Chapter 343: Limbo: Border Jail
"Sigh… this isn't something I should be thinking about right now."
After a brief moment of curiosity, Li Yao let the thought go with a sigh. His current power and understanding weren't yet enough to research the nature of parallel worlds.
Still, Li Yao believed that if he continued down the path of spacetime chakra, he might one day unravel the mystery of parallel worlds.
Maybe… if he became strong enough, he could even leave this Naruto world and return to his own.
Once his vengeance on the Third Hokage and Konoha was complete, and with eternal life now in hand, leaving this world had become Li Yao's next goal.
But for now, priority one: obtain the Rinnegan.
At that moment, Nagato had just returned from a mission and stood on the upper balcony of the Akatsuki's headquarters, quietly watching his companions rest below, his heart oddly at peace.
Then—
A formless hand gently touched his eyes.
Nagato's mind jolted.
Enemy!
He thought… but that was it.
His Rinnegan's chakra was instantly suppressed. His body went limp. He couldn't even release chakra to alert the others. Helpless, he watched as his eyes were plucked from his sockets.
Not a single Akatsuki member noticed anything unusual.
Such was Li Yao's power now—approaching Nagato completely unnoticed, suppressing his Rinnegan chakra with just a thought, and controlling his body with a genjutsu that manipulated the five senses. Nagato, once feared across the ninja world, was nothing more than a bug before him.
But just as Li Yao secured the Rinnegan and prepared to leave—
A paper-style shuriken flew toward him.
Unluckily, Konan had just exited from the other side.
"Nagato!!!"
She launched her shuriken toward Nagato's back, face filled with shock.
Whoosh!
Konan was fast, but by the time she arrived, Li Yao had already vanished using the Flying Thunder God Technique. His figure never appeared at all.
Nagato, having regained control of his body, had no idea who had attacked him.
"Whether I saved your lives or doomed you… who knows."
High above the city of Amegakure, Li Yao looked down with a soft sigh, then used Flying Thunder God to depart.
Without the Rinnegan, Danzō might no longer target Nagato and Konan.
Then again, without the Rinnegan, they might get wiped out even faster due to the butterfly effect.
Whether fortune or misfortune, that was for time to decide.
Li Yao arrived at the summit of a mountain where he had left one of his Flying Thunder God markers.
"These eyes are useless now."
He plucked out the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō Sharingan from his left socket and crushed it, replacing it with Madara's Rinnegan. He did the same with the right eye.
After copying Kotoamatsukami's chakra, the eye itself had no further value.
Since Li Yao could now freely produce Kotoamatsukami chakra, there was no need to wait for cooldowns.
The reason Kotoamatsukami had a cooldown period was because Sharingan couldn't withstand the immense strain of the genjutsu's chakra.
Li Yao had no such limitation.
So the moment he extracted its chakra, the eye was obsolete. Crushing it meant nothing.
Wood Release chakra surged into the new eyes, automatically linking the nerves to the Rinnegan.
It had to be said—Wood Release and Uchiha genes were incredibly compatible. The Rinnegan fused with Li Yao's body almost instantly.
Though the eyes weren't originally his, they posed no issue for his usage.
Li Yao pumped chakra into the Rinnegan and began sensing its abilities.
Soon, as more chakra flowed in, each of the Rinnegan's powers became clear in his mind.
It was like a hard drive—all the abilities were stored within, waiting to be read.
The prerequisites: sufficient chakra and chakra control.
Only with both could he unlock the Rinnegan's deepest power—Limbo: Border Jail.
And Li Yao lacked neither.
Naturally, he awakened the ability.
"Limbo: Border Jail!"
Li Yao's eyes narrowed slightly. A massive surge of chakra flooded into the depths of the Rinnegan. In a flash, an ultra-refined chakra emerged.
Then, in front of him, four black-and-white versions of himself appeared.
Li Yao stepped forward and passed right through them—they were intangible.
He activated his spacetime chakra to sense them. Moments later, he smiled.
The essence of Limbo was a spatial interlayer. The clones hid within it, able to interact with the real world, but untouchable by anything from the physical plane.
Only natural energy could strike them.
Why? Because natural energy was the embodiment of the world's rules—including spatial ones.
That was what made it so uncounterable.
Truth-Seeking Orbs, even with Kekkei Mōra, couldn't erase natural energy. Limbo clones, similarly, could only be hit by natural energy.
It was precisely because of this that Li Yao sought mastery over it.
He continued feeling out the chakra of Limbo: Border Jail within the Rinnegan. In just seconds, he had copied the chakra.
Now, he had every ability the Rinnegan possessed.
Even without the eyes, he could cast Limbo.
In fact, combining it with his spacetime chakra, Li Yao vanished from the real world and entered the spatial interlayer himself.
From within, the real world looked like a 3D projection. To him, reality had become a translucent image, while he was the only "real" thing.
From the outside, he was completely invisible.
"Spatial interlayer… not a bad place to trap someone. Especially those who don't know space-time ninjutsu."
"But it's useless against people with summoning beasts."
He tested the space's boundaries and found it offered little restriction. He could still influence the real world from inside—meaning reverse summoning could easily bypass it.
In the end, it was just a layer of space.
"But as an offensive tool, its power is enough."
Exiting the spatial interlayer, Li Yao activated his spacetime chakra and slashed downward.
In an instant, a rift tore through the spatial layer.
Where it passed, the earth below split open—a hundred-meter-long black chasm appeared silently.
Its surface was smooth, cleanly cut—no sound, no resistance.
"This feels like a dimensional slash."
Li Yao grinned. Though he'd only opened a crack in the spatial interlayer, the real world displayed it as a pitch-black blade of space—cutting everything in its path like a black hole.
With this, he now had another form of space-based attack. It was more flexible than Black Hole Space—purely a spatial ability.
"Alright—Limbo's secured. Next, time to head to that Naruto world where the Fourth Great Ninja War is about to begin."
Li Yao smiled, then calmly dug out the Rinnegan and crushed it. Closing his eyes, he channeled Wood Release chakra to regenerate new ones.
The Rinnegan no longer had any use for him. Shattering it didn't matter.
And without it, Madara in this world could never create his dream world of Infinite Tsukuyomi filled only with Hashirama.
(END CHAPTER)
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