Space-Time Power, A Higher Class of Ninja

Space-Time Power, Space-Time Chakra, Space-Time Nature Transformation...

With just a single glance, Gojo Yoru understood the special effects of the Black Chakra.

As everyone knew, a shinobi's chakra had seven natures: Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Lightning, and Yin and Yang—this world's Yin-Yang Five Elements.

Yin and Yang were hidden natures, innately possessed and unattainable through training, unless a powerful external force reshaped the body.

Even the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama, and the original Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, could not cultivate Yin and Yang natures through training.

The reason Uchiha Madara possessed Yin-Yang Five Elements was because he had transplanted Senju Hashirama's cells; otherwise, his limit would have been the same as Uchiha Sasuke's, at most possessing Yin and the five elemental natures.

The fusion of two natures' property changes created a Kekkei Genkai.

The fusion of three natures' property changes was called Kekkei Tōta.

This was the limit of the shinobi world's understanding.

Yet Gojo Yoru knew that the fusion of all seven natures resulted in Kekkei Mōra.

That was what the pure-blooded Otsutsuki considered their own kind!

Without Kekkei Mōra, without full elemental affinity, an Otsutsuki was a half-breed among half-breeds, no different from those lower lifeforms.

That chakra had only seven natures was common knowledge in the shinobi world.

Only a few knew that there was an eighth hidden special nature in the world.

It stood above the seven natures, with a lower and upper limit so absurd that some were no less than Kekkei Mōra, or were themselves a form of Kekkei Mōra, or even a power surpassing Kekkei Mōra!

That was Space-Time Power!

Space-Time abilities were actually quite common in the shinobi world.

Storage Scrolls involved the principles of Space-Time.

The Summoning Technique also touched on Space-Time Power.

But these only barely grazed the surface through contracts and seals, and could not be applied to oneself.

So when the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, developed the Flying Thunder God Technique, showing the entire shinobi world the terror of Space-Time Power, it immediately became one of the strongest S-Rank secret arts in the world.

To this day, aside from its developer, Senju Tobirama, no one else in Konoha had mastered this S-Rank secret art.

Moreover, the Flying Thunder God Technique was merely an auxiliary Space-Time Ninjutsu.

In a thousand years of warring states history, the shinobi world had never seen an offensive Space-Time Ninjutsu.

Because no one could truly master Space-Time Power, let alone convert their chakra nature into Space-Time Chakra—not even the pure-blooded Otsutsuki of the cosmos!

Their Space-Time abilities, like the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kamui, only consumed chakra, or Yin Release Chakra, to manipulate some Space-Time Power.

Amenominaka, Yomotsu Hirasaka, Daikokuten... these Kekkei Mōra and divine techniques were all auxiliary Space-Time abilities.

In contrast, Kamui, which was neither Kekkei Mōra nor a divine technique, was a rare offensive Space-Time ability.

Even so, offensive Kamui had a startup time and required a massive consumption of Dojutsu Power, with a fixed ability, and similarly did not convert chakra into Space-Time Nature Transformation.

And now, the first existence with Space-Time Chakra... had been born!

So it was no wonder Gojo Yoru was this excited; the fact that he hadn't burst into laughter was the greatest composure of a man with two lifetimes and a transmigrator.

In these six years, no one knew how much pressure Gojo Yoru had been under.

If he had been born in the timeline when the story began, the same age as Naruto and Sasuke, even without a Kekkei Genkai or a cheat, Gojo Yoru would have chosen to accept his fate and coast through life.

With his advantage of knowing the plot, he could completely avoid all major calamities except the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and even the Infinite Tsukuyomi wasn't a true disaster—it was a beautiful dream.

But as luck would have it, Gojo Yoru had transmigrated into the same era as Namikaze Minato.

The Second Shinobi World War could break out at any moment, and the original work revealed pitifully little information. Gojo Yoru had no idea if Minato's classmates had been sent to the battlefield.

If they were sent to the battlefield, even if only for logistics, enemy shinobi could invade at any time. Those with ability, or those carrying out missions, were at least Special Jonin level.

Without protagonist plot armor, encountering them meant certain death.

The more a transmigrator knew, the more they worried. Especially in a timeline with no plot advantage, the pressure in Gojo Yoru's heart multiplied daily.

Thus, in his Game Guide, he had already prepared to become stronger by any means necessary.

To survive, he was even willing to become an experimental subject, a patchwork monster like Kakuzu or Hiruko.

To lay the groundwork for his plan, as an "adult" who understood the importance of connections and networks, he had crafted a cold, aloof, and school-bully persona from the moment he enrolled, acting every single day.

In truth, many nights, Gojo Yoru would wake from nightmares.

He dreamed that his plan had failed at the very start, that he had been mind-read and exposed as an otherworlder, then turned into an even more miserable experiment.

He dreamed that he had finally obtained great power, only to be crushed by a power from a higher dimension, all his efforts wasted.

These were the invisible shackles binding Gojo Yoru.

But now, with the appearance of the black Space-Time Chakra, all those shackles had shattered!

What was once only the potential to become an all-round Jonin, even with the perfect execution of the Game Guide, was merely a pseudo-Six Paths Level ceiling—now it had become utterly blurred.

That was the uniqueness of Space-Time.

Its lower limit is low—even ordinary ninja can use Space-Time Power to create Storage Scrolls.

Its upper limit is high—even Hatake Kakashi, merely an Elite Jonin, could injure the Mother of Chakra by mastering an offensive Space-Time Ninjutsu.

With Space-Time Chakra, Gojo Yoru's current strength has also become very ambiguous, entirely dependent on the capacity and usage of the Black Chakra.

If he can develop offensive techniques, then as a First-Year Apprentice Ninja, he would already possess the means to threaten a Kage, just like those Elite Jonin who master S-Rank ultimate techniques.

Even the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, who possesses Ninjutsu Immunity, would have his defenses breached if struck by him.

If the Black Chakra cannot be used for offense, then Gojo Yoru's strength remains unchanged—he would simply possess a special ability, like those Ninja Clans with Secret Techniques and Kekkei Genkai.

Even with the latter, Gojo Yoru is already satisfied.

Because his feet just phased.

Phasing—this is the broken, game-breaking ability that made Uchiha Obito invincible throughout the entire Naruto series!

As long as Gojo Yoru can achieve full-body phasing, no one in this era can kill him by any means other than assassination—including the Shinobi World's Asura, who is still alive right now!

Right now, he stands above all ninja!