Isshiki Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki, and slightly raised the longsword in his hand that had been born from nothingness.

"Now, let's start over."

"Use your existence to prove the power of my newborn self."

The atmosphere of the battlefield was pushed into an even more unknown and terrifying abyss by the appearance of this power beyond comprehension!

"So, this is what the teacher's purpose is?" Neji said with a smile at this moment.

At first, when Neji saw Uchiha Touko defeat Uchiha Madara and then choose to devour the Ten-Tails and activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he felt betrayed. But now that everything has come to light, Neji understands his teacher's purpose.

The next instant, Uchiha Touko appeared beside Naruto and the other two, reaching out to help them regulate their Sage Chakra and Yin-Yang Power before looking at the two enemies in the sky.

"It seems that the three of you haven't fought together since you became my disciples," Uchiha Touko said after helping Naruto and Sasuke regulate their internal energy and then completely eliminating some of the hidden dangers caused by the Caged Bird Seal within Neji's body.

“Yes, teacher. Since we became ninjas, it seems like the three of us have never had the experience of guiding a Jonin on a mission.” Sasuke clenched his fist, feeling the power within him grow stronger, and laughed.

"Then this time I'll make up for your regrets properly," Uchiha Touko said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)