In that unbelievably brutal battle in the Land of Wind, more than five thousand ninja from Sand Village were killed.
When their lives ended, every one of their bodies carried more or less a certain amount of energy.
As they stepped onto the path leading to the Pure Land, that energy was gradually released.
With every step they took, the energy on them was forcibly stripped away like silk being pulled from a cocoon.
And it was relentlessly swallowed, bit by bit, by that narrow rift.
Within this layered space, a mysterious figure sat cross legged in midair, quietly absorbing this energy.
As time passed, the amount of energy this figure absorbed grew greater and greater, and his originally illusory body slowly began to turn from unreal to real.
Finally, at a certain moment, he slowly opened those Rinnegan eyes.
That is right. This person was the being known as the Sage of Six Paths.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
"Huu!"
Hagoromo gently let out a breath. Even though he existed in this world only as a soul right now, the return of consciousness still made him feel a sense of ease.
After all, compared to that previous state of muddled haze, always lost in confusion, being able to think and perceive everything around him again was simply wonderful.
"So many souls and so much energy gathering here. I imagine that the Child of Prophecy has already started the ninja world war," Hagoromo thought to himself.
'Let me take a look at how far this war that concerns the life and death of the entire ninja world has progressed.'
The Sage's staff on Hagoromo's back swayed slightly, and at once a crisp, pleasant ringing sound echoed out.
At the same time, the lake beneath him, calm as still water, suddenly rippled.
Right after that, countless complicated images appeared one after another on every ripple, like a movie being played.
These were all fragments of the memories of the dead, now successfully extracted by Hagoromo through some mysterious method.
He lightly raised his hand and gently cast these memory fragments onto the calm surface of the water.
But at the instant those images flickered across the water like waves, a look of shock appeared on Hagoromo's face, which had weathered a thousand years yet always remained serious.
His deep eyes were now filled with disbelief.
"How is this possible?", Hagoromo muttered to himself.
"Why has the Uchiha clan not been wiped out? According to Gamamaru's prophecy, they should have faded away by this time!"
Then another shocking discovery followed right after.
"And the Child of Prophecy too, they have not yet reached the time of their maturity. Which part went wrong?"
Just as Hagoromo was full of questions, a person appeared in the images.
This was also the person who left the deepest impression in all of Sand Village's memories.
Uchiha Rengoku.
It made a sense of foreboding rise in Hagoromo's heart.
"Could it be… that this person is the one who caused all of the plans to go out of control?", Hagoromo thought to himself.
You must know that Otsutsuki Hagoromo, the one known as the Sage of Six Paths, was very close to the Great Toad Sage Gamamaru.
He had long since understood the future of this world.
Long ago, when he realized that Black Zetsu was secretly plotting in the shadows, Hagoromo already knew that his mother, Otsutsuki Kaguya, would eventually be revived one day.
So a thousand years earlier, he had carefully set up the board, quietly waiting for Black Zetsu to free Kaguya from her long seal.
When that time came, they could rely on the power of the legendary twin saviors to once again seal Black Zetsu and his mother together.
Thus completely eliminating this hidden danger and achieving a once and for all solution.
And so, for the past thousand years, Hagoromo's soul had been sleeping silently in the chaotic rift between the Pure Land and the living world.
Whenever large scale wars broke out in the ninja world and countless ninja died, their souls would surge toward this mysterious place like a tide.
The energy carried in their souls would allow Hagoromo to awaken within this chaos.
And Hagoromo would then sift through and extract the key memories from them, so he could better grasp how the situation was developing.
Over the years, in every ninja world war, he had awakened several times, and fate had always been moving along its normal track.
Only this time, the outcome that appeared was completely beyond what he had expected.
After the Third Great Ninja War ended and he fell back into slumber, the twins meant to save the world, had met with interference from someone else during their growth, causing their predetermined path of fate to be completely overturned.
Now the entire situation had become utterly chaotic, and the original plan had totally fallen apart.
Not to mention sealing Black Zetsu and his mother Kaguya together, they did not even know when Black Zetsu would lift the seal on his mother.
"With this kind of powerful strength, who exactly are you?"
First he used a disaster level Fire Style.
Then he even summoned a complete form War God Susanoo in the desert.
Such terrifying displays of power made Otsutsuki Hagoromo instantly realize, the key factor that had caused the current situation to go out of control was without a doubt this person.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo looked down at his soul body and made a decision in his heart.
He could not just sit by and watch. So without any hesitation, he moved.
He passed straight through that narrow and hidden rift between the living world and the Pure Land.
He had to intervene and pull the world back onto its destined track.
Like a ghost, Otsutsuki Hagoromo appeared in the sky above the battlefield of Iwagakure. This was the place he had followed through the remaining memory fragments.
The places where Iwa ninja had been burned to death.
Even though Konoha's people had already quickly cleaned up this battlefield, the scene before his eyes was still shocking.
On the empty, lonely land, that massive Myriad Earth Flow Wall and the rugged terrain completely changed by the Earth Release Core Explosion fully showed how fierce the battle had been.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo hovered in the air, his sharp eyes sweeping over the land below.
All of a sudden, he sensed an unusually powerful and dense Sage chakra.
Even though so much time had passed, a huge amount of Sage chakra still lingered in the air, making him marvel at it.
'Hm, such dense Sage chakra… this Uchiha Rengoku's Sage Mode is actually this strong?', Otsutsuki Hagoromo thought to himself.
At this moment, Otsutsuki Hagoromo existed in the world in the form of a soul. This special state granted him speed almost like teleportation.
With a flash of his body, he shot across the sky like lightning, rushing toward the border of the Land of Wind.
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