Chapter 540: The Vast Starry Sky
"Could this thing actually be the system, a seed? Plant a system in the spring, harvest a bunch in the autumn?"
Ryo Uzumaki carefully scrutinized the pitch-black seed floating before him from top to bottom, simultaneously sensing the condition within his biological body.
"My strength hasn't changed, but were my Gambling skills and the others all taken away by this seed? I need to test this... Speaking of which, how am I supposed to put this back? Eating it again feels a bit disgusting, doesn't it?"
Just as that thought crossed his mind, the seed merged into Ryo's chest with a whoosh. Ryo was dumbfounded for a long while, then with a wooden face, he clicked 'Detachable' again.
Blergh!
"Go back in."
Whoosh!
Detachable.
Blergh!
"So, making me vomit it out is just you messing with me, right? It's definitely the system, no running away from that!" Ryo slightly closed his dual eyes. "It seems the Great Ancestor has something new to research in the future."
Ryo abruptly opened his dual eyes. Upon the rippling patterns of his eyes, there were now nine black tomoe—the Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan!
"I don't know how long the evolution took, but it doesn't seem like it was too long. I wonder if Orochimaru is still alive..."
Ryo had already generally understood the various gains from allocating his stat points. As for adapting to his new strength, and exploring how to use the eighth dimension—the Medical dimension—that could be left for the future. Right now...
Ryo waved his hand, opening a spatial black hole, and stepped inside.
The Land of Whirlpools.
"Orochimaru... is dead."
Kaguya wore a sorrowful expression: "Dead."
"Not a single shred of his soul remains?"
"Mhm."
Ryo let out a long sigh, having learned from Kaguya what transpired after his departure.
"He forcefully activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but what was his objective? Was he actively seeking death? Truly..." Ryo murmured softly: "The person with the strongest survival skills actually died just like this!"
After feeling melancholic for a good while, Ryo reorganized his emotions, lifting his head to look at Kaguya: "Are you getting accustomed to living in our Land of Whirlpools?"
"It is fine."
"Mhm, Haku lives right next door to you. If you need anything, you can look for him, look for Nagato, or look for me."
Kaguya smiled purely.
Ryo helplessly shook his head. He should bring Hinata over for Kaguya to see; she and Kaguya currently looked exactly like sisters. And Toneri, he was Kaguya's authentic descendant, with the proper roots!
Ryo looked left and right: "Is Aino not here?"
"She went to pick up her daughter, Ayame."
"Oh." Ryo nodded, suddenly remembering something else: "By the way, I had Haku take care of your daily needs, is that inconvenient?"
Kaguya blinked: "Inconvenient?"
Ryo furrowed his brows. The 'distinction between men and women' was probably also one of her missing dark sides. He needed to find someone to teach Kaguya some common sense; being too innocent in this regard wasn't good...
"I'll have Konan come over." Ryo pondered for two seconds, smiling at Kaguya: "Once Aino brings Ayame back, I will bring someone to see you."
"Wait, Ryo Uzumaki!" Kaguya suddenly revealed a look of expectation: "I felt Hagoromo's power on those two children, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. My son... is he still alive?"
Ryo was slightly startled. Wasn't the reincarnated chakra on Naruto and Sasuke extracted?
"When did you sense this?"
"Right after he died, those two children almost used Hagoromo's power to seal me back into the moon..." Kaguya's eyes were bright. "I don't want to go back there again."
"He died... Orochimaru died?" Ryo was deep in thought. "Did the old man Six Paths misunderstand something and distribute his power to Naruto and Sasuke again? Then Naruto right now..."
Spreading his sensory abilities, Ryo accurately captured Naruto's chakra fluctuations. Beside him were also... Jiraiya and Tsunade!
"It seems those two know about Orochimaru's situation." Ryo narrowed his eyes: "Six Paths' power is still on Naruto. Does this bastard Six Paths want to extract it again? To deal with the Great Ancestor?!"
Pondering for a moment, Ryo waved his hand to open a spatial black hole: "The Great Ancestor can teach you a lesson anytime, anywhere now. I have to make you remember this!"
Kaguya looked bewildered. Why did he leave so abruptly?
The Pure Land.
Ryo directly crossed over to this place where souls existed. However, the scene before him was vastly different from the last time the Sage of Six Paths pulled him in. The earth was constantly shaking, and the space was extremely unstable!
Ryo frowned: "Old man Six Paths!"
"Old man Six Paths! Come out!"
After a long while with no response, Ryo scratched his head in confusion, focused his mind, and waved his hand to pull a human soul on the verge of shattering from a distance.
"The Pure Land is so unstable, I don't know how many souls will be scattered by this disaster. What is old man Six Paths doing?"
Quickly circling the vicinity, Ryo saved quite a few souls in such danger, but he did not find the existence of the Sage of Six Paths.
"Where did he go?"
Ryo focused and looked back. A crack suddenly split open in the space not far behind him, only to be smoothed out by some kind of power.
"Even space is cracking. Why does it look like the Pure Land is about to be destroyed?" Ryo suddenly had a bold idea. "Could it be that Six Paths' consciousness dissipated because he lent his power to Naruto and Sasuke?"
Carefully inspecting the condition of the Pure Land again, Ryo felt his guess was extremely close to the truth!
"How could he be so stupid? This is troublesome. Do I have to transfer everyone's souls to my spiritual dimension?" Ryo's face looked terrible. "If I have to do this, does the Great Ancestor have to constantly come to the Pure Land to pick up people in the future?"
No matter what the Sage of Six Paths did, Ryo never intended to erase his consciousness, precisely because the Pure Land was indispensable! Of course, Ryo could now mold his own spiritual dimension into another Pure Land, but that was too time-consuming, too laborious, and even more mentally exhausting...
"The Pure Land, how to make the Pure Land stable!" Ryo was deep in thought, his body shooting straight into the sky.
Breaking through the thick fog and a pale blue membrane, Ryo looked up and saw a familiar object—the Moon!
"The Pure Land is indeed supporting the Moon."
Murmuring a sentence, Ryo opened a black hole and returned to the shinobi world. The sky was already dark, and Ryo flew straight towards the full moon in the sky! His body continuously ascended until his hands touched the surface of the moon.
"To free the Pure Land from supporting the Moon, with my current strength, I can give it a try!" Ryo concentrated, and just like that, with his hands pushing against the moon, he continued to rise!
5000 kilometers from the ground, 6000... 10000... 12000 kilometers!
The atmosphere was broken through by Ryo, and Ryo could still breathe freely in space!
Meanwhile, in the shinobi world, many people watched in surprise as the moon gradually became smaller, until only a small halo of light remained.
These past two days had been full of strange occurrences. Yesterday, giant trees grew everywhere, and then everyone had a bizarre dream. Today was even more outrageous—how did the moon just disappear?
In space, watching the moon stably rotating around the shinobi world, Ryo nodded in satisfaction.
"This way, the Pure Land should be stable! Holding the sun and moon, plucking the stars—how can there be someone as strong as me?"
Ryo's face was full of smiles. Behind him, the starry sky was dazzling and vast...