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Chapter 394 - Chapter 394 Illusion Defense

"In my understanding, nothing is unchangeable.

The only constant in the world is change itself.

The future is no different."

"Based on this premise, the future itself holds countless variations."

"Every prophecy from the Great Toad Sage has been accurate enough to indicate that change itself can be perceived."

"Perhaps the Ōtsutsuki Clan can also perceive it.

What we need to do is to affect their perception itself."

"First, we can become strong enough not to need to prevent the future, but if the enemy can foresee the future, they might wait until those of us who can solve the problem are dead before attacking the Ninja World."

This is the simplest and most brutal method.

As long as there are people in the Ninja World who can defeat the enemy, there will be no problem.

"Second, and most importantly, foreseeing the future definitely requires observing people."

"Since observation is required, it means there is a point of leverage," Orochimaru said with a smile.

"Of course, the opponent might also use a divination-style foresight, unlike the Great Toad Sage's prophetic dreams.

This would eliminate the step of observation.

However, it's unlikely they use this type of divination with objects to foresee the future.

That would only yield partial information, as there would be a medium in between.

That would introduce even more variables into so-called future foresight.

If the opponent uses this method, then we only need to proceed systematically.

By thoroughly concealing our strength, intelligence, and other information, we can introduce more variables into the future."

Satoru nodded; Orochimaru made sense.

If foreseeing the future is like the Great Toad Sage's method, it must involve observation in some aspect.

If there are Ninjutsu that can counter observation, that would be a good starting point.

Orochimaru continued, "The opponent might also elevate their consciousness to a certain dimension, entering the time of the future, and observing future developments from a god-like perspective to achieve foresight."

"In that case, we must assume that the opponent is constantly observing us."

"For example, someone might be watching us right now."

As soon as he said this, Satoru felt a chill run down his spine.

He expanded his senses, wanting to see if it was really true.

This was not impossible.

After all, time travel had already occurred.

As Orochimaru articulated this idea, Satoru realized that if given time, he could also create a corresponding Ninjutsu.

His talent was quite good, but in certain aspects of inspiration, he truly couldn't compare to Orochimaru or others.

There was nothing he could do; no one is perfect.

Although he was a transmigrator, he didn't have a system.

He could only rely entirely on his own mind.

Not knowing the future plot was truly frustrating.

He now missed the feeling of knowing the Shippuden plot in the past.

"But these speculations can't achieve the goal of preventing future foresight, can they?" Satoru asked.

It still didn't achieve his goal.

He knew Kashin Koji's ability was to see all timelines, although that 'all' needed a question mark.

According to current basic theory, timelines are infinite.

The opponent's ability should be to see the most probable part within all timelines.

If the opponent's ability could see through everything, then Ōtsutsuki Shibai would not have died.

Even if he died, he wouldn't have left his remains in the Ninja World.

Perhaps the purpose of leaving them in the Ninja World was that he had seen many future timelines and intended to revive later.

For example, perhaps the Ōtsutsuki themselves had some flaw that required this kind of death to start anew.

Of course, it's not ruled out that Ōtsutsuki Shibai could truly see all timelines.

After all, aren't there many All-Knowing and Omnipotence gods?

But,

Is it possible?

If he could truly do it, Satoru wouldn't care anymore.

At least he had done his best.

That would be beyond human capability.

Orochimaru opened the database related to Ōtsutsuki Urashiki and pulled out a long list of data.

"Hehe, of course, I wouldn't be so shallow; you must have thought of something so simple long ago."

"What I want to talk about is the Ōtsutsuki Clan's physical information and their genetic information.

We have already deciphered it to this extent.

According to current data, their bodies are no different from ours, the Ninja.

It's just that their life-level is a bit higher, but it hasn't reached a point beyond theoretical traces."

"And this is what I mean: the key is the observation involved in foreseeing the future.

The first way to resist is to strengthen your Genjutsu ability.

Make everyone who observes you fall into your Genjutsu, thereby defending against their observation.

And this ability requires you to keep it active at all times, without a single pause."

Orochimaru chuckled.

"And this will require using the Ōtsutsuki Clan's data, starting from their data to find relevant points.

Breaking through their Genjutsu defenses, making it impossible for them to unravel your Genjutsu,

thereby creating a resistance against future foresight.

The difficulty in doing this lies in the differences between Ōtsutsuki Urashiki's physical data and other Ōtsutsuki's data.

If the difference is too great, the Genjutsu might be ineffective.

However, I speculate the probability is low.

But the Ōtsutsuki evolve by eating the god tree fruit, so there might be some slight differences.

It's not a big problem; we can take a gamble."

He had also researched some things about the Ten-Tails and the god tree, and combined with information about Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and Ōtsutsuki evolution from Naruto, Satoru, and others, he could deduce some things.

Satoru was stunned upon hearing this.

Holy crap.

This guy's analysis seemed to have no major flaws.

Visual Genjutsu means that as long as you observe, you will be affected.

It just depends on whether one's Genjutsu can affect the Ōtsutsuki.

As long as the Genjutsu is strong enough, it can completely be used to resist the opponent's future foresight.

At worst, even if the Genjutsu can only control them for a few minutes or seconds, it can still make him doubt himself or create more variables.

At that time, the ability to foresee the future would be greatly reduced.

But he also saw the difficulty involved.

Currently, their research on the Ōtsutsuki is not yet at the stage of fully analyzing their physical data.

They only have some understanding of their genetic information and other physical intelligence.

Moreover, his own sensory Genjutsu is not very effective against the Ōtsutsuki.

Even against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya before, it only controlled her for a very short time.

Controlling the All-Knowing and Omnipotence Ōtsutsuki Shibai would probably be quite difficult.

Kashin Koji was considered to be on their side of the Ninja World, so he wasn't worried about Kashin Koji, but rather the already deceased Ōtsutsuki Shibai.

After all, everything in the future could be part of the opponent's foreseen revival process.

No one knew this.

Or perhaps there were even stronger enemies than Ōtsutsuki Shibai.

Or perhaps Ōtsutsuki Shibai's soul had ascended to a higher dimension, becoming a four-dimensional being or something.

There were many possibilities.

The best possibility was that the Ōtsutsuki was truly dead, leaving behind only a husk.

In that case, he could completely deal with the clones created by Amado.

He was confident in that.

He just feared the worst-case scenario.

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