In the vast sea of stars, a very handsome young man could be seen floating in the void, unconscious.
As an unknown amount of time had passed, the young man's eyes twitched, showing signs of waking up.
A few seconds later, the young man hesitantly opened his eyes.
As soon as he did, his vision was filled with a spectacular sight that would be a dream-come-true for star/space enthusiasts.
Countless bright stars appeared in his vision, seemingly near yet unimaginably far.
The most eye catching one among the myriad sea of stars was a bright silver star, that was obviously way bigger than the other stars.
It's like a looking at the sun when seen from his birth place, Earth.
"What is this place? Where am I? Am I dreaming? No... I remember now! I died in the plane crash! I died at the hands of Insect God Emperor? No... I died at the hands of Itachi? What is this...? I have different memories...?"
The young man was confused. Slowly, his hazy memory was getting clearer.
"I understand now! I remember now! After dying in a plane crash and reincarnated into the world of Genshin Impact, thousands of years before the start of the main plot."
"I was born as a Infernal Thunder Demon God named Soranus, even before the great war of Demon Gods."
"In fact, I actually had a mission in this world, which was to deal with an otherworldly invader who will bring destruction to this world in the far future. If I succeed, I'll actually get a system along with a gift pack, which has a guaranteed supreme item, Four-Lives Four Leaf Clover."
"I also got two task items that were to assist me in my mission."
"So, for the system, I trained hard, mastered my innate powers of Pyro and Electro to its limits and beyond."
"I sought out other demon gods for their guidance, even special high level life forms and even Adeptus. I sought out all means to master my power to the greatest extent possible."
"I lived for thousands of years and gradually became unrivalled. While still training, I befriended many characters I knew from the game."
"I even prevented a few deaths that happened in the original game. Well, I even tried to form a romantic relationship with a few female characters, whose fates I had changed."
"Be it Gui Zhong, Rukhdevata, Raiden Makoto, Raiden Ei, and Xianyun... They all gave me a good man card. I even doubted my self at that time. As the strongest Demon God at that time, my strength and looks are pretty awesome. I still don't understand what I was lacking."
"I skimmed through the Demon God War, and the time of my mission finally came during the Kaenria War."
"It all happened suddenly. The enemy was far stronger than I thought. In the end, I had to burn out all my power to deal with him. And I only managed to succeed because I dealt with him before he could summon his almost endless insect alien subordinates, which was actually his true strength."
"I only managed to prevail against him because of the info on him that I had received from my inactivated system."
"Originally, I would've had at least a few more years to live, and possibly even recover after my system awaken."
"But because I came across Raiden Makoto in a near death state, I had to use whatever remaining power and life force I had, to do something about it."
"Because I had a definite second chance at life, I didn't hesitate at that time. And, I also liked her a lot."
The young man kept saying to himself.
It seemed that talking to himself was an attempt of keeping himself sane in this endless nothingness.
"I had died once again, and this time, I reincarnated in Naruto world as an orphan Uchiha, twenty years prior to the plot of Uchiha Extermination!"
"Because of the fate of extermination in the original work, I trained hard and relying on my innate talent as an Uchiha, and my prior knowledge and awareness as a reincarnator, I managed to awaken my Sharingan very early, learn all sorts of jutsu and developed insight and illusion abilities of Sharingan, and became very strong."
"Because I retained all of my previous life memories in the world of Genshin Impact, I was growing at a very fast speed."
"Or so I thought! I participated in the wars, accumulated a fairly vast amount of combat experience with ninjutsu and Sharingan abilities, and also gained a considerable amount of authority in Uchiha clan."
"By coincidence, I even awakened my Mangekyo Sharingan after my teammate died in my arms in a mission."
"I worked hard in order to prevent the demise of Uchiha clan."
"But I didn't expect that things still came to pass as it was in the original work, despite all the changes I brought to the plot."
"Originally, I definitely had the strength to deal with the murderous Itachi Uchiha, but ended up being ambushed by Obito and Danzo! Even the third hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared later on!"
"I was inexplicably charged with the crime of exterminating my clan, which is something Itachi did! Third Hokage and a few other elites also joined Danzo to detain me, while Obito left."
"In the end, their intention to kill me was quite obvious, despite my attempts at persuading them to stop."
"At that time, I understood that the Third Hokage had no intention of listening to the truth. He had identified me as a dangerous threat, a very dangerous Uchiha, which might even be similar to a second Madara."
"I was forced to go all out and retaliate! I also understood that I was surprisingly very strong!"
"After killing Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen, and seriously injuring the other assaulters, I escaped, intending to leave Konoha. But I was once again ambushed by Obito and Itachi!"
" Because of my interference, so many elites that should've died in the Ninja World Wars and Nine Tails Rebellion, had survived."
"To my shock, this actually came to bite me back. Even more ironically, I had to kill them all myself. It's as if fate was correcting itself."
"I was already seriously injured and exhausted after the battle with Konoha elites. So I didn't have the means to deal with them, and thus fell to Itachi's Amaterasu."
"Although, I still managed to drag both Obito and Itachi along with me to death with my Mangekyo Sharingan ability. They can kiss goodbye to surviving through Izanagi, since the damage caused by my Mangekyo Sharingan cannot be reversed, even if you reverse time."
"Though... When I killed Obito, I felt a bit strange. Surely he couldn't have survived right?"
The young man muttered to himself remembering things from his memory.
"Still, just how stingy is that guy Obito! I bet he didn't chose to recruit me into Akatsuki because Rin had a crush on me in the past."
"Fuck! I should've just planned to have the Uchiha take over Konoha after I had sufficient strength! Instead, I sought a safe and peaceful life and even only used my hard earned strength to protect myself! I was too low-key!"
"I was too naive! In a world like Naruto, especially in that timeline, as an Uchiha, peace was never an option!"
"I messed up bad!"
"Still... Damn it! A second chance at life, wasted! Fuck!!"
The young man felt extremely depressed and cursed out loud.
After calming down a bit, the young man thought.
"Well, I've changed the plot a lot. For instance, because of my interference, or rather, hidden actions, the entire village knows about Naruto true identity. So he shouldn't be treated the same way as in the original work."
"I also killed Obito and Itachi, and even Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen! With this much changes, surely the plot wouldn't go on as it is, right?"
" Maybe it might even lead to the destruction of Konoha? Well, who cares! I wanted a simple and fulfilling life, yet those bastards denied me of even such a simple wish."
"I don't care anymore! Anyway, since Naruto and Sasuke still live, and with the old guy Sage of Six Paths in the background, nothing serious should happen to the world."
Then the young man fell silent.
An unknown amount of time passed.
At some point, the young man started to count numbers to keep his sanity in check.
But as he reached one million, he stopped, because, the obviously massive silver star was seemingly trembling.
"I see. It's time for restart, huh."
The young man felt a bit uneasy.
That big silver star is actually his inactivated system.
Yes, he has a cheat! Although not activated, even after two lifetimes after getting it.
Battle God's Upgrade System!
That's the name of his system.
It had activated the first time he had died on earth.
After the mission on the Genshin Impact world.
It gave him three things as novice gift pack, and was inactive since then.
A Supreme Rank Consumable Item, Four Lives Four Clover! Which is actually a special four clover leaf. This was given to him, prior to his reincarnation in Genshin Impact world.
A random item, which turned out to be a pair of icy white and blazing red katana. Low-level Magic Swords, Ice-Fire Twin Swords!
And lastly, an ability. A level 1 version of the Thunder Logia Devil Fruit from One Piece anime.
To be honest, other than the first item, the other two has been of minimal help to him.
The Ice-Fire Twin Katanas were only helpful to him in the early stages during his life in Naruto world. They outlived their use after he had gotten sufficiently strong.
As for the thunder logia devil fruit ability, as said before. It's a massively nerfed level 1 version. Comparing it with that of Enel from One Piece, is like comparing a level 1 with a level 100.
Forget about bringing down thunder from heavens. He couldn't even use elementalization.
His lightning abilities were limited to a slightly stronger bioelectricity.
The only help it gave him was granting him superior lightning attribute chakra and affinity, along with his original fire attribute chakra. Which really did give him more versatility in learning elemental jutsus other than fire attribute.
Although this ability didn't live up to its original source, it still proved to be a bit useful.
Subjectivity speaking, this only applies to his life in Naruto world.
When he was born in Genshin World, he was born as the Demon God of Flames, Astaroth.
However,
Because of this level 1 version of Lightning Devil Fruit physique...
He gradually strengthened the power of lightning and eventually became...
Infernal Lightning Demon God, Soranus!
While he was deep in thought.
This was where his stay in this cosmos came to an end, as a blinding silver light enveloped him, and everything in this cosmic sea vanished along with him.
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Douluo Continent.
South-western border of Heaven Dou Empire, Fasinuo Province.
In a rather backwater region, isolated from most other villages and cities, is a village called Hidden Leaf Village.
It's not that there aren't any villages or cities in close reach. In fact, this village is somewhat close to two cities such as Nuoding city and Orin City. Less than fifty kilometers away.
The reason this village is isolated is because of the special terrain around it. Its almost like a village covered by a dense forest of extremely tall trees.
The average height of the trees were twenty five meters.
And the trees also have a unique trait of blocking out the spiritual senses of soul masters.
The village and its people are thriving quite well.
In a moderately big house that belonged the chief of the village, two people, big and small, could be seen talking.
A young boy with a very cute appearance, with black hair and eyes, was listening to the old man next to him with a helpless look.
"Listen Haru, you are now the hope of our clans rise." The old man said.
The young boy couldn't help by retort at this, "Grandpa, you don't even tell me about our clan's problem. Why does it need me for its rise? It's hard to get motivated like this."
The old man lightly knocked on the head of the young boy named Haru.
"It's been only a couple of months since you've turned three years old. It's too soon for you to know. I'll let you know at the right time. Just know that you alone managed to break the curse imposed on our clan by that detestable god. It was only possible with the hard work and preparations of our predesesors for more than five hundred years."
The young boy knew what this old man was talking about.
Apparently, they had a very powerful ancestor who managed to achieve godhood. But this didn't seem to sit well with some already existing gods.
Especially because, the ancestor was unreasonably strong for a new god.
So the ancestor was dealt with by a very powerful God under false charges.
As if that wasn't enough, that powerful God even secretly placed a curse on the bloodline of ancestor, making it incapable for the descendants to ever truly become strong.
To be more precise, to go past level 69.
But the predecessors of the clan were very prideful and didn't succumb to the curse.
For more than five hundred years, each generation of the clan went out and gathered a large amount of magical herbs and even more than a dozen immortal herbs, high level beast blood.
After hundreds of years of preparation, a magical medicinal blood pool was created.
The completion of this blood pool came about, when he was born.
As the last pure blood descendant, the blood pool was to be used on him.
Because of this, not only was the curse on his bloodline lifted. Apparently, even his innate talent and potential is off the charts.
Even now, the young boy's physical strength is even slightly superior to that of an adult man. At the age of just three.
And the remaining massive amount of extremely pure and refined medicinal energy of the blood pool is sealed within him by the elders of the clan.
As he grows older, this energy will be gradually absorbed by him completely, accelerating his growth in all aspects of strength.
"Honestly, I never thought I would talk with you like this. I have always felt you to be very special from the time you were born."
The old man sighed.
To this, the young boy wryly smiled. He had his own secrets that he couldn't really afford to tell anyone. Even if it is this old man, who is his grandfather.
The young boy Haru, whose actual name is Haruto, is actually a reincarnator.
This is actually his fourth life, and of course, he actually had a different name in his previous life.
But it didn't matter to him anymore.
Anyway, in his first life, he has already died in that world. Although he died relatively young in that world, he was an orphan. And the only dearest person in that life, the orphanage dean, had already passed away due to old age.
As for the second life and third life, he'd rather not remember those unfortunate encounters.
Anyway, Haruto doesn't have too much attachment to both of those worlds anymore.
Not to mention, in this life, he has parents and a grandparent who loves and cares for him so much.
What actually surprised him was the fact that this world is actually the world of Soul Land (Douluo Dalu). A fairly popular novel that he had read in his past life.
Although his feelings about the story is quite mixed, he had still read all the five parts of the original story and even the extra chapters from the original author.
And from what he had heard from his parents and grandfather, the timeline he is in right now is actually the time where Spirit Hall still exists.
On top of that, the current Supreme Pontiff is actually Qian Xunji!
But from what he had heard, it seems not too far from the canon event of Qian Xunji chasing Tang Hao, which is the prelude to his death.
According to his calculations, the possible age gap between himself and the original protagonist Tang San won't exceed eight. It could be even less. But Haruto doesn't have the accurate details of this timeline. So he can't be sure of anything.
And he's only three years old now, still a few years away from awakening his martial soul. He just needs to live a few more years of happy life with the family he finally got.
Anything else is none of his concern at the moment.
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