The black sphere drifted toward Madara and Hashirama without a sound.
Compared with ordinary ninjutsu, a Truth-Seeking Ball was not fast, and its chakra was so restrained that neither of them sensed any real danger from it.
By the time they realized something was wrong, it had already brushed past them.
Parts of their arms vanished cleanly, without pain or impact. The wounds were so smooth that if not for the blood spilling out, it would have looked as if their arms had always ended there.
Madara and Hashirama's expressions finally changed.
Only then did they understand that the black sphere was far more dangerous than it looked.
Jie watched calmly.
The result did not surprise him. A Truth-Seeking Ball's destructive power was absolute, but its speed was not. Against opponents who could react in time, one sphere was not enough.
But that did not matter.
He had more than one.
With a thought, seven more Truth-Seeking Balls separated from behind him and moved toward Madara and Hashirama.
After seeing what those black spheres could do, neither of them dared let one touch them again, not even slightly. But one sphere and eight spheres were completely different things.
Their paths crossed and shifted, weaving into a black net with almost no gaps. And although they looked like simple spheres, their shape could change at any moment.
In less than two breaths, the battlefield no longer had any space left for Madara and Hashirama to escape.
Just like that, the reincarnations of Indra and Asura's chakra were erased.
Jie felt nothing.
At his current level, even Indra and Asura's reincarnations meant nothing. He did not worry about Izanagi either. Anything erased by a Truth-Seeking Ball was truly erased.
After recalling the Truth-Seeking Balls, Jie took one step forward and appeared beside a nearby thicket.
Black Zetsu was hiding there, watching everything from the shadows.
"There is no point struggling anymore."
"The Ten-Tails is already mine. The part of Kaguya hidden inside it has also been refined by me."
"In other words, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki is already a thing of the past. She will never revive again."
Jie looked at the thicket calmly and did not wait for Black Zetsu to answer.
A Truth-Seeking Ball spread into a thin black disc and pressed down.
Two seconds later, Black Zetsu, who had schemed for a thousand years to revive Kaguya, disappeared from this ninja world.
With the last obstacles dealt with, Jie took another step and vanished from the battlefield.
When he appeared again, he was already inside the special space Hagoromo had created before his death.
It was a place caught between time and space, where Hagoromo's soul could continue watching the ninja world long after his body had died. When Hagoromo created it, he probably never imagined that another person would one day enter.
But Jie was here now.
Jie did not deny Hagoromo's contributions. Without him spreading chakra, the ninja world might never have developed the ninja culture it had today.
But a dead man should not keep interfering with the living world.
Jie glanced at the space around him and raised his hand without saying anything more.
"Finale: Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball."
Hagoromo's eyes widened at the familiar name, but before he could speak, Jie had already fused the nine Truth-Seeking Balls together.
Under Jie's chakra, the final Truth-Seeking Ball expanded rapidly.
At the same time, everyone in the ninja world saw a bright point of light appear in the sky, bright enough to rival the sun.
Then it vanished.
They did not know that after that light disappeared, the man known as the ancestor of chakra had been erased from history.
Madara and Hashirama were gone.
Whether Konoha in this timeline would still be founded, and what path it would take if it was founded, Jie did not know.
Nor did he care.
To this timeline, he was only a passerby. Once he left, whatever happened here had nothing to do with him.
After erasing Hagoromo, Jie used the remaining time to make one more trip to the moon.
The tailed beasts were gone, and Indra and Asura's reincarnations had also been erased by his Truth-Seeking Balls.
If the Ōtsutsuki descendants on the moon suddenly went mad one day and tried to drop the moon onto the earth, the ninja world would no longer have anyone capable of stopping them.
Since Jie still had time left, he went to the moon as well.
After that, the moon's Ōtsutsuki clan also became history.
The remaining days passed quickly.
Soon, the one-month limit arrived.
Jie did not know where the system would send him after the time travel ended.
But to the current him, as long as he was still in the ninja world, any place was only one step away.
"Ding!"
"During the one-month time travel period, the host saved Rōran, obtained the power of the Dragon Vein, erased all tailed beasts, created the Ten-Tails ahead of time, killed Black Zetsu, and eliminated every possibility of Kaguya's resurrection."
"The host erased Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, completely changing the future direction of the ninja world."
"Settlement complete."
"Rewards obtained: one Six Paths-level chakra seed, quick-growth version; one chakra fruit; three chakra pills."
As the one-month period ended, Jie saw space and time twist before his eyes.
Chaotic currents flowed past him like a changing sea.
When his strength had been lower, he had not been able to understand what the system was doing.
But now, he could faintly sense a small trace of its method.
As he returned to his original timeline and heard the rewards, Jie smiled.
The chakra fruit was the same kind of fruit Kaguya had once eaten.
One was enough to create a Six Paths-level existence.
The system had also given him another quick-growth Six Paths-level chakra seed.
That meant he no longer had to rely on the Ten-Tails to raise someone else to the Six Paths level.
As for the three chakra pills, they could help speed up the next stage of improvement.
Jie was very satisfied with this settlement.
A few seconds later, the spatial turbulence disappeared.
Jie found himself back where he had left.
The Dragon Vein.
Or rather, the Dragon Vein that had already been drained of all its power by him.
After identifying the direction, Jie took one step forward and vanished.
When he returned to Konoha, he raised an eyebrow at the scene before him.
"Ōtsutsuki Toneri?"
"It seems time in this world did not stop while I was gone."
In this timeline, Toneri stood on top of the Gedo Statue, constantly attacking Konoha.
Jie had not been here, but under his training, Izumi, Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata had already grown into powerful ninja capable of standing on their own.
Even with the Tenseigan, Rinnegan, and the help of the Gedo Statue, Toneri had not been able to take Konoha down quickly.
Of course, Konoha also could not do much to Toneri.
But now that Jie had returned, everything was different.
The next second, a clear snap echoed through the battlefield.
A black curtain slowly fell from the sky.
Wherever it passed, space itself seemed to be erased.
In the blink of an eye, both Toneri and the Gedo Statue vanished from everyone's sight.
"What just happened?"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata froze for a moment.
Then Hinata's eyes lit up.
"Brother Jie is back!"
Excitement flashed across her face, and she immediately began looking around, trying to find where Jie was.
Jie was just about to appear when the system's voice rang in his mind again.
"The host has erased the Gedo Statue in the real timeline and cut off the possibility of Kaguya's resurrection. Settlement complete."
"Reward obtained: Cosmic Star Map."
"Note: The Cosmic Star Map records the location of the Ōtsutsuki clan's ancestral planet, as well as every planet currently occupied by the Ōtsutsuki clan."
"Detected that the host has become the strongest existence in the current world. Final reward activated."
"Reward obtained: Unknown Space-Time Gate."
"Note: The Unknown Space-Time Gate leads to an unknown world. The host may use it to travel to other worlds."
"When the host enters another world through the Space-Time Gate, time in the Naruto world will be frozen indefinitely until the host returns."
"Please prepare yourself and enjoy the next journey."
Hearing the system's words, surprise flashed across Jie's face.
He had not expected the system to have something like this prepared.
And when he heard that time in the Naruto world would stop while he was gone, Jie immediately became interested.
After settling Konoha's situation and distributing the rewards he intended to use, everything was finally arranged.
"System, time in the Naruto world will freeze after I leave, right?"
Jie asked in his mind.
"Yes, host."
For once, the system actually answered him.
Jie smiled.
"Then what are we waiting for?"
"Open the Space-Time Gate."
As soon as Jie spoke, a dazzling spatial gate appeared in front of him.
Without the slightest hesitation, Jie stepped into it.
A mysterious power immediately wrapped around him, and everything familiar began to fade away.
"Unknown world, here I come."
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This is basically the end of the Naruto part of the story.
After this, the novel moves into the One Piece world. I'm not sure how many of you would still want to continue reading from here, so let me know in the comments.
If enough people are interested, I'll keep translating it. If not, I am leaving the raw title for anyone who wants to read ahead.
Thanks for reading this far.
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人在火影:开局炸翻九尾
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