The Chakra Network

As the Light Patterns of the Three Realms Gate spread across the texture of the ultimate void, a dimension known as the ninja world was welcoming a peace unseen in a thousand years.

The smoke of the Fourth Great Ninja War had completely dispersed. Among the broken stones of the Valley of the End, the lingering warmth of chakra from Naruto and Sasuke's final clash still remained. Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had been sealed once more within the moon formed by Chibaku Tensei. Black Zetsu's conspiracy had perished along with his mother. Uchiha Madara's beautiful dream of Infinite Tsukuyomi had turned to foam. The souls summoned by Impure World Reincarnation had all returned to the Pure Land. The hundred-thousand-strong White Zetsu army had collapsed into nonexistent chakra dust.

Kakashi was crowned the Sixth Hokage, and Hokage Rock was raised once more above the ruins of the Hidden Leaf Village. Uzumaki Naruto, as the hero of the ninja world, became a totem of hope in the hearts of all ninja and civilians. Second Pillar cast off the shackles of revenge and, as a wanderer who secretly guarded the world, traveled across every inch of the ninja world, using his Rinnegan to scan dimensional rifts and investigate every possible threat that might revive.

No one knew that this ninja world woven from chakra was precisely the material-dimensional projection of the Original Network.

The Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, was the oldest Wisdom Node in the Original Network. He split the Ten-Tails' chakra into the nine great tailed beasts, founded Ninshū, and passed the truth of chakra on to the world. In essence, he engraved the Original Network's inclination toward maturity—settling, guarding, becoming a foundation—into the genes of the ninja world. The God Tree was the root of the Original Network, chakra was the