Naruto

After a brutal one-sided beating, the boy with a bruised nose and swollen face was kicked in front of the five little ones by the still angry Kyuubi, and cried out with a mournful face: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...You are so cruel..."

"

Kyuubi bent down and said to the boy in an extremely kind manner: "You like to put your face to the floor so much, do you want to be with it forever?"

"No...no...I'll get up right away, get up right away..."

Everyone saw that the boy who was lying on the ground just now, rubbing his butt, stood up straight in an instant. Coupled with his face that had been beaten into a pig's head, it looked extremely funny.

"Hahaha..." Konohamaru, Moehuang and Udon laughed heartily for a long time, and barely stopped laughing under Naruto's "sad" gaze.

[I actually couldn't tell the difference between the real person and the fake one...] The girl didn't show anything on her face, but she felt a little sour in her heart.

[How did they recognize each other? They are obviously exactly the same from appearance to chakra aura.] Ryuuji and Zeya secretly said in surprise.

"You don't know this bastard's temper before, so it's normal that you can't see any problems." Jiuwei glanced at the old mage and explained with a half-smile, "If it hadn't been for the probing hand of Master Il just now, I actually wouldn't be able to

Absolutely sure.”

Facing the confused eyes of the others, Elminster smiled slightly and talked about another important matter: "The impostor just now said that he supports Yu Mo's control of the Magic Network. What is your opinion as the real owner?

"

Naruto spread his hands, looked at the hesitant girl beside him, and said with a grin: "What can I say? Yumo's own wishes are the most important. Since she is willing to take the initiative to shoulder this burden, of course I am

Full support.”

The girl felt that Naruto's eyes turned into a pair of deep whirlpools, instantly absorbing her own consciousness. Endless pictures flashed quickly in front of her eyes. The original magic at the last moment came from the goddess of light Su Lun and the dark night.

Born into the world from the collision of the goddess Shar, the next moment the human mage on the floating city tore apart the magic network amidst the indifference of the gods and the carnival of mortals, and personally pushed his cherished homeland into the abyss of destruction.

With the help of the eyes of the prophet, the girl can clearly see every detail of the original magic power that is gradually shaped into a formed spell under the influence of the magic network, and understand the long history of the magic network itself being gradually improved with the development of civilization and the expansion of the plane. I don’t know what happened.

How long did it take for the girl to wake up from her intoxicating dream? The curtain of ignorance was slowly lifted, and the mysterious path of the world gradually revealed its original appearance before her eyes.

But the girl has no time to pay attention to all this now, because Naruto's clone made of ectoplasm has disappeared in her eyes, replaced by seven blue spheres shining with dazzling light, in a geometrically impossible way.

The postures of existence intersect with each other and rotate slowly. Each sphere seems to encompass a complete world. Countless contradictory concepts rise from the surface of the sphere and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye, just like the chromosphere of the sun that is constantly condensing and annihilating.

Solar prominence. A pinprick-like pain warned the girl from her optic nerve endings, but her consciousness was deeply immersed in this unnatural spectacle and she could not extricate herself.

"How is it? Does my handsome appearance make you so shocked that you can't even speak? Ha, I know it!"

The sudden nonsense interrupted the girl's "painful and happy" experience, but in just a short moment, the seven shining light balls turned back into the boy's bright smiling face with six cat whiskers. Just before her

When she felt lost for the wonderful scene just now, the face in the girl's eyes soon began to distort in her mind. The chaotic and changeable impression set off a frightening surge in the girl's mind, repeatedly stimulating her...

Some nerves are overwhelmed.

"Confronting a transcendent being outside common sense is usually an extremely dangerous thing. Even weaker demigods dare not look at their true appearance for a long time, lest their own knowledge be inadvertently revealed by them.

The distortion of vision contaminates and shakes the foundation of the priesthood; but it is also a golden opportunity, because no one will be closer to the truth of the world than them."

The old mage's melancholy voice was like an elixir that calmed the mind, dispelling the repeated and torn images in the girl's mind. Two lines of warm tears fell from the girl's eyes and flowed into her mouth,

But it has a fishy, ​​salty yet extremely familiar taste.

This was her own blood, which she had tasted countless times in her uncle's dungeon, a taste she would never forget.

"Ah! Sister Yumo, your eyes..."

The girl touched the marks on her face with her fingers, and when she took a closer look, she saw the unsurprisingly dazzling bright red on her fingertips.

"This is just a normal reaction after you 'open your eyes', just like the Uchiha people opening their Sharingan when they are emotional. There won't be any strange side effects. Don't worry."

The girl looked up at the location of the sound source, and saw two completely different scenes blending together in an incredible harmony. A transcendent existence that transcended common sense and distorted time and space, and at the same time an ordinary, smiling person.

A human boy. All contradictory identities and labels, appearances and feelings are just different reflections of the same vast spiritual entity onto the material world.

"Let's start the arcane ceremony to build the magic network right away; it's been delayed long enough."

Yu Mo took a step forward. The goddess's blessing materialized from the depths of her soul, turning into a silver flame that condensed on her chest. The natural energy dispersed in the environment acted on this silver fire.

The bottom is woven into shining silver threads, which penetrate into every corner of the space-time continuum along the veins of space fibers.

"You are worthy of being my fellow countryman. If you lack anything, you will not lack mobility... Okay, then I will add some more firewood to make the fire burn brighter."

The young man smiled slightly

Laughing, he snapped his fingers with his right hand, and the brilliant starlight flashed in front of everyone's eyes. The next moment, his incarnation instantly disintegrated into countless dazzling three-dimensional runes, swooping towards the pure and sacred soul like moths.

firelight.

【Is she the manager you selected, teacher?】

["Manager" is really an unpleasant name. How about changing it to "master"? 】

[You...well, forget it, although I think you are probably having a seizure again, but a good person like me who respects the elderly and loves the young will definitely not say such a rebellious conjecture out loud.]

[You've already said it, idiot! And what the hell is "respecting the old and loving the young"? Am I that old? 】

[…A little reminder, the focus is not on “respecting the elderly”, but on “loving the young”.]

[Qian! Hand! Hashira! Ma! Next time we duel, I will definitely kill you to the death, so that you can know how powerful your teacher and I are! 】

[Huh, I don’t know who almost lost his crotch to Madara in the last duel, and he even boasted that he gave up on purpose, and he didn’t have any chess skills at all.]

【How can it be repaired...】

"When—! When—! When—!"

A distant sound of bells woke everyone up from the absurd and childish noise just now. The omnipresent light filled their vision, and the silver-white holy fire floated quietly in the sky, illuminating the entire night sky as bright as day, and the flames

In the center, you can still vaguely see the graceful gesture of a girl waving her arms and weaving silver threads, which is ethereal and vast, not ordinary.

"It seems that everything is going smoothly so far, but the next step is the most critical part of the entire ceremony."

The old mage just picked up the staff and was about to cast the protective barrier, but he stopped the casting action with something on his mind and looked at the group of people arriving not far away.

"Tsunade-sama."

The Kyuubi's clone followed ANBU etiquette, half-kneeling on one knee and bowing to the leader, the Fifth Hokage.

"We are just here to help. For the next matters, we have to rely on the support of our seniors." The Fifth Hokage helped Kyuubi up with both hands and said sincerely and politely.

[Agang, you are finally here. The following ceremony is crucial. It is not only closely related to the evacuation of mainland residents, but also affects our subsequent battle for control of the dragon veins. You must assist Elminster.

The mage maintains his position and helps Yumo complete the magic network construction ceremony. As for all matters related to the evacuation of the village, leave it to Hiruzen and Orochimaru.】

The voice that had just been arguing with Naruto suddenly sounded in everyone's hearts, surprising both Tsunade and the ninjas behind her.

"grandfather……"

Tsunade recognized the identity of the owner of the voice and eagerly wanted to say a few words to her grandfather, but in the end she just answered calmly:

"yes."

[Teacher, do you have anything else to tell A Gang and the others? 】

Different from the laziness when they were bickering just now, the tone of the first Hokage's voice was particularly solemn at this time.

[Ah, just to cheer everyone up, I’ll give you a brief explanation here.]

As soon as Tsunade heard this voice, she knew that the "teacher" her grandfather was referring to was indeed Uzumaki Naruto, who was initially regarded as a junior by her, but later became the number one ninja in Konoha. Just listen to Naruto's words

Chuanyin paused for a moment, as if he was considering the words for the next few sentences.

[If, I mean if, our war ends in failure, then before the Pioneers assimilate the souls on the earth, in order to avoid such harm to other worlds, I will take action to restore the timeline since the War of Kaguya.

All branches will be erased together with the pioneers. I myself will disappear completely due to causal involvement, and the fate of everyone else will be completely rewritten due to violent space-time shocks. Some people may not be born at all, and some people will

You will no longer be a ninja because of the world line migration, but what is certain is that all the pain, sorrow, laughter, and joy you have experienced now, everything that defines you as "human beings" will no longer exist.】

A heartbreaking sense of emptiness was like ants biting everyone's souls. They felt that they had turned into disembodied bystanders, silently watching a group of souls who seemed different from themselves experiencing their own lives.

But I can never feel the same way. In this country shrouded in gray, everything seems to have reached a certain perfect thermal equilibrium. Nobility and despicability, hope and despair, are indistinguishable from each other and cannot be distinguished.

[Of course, I am confident in the victory of this war. You should also cheer up. Especially you, Ya, don’t scare your Akamaru. 】

The frightening illusion disappeared completely in the next moment. After hearing Naruto's last words, everyone looked back at the proud Ninja user of the Inuzuka family, only to find that the white Ninja who was originally half a man tall

The dog now shrank into a ball, trembling and biting its owner's trouser leg tightly.

"Hey! Naruto! Where are you? Don't be so mysterious, you bastard!"

Inuzuka Kiba bravely shouted a few words into the silent night around him, but the only answer he received was a rolling thunder that seemed to resonate with the night sky and the earth.

[The power I project is not enough to maintain the existence of this incarnation for too long, but before it disappears, it may make your next task a little easier.]

Everyone looked up to the sky, and saw seven shining blue light balls flying above everyone's heads from nowhere, slowly rotating along their own complicated paths, as if they were performing some mysterious ritual.

【Because of time and space

and the name of destiny]

A bright pattern emerges from the center of the light sphere, and countless looming shadows shuttle back and forth between the translucent films on the surface of the light sphere, seeming to carry some unique life.

[I, Uzumaki Naruto, wish you all]

Everyone felt that all the cells in the body were activated, and the majestic chakra circulated continuously in their meridians, just like the waves crashing on the beach, gently washing the acupuncture points and parts of the body that were usually difficult to reach.

【May you see through the illusion】

A burst of enlightenment suddenly rose from the hearts of everyone. They looked around and saw that the scenes that were originally blurry and misty in the night were now clearly visible, even the texture and luster. Countless forgotten memories came up like clear springs.

Their hearts were filled with confusion and chaos.

【Stick to the right path】

A long path appeared under everyone's feet. They traveled countless days and nights, faced wind and rain, faced obstacles, and overcame thorns and thorns, but still could not reach the end.

"How far is the end?" they asked themselves.

"Walking this path is what the journey is all about." A gentle voice replied.

【Purge evil】

Scenes of horrific scenes flashed before everyone's eyes: civilians who knelt in front of the court and begged were beaten to death by guards, a girl who cried bitterly and screamed and had her clothes taken away by men, and a righteous soldier who fought bravely was reviled and insulted by the people he protected.

Their anger with nowhere to vent made their blood boil, but a timid voice asked in their ears:

"Can we really defeat them?"

Another deep voice replied slowly but firmly:

"After darkness, there is light."

【Forever】

The next moment, all the visions gradually dissipated like the ebbing sea water, but everyone's bodies and spirits were renewed, and endless courage and hope emerged in their hearts.

"It seems that after merging memories, his control over power has reached a new level." The old mage closed his eyes and felt the spiritual power that was active several times in his soul. He shook his head and sighed, and then said to

Everyone explained, "The blessings we just received are precious graces that can only be given by gods to the chosen ones in the kingdom of heaven. Naruto has given you... four different blessings to us; among them, the most coveted one by mortals.

, that is, immortality.”

"Long...immortal?" Xianglin almost bit her tongue, "Isn't that..."

"This 'blessing' is not as beautiful as you imagine. A young husband sends away his octogenarian wife in the hospital bed, and a beautiful young mother watches her children's coffins fall into the ground. This kind of tragedy of separation of flesh and blood,

Maybe you will be able to experience it for yourself in a few decades." Kyuubi said coldly to everyone, "Hashirama was depressed for a long time because of this kind of thing. How does your ambition compare to the first Hokage?"

…

This reminder was like the west wind blowing snow and cold water splashing on the face, instantly extinguishing the raging flames in the hearts of several young ninjas. After everyone calmed down again, the old mage continued to explain: "As for the other three 'seeing through illusion','

"Stick to the right path" and "Purge the evil" correspond to insight, resilience and strength respectively. The more powerful the power, the heavier the responsibility. The gods bless the elects in order to make them agents of their own will in the mortal world.

; And Naruto’s blessing this time is also in the hope that you can successfully protect Yumo and complete the initial construction of the magic network, and then use the magic network to transfer the creatures south of the Yujin Mountains before the continent is broken, waiting for peace to come again. "

Everyone focused their attention again on the girl floating in the air. Although the power of the ninjas and the girl came from different sources, it did not prevent them from feeling the increasingly intense pressure and momentum of the latter.

"Naoki said they can get it done within a day, how long do we need to stay here?" Tsunade, who had been watching silently, suddenly asked.

The old mage recited a few incantations quickly and silently, and a thin shimmering curtain covered everyone. Then he nodded slightly towards Nine-Tails, indicating that all his detections had been blocked by the spell.

"24-30 hours." Kyuubi replied in a deep voice, "Before the war situation becomes clear, the Pioneer's body will not intentionally kill or injure people out of its instinctive greed for human body and soul, but it will not let it go easily.

Hashirama and Yumo dare to compete with him for the natural energy of the earth. We will definitely face continuous attacks in the next day, so it is best to prepare early."

As soon as Kyuubi's words fell to the ground, Xianglin in the crowd suddenly turned around and raised his arm, throwing out a golden chain with a sharp hook. The sharp hook of the chain collided with a looming shadow, causing a small stir.

Small chakra storm.

“Ab’rhamda Gratio!”

Countless blue-white missiles flew out from the tip of Elminster's staff, forming a gleaming barrage above everyone's heads.

"They're already here."

Countless shrill wails sounded after the barrage. A few dark black shadows broke through the barrier of the barrage and quickly rushed toward Yu Mo, who was weaving the magic web, but were struck one by one by several flaming shurikens that were enough to distort the space.

In the middle, the body collapsed and turned into chaotic and uncertain black mist again.

"Konohamaru, Ryuuji, the five of you quickly enter the control tower to control the defensive array; everyone else, don't be stunned, let's go up together."

Everyone watched the fiery red shadow flying into the sky. They all put aside their distracting thoughts, picked up their weapons, and according to the previously practiced formation, they joined the Nine-Tails clone and the old mage in a difficult and protracted defensive battle.