Chapter 533: Pure, Kind-hearted Princess Kaguya
Under the catastrophic, deafening roars generated by the clash between Ryo, Teuchi, and the Sage of Six Paths, the Land of Rivers was completely and thoroughly obliterated into absolute dust.
This nation genuinely harbored an exceptionally disaster-prone, tragic destiny.
Back in Konoha Year 13, the high-powered clash between Ryo, Tobirama, and the Gold and Silver Brothers had unfolded across this exact geographic zone. At that time, Ryo had opened the Seventh Gate and unleashed his Particle Style, inadvertently pulverizing nearly half of the Land of Rivers and generating a non-negligible volume of civilian casualties. And now, tracking a combat loop featuring three Six Paths-level powerhouses, even with Ryo actively restraining his output, the terrestrial crust continuously fractured, and mountains violently collapsed at the slightest movement. The Land of Rivers had devolved into an apocalyptic, desolate wasteland; successfully restoring its original aesthetic post-war would undeniably expend an immense window of chronological duration.
"Main body, this bastard Hagoromo has completely lost his rational sanity! Rescue my flanks! If this friction continues, my matrix is going to completely dissolve into absolute nothingness!"
Confronting the unified pincer assault spearheaded by Ryo and Teuchi, Six Paths naturally lacked the capacity to secure a strategic advantage. However, driven by absolute frenzy, he was completely willing to tank several direct punches from Ryo just to secure a singular opening to smash his Sage's Staff straight into Teuchi's matrix—deploying a desperate, mutually assured destruction template of inflicting 100 points of damage to the enemy while sustaining 800 to himself... The entity whose structural limits ultimately cracked first was Teuchi; a Shadow Clone proxy was fundamentally far too brittle.
Hearing the plea, Ryo wove a brief pause. Furrowing his brows in deep thought, his physical frame flashed to materialize point-blank before Six Paths, firmly grasping the descending Sage's Staff: "Halt your execution for a micro-second, Six Paths!"
Six Paths flatly disregarded the command. His Rinnegan eyes wove a frantic pulse as a roaring wave of repulsive force violently erupted outward, strictly to be cleanly canceled out by an identical repulsive wave deployed by Ryo's hands. The very subsequent second, Ryo aggressively ground his teeth together and unleashed a vicious headbutt straight against Six Paths' forehead!
The dual of them simultaneously stumbled back several heavy paces. Six Paths rapidly stabilized his center of gravity and immediately concentrated his focus, launching a renewed blitz straight toward Teuchi's coordinates. Ryo frantically wove a secondary Body Flicker to successfully intercept his path.
"Hold on a second! Old man Six Paths, the unvarnished status governing your parameters is completely, thoroughly flawed!" Ryo shouted out a resonant warning.
Six Paths gave a sudden standstill, murmuring under his breath: "My unvarnished status... is flawed?"
Ryo wore a highly peculiar expression: "Do your memory banks successfully track exactly how many direct, full-potency kinetic strikes your vessel has absorbed head-on from my hands? Tenji's biological physical framework has already hit the absolute edge of terminal structural collapse. If your combat loop continues to push the parameters, your authentic soul matrix will inevitably sustain severe, irreversible trauma! Do your internal loops genuinely harbor a burning desire to execute a double-demise alongside Teuchi—an entity whose active longevity strictly commands a mere one-month countdown?!"
"Hey! Main body, we explicitly aligned our parameters; provided my matrix doesn't dissolve automatically, your hands flatly decline to actively dispel my presence..."
Ryo sharply turned his head, shooting a fierce glare to check Teuchi. You've lived for over a thousand continuous years; exactly how on earth can your emotional intelligence metrics remain this monumentally, pathetically low? A Shadow Clone is fundamentally unreliable down to the core; do your internal cognitive parameters genuinely lack a single shred of awareness regarding exactly where the critical failure node currently lies?!
"The physical framework is on the absolute verge of terminal collapse?" Six Paths meticulously focused his sensory arrays to comprehensively audit the internal condition of Tenji's vessel, subsequent to which his heart plunged into absolute, freezing horror, "There exists a highly specific, underhanded anomaly hidden within this body!"
Ryo took a deep, unrestrained joy in the adversary's misfortune: "Oh? Tenji proactively planted a structural sabotage loop straight inside his very own vessel? To think that coward actually harbored the tactical foresight to mount a hidden guard against your arrival; this development genuinely sparks immense, profound delight!"
Six Paths knit his brows into a narrow slit, meticulously scanning every single metric millimeter of Tenji's biological matrix. Right at that exact fraction of a second, the trio of tomoe marks hidden securely upon the back of Tenji's neck violently commenced a rapid, erratic pulsation. An exceptionally jarring oscillation abruptly transmitted straight from the soul matrix, and the Sage of Six Paths' conscious awareness sustained a catastrophic, heavy impact—violently ripping his presence clear of Tenji's physical body in a single micro-second!
Severed from Tenji's physical proxy vessel, Six Paths' consciousness completely lost the technical capacity to temporarily anchor itself within the mortal coil, instantly snapping straight back into the Pure Land. Due to the severe trauma his consciousness had sustained, the Pure Land itself experienced a localized, minor seismic tremor. The Sage of Six Paths aggressively fought through a splitting headache, frantically attempting to pacify the turbulent instability rippling across the underworld.
"That specific burst of consciousness just a moment ago... exactly whose soul signature did it map to?"
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The western frontier blocks of the Land of Whirlpools.
Stationed strictly under Guren's continuous surveillance grid, Tayuya's face violently and abruptly warped to project an expression of profound, excruciating agony. Guren cautiously stepped forward, her internal cognitive parameters instantly spiking to absolute maximum combat alert: "Lord Orochimaru, what exact anomaly struck your matrix?"
"Lord... Orochimaru?" Tayuya murmured in dazed confusion: "Lord Orochimaru has successfully touched down on location?!"
Guren's dual pupils violently contracted into a sharp slit.
"Eh, Sister Guren, exactly why on earth are my physical joints completely locked into absolute immobility? Where are Lord Orochimaru's coordinates? If his absolute presence has arrived, exactly what operational maneuver do our parameters..."
Guren's facial complexion turned monumentally, thoroughly grave. Her internal processing flatly declined to believe that an entity of Orochimaru's caliber would clumsily attempt to engineer an escape route by executing a pathetic theatrical display masquerading as Tayuya...
"As expected from an entity holding Lord Orochimaru's mantle; to successfully orchestrate a flawless escape track while completely pinned down beneath these catastrophic parameters." Guren let out a heavy sigh, before her expression sustained a sharp, violent shift of absolute panic: "That ancient monster wouldn't possibly attempt to forcefully pin the absolute responsibility for Lord Orochimaru's escape straight onto my shoulders, would he? Unacceptable, I must immediately..."
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The Land of Rivers Battlefield.
Ryo rapidly deciphered the unvarnished reality that the Sage of Six Paths' consciousness had been cleanly severed from Tenji's physical vessel—primarily because the monumentally venomous, wife-stealing glare Tenji was currently leveling straight at Teuchi's face was a specific emotional aesthetic Six Paths would fundamentally never project.
"Ryo Uzumaki!" Flawlessly verifying Ryo's deduction, Tenji's authentic voice violently ripped out from his throat, "You absolute ***! And Hagoromo, and Kaguya, every single one of you are absolute ***!... "
Continuing his roaring, manic tirade, an absolute torrent of tears began streaming down Tenji's face.
"Kaguya... Kaguya! My execution was fundamentally, thoroughly flawed!"
"Recognizing one's flaws and correcting the errors is commendable; nevertheless, his vessel must still log a terminal demise," Ryo articulated with a deadpan, cold cadence.
"...Understood." For a brief, fleeting micro-second just a moment ago, Teuchi had genuinely felt a minor trace of internal pity. For Tenji's trajectory to collapse into this apocalyptic state today, setting aside Tenji's own inherent, unvarnished cowardice, Teuchi explicitly operated as the absolute, undisputed chief culprit engineering his downfall.
Tenji obviously successfully parsed this reality as well.
"Ryo Uzumaki, my matrix shall execute a total double-demise alongside your wing!"
Ryo wove a rapid backstep to pull his coordinates clear of the impact zone, fully exposing Teuchi's frame directly to the vanguard: "Deliver his vessel straight onto his final journey; my presence shall supply a high-powered covering shield for your execution."
Teuchi's physical frame wove a sudden standstill. Taking a deep, sweeping breath of air, he aggressively launched a maximum-velocity sprint to clash head-on against Tenji's charge.
Completely stripped of the high-powered strength buffs bestowed by the Sage of Six Paths, even with the supplementary inclusion of a Nine-Tails anchoring his internal matrix, Tenji's raw output was fundamentally no match for Teuchi. Compounding that detail, Tenji's biological structural durability had nearly reached its absolute, terminal breaking limit...
Flawlessly matching expectations, barely managing to unleash a singular, desperate volley of Almighty Push, the violently frenzied Tenji was brutally forced back into absolute clarity as his physical framework literally commenced shedding fragmented debris...
"This explicitly marks the absolute terminal conclusion of your trajectory, Tenji," Teuchi let out a long, heavy sigh, his middle-aged facial profile heavily painted with profound, melancholic reflection.
A continuous torrent of tears flowed relentlessly down Tenji's dual eyes. Abruptly, he aggressively ground his teeth together and spoke: "Ryo Uzumaki, refrain from harboring the naive delusion that your execution secured a strategic win! Kaguya will fundamentally, eternally never belong to your mantle! My soul shall permanently remain intertwined alongside her presence, locked together for absolute eternity!"
The absolute fraction of a second his prose concluded, Tenji's physical body violently began to expand at an exponential velocity, swelling... before detonating with a cataclysmic, world-ending BOOM!
The concentrated chakra repositories spanning all nine Tailed Beasts, coupled along Tenji's very own raw chakra reserves, were instantly scattered violently across the surrounding clearance. Yet, these fragmented chakra clusters completely failed to dissipate harmlessly into the atmospheric environment. Acting as if subjected to an irresistible, magnetic attraction—mirroring iron filings drawn straight to a powerful magnet—they aggressively and frantically surged straight up into the absolute heavens!
Ryo meticulously focused his sensory arrays, razor-sharply capturing the specific chakra signature belonging to the Nine-Tails hidden within the surging torrent. His hands rapidly blurred into a sequence of hand seals: "Sealing Jutsu: Seal..."
Smack! A sharp clapping acoustic ripple echoed out. Teuchi wove an instantaneous Body Flicker to hit Ryo's flank, firmly slapping his hands to disrupt the sealing sequence.
"...Exactly what operational maneuver is your matrix executing?!"
"Tenji is explicitly deploying the fragmented remnants of his own biological vessel to actively facilitate Kaguya's resurrection block. The Two-Tails' chakra repository is inherently incomplete to begin with; if your hands aggressively extract the Nine-Tails, Kaguya's resurrection..."
"Your execution has completely crossed the absolute operational line, Teuchi!" Ryo lifted his voice to violently cut him off, "My cognitive processing is perfectly clear that this specific phenomenon maps to Kaguya's resurrection. However, the sovereign decision regarding whether our forces structurally block or permit the anomaly lies explicitly within my absolute jurisdiction!"
Teuchi given a sudden standstill: "Kaguya's matrix... in unvarnished reality, is completely, thoroughly innocent. Main body, treat this parameter as my personal focus formally petitioning your wing one final time; my internal calculations harbor absolute confidence in ensuring she flatly declines to transition into an active enemy force!"
Ryo narrowed his dual eyes into a sharp slit: "My presence operates as the absolute main body; your presence operates as the absolute main body?!"
Teuchi was briefly startled, offering a bitter, helpless response: "You are the absolute sovereign."
He smoothly stepped back to clear Ryo's line of sight. Ryo immediately lifted his arm to resume the sealing block, yet let out a slow, heavy sigh and lowered his hands: "Let the parameters map out down their track; witnessing Kaguya's resurrection should undeniably yield a monumentally dense harvest of Witness Points. Furthermore, my internal heart parameters genuinely reject witnessing my very own pristine face projecting such a bitter, melancholic aesthetic! However, parse this directive clearly: if your execution pulls another underhanded trick to sabotage my metrics across this specific rotation, my hands will immediately and decisively slaughter your vessel point-blank!"
Teuchi broke into a broad, radiant grin: "That explicitly won't happen."
Right at that exact fraction of a second, the Sage of Six Paths' physical projection briefly materialized and vanished directly beside the dual of them, leaving behind strictly three desperate syllables: Quickly, block her...
"This absolutely unfilial bastard!" Teuchi unleashed a roaring curse, while Ryo smiled and lifted his chin to gaze toward the heavens.
High within the sky blocks, the scattered chakra torrents violently released from Tenji's detonated vessel slowly and gracefully surged together, seamlessly coalescing into an astronomically colossal, singular eyeball. Concentric, rippling wave patterns materialized across its surface, adorned by a perfect array of nine distinct tomoe—arranged in three separate rings—suspending gracefully atop the ocular matrix!
Subsequently, the colossal eyeball rapidly contracted its volumetric proportions, ultimately embedding itself perfectly dead center onto a monumentally exquisite, deathly pale female countenance that smoothly manifested straight out of the spatial void!
*"Witnessed and significantly altered the main storyline of the Naruto World: The Resurrection of Princess Kaguya Otsutsuki. Reward: 50 (8) Witness Points."
Ryo slowly lowered his dual hands, cleanly dispelling his active combat readiness stance: "Her matrix completely refrained from immediately deploying the God: Deep Forest Emergence (Shin: Jukai Kōtan) to aggressively drain the global chakra reserves of the shinobi world; it explicitly appears her parameters retain the capacity for rational communication."
"Ryo Uzumaki, was your presence the specific entity who successfully salvaged my matrix?"
A pair of pristine, flawlessly pure white eyes securely locked their absolute focus straight onto Teuchi's features. A gentle, rippling warmth danced within those ocular arrays, radiating an exceptionally profound, innocent, and kind-hearted aura... flawlessly mirroring Hinata's aesthetic!
Ryo: ???
Teuchi's mouth opened and closed repeatedly. The highly specific, flawlessly prepared introductory script he had meticulously compiled just a moment ago was completely and thoroughly wiped from his memory banks the absolute micro-second he locked eyes onto Kaguya's pure, untainted gaze... Exactly what precise catastrophic anomaly is unfolding on this coordinate block?!