Black Zetsu completely could not understand!
When he said 'hiding in Sunagakure', it wasn't about why to stay in Sunagakure... Senki Ryuji was born in Sunagakure, so it was inevitable that he would lead Sunagakure's rise in strength.
But what he couldn't figure out was that Sunagakure began installing the chanical City's wall defense system five years ago, embedding the Twelve Golden Figures into the walls.
Twelve combatants comparable to the Wood Human or the Complete Body Susano'o, plus the Floating Continent's flight advantage, which is sothing only they possessed, not the other forces in the shinobi world... If Sunagakure had moved out back then, they could have unified the entire Shinobi World effortlessly.
No, more than just unifying the Shinobi World; ruling the entire world would have been no problem.
In the history of the Shinobi World, there hadn't been no attempts to use Shinobi's power to unify the world, but they all failed due to other Shinobi Forces siding with the Daimyo.
But with the power of Sunagakure or Ryuji, both other Shinobi Forces and the power structures of various countries' Daimyo could be easily destroyed. Everything in the world would be within reach.
Yet they took no action.
If Ryuji were soone like the First Hokage, it would be understandable.
But Ryuji's actions were completely unlike that kind of person; in fact, they were the opposite... Creating a puppet of the Third Kazekage to seize power in Sunagakure, taking advantage of Konoha's misfortune to gain benefits, continuously absorbing Shinobi Clans... All of Ryuji's actions seed like constantly expanding his influence and authority to satisfy his own ambitions.
Such a person shouldn't have waited until now to start acting.
...Why hide in Sunagakure?
'Yes, why did I hide in Sunagakure?'
Hearing Black Zetsu's question again, Ryuji also couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Clouds drifted by with the wind blowing beside him. Fierce commotion continuously ca from one side of the battlefield, yet Ryuji's heart was unusually calm.
When he first crossed over to this world, Ryuji only thought about having the ability to protect himself in this war-torn world.
Not just barely surviving like those struggling to live, but to live a normal life.
Therefore, he chose to beco a Shinobi.
Though becoming a Shinobi ant facing more dangers, if he remained just an ordinary civilian, even residents of the Five Great Shinobi Villages couldn't necessarily live safely and securely.
Later, the system awakened.
With greater potential as confidence, he wanted to live a little better. At least rise from the commoner class to the wealthy class.
Then, there was no then.
He didn't have the desire to compete for supremacy like typical transmigrators, nor dreams of being the strongest, nor ideas of overthrowing the Daimyo and unifying the world himself.
All of that, he had none.
Call him lacking ambition or seeing through the ways of the world and becoming laid-back… it didn't matter. Ryuji simply had no interest in these things.
Especially as his scientific technology grew stronger, his desire for worldly power grew smaller, even feeling annoyed by matters that disturbed his research.
However, humans are social animals.
No matter how reclusive one is inside, they still yearn for recognition, friends, and family.
While Ryuji felt annoyed by those troubleso matters, he also felt warmth from those who cared for him, looked after him, and even troubled him.
"I have no interest in unifying the world, nor am I a madman trying to destroy it. I just want to live quietly..." Ryuji snapped out of his thoughts, looking down at Black Zetsu beneath his foot. "But as long as one lives, all sorts of troubleso matters will co. To avoid being bothered by trouble, I prepared to resolve all trouble at once."
"Zetsu, I know everything about you..." Ryuji paused, then continued, "Whether it's the Allied Shinobi Forces, Kaguya, or even the Otsutsuki Clan in the universe, you are all unstable elents that would disturb my life, so you must be eliminated."
"…"
'The reason was actually so simple.'
Black Zetsu opened his mouth but said nothing.
A grand sche patiently nurtured for thousands of years, destroyed by such a simple, laughable reason… it really made one want to laugh.
But Black Zetsu couldn't laugh; he even wanted to roar in unwillingness.
But he knew it was all about the victor is king.
He had been patient for so many years, witnessed countless stories and outcos. He knew that no matter how unwilling he was now, no matter how much he threw a tantrum, it couldn't change the outco.
It would only make others look down on him more.
Bam!
Nagato was thrown down from over a thousand ters away, landing at Ryuji's feet.
His body was badly damaged. Wounds that should have instantly healed had for so reason lost their effect. Thick, oil-like viscous blood continuously gushed from various wounds.
Aka drifted down gracefully.
Her body was steaming red all over, but aside from her clothes being sowhat tattered, she was unhard. Her aura had beco even more astounding.
Black Zetsu closed his eyes in despair.
"Everything is over!"
Black Zetsu closed his eyes in despair.
'It was a plan to curb Senki Ryuji's growth. So many fallback plans were prepared. So many alternative plans were ready. Clearly... So why did things develop like this?'
'Was it because the strength gap was too large?'
'No, absolutely not.'
Black Zetsu himself wasn't strong. In his life, he had encountered countless powerful enemies who could easily squash him. There were even those stronger than Ryuji and Aka, but in the end, he was always the victor.
'So why was the outco like this?'
'It was because that bastard Senki Ryuji had ca from who knows where, more precise intelligence than my own.'
Strength… couldn't compare. Intelligence… couldn't compare.
Then how could he fight?
Couldn't fight!
It was like a canyon match-up. The opponent was level eighteen with six items, and also had map hacks. Your own team only had three big items, with only a few wards for vision.
In such a match, even a Gold could fight against a Challenger, right? Not to ntion the opponent was the Challenger, and you were Iron.
"Yes, everything is over!"
Ryuji grabbed Nagato by the neck and lifted him. Sunlight shone from behind Ryuji, making him squint.
"Wait!"
Hurried footsteps rapidly approached from behind. A girl around ten years old ca to Ryuji's side, prostrating herself fully on the ground.
"Please be magnanimous and spare Nagato once!"
"Ko, Konan, don't... beg him!"
Konan didn't move, still prostrate on the ground.
Ryuji glanced sideways briefly, then turned back to Nagato's pained face. "Nagato, in the human world, where there is light, there will be darkness; where there is happiness, there will be sorrow; where there is joy, there will be pain. Wanting only good things but discarding the bad… the world isn't that wonderful. Pursue a life that satisfies you in your next life!"
"Don't!"
Konan raised her head, pleading tearfully, but had no way to stop it.
As the Golden Fairy Ryuji deed to manipulate reincarnation, she couldn't defy Ryuji. She could only watch helplessly as the Ten-Tails was extracted from Nagato's body and absorbed.
A Jinchuriki who loses their Tailed Beast dies!
Konan knelt, covering her head and weeping bitterly.
Ryuji paid no attention, completely absorbing the Ten-Tails into his body, simultaneously extracting Nagato's soul and sealing it into a glass bottle.
"Keep him safely!"
Ryuji suppressing the changes in his body, threw the bottle containing Nagato's soul in front of Konan.
Konan stared at the bottle holding Nagato's soul, stunned, then ca to her senses and smiled through tears.
"Than..."
"Get away from ! I can barely hold back anymore!"
With Ryuji's roar, Aka grabbed Konan and instantly retreated tens of thousands of ters away.
And Ryuji's body underwent astonishing changes. A large tree burst from his back and grew continuously, as if intending to support the world.
Finally, the tree grew to the level of the horizon, even with the sun, and stopped.
Then...
Rustle, rustle...
The tree was sucked back in, returning to Ryuji's body.
And during this transformation process, Ryuji's skin turned pale white, and horn-like keratin shells grew on his forehead.
Just like an Otsutsuki.
Ryuji opened his eyes. Everything in his field of vision had changed.
The blue sky was still the blue sky, yet it wasn't. The earth was still the earth, yet it wasn't. Instead, more direct and clear existences presented themselves before him... It seed the world held no more secrets in his eyes.
Ryuji extended his right hand, then mobilized Chakra. Flas ignited on his palm, then changed into lava, sulfuric acid, ice and snow... Various Kekkei Genkai changed freely in his palm.
"This is the All-Creation Realm?" Ryuji examined his hands, muttering to himself. "Because it's an existence that grows by absorbing a planet's life force, it contains all things within. And once one masters this power, they also grasp the truth of all things."
"Master, you have finally reached this step!"
Aka, who had arrived beside him at so unknown ti, congratulated him.
The All-Creation Realm… Ryuji had deduced this realm while studying the essence of Chakra.
As long as one could reach this realm, combined with understanding Chakra, it equaled mastering Chakra.
Not generating Chakra from within the body, nor absorbing Natural Energy and rging it with Physical and Spiritual Energy to form Senjutsu Chakra, but...
Whoosh, whoosh...
The changes in Ryuji's palm vanished, replaced by endless vortexes. Sothing invisible was sucked in, compressed, then strengthened, evolved.
Sensing the changes in his body, Ryuji concluded: "Now I can also condense fruit by absorbing the planet's life force like the God Tree... No, no need to be so troubleso. I can directly use the absorbed life force for strengthening and evolution."
However, even saying that, Ryuji released his grip.
The vortexes dispersed; the life energy no longer gathered.
It wasn't out of concern that doing so would make the planet lose its vitality, leaving humans without a ho... Although given Ryuji's personality, he would indeed consider these things, according to experintal calculation results, if he evolved to a certain extent, creating a planet for people to live on could also be easily done.
The ultimate reason Ryuji gave up was that the efficiency was too slow.
"At my current strength, it would take at least three hundred years to suck dry all the planet's life force. And even after sucking dry all life on this planet, I still wouldn't reach the point of creating a life-bearing planet. However..." Ryuji paused, a smile appearing on his face. "This is within the simulation experint results; not unexpected. And the plan for how to quickly evolve to the final stage has already been determined, and it doesn't conflict with my goals."
As he spoke, Ryuji ordered the Third Kazekage through the Sea of Consciousness, "The war is over. Clean up the battlefield!"
"Yes!"
Having witnessed the imnse power of Ryuji and Aka, the Third Kazekage's tone shifted to that of a subordinate.
Although he was originally a puppet made by Ryuji, the Third Kazekage's mories and thoughts had always influenced him, and he hadn't placed himself beneath Ryuji because of that.
But now, everything had changed.
The war's subsequent matters would naturally be handled by the Third Kazekage. Ryuji and Aka remained outside the city, with Black Zetsu still beneath his foot.
However, his Otsutsuki appearance had already returned to normal.
Reaching the All-Creation Realm, wanting to create a Yang Release Ninjutsu to change his body form was extrely easy.
He stood like this at the edge of the Floating Continent, looking outside, waiting for their arrival at Konoha Village.
Ti passed bit by bit. When the full moon hung high, the chanical City arrived above Konoha Village.
The Konoha's defenders, having already learned of the Allied Shinobi Forces' crushing defeat, surrendered before the Golden Figure even attacked.
Ryuji didn't give them a hard ti, only bringing up five-year-old Naruto and Sasuke.
"Bastard, I'm not scared of you!"
Little Naruto's first reaction upon seeing Ryuji was to kick him. Sasuke remained silent.
Though only five, the clever boy knew this was all aningless.
"Such an energetic little guy!" Ryuji chuckled lightly. "I have no intention of harming you. I just need to take sothing from you."
After speaking, he extended both hands, grabbing Naruto's and Sasuke's shoulders respectively.
Chakra Spheres containing Asura's and Indra's consciousness were sucked out.
Ryuji glanced at the stunned little Naruto and Asura, then looked at the spheres in his hands.
"Although the root cause of things was Black Zetsu's instigation, you two also have your own problems. Beco my nourishnt and vanish!"
As he spoke, Ryuji clapped his hands together, intending to rge the spheres.
Blinding intense light erupted.
When the light dissipated, the surrounding world had changed.
The night sky and earth had turned into a blue ocean… a ntal world.
And before Ryuji was an old man sitting cross-legged suspended in the air.
His skin wasn't much different from a normal human's, but he had Otsutsuki horns on his forehead. A Buddhist staff lay flat across his lap.
— The Sage of Six Paths!
The Sage of Six Paths slowly opened his eyes. Seeing Ryuji, he couldn't help but sigh. "I knew that one day things would develop to this point!"
"Oh~ You don't seem surprised to see ?" Ryuji said with a slight smile.
"Ah!" The Sage sighed again. "Asura and Indra continuously reincarnate and fight. The calamities they constantly bring to the world… it's natural that soone would eventually stop them one day. This old man isn't arrogant enough to think that no one could possibly surpass them."
"I see. So you've thought of various outcos." Ryuji paused, then continued, "So, do you have anything to say?"
"Even if I wanted to say sothing, you wouldn't listen, would you?" The Sage said. "Soone who can reach this level wouldn't possibly listen to others' words."
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