63: Chapter 63 The Arrival of a "Miracle""Now, watch carefully."
"What does 'resurrection of the dead' mean?"
These words were light, containing no chakra, yet they carried more weight than any ninjutsu, striking the hearts of everyone in the valley and bringing their thoughts to a complete standstill.
I don't understand.
stunned.
absurd.
Even a trace of suppressed anger ignited by extreme arrogance.
But no one dared to move, no one dared to utter a sound.
They could only watch as the blond boy slowly knelt down and gently placed his long, clean hands on Gaara's cold chest.
This action is neither sacred nor does it have any sense of ritual.
It's like touching an ordinary object.
But this simple action stopped the last breath of wind in the valley.
At that moment, everyone's breath was held in place by an invisible hand.They stared intently, not daring to blink, for fear of missing something, or rather, for fear of seeing something.
The next second.
A burst of green light erupted.
It wasn't the gentle emerald green of medical ninjutsu, but a deep turquoise full of primal, wild, and domineering life force.
The immense life energy transformed into a visible torrent, gushing forth from Naruto's palm and instantly enveloping Gaara's lifeless body.
This is not treatment; it is turning back time.
Sakura's common sense as a medical ninja crumbled at this moment.
She watched helplessly as the gruesome wound on Gaara's chest writhed and closed wildly in the emerald torrent.
Necrotic cells regenerate out of thin air, and broken meridians reconnect, at such a speed that it even produces the hissing sound of flesh and blood growing.
That emerald light is life itself.
"Wood Release." Kakashi's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty.
His crimson Sharingan spun wildly, trying to analyze the composition of this energy.
He had seen Captain Yamato's Wood Release, which was a product of the First Hokage's cells, a power of control and creation.
But this one in front of me is completely different.
If Yamato's Wood Release is a small stream, then what Naruto is releasing right now is a boundless, primordial ocean capable of nurturing the entire world.
This force is not "using" vitality.
It is itself the source of vitality.
In just three seconds, all of Gaara's external injuries disappeared, and his skin was restored to its original state, as if he had never been hurt.
But that's all.
His chest remained still, and his heart remained lifeless.
Repairing a body does not bring the dead back to life.
The sorrow that had just been suppressed by shock resurfaced in Granny Chiyo's cloudy old eyes.
As expected.it still doesn't work?
Human strength has its limits.
Just as the flame of hope that had just been ignited in all the Sand Village ninjas was about to be extinguished once again.
Naruto moved.
No, he didn't move.
The light in his palm had changed.
The powerful, emerald-green life energy receded like a tide, replaced by a purer, more primal, and even slightly sacred golden light.
The light was not dazzling, but it was so heavy that it made the surrounding space seem to freeze.
It is not chakra.
Kakashi's Sharingan was frantically warning him; his brain was telling him that the golden light he was seeing did not belong to any energy system in this world.
That's a kind of.rule.
An absolute law that transcends life and death.
Golden light seeped from Naruto's fingertips, penetrating Gaara's skin and sternum without any hindrance, slowly flowing towards the heart that had long since stopped beating, as if it had its own consciousness.
[Ding!You have received 48,000 units of the ultimate [Cognitive Collapse] from Chiyo!]
[Ding!You have received 45,000 of the ultimate [Worldview Disruption] items from Kakashi Hatake!]
[Ding!You have received 39,000 units of Sakura Haruno's ultimate "life doubt"!]
Naruto stared at the astronomical numbers that had been refreshed on the system panel, his heart remaining calm and unmoved.
Repairing the body is just the appetizer.
This is the main course.
Reincarnation?Life for life?
Such a barren and laughable imagination.
Why exchange?
When you have the power to set the rules, all you need to do is issue commands.
The command reverses the negative value to a positive value.
The concept of "death" is invalid at this moment and in this place.
The golden light finally touched that cold, stiff, and completely dysfunctional heart.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely at that moment.
Everyone present had a misconception.
They heard a voice.
A faint, almost imperceptible pulsation emanating from the depths of the soul, from the very origin of the world.
Thump.
The voice was soft, yet it struck like a hammer of creation, resounding deep into everyone's heart.
Chiyo's body swayed suddenly, almost falling to the ground.
All expression vanished from her wrinkled face, leaving only a blank space caused by extreme horror.
If her forbidden technique is to use her own life force as fuel to rekindle another extinguished candle.
What is this boy doing?
He didn't use any fuel.
He simply said something to the extinguished candle.
"Turn it on."
Then it lit up.
Thump.
The voice was soft, yet it was like a hammer of creation, striking everyone's heart with a deafening roar, instantly stiffening Chiyo's swaying body.
Then—thump!thump!thump!
It was no longer an illusion, no longer a faint echo.
The steady, powerful, and rhythmic heartbeat, like a war drum, boomed through the deathly silent valley, each beat proclaiming to the world the invalidity of the laws of death.
Kakashi suddenly covered his left eye, a bead of cold sweat seeping through his fingers.
His Mangekyou Sharingan was spinning wildly.After turning, it suddenly stopped, and all that remained in my vision was a painful, blinding white.
That wasn't ninjutsu, genjutsu, or even chakra.
That is a "truth" that the Sharingan can never copy, understand, or even look at directly.
In the very instant he tried to analyze that golden light, his mental power was almost crushed by that overwhelming pressure.
This is a forced and unreasonable "reversal" of the outcome of "death".
As his heartbeat grew stronger, Gaara's paper-white face quickly regained a healthy flush.
It is no longer the superficial repair done by the Wood Release power, but a true rosy glow that comes from within and belongs to life itself.
His tightly closed eyes, and his long eyelashes, began to tremble violently.
"."
A Sand Village Jonin kneeling on the ground opened his mouth wide.He wanted to exclaim and shout, but found that his throat was tightly locked and he could not make a sound.
His body was trembling, not from sadness or joy.
It is fear.
A kind of awe and fear that originates from the deepest part of one's genes when a mortal witnesses a deity exercising authority.
They finally understood.
I finally understand what Naruto meant when he said, "The price is too high."
For someone who can create gold at will, exchanging an entire mountain of gold for a loaf of bread is indeed a costly and extremely foolish act.
Under the frozen, stone-carved gazes of everyone.
Gaara, the one who was pronounced dead, the one whose tailed beast was extracted, the one whom everyone believed could never come back to life.
Slowly, he opened his eyes, which were marked by his signature dark circles.
He came back to life.
He really did come back to life.
Naruto did not take anyone's life.
Naruto did not pray to any god.
Naruto didn't even pay any visible price.
He simply reached out his hand.
Then, a shadow, a dead wind shadow, was casually pulled back from the abyss of death by him.
This scene became an indelible mark on everyone present.
They defined it as such.
miracle.
Naruto slowly withdrew his hand, and the golden and green light in his palm quietly dissipated.
He looked at the boy beneath him who had begun to breathe again, his cold face still expressionless.
There was no joy in saving his companion.
He did not display any triumph.
There was only a bottomless calm.
It was as if what he had just done was not to resurrect a dead person, but merely to casually brush a speck of dust off his clothes.
[Ding!You have received 25,670,000 ultimate [Miracle Witness] items from the entire Sand Village!]
[Ding!Total Glory Points have exceeded 50 million!]
[Ding!New achievement unlocked: [The Traitor of the Laws of Life and Death]!]
Naruto ignored the system notifications that were flooding his mind.
His gaze fell on Gaara's turquoise eyes, which were still somewhat bewildered.
Gaara's consciousness is being forcibly awakened from an endless darkness and cold by a warm yet domineering force.
His last memories were the excruciating pain of his body being torn apart and the mournful cry of Shukaku as it was removed from his body.
He thought he was dead.
But now, he felt the warmth of the sun, heard the sound of the wind, and felt the steady, powerful heartbeat in his chest.
His vision gradually became clearer from blurry.
The first thing he saw was a golden figure, backlit, looking down at him.
The silhouette of that figure was almost blindingly outlined by the sunlight, but those azure eyes were calmer than the abyss.
Gaara opened his mouth, and the air rushing back into his lungs caused him a sharp pain.
He looked at the golden figure backlit by the light, and the image of the yelling loser in his memory gradually overlapped with the "god" in front of him who controlled life and death.
A trembling syllable escaped his dry throat, tinged with a mixture of bewilderment and awe: ".Naruto."
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