Pure white.
There was no up or down, no left or right, no gravity. Hiroki found it deeply uncomfortable.
It was somewhat like the desktop in his own consciousness space.
Hiroki tried to bring up the console here, but there was no response.
Yet his consciousness space could still be opened freely—like a domain expansion, it spread out from around him and established a small domain.
Hiroki silently swept his gaze over it. All manner of ninjutsu applications were present.
He activated the console in his consciousness space, and it functioned normally as well.
This meant he could activate the Eight Inner Gates and Sage Mode at any time—and call upon the Nine-Tails' chakra whenever he wished. On his signal interface, he could even clearly see that he was still connected to Konoha's great barrier network.
It was just—
There were no other signals, nor was there any signal frequency belonging to the Sage of Six Paths—
Hiroki froze for a moment, then looked through the void and fixed his gaze on the old man in white robes, holding a black staff, with nine Truth-Seeking Orbs floating behind him.
The Sage of Six Paths.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
What was he here for?
"Where is this?"
Hiroki asked.
But no sound came out, and there was no echo. Just as in his consciousness space, a dialogue box popped up above his head.
Was this a spiritual world?
Perhaps. But it could also be an illusion technique.
If it was an illusion technique, he had countermeasure scripts. He had a firewall.
But—he knew very little about this old man, who had only appeared for a few chapters in the original work. He was not sure whether his methods would work against him.
The old man floated cross-legged in midair, the nine Truth-Seeking Orbs