Watching himself cross over from the perspective of an onlooker was an incredibly strange experience. Shinji saw clearly how he had crossed over, and what power had brought him back to life.
Though it had dissipated in an instant, a faint trace of Natural Energy still lingered in the air.
It was nothing unusual for Natural Energy to bring the dead back to life.
A thousand years ago, the Sage of Six Paths had used a Talisman of Sage he'd obtained from the Great Toad Sage to revive his younger brother, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, whom he had accidentally killed.
This showed that it was the will of the Shinobi World that had revived Shinji, and that it had also bestowed upon him the duty of Lantern Bearer.
The will of the Shinobi World must have already sensed the threat at this point, so it gave me the mission of saving the world.
Shinji sighed.
This proved that some worlds stood above others!
After revisiting the past and seeing how he had crossed over, Shinji reversed time again and witnessed several landmark events in the history of the Shinobi World.
For example, the Nine-Tails Attack, the night the Fourth Hokage and his wife died in battle.
For example, the famous Battle of Kannabi Bridge during the Third Shinobi World War, which changed the course of the Shinobi World's future.
For example, the Second's death.
For example, the Battle of the Valley of the End between the First and Madara Uchiha.
For example, the founding of Konoha.
Piece by piece, the past and history seemed to emerge from the fog, laid out before Shinji in perfect clarity, with nothing hidden from view.
"So this is history."
Shinji murmured softly, and a sense of understanding gradually dawned on him.
Everything had its cause and