I simultaneously traverse countless worlds

I simultaneously traverse countless worlds

Author: The Shedding Snake

Summary:

As a transmigrator who has traversed countless worlds, Li Mo declares that his cheat ability is himself, and thus begins his journey through countless worlds...

(The world of this book is mainly composed of crossover anime and game worlds, with occasional crossover anime worlds that combine different worldviews.)

Volume One

Chapter 1: Immediately in dire straits after transmigrating? (New book, please add to your collection and vote!)

"Listen up, everyone. There's only one week left until the graduation exam before formal graduation. I hope that enough outstanding students will pass the exam and become true Hidden Mist Village ninjas..."

In a somewhat dilapidated training ground, a middle-aged ninja wearing a Kirigakure ninja headband looked at the group of Kirigakure ninja academy students in front of him, who were at most nine or ten years old, and gave a formulaic speech while secretly sneering to himself.

Not only the Jonin from Kirigakure who was speaking, but also the dozen or so Kirigakure ninjas standing beside him, not one of them paid any attention to his righteous speech. They looked at the more than two hundred students of the Ninja Academy, knowing that if half of them could pass the graduation exam in a week and become Genin from Kirigakure, that would be considered good. Moreover, these ninja students, who were full of expectations for becoming ninjas, would have to face the cruel graduation exam of the Kirigakure Ninja Academy.

Of course, due to certain regulations, no Kirigakure ninja told these ninja students who had already undergone three years of training about the test content. Moreover, having experienced that extremely cruel test, they naturally did not want these so-called juniors to miss it. In fact, some of the Kirigakure's official ninjas were secretly gloating.

For the students of the Ninja Academy in Kirigakure, they naturally had no idea that the official ninjas were secretly gloating. They didn't come from the famous bloodline limit families of Kirigakure, nor were they Jonin capable of recommending candidates for the ninja exams. Most of them were born into Kirigakure ninja families, and they didn't know what the official ninja exams in Kirigakure were. But the only thing they knew was that if they didn't become official Kirigakure ninjas, they would be exploited to death in Kirigakure and even the Land of Water.

After listening to the formulaic speech of the Kirigakure Jonin, the group of ninja students, who were looking forward to passing the ninja exam, dispersed with excited expressions and whispered among themselves. Some of the ninja students who were close to each other even discussed that if they became ninjas, they would try to form an action team so that they could help each other and become stronger together.

Among them, a handsome little boy with a well-proportioned figure silently watched the ninja students around him chatting as they left, then glanced at the Kirigakure ninja teachers who had not yet dispersed, and left without saying a word!

……

Shortly after, the ninja students, who had heard a few short whistles, quickly ran out and grabbed their dinners. They were even pleasantly surprised to find that tonight's dinner was actually quite good, and it was said that this was the standard meal for the past month.

To other ninja villages, the dinner of three plum rice balls and a bowl of kelp soup per person might seem meager for ninja students who need training. However, it's important to understand that many commoners in the Land of Water only eat two meals a day, with their staple food being various grains. The fact that the ninja students have three meals a day is already quite good. Even among the commoners in Kirigakure, many cannot afford such a meal.

This is also a microcosm of Kirigakure and even the entire Land of Water: the Land of Water and Kirigakure, living alone overseas, are far from the Shinobi World Mainland. They were not directly affected by the First and Second Shinobi World Wars. However, it is still very difficult for the Land of Water, which is located overseas, to develop and grow stronger. The four major countries and a group of smaller countries on the Shinobi World Mainland have already occupied all the better territories, let alone give up a piece of land for the Land of Water to swallow up and grow stronger.

The Land of Water, confined to a single location, was already beginning to resemble Japan before the 20th century. Its population was increasing, but it couldn't cultivate new farmland. The Hidden Mist Village, due to insufficient missions and resource shortages, even had to implement a brutal elite system for its students after the defeat in the Second Shinobi World War. Otherwise, the Hidden Mist Village would not be able to support the influx of new ninjas each year and would have to take on new war operations.

However, these graduating students from the Ninja Academy in Kirigakure were completely unaware of the intricacies involved. They happily enjoyed what seemed like a sumptuous dinner and looked forward to their future as ninjas!

"Mo, have you gone back to rest?"

Seeing the little boy quickly finish his dinner, rub his bandaged head, and head towards the dormitory, a ninja student who shared a room with him looked up and casually asked him a question.

"Um……"

Hearing the words of the ninja student he had met a few times, the little boy, who had just hurriedly finished his dinner, forced a smile, pointed to his head which was still wrapped in bandages, and gave a very reasonable explanation to the ninja student and those watching around him: "I feel that the wound on my head is still a little painful. It's probably because the injury from a couple of days ago hasn't fully healed yet!"

The little boy's explanation made the ninja student and those around him suddenly understand. Some even looked at the little boy with a hint of sympathy. After all, the graduation exam of the Kirigakure Ninja Academy was only a few days away. This unlucky guy had accidentally fallen from a tree and injured his head during training a couple of days ago, which made his graduation exam even more difficult.

Although some people felt sorry for the little boy, apart from the ninja student who was somewhat familiar with him giving him a word of advice, the other ninja students remained silent. Some even had a hint of schadenfreude in their eyes. They didn't know what the graduation exam for the Kirigakure Ninja Academy was, but they were certain that the people around them were their competitors in the graduation exam. If someone was eliminated in the graduation exam, it would naturally increase their chances of graduating.

After all, being a ninja in Kirigakure is not something commonplace. These ninja students who are about to graduate do not want to struggle to survive like ordinary people in Kirigakure or even the Land of Water. Becoming a formal ninja in Kirigakure is the key to escaping that ordinary fate. If they encounter competitors, they will naturally not be friendly.

When the little boy observed the general emotions of the ninja students around him, he showed no anger at all. Instead, he calmly left and returned to his dormitory with the three ninja students!

……

[Ugh! What the hell?! Why did I transmigrate into the Naruto world? And to Kirigakure, right before the Third Shinobi World War?! Is this some kind of death trap?!]

When Li Mo returned to the four-person dormitory where he had woken up two days earlier, he lay on his small bed like a deflated balloon, his mind already turning into a roaring emperor.

That's right! Li Mo is a time traveler from the Celestial Empire!

Heaven knows why Li Mo, a man in his early thirties and belonging to the ranks of corporate slaves in China, suddenly collapsed and died while working overtime all night. When he regained consciousness after everything went black, he found himself in the Hidden Mist Village from the Naruto anime he had watched in his previous life, an injured little boy at the ninja academy.

Logically speaking, being reborn into a two-dimensional world should be a joyous occasion, especially since he was reborn into a bright future for a little boy. The combination of these two happy events should be double the joy. However, when Li Mo discovered that he had transmigrated to the time before the Third Shinobi World War in the Naruto world, specifically to the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Water, his heart began to turn cold.

Especially when Li Mo was trying to heal the injuries on the head of the unlucky guy who had been possessed and reborn, and was talking with his roommates, he learned that the graduation exam was about to begin and that among the most popular candidates who were sure to pass the ninja exam, there was a seeded player named Momochi Zabuza. He felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Damn it! This is even worse than those who transmigrated to the night before the Uchiha massacre and became members of the Uchiha clan. It's practically a situation where there's no chance of survival!

Chapter 2 The Risks of Traveling Through the Naruto World (New book, please add to your favorites and vote!)

As one of the three major shonen manga, Li Mo had watched the entire Naruto anime. He had also posted on some threads discussing the Naruto plot and other settings with others.

Among these discussions, there was a thread where Li Mo wrote over a dozen posts about what would be the best and worst scenario if someone were to be reborn in the world of "Naruto." The thread, along with other netizens, led to a generally accepted conclusion: if someone were to be reborn in the world of "Naruto" without any special abilities or cheat codes, then the identity and timing of that rebirth would be extremely important!

For example, the most tragic transmigration identity, according to many netizens, is when the transmigrator doesn't have any cheat codes and instead transmigrates into a small ninja village or the Uchiha clan, which is on the verge of extinction. In that case, the consequence is either becoming nameless cannon fodder or a sacrifice.

After all, in the world of Naruto, which is jokingly referred to as "the legend of the eyes in the five villages' brawl" and "the family drama of the Otsutsuki clan," it is a pipe dream for anyone who is not related to the Otsutsuki bloodline to become a top-tier ninja. Even Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sannin of Konoha, eventually went from being a scientist who researched all ninjutsu to a supporter of the Otsutsuki bloodline.

Without a doubt, for a transmigrator who travels to the world of "Naruto," without any cheat codes or special abilities, being a ninja from a small village and even making an appearance before death would be a good thing, let alone having any ambitions like becoming a Kage.

As for transmigrating into the Uchiha clan, which is on the verge of extinction...

Well, facing Uchiha Itachi, who is ruthless and even killed his parents, childhood friend, and other clan members besides Uchiha Sasuke, unless you can suddenly unleash your Mangekyou Sharingan, you will inevitably die in Konoha.

In contrast, if the transmigrators didn't have any cheat codes or special abilities, and their time travel occurred during the First, Second, or Third Shinobi World War, they would have to experience the brutal warfare of the Naruto world. During the most intense period of the Third Shinobi World War, even seven- or eight-year-old children from Konoha and other ninja villages went to the battlefield. You simply couldn't avoid going to the battlefield.

If they hadn't traveled through time during the Fourth Shinobi World War, the time travelers would have had some time to develop. For example, at the beginning of the main story of "Naruto," the five great ninja villages and other smaller ninja villages were already living in a relatively peaceful situation.

However, Li Mo discovered that his misfortune lay in the fact that when he transmigrated into the world of "Naruto," it was on the eve of the Third Shinobi World War? And in Kirigakure, the ninja village that had the cruel nickname "Village of the Bloody Mist" before the Third Shinobi World War?!

If there was even worse news, it would be that Li Mo discovered that among the ninja students in his Kirigakure class who were about to face their graduation exams, there was actually a guy named Zabuza Momochi.

When it comes to the first boss to appear in the Naruto anime, Zabuza Momochi and Haku Minazuki, Li Mo naturally watched it and was deeply moved. When discussing the situation of the two with netizens, they all felt sorry for Zabuza Momochi and Haku Minazuki, feeling that the two were tragic products of the "Village of Blood Mist" and "Blood Mist Policy" of Kirigakure.

In the former case, after Kirigakure's crushing defeat in the Second Shinobi World War, the Third Mizukage imposed a brutal graduation trial on the graduates of the Ninja Academy. Two graduates had to fight each other to the death, and only the one who survived could become a formal Kirigakure genin.

The latter refers to the end of the Third Shinobi World War, when Kirigakure suffered another defeat and retreated to the Land of Water. The Fourth Mizukage then usurped the position of the Third Mizukage and blamed the defeat on the various bloodline limit clans of Kirigakure. He directly exterminated the main branch of the Mizuki family, who possessed the Ice Release bloodline limit; the Taketori family, who possessed the Shikotsumyaku bloodline limit, attempted to rebel against the Fourth Mizukage but failed and was also exterminated; and the Hozuki family, who possessed the Water Release bloodline limit, was also nearly wiped out...

Of course, the fact that the bloodline limit families of Kirigakure were wiped out or nearly wiped out was something that Li Mo, as a transmigrator, could only think about in the future. What troubled him now was that he was taking the graduation exam for the Kirigakure Ninja Academy, and he would have to face Zabuza Momochi, the ruthless man who had killed all of his classmates and thus ended the brutal graduation exam for the Kirigakure Ninja Academy.

The problem is that when Li Mo transmigrated, he cautiously probed for information from the other three people in his room. When he learned that he was a graduate of the same year as Zabuza Momochi, his previous sympathy for Zabuza immediately vanished.

pity?

Sympathy my foot! If Li Mo doesn't find a way to escape this dangerous situation, he'll probably become a ghost under Zabuza Momochi's command in a few days, and no news will even get out. He'll just become a forgotten number in Kirigakure.

Unfortunately, Li Mo found himself facing a life-or-death situation. He racked his brains trying to find a way to survive, but found that he seemed to have no way to escape. All his ideas were shattered by the cruel reality.

Escaped from the ninja academy?

This idea seems stupid. Although Li Mo was reborn and refined some chakra, he didn't even meet the standard of a genin. The only ninjutsu he knew was the clone technique, which would be easy prey for the ninjas stationed at the ninja academy.

He tried to find a way to survive by sharing the information he knew with the Mist Ninja.

After just one thought, Li Mo dismissed this seemingly reasonable idea. You see, in the Naruto anime, apart from a few exceptions like the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki, the other ninjas are all ruthless. If Li Mo went there, he would probably be tortured to extract all his information and then killed.

As for Li Mo's arrogant idea of ​​trying to defeat Zabuza Momochi, he was just a salaryman from before his rebirth, not some special forces king or super assassin. He simply couldn't complete such a difficult task. Even if he could take advantage of the assessment, considering that the Kirigakure assessment might be a brutal one-on-one battle between ninja students, Li Mo, who knew his own limitations, really didn't think he could pass the graduation assessment there.

Finding himself in an extremely dangerous situation and having no good way to deal with it, Li Mo dared not reveal anything to anyone. He could only stay in his dormitory with a worried look on his face, racking his brains to find a way out!

Chapter 3: The cheat code is actually myself?

What should I do? What should I do...?

Li Mo lay back on the so-called dormitory bed made of logs, listening to the occasional hushed conversations of the ninja students outside. He held a wooden kunai made of hardwood in his hand, and his mind raced with various thoughts, but he couldn't come up with a suitable solution to his current problem.

Unfortunately, Li Mo wasn't the cunning protagonist of those time-travel novels. He pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with any good ideas for survival. When his three roommates, all ninja students, returned, he could only greet his three familiar roommates, vaguely claiming that he was injured and needed to rest. He then lay listlessly on his bedding, tossing and turning for a long time before finally falling asleep...

In a daze, Li Mo found himself stepping into an endless darkness, with only a small path beneath his feet emitting a faint light. Li Mo felt inexplicably at ease, but he did not realize the panic of unexpectedly arriving in another place. Instinctively, he followed the path forward.

Unaware of how long he had walked, Li Mo, who had fallen into a state of tranquility, suddenly found himself in a hazy white space. Everything around him was obscured by an impenetrable white mist. After stepping into this misty space, Li Mo lost his sense of direction and time, and even lost the ability to distinguish between gravity and direction. Just as he was at a loss, a very familiar voice came from behind him.

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Mo immediately turned his head to look behind him, then assumed a posture as if he were about to run away at any moment, in case any monsters or accidents occurred, so that he could escape at the first opportunity!

"Huh? You guys..."

When Li Mo saw the two figures behind him, his wary expression faltered for a moment. He looked at them hesitantly, a look of confusion appearing in his eyes.

The two figures that appeared in front of Li Mo were very conspicuous, one tall and one short. The taller one was over 1.85 meters tall, strong and muscular, with bronze skin, thick eyebrows, and a square face. He was dressed in what looked like a monk's robe and had a buzz cut. The shorter one was about 1.78 meters tall, dressed in what looked like a style from the 1990s, and was a young man who was not particularly noticeable.

What made Li Mo hesitate was not that the other party did not carry any weapons, but that the two people were not too far away and were looking at him and the others with the same suspicion. Their faces clearly showed that they were roughly what Li Mo looked like before he transmigrated!

"Guys, this is Li Mo. Your situation is..."

Seeing that the scene had become somewhat quiet, the young man dressed in 1990s-style clothing habitually reached into his pockets. When he found that he did not have his cigarettes and lighter, he took the initiative to break the silence.

"You're also Li Mo?!"

Hearing the words of the young Li Mo, who was at most in his early twenties, Li Mo, who was at most ten years old, was dumbfounded and pointed at the two of them in disbelief, asking them in return.

"Hmph~!"

At this moment, the burly man who looked like a thug snorted coldly, then strode over to the young man Li Mo. He grabbed Li Mo's throat with one hand but suddenly froze, immediately letting go and looking at Li Mo with a strange expression. He said to the other young man Li Mo, "It's all us. We're all Li Mo!"

"What's the meaning……"

Li Mo rubbed his temples and looked warily at the burly man who had just tried to subdue the young Li Mo, feeling that there must be some reason behind it.

"This is too much trouble, let's just communicate directly!"

Seeing Li Mo's bewildered expression, the young Li Mo, rubbing his temples, looked at the burly Li Mo, who nodded in agreement. Then, the two rushed forward, each placing an arm around Li Mo's shoulder. As Li Mo tried to pull away, they said in unison, "Don't move, concentrate, you'll find out why..."

Li Mo subconsciously obeyed their words, but then, holding his breath, he realized something was amiss. Two completely different memories were flooding into his mind, and as the memories continued to pour in, the expressions on Li Mo's face changed accordingly—joy, anger, sorrow—a mix of emotions filled his heart. The memories were so real, as if he had personally experienced them, making him feel as if he had rediscovered memories he had forgotten for many years.

The two sets of memories are the same as Li Mo's first thirty years: an ordinary upbringing and becoming a corporate slave. However, things changed after he died from overwork. One set of memories was from the Qing Dynasty, where he became the second son of a wealthy merchant family. He was just twenty-five years old and had been practicing martial arts since childhood. He studied a national martial arts style that focused on cultivating internal strength. He didn't want to keep a pig's tail, so he shaved his head. Holding a certificate of ordination, he had already entered the stage of powerful strength and was a skilled fighter who could take on more than a dozen strong men by himself.

The other Li Mo transmigrated to the world of Black Lagoon, specifically the world of Loalapra. He was reincarnated into the body of a Chinese man with the same name. That unlucky guy was trying to make a living in the Chinese Triad territory of Loalapra when he was accidentally shot by a stray bullet from an unknown person and bled to death. Li Mo was reborn and cautiously made his way in Loalapra, where he has been living for over a year.

In his memory, Li Mo was sometimes a martial artist undergoing rigorous daily training, and other times an ordinary person cautiously navigating a modern, sinister city. After a long while, Li Mo slowly opened his eyes, suppressing the chaotic feeling of the merging memories, and said with a somewhat complicated expression, "So, my sudden death directly resulted in me being transported into three separate worlds, becoming 'us,' and then respectively transported to the world of Naruto, Black Lagoon, and that late Qing Dynasty world?"

"It might be more than three parts. The fact that we can merge each other's memories and even power without any hindrance is definitely not a coincidence!"

When asked about this question, Li Mo, a martial artist from the late Qing Dynasty, looked serious. He raised his fist and threw a punch, which was followed by a crisp sound that echoed throughout the area. He then raised his fist like a rainstorm and then withdrew it, and said very seriously.

“Indeed, our souls are undamaged. Rather than being divided into three parts, it would be more accurate to say…”

"Or rather, it was directly copied into three copies!"

"Is it really only three portions? Perhaps, tomorrow, another Li Mo will come here..."

As Li Mo from the late Qing Dynasty world began to speak, the three of them took turns talking, their conversation sounding more like they were talking to themselves than exchanging ideas.

"By the way! You're so unlucky, aren't you, Naruto world version of me!"