Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 258 Naruto Parallel World

Three days ago, when I flew here, the desert below suddenly turned into a mirage of a city ruin.

Amidst the illusory images of city ruins, there is a place that vaguely resembles an altar, with sealing incantations engraved on it.

Unfortunately, the illusory image appeared for too short a time, and Li Yao couldn't see it clearly.

However, after the illusory image disappeared, Li Yao sensed a very faint energy fluctuation.

It wasn't natural energy, Li Yao was certain.

Because of this energy fluctuation, Li Yao could only sense it but not touch it, like the moon reflected in water—he could see it, but he couldn't touch it.

This energy is like a real mirage; you can sense it but cannot touch it.

Natural energy does not possess this characteristic.

Moreover, natural energy is everywhere, even in desert areas, it is abundant, it is not that natural energy is only found in places with trees.

If Li Yao could sense natural energy, then the fluctuations he sensed would not be very weak, and would be easily overlooked if he did not pay close attention.

In short, upon discovering this unique energy, Li Yao immediately became interested, stopped, and focused on sensing it.

At first, Li Yao was not sure if this might be the energy of a dragon vein.

It wasn't until this morning, as the phantom of the city ruins appeared more and more frequently, that Li Yao finally saw clearly the sealing technique on the altar, especially the Flying Thunder God Kunai stuck on it. Only then did Li Yao remember where the phantom of the city ruins was.

The ruins of Loulan in the Naruto movie The Lost Tower.

Thinking of the Loulan ruins, Li Yao made a guess about the energy fluctuations he sensed; it was most likely a dragon vein.

Li Yao didn't remember much of the plot of The Lost Tower.

All we know is that Naruto and a young Minato had a father-son reunion that transcended time.

Secondly, there's the Dragon Vein, which in many early Naruto fanfictions is said to be a chakra source transformed from one of the Ten-Tails' bodies, similar to a tailed beast.

However, this premise was completely disproven after the finale aired.

Compared to the massive energy source of the Dragon Vein, Li Yao was actually more interested in the Dragon Vein's ability to travel through time and space.

Without a doubt, Naruto's ability to travel from the future to the past in Loulan must have been due to the power of the Dragon Vein.

Spacetime abilities, especially the ability to travel through time.

If Li Yao can discover the corresponding spacetime chakra through the dragon veins, he will have a better chance of defeating the Otsutsuki clan in the future.

If you can't win, you can travel through time and space to escape, accumulate strength, and try again.

If we broaden our perspective even further, it's not impossible for him to use this to travel to other anime worlds.

Thinking about these possibilities, Li Yao was extremely excited.

However, there is a problem troubling Li Yao now.

Logically, at this point in the original story, the city of Loulan should still exist and not have been destroyed.

However, in the Naruto world he lived in, the Loulan Kingdom seemed to be just a legend.

There's a key point in the information Li Yao had his Wind Release clone find in Sunagakure.

"illusory."

Someone once saw a city in the desert and even entered it.

But that city was like a mirage, just an illusion; those who entered it could not touch anything within it.

Some people, like Li Yao, have seen the city ruins, but they can only see them, not touch them.

There are neither many nor few records of seeing cities in the desert.

But all they saw were illusory images, like a mirage.

It seems that the Loulan Kingdom does not exist in this Naruto world.

"Could it be that I've transmigrated into a Naruto world without the Loulan Kingdom?!"

Li Yao suddenly had a guess, and the more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that his guess was true.

As we all know, Naruto has the concept of parallel worlds. The ability to travel back in time is not only found in the Dragon Vein, but it seems that the ability to travel back in time also appears in Boruto.

Therefore, the Naruto world is actually a world with many timelines, that is, a parallel world.

If parallel worlds exist, then it would explain why Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan cannot see his existence in the future.

Li Yao suddenly thought of this.

He had previously suspected that Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan ability was not a true "seeing" of the future.

After copying Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan chakra, he used his ability to "see" the future on himself, but he didn't see himself in the future he "saw".

Previously, Li Yao thought it was because he was a special transmigrator.

It now appears that the "future" seen by Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan was not actually the future, but rather a scene from a parallel Naruto world in another timeline.

This is similar to how Doctor Strange discovered the principle to defeat Thanos by watching countless parallel future scenes in the Marvel Avengers movies.

Essentially, it's not that Doctor Strange sees the future of this world, but rather that he sees the future of countless parallel worlds.

The future in those parallel worlds is no longer the future, but rather a parallel world where the timeline has progressed to the future.

The future that Doctor Strange saw was actually a reality that had already happened.

Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan has the same ability to "see" the future.

The future he sees is also a reality that has already occurred in a parallel world.

However, Li Yao only traveled to this Naruto world.

Since the future of this world has not yet reached the future timeline, Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan naturally cannot see the true future of this world.

Therefore, he naturally could not foresee the future scene of himself dying at the hands of Li Yao.

Because among countless Naruto parallel worlds, only this Naruto world has Li Yao; other Naruto parallel worlds do not have Li Yao.

"I wonder if the toad sage of Mount Myōboku's so-called prophecy is also... it must be."

Li Yao suddenly remembered that when the toad sage of Mount Myōboku relayed its prophecy to Jiraiya, it was through some future visions he saw in his dreams.

In other words, the Toad Sage also predicts the future by "seeing" it.

In this way, the Toad Sage's method of prophecy is similar to Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan; it doesn't actually involve seeing the future of this world.

In other words, no matter how much the Toad Sage dreams, he can't see any future for Li Yao.

If it's true, then Li Yao can really breathe a sigh of relief.

The most frightening thing about traveling through the Naruto world is the ability to see the future, especially when it's seen by a character with great power.

Now... Li Yao can relax a little.

However... while the existence of parallel worlds spared Li Yao the weakness of having his future seen and his corresponding abilities discovered, it also meant that the world he traveled to did not have a real Loulan Kingdom.

As a result, Li Yao's plan to obtain chakra for time travel by studying the energy of the dragon veins failed before it even began.

The city ruins he sees now are merely a reflection of the dragon vein energy from a parallel Naruto world in this world; they are not the real Loulan.

Dragon veins are not actually real.

Li Yao could only sense a faint trace of dragon vein energy through the influence of the dragon vein's own spacetime travel properties on this world.

Moreover, it can only be sensed, not touched.

Without being able to touch it, Li Yao couldn't perceive the specific energy information, let alone study the energy of the dragon vein.

Moreover, this phantom image of the ruins of Loulan city will not last forever.

According to the records that Li Yao's Wind Release clone found in Sunagakure, the longest that such a phantom of the Loulan Kingdom existed was no more than a month.

A month has passed, and another world has been separated by it. No matter how strong Li Yao's perception is, it's useless. He will find it difficult to develop spacetime chakra from it.

"Sigh! Let's figure out as much as we can."

Li Yao sighed inwardly. Being separated by another world, there was nothing he could do but continue guarding this place, trying to research as many characteristics of the dragon vein energy as possible within this limited time.

So, for the rest of the time, Li Yao focused on sensing the increasingly frequent phantom images of city ruins below.

Xiao Yezi acts as a maid, frequently traveling to a small oasis town in the Land of Wind to bring Li Yao water and food.

(End of this chapter)