get-shopping #182 - Chapter 182 The Sage of Six Paths
#182 - Chapter 182 The Sage of Six Paths
More than ten minutes later.
The interior of the Four Violet Flames Formation was already a scene of devastation, with traces of battle everywhere.
Huge trees intertwined with each other, and golden sand floated in the sky.
Rasa, in his Impure World Reincarnation state, stood atop the gold dust, with two battered corpses hanging from the trees beneath him.
Even at the moment of his death, Danzo's remaining left eye was filled with unwillingness.
This included not only the unwillingness of dying so inexplicably, but also the shock of seeing Rasa use Wood Release.
But Rasa only glanced at him and lost interest.
I must say, this version of Danzo from this era is perhaps getting old; he's really weak!
In his time, eliminating Danzo required extensive planning and taking advantage of the information asymmetry between the two sides to launch a sneak attack to completely defeat him, but this Danzo...
He only needed less than ten minutes to completely take care of him.
Perhaps years of pampered living had lowered Danzo's vigilance to an extreme.
As soon as Rasa launched a sneak attack, he directly severed Danzo's right arm, snatched the Three-Tomoe Sharingan from his right eye, didn't even give him a chance to use Izanagi, and finally ended the battle completely with Wood Release.
As for the Yamanaka clan ninja, he was completely devoured in this world of trees like an ant.
However, although he had achieved his goal, Rasa still had no intention of leaving.
Because he had some things he needed to verify!
Although this Impure World Reincarnation body couldn't use Sage Art chakra, preventing him from opening the Underworld, he still had other options.
"Summoning Technique: Gate of the Underworld!"
As the summoning technique was cast, a huge stone gate rose from the ground.
Seeing the appearance of this stone gate, Rasa was overjoyed.
"It succeeded!"
So, without the slightest hesitation, he stepped inside.
The scene before him was still familiar: a huge and empty white world, seemingly larger than before Rasa arrived, but because he couldn't use Sage Art chakra at this time, he couldn't sense the Sage Art chakra of this world.
Fortunately, it wasn't a problem!
He could regain Sage Art chakra soon!
However, before that, he still had a question that needed to be answered.
This answer was also easy to obtain.
In just a few minutes, he arrived at a familiar place.
That was the very center of this Underworld.
Then, Rasa saw the answer at a glance.
He saw a Rasa identical to himself sitting there cross-legged.
However, this Rasa had his eyes tightly closed, and there was no sign of life around him, as if he were a soulless corpse.
At this moment, two Rasas appeared in the entire Underworld space.
One was the Impure World Reincarnation Rasa, and the other was the Sage Art chakra Rasa.
Seeing this scene, Rasa completely understood.
"It seems that Impure World Reincarnation only summoned my soul to the future."
For some reason, Rasa had some guesses.
"In other words, because I replaced the original Fourth Kazekage Rasa of this world, I became a unique existence in spacetime. Orochimaru wanted to summon the original Fourth Kazekage's soul through Impure World Reincarnation, but it had already disappeared, replaced by the current me. So, that's why I was summoned to the future?"
"Interesting!"
Rasa thought of another thing.
That was that in the future storyline, this Fourth Kazekage would be summoned twice more: once during the Fourth Shinobi World War, summoned by Kabuto, and the other time at the end, summoned by the Sage of Six Paths and the other past Kage.
He just didn't know if the change in the plot would lead to the absence of that future, or if another parallel world would appear as it does now.
Rasa leaned more towards the second possibility.
The answer was also very simple; he looked at the [Karma] in his hand. Of the four corners of the black rhombus, two corners still had no changes.
However, that was a matter for the future!
Now?
He should return to his body first!
Thinking of this, Rasa directly canceled the Impure World Reincarnation on his body.
Then, Rasa felt his soul fly out of his body.
This was the first time he had seen the appearance of his soul.
It wasn't the appearance of his previous life, but the current Fourth Kazekage Rasa.
It seemed that his original soul had perfectly merged with the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.
But just then, suddenly, a terrifying feeling struck, causing Rasa's expression to change drastically.
It was a feeling like a summoning technique, coming from the outside world, and his body uncontrollably wanted to fly out.
Fortunately, the Underworld space surged with a force that isolated this power from the outside.
But Rasa still didn't dare to hesitate and immediately flew into his original body...
Then, without the slightest hesitation, he stretched out his right hand and absorbed the chakra of the Impure World Reincarnation from this space...
Only after he confirmed that there wasn't a trace of chakra in the Underworld did he take a deep breath and say,
"This powerful force... is it the Sage of Six Paths?"
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The depths of this shinobi world.
In a world that only souls can reach, known as: the Pure Land.
A low voice slowly sounded.
"That power, is it Mother, and the power of spacetime?"
Looking around, it was an old man floating cross-legged in mid-air, with black orbs flying beneath him, wearing a white robe, with coffee-colored hair, two horns, six black tomoe on his chest, and a red vortex symbol on his back.
This man was the founder of Ninshu: Hagoromo Otsutsuki, also known as: the Sage of Six Paths!
In fact, from the moment Rasa came to this world, he had noticed something was wrong.
Because as the founder who spread chakra throughout this world, the souls of all the shinobi in this world were firmly controlled by Hagoromo Otsutsuki through chakra as a medium.
And in order to deal with his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, he mentioned the enemies that would definitely come to this world: the Otsutsuki clan.
He brought the souls of all the deceased shinobi to his own Pure Land, with the aim of cultivating them into a force to resist the Otsutsuki clan.
And among these shinobi, the Kage, as the pinnacle of shinobi, were naturally his most concerned.
But after Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki discovered that this soul, which had just been summoned away from the Pure Land, suddenly lost control.
So, with the help of this chakra, Hagoromo Otsutsuki had been paying attention to this soul that had lost control.
From the moment the other party escaped the control of Impure World Reincarnation, to absorbing the chakra of Indra's reincarnation: Hashirama Senju, to entering that unique space, Hagoromo Otsutsuki had been watching.
He naturally also saw the peculiar rhombus mark on the palm of Rasa's right hand...