A dim, empty courtyard.
A single chair, a chessboard, a man.
Other than the occasional sound of a chess piece striking the board, the courtyard remained utterly silent.
Outside the yard, however, tremendous rumblings and a cacophony of human voices echoed endlessly.
That old schemer Sage of Six Paths is naturally keeping a close eye on the ninja world at all times, Wang Ming analyzed the current situation in his mind while playing a game of chess against himself.
Wang Ming chose Setsuna Uchiha as his entry point into the game precisely because he took the Sage of Six Paths into account.
The Sage of Six Paths told Naruto and Sasuke that he was dead and no longer had any power, but anyone who believed his words would be a fool.
The Sage clearly treated the entire ninja world as a breeding farm.
He made these ninjas use their own spiritual and physical energies to continuously cultivate new chakra.
At the same time,
he also used this ninja world as a training ground.
Ever since the Sage of Six Paths sealed his mother Kaguya, the entire ninja world had known almost no respite from warfare.
Whenever an outstanding individual capable of ending the war was about to emerge in an era, the two sons of the Sage, Indra and Ashura, would also reincarnate.
The reincarnation of Indra would suppress or slay the person capable of ending the turbulent times.
Indra was an extremely conceited, immensely proud man who believed in himself above all else; even if he sought peace, he would forge it through his own actions rather than relying on others.
Pity...
The Sage of Six Paths fathered him, and then gave him a younger brother, Ashura.
He would never allow Indra's vision of a unified world to succeed.