Simultaneous Time Travel: What Villain? I'm the Protagonist!

After the Nine-Tails' attack, the relationship between the Uchiha clan and Konoha became increasingly tense. Shisui, a member of the Uchiha clan who also cared deeply for Konoha, was caught in the middle and felt conflicted for a moment.

Ironically, the moment the person in front of him suddenly appeared, Shisui, who had felt the threat of death, felt an unprecedented sense of relief. Perhaps only death could spare him from this dilemma.

Silence reigned all around, so quiet you could hear your own heartbeat. Shisui, having fastened his coat, stood up and looked at the somewhat familiar person before him, saying each word carefully, "It can't be real. I will never let it become real."

Sheng Ren shook his head and smiled, then grabbed Shisui's left shoulder in a flash. "Come with me." The next moment, he and Shisui arrived at the shrine where the Uchiha clan had been worshipped for generations. It was only then that Shisui, who was famous in the ninja world for his Body Flicker Technique, realized what was happening.

Shisui instantly left Shengren, looked around, and was surprised to find himself in his own clan's shrine. He immediately activated his Three Tomoe Technique: "Why have you come to our Uchiha clan's shrine? Who are you? What is your purpose?"

"My name is Sheng Ren. As for your purpose, look over there." Shisui looked in the direction Sheng Ren was pointing. As he turned around, a flash of red light appeared in the Sharingan in Sheng Ren's blind spot.

"This stone tablet, passed down since the time of the Sage of Six Paths, is a veritable history book of the ninja world. Wouldn't you like to take a look?" Sheng Ren suddenly grabbed his right neck with his left hand, his middle and ring fingers pinching together, producing a clanging sound, like two iron swords clashing. If anyone saw this scene, they would surely think they had seen a ghost, because there was nothing but air on Sheng Ren's right side.

At that moment, Sheng Ren slapped his right hand backward, and the space shattered like glass breaking. When he looked again, he saw that Shisui had been knocked to the ground, still holding a kunai in his hand.

"You might find it strange, but I really meant no harm," Sheng Ren said, handing his hand to Shi Shui. It turned out that Shi Shui had just used illusion magic to try and attack Sheng Ren.

Shisui stared at Shengren's hand, the three tomoe in his eyes swirling. No malice? Showing up in my house late at night, kidnapping someone from my own shrine, and claiming no malice? Who would believe that?

Shisui gripped his kunai tightly, glancing around as if trying to find a way to escape. But the sight of Shengren standing there seemed to seal off the entire room, making it seem as if he would be blocked from any direction he tried to escape.

Illusion?

"It's not an illusion," Sheng Ren said with a smile, freely unleashing his Yuan Chen Spiritual Technique, using the power of faith to grasp Zhi Shui's thought process.

That's right, Zhishui also practiced visualization techniques, otherwise he wouldn't have been tricked by Shengren like this. But it was precisely because of this that Shengren came to save Zhishui. He didn't want to see his own people suffer.

"This is the Nine Palaces Divine Movement Technique of the Star Ninja Village. By mastering the nine palaces, one can go anywhere," Sheng Ren explained to Shisui. This Nine Palaces Divine Movement Technique is a spatial secret technique, as well as a combat movement technique.

"You seem to be able to read my mind," Shisui said, puzzled.

"No," Sheng Ren glanced out the window without answering, instead beginning to recount a story long buried by time: "Do you know the story of Indra and Asura?"

Indra and Asura, Shisui murmured the two names, but his eyes were filled with confusion, as he had never heard of these two names before.

"It's normal that you don't know. Indra is the ancestor of your Uchiha clan, and his father was the founder of the Ninja Clan, the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki."

"The Sage of Six Paths," Shisui's body trembled violently. Even the blind and deaf would know the name of the Sage of Six Paths, as he was the creator god in mythology.

Then Shisui remembered what Shengren had just said, and instantly turned his gaze to the stone tablet, muttering to himself, "It was passed down from the time of the Sage of Six Paths."

"That's right, and this stone tablet was personally passed down to your ancestor by the Sage of Six Paths. Even Ashura, who inherited his mantle, did not possess it."

"What exactly are you trying to say?" Zhi Shui suddenly demanded. At this moment, his mind was in complete chaos, and he felt that the person in front of him was acting strangely and speaking incoherently.

Sheng Ren looked at the somewhat distraught Shisui and sighed softly.

He knew that Uchiha Shisui was one of the few clear-headed individuals in the Uchiha clan, and one of the few who could consider issues from the perspective of the overall interests of Konoha. But precisely because of this, the pressure he bore was far greater than that of ordinary people.

"What I'm trying to say is, have you actually seen the contents of this stone tablet?" Sheng Ren asked.

Shisui was taken aback: "The real... content?"

"Yes, it's real." Sheng Ren walked to the stone tablet and gently touched the words on it. "This stone tablet was indeed left by the Sage of Six Paths, but the contents recorded on it have been altered by someone."

"Tampered with?!" Shisui's pupils constricted sharply. "Impossible! According to you, this is a sacred artifact left behind by the Sage of Six Paths. Who could tamper with it?"

"A monster who has lived for over a thousand years," Sheng Ren said calmly. "His name is Black Zetsu, a product of Kaguya Otsutsuki's will. His purpose in altering the stone tablet was to mislead the Uchiha clan, leading you down the wrong path and ultimately making you pawns in the resurrection of Kaguya Otsutsuki."

Shisui shook his head in disbelief: "No... this is too absurd... Kaguya Otsutsuki? She's a figure from mythology..."

"Why don't you see for yourself?" Sheng Ren's words stunned Zhi Shui.

"How do you see it?" Shisui asked in return.

Sheng Ren raised his hand and showed him the ring engraved with the character "Qing". "They are all currently in an organization called Akatsuki. Black Zetsu, the leader of the organization who possesses the Rinnegan of the Sage of Six Paths - Pain, and the masked man who calls himself Uchiha Madara."

"What!" At this moment, a faint sound of touching suddenly came from outside the shrine. It disappeared in an instant. Shengren ignored it and took a step forward to look at Shisui, who had been stunned by the various secrets that night.

"Black Zetsu, Rinnegan, Madara Uchiha," Shisui kept muttering to himself. The mythological era was too distant for him to feel its reality, but now it was different. These people and events that should have passed away had actually come out of history.

"You're also a member of Akatsuki," Shisui snapped out of his daze, staring intently at Seijin, "Why are you telling me this?"

Sheng Ren smiled slightly: "They want to control the ninja world and steer the future in a direction they approve of. I want that too. Is that enough?"

"Enough, of course it's enough," Shisui said with a murderous glint in his eyes. He hated people who stirred up the world into chaos for their own selfish reasons.

Sheng Ren could see through Shisui's thoughts. He smiled and didn't care. What he needed most now was to promote the visualization method to everyone in the ninja world, from the daimyo to the beggar. Everyone could cultivate chakra, and the one who could do this was the one who caused conflict.

Hashirama Senju created a system of one village per country to quell the war, but the war only intensified, turning from small-scale conflicts into large-scale national wars.

Madara Uchiha saw all of this and wanted to create a beautiful dream to turn the world into a dreamlike haven, allowing everyone to realize their dreams in the dream and thus eliminate the war. But this was just a carefully arranged deception by Black Zetsu.

Nagato suffered greatly from the war, and the loss of his family and close friends made him realize that without experiencing the same pain, people cannot understand each other. However, his violent behavior caused great harm to innocent people who had never harmed anyone.

Jiraiya chose the future, entrusting his dreams to Nagato and Naruto, but in Masato's view, his ideals might be the best way to achieve peace. Unfortunately, Nagato's methods were too drastic, and Naruto was too gentle.

Now, Shengren has established a faith network that connects people without the need for conflict, allowing disputes to dissipate through communication. He uses conflict to eliminate conflict, and as long as he acts quickly enough, there will be no sacrifices.

He was certainly not a good person, but he was definitely not a bad person either. He had no interest in taking other people's lives or changing anyone's mind; he only wanted to possess power.