area51novel Chapter 364 Inhuman
Chapter 364 Inhuman
In the darkness beneath the earth, Black Zetsu felt an unprecedented unease and distress.
After a millennium of planning, the dawn is almost here. This is the closest it has ever come to successfully freeing its mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, from her seal on the moon.
Its most successful and powerful pawn—Uchiha Madara—has successfully awakened the Rinnegan! According to the plan, as long as the Akatsuki organization collects all the tailed beasts step by step, gathers them into the Ten-Tails, and then Madara becomes the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki to unleash the Infinite Tsukuyomi... the path to Mother's resurrection will be unobstructed.
It no longer needs to go to great lengths, as it did in the past thousand years, to instigate and guide each generation of Indra chakra reincarnations to fight against Ashura chakra reincarnations.
However—what exactly is going on with this generation's Ashura chakra reincarnation?!
Although for thousands of years, no reincarnation of Indra has ever been able to defeat a reincarnation of Asura.
However, this reincarnation of Asura is far more powerful than what is considered "balance."
It's important to know that in the long years after the Sage of Six Paths passed away, Hashirama Senju was the strongest ninja Black Zetsu had ever seen. However, Naruto Uzumaki, at the same age, had already overshadowed Hashirama Senju's brilliance.
Therefore, after Orochimaru's "Konoha Collapse Plan" failed not long ago, Black Zetsu learned about Naruto's terrifying power through White Zetsu's intelligence network. He immediately became more vigilant and secretly arranged for a large number of White Zetsu to lurk around Konoha to conduct close surveillance around the clock, trying to find out the details of this variable.
However, what it witnessed today still far exceeded Black Zetsu's expectations, leaving it feeling helpless and bewildered.
Why did two "Indra Chakra reincarnations" suddenly appear?
Why did those threats from our own kind in the distant stars—the "Otsutsuki"—arrive so far ahead of schedule, which my mother was so worried about? Those creatures should have posed a threat much further into the future!
Why is the newly appeared "Indra's reincarnation" so powerful? Black Zetsu can assert that even Madara Uchiha at his peak could not possibly contend with the black-clad man he saw today.
Why? And most importantly, what truly chilled Black Zetsu to the bone—what exactly happened to this reincarnation of Ashura?!
When Naruto finally opened his eerie right eye—a black eye with golden pupils—and casually activated the Bloodline Limit [Yomotsu Hirasaka], a technique only the Otsutsuki clan could master…
Black Zetsu sensed a pure, rich, and even faintly superior aura of the Otsutsuki Origin... the aura of the Otsutsuki Origin!
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"How is it? Where exactly does this space lead?" Sasuke asked, watching Naruto manipulate the dark portal to open and close, eventually returning him to his original spot, his face displaying a mixture of curiosity and strangeness.
Naruto answered somewhat uncertainly, "It seems... the exit was determined by my thoughts at the time? I just thought 'go home,' and then the view from the portal was the interior of my apartment."
Sasuke nodded thoughtfully. A space-time ninjutsu that transcends space—this is indeed one of the many advanced abilities possessed by the Rinnegan.
Although the appearance of Naruto's new eye is closer to Boruto's special "Jōgan", its function seems to be more in line with the Rinnegan.
The reason Naruto's expression was strange was that he quickly realized the subtle relationship between this "new ability" and his existing skills.
The Flying Thunder God Technique, his signature ninjutsu which he has long mastered, has the advantage of not requiring hand seals, being activated instantly, and having precise coordinates, allowing for extremely flexible instantaneous movement and tactical maneuvers in battle.
In contrast, while Yomotsu Hirasaka can also traverse space, it requires actively opening a fixed portal. This process involves brief gaps, making it difficult to launch a surprise attack or dodge "without warning" like the Flying Thunder God Technique in the ever-changing high-speed battle. Its tactical flexibility seems to be slightly inferior.
"Looking at it this way... it seems a bit redundant..." Naruto muttered to himself, but then he noticed a crucial difference!
The Flying Thunder God Technique requires leaving a Flying Thunder God Technique mark at the target location before it can be used for teleportation.
As for Yomotsu Hirasaka... based on the test just now, it seems that only a clear "intention" or "cognition" is needed as a coordinate?!
Wait a minute… Naruto’s eyes widened slightly as a bold conjecture surfaced: “Does that mean… if I want to, even if it’s a place I’ve never been to and have never had the chance to leave my Flying Thunder God mark, as long as I can ‘imagine’ or ‘know’ its approximate location or features… I can just open the door and go there?!”
Doesn't this turn into... a "Door to Anywhere"?!
This discovery made Naruto's heart race slightly. Although this eye, "gifted" by Urashiki, seemed to contain another ability yet to be explored, for now, he decided to thoroughly understand the characteristics of this "Anywhere Door".
Naruto focused his mind on his right eye again, and a brand new, pitch-black portal silently opened in front of him.
This time, he did not step in immediately, but instead created a shadow clone.
"Be careful," Satsuki couldn't help but whisper a reminder.
The shadow clone nodded to the main body, then stepped into the deep darkness without hesitation.
A moment later, the shadow clone's memories returned to the main body—there was no danger, no abnormal spatial turbulence, only a peculiar...sense of emptiness.
Upon receiving the safety confirmation, Naruto took a deep breath, calming his slightly racing heartbeat caused by the novelty. He nodded to Sasuke, Boruto, and Satsuki beside him, then took a step forward, his entire figure disappearing into the dark doorway.
hum...
It was like passing through a cool, unobstructed curtain of water; after a moment of weightlessness, all the surrounding sounds vanished instantly.
It wasn't silence, but absolute stillness. All that remained in my ears was the faint hum of my own blood flowing, and... the increasingly clear sound of my heartbeat.
"...Am I...flying?"
Naruto moved his limbs with some surprise. His body felt unusually light and free, without any of the sluggishness of drifting in the water, and he didn't need chakra to maintain it.
He can adjust his posture in the void at will, and his movements are as fluid as if he were on the ground.
He took a breath—breathing was smooth and unobstructed. His lungs were functioning normally, and he didn't experience the suffocating sensation he had expected.
"Can you even breathe normally in a place like this? Is this... one of the basic survival skills of the Otsutsuki clan?" Naruto thought with mixed feelings, "Should I... be happy about this?"
It seems that his physical abilities, after merging with Urashiki's power, have quietly entered the "inhuman" realm in some aspects.
This is certainly exciting, signifying new possibilities and strong adaptability, but it also brings an indescribable sense of alienation and unease as we drift away from the realm of "ordinary people."
He looked up and glanced around.
As far as the eye could see, there was an endless, deep, and terrifyingly dark void, dotted with countless starlight points, some bright and some dim, that shimmered eternally.
And in that infinitely distant place, a colossal, blazing white sphere radiating endless light and heat floats silently—is that the sun?
He lowered his head and looked "down".
A planet, covered in vast expanses of azure and mottled white, slowly rotates against a backdrop of darkness, hanging silently there. That familiar outline, that misty atmosphere, those faintly visible continental plates…
"Is this... the universe?"