area51novel Chapter 326: The Truth Behind the Infinite Tsukuyomi
Chapter 326: The Truth Behind the Infinite Tsukuyomi
Chapter 326: The Truth Behind the Infinite Tsukuyomi
A spear formed in Naruto’s hand, and then he jumped down as well.
While diving, Naruto’s cold and clear voice, like the bell of judgment, rang throughout the Kamui Dimension:
"Instead of cowering in a fake dream world, you should build and change this real world with your own hands!"
"False is false; it will never become real! Besides, Obito, you have no idea about the truth behind the ’Infinite Tsukuyomi’!"
Naruto’s words were like a heavy hammer, striking at Obito’s Spiritual defenses:
"The Infinite Tsukuyomi is not some genjutsu that grants eternal peace and happiness! It is a technique developed by the Six Paths Sage’s mother, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, to transform ordinary people into White Zetsu in order to stockpile an army to fight against other members of the Otsutsuki Clan!"
Naruto’s voice suddenly rose, carrying the coldness of revealing a cruel truth:
"After using the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the caster and other owners of the Rinnegan will not enter that so-called ’happy illusion.’ They will only stand high above, watching coldly as the entire world turns into a factory for White Zetsu, with all human consciousness imprisoned in a fake dream, while their physical bodies are converted into White Zetsu by the Divine Tree!"
"The ’eternal peace’ you seek is essentially turning everyone into ignorant, unfeeling living batteries and tools of war that can be driven at will!"
"Stop spouting nonsense!"
Obito sternly interrupted Naruto’s speech, his voice beneath the mask trembling slightly due to anger and some indescribable panic.
The "truth" Naruto revealed was completely contrary to the core of the "Eye of the Moon Plan" that he believed in and pursued!
He could not accept it, and even less was he willing to believe it!
"How could a teenager like you know about these ancient secrets that were not even recorded on the Uchiha stone tablet? This must be a lie you fabricated to shake my will!"
Obito forced himself to steady his mind, arming his wavering belief with doubt:
"Besides... even if... I cannot enter that genjutsu world..."
Obito’s voice lowered, carrying a murmur of almost paranoid self-hypnosis:
"At least... in that world, Rin, Grandma, Minato-sensei... they are all still ’alive,’ all still living ’happily’... at least... the me in the genjutsu world can still be by their side... that is enough... that is enough... At least those who enter the Infinite Tsukuyomi world can spend a happy life!"
His words exposed the most fragile, reality-avoiding side of his inner self.
He truly believed that world was perfect, and he could not bear the pain of loss, preferring to hide in an illusory dream he had woven himself—even knowing it might be fake—where he could "possess" his loved ones.
However, so what if he couldn’t enter the dream himself and had to remain in this painful world?
If everyone entered the world of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, then there would be no more turmoil in the Ninja World!
"Heh..."
Facing Obito’s skepticism and self-comfort, Naruto, having landed on the ground, let out a chuckle tinged with mockery.
"Then take a guess..."
In Naruto’s right eye, the mysterious and majestic red Six Tomoe Rinnegan pattern suddenly faded like a tide, returning to the most basic blue, multi-layered circular form of a normal Rinnegan.
"How did I get this Rinnegan that can switch forms?"
Naruto’s voice carried the calmness of revealing a shocking secret:
"Because... the Otsutsuki Clan has already begun to invade this world."
"One of them, named Otsutsuki Urashiki, used a treasure that can travel through time, the ’Plough,’ to come from the future, intending to seize the Tailed Beast and Chakra Fruit of this era."
Naruto’s gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, landing on some non-existent enemy:
"And this pair of Rinnegan of mine was dug out with my own hands from the eye sockets of Otsutsuki Urashiki from the future timeline!"
"From him, not only did I seize the eyes, but I also read what happened later. Including the truth about the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Kaguya’s ambition, including... the true identity of Black Zetsu!"
Once these words were spoken, it was like dropping a bombshell into the Kamui Dimension!
Nagato’s pupils shrank, and Obito’s body shook violently, his only exposed right eye filled with unbelievable horror!
Naruto did not wait for them to digest this information, speaking faster and with sharper words, piercing like a scalpel into the link they relied on most and which was most likely to have problems:
"So, Nagato, Obito, the path you have chosen has been wrong from the beginning! You have been misled! You have been used!"
"Black Zetsu, that black shadow who has always claimed to be the ’will of Uchiha Madara’ and has been assisting—or rather, manipulating—you. Its true identity is not the will of Madara at all!"
Naruto said every word clearly, his voice resolute:
"It is the manifestation of the last bit of ’will’ and ’Chakra’ that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya separated before being sealed! It is a backup plan and a pawn buried by Kaguya that spans a millennium to liberate herself!"
His gaze was like lightning, piercing straight at Obito:
"Obito, do you think you are inheriting the will of ’Uchiha Madara’ to carry out the great ’Eye of the Moon Plan’?"
"Heh..." Naruto let out an undisguised, sarcastic scoff, "You are just a fool who has been played in the palm of Black Zetsu’s hand, working for it for free, yet thinking you are so smart!"
"Shut up, right and wrong, we will verify it later ourselves."
Nagato launched an attack again, as a huge rhinoceros and a centipede rushed toward Naruto.
"Even if the Infinite Tsukuyomi is indeed an evil scam as you say..."
Nagato’s voice came along with the attack, carrying a stubborn rebuttal.
"Then the path you advocate, using force to forcibly unify the Ninja World and establish a powerful Empire led by Hidden Leaf Village... is nothing more than a bigger joke!"
"You can rely on absolute power to temporarily suppress all opponents and sit on the throne of the ruler. However, the Ninja World is so vast, and human hearts are so complex!"
Nagato’s Rinnegan locked onto Naruto, his words bombarding like a barrage:
"As long as your rule relaxes in the slightest, as long as time passes and the strong change, those who consider themselves capable, ambitious, or those who are unwilling and oppressed by you, will spring up like mushrooms after rain!"
"They will launch rebellions, fight for power, and once again drag the hard-won unified Ninja World into a more bloody, more chaotic civil war and division!"
"There has never been unification in history, but there have been countless wars between countries, and wars of restoration. Your path is just repeating the cycle of the old world, using a short-lived, forceful peace in exchange for more violent turmoil in the future!"
The attacks of the rhinoceros and the centipede were close at hand! The wooden spear and the rhinoceros horn were about to collide!
"Who said... that after unification by force, one can sit back and relax?"
Lightning-attribute Chakra attached to the spear.
Naruto’s voice, amidst the roaring wind and thunder and the beast’s roar, remained clear and powerful, carrying an insight and confidence that transcended the era.
Just as the tip of the wind-thunder spear was about to collide with the rhinoceros horn, Naruto’s wrist flicked with extreme finesse, and the trajectory of the spear tip shifted in an imperceptible yet perfectly precise way!
"Puchi!"
The spear wrapped in lightning did not clash hard with the hard rhinoceros horn, but like a poisonous snake, it pierced with extreme precision into the rhinoceros’s huge eyeball, which was exposed in the front due to the charge, at a tricky angle!
The rhinoceros itself was already dead and had no sense of pain. So it could continue to charge.
And at almost the same time, after Naruto jumped onto the back of the rhinoceros, a giant hand made entirely of highly condensed golden Chakra grew on his back.
This golden giant hand opened its five fingers, carrying majestic Chakra pressure and unparalleled power, meeting the giant centipede that was biting from the side and back head-on!
"Bang!"
The golden giant hand grabbed the centipede’s hideous head.
The centipede struggled madly, countless limbs cutting on the Chakra arm, making harsh friction sounds and sparks, and venom splashed, but it could not shake this giant hand made of pure energy at all!
The giant hand’s five fingers suddenly closed, pinching the centipede’s carapace until it made a "crack" sound, almost crushing its head!
The centipede’s body twisted wildly, but it could not break free.
Having resolved the pincer attack in one fell swoop, Naruto leisurely continued to respond to Nagato’s questioning. He stood on the edge of the slightly swaying rhinoceros back, his tone calm and carrying a hint of disdain:
"Do you think... I risked being the enemy of the entire Ninja World to launch a war of unification just to conquer a piece of territory like the daimyos of ancient times, and then guard it until I am overthrown by a successor?"
"Too naive, Nagato."
Naruto’s gaze seemed to pierce through the Kamui Dimension, seeing further places:
"Force is just a means. It is the sword used to ’conquer the world,’ used to break the shackles of the old era and clear the obstacles to unification."
"And before the war began, even earlier, I had already let people start preparing."
"The planning of brand-new infrastructure construction such as roads, bridges, and communication networks covering the entire Ninja World!"
"And... most importantly," Naruto’s voice deepened, "the brand-new textbooks and educational systems that are being compiled and promoted, advocating ’Great Unification’ and ’National Identity’!"
"What I want to do is not just to suppress the body with force, but to use ideas, systems, and tangible common interests to truly fuse the originally divided countries, clans, and Ninja Villages into a ’Community of Shared Future’ where blood is connected and we share weal and woe!"
"Force is the vanguard that paves the way, and education is the Foundation of governance! I will sow the seeds of unified thought in the hearts of the next generation, making them identify with ’we are a whole’ from childhood, rather than ’you are from the Land of Fire, and I am from the Land of Earth’."
"When everyone realizes that the benefits brought by peace, unification, and development far outweigh the division, turmoil, and internal friction; when the concept of a nation is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and when betraying unification is seen as betraying the interests of all compatriots..."
Naruto looked directly at Nagato, with a firm light flashing in his eyes, "Only then will those ’ambitious people’ you worry about lose the soil to breed, and only then will they be consciously resisted and spurned by the vast majority of people! Only then will the Foundation of unification be truly stable!"Loving Book So Far? Check Out 30+ Advanced Chapters At PA Treon
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