Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 340 Mirage of Time

It was always the same before, so why has it suddenly changed so much?

The development of the ninja world has now completely deviated from the parallel worlds that are ahead of other timelines.

The Sage of Six Paths realized that something unexpected had happened in his world during this period, a very big unexpected.

For the past few hundred years.

The development of this world is no different from that of other parallel worlds, and it is even exactly the same as that of the fifty parallel worlds that are ahead in timeline.

Such a drastic change has suddenly occurred; something must have gone wrong.

The Sage of Six Paths continued to examine the memories of the souls who had entered the Pure Land in recent decades.

Soon, two pieces of information caught the attention of the Sage of Six Paths.

The first person in history to be jointly attacked by the Five Kage, Li Yao, a person who is said to be able to repeatedly possess and be reborn.

This person's appearance was very abrupt; he doesn't exist in any other parallel world.

And... the Daimyo's clan in the Land of Water was wiped out.

The entire clan of Daming Prefecture was exterminated!

This is an event that has never occurred in other parallel worlds.

The Sage of Six Paths' expression hardened slightly. The Daimyo's system was established by him to limit the number of ninjas to a certain level, and it was also the result of his secret guidance.

Someone actually thought of destroying the Daming Prefecture!

Recalling the memory of the five great powers and famous prefectures joining forces to pressure the five hidden villages to ambush and kill Li Yao, the Six Paths Immortal had a guess in his mind.

"Is it Black Zetsu?"

"No...it's not Black Zetsu?"

The Sage of Six Paths shook his head. The Li Yao in his memory was not Black Zetsu. The Sage of Six Paths was very clear about this. Moreover, Li Yao was already dead... No, Li Yao might not be dead, or there might be someone behind him.

The Sage of Six Paths sensed that Li Yao's soul had not arrived in the Pure Land.

Aside from those whose souls are sealed or dissipated, anyone killed who possesses chakra, regardless of their strength, will have their soul absorbed by the Pure Land after death.

Li Yao's soul is no longer in the Pure Land.

So this little guy named Li Yao is very likely not dead.

After all, in my memory, Li Yao died from the dust escape, not from the soul seal.

Not only Li Yao, but also the Third Tsuchikage, the Third Kazekage, and the Third Mizukage.

The Sage of Six Paths sensed that none of the three dead souls had come to the Pure Land.

If all three of them are experiencing this, then there's only one possibility.

These three people and that little guy named Li Yao not only died physically, but their souls also dissipated, which is why they were not absorbed by the Pure Land.

"Someone has annihilated the souls of these powerful dead."

"Who is it?"

The Sage of Six Paths continued searching his memories. He had a premonition that the person who secretly hunted the souls of the ninja world's strongest ninjas must be the one who caused such a huge change in the world.

No matter how hard the Sage of Six Paths searched for the memories of the souls that had entered the Pure Land over the past ten years, he still couldn't find anyone suspicious.

Or rather, the most suspicious person is Li Yao.

But Li Yao is already dead... or perhaps he didn't die, but was reborn as someone else through possession.

Is it the person who wiped out the Daming Prefecture?

Or is it one of the changed Fourth Kazekage and Fourth Tsuchikage?

Or perhaps it's that kid from Ryuchi Cave who suddenly learned to use Wood Release in Konoha?

The Sage of Six Paths pondered, realizing there were many people he suspected, but he couldn't immediately determine who it was.

However, if the source of all the changes really is Li Yao.

No, whoever is the source of all this change, he needs to prepare in advance.

The Sage of Six Paths is no longer asleep; the prophesied day of chakra unification is not far off, and he must succeed this time.

"Since we can't find any traces in this world, let's look in other parallel worlds."

The Sage of Six Paths quickly devised a plan: by observing the development of other parallel worlds through dreams, he could identify the characters whose changes were related to his own world and thus uncover clues about the world's transformation.

While the Sage of Six Paths was observing parallel worlds.

In Loulan City, a month passed, and the power of the dragon vein became increasingly unstable, sometimes real and sometimes illusory, becoming like the mirage that Li Yao had seen in the desert at the beginning. Even the dragon vein chakra could not be sensed often.

Li Yao knew that the power of the dragon vein was about to disappear.

Li Yao remained unmoved, continuing to immerse himself in sensing the changes in the nature of the dragon vein chakra.

Although the dragon vein's nature had been undergoing drastic changes over the past month due to shifts in time and space, Li Yao had also sensed even more of these changes.

Combining the changes in nature he had sensed over the past two years, Li Yao had already perceived 90% of the complete changes in the nature of the entire dragon vein's chakra, which can be described as a huge gain.

Boom!

On this day, the entire city of Loulan suddenly trembled, the ground began to crack, and an invisible tremor emanated from the bottom of the dragon vein.

Li Yao jumped onto the deep pit of the dragon vein and came to the edge.

The chakra of the dragon vein below had completely turned into an image, and no change in the nature of the chakra could be sensed.

Without the physical form of the dragon vein chakra, the entire Loulan architecture was shaking violently.

In order to gather the immense power of the dragon vein, Baizu linked all the buildings in the city to the power of the dragon vein.

Now that the power of the dragon vein has disappeared, all the related buildings have been affected.

Boom!

The structure supporting the dragon vein could no longer withstand the tremor and collapsed, with countless boulders falling into the dragon vein pool, but this could no longer affect the now-illusory dragon vein.

The power of the dragon vein vibrated, and spacetime followed suit.

Only Li Yao could perceive this spacetime oscillation.

He stood in the void, protected by a circular barrier that allowed the falling boulders to dissipate without affecting him.

While sensing this spacetime tremor, Li Yao quickly combined the changes in the nature of the dragon vein chakra he was currently perceiving to condense his own unique dragon vein spacetime chakra.

bump!

Boom!

Ultimately, the entire Loulan city collapsed as if by explosion, turning into ruins.

At the bottom of the dragon vein, the power of the dragon vein completely disappeared, turning into ruins. Li Yao flew out of the ruins while being protected by the slashing barrier.

Facing the rising sun, Li Yao's lips curled up slightly, then widened completely.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"It's done!"

Li Yao laughed heartily, and at the same time, a burst of deep purple chakra erupted from his body.

In an instant, the surrounding space and time trembled.

An invisible force of spacetime spread out, and Li Yao seemed to become a mirage. Although he appeared to be in this world, he felt as if he were in another spacetime.

This is one of the spacetime ninjutsu techniques that Li Yao condensed – Time Realm Mirage. We'll soon learn about its specific uses.

call out!

Li Yao used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave and arrived in front of the out-of-control shadow clone. The surrounding shadow clone continued to use the Black Hole Space Ninjutsu to attack the Black Hole Space Shield that was protecting the out-of-control shadow clone.

Li Yao flew forward, and the black hole space sphere of his shadow clone passed through his body without affecting him at all, just as if he had activated the black hole spaceization of his body, but in reality, it did not.

This is a spacetime ninjutsu that is even more advanced than the body's black hole spatialization. It is somewhat similar to Obito's Kamui Hollowfication, but it is even more advanced.

Li Yao's body at this moment was like a mirage, existing in another dimension, much like Madara's Rinnegan's Limbo: Border Jail ability, existing in another dimension yet able to influence this one.

(End of this chapter)