[Roran]
"Hiss!"
Rengoku sucked in a breath of cold air while gently rubbing his head.
After a wave of dizziness passed, the scene before his eyes gradually became clear.
"Huh? What's going on? Why am I back here again?"
When Rengoku fully came to his senses, he was shocked to find that he had once again returned to the very place where he had previously met Naruto.
He widened his eyes, secretly thinking to himself, 'What the hell? Why did this happen?'
With his mind full of questions, Rengoku slowly closed his eyes and began concentrating on sensing his own physical condition.
After a careful inspection, he let out a breath of relief, because there did not seem to be any major problems with his body.
However, the Dragon Vein energy that had once been abundant inside him was now reduced to only a very small amount.
Rengoku could not help but feel his teeth ache.
'Did I just randomly choose a direction, and by pure coincidence end up back in the original space-time?'
"Could it be that I'm trapped in this space-time?"
His thoughts were a bit of a mess, so Rengoku simply opened the Bond Stars and looked.
Sure enough, beneath Minato's name, there was now another identical Minato, except that a conspicuous asterisk had been added after it.
Moreover, the Bond Stars corresponding to this newly appeared Minato numbered only two stars.
Clearly, this Minato was still in a cautious, observational stage regarding everything Rengoku had said.
At the same time, Naruto's situation was exactly the same.
In his Bond Star list, an identical name had also appeared, with a star added after the name to distinguish it.
Even more coincidentally, the number of Bond Stars between Naruto and this newly added Minato was also exactly two stars.
Even so, Rengoku still comforted himself, 'Well, no matter how small a fly is, it's still meat. Two stars still give me ten percent of Naruto's chakra.'
And Naruto was a jinchuriki, so that had to include the Nine-Tails' chakra as well.
Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!
Accompanied by a faint sound, the small stone beside Rengoku suddenly began to tremble violently.
Rengoku could not help but feel surprised, his gaze locking tightly onto the constantly shaking stone.
Driven by curiosity, he immediately activated his unique Kagura Mind's Eye ability, wanting to see exactly what was going on.
As Kagura Mind's Eye activated, Rengoku was shocked to discover that beneath this land, there was actually a powerful Dragon Vein hidden below.
What shocked him even more was that the source of the vibration came from an intense battle.
'Naruto and Anrokuzan are fighting to the death?'
Rengoku suddenly opened his eyes, his face filled with disbelief.
He was far too familiar with the chakra fluctuations of those two.
Even if he could not see their figures clearly with Kagura Mind's Eye alone, relying on his keen perception of chakra, there was absolutely no way he could be mistaken.
You had to know that Anrokuzan had already died by his hand before, and the Dragon Vein had long since been taken away by him.
Then how was he supposed to explain what he was seeing now?
'Could it be that… this is actually a brand-new space-time?'
Thinking of this, Rengoku could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth and complain inwardly, "Isn't this just like Russian nesting dolls, one layer inside another?"
Complaints aside, action still had to follow.
He made a swift decision and immediately used the Spirit Transformation Technique, his body lifting into the air as he flew toward the direction of the Dragon Vein he remembered.
Because he knew very well that if he did not hurry, and the Dragon Vein here was blown up by Anrokuzan, then his hope of going home would be completely shattered.
According to his estimation, judging by the point in time when Naruto was currently locked in fierce battle with Anrokuzan, Sara of this space-time should soon arrive and shut down the Dragon Vein.
So there was not much time left for Rengoku.
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Before long, Rengoku arrived at the altar at lightning speed.
At this moment, the area around the altar was still empty, not a single person in sight.
Luckily, he had made it in time.
He had already decided that he would no longer interfere with this space-time, because for him, finding a way back was the top priority.
The seal here was like opening a gap for the Dragon Vein sleeping below.
Continuously drawing out the Dragon Vein's energy, allowing people to extract and make use of it.
And Rengoku keenly sensed that he could completely use this gap to establish a close connection with the Dragon Vein.
He placed both hands lightly on the seal. In an instant, a vast surge of Dragon Vein energy rushed upward like a roaring flood.
This energy quickly resonated with the Dragon Vein already within his body, triggering a powerful resonance, and began to merge and converge at an astonishing speed.
As time passed, the energy contained within the Dragon Vein continued to expand, becoming increasingly vast and majestic.
What was pleasantly surprising was that after this replenishment of energy, Rengoku could clearly feel that the Dragon Vein before him had become more agile and vivid than before, as if it had gained a sense of self-awareness.
At the very least, the current Rengoku was already able to communicate with it.
Filled with doubt, he asked the Dragon Vein, ["Dragon Vein, why can't I go back?"]
Immediately afterward, the Dragon Vein transmitted a series of fragmented, blurry image fragments.
Although this information did not come in complete sentences, relying on his sharp perception and insight, Rengoku still roughly understood the meaning it was trying to convey.
It turned out that the space-time he originally came from had indeed been secretly sealed off by someone.
With the Dragon Vein's current level of power alone, it was simply unable to break through that unbreakable space-time barrier and return through time.
Thinking of this, Rengoku could not help but curse inwardly, 'Who the hell did this? Making it so I have a home but can't go back.'
A nameless anger surged up in Rengoku's heart, but he knew very well that anger would not solve the problem at hand.
What mattered most right now was figuring out how to deal with this tricky situation.
As far as he knew, among items capable of traveling through space and time, aside from the Dragon Vein, there was only one left. The Otsutsuki clan's space-time treasure, the Karasuki.
However, that treasure was currently buried deep beneath the vast ocean, and in that particular space-time, even Naruto had not been born yet.
To wait for Karasuki to surface would take at least another thirty long years.
But how could he possibly skip over such a long stretch of time?
While racking his brain, Rengoku suddenly remembered that his clone bead had once been used as a space-time anchor.
In a flash of inspiration, he instantly found a way to break the deadlock.
"Who are you?"
A female voice suddenly yanked Rengoku out of his tangled thoughts and back into reality.
Rengoku followed the sound and looked over, only to see a figure approaching quickly. It was Sara from this space-time.
She had come here at this moment to shut down the Dragon Vein.
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