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After Urashiki's soul dissipated.

In the gap between the Pure Land and reality.

An elderly man with a wrinkled face, two horns growing from his forehead, brown hair, and a white robe slowly opened his eyes.

Six black tomoe marked his chest.

He floated in midair, his form somewhat faint and insubstantial.

If Shamu had been here, he would have recognized him at a glance. This was Hagoromo Otsutsuki, known as the Sage of Six Paths.

After his death, his Chakra had continued to drift through the world, but he was not always conscious.

Other than awakening at critical moments.

He would only awaken when large numbers of shinobi died, or when someone special died, their dissipating souls stirring him awake.

"How could a soul of this level dissipate?"

"An Otsutsuki Clan member!?"

"Other than Mother, where did another Otsutsuki Clan member come from?"

Hagoromo closed his eyes, and a vast force of perception spread outward.

This power could not reach the living world. It could only travel through the Pure Land.

It allowed the Sage of Six Paths to learn about the Shinobi World through the souls of those who had died most recently.

"Hm?" The Sage of Six Paths opened his eyes.

His face was filled with confusion. "Why hasn't the Uchiha Clan been massacred?"

"The Savior Duo has also completely deviated from their predetermined paths."

"Can Mother still be sealed this way?"

"Where exactly did that Otsutsuki Clan member come from?"

"What is going on? Why has my foresight been wrong in so many ways?"

Hagoromo Otsutsuki calculated the Chakra within this body.

With a wave of his hand, a screen of light appeared before him.

The screen displayed fast-forwarded scenes, all related to the reincarnations of his two sons' Chakra.

When it reached Sasuke's generation, the