With a single step, Yamanaka Shinno passed through the dimensional gate and left the Pure Land behind.
In his heart, he silently gave an order to the system.
"System, activate [Harmony of Heaven and Man]."
There was no surge of memories, no complicated cultivation process.
Under the effect of the trait, Shinno's soul began to refine itself—clearer, more transparent. A strange sensation rose from within him, as if he could finally see the world in its truest form.
In that instant, the world before him became sharper than ever before.
The energies and laws that filled the world suddenly became traceable—tangible.
Time, space, yin and yang, the five elements...
This overwhelming sense of clarity, this ability to perceive the truths of all creation, gave rise to a bizarre feeling: I am the world, and the world is me.
Everything around him—plants, trees, stones, and soil—seemed to come alive.
They, too, were following the rules of the world.
In the endless cycle of these rules—life and death repeated.
[Detected: Gold trait "Celestial Spirit Lord" and gold trait "Harmony of Heaven and Man" can be fused. Begin fusion?]
"Do it."
Suppressing the swelling sense of detachment and egolessness rising in his heart, Shinno focused his gaze back on the system interface.
The path of the Sage of Six Paths wasn't for him. What he sought was transcendence beyond heaven and earth, not union with it.
To Shinno, humans were born with the seven emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, anxiety, grief, fear, and surprise—and the six desires—sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought.
All the sensations experienced throughout life were precious and rare!
To cut off emotions and detach from love in pursuit of "universal compassion"? That sort of thing should be left to people like the Sage of Six Paths. He was just a regular guy.
If he were to look at a beautiful woman and a dog and feel the same about both—appreciating them both as "aesthetically pleasing"—
That wasn't just boring.
It was...
Terrifying.
[Fusion complete. Congratulations! You have acquired gold trait "Heavenly Derivation True Lord."]
Heavenly Derivation True Lord (Gold): See the subtle origins of heaven and earth; keep your inner lamp forever alight. Master the five elements and yin-yang transformations. Dispel all illusions and demonic miasmas. Perceive your true self. Massive boost to learning, researching, refining, and creating jutsu and divine techniques; extreme increases to spell control, effectiveness, resistance, and chakra affinity; gain Derivation Physique, Harmony of Heaven and Man, immunity to injury, and clarity of soul. Greatly increases maximum soul strength, physical resilience, and cultivation efficiency.
"Still no advancement?"
Shinno grimaced as he felt his soul take another leap in power, his physical body slowly strengthening again. The fused trait was clearly superior to what he had before!
On top of the previous effects—endless chakra, total immunity to injury—he now had a permanent buff: Harmony of Heaven and Man.
And with that, he could feel it.
His insight into the world's laws had skyrocketed to an unimaginable level!
Even the ocular technique Daikokuten, which he hadn't fully understood before—
Just thinking about it once was enough to spark a glimmer of understanding.
If he gave it a few more looks, he could probably replicate it in minutes. Maybe even surpass Otsutsuki Isshiki in power and precision!
But...
"I'm still missing something fundamental?"
Shinno read through the detailed description of [Heavenly Derivation True Lord] several more times before turning his gaze outward.
If he was right, this world was missing certain components.
A gold trait represented the ceiling of this world—
Not the ceiling of the [Heavenly Derivation True Lord] trait!
If he could enter a higher-level world, the trait's effects would evolve even further in an instant!
"Better pick up the pace."
Muttering to himself, Shinno took another step—and reappeared beside Tsunade and the others.
His eyes flicked to the remaining unactivated gold trait: [Six Paths Yin-Yang Samsara].
But he didn't activate it immediately.
First, because traits copied from a soul and linked to bloodlines had a chance of being incomplete or mutating on their own.
Second, even if he did activate it, it would just fuse with [Heavenly Derivation True Lord].
And since [Heavenly Derivation True Lord] already touched the world's limit, no matter how he fused it, it would still be a gold trait.
Third, he already had control over most of its power. What remained were things like ocular jutsu, yin-yang techniques, and mastery of reincarnation power.
With the insight granted by [Heavenly Derivation True Lord], along with the scrolls the Sage of Six Paths left behind, learning those was just a matter of time.
"So fast?"
Tsunade looked at him in surprise.
The guy had just rushed off in such a hurry. She thought the Sage must've left behind some incredibly powerful jutsu, and Shinno couldn't wait to study it.
But not even a minute had passed, and he was already back?
"Just needed to confirm something."
Shinno turned to look in the direction where Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara, and Otsutsuki Kaguya had been fighting.
"Should we head over?"
Tsunade didn't push for answers. According to reports from HQ, the moment that massive disturbance flared up, all the White Zetsu across the front lines had rushed toward that location.
The extremist holdouts in Kirigakure had already been wiped out by Uchiha Izuna and the Third Raikage, A.
There was no point staying here any longer.
...
"How are the frontlines?"
Shinno gently took Tsunade's hand and activated a spatial technique to envelop everyone nearby.
"White Zetsu's sudden retreat gave the Allied Shinobi Forces full control over most of the battle lines—aside from a few stubborn Mist elites still resisting. Shikaku's ordered a halt to further advancement for now.
Also, HQ came under attack from a group of unidentified intruders. Some of them seemed to wield faint traces of Karma's power, but they were handled by Tobirama and Kushina."
Tsunade gave him a quick overview of the situation.
The attack on HQ had happened during Shinno's battle with Otsutsuki Isshiki.
But the attackers had clearly underestimated the strength of the defenders.
Even though they carried specialized tools designed to suppress tailed beasts and jinchuriki, and nearly disabled the floating fortress with chakra seals—
They died faster than Isshiki did.
"Good."
Hearing that, Shinno relaxed.
He locked onto a previous Flying Thunder God mark and teleported the group directly to the battlefield.
BOOM—
A deafening explosion echoed out.
Senju Hashirama, pierced all over with black rods like a porcupine, was sent flying through the air, crashing into the earth and leaving a deep trench.
"Hss—"
The Third Raikage, Ōnoki, and Uchiha Izuna all gasped at the sight.
Hashirama didn't even blink as he yanked the black rods out and charged back into the fray.
Whoever had done this must be insanely powerful...
But the "God of Shinobi" was even more terrifying.
Those injuries would've killed a dozen ordinary people ten times over.
Thud—
On the other side, Madara came flying in, blood spraying from his mouth as he smashed into a cliff that had formed from the earlier clashes.
Amid the dust and rubble, his face lit up with wild excitement. He wiped the blood from his mouth, grinning madly.
"I said it before! This is our enemy—Hashirama and mine! No one interferes until I fall! A fight like this... an opponent like this... I've waited too long! Hahahahaha!"
His Rinnegan scanned the group who'd just arrived—but he didn't stop. Surging with power, he charged Kaguya once more.
He could admit it now.
At first, both he and Hashirama had underestimated this woman.
Those bone attacks that erased anything they touched—All-Killing Ash Bones—posed a deadly threat!
Her barrage of Eighty Gods Vacuum Attacks had smashed through Hashirama's Giant Buddha and even his own Susanoo—she was an absolute monster in both offense and defense.
Her space-time jutsu, Yomotsu Hirasaka, had no movement restrictions at all...
And when they followed her into her dimension—her unique space was unlike anything they'd ever seen.
This kind of battle, the blood-pumping, heart-racing kind?
Madara hadn't felt this alive in ages.
"Come, let's continue our dance! Hahahaha!"
Madara's maniacal laughter filled the air.
With flawless coordination between him and Hashirama, the once-cold and divine Kaguya now looked completely disheveled—panting, exhausted.
If not for the steady influx of White Zetsu being absorbed back into the God Tree, her chakra would've run dry already.
And without chakra, she couldn't unleash her Amenominaka technique.
She'd already lured the duo into that trap once. They weren't falling for it again.
Now, the moment she vanished, they just attacked the God Tree to force her back out.
"Such a waste."
Shinno glanced at the White Zetsu running to their deaths and gave Uchiha Hikari a subtle signal.
"Ohh~"
Hikari blinked. After a month of working side-by-side, she instantly got his meaning. Her Mangekyō Sharingan spun into motion.
Yachihoko—activated!
Chakra from over 15,000 White Zetsu surged toward her in a torrent!
Within moments, they all collapsed, lifeless, turning to deadwood without a shred of energy left.
Shinno, seeing the battle still far from over, casually created a few chairs from Wood Release.
He sat with Tsunade and Hikari at the edge of the battlefield, watching with interest.
Kaguya's Yomotsu Hirasaka was clearly on a higher level than Isshiki's dimensional void.
Nice. This one's mine now.
The Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack—what a fascinating blend of ocular and physical jutsu!
All-Killing Ash Bones, the ultimate death-based kekkei mōra...
Amenominaka's pocket dimensions—lava, gravity, desert, ice, acid...
Using his [Multiverse Traveler] trait, Shinno analyzed each dimension's rules in detail.
And when his gaze fell on the mountainous core dimension, his brow twitched slightly.
A space that absorbed all forms of energy, connected to the God Tree, capable of drawing in chakra from a distance...
Interesting.
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