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At this moment, the highest-powered attack Kakashi could muster was the Chidori. He had no flashy forbidden techniques at his disposal.
Conventional ninjutsu clearly had no effect on Ye Wen.
Kakashi had already exhausted all his tricks.
Moreover, Kakashi lacked a special bloodline. Before acquiring Obito's Sharingan, his chakra reserves were relatively ample. But with the constant drain of the unremovable Sharingan, Kakashi's stamina became pitifully short—his endurance was now laughably poor.
Dealing with low-level ninja was manageable, but when facing opponents of similar Jonin caliber, it was all down to fate.
And that "fate" naturally referred to the author, Kishimoto.
As a key character throughout Naruto, Kakashi evolved from an initially weak version to someone who could hold their own against almost any opponent. This earned him the nickname "Hatake Fifty-Fifty," with his lower limit being Ghost Zabuza and his upper limit being Kaguya, the Ancestor of Chakra.
However, since Ye Wen had discovered this world, all these predetermined futures had become chaotic.
"How terrifying, Hatake Kakashi."
Ye Wen let out a seemingly playful sigh, then unleashed a powerful shockwave centered around himself.
In an instant, the Earth Wall Barrier shattered into pieces. The overwhelming force sent Kakashi and the surrounding ANBU flying backward, slamming them into the edges of the barrier.
Fortunately, the barrier Ye Wen had set up was merely an isolation barrier without the damaging properties of the Four Purple Flames Formation—it only left them bruised from the impact.
The vast difference in power filled the ANBU with despair.
"He's too strong! This guy is definitely Kage-level!"
"That shockwave doesn't resemble any known ninjutsu. Is it some kind of kekkei genkai?"
"What should I do? Am I going to die here today? I worked so hard to become an ANBU!"
"I must leave information about this enemy for Lord Danzo—but how?"
Though ninjas were tools by definition, they were still human at their core—and as ninjas of the Will of Fire, their minds were now a whirlpool of thoughts.
But Ye Wen had no interest in these small fry. What truly intrigued him now was something else.
Ye Wen's gaze shifted toward a specific spot.
It was a thick, sturdy tree whose roots had been exposed by the shockwave.
Kakashi, as the captain of this group of ANBU, despite his physical frailty, still possessed the highest overall skill level among them. He was the first to stagger to his feet, painfully turning his gaze toward Ye Wen.
"What does this guy want?"
Kakashi was puzzled. If Ye Wen was an enemy, why hadn't he killed them outright? And judging by the abilities he had displayed, he clearly had the power to instantly annihilate their side.
At this moment, Ye Wen raised a hand.
"Come here."
As soon as the words left his mouth, a powerful suction erupted from Ye Wen's hand.
Seeing this, Kakashi instinctively tensed up, but he quickly realized that Ye Wen's target wasn't him.
"Ahh—ahh—
Let—let—go of me!"
Though the suction force from Ye Wen's hand was immense, it didn't pull the tree directly. Instead, it seemed to form a piercing force that extracted a white figure from within the tree.
When Ye Wen finished, he was holding a strange, white creature in his grasp.
This was none other than White Zetsu, a byproduct of the Divine Tree's Ten-Tails.
Ye Wen examined the peculiar creature in his hand with curiosity.
This was a humanoid weapon created by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki a thousand years ago using human bodies.
But Ye Wen had always struggled to understand one thing:
What use were these cannon fodder, even if there were hundreds of thousands of them, against the godlike power of the Ōtsutsuki?
The entire concept felt absurd.
To make matters worse, creating White Zetsu led to Kaguya's infamous "motherly devotion" toward her children—a truly bizarre twist.
Ye Wen's divine consciousness scanned the White Zetsu before him. Its body also contained the unique chakra of the ninja world.
Speaking of which, Ye Wen hadn't seriously studied chakra since arriving in this world.
After years of conquering different planes, Ye Wen had long understood that every cultivation system essentially consumed a planet's primordial spiritual energy.
Soul Power, Battle Qi, Magic Power—all were derivatives of primordial spiritual energy.
What Ye Wen feared most about the Ōtsutsuki was their ability to ignore chakra-based attacks from the ninja world.
From his initial perception, the essence of chakra was indeed not much different from Soul Power. However, if the chakra of the ninja world was ineffective against the Ōtsutsuki, then the essence of his side's Soul Power and divine energy—also derived from primordial spiritual energy—might be similarly compromised.
If a war broke out, this could have serious implications—a major headache.
Thus, Ye Wen decided to conduct preliminary research. As the saying went, "Know thyself, know thy enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles."
"Super Divine Technique—Analysis."
Extracting the chakra from the White Zetsu, Ye Wen continuously broke it down and reassembled it, perceiving its intricacies.
After a while, Ye Wen's expression turned somewhat strange.
There were two pieces of news: one good, one bad.
The good news: the main threat no longer existed.
The bad news: the Ōtsutsuki weren't a mystical cultivation civilization—they were a technological civilization disguised as a mystical one.
The essence of chakra was still a derivative of primordial spiritual energy, primarily composed of human spiritual energy and physical energy.
However, compared to Soul Power or other cultivation systems, it contained some faint impurities.
The true nature of these impurities? They were picometer-scale robots—smaller than even nanobots.
It was precisely because of these picometer-scale robots that the people of the ninja world could easily refine and extract the extraordinary energy known as chakra from their bodies.
Of course, this "ease" applied only to those ninjas who possessed these picometer-scale robots. Native inhabitants of the ninja world without them lacked this ability.
At this point, Ye Wen recalled something.
"The widespread use of chakra seems to have started when the Sage of Six Paths founded Ninshū and shared his chakra with his disciples.
If we compare the Sage of Six Paths to an infection source, then all the current ninjas who can use chakra are victims."
After all, any cultivation system with such a glaring backdoor would obviously be problematic to anyone with half a brain.
This was akin to handing over your Achilles' heel to the enemy—and the later plot developments of the ninja world confirmed this.
As the origin of these chakra-based robots, it wasn't wrong for Kaguya Ōtsutsuki to claim that all chakra belonged to her.
For now, Ye Wen's analysis ended here. To delve deeper, he would need to spend a significant amount of time studying carefully.
After all, this was the core technology of a terrifyingly advanced civilization capable of planting trees across this starfield and plundering life-bearing planets. It couldn't possibly be analyzed so simply.
Moreover, Ye Wen had a premonition: to fully analyze these chakra-based robots, he would need to obtain their mother—the complete form of the Ten-Tails.
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