Cage (Seeking Subscription)

Late at night, in the newly built inn within Konoha, in that familiar room, Uchiha Kei lay with his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling.

Feeling Hyuga Aya's slightly ragged breathing beside him, a smug expression could not help appearing on his face.

However, that expression quickly faded, as though it had never been there at all.

After all, there did not seem to be anything worth being proud of in something like this, did there?

Reaching out and drawing Aya into his arms, he could not help feeling somewhat emotional. Three years had passed just like that.

Time truly flew.

For those living in this world, although they did not clearly perceive the passing of each day, time, like a surging river, never stopped.

In truth, even the least sensitive person would notice how quickly time passed, especially over a span of three years.

But for Uchiha Kei, he genuinely had no idea what exactly had happened.

He only knew that he had sat there without moving at all, his consciousness completely entering the cycle of a thousand years' worth of memories. By the time he woke again, three years had somehow already passed.

He now seemed to understand those novels he had read back then, where the protagonist would sit down to cultivate for hundreds or thousands of years.

At the time, he had mocked them. Sitting in cultivation for thousands of years—was that even possible?

But now, he no longer dared mock it like that. While he could not cultivate for hundreds or thousands of years at a time, he was someone who had truly spent three years on a single session of cultivation!

Over those three years, the Ninja World had also undergone tremendous changes. After dispelling the Shadow Clone he had left in