46: Chapter 46 The Way of the Heart: Seeds of Hope, Reversing the Technique to Save TsunadeTreatment, begin now.
Naruto's voice was completely calm, and amidst the roar of the giant beast and the deafening clash of ninjutsu, this calmness itself was an extremely eerie quality.
Tsunade's body, stiff with fear, trembled violently the moment that hand touched her forehead.
A warm current, a life energy she had never felt before, pure to the extreme, surged into her from that palm, instantly permeating her limbs and bones.
This is not medical ninjutsu.
The chakra used in medical ninjutsu is gentle and guided.
This force is domineering; it is creative.
It proclaims its existence with an irresistible force.
"Naruto!What are you doing!Get out of the way!" Jiraiya roared anxiously from above Gamabunta's head.
His battle with Orochimaru had reached a fever pitch, yet he still had to keep an eye on the strange situation here.
Kabuto Yakushi's figure also stopped not far away.He did not attack immediately, but his eyes behind his glasses were fixed on Naruto, filled with vigilance and incomprehensible confusion.
The kid's actions completely exceeded his expectations.
Naruto remained oblivious to everything around him.
His consciousness had sunk to a deeper level.
[Heart Path · Emotional Resonance].
launch.
Naruto's spiritual power transformed into countless invisible threads, perfectly combining with the immense Wood Release life energy within him, which had just been activated and belonged to the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
If Naruto's own spiritual power is a cold scalpel, then at this moment, that scalpel has been coated with a layer of warmth called "life".
His spiritual power transformed into an invisible yet indestructible spike, which, without the slightest hesitation, forcefully tore through Tsunade's chaotic consciousness caused by hemophobia and directly invaded the deepest part of her soul.
That place is a place of infatuation known as the "Mist of Sorrow".
boom!
Tsunade's consciousness was instantly ripped from the real world by an irresistible force.
The battlefield before me—the roaring beasts, the twisted enemies, the anxious comrades—everything was rapidly fading, distorting, and then turning into nothingness.
She fell into an endless, eternal twilight.
This is a gray world.
The sky was gray, without sun or moon, only a deathly, chaotic expanse.
The earth was gray, and the cracked, scorched soil stretched to the horizon, with not a single plant in sight and not a sound to be heard.
The air was thick with a cold, dense fog.
These mists represent her sorrow, her despair, and her self-loathing.
They were so sticky that they enveloped her and imprisoned her.
"Rope Tree…"
"Break."
Soft, tearful murmurs echoed in the mist.
That was her own voice.
This is her inner world, an eternal tomb she built for herself.
A figure appeared silently in the center of this gray world.
It's Naruto Uzumaki.
His spiritual form was identical to his physical appearance, except that his azure eyes appeared exceptionally deep at this moment, reflecting the desolation of this world.
Tsunade saw him, and a hint of confusion appeared on her face, which was numb with despair.
"Kid.this is.my hell.Get out of here."
Naruto did not answer.
He offered no words of advice, no grand pronouncements, and made no attempt to understand her pain.
Those are all inefficient and meaningless behaviors.
He was just a doctor.
A doctor who came to perform the "surgery".
He calmly looked around, assessing the intensity and composition of this emotional field.
Analysis complete.
[Emotional composition: Sadness 72%, Self-destruction 18%, Despair 10%]
[Core of the Emotional Field: The target's traumatic cognition of the concept of [death].]
It's a perfect petri dish for negative emotions.
Naruto slowly extended his right hand and pressed it against the cracked, lifeless gray scorched earth beneath his feet.
He carefully poured the immense life energy belonging to the Wood Release, which was fused with his own spiritual power, into this land that symbolized death and end.
There were no drastic changes.
There was no earth-shattering sound.
But where he pressed down, the deathly grayness faded slightly.
A tiny bit of green, tenaciously, sprouted from the cracks.
It was a seedling.
A vibrant green seedling, symbolizing life and hope.
It broke through the soil, radiating a faint yet incredibly striking soft light in this boundless gray world.
Tsunade was stunned.
She looked at the seedling, and for the first time, a focus appeared in her empty brown eyes.
life?
In a world where only death exists, how could this be possible.
[Ding!Target [Tsunade]'s emotional field has experienced a violent positive shift!The [Mist of Sorrow] emotional field has suffered structural collapse!]
That's not enough.
This glimmer of light could only tear open a small opening; it could not completely destroy the prison.
Naruto raised his head and looked at the chaotic, gray sky.
He raised his right hand.
[Reversal Technique]
launch.
This is a higher-dimensional law of energy application.
To reverse negative energy into positive energy.
In this world composed of purely negative emotions, the effects of the reversal technique are brought to their fullest potential.
A sliver of light appeared in Naruto's palm.
The light started as a single point, then rapidly expanded, becoming brighter and hotter.
It detached from Naruto's palm and slowly rose into the air.
It turned into a sun.
A warm sun composed of pure positive energy.
Golden light illuminated this eternal twilight for the first time.
The cold, viscous gray fog that had imprisoned Tsunade for decades emitted a silent shriek under the sunlight, rapidly melting and evaporating.
warmth.
The long-awaited warmth enveloped Tsunade's body.
She instinctively raised her hand to shield her eyes from the somewhat dazzling light.
The fog has dissipated.
Not far in front of her, on that sunlit land, stood two figures.
A boy with the same brilliant blond hair as Naruto, a carefree, silly smile on his face, and around his neck the necklace she gave him, a necklace symbolizing his dream of becoming Hokage.
A man with jet-black hair and a gentle yet firm expression stood there quietly, gazing at her with those familiar, loving eyes.
Rope tree.
Break.
Tsunade's breathing stopped completely at that moment.
This is not the kind of impure resurrection created by Orochimaru using the souls of the dead.
They had no ominous curses on them, nor any trace of the dead.
They are warm and genuine.
That was the most beautiful image in her memory.
They didn't speak, they just looked at her with warm, relieved smiles on their faces.
Then, they both raised their hands and waved at her.
Their lips moved silently, mouthing the same words to her.
"It's time to look forward, sister."
"It's time to look forward, Tsunade."
boom.
Tsunade's mind went completely blank.
The shackles that had imprisoned her for half her life, called "the past," shattered inch by inch at this moment.
[Ding!You have received 25,000 units of Tsunade's ultimate [Relief]!]
[Ding!You have received 22,000 Ultimate [Awakening] from Tsunade!]
[Ding!Glory Points harvesting efficiency temporarily increased by 100%!]
The real world.
On the ruins of Tanbata Street.
The giant snake and toad continued their frenzied attack, and the light of ninjutsu kept exploding.
Naruto's hand remained calmly pressed against Tsunade's forehead.
Jiraiya's roar, Kabuto's vigilance, Orochimaru's greedy gaze—everything seemed to be isolated from these two.
Tsunade's pale face, devoid of color from fear, remained unchanged.
However, a single, scalding tear broke free from its restraint and silently slid down her cheek.
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