Rengoku's hands quickly formed seals in front of his chest. As his fingers moved, complicated and mysterious runes flickered with faint light in the air.
Suddenly, a surge of powerful energy burst from his back, exploding at once into a dazzling golden holy seal.
Countless golden chains shot out from behind Rengoku like spirit snakes. They whipped wildly through the air, weaving into a dense web.
The holy seals that had been shining with golden light began to change.
They gradually transformed into bright, tender lotus blossoms, which slowly descended and attached themselves to the flying chains.
The lotus flowers and chains fused with each other, and finally formed an enormous formation on the ground.
The formation changed shape rapidly, sometimes spinning like a Bagua diagram, and sometimes twisting into something like a labyrinth.
The entire space was completely engulfed in rich golden radiance from the formation, so bright no one could look directly at it.
At this moment, the formation changed again.
The golden lotus flowers suddenly turned into pure white blossoms, as white as snow. They detached from the chains and bloomed leisurely in midair.
In an instant, heaven and earth were filled with flawless white light, like a fairyland draped in silver.
The blazing and dazzling white glow completely shocked Deidara, who stood a short distance away. He instinctively stretched out his hands.
His palms felt heat, and only then did he understand what it was.
Deidara's eyes were overwhelmed by the brightness, but when he felt the heat with his hands, he realized it was Rengoku's Fire Release.
The next moment, the white light flashed once and vanished instantly.
Everything around them was empty again, giving Deidara a strong sense of contrast.
The way the colors changed was exactly like the fire technique Rengoku had shown him back then.
But as for those chains, Deidara truly could not identify them.
"How is it, compared to back then?", Rengoku spoke as if the two were longtime friends.
It had to be said, Rengoku had built a solid foundation years ago.
Deidara rarely found someone who shared his tastes, and now Rengoku had put on a spectacle right in front of him.
Their relationship immediately grew familiar again.
Deidara shook his head with unmistakable eagerness on his face.
"Not bad. Let me show you what I just learned!"
Deidara's main profession was being an artist, and only then a shinobi.
So the idea of hiding the fact that he could use Dust Release never even crossed his mind.
He flipped his hands, clapped them together, and a white dot blossomed from his palms.
Whoosh!
A cylindrical beam of light shot toward the wall in an instant.
It blasted a perfectly round hole into the wall.
The beam lasted for about three seconds in midair before it faded.
After using Dust Release, Deidara was panting hard.
"Dust Release uses way too much chakra. When I combine Dust Release with explosions, it'll be even more artistic, Hm!"
"Incredible. You actually learned Dust Release," Rengoku applauded as he praised him.
Seeing Deidara use Dust Release surprised Rengoku quite a bit.
In his mind, Deidara learning Dust Release was something that would happen only once he became an adult.
He hadn't expected that Deidara, not even fourteen yet, had already mastered it.
This praise was completely sincere.
"I'll wait for you to combine the two secret arts, then show me again."
"I called you here for another matter."
Deidara sat on the ground, breathing heavily.
"What does Konoha want to do?"
The ninja world was already tense.
If the Akatsuki had nothing to do with Rengoku, then Konoha was in serious danger.
But if the whole Akatsuki belonged to Rengoku, then any village attacking Konoha would basically be marching to their deaths.
"Have you ever thought about the fact that the future ninja world will face enemies completely impossible to defeat?", Rengoku's single sentence instantly hooked Deidara's interest.
"Completely impossible to defeat? What do you mean?"
"Want to see?", Rengoku raised an eyebrow.
"Hah! Are you looking down on me?", Deidara bristled, full of defiance.
Rengoku glanced at him with a half-smile. His eyes instantly became Mangekyou Sharingan and the pupil jutsu, illusion realm, activated.
This clone originally had no eye power. The power was being transmitted from his true body at this moment.
Deidara's vision went black, and everything around him changed.
He was back on the battlefield of the Fourth Great Ninja War.
Rengoku and Deidara were standing in midair, looking down at everything below.
The first thing Rengoku showed him was the scene of the Five Kage fighting Uchiha Madara.
Last time Deidara had only seen Onoki throwing the Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, lighting up the whole night sky.
He hadn't seen the details of Madara surviving.
"This time their opponent is Uchiha Madara. Watch here. But this is a corpse revived through Edo Tensei, so his body repairs itself."
At Rengoku's instruction, Deidara saw Madara get half his body blown off, then summon a gigantic full-body Susanoo.
Deidara stared at the towering Susanoo in awe.
"Your Uchiha Susanoo can get that big?"
"Hah! It's just big," Rengoku said casually.
Just as he said that, Madara's perfect Susanoo swung one massive sword stroke, slicing off two mountain peaks at once.
The Five Kage were sent flying like tumbling gourds.
Deidara turned his head and stared at Rengoku in disbelief.
"This is what you call 'just big'?"
Rengoku nodded, "Keep watching."
The scene shifted. Madara had already become the Ten Tails jinchuriki and had hung all the people of the world onto the God Tree.
"Whoa! He hung the entire ninja world on a tree?"
Rengoku nodded slightly and didn't show any more footage.
"What do you think? Against an enemy like this, could we win?"
Deidara had only seen fragments, and did not know that cheats existed to defeat Uchiha Madara.
Judging by his own understanding he said, "Very hard."
"Madara is the unbeatable enemy you mentioned?"
But to his surprise, Rengoku shook his head again.
"No, not yet. There's someone even stronger."
Deidara couldn't imagine what kind of enemy could surpass Madara.
Rengoku did not show him the other Otsutsuki members.
Because while their actual combat power exceeded Madara's, the visual impact and the sense of pressure during battle were much weaker.
"So what do you want to do?"
Rengoku revealed his true intention.
"The ninja world has always been fragmented, constantly draining itself through endless internal conflict."
"Now what we need is a single power to unify it, to stop the internal exhaustion, and prepare for stronger enemies."
Deidara stared at Rengoku in shock, "You want to rule the world?"
Rengoku answered as if it were natural, "Uchiha ruling the world is perfectly reasonable."
Deidara didn't think Rengoku was arrogant. With the ability to foresee the future, Rengoku actually might do it.
"You want to rule the world, but that won't be easy. When Moryo's ghost army reaches the Land of Fire, the old man and Sunagakure will definitely deploy together."
"Konoha surviving this is going to be tough."
Deidara often wandered outside and visited black markets. He had plenty of connections and naturally understood Konoha's situation.
"You think I can't deal with them?", Rengoku asked back.
Deidara's eyes lit up, "Are you planning to make Pain take action?"
Rengoku shook his head, "Pain's ability no longer exists. You can treat it as though Pain is already dead."
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